Silent Hill 3 - dissapointment in store

Originally posted by ##RaCeR##
Dude, Im confused. Where did you get to play this? Or did you only get to see a vid of it or something?

I thought this game was still a fair way off before release.

Racer: Sorry to inform you, the game looks nothing like all those hi-res screenshot floating the net...i think this is one of the biggest "fake hi-res pic" promotion game of recent times. Not one bit of the game looks anything like those pics. Everything is grainy.

And I\'m quite sure those cut scenes are FMV...and even those have to be grainy!!!!

It\'s the biggest hype in recent memories.

The grain filter can be switched on and off - also, word is, there\'s an option to enable soft and sharp look (like in Tekken 4).

You\'re judging the game because of the "grain-filter" that you obviously dislike...

hmmmmmmmm, i liked the grain filter, added atmosphere to it, i know someo one who played it a while ago, he said it was v impresive, but it was at some computer show, and he couldnt hear it properly,  etc, so couldnt soak up the atmosphere.. so only played it for a bit

:o  Paul, you obviously don\'t like SH style, so why don\'t you go play RE or that Tecmo Clocktower 3 game (or whatever it\'s name is). If that ain\'t enough I think ye gotta wait for that new Sony Horror game which looks rather sharp. Bashing SH3 ain\'t gonna help anybody.

Originally posted by Paul


Racer: Sorry to inform you, the game looks nothing like all those hi-res screenshot floating the net...i think this is one of the biggest "fake hi-res pic" promotion game of recent times. Not one bit of the game looks anything like those pics. Everything is grainy.

And I\'m quite sure those cut scenes are FMV...and even those have to be grainy!!!!

It\'s the biggest hype in recent memories.

Uhhhh... riiiiiight. Dont circumnavigate around the question! Racer asked a good question. Where do you get your information? When and where did you play it? Simple. Unless your a lying sack of $#!t. I hope for your sake that you\'re not . J/k

Originally posted by Paul


And no, I don\'t see any grain filter...i don\'t believe there was one in SH2(PS2 version) either.

ok now you are either being silly or completely blind and retarded. you couldn\'t even turn off the grain filter till you beat the game on the regular version on PS2. in your own words...HA!

[Living-In-Clip]

And all this time I thought the grain was a cover for an artsy-farsty idea. Oh and the fog..that\'s just brilliant.

:rolleyes:
How\'s the obsecure and stupid puzzles in this one?

Originally posted by mm
then i met you...

You had him at \'hello\'

Don\'t listen to this guy. I cannot believe some of his comments... SH3 is clearly the best looking game on PS2 as far as the \'realistic look goes.

a) It\'s literally almost like those high-res screens, only animated (and it\'s by far the best facial animation I\'ve ever seen in a realtime engine). Aliasing is kept at minimum as much as it\'s humanly possible in a videogame on a regular TV screen. Quite a nice step up from SH2, actually, as the small flickering it had sometimes is completely eliminated here. Sure, it\'s not *as* antialiased as those screens, but *nothing* really is.

b) Grain filter looks awesome - better and more controlled than in SH2, looks more like a film grain used in theatrical movies (I guess it\'s used there too to \'hide visual flaws\' ;). For those who don\'t like it, there is an option to disable it. There\'s absolutely nothing wrong with the graphics when it\'s disabled, it just more clear looking, and loses that special \'gritty\' look.

c) I love when people say graphics are disappointment, but cannot believe cut scenes are not pre-rendered. Well, cut scenes are ALL real-time in SH3, and clearly use in-game engine, as the lighting and shadowing look exactly the same. They maybe use more complex character models, but it\'s kinda impossible to tell since you never see models upclose during the gameplay.

Overall, graphics are exactly what they are hyped up to be. Definitely the best realistic looking graphics on PS2 (\'realistic\' category excludes games like ZOE2).

The only negative thing I\'ve heard, is that thee free-look camera option has been removed, or at least didn\'t feature in near-finished code... I love taking in every grimy detail..

Out this months, out this month, ooo... *droool*

Originally posted by Lord Nicon


Uhhhh... riiiiiight. Dont circumnavigate around the question! Racer asked a good question. Where do you get your information? When and where did you play it? Simple. Unless your a lying sack of $#!t. I hope for your sake that you\'re not . J/k

Source? How about HANDS ON?? Duh.

Its out???

Originally posted by SSC


ok now you are either being silly or completely blind and retarded. you couldn\'t even turn off the grain filter till you beat the game on the regular version on PS2. in your own words...HA!

Wow! Mr Retardo, FYI, I never bother to play SH2(coz it\'s so crap) so obviously, I never beat the game. HA! HA! And to think you can only turn off the grain AFTER you\'ve gone through the ordeal in grainy mode...no thanks.

Originally posted by Marconelly
Don\'t listen to this guy. I cannot believe some of his comments... SH3 is clearly the best looking game on PS2 as far as the \'realistic look goes.

a) It\'s literally almost like those high-res screens, only animated (and it\'s by far the best facial animation I\'ve ever seen in a realtime engine). Aliasing is kept at minimum as much as it\'s humanly possible in a videogame on a regular TV screen. Quite a nice step up from SH2, actually, as the small flickering it had sometimes is completely eliminated here. Sure, it\'s not *as* antialiased as those screens, but *nothing* really is.

b) Grain filter looks awesome - better and more controlled than in SH2, looks more like a film grain used in theatrical movies (I guess it\'s used there too to \'hide visual flaws\' . For those who don\'t like it, there is an option to disable it. There\'s absolutely nothing wrong with the graphics when it\'s disabled, it just more clear looking, and loses that special \'gritty\' look.

c) I love when people say graphics are disappointment, but cannot believe cut scenes are not pre-rendered. Well, cut scenes are ALL real-time in SH3, and clearly use in-game engine, as the lighting and shadowing look exactly the same. They maybe use more complex character models, but it\'s kinda impossible to tell since you never see models upclose during the gameplay.

Overall, graphics are exactly what they are hyped up to be. Definitely the best realistic looking graphics on PS2 (\'realistic\' category excludes games like ZOE2).

(a) Yes, I do agreed SH3 is like 200% improvement over SH2...because SH2 is just plain shitty ugly like a PSX game.

(b) That\'s your opinion. Remember, one man\'s meat another\'s poison. I\'ll give anything for clean crisp graphics anyday.

(c) I love it even better when people say all the movies ARE real-time when they don\'t have any proof either. "Exactly the same" as the in-game graphics?? Mua! Haaa! Haaa! Are u the Joker\'s long lost son??

Originally posted by Lord Nicon
Its out???

No, I stormed into Konami\'s office with a bunch of terrorists defected from the Bin Laden camp and held the programmers at uzi-gun point and forced them to show me the game.


*Wink*