Silent Hill or Resident Evil?

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atrumlupus:
This is tough. Looking back on it Resident Evil was simply more playable than Silent Hill and frankly easier to understand as a teenager when I played it. I played Silent Hill and liked it but it was a more adult game that was before it's time in storytelling. As an adult the story in Silent Hill tends to be more interesting and sinister.

gf78:
Silent Hill for sure. I've been there since day-one with both series. Resident Evil is a horror game that relies on jump-scares and gross-outs. They are a lot of fun to play and the tank controls never "ruined" it for me as that was what was there and of course, there were no other games like the early Resident Evil titles.

Silent Hill on the other hand freaked me the fuck out from the very first one. When you are wandering in the fog and come across the mutilated "whatever the hell that was!" on the fence and the little creeps start chasing you and stabbing at you...man! The psychological aspect of fear was omnipresent in the Silent Hill games, even when everything looked normal. In fact, it was then that the games really filled me with dread and foreboding. The developers took something simple like a faceless mannequin, put it in a nurses uniform and it comes after you in spastic, jerking motions...it gives me the heebie-jeebies just thinking about it.

It's a real shame that Konami has gone full fucktard and we will more than likely never see another Silent Hill game. Thankfully though, games like The Evil Within have stepped up to the plate, offering tense moments and keeping me on the edge of my seat. And I swear that when I saw the E3 briefing with the Resident Evil trailer, right up until the end I thought it was Silent Hills. I'm glad to see Capcom taking the series in a horror-direction after it had become progressively more & more derailed with 5 & 6.

kamikazekeeg:

--- Quote from: gf78 on July 18, 2016, 02:09:41 pm ---
It's a real shame that Konami has gone full fucktard and we will more than likely never see another Silent Hill game. Thankfully though, games like The Evil Within have stepped up to the plate, offering tense moments and keeping me on the edge of my seat. And I swear that when I saw the E3 briefing with the Resident Evil trailer, right up until the end I thought it was Silent Hills. I'm glad to see Capcom taking the series in a horror-direction after it had become progressively more & more derailed with 5 & 6.

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I think most people were thinking Silent Hills with that. I know I was, though at a point after the end of the gameplay part, I started to think it was something slightly different

wartoy:
I love both but resident evil before silent hill.

doctorlaudanum:
Eh. I think there's a definite P.T. influence in the RE7 demo, but I also think it's lacking a certain something that made P.T. so effective. I'm not going to pretend that P.T. was a flawless horror masterpiece, but it knew how to build up a strong atmosphere with very few assets and had one of the creepiest ghosts I've ever seen in a game. The RE7 demo has its moments, but it really feels like a shameless attempt at filling the P.T. void, at least to me. I'm not sure how I feel about Resident Evil delving into the supernatural. It worked for a mindbender like Silent Hills, but it feels out of place in the same game series where you can punch a boulder into gravel, fight a woman who controls an army of mutant ants, and trash talk a deformed Cap'n Crunch with a Napoleon complex. I'm happy to see that Resident Evil is going back to horror and know that it can do it right like it did with the REmake, but the way they're going about it is a little too jarring for my tastes.

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