<![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> @Melonfodder: Why not? Also, what's wrong with giving fans of the game more of what they enjoyed and adding on to it? I mean, isn't that the point of a sequel?

Retired soldiers are people too and I don't see how having one has a protagonist adds anything negative to the plot.

Cappy

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> Ever since that Yathzee painted SHV off as a pile of shit with no point, I've come to see the project really negative.
The first clips has me WHOA!ing. Then Yahtzee made me go like, humbug.

Jet Set

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> If Silent Hill Origins was any indication, this game is going to be a giant, throbbing, bloody piece of shit. This development house seems absolutely fixated on the movie version of Silent Hill; or, as I like to say, "The Fucking Shitty Version". Oh, they say that they'll have psychological horror. Yeah, they'll play a SPOOKY noise in the background while you fight a Giant Spider made of Bones in the Haunted Orphanage. Oh, and the protagonist will probably be a really uninspired rehash of James from Silent Hill 2. Except they won't make him endearing like James, they'll make him a high school math teacher or something. *EDIT: Apparently the protagonist is a soldier. FUCKING GREAT. I'm putting 20 smackaroonies down RIGHT NOW that says he has a war-time flashback, albeit a SPOOKY one. Either that, or he sees a "dead" war-buddy sometime during the game. But get this: he's not dead! OR IS HE?!

Colwyn vs. The Beast

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> It feels like Silent Hill V will just be an attempt to please the fanboys of the genre; missing the point as to why people really like the Silent Hill games.

Basically they're just rehashing old content, while screwing up other things. The protagonist for instance, wtf?

Why?

Melonfodder

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> I'm going to give it a chance. I'm one of the few that semed to enjoy Origins and The Room, although even my blind fanboyism couldn't mask the hideous car wreck that the movie was. Get rid of breakable weapons, give us MUCH LESS combat and go back to the creepy explorative nature of old games and you'll have exactly what I want. I know the guy is a soldier, but I just want less combat situations, regardless of how he deals with them.

TearsandScreams

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> @catapult37: Just as a head's up... "Rabbit In Your Headlights" isn't a Radiohead song. It's by Unkle, with guest vocals by Thom Yorke.

so1omon

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> @Thorax: Stephen King.

And no this game wont suck because of them being american or where they draw their inspiration from, it will suck because they are making it bad. But again, maybe they will manage to save the project in time.

Irenicus-the one and only

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> @Mavwick: Broken stomp mechanism. I've never had a problem stomping creatures until Silent Hill Origins. And it was so bad, I almost quit playing the game for that reason alone. Having monsters get back up 3x because the stomp didn't work was frustrating. Having 2 creatures come at you and having no stomp work, is utter frustration.

Plus the camera angle/movement scheme. I kept on going the wrong direction due to camera angle changes. I've actually ran away from monsters, had the camera angle change, then ran straight back INTO the monster. Didn't happen often but it happened.

It's not a weapon problem that I had. In fact, weapon wise, the game was too easy. I pretty much had ALL the rifle, assault rifle, and magnum bullets left. I had like 50 shotgun shells left, and like 80 of each of the pistol bullets. I also had healing items up the wazoo. And then I killed the final boss with 2 katanas. After I killed the boss, I waited for the harder form to come but I found out I actually beat the game. :O I didn't use the magnum the entire game.

The story was so-so in my opinion. I wasn't really driven to finish the game because of the story. It just didn't draw me in as much as the other SH games. I didn't think it was BAD per se, it just wasn't as gripping. If they didn't have the 2 big game play flaws I would have said Origins was a good game, especially for a portable.

spork

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> I love how people love to say this game will be the worst in the series, going only on the fact that it's made by an American team. Hell, so what if the that the original Silent Hill was heavily inspired by Steven King, Jacobs Ladder, and possibly David Lynch? Who the hell cares if the game's creator said from the start that he was trying to emulate an American style horror movie?

Also, we all know Metroid Prime, Contra 4 were sullied forever by a North American development team.

Thorax

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> A newspaper from a zombie-infested city talks about a city haunted by sins and hot-chick nurses with no face.

Cool.

shadow_judge

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> @spork: What were the frustrating flaws in SH:O? Weapons could break, but if you explored like any other SH game requires, you'll still finish the game with 30+ more in your inventory. There's also way too much ammo for the guns, so halfway through you can feel free to shoot everything that moves.
Its flaw is being too short, but for a portable game I didn't feel that was too bad. The story was so great and the parallels between it and SH2 are minimal at best, largely drawn from post-game ruminations than anything given.

Alluding to the plot of SH3 as laudable makes everyone weary of this upcoming title. To me, SH:O may be the last in the series.

Mavwick

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> Big scares? 'Wild' looking demons? Missed the point? You bet.

This is going to be a bad, bad game. If it's anywhere near approaching even Silent Hill 4 on the good-o-meter I will eat my own arm.

GregoriusH

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> Doody. hehe

fuenke

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> I really hope that Silent Hill V is not a huge letdown.

TheMysteriousStranger

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> @Amnesiac85: Because Silent Hill Origins feels like "Silent Hill We Tried to Copy the Silent Hill Formula and Did a Decent Job but with a few Huge Flaws".

The main problem with Silent Hill 4 was they threw in a few new game play ideas, some of which were fairly fun at times, but at other times very frustrating. So SH4 tried new game play ideas coupled with a brand new interesting story line and was lambasted for the game play flaws.

Silent Hill Origins tried pretty much nothing new (the "new" stuff was pretty minor) with a story line that felt too familiar (Travis -> James in SH2?) but introduced frustrating flaws in the game play. So it's like we got Silent Hill 2 for the PSP with a much weaker story line and game play issues.

SHO was a passable and decent game. It's just not great.

spork

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> @AnEternalEnigma: You're funny, ha ha. Just don't ask me to give you the lottery numbers for next weeks draw when this game comes out.

Irenicus-the one and only

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> You know, I was about to say that SH4 is the worst Silent Hill. But, that game was supposed to be called "The Room", not silent hill related.

So i played with that in mind, and is not bad at all.

Rivers

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> @Irenicus-the one and only:

dude it couldnt be worse than origins, 4 boss fights and 3 hours gameplay.....

underground_slacker

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> @Irenicus-the one and only: I'm glad to see you're friends with people who can tell the future.

AnEternalEnigma

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> Hm. What does everyone have against Silent Hill: Origins? I'm currently playing it right now (about halfway, I gather) and it's fairly enjoyable. I've played SH 2 and 3 and found those very good as well (2 being the best, as is popular opinion on that matter as well).

Amnesiac85

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> I heard this game will be the worst as in the most terrible and crappy Silent Hill game to ever be released. But don't take my word for it. I still hope it will turn out good.

Irenicus-the one and only

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> I quite like the Silent Hill series, so I'm looking forward to this one, though not without reservations. I'm a bit nervous about it for a few reasons. But I remain hopeful. I'm mostly hoping it will be another solid game like the others in the series, though I'd be delighted if it turned out to be a big, pleasing change, a la RE4. I don't really see that happening just yet.

etho

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> I'm still not buying into SH5, even though I love the Silent Hill games. I'm skepitcal about this one until I play the game, specially after the failure that was Silent Hill Origins.

If the Collective really can deliver a great experience like the wirter said (wich I really doubt), I hope that Konami keeps them working on the series.

Lider

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> @Witzbold: I share you fears, but, I think it would be great if the series evolves. Silent Hill has already delivered some extraordinary goods, while it would be nice if it could deliver those same goods again, I think it's even better if it can deliver something new and equally excellent. They haven't convinced me yet that they are able to do that, but at least they are trying. Or so they say.

ara

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> I'm kinda hopin' this'll be decent, I enjoy the Silent Hill series...
Not playing it mind you, it freaks the hell outta me, I'm currently watching a friend o' mine play through SH2. I tend to run away squeeling like a marmaset when pyramid head appears...
or when there is loud machine noises...
or no noise...
or when the radio crackles...
...
-shudder-

I_AM_D

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> Patrick J. doody: "Overall, Silent Hill 3 really feels like a complete experience for me - from great game play to fantastic story. [...] Alex Shepherd feels very new to the series. He's less a victim of circumstance and more a man of action."

So SH3 has a "Fantastic story", and the new guy is "a man of action". Message received. No need to spell it out.
Ok, people, now it's a fact: SH5 will suck ass. There's nothing to see here.

eclipsemattaru

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> Silent Hill > All

I can't wait for this game. Silent Hill has been one of my favorite series since the PSX days, and I've bought and loved each game--even though SH4 was a bit on the odd side, as Silent Hill games go.

If this is really the "most disturbing" SH yet, I'm all for it!

~

Hiroken

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> @TheCleaningGuy: Oh I think you'll get a sequel no matter what, but here's hoping for quality.

superbabyproject

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> @Yuki: And then John was a zombie.
@Witzbold: I really really hope that this game turns out well. You never know, it could suprise us all and be the greatest thing since SH 2. Or it could be a pile of garbage that tarnishes Silent Hill in such a way that we will never get a sequel.
Hope springs eternal!

TheCleaningGuy

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> @spork & Witzbold:

You can watch the deleted scenes on youtube, but, some of them are huge spoilers.

Rivers

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> @Yuki: lol too right mate.

Witzbold

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> @spork: Yes, we have to remember that "big fans" generally are the ones who put out fanfics, and we all know how those turn out. In fact, I think that I will consider the movie to be just a horrible fanfic from now on.

Yuki

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> @Witzbold: Jacob's Ladder was an excellent movie. And yeah, you can totally tell that the Silent Hill designers pulled HEAVILY from that movie and that's a good thing too! Hell the subway part of Silent Hill 3 was pretty much straight out of Jacob's Ladder.

@Rivers: Wtf? I don't remember those! And I lent my DVD to someone. :(

@VanFinale: That's what they said about the movie. Gans is supposedly a huge Silent Hill fan and look at how that turned out. I've learned not to trust the whole "i'm a big fan so it'll be good" any more.

spork

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> As long as there's no stupid housekeeping like in 4 I'm sold.

superbabyproject

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> @Witzbold: Then it looks like they succeeded, as this is supposed to be the "scariest" Silent Hill yet!

Yuki

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> @Rivers: Time for me to go and buy the DVD then, assuming thats where the deleted scenes can be found.

Witzbold

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> Im more sad that the story is taken over by someone else who "thinks" they know the lore and history not only that now it seems they want to "add" to that lore.

I am very scared.

Witzbold

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> @catapult37: Jacob's ladder, has one of the most disturbing endings ever. The deleted scenes, are far more disturbing :s.

Rivers

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> The series has gone downhill since SH2 and I don't see any reason why this game would change that. A good move would be to drop the words "Scary" "wild-looking demons" "disturbing" "madness" "terror" "dread". Sounds like the keywords for a Saw movie (and I hate those).

Stop trying so hard to be disturbing, and just make a game with a compelling story and characters and you'll be just fine.

zlimness

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> Oh God I hope these guys do not mess up Silent Hill what I have seen so far looks good. However a developer switch can sometimes be bad news or really good news. All I know is that Silent Hill Origins wasn't really that good and don't even get me started on Silent Hill 4 (yeah I know 4 was made by same company just saying the last 2 games were disappointing). However this a another new developer which are apparently huge Silent Hill fans so hopefully they turn out a great game.

VanFinale

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> @catapult37: Great movie though eh? The only reason why I checked up on it was because I remember Yamaoka referring to it in an interview he did with a game mag or something long time ago.

Witzbold

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> I like RE, but nothing can be compared with Silent Hill, now that's a survival-horror disturbing game. My fav is 2, but i have a strong feeling for the PSX one.

Rivers

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> @Witzbold: That movie scared the living crap out of me. And the "explanation" at the end disturbed me far more than what had come before. Apparently Thom Yorke also found it creepy enough to include as a sample in the middle of Radiohead's "Rabbit in Your Headlights".

catapult37

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> I really do hope this is good. It's one of my favorite series, even though the combat has always been crap. They say they intend it to be more like 2, which was my favorite, and the concept sounds a bit like the source material, Jacob's Ladder - so I don't know, maybe they'll pull it off. If the combat system is fun that could be a huge step for the series. Now, everything else on the other hand, we'll have to see how that's handled.

sir_carrot

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> As hyped as I am for the game, (and believe you me, I'm fucking hyped), I'm actually even more excited about the soundtrack. My favorite part of all of the SH games is Yamoaka's music. SH V could just be Pong with his music in the background and I'd buy it.

ShaggE

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> Actually a film that is even better than the Silent Hill film itself (which I did hate) would be Jacobs Ladder. Also quite a bit of the SH games Yamaoka took from what he saw in Jacobs Ladder. Good stuff but an old movie.

Witzbold

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> My eyes... =_= They almost bleed. Someone kill the "designer" of that site, I'm having too much of a headache to do it myself. Great read though, at least they managed to cast a bit of confidence in me about the game. That was amazingly more assuring than the video interview of the team that was posted few months ago.

ara

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> @underground_slacker: No worries, it could just be my monitor too. But yeah the italics + white font on a black background just make it a bit hard on the eyes haha. Great stuff nonetheless though! :)

Witzbold

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> I love Silent Hill, love the series & played all of it. I enjoy The Room the best. The Silent Hill film nicely done, that is one game to film that doesn't suck and capture the mood of the game perfectly. Go watch it if you haven't.

ahmeng

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> Really, the scariest? Alright!! I figured he'd say something like "this game will deliver pulse-pounding terror that is is slightly less scary than 2 but scarier than 3" or "this game will be almost but not quite the best Silent Hill yet," but now that I know it's the scariest, I'm totally pumped!!!

catapult37

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> The only reason I am excited for this game is to see Yahtzee review it. Other than that I haven't paid much attention to this series since the third installment and I don't think that will change with "Silent Hill 5".

For some reason I am excited for the new "Alone in the Dark" game though. Hopefully Atari can stay afloat long enough to release it.

Ganglor

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> @Edmon: Resident Evil and Silent Hill are quite different actually. Resident Evil is a more fast, action based survival horror game where most of the "scare" comes from being surprised and the fun comes from the action (especially RE4; which was fun as hell, but not particularly scary).

Silent Hill is slower, more atmospheric and moody, and the "scare" comes from the atmosphere and "wrongness" of the town. The fun comes from the atmosphere and storyline.

I'm going to hope this one turns out well. I'm kinda worried though after the Silent Hill movie and Silent Hill Origins.

spork

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> @Witzbold:

sorry, it all looked a bit plain before i edited it.

underground_slacker

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> Howdy, Doody!

Nintenboy01

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> My heart is with Resident Evil 5. Especially after the debacle that was RE:UC, I need something that justifies my RE faboyism.

MrMcdoobie: I don't do drugs

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> Good article, cept on that website having the quoted materials from the interview in italics on a black background = fucking large headache. :x

I am still wary about the game though, but will give it a chance when it comes out.

Witzbold

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> Will it be my first Silent Hill game?
Perhaps.

Ted

]]> <![CDATA[Raccoon City Times Interview With Silent Hill V Writer]]> I never really got into Silent Hill. It's a shame because I played a bit of it and really enjoyed it. But I perferred Resident Evil... just because I had more fun playing it I guess.

Now Resident Evil has gone down the pan (Exception being the AWESOME RE:4) it'd be good to jump in on the latest game and see whats new :).

Edmon

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