Silent Hill series

The "Maria" ending is not an alternative to the suicide, it just postpones it. Maria's going to repeat the events that befell Mary and James is going to be right back here again.

Because Maria isn't real. She's a construct created by James's mind to punish him. She can never be anything but more pain. She is not a Replacement Goldfish or a coping mechanism, she is an avatar of James's suffering who exists to make him suffer more.

edited 20th Oct '15 7:53:01 AM by TobiasDrake

I feel like the Maria ending is almost a response to people who felt that the first game's all just a dream ending was pointless.

Because like.

The thing about cyclical endings is that by their nature they're even more pointless than all just a dream endings in terms of resolving things.

But they're also extremely meaningful in spite or because of their pointlessness, in that they suggest and hint at the futility of existence.

The fact that Maria coughs during her ending really suggests that James is just going to be back here and doing all of this all over again.

EDIT: I mean.

The In Water ending is my least favorite of the three initial endings, but. I feel it's an ending that fits. I feel like all of the endings fit, really.

"In Water" definitely reflects James learning and coming to terms with what he did, and the "Maria" ending definitely does not reflect that. At all. In the slightest.

The "Leave" ending is. I mean. Hmm. It seems like the happiest ending and there's nothing really wrong with it. But I find myself struggling to really get too attached to it.

The "Rebirth" ending is interesting. The UFO ending wasn't quite as good as some of the other ones. Like, let's be perfectly honest, the best UFO ending was Shattered Memories. That's the best ending for Shattered Memories and possibly the best ending in the series?

I think that, thematically, the "Dog" ending actually fits the best. Because after the game spent so much time analyzing toxic masculinity the only real way for it to end is for James to become somebody's bitch.

EDIT: Why Silent Hill mattered.

edited 28th Oct '15 12:34:52 PM by unnoun

So...anyone care to venture a guess on whether or not we'll ever see rereleases of 2 and 3 that aren't the HD Collection?

Hey, guys?

MGSV's Donna Burke is doing horror voice overs for a "new game".

The tweet in question.

She's insisting that it's not Silent Hill, but...it feels like something's up...

So hey, something that happened.

Last night, my sister had a nasty case of the hiccups so we tried a lot of things. We decided to try and scare her and you know what I suggested?

Watching a no commentary playthrough of P.T.

Unfortunately, it didn't work, but I personally thought it was worth a shot.

EDIT: Also, Hideo Kojima and Guillermo Del Toro are having a get-together at DICE. For some reason, people are assuming they're gonna use this to say they're gonna do something together. Not to be a pessimist, but can that sort of thing happen at these DICE things? I kinda doubt it.

edited 7th Feb '16 11:34:16 AM by TargetmasterJoe

So, random thought, but is the Order's mythology supposed to be the actual backstory of the 'verse, or are they just nuts?

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-02-24-life-after-harassment-ex-silent-hill-dev-tomm-hulett-speaks-out

:/

Shattered Memories actually being very good in its own right and mostly getting undeservedly shat on for not adhering to series tradition is still a (silent) hill I'm willing to go down on.

Best ending is the joke ending from book of memories

This is why fandoms are a horrible idea. This kind of toxic crap happens in every single one of them, regardless of IP, regardless of medium, regardless of target audience, it's omnipresent.

Best of luck to Hulett, hopefully these idiots will back off sooner rather than later.

Shit like this is why I've been distancing myself from "organized" fandom as of late. The tipping point for me was all the apparently sincere threats on the lives of Star Wars actors made by the alt-right last year.

And, at the very VERY least, stop laying blame of situations to people you don't know to actually be to blame. In the Star Wars example, stop threatening the actors over character choices that they merely portrayed, not wrote.

Modern fandom culture is almost making me miss people like the Harmonians. At least they were funny and probably didn't actually mean it when they they said they wanted to kill you over shipping.

So, I want to try this series with the second game, which is supposed to be the best.

Should I:

1. Get an emulation on a computer?

2. Get the remastered collection?

3. Get my own Playstation 2 and the game on Ebay?

Edited by fredhot16 on Apr 24th 2019 at 2:56:18 AM

Do not get the HD Collection, it's a Porting Disaster if there ever was one.

Playing a genuine copy on a PS2 (or a compatible PS3) will always be the best way to play it.

It was also released on the original Xbox (with the subtitle "Restless Dreams"), and it's technically backwards compatible with the 360, but some Game Breaking Bugs happen when played on a 360. Not as bad as the HD Collection, but still pretty bad, like save files erasing themselves. The same issues might also happen if emulated on a PC, but I'm not sure.

The Xbox version has some extra content, like more endings and an extra mini-campaign. This extra stuff was included later on in the "Greatest Hits" version that was released for PS2. It's all nice, but none of it's essential.

The game was also released on PC, but it apparently has trouble running on modern systems. I don't know if it includes the extra content on the Xbox / "Greatest Hits" version.

Edited by Primis on Apr 24th 2019 at 6:14:40 AM

Konami announced a new Silent Hill casino game.

Because we all needed a reminder that Konami hates video games...

It's not enough that they killed all their franchises, they just have to keep parading the bodies around to rub it in.

Just beat Silent Hill 2 for Halloween.

.............................Not really sure what to say other than that I feel completely drained emotionally upon finishing it. Like, wow, what an experience.

Just FYI the PC version of silent Hill 2 has a community mod that really fixes up the game, making it run better on modern operating systems, bringing in missing effects from the PS 2 version and some other neat stuff. It's the best way to play the game now if you don't have a PS 2.

Eurogamer headline: Report: Konami has two new Silent Hill games in development

Don’t toy with my emotions/sanity like this.

they're both mobile titles

oh boy

more Pyramid Head shilling

They're $60 and have the quality of Contra: Rogue Corps.

Also they're pachinko.

"In Water" is an ending that is definitely powerful and unexpected but given that both Eddie and Angela both succumb to Silent Hill's toxicity, I think it's the weakest emotionally. "Leave" is what I think should be the ending but I also think it's an ending that is too happy given James has confessed to murdering Laura's surrogate mother—at the very least he should turn himself in.

Oddly, I actually kind of like "Maria" and "Rebirth" because James learning nothing is both different from the setting and also kind of a bitch on the Ironic Hell nature of Silent Hill. Congratulations, Gods of Silent Hill, you made a bad person not only worse but actively crazy.

Mind you, I feel like backtracking and not following up the horror/dislikability of a protagonist is why Downpour was a 3 star game with a potential to be a 4 star (if not 5 star like 2). Murphy's Multiple-Choice Past breaks the game's point, if it had any to make. Murphy killing Coleridge for Sewell to get at Napier seems like it makes him an actual horrible person but an understandable one.

It also contrasts stronger with the woman chasing him.

Edited by CharlesPhipps on Jan 27th 2020 at 6:10:52 AM