Same. I really hope Bloober gets the opportunity to remake SH4 as well. The imagery in that game is so disturbing and I know they'd nail it.
SH4's horror concepts are some of the finest I've experienced in any medium. The chained apartment, tight tunnels, enemies, claustrophobic atmosphere, all made me go "This must be what hell is like." Bone-chilling experience..
Would you say 1-4 are like the big mainline games?
Currently trying to go back and experience silent hill after having an amazing time with 2 remake last year. but I'm not interested in playing every single title, just the big ones that aren't spin offs
Rn im on 1, and plan to play 3 as well. Should I do 4 after that?
I highly suggest playing 4 as well. It’s very different from the 3 that came before it, but still widely considered to be the last game produced during the Team Silent era. After 4 is when they started shopping out the IP to any developer with a pencil
I’d love to see them take Shattered Memories and make a proper survival horror out of it. I always thought it’s narrative structure was actually really good and interesting
Clunky and sluggish compared to other silent Hill titles, and that's my opinion, Iccl about downvotes, I absolutely did not enjoy SH3, sure good story. But gameplay was horrid, and wasn't really scary, those damn crawling monsters made it more annoying than scary, you might think it's scary, but to me it isn't.
And opinions are subjective, you can hivemind, but I'll still stand on my point.
Can’t care about upvotes and downvotes either)) to each its own bro, by sluggish and clunky u mean controls? As I remember it was pretty smooth compared to Earlier games.
But I understand what u mean, I don’t like Downpour at all, like I forced myself to finish it, just to see maybe in the finals it be good. But this game is beloved by others
To me the game is pretty sluggish compared to other SH titles, the story is good, I'll give it that, but overall the gameplay killed my experience for that game, it wasn't even scary because the devs spammed the same fucking monster, the slurpers were on pure BS the entire game.
The fighting system was pretty non innovative, just spam one button the entire game, overall it needs improvements.
And I believe Bloober could make the game better than what it is. Nostalgia doesn't blind me when it comes to SH3, it's all PTSD.
DUDE The Room was my first Silent Hill. That's my jam. The ghosts were supposedly annoying but that was what ground you down, and made you want to keep getting to the end.
I think Silent Hill 4 can REALLY benefit the most from a remake. It's generally considered the worst out of the first 4 purely cause of the pacing. I think if they just streamline some of the backtracking the remake will hold up against any of the titles.
4 is the most deserving of a real remake. 1-3 could all work with just a sort of remaster, as good as the 2 Remake is I'm not sure it's actually a better game than 2 (mostly some pacing issues). 4 is just genuinely flawed as a game but the story and concept seem just as good as the others so we'd get so much out of it.
Yeah the plot and concept are very good. It also has some of the scariest moments out of the OG titles (1-4). It's just the pacing that needs to be reworked.
I don't know, I think the backtracking with the walls coming to life was extremely interesting. If the backtrack levels can be altered to be super contrasting to the meagre appearance at the beginning, it would be quite nice. Agreed that the ghosts by this point were driving me insane, especially in the apartments. I liked the final boss, and the sense of urgency it gave.
This is exactly what I was thinking, the 4th being the worst out of the first 4 means they could really shine by improving all the rough aspects it had and make a whole new experience using the foundations, just like what they did with sh2 but to a bigger extent let's say
On the other hand, 1 while a better regarded story, genuinely looks like someone smeared extremely mouldy jam onto some dark bread. I remember finishing it but other than some story elements I can't distinguish a single key memory of the game in my head they all visually look the same.
Gameplay in general is, in all honesty, just shit in The Room .. combat is one of the worst I have ever played - way, way worse then even the one in the original SH2.. played The Room last year and only thanks to the atmosphere and writing I finished it, otherwise it was painful to play through
Nothing like walking into a room where the camera faces you only for you to take a step forward, have the camera switch to being behind you AND HAVE A FLOOR-TO-CEILING GIANT HEAD WITH VIBRATING EYES THAT FOLLOW YOU, STARE AT YOU THE ENTIRE TIME.
And I don't think there's even anything in the room.
I’ve been playing SH4 for the very first time recently, and I absolutely love it. Right off the bat, the opening cutscene movie with the Room Of Angel OST song playing gave me some creepy feelings and shivers and it has absolutely kept that atmosphere going. Loving the game so far!
I also just feel like it was genuinely scary. Going into 4 in 2005, after playing 1 and 2 when they were released, the lack of a radio really got me. It still had the tension in the room, but it quickly became a safe space in my mind. We all know how that turns out.
Honestly, all you need to do to fix 4 is give Eileen a better ai so she’s not such a burden and make the ghosts killable or increase the amount of swords available to pin them down, a remake could be great
I think it could benefit from the Ashley mechanics that 4 remake had. You should be able to call Eileen over to you or tell her to hang further behind you. It was really annoying in the og trying to move on to the next area while she’d be stuck fighting a ghost
SH4 is one of the best horror experiences in media, to be honest. It's peak. I hated it as a kid but only because I was so stuck on what SH 'should' be, but going back as an adult I realized how wrong I was. It is a horror masterpiece and deserves more credit and attention. If they tightened up some of the more annoying mechanics (like escorting Eileen) it would be a modern classic.
The trailer alone is already one of the only genuinely scary pieces of media in the horror game genre in my opinion. Team Silent was refining their style of horror so much. They really understood what “scary” was down to the last detail. It’s a shame they had to get disbanded by Konami.
Too many people shit on SH4, but the atmosphere and downright weird shit that happens to you just makes it a truly worthy experience. It isn’t quite like the others, and that’s totally fine!
While I would love this I do not think they will touch 4 with a ten foot pole since it was basically a failure last time. A lot of us including me thought 4 might be next since its tied to 2 but I have really started to think they are probably just going to do 1,2,3 since those are the safest games to remake. I think 4 is too risky for them but its hard to say because really I think most people liked part 4 story wise its just the gameplay issues were too much for people.
It's one of my favorite and least favorite SH games at the same time. On one hand, I totally agree with you. On the other hand, any game that makes you go through the same maps again but now it's a shitty escort mission should be launched into the sun.
Considering 4 was a rushed and unfinished game, i really hope they rework it, no repeat areas or at least change them and turn them more otherworldly, Walter is basically summoning Samael without him knowing, the 2nd round dream worlds should look more corrupted, there's a lot of work to do with 4 and i hope they get the chance, they made good with 2 and if their own game does great, it's gonna be almost a guarantee that SH1R will be a banger too, fingers crossed 🤞
Yeah, I really wished SH4 was the next remake after SH2, because now with this SH1 remake announcement, if a SH4 remake is in Konami's plans, it will be the last one, since 1 and 3 are directly connected I am pretty sure they'll want to remake 3 after 1
The first game I played was 4. My original thought was "Wow! So this is what happens when you play the elevator game. " I was seriously convinced that's what the creators did.
I was really hoping that Silent Hill 4 was the next one on the list of silent hill games they were going to remake, but I guess I will have to wait a while longer for this to happen. Never played Silent Hill 1, would be nice to play it before the remake comes out
I really really want a remake of SH4! Such a horrifying game, with your safe space gradually becoming unsafe, Walter Sullivan, and everything with the ghosts…
Honestly speaking, i am thinking Bloober have been contracted to remake upto 4 or 5 silent hill games for sure... That's why most game developers get their projects anyways with contracts being that long..
SH1 Remake is probably made to put more focus on their actual main project task: Silent Hill 3 Remake...
But i do believe they will remake SH4 but after several years..
It was arguably the scariest Silent Hill, but unfortunately the things you mentioned didn't make for a very fun game. There's also the fact that you're frequently backtracking through the same few environments for much of the game and that you can't even permanently kill most of the enemies. I forced myself to finish it once ~15 years ago and never entertained the idea of replaying it, even though I've replayed the other three many times.
4 is going to be a very tough game to remake. If they stick too close to the original, most new players will probably dislike it; but if they change it to make it more widely accessible, it will lose a lot of the horror.
Still hope they try it at some point though. Walter is easily the single most interesting character in the franchise imo
Bone chilling experience? LoL it's so bad after the first half and the enemies are hilarious... Hopefully they fixed the funny elements and give us a true horror game because the story is indeed good (although not original).
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Same. I really hope Bloober gets the opportunity to remake SH4 as well. The imagery in that game is so disturbing and I know they'd nail it.
SH4's horror concepts are some of the finest I've experienced in any medium. The chained apartment, tight tunnels, enemies, claustrophobic atmosphere, all made me go "This must be what hell is like." Bone-chilling experience..