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SH4 is the best soundtrack to SH, agreed.

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Yeah I've always felt SH4 being the black sheep of the classics has unfairly affected the OST's reception. IMO 2/3/4 are all 10/10.

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@guyman i don't see anything like that but the settings offered are pretty robust. It's fine in a playability sense but it also just reminds me too much of playing Kratos in GoW. The enemies are actually a threat in this game, im not 100% sure if i like it that way but the encounters are still impressing me as of leaving the apartment building.

This game is exactly what a fan of silent hill would want. I knew everything i had to about the SH fanbase when they'd bitch at someone like Tom Hulett for the westernized games when he was probably the biggest person advocating for things fans care about in the series. This remake is the most relevant the series has been in 20 years and while I can see it does suck that the game it took to do that was a remake, it's still an enjoyable game. People just want to be contrarian, what are you even standing for as a fan when nothing that comes out will be enough for you?

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“but it also just reminds me too much of playing Kratos in GoW”



This is actually spot on haha! I haven’t played it since I first got it, and hardly got that far into it, but the hand to hand combat felt really out of place to me. The GoW analogy is exactly how it plays.

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SH4 in general is so underrated. The hauntings creeped me out more than anything in the entire franchise, and overall I think it had a really strong story. Lot of people complain about Henry being such a bland, dejected character but I think he perfectly encapsulates the behavior of someone who has been shut off from the world.



And don't even get me started on the soundtrack. Resting Comfortably (despite its title) is such a strikingly despondent piece of music. Leaves me in a purely depressed state every time I listen to it. Just so hopeless and bleak sounding, it's almost soul crushing.

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SH2 remake is fun so far. I just like breaking all the windows

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@Jay I've always said that the murder scenes in that game are some of the most memorable moments in the entire franchise. Cynthia's in particular is still absolutely chilling (*Here's a lullaby to close your eyes....*)



IDK I think Tom Hulett deserved some of what he got, but this was also in the denial phase for most of us lol. I defend Homecoming more than most (the soundtrack rules too!) because IMO 40-50% of that game is tense and claustrophobic AF, with some legitimately scary moments, but it was so clearly ripping off Hostel and trying to mimck SH2 tropes that it just felt disingenuous from the start. And don't even get me started on PH being involved.

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IDK even know what he did at this point, it's just obnoxious to try to be a fan in such a toxic community. I feel the westernized games actually started finding their own footing by the time Downpour came out, it just needed a lot more time that Konami didn't want to give it because they wanted their "Month of SH!" And pushed out the two most panned games in the series with the HD remaster and Book of Memories. All the bad decisions the series has faced since the original SH2 is because Konami has the IP.

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All I know is that the soundtrack for 4 is by far the best one

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I’m just past the hospital section of the game and I’m enjoying it, mostly.



The positives are the excellent graphics, puzzles are really fun, and the expanded level design is surprisingly great. That being said, i absolutely hate how action heavy this game is. It’s basically taken the REmake concept, but it just doesn’t work for SH. It’s supposed to be a psychological horror, but all this game does is throw wave after wave of enemies at you. It’s like the game isn’t confident on relying on atmosphere to creepy you out, so it has to throw enemies at you every 3 minutes. Loads of cheap scares too. And I absolutely hate the combat system in this; the devs have essentially used Homecoming and Downpour as big inspirations for this, and frankly the combat in this is complete ass. Running round like John Wick just isn’t what silent hill is about.



This is more preference, but I’m not too keen on the nightmare world aesthetics either. What I always loved about SH2 is that the nightmare worlds just looked like dilapidated areas, rather than the all out visceral gore of SH1, 3 and 4. Here it’s like those games, but has the Homecoming rust vibe to it as well, and it’s a bit much, personally. Doesn’t go with the overarching theme of this game’s story. I also still think the voice acting here is far inferior to the original’s.



Decent game, but far from perfect.

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The traversal stutter is pretty fucking bad

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Yeah, there’s a lot of janky movement too. Took me ages getting the cursor to pick up a save point once. Hopefully they patch it up

No way do real people enjoy this remake lol, it's a clunky mess with fugly characters. I heard from a legit source that most of the positive steam reviews come from Indians who received in exchange the steam key from Konami.

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That has to be a troll ^



Outside of some noticeably bad artifacting, game is excellent. I think you guys are misremembering how the original felt to actually play, with its tank controls and extremely slow combat. Also there were literally hundreds of enemies in the original? I don’t think this one has too many so far. The OG is probably my favourite game ever, or at the very least my favourite horror game, and Bloober did a far far better job here than I expected them to

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2004. I had just got an xbox for my 9th birthday and naturally I was obsessed with Halo CE. It came with a sampler CD that had various demos and trailers... I remember Wolfenstein spooked me out...then I saw the Silent Hill 4 trailer and it terrified me so badly I had to sleep in my parents room for about a month. A decade later I played it and realized it might actually be my favorite entry in the series at least as far as atmosphere is concerned. It's maddening to learn about how much bigger and better these games could have been if Konami didn't have a knife to their throat (and in doing so dug their own graves the stupid money grubbing fucks)



But the scariest part of all this is realizing that was 20 years ago now

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SH4 is unfairly judged by many SH fans, often regarded as “not a real SH game”, which I think is bs. The atmosphere and music are both perfect. I do like this ost more on the whole but 4 is close behind. 2 > 4 > 3 for soundtrack. 2 > 3 > 4 overall. All at least 9.5/10. The glory days of horror, back when I thought Konami was a top tier gaming company

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“Outside of some noticeably bad artifacting, game is excellent. I think you guys are misremembering how the original felt to actually play, with its tank controls and extremely slow combat. Also there were literally hundreds of enemies in the original? I don’t think this one has too many so far. The OG is probably my favourite game ever, or at the very least my favourite horror game, and Bloober did a far far better job here than I expected them to”



The controls in the original play perfectly fine, I play the first 4 games regularly. And your comment about the OG having “hundreds of enemies” is pure cope. I don’t even think there were 100 enemies in the original — maybe on the harder difficulties. But the main issue is that you’re pretty much forced to fight them in the new one. I’m near the end of the game now and at this point I feel like I’m playing an action game. It’s as action heavy as RE4, which, considering what SH2 and the other team silent games are all about, it just feels completely wrong. You are literally fighting waves of enemies at some points, it looks and feels ridiculous. This remake is for people with short attention spans, and people who love jump scares. It’s still a decent game, but the fundamentals of why the original games are so good is completely lost here.

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Picked it up out of sheer curiosity (honestly I have nothing better to do) and yeah, I pretty much 100% agree with Gonzo on everything. Another solid remake, but not a patch on the original. I felt the same way about the Dead Space and Resident Evil 4 remakes, both felt kinda soulless and didn't get the little things right that made the originals such masterpieces.



The Maria death scene and the "anyway?!?" scene were executed horribly. And I'm also really on the fence with Angela in this remake. Donna Burke's voice acting was irreplaceable. And also the overabundance of enemies in certain areas felt a little too combat-y which is a cardinal sin for SH.

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Mate, both Angela and Maria get character assassinated, mainly Angela though. I cringed throughout most of her scenes.



I will say, I really enjoyed the boss fights in this though. The daddy fight was a really cool spin on the original.