Silent Hill Homecoming - 6.5

I don't know if this is posted already. If it was then my bad.

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/adventure/silenthill5/review.html

I would've though the score would be better.

Nope, score seems about right, the physcological thriller that made Silent hill so popular is gone, thanks to another silly american team screwing it up, buy actionizing it with the silliest story.

Its like they thought this:

"lets just look what the other great sh titles did, add the best parts, OH yeah the iconic period head, just throw that in there and the weird little kids with bunny rabits and crayon drawings, that should be about it and keep them fooled"

Team silent need to come back and do SH.

not surprised at all tbh

Failure was it's destiny

:lol: so much of the new "true RE".kingfire11

Siren & Fatal Frame are the two best horror series now IMO. Silent Hill; Homecoming wasn't bad at all but it was did have alot of issues such as the developers keeping the same exact blueprint as team silent, combat was a breeze and the story didn't really have that immersive feel as the previous games.

It took them this long to review it?

Now seriously where are the PC/PS3 reviews of Dead Space? Dont give me crap about GS not having a retail copy because I have seen it in many stores around my area.

It took them this long to review it?

Now seriously where are the PC/PS3 reviews of Dead Space? Dont give me crap about GS not having a retail copy because I have seen it in many stores around my area.

Ninten007

exactly what i was going to say. what in the hell happened? ridiculous.

Btw, GS really seems to be just tossing out the "weak story" demerit these days. I'm not sure if it's game's being bad, or GS raising their standards. Far Cry 2, Fable 2, and now Silent Hill. Geez. At least Dead Space got given a story merit.

[QUOTE="Eyezonmii"]

Team silent need to come back and do SH.

KGB32

QFT

what? you realise the team who did the previous silent hills were not making this one... :roll:

so eyezmonii is right. if the original devs did make this im sure it would have been much much better

[QUOTE="KGB32"][QUOTE="Eyezonmii"]

Team silent need to come back and do SH.

superjim42

QFT

what? you realise the team who did the previous silent hills were not making this one... :roll:

so eyezmonii is right. if the original devs did make this im sure it would have been much much better

wow buddy...do you even know what QFT means? i was agreeing with Eyezonmii.....

[QUOTE="superjim42"][QUOTE="KGB32"][QUOTE="Eyezonmii"]

Team silent need to come back and do SH.

KGB32

QFT

what? you realise the team who did the previous silent hills were not making this one... :roll:

so eyezmonii is right. if the original devs did make this im sure it would have been much much better

wow buddy...do you even know what WFT means? i was agreeing with Eyezonmii.....

what did you mean? cos i have seen ppl use the term QFT for 'quit f****** trolling'

[QUOTE="KGB32"][QUOTE="Eyezonmii"]

Team silent need to come back and do SH.

superjim42

QFT

what? you realise the team who did the previous silent hills were not making this one... :roll:

so eyezmonii is right. if the original devs did make this im sure it would have been much much better

QFT = Quoted for truth;)

[QUOTE="superjim42"][QUOTE="KGB32"][QUOTE="Eyezonmii"]

Team silent need to come back and do SH.

killerfist

QFT

what? you realise the team who did the previous silent hills were not making this one... :roll:

so eyezmonii is right. if the original devs did make this im sure it would have been much much better

QFT = Quoted for truth;)

[QUOTE="killerfist"]QFT = Quoted for truth;)superjim42

Trust me I've been there. I thought the exact same thing when I first saw "QFT" :lol:

no problem man:)

well the scores sucks..... :( to bad silent hill series is going in the wrong way, im a fan of the series but i think the best SH games are 1, 2 and 3 , now i will wait till this game drop to 20 bucks then i will buy it. I thinking of buying Siren: Blood Curse, it seems like a great and original game.

It took GS 3 weeks to review this game. I'm enjoying it and don't think 6.5 is fair... more like 7.5. GS probably just slapped on the score since it's been almost a month for the release and they wanted to get a quick review out.DJCUEBALL

[QUOTE="DJCUEBALL"]It took GS 3 weeks to review this game. I'm enjoying it and don't think 6.5 is fair... more like 7.5. GS probably just slapped on the score since it's been almost a month for the release and they wanted to get a quick review out.DireToad

I'm losing more and more respect for GS every day. If it weren't for the forums, I'd leave. They gave Socom a low score because of the network lag... well you know what GS, when the network lag is fixed, shouldn't you give it a higher score?

exactly what i was going to say. what in the hell happened? ridiculous.

Paladin_King

I'm losing more and more respect for GS every day. If it weren't for the forums, I'd leave. They gave Socom a low score because of the network lag... well you know what GS, when the network lag is fixed, shouldn't you give it a higher score?

DJCUEBALL

[QUOTE="Paladin_King"]

exactly what i was going to say. what in the hell happened? ridiculous.

Teufelhuhn

How do you know?

Oh well, I'm still gonna give it a try when it releases.

I might just import it...GAME say it's not out until FEB next year.

Deserves the score it was downright tedious.

I understand building up suspense but I was bored out of my mind waiting for something to kill me this game compared to deadspace proves that konami needs to step there game up.

[QUOTE="DJCUEBALL"]

I'm losing more and more respect for GS every day. If it weren't for the forums, I'd leave. They gave Socom a low score because of the network lag... well you know what GS, when the network lag is fixed, shouldn't you give it a higher score?

Teufelhuhn

Agreed 100% if you release it a broken buggy mess it gets reviewed a broken buggy mess.

[QUOTE="Teufelhuhn"][QUOTE="DJCUEBALL"]

I'm losing more and more respect for GS every day. If it weren't for the forums, I'd leave. They gave Socom a low score because of the network lag... well you know what GS, when the network lag is fixed, shouldn't you give it a higher score?

Jacboy71

Agreed 100% if you release it a broken buggy mess it gets reviewed a broken buggy mess.

Now dont get me wrong i dont agree with broken games and i dont even care about socom, but why review a MP only player game when it just releases? I agree with 1up in the game will change when the servers are fixed. The launch of WOW was riddled with bugs and so was warhawk. Now i know in my above post i said it took gs forever to write a silent hill review but socom and all mp player games should be reviewed when the servers are fixed.

I love the fact that most of you are jumping on the game when you quite obviously haven't played it >_>, but then again, this is SW

I loved it TBH. As a Silent Hill fan I would give it a 9.0 and as a gamer I'd give it an 8.0. I thought Double Helix did a great job.

I thought the game was fun i would have given it a 8.0. The combat was a little iffy. The story was pretty good. The graphics were nice. I am losing faith in GS reviews lately i usually use 1 up now if i even look at the reviews for a game. It took GS two weeks to give this game a review that is lame IMO.njean777

I don't feel that way, i think the score is a good one for such a product. Honestly, you could rename the game to something else and feel as if it had nothing to do with Silent hill, it feels that off to me. The over the shoulder camera was so NOT needed, it cut the tension in half, the dogding, move sets felt less like a silent hill game. When i think SH i think of a person whos lost confused and doesn't know how to properly deal with whats going on..but with SH5 your a marine, it defeats the purpose. Go figure, an american dev team using a marine...lol. The game could have been so much more.

I love the fact that most of you are jumping on the game when you quite obviously haven't played it >_>, but then again, this is SW

I loved it TBH. As a Silent Hill fan I would give it a 9.0 and as a gamer I'd give it an 8.0. I thought Double Helix did a great job.

Silent-Hal

how would you know? FYI, I've beaten it

and shouldn't it be the other way round, Gamer = MORE...SH fan = Less? considering its poor compared to SH2/3. IMO.

Failure.

Dead space please.

[QUOTE="njean777"]I thought the game was fun i would have given it a 8.0. The combat was a little iffy. The story was pretty good. The graphics were nice. I am losing faith in GS reviews lately i usually use 1 up now if i even look at the reviews for a game. It took GS two weeks to give this game a review that is lame IMO.Eyezonmii

I don't feel that way, i think the score is a good one for such a product. Honestly, you could rename the game to something else and feel as if it had nothing to do with Silent hill, it feels that off to me. The over the shoulder camera was so NOT needed, it cut the tension in half, the dogding, move sets felt less like a silent hill game. When i think SH i think of a person whos lost confused and doesn't know how to properly deal with whats going on..but with SH5 your a marine, it defeats the purpose. Go figure, an american dev team using a marine...lol. The game could have been so much more.

Well it was my first SH game so im looking at it from that perspective. I looked at your sig and you have RE in it now thats a series that has went far off from what it use to be to. I mean its not even scary anymore and there is basically no survival horror in the games anymore. But i agree RE5 looks crazy good. Survival horror is a genre that is going away slowly SIren and Dead Space and Silent Hill have basically stayed true to the genre IMO. SH:HC was hard even though you had good combat skills you would still walk around with half health most of the game and the tension was still there i cant tell you how many times i just ran away in that game.

[QUOTE="DireToad"][QUOTE="DJCUEBALL"]It took GS 3 weeks to review this game. I'm enjoying it and don't think 6.5 is fair... more like 7.5. GS probably just slapped on the score since it's been almost a month for the release and they wanted to get a quick review out.DJCUEBALL

I'm losing more and more respect for GS every day. If it weren't for the forums, I'd leave. They gave Socom a low score because of the network lag... well you know what GS, when the network lag is fixed, shouldn't you give it a higher score?

Yo man nobody is telling you that you have to agree with GS's opinions. How many here think that Halo 3 and Gears are extremely overrated and didn't deserve those scores? Are you gonna get on them too? For people to expect everyone to have the same exact opinion is impossible. Some people like some games and some like others. I'm not a huge fan of GTAIV even though I bought it. I'd give it an 8.0.

Now am I going crazy that GS gave it a 10.0? Nope. If it got an 8.0 would others go crazy? Yup. You guys are criticizing GS for not thinking like you do. Which is impossible because GS is not you nor anyone else. GS is GS.

[QUOTE="DJCUEBALL"]

[QUOTE="DireToad"][QUOTE="DJCUEBALL"]It took GS 3 weeks to review this game. I'm enjoying it and don't think 6.5 is fair... more like 7.5. GS probably just slapped on the score since it's been almost a month for the release and they wanted to get a quick review out.Blackbond

I'm losing more and more respect for GS every day. If it weren't for the forums, I'd leave. They gave Socom a low score because of the network lag... well you know what GS, when the network lag is fixed, shouldn't you give it a higher score?

Yo man nobody is telling you that you have to agree with GS's opinions. How many here think that Halo 3 and Gears are extremely overrated and didn't deserve those scores? Are you gonna get on them too? For people to expect everyone to have the same exact opinion is impossible. Some people like some games and some like others. I'm not a huge fan of GTAIV even though I bought it. I'd give it an 8.0.

Now am I going crazy that GS gave it a 10.0? Nope. If it got an 8.0 would others go crazy? Yup. You guys are criticizing GS for not thinking like you do. Which is impossible because GS is not you nor anyone else. GS is GS.

You speak the truth but 2 weeks to review an 8-10 hour game come on now. GTA4 did deserve an 8.0 IMO though.

[QUOTE="Jacboy71"][QUOTE="Teufelhuhn"][QUOTE="DJCUEBALL"]

I'm losing more and more respect for GS every day. If it weren't for the forums, I'd leave. They gave Socom a low score because of the network lag... well you know what GS, when the network lag is fixed, shouldn't you give it a higher score?

njean777

Agreed 100% if you release it a broken buggy mess it gets reviewed a broken buggy mess.

Now dont get me wrong i dont agree with broken games and i dont even care about socom, but why review a MP only player game when it just releases? I agree with 1up in the game will change when the servers are fixed. The launch of WOW was riddled with bugs and so was warhawk. Now i know in my above post i said it took gs forever to write a silent hill review but socom and all mp player games should be reviewed when the servers are fixed.

Because then you have to re-review or wait until a game gets updates, DLC ect. You have no choice but to review a retail copy on how the game comes out. If devs want to ship incomplete games well then "Sorry about their damn luck."

Reviewing games based off of future content or patches would set a dangerous precident.

[QUOTE="Blackbond"][QUOTE="DJCUEBALL"]

[QUOTE="DireToad"][QUOTE="DJCUEBALL"]It took GS 3 weeks to review this game. I'm enjoying it and don't think 6.5 is fair... more like 7.5. GS probably just slapped on the score since it's been almost a month for the release and they wanted to get a quick review out.njean777

I'm losing more and more respect for GS every day. If it weren't for the forums, I'd leave. They gave Socom a low score because of the network lag... well you know what GS, when the network lag is fixed, shouldn't you give it a higher score?

Yo man nobody is telling you that you have to agree with GS's opinions. How many here think that Halo 3 and Gears are extremely overrated and didn't deserve those scores? Are you gonna get on them too? For people to expect everyone to have the same exact opinion is impossible. Some people like some games and some like others. I'm not a huge fan of GTAIV even though I bought it. I'd give it an 8.0.

Now am I going crazy that GS gave it a 10.0? Nope. If it got an 8.0 would others go crazy? Yup. You guys are criticizing GS for not thinking like you do. Which is impossible because GS is not you nor anyone else. GS is GS.

You speak the truth but 2 weeks to review an 8-10 hour game come on now. GTA4 did deserve an 8.0 IMO though.

It took them a month to review KOF (ENJOY IT!) XI and it got an 8.0

Some games just take longer to get to then others. Not based on length or anything. The people probably have other priorities and things to do as well.

[QUOTE="njean777"][QUOTE="Jacboy71"][QUOTE="Teufelhuhn"][QUOTE="DJCUEBALL"]

I'm losing more and more respect for GS every day. If it weren't for the forums, I'd leave. They gave Socom a low score because of the network lag... well you know what GS, when the network lag is fixed, shouldn't you give it a higher score?

Blackbond

Agreed 100% if you release it a broken buggy mess it gets reviewed a broken buggy mess.

Now dont get me wrong i dont agree with broken games and i dont even care about socom, but why review a MP only player game when it just releases? I agree with 1up in the game will change when the servers are fixed. The launch of WOW was riddled with bugs and so was warhawk. Now i know in my above post i said it took gs forever to write a silent hill review but socom and all mp player games should be reviewed when the servers are fixed.

Because then you have to re-review or wait until a game gets updates, DLC ect. You have no choice but to review a retail copy on how the game comes out. If devs want to ship incomplete games well then "Sorry about their damn luck."

Reviewing games based off of future content or patches would set a dangerous precident.

Agreed 200%.

MP only or not they released it with bugs they had plenty of time with the beta to fix these issues and they did not so this score is fitting.

[QUOTE="Eyezonmii"]

[QUOTE="njean777"]I thought the game was fun i would have given it a 8.0. The combat was a little iffy. The story was pretty good. The graphics were nice. I am losing faith in GS reviews lately i usually use 1 up now if i even look at the reviews for a game. It took GS two weeks to give this game a review that is lame IMO.njean777

I don't feel that way, i think the score is a good one for such a product. Honestly, you could rename the game to something else and feel as if it had nothing to do with Silent hill, it feels that off to me. The over the shoulder camera was so NOT needed, it cut the tension in half, the dogding, move sets felt less like a silent hill game. When i think SH i think of a person whos lost confused and doesn't know how to properly deal with whats going on..but with SH5 your a marine, it defeats the purpose. Go figure, an american dev team using a marine...lol. The game could have been so much more.

Well it was my first SH game so im looking at it from that perspective. I looked at your sig and you have RE in it now thats a series that has went far off from what it use to be to. I mean its not even scary anymore and there is basically no survival horror in the games anymore. But i agree RE5 looks crazy good. Survival horror is a genre that is going away slowly SIren and Dead Space and Silent Hill have basically stayed true to the genre IMO. SH:HC was hard even though you had good combat skills you would still walk around with half health most of the game and the tension was still there i cant tell you how many times i just ran away in that game.

First of all, RE was NEVER EVER scary. The new change seen in 4 was a MUCH needed change, the original formula is dated and broken, now. RE4 also had more horrific enemies, MORE so than the classic ones. If any change was for the better its RE4, the review scores and awards won show this. That being said, RE4 was amazing in every aspect NOT just the gameplay change, the story, characters, graphics everything was top notch...SH5, IMO..failed in every aspect. SH3 Still looks amazing till this day and hell, you can every compared the 2 and the difference isn't even that huge.

I would've let the gameplay slide in SH5, if the story was deep and as big as the classic ones, but it isn't. its a cheap shallow version, IMO. It didn't have heart, that fear all SH games had before Origins is GONE. both Orgins and SH5 were made by another team (american) and both sucked, go figure.

its cool for the new comers to like it, i expected as much, but if you've played and loved the originals, you wouldn't be giving much praise to 5, atleast not the majority of fans.