Silent Hill 4 is here

DeathsHand · 09-09-2004, 08:05 PM

So I picked up my copy of Silent Hill 4 yesterday (no soundtrack... Supposed to come with a soundtrack as a pre-order bonus, but apparently more than just a few stores didn't even get any in!)...

Anybody else have their's? I know bluefire won't until like tomorrow... Are we the only two here getting it? -.-

Initially the game dissapointed me, just because it was so different and didn't even feel like Silent Hill... However once the story got rolling, I became much more interested...

The new controls are a mixed bag, some things work nicely, others don't (like having to select in the options wether you want to walk or run... Walking is too slow, but running is a bit more sluggish)

I'm making myself play the game only at night with headphones... If I wasn't I probably would have beaten it by now...

yeeeeaaahhh........

Crono · 09-09-2004, 08:08 PM

I'll rent it some weekend and hopefully beat it.

DarkMaster · 09-09-2004, 08:36 PM

I'll rent it this weekend, and no doubt beat it. Sucks you didn't get the soundtrack, suppose to be the best SH soundtrack.

BlueFire · 09-10-2004, 10:55 PM

I got it today. Finished the subway. Very different Silent Hill. Spirits are insane :P They are fun. I welcomed the change though. We can't have another RE on our hands.

DarkMaster · 09-10-2004, 11:14 PM

Very different, but I like it. God damn ghosts piss me off.

DeathsHand · 09-10-2004, 11:38 PM

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Originally Posted by BLueFire

I got it today. Finished the subway. Very different Silent Hill. Spirits are insane :P They are fun. I welcomed the change though. We can't have another RE on our hands.

Did you pre-order the game? if so did you get the soundtrack?

Change is good... The ghosts however eeehhhhh I dunno, I don't like the fact that they hurt you just by being near you (albeit a very small amount of damage)... It makes me feel like I should just rush and get the fark away, which means makes me feel... well... rushed... Although I guess that's what they were trying to do with them... I do like the effect they have though, with Henry holding his head and it getting all fuzzy... And the noise...

I tried to pin one down with the sword (2 or 3 times I tried) and it kept getting back up before I could do it (like right after they get knocked down, they get back up)... So how the hell do you use it? Maybe I'm just using it wrong?

Some guy on the Silent Hill LJ community said that this is the most puzzling SH story in a mystery kind of way (adding that SH1 was so mysterious because it was very vague)...

And so far I agree...

DarkMaster · 09-10-2004, 11:52 PM

I find that if you hit the ghosts while they're down, they stay down a little longer. One time I spent 2 minutes continually kicking the sh*t out of a ghost on the ground, and it never got back up when I finally stopped o.O

Ghosts are pretty neat though, feels like you're being stalked. sometimes it sounds like they're coming up behind you, and really they aren't there at all. and yeah they're mainly there to make you feel rushed and disoriented, like you have to figure out what you have to do and where you have to go, and do it quick.

also take notice of the gradually multiplying bloody hand prints on the wall outside the door peep hole.