Silent Hill vs Resident Evil
Posted Feb 28, 2019, 8:04 AM UTC
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We don't need remakes of SH games. I hope it never happens. A new faithful SH game made by japanese devs, perhaps with the involvement of ex-Team Silent employees, would be good though. Perhaps even the original SH5 Team Silent was cooking. But it's Konami and it'll never happen, cause they're the devil.
Silent Hill is really different from RE. I think SH is quite unique.
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And thank god for that. Silent Hill is dead and cannot be ressurected, is resting comfortably at the hall of video game fame with only first four games being of any real significance, while Resident Evil is this entertainingly trashy franchise that has no principles and can be (and was) transformed into anything, is going nowhere and exists solely to infinitely spawn licensed titles that will get CAP money. Silent Hill is not like that. It is actually intelligent, really inspired and cannot go on past it's proper form. A better franchise. Dead and buried after almost a decade of failed attempts to make it into things it is simply not. Be thankful for it not getting ressurected. Be thankful that it is over. Only good things die. Only wickedness goes on forever. You're free to downvote me all you want, but it's the truth - we are not going to get another proper Silent Hill game. Ever. And thank god for that.
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But Resident Evil has actually gone back to it's roots and has been successful...
You mention 1-4 being the only good Silent Hill games... meaning there's more bad Silent Hill games than good ones, according to you. How does that make it the better, more intelligent? When it's dead and gone whereas the other franchise is thriving?
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Yup, exactly that - there have been more subpar Silent Hill games then there've been good ones. Konami did everything to ensure that. Being sucessful has nothing in common with being good, as the constantly spawning series of Battle Royale games are showing us.
Simple - only original four games were made by the members who actually knew what they were doing, as well as the fact that they were original ideas which resulted in the games being made, unlike everything that followed, which was a license job (as in "there is this intellectual property we must force to make money for us, so let's make a new game titled with it's name"). As such anything and everything that goes beyond 4 is of no value. Same as pretty much anything that got made after Return of the Jedi, pretty much.
A ever-continuing series of anything spawns desease and insanity. Things which have an original idea cannot and should not continue forever.
As to how come SH is dead and RE is thriving let's just say that it doesn't take the same mind capacity for making a RE game when compared with a SH one.
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So you're saying Silent Hill demands a "different mind capacity" to play than a resident evil game, and that's why silent hill is dead? lmfao
Almost every silent hill requires no inventory management and no ammo/health item saving. You could run through 1-3 without ever worrying about running out of ammo or space. The Resident Evil games, 1-3, required a LOT more brainpower to get through, and future planning.
It doesnt take much to understand the Silent Hill stories. Gameplay-wise theyre all pretty shallow. I love both series, but the original resident evils were a lot deeper gameplay-wise. Dont get all "rick and morty fan" over which series requires a higher IQ or which is "trashy".
SH may have deeper stories but RE is equally as deep in other areas.
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I wrote "to make" not "to play".
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As much as i love Resident Evil, he's right. RE is not the exactly the subtle kind of horror with deep meanings hidden under the surface and psychologically complex characters; it's the videogame equivalent of a gory horror b-movie with bio-punk elements. And it's perfect at that when the developers put their minds into it, it doesn't need to become sophisticated.
Silent Hill has always been regarded as "the smarter cousin of Resident Evil", because it is.
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I agree with you, but he's trashing Resident Evil just because it's the way it is. Its possible to love both, as do I, but he's calling it literal garbage just because the games dont have deep stories.
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Yeah, that's pretty exaggerated and it's definitely possible to love both series. I usually like a game for what it is and if it manages to be what it wants to be. Both series are successful at that.
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Oh boy, we got ourselves a largebrain purist over here. Silent Hill 4 was never going to be a SH game until Konami decided it wouldn't sell without that title, and was made without the involvement of many of the "Team Silent" members, and when it came out it was considered utter trash by fans with an equally insufferable level of self-importance. SH1-3 were never all made by the same people, and the first one has aged badly. Its acting is comically bad, and the story in the first three games is nowhere near complicated or intellectual. Every Silent Hill game has been poorly received upon release, including the first one. SH2 was given negative reception in 2001 because it wasn't considered a true sequel. The only reason people treat them like these godlike amazing games is because of nostalgia. There has never been a "proper" Silent Hill game, and there never will be, because everyone is going to have a different opinion of what's "proper". Some might say Homecoming is the best one, and that's their opinion. You personally like the first four best, and that's your opinion. My opinion? The third one is the best, and I want Capcom to purchase the franchise and breathe new life into it.
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Yeah, I’d love a SH1 remake, since it has aged somewhat poorly when compared to the sequels (still a great and scary game, of course). I just don’t trust Konami to do a proper game anymore.
I love Resident Evil, but it approaches horror and gameplay in a totally different way, so it will never fill the hole SH has left.