Silent Hill: Homecoming

[cbre88x]

If anyone is a fan of the Silent Hill series..this game is well worth the buy. Just picked it up today and it is every bit as scary as the last ones.

[Wedge]

I don't believe you or anyone else.  But that's because I'm the kind of person that would prefer a Silent Hill that had no combat at all.

[cbre88x]

I don't believe you or anyone else.  But that's because I'm the kind of person that would prefer a Silent Hill that had no combat at all.

That'd be fucked up.

Well first of all, the combat is improved, but the enemy AI is A LOT more aggressive to balance it out. Take for instance the nurses. The nurses in SH2 were pretty docile and you could easily take them down. The nurses in the new one..if you give them room to reach at you they will start flinging that knife around like no one's business. I once nearly died because I failed to dodge the attack and I got backed into a wall by it.

[Surf314]

I think im getting gamefly soon and then I will put this on my list.

[CaffeinePowered]

I don't believe you or anyone else.  But that's because I'm the kind of person that would prefer a Silent Hill that had no combat at all.

I sort of agree with Wedge on this one, wasnt the point of silent hill more to "survive" and unravel the mystery than to kill everything in your path?

[Blues]

From reading reviews, this is still a survival game more than a 3rd person shooter type thing. Ammo is scarce and such, like back in the original Resident Evil when you had to fucking jet as soon as you saw a hunter because you had 5 bullets left in your handgun and hadn't seen an herb or a save ribbon for the last 2 hours.

[Wedge]

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I don't believe you or anyone else.  But that's because I'm the kind of person that would prefer a Silent Hill that had no combat at all.

That'd be fucked up.

Well first of all, the combat is improved, but the enemy AI is A LOT more aggressive to balance it out. Take for instance the nurses. The nurses in SH2 were pretty docile and you could easily take them down. The nurses in the new one..if you give them room to reach at you they will start flinging that knife around like no one's business. I once nearly died because I failed to dodge the attack and I got backed into a wall by it.
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I know, I don't want the combat to be improved.  I avoided as much combat as possible in SH 1 and especially SH 2.  I mean you were _supposed_ to be avoiding combat a lot of the time in SH2, which is why it's the best one.  Anyways between this and reviews saying there are no puzzles, it totally affirms to me I have shit all for interest in this game and the franchise is dead.  I'll probably look up the soundtrack though.

[cbre88x]

I sort of agree with Wedge on this one, wasnt the point of silent hill more to "survive" and unravel the mystery than to kill everything in your path?

It still is. It's a lot easier if you avoid confrontation, but there are points where you simply can't avoid it. Unfortunately, I have totally forgotten the rule and I'm low on health and ammo and I'm fairly close to the end I think.

I loved mauling everything down in SH2..simply because it was easy to. If you played your cards right you could always have a stockpile of 80 handgun rounds or more. In this one..it's very much better to avoid it..you simply aren't given nearly enough ammo or health to take everything on.

In short: Stop reading fucked up reviews and play the damn game. It's A LOT better than I thought it'd be. The only part I don't like is the puzzle fact. There aren't really that many of them and the ones the game has are on the level of a Resident Evil game.

[Wedge]

PC version got delayed anyways (I don't have any newer consoles).  I'm sure my boyfriend will probably bother to pirate it at least then.  I REALLY really don't care about it though.  I couldn't even be arsed to play Bioshock, so it's not surprising I won't play this.

[cbre88x]

PC version got delayed anyways (I don't have any newer consoles).  I'm sure my boyfriend will probably bother to pirate it at least then.  I REALLY really don't care about it though.  I couldn't even be arsed to play Bioshock, so it's not surprising I won't play this.

It's only $20 on steam now..lawl.