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Why do new Silent Hill entries attract so much negativity? (feddit.it)
submitted 2 days ago by memo@feddit.it to c/games@lemmy.world
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So many people online seem to already complain about Silent Hill f out of a few details coming out of trailers. I honestly think the game looks sick and I can't wait to play it, expecially considering the writer's good reputation.

I remember the SH2 remake lived in a similar hell-hole before gathering critical acclaim. I have not seen this kind of anxious negativity about new games in a series ever. What do you think?

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[–] memo@feddit.it 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'll try to reply to points highlighted by the both of you, to try and play devil's advocate for a bit:

  • I really don't think the combat looks like anything we've seen from Resident Evil. Honestly, I don't even know if there's gonna be a gun in the game, judging from the trailers.
  • The main character clearly looks like an inept at handling weapons too, like the old games. We don't really know how much damage we take or how easy the combat is, but it's obvious they couldn't come out in 2025 with a combat system as stiff, clunky and annoying as the one featured in the first trilogy. Many games in the last decade have shown that you can have a combat system that feels fluid but also have it so that you may want to not fight, for one reason or another (If I recall correctly, weapons do break in the game after a certain amount of use - that's surely a deterrent from using them).
  • There's a difficulty setting at the start of the game, so I'm sure you can just crank it up to hard if you want to have a though survival horror experience.
  • We have no way of knowing how they'll connect the whole situation to the town of Silent Hill, that's true. I'm honestly not disturbed by this as I never felt the physicalness of buildings and road to be the important factor. For all we know, Silent Hill is a catalyst that connects people living through particular distressing emotions to a horrorific underworld - who says it cannot happen in another part of the globe?

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Additionally, Silent Hill has generally focused on people with some sort of dark past, with the exception of the 1st, 3rd, and 4th game.

I... I don't think this counts as a very strong argument if you read the sentence a couple of times. The 3rd entry is, in its actual form, beloved by many fans of the original trilogy.

I don't know peeps, I understand the sentiment of wanting a good game but we should genuinely just wait and try out the game if we're interested. They can't simply make the same game over and over, because that'd be even worse. It's like with music artists, you know? Bob Dylan was shunned by many for "going electric", yet those albums are now considered absolute classics. I'm not trying to say Konami has the same artistic foresight of Dylan, but we should at least try to cut them some slack and hold our opinions until after the game has come out and we've been able to try it out :)

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Respectfully, as a Silent Hill fan, I have been "cutting Konami some slack" for 20 years. And I have been getting burned for 20 years. So please excuse me for being cynical.

I didnt even mention The Short Message or Ascension because I didn't feel like I even needed to bring either of them up, but just mentioning them now should be enough to illustrate my point in mentioning them at all.

Silent Hill f was the project I was most interested in from Konami when they announced it. I am not disinterested in the game, and I will likely still play it. However, I have a lot of major reservations because of my history with Konami. I didn't appreciate the changes made to SH2 Remake, so while the mainstream audience at it up, I didn't even finish the game. I will see how it goes, but the more I keep seeing about the game, I keep seeing some stuff I don't like.

Everytime a hit lands on an enemy in the trailers, the game stops for a few frames. This better be removed or an effect that is only in the trailers. If that's in the game and I can't turn that off then I probably won't keep playing it. That might seem nitpicky, but I play Silent Hill for a specific experience. I don't play Silent Hill to get an experience I can get from Resident Evil or some other game. I am totally fine with Konami "making the same game repeatedly," so long as story elements, levels, items, etc are different, I would be glad to have games in a series have identical gameplay between each entry. Metroid Prime 1 and 2, for example, or Half-Life and Opposing Force. Although the story, weapons, and visual assets are different, the core gameplay is identical. You are still getting the same gameplay experience in the sequel as your did in the original.

[–] memo@feddit.it 1 points 1 day ago

To each their own! I'm a long time fan of the original trilogy too, but I'd be very bored if they kept spinning around the same formulas. I do agree with the fact that SH2's remake added unecessary things - but to be fair, I think the remake was just unnecessary overall, they could've simply spent their resources trying to reverse-engineer the original in order to bring it to modern hardware.

Have you tried to take a look at recent horror indie games? Titles such as Tormented Souls might scratch the particular itch, if Konami fails to deliver.