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Zero Punctuation: Silent Hill 2
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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I am quite happy to finaly see your review oh the game that you have said many MANY times in your other game reviews. I for one love the silent hill games. Well I think that after the second one the road have been going down but still it's the one of the horror game series that I like.
On a side note the best horror games to me have to be silent hill 1 and 2, clock tower 3, dark corners of earth.
On a side note the best horror games to me have to be silent hill 1 and 2, clock tower 3, dark corners of earth.
Never played Silent Hill 2, it scared me too much.
Couldn't hear shit in this one'cause the computer I'm on is shit, so I'll listen again at home.
Couldn't hear shit in this one'cause the computer I'm on is shit, so I'll listen again at home.
OK this is my favourite review, I'm a little bit iffy on calling the main character of number 4: The Room (my favourite Silent Hill) a twat but then it did make me laugh!
I'd been anticipating a SH2 review for a while, and I wasn't dissapointed.
It's a good game, but I always wound up getting horribly lost.
It's a good game, but I always wound up getting horribly lost.
I've played plenty of games where I got a base level caveman satisfaction for beating a really hard boss or hard level, but I think Silent Hill 2 is the first game where I felt EMOTIONALLY satisfied at the end. As I continued to play through the game and finally discovered the secret to Silent Hill, my mind was truly blown in a way almost no media had before, never mind a video game. And just by pure luck I got the "Leave" ending (IMO the best) and I seriously sat there bawling as it played.
And like Yahtzee, I was extremely disappointed that the later games didn't follow this up.
And like Yahtzee, I was extremely disappointed that the later games didn't follow this up.
"I hate being a boat"
LOL
that was great
Admittedly, it's not as much fun watching Yahtzee review a game he actually likes. It is good to know, however, that the games he DOES like are quality.
The only Silent Hill I ever played I think was SH1, and I didn't get very far into it before I was sufficiently frustrated and freaked out enough to stop playing.
Definitely a goal of mine to sit down and play the good games from that series one day though.
LOL
that was great
Admittedly, it's not as much fun watching Yahtzee review a game he actually likes. It is good to know, however, that the games he DOES like are quality.
The only Silent Hill I ever played I think was SH1, and I didn't get very far into it before I was sufficiently frustrated and freaked out enough to stop playing.
Definitely a goal of mine to sit down and play the good games from that series one day though.
I understand the term critic, hence the quotations around reviews. I was saying that it gets boring ripping the shit out of things for things they do, constantly. Nice to see him mix some nice in there once in awhile, not agreed? This would have been shit if he hadn't mocked it in the ways it needed to be before he pointed out the parts he liked.magnuslion said:
and thats something i found really strange. i really liked his Psychonauts review i even showed it to my friends and they liked it as well. why is it they people hate it so?HardRockSamurai said:
wat? you best be joking. or did you really find his "Haze" and "Sim City Societies" reviews that much?SnowCold said:
personally the way i see it, whenever he makes a review on something he's passionate about wether its a game, a webcomic or a game genre if he has a "deeper" connection to it thats when he shows his lustre.
thats why I wouldn't even mind it if he would make a video review of some movies he likes e.g. an "Army of Darkness" review would be awesome.
haha you have done it again even with an old game. I cant wait til the new Silent Hill for you to review that.
Pretty much saying the same thing here in this post that all other posts have said, but what the hell here's my cent and a half:
I've been waiting for Yahtzee to finally do a retrospect review for SH2, and it was well worth the wait. This is glorious for those who haven't been graced by it's epic atmosphere. When I was younger and first got the game, I wouldn't play it unless I had someone with me, because it scared the piss out of me without actually having to have anything happen. Just walking around the streets scared me! Then, add on the random times that your radio will start playing static and one of those damn things that crawl on all fours pop out from under cars, and I'm surprised I don't have heart issues.
Its nice to see that Yahtzee did point out the bad parts of SH2, but it is to be noted that he is dead on accurate that SH2 makes a better game then any other form of entertainment medium simply because you need to feel like YOU are the one in it alone, not so much experiencing a story but being in that story.
I've been waiting for Yahtzee to finally do a retrospect review for SH2, and it was well worth the wait. This is glorious for those who haven't been graced by it's epic atmosphere. When I was younger and first got the game, I wouldn't play it unless I had someone with me, because it scared the piss out of me without actually having to have anything happen. Just walking around the streets scared me! Then, add on the random times that your radio will start playing static and one of those damn things that crawl on all fours pop out from under cars, and I'm surprised I don't have heart issues.
Its nice to see that Yahtzee did point out the bad parts of SH2, but it is to be noted that he is dead on accurate that SH2 makes a better game then any other form of entertainment medium simply because you need to feel like YOU are the one in it alone, not so much experiencing a story but being in that story.
Again, I'd like to start by saying I like the wii. To further prove that people shouldn't get mad about ppl trashing games they love, yatz has amazed yet again, but nitpicking and trashing a game that he loves. What would be truly amazing is if he posted a comment calling himself a twat for daring to say anything bad about his beloved SH2, in true fanboy style.
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Weird accented australians rock....ok, no, just this one.