I know this countdown goes by fast since I post a new number every night, but hey, I've got many other things to talk about so I wanna get this countdown done with lol.

#2

Silent Hill

Wondering if Uhero and Flame did knew my next numbers, Silent Hill takes on #2 in this countdown. For the information, I did not put the image of Silent Hill 4: The Room because as I said, I try to keep it at 4 images only and so far SH4 was the less good game in the series. Anyway, on with it.

Silent Hill has been a long time favorite, much before any of the previous games in my countdown. I did play Metal Gear Solid before even knowing the existence of Silent Hill, but it didn't hook me up the way SH did. The reason why Silent Hill made it one spot higher than God of War is because although I'll play it less often, Silent Hill has the ability to literally transport your soul, your mind, into it's own world, breaking away any borders your sanity might have. Once you start playing, you are perfectly fine. While you are playing, nothing matters anymore but making it out alive and avoiding anything that looks suspicious, whether it is even something or not; you don't care, you just avoid it. After you're done playing, you go back to your normal self and you are fine. That's what comes and gets me the most in Silent Hill. To make these sentences into one word: Immersion. It is the only horror game out there with such a good immersion feeling. I'm not talking about Resident Evil feeling where you know when something will happen anyway, or a Fatal Frame feeling where there's nothing else but ghosts, yet it still scares you. More like a feeling of insecurity, madness, darkness, confusion, insanity. Basicaly a nightmare come true. Not any kind of nightmare, but THE nightmare. That's what Silent Hill is all about. I'll give an example to describe the feeling and sorry to the Resident Evil fans out there since I'll use RE in my example: I play Resident Evil for the first time. It's scary, quite a good game and everything. I play it a second time, why? The fear factor is gone now, so all that's left is the action part of the game of shooting at everything that moves. I play Silent Hill for the first time. It's scary. Literally wicked, I don't feel like advancing anymore, but I still do. I play it a second time, I know what the hell is happening and where is everything, yet once again I still don't feel like advancing because I am scared of what will happen, although I do know what will happen. That's the kind of feeling that, to my eyes, makes the whole difference between a simple action shoot-everything-in-sight horror thing and pure horror like Silent Hill. That lil' girl in Silent Hill for PlayStation One? I know who she is, I know what she does, I know everything yet everytime I cross path with her, even after the 483756236th time, I still end up emptying my shotgun shells entirely on her for absolutly nothing. Silent Hill is all about the immersion of one's sane mind to an entire new world, filled with everything but sanity and it'll remain like this for the rest of your days, unless you actually quit playing it.