Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Robert Shand" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Is Silent Hill any good? - And some other stuff Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 20:24:22 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 54 Message-ID: <7imqt0$6pd22@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <374BE7EF.847AA0F5@easynet.co.uk> <7ihc31$ec56@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <7ihg9e$ec57@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <374E97B0.E0191BFD@easynet.co.uk> <7imjev$6pd11@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <7imlou$6pd16@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-124.zyprexa.dialup.pol.co.uk X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 > You big wuss. When I got my copy, I only "allowed" myself to play it after > midnight (alone in the dark)! It really is genuinely scary/freaky in places. > IMO Silent Hill is a landmark game - almost "arthouse" in its surreal > horror-movie feel and sedate pace. It also has the most amazing intro FMV > sequence (& music) which I must have watched about 100 times. > I know it is difficult to say but I have to agree with Nick, it is a great game, which has an extra "thing" to it. I can't really put my finger on it. I think it shows that games are no longer just for kids (as if they ever were). I just hope that this trend of more, how can I say, modern games making continues, hopefully pushing back the boundaries of what people perceive to be acceptible on a games platform. With any luck, we will start to see games with the feel of a David Cronenberg or Luc Beson (It his last name spelt like that?) film. Games companies have, or at least some have, tried to create new ideas to try and make games into a true genre of there own, only now is the technology allowing them to do so effectively. All I hope is that we don't just see a rehash of current games. > I'd say it's one of the more "mature" and "intelligent" games released in > the last year - more so than Final Fantasy, Half-Life and MGS, anyway. I liked Half-Life although I can only play the first 30 mins due to a load save bug, it seems as if games are trying to get through to the more mature gamer. Although someone should try to point out that showing a bit of blood, swearing a bit and showing a bit of leg is not only the way to do it. My favorite film is "Dr Strangelov: Or how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb" this film has none of the above yet I believe it to be one of the best adult movies ever. > Certainly makes a change from driving / shooting (or both) games, anyway :) Sure does. Sorry it turned into a bit of a rant that rambled. Oh well Bob bob@shandfam.freeserve.co.uk 298rcs@tay.ac.uk > > Nick F > > PS Ignore the monkfish remark - Bob's just reliving his favourite fantasy...