SH4 the room was a very scary time considering it was the first SH game i played seriously.
everytime i was in my apartment it was really scary.with that guy that comes outa the wall

The ghost? Yeah, that was cool! In the end I didn't know where I wanted to be: in the room or out there!

Ahhh hell guys, i'm dying to play some SH right now. It'll be fantastic to play under the influence of the green. SH3, hospital area. Awesome! Can't tho.

The ghosts were just a nuicance to me. I liked the old school enemeys better.

Agreed. The ghosts were easy to run around, and you couldn't kill them so what was the point of fighting? Especially if you had a few medalions, then they just get in your way.

lol, yeah.

Some of the riddles in SH4 ruled. Like the bit in the forest where you couldn't get through if you carried something.

That did rule. I admit i was suck trying to find the key for some time before discovering the root that looked like a hand. It was pretty easy to guess i couldn't walk back with the key though.

It was the opposite for me

In silent hill two, I thought that that dude barfing was some super scary monster I had to fight, but than It turned out to be just some guy barfing. Good sound effects though! top notch job, makes me think somone puked into a mike!

lol, yeah, Silent Hill two had some brilliant sound effects. The glass smashign was especially realistic

That was a really good atmosphere creator.
But Eddie pissed me off. I was happy when i got to kill him.

A MOD USEING MILD PROFANITY

lol, yeah, me too. He was my enemey. I was happy when I got to stick it to those pyramid dudes too, even though they were kind of cool.

No way, you have to kill eddie? I didn't know that... bummer...

haha Walken, i rule these threads. They're my little geeky corner of UM.


Sorry Yona, i didn't realise you hadn't finished the game.

yeah, I just bought it three days ago, I am in the apartments right now.

Nice! I love it when people play these games for the first time.

If you've found Eddie, you'll be close to the end of the Apartments area. Close to the BOSS...

What do you think of it so far?

Awsome game, I like the entire Broken tv look, all scratchy! And the little cockroaches that attack you, freaked me out when I had the radio going off and I could not find a baddie, until I saw them scittering across the ground.

haha yeah. Oh man there's a REALLY good part with the Cockroaches later in the game, freaked the HELL out of me.

Awsome! I can't wait! But, I do not understand why I saw a hardware store, and could not go into it! I would thing that he would bust the window with that cheap board and nail affair and get a chainsaw or something.

Oh my god I just remembered what you mean...

Yeah, you're in for a fright Yona.

Yona, you know that pyramid head guy you saw?

Well get used to him...

haha yeah, he'll be around..

You mean there is more of those things! great! They are the thing where you hit them and they skitter around right?

No no, they're just normal enemies.

The Pyramid Head is a guy wondering around killing monsters and people with a huge metallic cone on his head. You should have seen him a couple times in the apartment buildings.

Ohhh that guy, but I ran from him because he looked tough!

Yeah, but I tend to ignore them.

The apartments in SH2 ruled; and the painting in the historical societey

Burnside, don't give away any spoilers, but which endings did you get? I only ever got:

Water.
Leave.
Maria.

Yeah. You wont be able to run from him soon.

He's tough. REALLY tough. You can't kill him.

cannot kill him! but what is the point of fighting him? is it like re:code veronica where you have to fight that axe guy but you have to run instead of fight?

Got them all mate. Except for the UFO ending, my version of SH2 is an earlier version that did not have it.

More like, the Nemesis. You can shoot it, and make it go away, but it's useless to shoot it, you might as well save the ammo and just dodge him, he goes away by himself after awhile.

Oh thanks, because in most instances I would have shot and stabbed him untill my thumbs hurt!

Is the rebirth ending cool? i always thought that one sounded good, but theres no place to see screenshots or the script. :'(

Not really. I only saw it once ages ago, then my data got corrupted and i never bothered again. James basically puts a dead Mary in a boat, sails out to the middle of the lake on a little island, and starts doing a ritual. That's it.

Do we see much of the ritual? Herbs and gems ritual or naked danceing ritual?

haha no, nothing like that. Just see James on the island, surrounded by fog. That's it.

Wow, that ending kinda sucks

I wanna see big explosions, the town torn apart by the government, fbi swat teams everywhere shooting the things, and grunts doing all the underground dirty work.

Thats what you see in RE2; SH isnt like that

(although Dr. Kaufmann did say that a millitary rescue squad was on its way in SH1...?)

yeah, but a mix of the two, now that would be neat.

HEY! i just stumbled upon something... I'll make millions! silent evil it will be called, because Resident Hill sounds dorky..

Kaufmann was speaking out of fright. Although he knew what was going on, he underestimated the power of Samael and Alessa. He thought that the power had simply wiped everyone out and created monsters, but infact the town was made completely sealed off from the real world, almost frozen in time. No military squad was coming, he just hoped there was.

Silent Hill is alive. Only people it wants in Silent Hill, can get inside Silent Hill. And only people it allows to leave can leave.

So does that mean that Silent hill is in a differnt dimension?

Wow, that cool, where did you get that?

Dimension is a sci-fi term, it doesn't apply to Silent Hill.

I wouldn't say that no, it's more like....

Hrmm..




Well, in FF9, the black mage village was invisible to everyone except when you were actually in it. It isn't true that SH is frozen in time per-se, because we see that in SIlent Hill 1 and 2 the times have changed. IN SH1 it's the 80's, and in 2 and 3 it's the late 90's early 00's, we see this reflected in the cars and the like in the town.
But, if Silent Hill has been deserted for over 17 years as suggested in SH3, how come SH doesn't look exactly like it did when Harry was there? How come the cars are new?

The town changes itself based on the persons mind who enters the twon.
Harry sees a small 1980's rural town with cars and the like from his time period. James sees SH differently, as does Angela, Eddie, even Laura. The monsters are created by the town reflecting the inner demons of the persons mind who is percieving the town, except in SH1, when it was actually Alessas power that was reflected over the whole of SH, and her inner demons Harry was fighting.

The town, therefore, only exists if it wants to exist, and only to certain people.

It's very difficult to explain.

Aha! so It takes from our thoughts to create what we think a town is.

But, if the town is alive, why does it cause abject terror to those who visit it?

But silent hill did have a material exsistence right, even if it was not within what our characters witnessed?

Oh yes, Silent Hill does exist as an actual town, it's just able to change itself, it would seem, bend itself around the person who percieves it.

The land it's built on is evil. You'll find out why as you progress through SH2 Yona. Also, it was formed on land that was said to conceil demons by the ancient indians. It's actually the second time the town has been settled, it was deserted once before in the 1860's for several years.

The philosiphy and plot of SH is so cool.

So are you saying that the SH we witness is only in the characters minds, or are those events really happening IN that town?

Wow, neat! But, couldn't you just fight the trees and stuff? Or is the entire town alive? would you have to kill the wierd demons first?

It's not alive like it has eyes and watches you and stuff. It's alive in a different sense.

Alive with power.


For a long time Silent Hill lay dormant, it's dark history burried, until Dahlia tried to ressurect Samael using Alessa. Alessas power awoke the town, and now it seems to draw lost souls to it, creating visions of it's violent bloody past to torment, making demons from within the persons mind.

The exactution method they used in the civil war as gross though...Icky...

At least they got a choice.
Hanging, or Impaling.

What would you choose?

I'd choose hanging actually. I'd imagine it;d be quicker, less painful, and less undignifying.