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The Silent Hill debate

What the community thinks of Silent Hill, ordered by reader support. Agreeing, translating and reporting a message need no account.

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  1. ChaddOwl

    I keep going back and forth on this one honestly, because the puzzles are genuinely clever in a way that a lot of modern horror games just don't bother with anymore, they'd rather give you a quest marker, but then the combat is so stiff that half my playthroughs just turn into me running past everything and hoping for the best, which kind of undercuts the tension the game worked so hard to build.

    SilentWarden

    The puzzles work precisely because the combat is weak, running past danger is the tension

  2. Rae_1990

    I played this during a really slow week at a friend's place, we just took turns because neither of us wanted to be alone with it for too long, it wasn't even that late but the house felt different afterward.

  3. lfarrell

    The puzzle logic feels obscure by today's standards, I won't pretend otherwise, but the tension it builds without relying on jump scares is something a lot of modern horror forgets how to do.

    LootAce

    A mí me pasó parecido, aunque creo que mi hermano se asustó más que yo, o eso quiero pensar.

  4. Tromp53

    Everyone acts like nostalgia excuses the tank controls, I put maybe 6 hours into it back then and never touched it again.

    Jameson_1984

    Same six hours here, and folks act like that's not enough to judge it fairly

  5. ArcadeNinja

    It's sitting at 130th with a strong win rate, which suggests the fanbase voting for it is small but consistent rather than huge and casual, that's usually a sign of a cult favorite more than a mainstream pick.

  6. FrameRex2

    Compared to Stranded Deep this game actually remembers to scare you instead of just starving you.

    Carpentier2010

    Ça me fait penser à Stranded Deep en fait, dans le sens où là aussi la peur vient plus de l'environnement que d'un ennemi précis... même si les deux jouent sur des peurs vraiment différentes au final.

  7. LootPlayer95

    And apparently a delivery driver dodging monsters with a pipe is peak psychological horror, who knew. The atmosphere absolutely holds up though, I'll give it that much credit.

    JazlynMaster

    Showed it to my teenager expecting eye rolls, got genuine tension instead.

    RetroSamurai

    Es cierto que la atmósfera funciona, pero el combate rígido no le quita algo de esa tensión que la niebla construye tan bien?

    CosmoSniper2001

    I did the exact same thing, pipe in hand, zero training, felt like a menace for about four seconds.

  8. AllieRider

    The controller vibration for the heartbeat is still one of the smartest uses of feedback I've seen, way ahead of what The Last of Us tried later with its audio cues, honestly the tension managment here is on a different level even if the combat feels clunky as hell now.

    GhostSamurai

    Ah yes, the same heartbeat vibration that definitely wasn't just there to mask the loading, truly revolutionary stuff.

  9. felipe30

    Still remember the fog rolling in and just freezing on my couch, best night ever!!

    CoopRider

    Same here, no combat training, just a pipe and pure panic, you all had that moment too right?

    NovaOwl

    Would you say it holds up better than newer horror games, or is it more of a comfort pick at this point for you?

    edwardo_schulist

    Replying to CosmoFox2

    you paused together to psych yourselves up, did that actually work or just delay the inevitable

    Tanner_28

    clones, funny how everyone calls newer horror derivative but nobody wants to redo the tank controls either

    CosmoFox2

    I had a friend over for that first playthrough too, we kept pausing just to psych ourselves back up before going further.

  10. Gamboa25

    Para mí este juego sigue siendo una referencia total, no por nostalgia ciega sino porque la sensación de indefensión que transmite Harry Mason es algo que muy pocos survival horror han logrado replicar después, la niebla no es solo estética, cumple una función jugable clarísima que hoy en día se sigue citando cuando se habla de diseño de terror, y eso para un juego de esta época me parece increíble.

    Arnaude_40

    Chez moi c'était mon copain qui tenait la manette, moi je regardais depuis le canapé sans oser parler

  11. Celia_44

    Lo jugué con mi hermana al lado, ella miraba y yo controlaba, y creo que eso hizo que diera aún más miedo porque las dos reaccionábamos a la vez a cada ruido, ninguna quería admitir que estaba asustada.

  12. TurboSniper80

    Perso je le compare svt à Undertale, deux jeux qui jouent sur le malaise psychologique plus que sur l'action, mais l'un vieillit mieux que l'autre je pense.

    PixelPilot2

    Undertale ages fine for me, this one had me fighting the camera more than the fog

  13. lacombe_pierre

    La radio qui grésille, ça vous a marqué aussi ou j'étais juste trop jeune (et trouillard) ?

  14. GhostByte2

    Premier jeu qui m'a fait dormir avec la veilleuse allumée. Qui d'autre ?

    Crit_Becker

    Fair point on that camera stuff, though I'd still take it over the newer walking sim horror clones any day.

  15. emile73

    On y jouait avec la lumière éteinte et le son à fond, mes parents détestaient ça mais on recommençait quand même, je trouve qu'on lui donne trop de crédit aujourd'hui alors qu'à l'époque déjà plein de joueurs trouvaient la visée franchement pénible.