Silent Hill series Vs Resident Evil series

Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
The story has continued. It has not taken any drastic changes, but it has continued to follow the main characters and the main enemies. Thus, a lot of the same settings.

Come on.Capcom can do better than this.They can add more variety if they try.

[Bobs_Hardware]

Less terryfying that all the other Resident Evils?The only Resident Evil that scared me was Resident Evil1.Only.It was less terrifying than SH1 and 2 but no way less scary than any resident evil.

Silent Hill 2 wasn\'t scary.  At all.

I guess I feel about it the same way you feel about the RE\'s after #1.

All silent hills feature the same town and a similar look.Otherwise it would ruin the game

Ahh, but you\'re criticizing RE for having a similar look each time?

I dont remember saying its scarier than SH1 and SH3 or as scary.

You said it was scarier than all the RE\'s.  I disagreed.

Silent Hill 2 wasn\'t scary. At all.

to you it wasnt.  perhaps you like zombie after zombie popping out behind corners, ad naseum

[Living-In-Clip]

Zombie\'s are a hella a lot more scarey than walking around in a town with so much fog that it\'s pathetic, as ugly, poorly done monsters moan and groan.

I\'d rather be in a situation where I have to conserve ammo, in a tight hallway, as a zombie lingers by me.

Wow...one hell of an argument...just my two cents here...

Both of these series are good for different reasons.  The first RE I bought with my PS1, with absolutely no info on it.  It just looked cool.  It was a fantastic freakin\' game.  The second one, I bought b/c of the first one.  It was a fantastic freakin\' game.  The third one, I bought b/c of the first two.  It was not fantastic; it was just a freakin\' game.  

All the RE games have that "BOO" factor, though.  The remake for GC was great, IMO...

Silent Hill doesn\'t go for the "BOO" scare, though.  It is completely different from RE.  It goes more for the "Crap, what the hell IS this?" scare.  More of a bothering you, nudging you to go forward more.  I like both of them, but they\'re completely different.  

Silent Hill 3 is not out yet in the US, as far as I know.  So if you guys wanna continue to compare only 1-3 in both series, I have no basis yet.  Reviews don\'t count.  Screens don\'t count.  However, all in all, I would agree that RE 3 is crap.  So that leaves us at 2 good games vs. 2 good games, in my opinion.

All this being said, I guess I would say that if Silent Hill 3 doesn\'t suck, I would rate it higher than the RE series, based on the fact that RE3 did, in fact, blow donkey nuts.

I\'d rather be in a situation where I have to conserve ammo, in a tight hallway, as a zombie lingers by me.

sure, if you wanna play a 5 hour game filled to the toilet lid of those situations, enjoy the RE series

i played code veronica survivor in the arcade... pain in the ass game...

i beat res evil 0,1,2,3,survivor...  stuck in code veronica... i got to antarctica but i have no ammo...

so i bought the one on ps2 and restarted... bad idea, its harder than on DC

anyway, i liked silent hill 1 and 2... i never beat SH or SH2 but they were really good... scared the crap outta me when they first came out.  im in the hospital in SH2...havent really played since november 2001... lol

isnt silent hill 3 coming out sometime soon?

Zombies... scary? oO

They\'re so slow, so defenseless, and so unoriginal, though.  But as already stated, to each their own;  RE just never seemed scary to me, what with grenade launchers, flame throwers, gatling guns, and rocket launchers at my disposal.  I\'d much rather take on freaky lookin\' monster things with only a wooden board with nails or even a steel pipe in my inventory.  Now there\'s survival horror, in my opinion. :-p

BTW, most of the action in the Silent Hill series takes place inside hotels, hospitals, schools, or other buildings.  There is no fog: Just you, pitch-black darkness, and a small flashlight providing your only source of illumination.   There are no zombies, obviously, but if you want to experience situations where you have to conserve ammo while in tight hallways, there\'s no better way to do so than to play the Silent Hill games.  Again, in my opinion.

[Bobs_Hardware]

Originally posted by mm


to you it wasnt.  perhaps you like zombie after zombie popping out behind corners, ad naseum

Zombies not so scary.

Hunters clicking around a corner when you have absolutely no health, and no ammo is scary.

Nemesis continually charging through door after door to get to you when you have very little health and no real way of stopping him is scary.

Killing a zombie and thinking a room is safe, only to find the zombie has come back much quicker, and much more powerful, and chasing after you with no way of telling where he is except by the increasingly louder footsteps, and the occasional reflection in a mirror, is scary..

etc. etc.

Zombies popping out of no where got old after the first one, however.

Although the series has gotten progressively less scary with each installment (one of the main reasons I disliked Code Veronica the most..)

what kind of horror movies do you like, bob?

Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware


Hunters clicking around a corner when you have absolutely no health, and no ammo is scary.

They were a truely a thread only in RE1.

Nemesis continually charging through door after door to get to you when you have very little health and no real way of stopping him is scary.

Almost never had very little health in RE:Nemesis.It was fearly easy.And if you saw Nemesis?Just run.

Killing a zombie and thinking a room is safe, only to find the zombie has come back much quicker, and much more powerful, and chasing after you with no way of telling where he is except by the increasingly louder footsteps, and the occasional reflection in a mirror, is scary..

Bah.RE:Remake and a Remake and just one game alone never define a series of many sequels to become better

[Living-In-Clip]

I don\'t think what kind of horror movies has any bearing. I like classic and thinking man horror films.

The Shining (Kurbrick)
The Exorcist
Suspiria
Opera
Night of the Living Dead (not the REMAKE!!!)
Dawn of the Dead

But I also like raunchy slashers.
Friday the 13th
Nightmare on Elm Street
Halloween
Cannibal Ferox

The list goes on and on.

I have to say the Silent Hill games never bothered me. There was nothing disturbing about them. No scare tactics and nothing to make me feel uncomfortable. However, everytime I play RE:Remake and kill a zombie...I know damn well, one time, when I walk back through he is gonna be there and he is goin to be pissed off. It makes me anxious, something the Silent Hill series fails to do.

[Bobs_Hardware]

Originally posted by mm
what kind of horror movies do you like, bob?

My all-time favorite\'s are the original Halloween, and The Exorcist.  If that helps.

They were a truely a thread only in RE1.

Right, a licker never killed you in RE2?  Or a Hunter in the hospital in RE:Nemesis (among the other hunter derivitives in the game)?

And that was only one example..

Almost never had very little health in RE:Nemesis.It was fearly easy.And if you saw Nemesis?Just run.

Yah, you had to run.  But he kept following you.  Unlike in the Silent Hill series which is basically a >>Hallway filled with monsters >>  Run away >>  Enter room without monsters >>  Explore for a while >> Enter back into hallway >> Run past monsters >>  Enter another room with no monsters (repeat).

The thing with Silent Hill is, you have less weaponry and ammunition, but that\'s because you don\'t need the weaponry and ammunition.  Other than a boss, I\'m pretty sure I\'ve only killed one enemy my entire time playing Silent Hill 3 (which I love, btw).  And that was only because I had to read a long message and the guy kept interrupting me .  

The thing which made the RE games progressively worse was that they started giving you too much weaponry and ammunition.

Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware

Right, a licker never killed you in RE2?  Or a Hunter in the hospital in RE:Nemesis (among the other hunter derivitives in the game)?

And that was only one example..

Only in Resi 1 and 2.In Resi3 they were hardly a thread.Died once or twice because I wasnt expecting it.But never felt the thread as in Resi1.The lickers killed me a few times in Resi2.But I was speaking about the Resis after 1 and 2.

Yah, you had to run.  But he kept following you.  Unlike in the Silent Hill series which is basically a >>Hallway filled with monsters >>  Run away >>  Enter room without monsters >>  Explore for a while >> Enter back into hallway >> Run past monsters >>  Enter another room with no monsters (repeat).

You just run and you knew that after 3 or 4 doors the Nemesis wouldnt get you.
Dont compare the way SH is trying to scare you as if its trying to scare you the same way the Resi is.The Resident Evil is trying to surprise and startle you.The SH is trying to disturb you.

The thing with Silent Hill is, you have less weaponry and ammunition, but that\'s because you don\'t need the weaponry and ammunition.

Thats the problem with Resident Evil.Resident Evil1 was more claustrophobic because of limited moves, ammunition, health aids and herbs.
In SH you can easily avoid monsters but you also want to get rid of them because they are disturbing you.The sound becomes annoying(in the good way), and althouh killing you is most unlikely to happen they cause damage in narrow places, and also they reduce your concentration(especially in the hospital).You might not use the ammo also because they are limited, but the sure thing is that you ll use the close contact weapons in narrow places.

 Other than a boss, I\'m pretty sure I\'ve only killed one enemy my entire time playing Silent Hill 3 (which I love, btw).  And that was only because I had to read a long message and the guy kept interrupting me .  

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The thing which made the RE games progressively worse was that they started giving you too much weaponry and ammunition. [/B]

Ofocurse.Thats why fans of the survival horror that shifted from Resident Evil to SH  still prefer Resi1 and 2.

horror movies play a large part in why he likes RE over SH

he likes shock films.  cheap tricks that would make you jump.

not me.  i\'ll take creepyness (aka SH) anyday.  gimme dario argento