Oooo....

[Mike]

Damn it, I'll need to start putting pennies aside for a new console this autumn.

uk.games.konami-europe.com/news.do;jsessionid=6A1AC16BCC8A67A722D551F0D1F4DBE8?idNews=319

[mark]

To be honest it doesn't even look that good. The guys who made the Da Vinci Code game are making this one, the only person who stayed was Akira Yamoaka.

[Mike]

I thought it looked as decent as ever. I don't see any problem with fresh blood being involved as long as they approach the project with the enthusiasm and dedication it requires. "Team Silent" was always a very fluid entity and The Room was pretty patchy in hindsight, so I see no reason not to be at least open to optimism. And as you say, with Yamaoka sticking around to keep an eye on things, there's no reason per se to assume that the original spirit is going to be lost.

[Dalihrob]

Another game on which I can just cravingly look.

Well, now I´m playing Call of cthulhu: Dark corners of Earth. Great game, I like it more and more with each play. Encounter with Shoggoth freaked me out more than any Silent hill creature.

[Tyranor]

The Fifth, hm... Screenshots look decent. I must say I have no very high expectations nor fear about comming sequel. I'm alot more afraid of new Fallout. Combination of First and the Second sounds okay. This even may be the come back of Pyramidhead in some form or even Valtiel:) That would be cool huh huh...

[Mike]

I'm playing through Origins at the mo. There's no easy mode so I'm getting the shit kicked out of me; I'm quite stupendously inept at games. Consequently, great as it is, I'd rather spend more time to examine the environments and immerse myself in the overwhelming mood rather than what I tend to be doing, which is running away from everything and squealing like an adolescent girl.
After a slow start, though, they've really nailed the mood. Cedar Grove Asylum is largely what I had in my head for the Transition Hospital, in the basics anyway. The main thing missing for it to be like the TH is that the geography doesn't collapse and become impossibly labyrinthine the further in you go, rooms moving and all sense of a coherent "building" disappearing. A great SH location through and through.

[phrozenspite]

ahhh very awesome vision of the transition hospital... kind of like Cube

[Darkcrawl]

Jun 7, 2008 12:23:26 GMT Mike said:

I'm playing through Origins at the mo. There's no easy mode so I'm getting the shit kicked out of me; I'm quite stupendously inept at games. Consequently, great as it is, I'd rather spend more time to examine the environments and immerse myself in the overwhelming mood rather than what I tend to be doing, which is running away from everything and squealing like an adolescent girl.
After a slow start, though, they've really nailed the mood. Cedar Grove Asylum is largely what I had in my head for the Transition Hospital, in the basics anyway. The main thing missing for it to be like the TH is that the geography doesn't collapse and become impossibly labyrinthine the further in you go, rooms moving and all sense of a coherent "building" disappearing. A great SH location through and through.

That sounds to me like the dark hallway in 'House of Leaves' by Mark Danielewski. Don't know if you've read it.

[Skydancer]

Homecoming also features an all-new soundtrack by acclaimed series composer Akira Yamaoka

I wish they would write: Homecoming also features an all-new soundtrack by acclaimed composers The Axis of Perdition.

[Mike]

I got House of Leaves out of the library the other day; I'm gradually getting into it, but at the mo I tend to be blasting through the Johnny Truant segments impatiently to get to the Navidson bits. It's not that the Johnny Truant bits are less interesting or effective, but I'm still not used to the interweaving of the text, and the Navidson bits hooked me in first. It's brilliantly and innovatively put together, but I am craving more focus a little bit.

[Mike]

Jun 29, 2008 19:28:16 GMT Skydancer said:

Homecoming also features an all-new soundtrack by acclaimed series composer Akira Yamaoka

I wish they would write: Homecoming also features an all-new soundtrack by acclaimed composers The Axis of Perdition.

What I'd like is for Yamaoka to have more time to devote exclusively to the music. The music in "Origins" is great but it seems to be characterised by getting as much mileage as possible out of a small quantity of ambient, whereas in the first two or three games, individual rooms and corridors would have their own nuanced themes. I miss that attention to detail.

[Darkcrawl]

Jun 30, 2008 21:45:48 GMT Mike said:

I got House of Leaves out of the library the other day; I'm gradually getting into it, but at the mo I tend to be blasting through the Johnny Truant segments impatiently to get to the Navidson bits. It's not that the Johnny Truant bits are less interesting or effective, but I'm still not used to the interweaving of the text, and the Navidson bits hooked me in first. It's brilliantly and innovatively put together, but I am craving more focus a little bit.

It's certainly a book that's uniquely written. It's tough going in places. The Navidson stuff is the good atmospherey stuff. The Johnny Truant stuff was a bit annoying all the way through I thought. Still, I did unjoy reading it.

[Mike]

I've finished "House of Leaves" now. It was very well written and I did enjoy it, but I did rather get the sense that the author was full of beans early on, but increasingly didn't have a clue where he was going with it. I like books and films and so on to finish with questions, but the final sequence in the house had the distinct whiff of something that's spaffed off stream-of-consciousness stylee. Ditto Johnny's conclusions. A good read, and I can understand why it has a big cult following, but it simply wasn't as good as I'd been led to expect.

[Tyranor]

So has anyone tried it yet? Personally I'm waiting for pc version to appear. I have XBOX 360 at my work but I don't see it as appropriate place to play this game. Also during this waiting within two months I completed 2nd (again), 3th(again), 4th(first time). Have special pc version of the first but it does not support game-pad controller so most likely will have to get PS version along with The Origins.
Does anyone else here play Silent Hill on pc? I can complete with keyboard only The Second on Normal. The Third is hell if not on Easy. And The Fourth as well. It's really weird why "they" did not apply more suitable controls for pc versions of these games. I expect to be the same problem with the 5th too.

[Dalihrob]

I´m playing the first SH with PSX emulator, and the playing with keyboard is ok, since you can configure controls as you wish.
I had a problems with configuring Lok - Soul reaver control though, I had to use all the butttons and also their combinations so the playing was sometimes a bit finger breaking.