Silent hill 2?

Hi, I'm going to be playing silent hill 2 but befor I do I would like to know if it stands the test of time. But what I meen by that is, is it still as scary as it was back in the day?

Btw this is my first silent hill game.

id say its still scary even by today standards. The standard has actually be lowered a ton with people actually feeling like RE and dead space are scary. If those games are scary then silent hill is sure to cause a heart attack.

I find even the first SH on the Playstation scary, and SH2 is way scarier then the first in my opinion. It has been probably 7-years since I last played SH2, but I don't see why it wouldn't be just as scary today as it was then.

Dead space is not scary, but keeps you tense all the time.

But yeah, I think SH may still be scary (even the first one) given that their scares were not based on cheap monsters jumping out of the nothing but for the situation, plus the fog and radio sounds... gotta love the first 3 SH games... (I even liked the idea of the fourth one).

id say its still scary even by today standards. The standard has actually be lowered a ton with people actually feeling like RE and dead space are scary. If those games are scary then silent hill is sure to cause a heart attack.

Gen007

Buy It. Play It. Love It.

:)

There is a perfectly delivered Degree of Discomfort in that game to this day, absolutely. The sense of dread the game can generate is substantial... As with anything, you need to be a willing participant in suspending your disbelief, but that's any game's job, if you think about it.

You need to play it in the dark, with headphones on... So many people miss the real spine-chills in the audio when playing a game like SH, and that imersion as well as isolation from your real space, is key to a successful scare. I play those games with my headphones, and stuff like "Dead Space" can, indeed, startle you, or make you worried about the path ahead, to an outright jump-out-of-the-seat with the audio alone, subharmonic circuit cranked to the max...

... Same with any Resident Evil game, going all the way back to the first one.

Music, ambience, it's far too integral in Horror gaming to be coming out of the tiny, poorly tuned, bottom of the line little speakers on-board your television (whether it be Action-Horror like RE has become, and "Dead Space", or old-school real-deal Survival Horror like RE started, "Siren" and "Silent Hill").

Wear Headphones!

:D

Silent Hill 2 isn't good because of how scary it is. Although you might find it pretty scary.

Silent hill has a scary creepy atmosphere, Dead Space is more of a shocking game, than scary.

Silent hill has a scary creepy atmosphere, Dead Space is more of a shocking game, than scary.

Lach0121

After all of this talk about SH2, I'm gonna pick up a copy today and play it again. It's been years. Should have never sold it, but you know how it is... Been meaning to re-add this game, SH3, and the like... The HD remake will be cool, but I like to own originals of the games that changed my gaming experience. SH2 is definitely one of those games.

Just get SH HD Collection.

By the standards being set today for 'scary' games, it more than stands the test of time.

Just get SH HD Collection.

GreekGameManiac

I like legacy games on legacy hardware. It's weird, I know. But I genuinely like to have copies of certain games that way...

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... The "Silent Hill" games are some of those, where I want the box, the art, the whole nine. Some of those games are bizzarro games like "REEL Fishing" or "Flipnic!", or "Mr. Mosquito"... But being a collector and keeper of "different" horror games like "Echo Night Beyond", "Martian Gothic", and most-especially, "Lifeline"...

... Honk if you actually own a copy of "Lifeline". yo...

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