Silent Hill Homecoming Comments by Kristan Reed
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... yes, another action horror game in which the developer deliberately restricted the mobility of your character in order to create tension. That's why in RE4 you can't step sideways, you can't walk and shoot at the same time and when aiming your gun moves so painfully slowly.
Yeah because jumpstrafing across the roofs of the village would've made the game so more atmospheric and exciting! Ugh. Look dude, it's not restricting movement, it's simply what the game is designed around. If Gears of War controlled like Unreal Tournament, would it be better? If all racing games from now on had sideways strafe functions like F-zero, would they be better (Gran Turismo is only hard cause it restricts movement omg)? Hell, why are most games restricted by this dumb thing called gravity? If I want to get over that wall, I should be able to fly over it instead of being forced to walk around it because the developer saw fit to glue me to the ground. |
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06/12/08 @ 17:44
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It does seem pretty lame compared to the previous games.
Silent Hill still has a place in today's modern game world, it just needs a dynamite team of developers with love for the project that it had back in the day. When you look back; 1 & 2 were the best because they really wanted to make them. 3 was totally gripping but didn't quite have the edge of 2, and 4 as separate from the series as it felt, is actually a superb horror game, but overall it seemed more of a spin-off than part of the series, which I guess is what it was. I don't really want to talk about origins, it kind of served a purpose, a portable 'SH-like' experience I guess. And RE does get better, new SH instalments just make fans of the originals wince. Good comment Pameboy, all i'll say now is come back Team Silent, we still love you! |
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Yup I'm sort of torn between getting this game. I'm a huge fan but what I've seen of the story + the fact that the original developers aren't even creating the game.... I'm not so interested in it sadly.
Honestly I feel that Dead Space was the only "real" survival horror game to have been released since Silent Hill 3. RE4 was much more tension-action instead of horror and SH4 was just crap (although they stated afterwards that it was supposed to be a stand-alone game not a Silent Hill game which would explain it). I've never had a PsP so I haven't tested Origins. Granted I have yet to play Fatal Frame games since the local gamestore went bankrupt a couple of months back and Haunting Ground + Rule of Rose are more of a psychological horror games. Eeehhhm, I can't remember any more "survival" horror games that I should have played by now but yeah. Maybe I'll convince some of my friends to buy Homecoming so I can test it but it's not a first-buy for me. |
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Also torn...especially since I'm a big fan of Silent Hill 2 - best in the series (I haven't played homecoming or Origins but it seems as though I'm safe)...would so much love to go back to the first time I played SH2.
As for RE 4 - I thought it was awesome!! So was Dead Space...but SH2 just had something special about it. |
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with the scope of what can be achieved with todays technology, i think its a real shame that they seemed to have done nothing with it. as for dead space being a great game i dissagree! it just seemed to me to be a third person doom 3 with very few monster types. although i did like the gravity free sections, but that wasnt enough for me. not strickly a survival horror game i think the darkness is a surprisingly good game with great characters and good gameplay a truly next gen game
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ive just been reading through the comments made here,
the game has just been released and im yet to buy homecoming yet i will get round to it, regardless of what the reviews have been saying and what not it was good to see the amount of passion that some of us on here have for SH2 because at the time i didnt realise it but looking back now its clear for me that SH2 was the best survival horror title available then as it is now. i played through that game 4-5 times trying to get all the endings, but put simply i just truly enjoyed it, it hit me in a spot that very few a game has and the atosphere and music together scared the bejesus out of us i would be over the moon if ever a survival horror game is made that struck me the way SH2 did, one can only hope :) |
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"WHY WHY WHY has no-one mentioned the lack of inverted camera in this game? You can only invert the aim system!"
is that right p00ntang not able to invert camara angles? the most important thing in any game ever is the controls!! if you have trouble with the controls in a game, then the game can become incredibly frustrating and some times unplayable. at the most crucial points in a game. when things are frantic you dont have time to think about what to do. you just react by pressing buttons that you are used to for any given action. you end up jumping instead of shooting! looking up when you want to look down etc. one game that had terrible controls was that zombie game i cant rember what it was called, you know the one set in the shopping mall. i found it totaly unplayable. why dont developers allow you to remap all of your controls. like most games do on the pc. i wasnt sure if i was gonna buy this game but now i wont not unless they fix this with a patch |
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