Hi, You are Silent Hill 5, A game in a series i have been much a fan of, But you are not allowed in Australia. Because adults dont play computer games here, They are played mostly by Children, Despite what statistics show. Oh did we mention they are NOT a form of art and train all our children to kill things. And its fine to have Violence depicted in art because you HAVE to look at that through a different prism.

But enough of the nannystate bashing.

I have ordered my Copy of Silent Hill Homecoming. It will arrive hopefully today or tuesday (Monday is a public holiday)

What are people's opinions of the game so far? Those of you who have played it

Australians are set to get a Watered down version next year, of course with the standard Being screwed over Regional Prices aswell but fuck you guys

I'm really wanting to play this but I don't have any nextgen bullshit and this is not for PC iirc? Not yet at least.

I'm not sure about this. It's by another company from America. So, can they keep with the genre, or will it spin off into another realm?

australia isn't a nanny state unless you consider the government sponsored racism against some of the people you should be nannying as part of being a nanny state.

vidcons...

fuck i want this game so bad

i hope this one is actually, you know, good.

as in playable.

i played silent hill 2 and 3 pretty recently. i really like 2, like a lot. i didn't like 3 very much at all. i watched a interview with the guys who are making this a while ago and they seem pretty stupid so this will need to have a good atmosphere and locations for me to like it. i'm gonna wait a while until i decide if i'm going to get it or not. i really liked silent hill 2, even though it was pretty bad i liked it's intentions. this one seems like it might just be trying to recapture whatever silent hill 2 had without actually understanding it, or at least that's the impression i got from the interview and the fact that pyramid head is showing up in this one. i thought pyramid head was like this manifestation of james' fucked up desires in silent hill 2. if he's in this one then he's just some monster guy. who cares.

fuck i want this game so bad ​

it's interesting you say this cos when i was playing silent hill 2 it was also around the time i was watching twin peaks and david lynch films so i get all of these kind of jumbled up in a really nice way. i watched a bunch of other creepy/nutzo films during this time too like jacob's ladder and cube so there's an atmosphere which, for me at least, all of these things share. that's kind of why i'm worried about getting this, cos i might just be trying to recapture that atmosphere while it doesn't actually deserve my money so i'm gonna wait and see.

Apparently there was a PC version after all (at least according to steam) but the system requirements are twice bigger than what my system has to offer.

Minimum:

OS: Windows XP / Vista
Processor: 2.8 GHz (XP); 3.2 GHz (Vista)
Memory: 1GB System Memory
Graphics: GeForce 7800 GT / ATI X1950 256 MB Memory
Hard Drive: 10 GB Free space


Recommended:

OS: Windows XP / Vista
Processor: 2.8 GHz (XP); 3.2 GHz (Vista)
Memory: 2GB System Memory
Graphics: GeForce 8800 GT / ATI HD2900 512 MB Memory
Hard Drive: 10 GB Free space

There really isn't anything else besides this, left 4 dead and starcraft 2 that I'm looking forward to but they all require me to upgrade my comp/or get a nextgen console so maybe I should but I don't think this alone is worth it.

I've been looking at a walkthrough/playthrough at youtube and, well, so far it's pretty uneventful, and the dumbass who is playing doesn't have the flashlight on for most of the time which results in a completely black screen.


EDIT:
So I watched a couple more videos and there is like 1 enemy encounter per an hour, I don't know if this guy is playing it on easy or something but there doesn't seem to be nothing out there to threathen you at all. I admit this guy is also really lost on where he is supposed to go (I think it's because hes dumb and not because the game is unclear as to where to go next) but the game seems really boring; there's this 10 second ambient sound looping on the background that never seems to stop, everything is really dark even with the flashlight on, all the textures are some shade of grey or brown, and there are no monsters besides 2 dogs that don't respawn.

Homecoming is just simply amazing, the enemies are difficult but if you can figure out there attack animation you can dodge everything! The story has been very good so far but I've only made like 4 hours in. The game feels like it could possibly take 20 hours plus to beat though.

it's interesting you say this cos when i was playing silent hill 2 it was also around the time i was watching twin peaks and david lynch films so i get all of these kind of jumbled up in a really nice way. i watched a bunch of other creepy/nutzo films during this time too like jacob's ladder and cube so there's an atmosphere which, for me at least, all of these things share. that's kind of why i'm worried about getting this, cos i might just be trying to recapture that atmosphere while it doesn't actually deserve my money so i'm gonna wait and see.

I think it was actually the Silent Hill series that got me into David Lynch.  I remember looking at the Wiki and reading that his movies were an influence on the games, so I guess that's what made me go out and rent Mulholland Dr.  And the rest.... is history...

the more I hear about this the worse it seems.

I want to try this. I generally liked every SH game, though 2 really takes first place.

Thank god there's a PC version.

I have never played a Silent Hill game.

I have never played a Silent Hill game.

well, play 2 if you want to play a silent hill. if you don't, then who cares about stupid silent hill.

I think it was actually the Silent Hill series that got me into David Lynch.  I remember looking at the Wiki and reading that his movies were an influence on the games, so I guess that's what made me go out and rent Mulholland Dr.  And the rest.... is history...

Haha, me too.

I really hope they don't mess this up, because the first two Silent Hills are some of my favorite games ever (I didn't like 3 so much and though I liked 4 it didn't hold up to the first 2.)

I remember early in development they were going to make it an FPS, but they decided to go with the 'classic Silent Hill' style. However, your main character is a soldier, so he's proficient with guns and you'll get a lot of gunplay in this one. Who needs a board with a nail in?

This game might be made to feel like a Silent Hill game, but I highly doubt the surreal substance and accurate atmosphere can be pulled off by these people. It's like some other writer making a James Bond book. It sort of sounds like James Bond, but it's no Ian Flemming. (Or you can take that with a Wizard of Oz tale comparison)

I remember early in development they were going to make it an FPS, but they decided to go with the 'classic Silent Hill' style. However, your main character is a soldier, so he's proficient with guns and you'll get a lot of gunplay in this one. Who needs a board with a nail in?

Aw man, a lot of the greatness of Silent Hill was the satisfaction of beating down monsters with boards, hammers, rusty pipes etc. If they make it as gun oriented as like Resident Evil 4 or something that will kill it.

That's wrong. Metal pipes aren't in every game. :|