What's scary and what isn't is subjective and will vary from person to person. I didn't find any of the RE games scary at all, just awesome.
What's scary and what isn't is subjective and will vary from person to person. I didn't find any of the RE games scary at all, just awesome.
Truly!Originally Posted by Hsu
From what ive seen of Resident evil 5 (the one coming out sometime), I think it will be a combination of old school Resident Evil and Resident Evil 4, which I like. The good old zombies are back, but fast as hell!
It does look better then RE4, and I hope RE5 is actually horror this time around and not bad action anime. Call me old fashioned, but when I buy horror, I expect horror (When I read the FF12 review, I saw the words "More action packed!" and was out off, I want a RPG thank you, not tomb raider.), Ive even heard some forums calling for putting in terrorists in instead *sigh* Silent hills better at the moment anyway, its managed to keep a continus and progressive storyline where as RE stopped its storyline awhile ago and went with "Presidents daughter has been kidnapped" crap with no prgression of the story, and SH maintains its horror atmosphere. RE4 didnt even have as much geography accuracy as previous games, the buildings actually had a real layout not a bunch of long random corridors with a huge void of space between them, and the buildings being one lone line. RE1 remake is the coolest, 1 was the best and the remake make it even better though 2 is fairly good, also in how it progressed the story of Umbrella.
"NPC: Sorry this house is sealed off because of Blight"
Silent Hill's storyline is actually very inconsistent.
Silent Hill 1 and 3 are connected, (SPOILER)As in, Heather being Harry's daughter Cheryl; as well as the continuation of the Holy Woman storyline
And Silent Hill 2 and 4 are very, very vaguely connected, (SPOILER) There is a very minor character in Silent Hill 2 (I believe he is only mentioned in a note?) who is in fact the main villain of Silent Hill 4
You could play any Silent Hill (other than 3, really) and the storylines would make perfect sense because they have no major connections to eachother other than the concept of Silent Hill. Except 3, that is heavily related to 1.
Oh, they're all related to each other greatly. They each expand on the TOWN of Silent Hill which is what the games are about, not the characters within the town.
Although I don't know why you brought this up in a Resident Evil thread.
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Wuggly mentioned the progression of the Silent Hill storyline.
I assume you're talking about some spin-off Resi game for the DS or something? Because there was plenty of stuff for the overall plot in RE4.
Magical mind control and a kidnapped presidents daughter (that got old 30 years ago), 75 hours later. nothing new. Memos that cover whats just happened, no atmsophere ending in Using Amercia to take over the world. No progression in the story at all, and no master storyline at all. At least silent hill kep both its game plot and master series plot on track and progressive, what little RE4 had was all out of game anyway.
RE4 is the worst horror game I have ever played,
"NPC: Sorry this house is sealed off because of Blight"
So you've not played any of the Silent Hill games, then? Or the other REs? Or the Fatal Frame games? In fact, I think RE4 must be the only such game you've played, if you can say that with a straight face.
Oh, and if you have a problem with 'magical mind control' there are several hundred species of insects you may want to have words with.
I thought the gameplay itself was a white-knuckle scary in Re4... so I love it for that... Silent Hill is just atmosphere scary. That's not bad either, but fun+scary is better then walkingaround+scary in my book. I do like Silent Hill stories and settings better though. Hopefully they re-ripoff Resident Evil so I can have a Silent Hill where I'm scared and I get to shoot something too. And no more completely abstract puzzles where I can't move forward in the game unless I use a toothpick on a jar of jelly to make a key.
So you've not played any of the Silent Hill games, then? Or the other REs? Or the Fatal Frame games? In fact, I think RE4 must be the only such game you've played, if you can say that with a straight face.
Oh, and if you have a problem with 'magical mind control' there are several hundred species of insects you may want to have words with.
Woah woah dont soil yourself its a game. I have played other games and by far RE4 is the worst horror game yet for me. Someone doesnt like it, get over it.
How can you have words with a insect? Magical spores that can magically turn into some mind control parasite all magically controlled by Saddlar? The whole "Presidents daughter has been kidnapped! shoot your way threw a long line of generic baddies to save her!" got old along time ago. The layout of the game was bad, no geography seen is previous games just one long path, even the castle was one long corridor into space, the builders must of been bad as theres like 60 meters of unused space between the rooms. There was no horror at all, that was the most dissapointing part.
The Merchant was all well and nice, but not resident evil.
Most of the very little story it did have, or any chance for a story progression happened out of game, It seemed they just threw in generic badass enemies just for the sake of it.
Music score, lame. Does not build the atmosphere as it used to.
Design. Boring, not much to do and so many chances to build a horror atmosphere that was wasted.
Ada was cool but Im sure one of the girls out there can tell me how easy it is to do backflips and use a grapplehook in a cocktail dress and high heals.
The Matrix doesnt wash with this generation, I expect so much more then running up the walls shooting and performing 400 feet jumps.
Little background of the games story was given, its not very scary if you dont know anythings happened. Though some woodcuttings was shown at the end if you had the pacience to watch.
Devil may cry is slightly better and parasite eve is far superior to this rather dated game, Silent Hill far outshines it.
"NPC: Sorry this house is sealed off because of Blight"
See that's the point I was making. It's not magical. Many species of insect use communication methods we're not familiar with, or just barely coming to understand, to 'speak' to each other in surprisingly complex ways. Not in the same exact way as RE4 shows, but it's a piece of fiction - it's allowed some artistic license.
Yeah this is what makes me think you've not played the previous RE games. The only one of those with remotely plausable geography was the original, and there are still plenty of areas in and around the mansion I don't find likely.The layout of the game was bad, no geography seen is previous games just one long path, even the castle was one long corridor into space, the builders must of been bad as theres like 60 meters of unused space between the rooms.
I agree with this, mostly. Regenerators were pretty scary, but aside from that it was more oriented towards action than suspense and horror. That said, there wasn't that much horror in RE2 or 3, unless you have an inherent fear of zombies like I do. Those games weren't scary either. RE games never have been. Silent Hill, Fatal Frame, and so forth; they are all a lot more 'horror' than Resident Evil. That doesn't necessarily make them better games.There was no horror at all, that was the most dissapointing part.
When RE1 first came out, there wasnt that much Zombie horror games really, or even playable game horror, That aided in making it scary for its day, that and we was all much younger back then.
I would say a horror game that contains horror is really better.
Also, Zombies are cool. they make anything cool.
Regenerators was the "scarest" Monster on the game they made me jump at first, and DAMN annoying. though sometimes its more take you by surprise then scary.
"NPC: Sorry this house is sealed off because of Blight"
I'm not sure I am really interested in Resident Evil 4. Personally I was never into the series. I am more of a Fatal Frame and Silent Hill person myself. I loved the first Silent Hill. It was good, not the best voice acting, but it was fun.
I mean, I hardly know anything about Resident Evil, but if you ask me a question about Silent Hill I can answer it. I am right there, I mean... seriously.
I just got interested in the series of Fatal Frame, I thought I would try that because I finished the Silent Hill series so far. It is hard... but I do have a problem with Fatal Frame 2... How in the hell can you press an 'A' button on a PS2 controller??? I was in front of a door... and it told me to press the 'A' button... then I had to quit the game... and... I restarted so many times, and never could find the 'A' button on the PS2 controller!!!
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