My initial reaction to this was going to be a sarcastic “color me surprised”. It was clear that Konami was only interested in using the Silent Hill IP as a money making machine since their big...
My initial reaction to this was going to be a sarcastic “color me surprised”. It was clear that Konami was only interested in using the Silent Hill IP as a money making machine since their big announcement about a year ago about the projects they will be producing that included basically no information about anything they were doing. They had the one remake game from Bloober team whom it seems obvious that they’ve been wanting to do this project since their inception, a movie that didn’t appear to even be anywhere near actual production, and another game that had zero real details except for one or two famous people attached to it.
But then when I actually read the article I was flabbergasted that they could possibly shatter well past the sub-basement of my expectations and make something worse. I can’t believe that they made a version of “twitch plays Pokémon” combined with an FMV choose your own adventure format. And then you literally pay for influence and it somehow has a season pass as if it were Fortnite.
I wasn't sure about using a GamesRadar article, but that headline does a good job of articulating how many fans like myself reacted. I was originally cautiously semi-optimistic that they might do...
I wasn't sure about using a GamesRadar article, but that headline does a good job of articulating how many fans like myself reacted. I was originally cautiously semi-optimistic that they might do something interesting, but this...really looks awful. As one of those "long-suffering" Silent Hill fans who have been craving an experience akin to what Team Silent did with 1-4, I'm fairly disappointed and unsure what the other SH games coming out of the pipe will be like. Any other fans of SH on Tildes? What was your reaction?
That first screenshot is actually hilarious, It's like they tried to wedge Detroit:Human into Silent Hill. I think I've given up a fair amount on the Silent Hill, Resident Evil and Metal Gear...
That first screenshot is actually hilarious, It's like they tried to wedge Detroit:Human into Silent Hill.
I think I've given up a fair amount on the Silent Hill, Resident Evil and Metal Gear Solid Saga's. They all seemed to have had a great first load of games, then the rest are just kind of 'meh' from a storyline and investment perspective. They're often great tech demos, but nothing more.
But this just looking abhorrant. Maybe this is our own personal Silent Hill? One without fog...
I'm a big fan of Metal Gear and have completed every game in the franchise including the MSX titles and both Acid games. I agree that the series has lost its way, and the rot arguably started to...
I'm a big fan of Metal Gear and have completed every game in the franchise including the MSX titles and both Acid games. I agree that the series has lost its way, and the rot arguably started to set in with MGSIV. I loved Guns of The Patriots, but it was honestly more of a movie than a game and it felt like Kojima was actively trying to end things for the fans. Tying up all the loose ends, bringing all of the characters storylines to a close. Rising and Peace Walker were excellent additions to the franchise, but felt a bit vestigial.
Finally, we ended up with Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain. Bleh.
I was never an avid fan of Silent Hill, though SH2 is an obvious classic of the medium and I have fond memories of playing it on the Xbox. I can't speak to the direction the series has taken because I haven't followed it.
As for Resident Evil, I think the franchise is undergoing something of a renaissance. The remakes of 2 and 3 were sensitively done - especially 2 - and utilize the modern engine to breathtaking effect. The integration of 4-style controls with 2-style atmosphere was seamless. RE2 remake feels like the definitive version of the experience, which is saying a lot.
As for 7 and Village, it's worth remembering that first person titles have always had a place in the RE canon (the Gun Survivor spinoff games). I haven't had a chance to play them yet, but I'm optimistic.
I honestly hated MGS4. MGS3 introduced the (sometimes cumbersome camo system, but wonderful) camo system. 4 Then just stripped that right out. Not to mention there are just ridiculous things going...
I'm a big fan of Metal Gear and have completed every game in the franchise including the MSX titles and both Acid games. I agree that the series has lost its way, and the rot arguably started to set in with MGSIV. I loved Guns of The Patriots, but it was honestly more of a movie than a game and it felt like Kojima was actively trying to end things for the fans. Tying up all the loose ends, bringing all of the characters storylines to a close. Rising and Peace Walker were excellent additions to the franchise, but felt a bit vestigial.
I honestly hated MGS4. MGS3 introduced the (sometimes cumbersome camo system, but wonderful) camo system. 4 Then just stripped that right out. Not to mention there are just ridiculous things going on that seem to SUDDENLY happen. GECKOS and the lark just seem so over the top.
Not to mention that 1.5 hour cutscene!
Finally, we ended up with Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain. Bleh.
Don't forget the remaster that has just biblically shit the bed as well!
I was never an avid fan of Silent Hill, though SH2 is an obvious classic of the medium and I have fond memories of playing it on the Xbox. I can't speak to the direction the series has taken because I haven't followed it.
After 4, the games basically went to American developers who fundamentally mismanaged what made the series unique and terrifying. There's a good video on YouTube (Max Derrant I think) who talks about the difference in horror types between the West & the East and it really made sense why 1-4 are great/good and the rest are 'meh'.
As for Resident Evil, I think the franchise is undergoing something of a renaissance. The remakes of 2 and 3 were sensitively done - especially 2 - and utilize the modern engine to breathtaking effect. The integration of 4-style controls with 2-style atmosphere was seamless. RE2 remake feels like the definitive version of the experience, which is saying a lot.
I've heard big raves. But I'm a little hesitent with remasters, simply because... well, I've done this already. GIVE ME SOMETHING NEW. I don't care if it's new IP with zombies and evil corporations and a bit deriviative! But please, anything new.
As for 7 and Village, it's worth remembering that first person titles have always had a place in the RE canon (the Gun Survivor spinoff games). I haven't had a chance to play them yet, but I'm optimistic.
The Gun Survivor games were hilariously weird. Felt like House of The Dead... but in your lounge, on the Wii (of all things).
I am optimistic for RE. But I guess I'm just a bit jaded as I want to see new IPs and devs/publishers are terrified of the investment now.
I liked MGS4 specifically as a send-off. It's not the best one by far, but it felt like a celebration of the series. MGS5 came around and I didn't bother to buy it for quite a while. When I did I...
I liked MGS4 specifically as a send-off. It's not the best one by far, but it felt like a celebration of the series.
MGS5 came around and I didn't bother to buy it for quite a while. When I did I was surprised at how good the gameplay was, but most of the time I just kind of found myself asking "why am I playing this?" It just didn't feel like a MGS game because even though it had all the mechanics done sublimely well, it just missed the melodramatic and jargony flare that the series was known for. In a way it kind of felt more like an early Assassin's Creed game.
I'm also just the kind of person who would prefer the occasional long but gripping cutscene to the long stretches of unfocused and meandering gameplay. I'm not a "make your own fun" type.
That's fair, we're all different. I just didn't enjoy it. I loved the visit to Shadow Moses, that got me right hwere I lived. Walking through the first few structures, abandoned, cold, dead......
I liked MGS4 specifically as a send-off. It's not the best one by far, but it felt like a celebration of the series.
That's fair, we're all different. I just didn't enjoy it. I loved the visit to Shadow Moses, that got me right hwere I lived. Walking through the first few structures, abandoned, cold, dead... that brought back a lot of feelings for me. But then they added the insane B&B unit that just bored me to tears.
Not even mentioning Prague being BEYOND tedious.
It just felt like a game that the Director wasn't all that focused on. It meandered all over the place in feel and with Snake suddenly being 905 years old? I dunno, it lost something. It really pushed the "WAR IS BAD" in your face stuff as well. At least in MGS1-3 it's done in a nice, intellectual, melodramatic feel.
I haven't even looked at the rest. Apparently Volgin from MGS3 survived somehow!?
I feel all of those criticisms. My positive emotions are undoubtedly helped by the fact that it’s effectively unplayable without digging through storage to pull out my old PS3. I’ve got to say...
I feel all of those criticisms. My positive emotions are undoubtedly helped by the fact that it’s effectively unplayable without digging through storage to pull out my old PS3.
I’ve got to say that the insanity behind the B&B unit is one of the appeals to me. I’m also one of those freaks who enjoy those kusoge “what were they thinking?!” vibes.
Haha. I think I enjoyed the B&B unit as a concept, but there's a lot of warped, military mysoginy that's whacked into them in a dreadful kind of way. I appreciate they went through the "These gals...
Haha. I think I enjoyed the B&B unit as a concept, but there's a lot of warped, military mysoginy that's whacked into them in a dreadful kind of way. I appreciate they went through the "These gals have seen something", but then the break to their 'beauty' stage feels very offputting to me.
We had fantastic feminine villians (Boss, Sniper Wolf) who were both beautiful and monsters due to war. The B&B's just felt "HEY BOYS, LOOK AT THEM TIDDIES!" rather than anything grownup. Sniper Wolf's dying conversation (despite being lungshot...) is fantastic. She's a Kurd, she's been fucked on a daily basis and only became the weapon she is because of Big Boss. The B&Bs have little connection to Big Boss, it's always just bothered me!
old PS3.
I borrowed a friends when MGS4 came out and accidently absorbed a weekend into the game.
I've been probing eBay for PSX & PS2's lately... Don't do it.
It’s really hard to explain the way it appeals to me. It’s kind of like an appreciation of when an artist tries to make a point in a new and interesting way but doesn’t really succeed. It’s kind...
It’s really hard to explain the way it appeals to me. It’s kind of like an appreciation of when an artist tries to make a point in a new and interesting way but doesn’t really succeed.
It’s kind of like hearing about Bayonetta for the first time and seeing that her fighting animations look like pole dancing. It sounded ridiculous and maybe a bit embarrassing. But where Bayonetta works and the B&B unit fails is that pole dancing is empowering and the gameplay does a good job of making you understand it. MGS4 does not. So it turns into a little puzzle to put together to understand why it was done that way. Its even better if there is no way to prove a definitive answer.
Nah, They're about £100 with some games thrown in. I've got a slim line in my attic, but it's digging the bloody thing out! I have a HTPC setup in my lounge that I am SORELY tempted to get...
Nah, They're about £100 with some games thrown in. I've got a slim line in my attic, but it's digging the bloody thing out!
I have a HTPC setup in my lounge that I am SORELY tempted to get emulators running on...
@thefilmslayer please note though that the laser diode they come with has a pretty good chance of being dead, meaning that they can’t read discs. The good news is that discs aren’t the only way to...
@thefilmslayer please note though that the laser diode they come with has a pretty good chance of being dead, meaning that they can’t read discs. The good news is that discs aren’t the only way to get games to run.
While emulation has become very good in the past few years, PS2 emulation is still very imperfect. Some games can be run at 4K and look beautiful, and some games take so much resources to run...
While emulation has become very good in the past few years, PS2 emulation is still very imperfect. Some games can be run at 4K and look beautiful, and some games take so much resources to run you'll have a hard time making it run well at the original resolution. Steambot Chronicles, for instance, requires slow software rendering and it runs unacceptably slow on my Steam Deck, which means painfully choppy audio at the same time.
I actually have three different models, all different revisions, which all have busted lasers. A lot of them will work fine, yeah, but it's a pretty high failure rate overall.
I actually have three different models, all different revisions, which all have busted lasers. A lot of them will work fine, yeah, but it's a pretty high failure rate overall.
The RE4 remake was an absolute masterpiece, coming from someone who beat the original game at least 10x between PS2 and PC, including on Professional mode. Even if you're not really into remakes,...
The RE4 remake was an absolute masterpiece, coming from someone who beat the original game at least 10x between PS2 and PC, including on Professional mode.
Even if you're not really into remakes, I highly recommend picking it up.
It expands on the original story a good bit, so it still has a fresh feeling in the cinematics etc.
Do you mean is it a beautiful game? The graphics are stunning IMO ... I'd basically say it's "The preferred way to play the game" which is not something I'd say often about remakes or remasters.
Do you mean is it a beautiful game? The graphics are stunning IMO ... I'd basically say it's "The preferred way to play the game" which is not something I'd say often about remakes or remasters.
Hmm. I'm not sure how to translate camp. Melodramatic, Over the top in the vocals department. I've sourced the RE remasters and I'll give them a look in over Christmas I reckon. Though it may give...
Hmm. I'm not sure how to translate camp.
Melodramatic, Over the top in the vocals department.
I've sourced the RE remasters and I'll give them a look in over Christmas I reckon. Though it may give me the "I've been here before" thing, though I think RE2 is all based in the RPD Police Station isn't it?
I wouldn't call the cinematics over the top necessarily. I mean they have that standard Resident Evil feeling. But not over the top like RE5's story was. With RE4 it will give you the "I've been...
I wouldn't call the cinematics over the top necessarily. I mean they have that standard Resident Evil feeling. But not over the top like RE5's story was.
With RE4 it will give you the "I've been here before" feeling, but in a new way ... almost like replaying the original game as a dream. I found it to be quite refreshing. Some parts are of the map are shorter than the original and other parts have been expanded upon.
Like the Lake after the village where you fight the massive fish-like monster ... that entire Lake area has been redone and has way more areas to explore now.
The fact that the move to first-person has been so controversial is a bit wild to me. This isn't the first time the series has had a major change in camera perspective, and each time they've done...
As for 7 and Village, it's worth remembering that first person titles have always had a place in the RE canon (the Gun Survivor spinoff games).
The fact that the move to first-person has been so controversial is a bit wild to me. This isn't the first time the series has had a major change in camera perspective, and each time they've done it they have re-invigorated the franchise with creativity.
I can't say I ever want a game to fail, but it seems likely with this one in terms of making something that feels complimentary to the SH universe. I don't think they could have missed the mark...
I can't say I ever want a game to fail, but it seems likely with this one in terms of making something that feels complimentary to the SH universe. I don't think they could have missed the mark more if they tried. It almost feels like they went the "Cloverfield" route where the devs took a random, half-finished game or idea and then received money to slap a brand name on it. It doesn't feel like Silent Hill at all, but maybe could have been an interesting thing on its own similar to Until Dawn.
I feel you in regards to RE (I never played MGS all that much so I can't speak to that). I thought 7 was okay and Village was a decent game but didn't really feel all that much like an RE game. I've played RE and SH since the first PSX incarnations (I have a soft spot for old tank-control RE games), so it's just depressing sometimes to see the directions your beloved franchises can take.
That seems to be the general approach to almost all media at the moment. There's so few and far between 'risky' IP's and ventures coming out compared to a decade or so ago. Maybe that is just...
I can't say I ever want a game to fail, but it seems likely with this one in terms of making something that feels complimentary to the SH universe. I don't think they could have missed the mark more if they tried. It almost feels like they went the "Cloverfield" route where the devs took a random, half-finished game or idea and then received money to slap a brand name on it. It doesn't feel like Silent Hill at all, but maybe could have been an interesting thing on its own similar to Until Dawn.
That seems to be the general approach to almost all media at the moment. There's so few and far between 'risky' IP's and ventures coming out compared to a decade or so ago. Maybe that is just nostaglia talking, but it certainly feels that way.
I feel you in regards to RE (I never played MGS all that much so I can't speak to that). I thought 7 was okay and Village was a decent game but didn't really feel all that much like an RE game. I've played RE and SH since the first PSX incarnations (I have a soft spot for old tank-control RE games), so it's just depressing sometimes to see the directions your beloved franchises can take.
Pretty much. The reality is, they're not really our franchises so we have little say in what and where they should go. I remember getting traumatised by the Silent Hill demo for PSX (The guy wrapped in barbed wire on the fence scared the hell out me) and then promptly deciding to get my dad to buy the game when I had enough pocket money. Same with Resident Evil really. I loved 1, 2 and 3. But I lost a lot my own personal enjoyment from that point onwards, though I am acutely aware that 4 really revolutionised the "over the shoulder shooter" genre again.
PT had my shitting myself and wanting more (just like everyone else) and we never got that.
MGS 1, 2 and 3 are honestly some of the best games I ever played. 2 is probably the reason I work in the field I do (Data Technology) and probably directly led to my cynical nature of authority. Everything after those felt like a repeat, an iteration based on what the industry wanted... rather than what I personally did, so I didn't really get into them.
At least we got a nice new meme out of it with the "It's trauma!" emote. Already downloaded it to use as an emoji on Discord, it's nice and pretty and rainbow-y, and completely and hilariously...
At least we got a nice new meme out of it with the "It's trauma!" emote. Already downloaded it to use as an emoji on Discord, it's nice and pretty and rainbow-y, and completely and hilariously tone deaf to Silent Hill.
I saw a video about this, and seeing clips of the actual live chat emotes you can buy was just mind-boggling. There's the rainbow "It's trauma!" one, and a face-palm one that just does NOT feel like it fits for Silent Hill. I'm not even a fan of the games, just appreciate them and mourn the loss of Silent Hills (Junji Ito on monster design would be amazing!!), but anyone with any knowledge of the franchise could tell how ridiculously out of place these emotes are with the overall tone of Silent Hill.
Does not make me optimistic about everything else they're doing.
Agreed, I've already seen a meme with a clip of Joe Pesci staring at a screenshot of the game and saying "what the f*ck is this shit?". I'm a fan of the first four games only to be honest,...
Agreed, I've already seen a meme with a clip of Joe Pesci staring at a screenshot of the game and saying "what the f*ck is this shit?". I'm a fan of the first four games only to be honest, everything that came after them always seemed to fail to grasp the magic of what made those games unique and interesting (especially 2 and 3 for me). To see what's basically a streamer Twitch battle with some vaguely SH-themed trappings and emotes couldn't be further from what made those games a big deal to a lot of people.
My initial reaction to this was going to be a sarcastic “color me surprised”. It was clear that Konami was only interested in using the Silent Hill IP as a money making machine since their big announcement about a year ago about the projects they will be producing that included basically no information about anything they were doing. They had the one remake game from Bloober team whom it seems obvious that they’ve been wanting to do this project since their inception, a movie that didn’t appear to even be anywhere near actual production, and another game that had zero real details except for one or two famous people attached to it.
But then when I actually read the article I was flabbergasted that they could possibly shatter well past the sub-basement of my expectations and make something worse. I can’t believe that they made a version of “twitch plays Pokémon” combined with an FMV choose your own adventure format. And then you literally pay for influence and it somehow has a season pass as if it were Fortnite.
I wasn't sure about using a GamesRadar article, but that headline does a good job of articulating how many fans like myself reacted. I was originally cautiously semi-optimistic that they might do something interesting, but this...really looks awful. As one of those "long-suffering" Silent Hill fans who have been craving an experience akin to what Team Silent did with 1-4, I'm fairly disappointed and unsure what the other SH games coming out of the pipe will be like. Any other fans of SH on Tildes? What was your reaction?
That first screenshot is actually hilarious, It's like they tried to wedge Detroit:Human into Silent Hill.
I think I've given up a fair amount on the Silent Hill, Resident Evil and Metal Gear Solid Saga's. They all seemed to have had a great first load of games, then the rest are just kind of 'meh' from a storyline and investment perspective. They're often great tech demos, but nothing more.
But this just looking abhorrant. Maybe this is our own personal Silent Hill? One without fog...
I'm a big fan of Metal Gear and have completed every game in the franchise including the MSX titles and both Acid games. I agree that the series has lost its way, and the rot arguably started to set in with MGSIV. I loved Guns of The Patriots, but it was honestly more of a movie than a game and it felt like Kojima was actively trying to end things for the fans. Tying up all the loose ends, bringing all of the characters storylines to a close. Rising and Peace Walker were excellent additions to the franchise, but felt a bit vestigial.
Finally, we ended up with Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain. Bleh.
I was never an avid fan of Silent Hill, though SH2 is an obvious classic of the medium and I have fond memories of playing it on the Xbox. I can't speak to the direction the series has taken because I haven't followed it.
As for Resident Evil, I think the franchise is undergoing something of a renaissance. The remakes of 2 and 3 were sensitively done - especially 2 - and utilize the modern engine to breathtaking effect. The integration of 4-style controls with 2-style atmosphere was seamless. RE2 remake feels like the definitive version of the experience, which is saying a lot.
As for 7 and Village, it's worth remembering that first person titles have always had a place in the RE canon (the Gun Survivor spinoff games). I haven't had a chance to play them yet, but I'm optimistic.
I honestly hated MGS4. MGS3 introduced the (sometimes cumbersome camo system, but wonderful) camo system. 4 Then just stripped that right out. Not to mention there are just ridiculous things going on that seem to SUDDENLY happen. GECKOS and the lark just seem so over the top.
Not to mention that 1.5 hour cutscene!
Don't forget the remaster that has just biblically shit the bed as well!
After 4, the games basically went to American developers who fundamentally mismanaged what made the series unique and terrifying. There's a good video on YouTube (Max Derrant I think) who talks about the difference in horror types between the West & the East and it really made sense why 1-4 are great/good and the rest are 'meh'.
I've heard big raves. But I'm a little hesitent with remasters, simply because... well, I've done this already. GIVE ME SOMETHING NEW. I don't care if it's new IP with zombies and evil corporations and a bit deriviative! But please, anything new.
The Gun Survivor games were hilariously weird. Felt like House of The Dead... but in your lounge, on the Wii (of all things).
I am optimistic for RE. But I guess I'm just a bit jaded as I want to see new IPs and devs/publishers are terrified of the investment now.
I liked MGS4 specifically as a send-off. It's not the best one by far, but it felt like a celebration of the series.
MGS5 came around and I didn't bother to buy it for quite a while. When I did I was surprised at how good the gameplay was, but most of the time I just kind of found myself asking "why am I playing this?" It just didn't feel like a MGS game because even though it had all the mechanics done sublimely well, it just missed the melodramatic and jargony flare that the series was known for. In a way it kind of felt more like an early Assassin's Creed game.
I'm also just the kind of person who would prefer the occasional long but gripping cutscene to the long stretches of unfocused and meandering gameplay. I'm not a "make your own fun" type.
That's fair, we're all different. I just didn't enjoy it. I loved the visit to Shadow Moses, that got me right hwere I lived. Walking through the first few structures, abandoned, cold, dead... that brought back a lot of feelings for me. But then they added the insane B&B unit that just bored me to tears.
Not even mentioning Prague being BEYOND tedious.
It just felt like a game that the Director wasn't all that focused on. It meandered all over the place in feel and with Snake suddenly being 905 years old? I dunno, it lost something. It really pushed the "WAR IS BAD" in your face stuff as well. At least in MGS1-3 it's done in a nice, intellectual, melodramatic feel.
I haven't even looked at the rest. Apparently Volgin from MGS3 survived somehow!?
I feel all of those criticisms. My positive emotions are undoubtedly helped by the fact that it’s effectively unplayable without digging through storage to pull out my old PS3.
I’ve got to say that the insanity behind the B&B unit is one of the appeals to me. I’m also one of those freaks who enjoy those kusoge “what were they thinking?!” vibes.
Haha. I think I enjoyed the B&B unit as a concept, but there's a lot of warped, military mysoginy that's whacked into them in a dreadful kind of way. I appreciate they went through the "These gals have seen something", but then the break to their 'beauty' stage feels very offputting to me.
We had fantastic feminine villians (Boss, Sniper Wolf) who were both beautiful and monsters due to war. The B&B's just felt "HEY BOYS, LOOK AT THEM TIDDIES!" rather than anything grownup. Sniper Wolf's dying conversation (despite being lungshot...) is fantastic. She's a Kurd, she's been fucked on a daily basis and only became the weapon she is because of Big Boss. The B&Bs have little connection to Big Boss, it's always just bothered me!
I borrowed a friends when MGS4 came out and accidently absorbed a weekend into the game.
I've been probing eBay for PSX & PS2's lately... Don't do it.
It’s really hard to explain the way it appeals to me. It’s kind of like an appreciation of when an artist tries to make a point in a new and interesting way but doesn’t really succeed.
It’s kind of like hearing about Bayonetta for the first time and seeing that her fighting animations look like pole dancing. It sounded ridiculous and maybe a bit embarrassing. But where Bayonetta works and the B&B unit fails is that pole dancing is empowering and the gameplay does a good job of making you understand it. MGS4 does not. So it turns into a little puzzle to put together to understand why it was done that way. Its even better if there is no way to prove a definitive answer.
I like that approach towards it, it's different to mine that's for sure!
I'm kind of glad I hung onto my old PS2, which still works as well as the day I bought it. Are they difficult to find/expensive?
Nah, They're about £100 with some games thrown in. I've got a slim line in my attic, but it's digging the bloody thing out!
I have a HTPC setup in my lounge that I am SORELY tempted to get emulators running on...
@thefilmslayer please note though that the laser diode they come with has a pretty good chance of being dead, meaning that they can’t read discs. The good news is that discs aren’t the only way to get games to run.
Aye, there's that issue. It's why I'm seriously considering emulation.
While emulation has become very good in the past few years, PS2 emulation is still very imperfect. Some games can be run at 4K and look beautiful, and some games take so much resources to run you'll have a hard time making it run well at the original resolution. Steambot Chronicles, for instance, requires slow software rendering and it runs unacceptably slow on my Steam Deck, which means painfully choppy audio at the same time.
I took mine out and used it not too long ago, still works fine.
I actually have three different models, all different revisions, which all have busted lasers. A lot of them will work fine, yeah, but it's a pretty high failure rate overall.
The RE4 remake was an absolute masterpiece, coming from someone who beat the original game at least 10x between PS2 and PC, including on Professional mode.
Even if you're not really into remakes, I highly recommend picking it up.
It expands on the original story a good bit, so it still has a fresh feeling in the cinematics etc.
Is it still beautiful camp? I'll give it a look around Christmas time that's all.
Do you mean is it a beautiful game? The graphics are stunning IMO ... I'd basically say it's "The preferred way to play the game" which is not something I'd say often about remakes or remasters.
Hmm. I'm not sure how to translate camp.
Melodramatic, Over the top in the vocals department.
I've sourced the RE remasters and I'll give them a look in over Christmas I reckon. Though it may give me the "I've been here before" thing, though I think RE2 is all based in the RPD Police Station isn't it?
I wouldn't call the cinematics over the top necessarily. I mean they have that standard Resident Evil feeling. But not over the top like RE5's story was.
With RE4 it will give you the "I've been here before" feeling, but in a new way ... almost like replaying the original game as a dream. I found it to be quite refreshing. Some parts are of the map are shorter than the original and other parts have been expanded upon.
Like the Lake after the village where you fight the massive fish-like monster ... that entire Lake area has been redone and has way more areas to explore now.
The fact that the move to first-person has been so controversial is a bit wild to me. This isn't the first time the series has had a major change in camera perspective, and each time they've done it they have re-invigorated the franchise with creativity.
I was apprehensive about the FPS angle, but there's been Resident Evil FPS games in the past like Survivor and the Battle Mode in Code Veronica.
I can't say I ever want a game to fail, but it seems likely with this one in terms of making something that feels complimentary to the SH universe. I don't think they could have missed the mark more if they tried. It almost feels like they went the "Cloverfield" route where the devs took a random, half-finished game or idea and then received money to slap a brand name on it. It doesn't feel like Silent Hill at all, but maybe could have been an interesting thing on its own similar to Until Dawn.
I feel you in regards to RE (I never played MGS all that much so I can't speak to that). I thought 7 was okay and Village was a decent game but didn't really feel all that much like an RE game. I've played RE and SH since the first PSX incarnations (I have a soft spot for old tank-control RE games), so it's just depressing sometimes to see the directions your beloved franchises can take.
That seems to be the general approach to almost all media at the moment. There's so few and far between 'risky' IP's and ventures coming out compared to a decade or so ago. Maybe that is just nostaglia talking, but it certainly feels that way.
Pretty much. The reality is, they're not really our franchises so we have little say in what and where they should go. I remember getting traumatised by the Silent Hill demo for PSX (The guy wrapped in barbed wire on the fence scared the hell out me) and then promptly deciding to get my dad to buy the game when I had enough pocket money. Same with Resident Evil really. I loved 1, 2 and 3. But I lost a lot my own personal enjoyment from that point onwards, though I am acutely aware that 4 really revolutionised the "over the shoulder shooter" genre again.
PT had my shitting myself and wanting more (just like everyone else) and we never got that.
MGS 1, 2 and 3 are honestly some of the best games I ever played. 2 is probably the reason I work in the field I do (Data Technology) and probably directly led to my cynical nature of authority. Everything after those felt like a repeat, an iteration based on what the industry wanted... rather than what I personally did, so I didn't really get into them.
At least we got a nice new meme out of it with the "It's trauma!" emote. Already downloaded it to use as an emoji on Discord, it's nice and pretty and rainbow-y, and completely and hilariously tone deaf to Silent Hill.
I saw a video about this, and seeing clips of the actual live chat emotes you can buy was just mind-boggling. There's the rainbow "It's trauma!" one, and a face-palm one that just does NOT feel like it fits for Silent Hill. I'm not even a fan of the games, just appreciate them and mourn the loss of Silent Hills (Junji Ito on monster design would be amazing!!), but anyone with any knowledge of the franchise could tell how ridiculously out of place these emotes are with the overall tone of Silent Hill.
Does not make me optimistic about everything else they're doing.
Agreed, I've already seen a meme with a clip of Joe Pesci staring at a screenshot of the game and saying "what the f*ck is this shit?". I'm a fan of the first four games only to be honest, everything that came after them always seemed to fail to grasp the magic of what made those games unique and interesting (especially 2 and 3 for me). To see what's basically a streamer Twitch battle with some vaguely SH-themed trappings and emotes couldn't be further from what made those games a big deal to a lot of people.