Survival horror like Silent Hill?

Resident Evil was something I was thinking about recently as regards good not being the same thing as influential. RE1 has a fantastic core idea, that changed gaming completely, but it's wrapped in layers and layers of rubbish - almost any game that is based on it improved it.

For all that it started on the PS1 (and started the PS1), the best game in the series are on the Gamecube: Resident Evil Zero, 4 and the reworking of the original.

Fear Effect is about as far from Silent Hill as you can get within the framework: there's no real room for wandering around and retracing your steps, it's setpiece setpiece setpiece.

Personally I'd recommend Fatal Frame/Project Zero. There was another one where you control a couple of kids, one of whom has the power to see through the eyes of the enemies. It was supposed to be quite good.

I hadn't heard of Project Zero. Will look that one up. Good RE advice, too. And x-post, agreed on The Suffering, based on the X-box mag game disc demos.

X-post again, Nightbreed, I like the concept (and the movie), but the graphics seem a little too pixelated for total immersion. Unlike, say, the graphics in Doom 3 - bought that and liked it, though the "monsters hiding behind secret doors" bit got old quickly.

It is very good. And very very addictive.

I could never get used to the control system for RE on playstation, I preferred just to watch my mate complete them. The second one is fantastic, but the fourth one is due out soon on PS2 isn't it?

Alone in the Dark seconded, similar to the RE games.

But really, no other series can compare to Silent Hill and what it offers. Nothing.

Best videogame of all time IMO

March 13th, double dose of Silent Hill. Am more stoked for the SH2/SH3 HD update (SH Anniversary) than SH Downpour, mainly due to Homecoming's letdown. It would be great if all the fingers pointing at SH2 as the success to duplicate have had any influence, but it seems combat is preferred to atmosphere.

Silent Hill Revelation also comes to theaters sometime this year. Hoping it's not as disjointed as the last Resident Evil 3D pic.

Anybody else play SOMA? Been digging it so far, even if it does mesh its PKD transhumanist bits with a _lot_ of James Cameron/John Carpenter/Cronenberg bits and just a touch of Harlan Ellison.

deadly premonition

Silent Hill franchise announcement coming Wednesday. Speculation on SH remakes (after the RE remake success), maybe a new game or more than one new game.

Christoph Gans also has a third SH movie in development, which I didn't know.

If a SH2 remake, really hope they go for atmospheric dread over combat.

Much SH joy. Two new SH games (SH f - set in Japan which looks gorgeous and gives me Fatal Frame / Siren vibes and SH Townfall, trailer of which has Ringu atmosphere), a remake of SH 2 (PS5/Steam exclusive for a year, as are these others I'm guessing), and SH Ascension (a "live, real-time interactive series". With a trailer of semi-literate texts flying by, players commenting "oh shi oh shi oh shi", no thanks for this Gen Xer). Also Gans' "Return to Silent Hill" movie, using SH 2 for the plot.