I'm thinking of picking up Silent Hill: Downpour

As a major fan of the first 3 Silent Hill games and as someone who also enjoyed (for what they were worth) the other games, is Downpour with a try?

When it was first released I heard a ton of negative feedback so I watched a little bit of gameplay and that is it. I honestly don't remember why I even stayed away, may have had no PS3 at the time.

Please don't spoil anything, but I would like to know if it's worth trying out or am I better of trying out some other horror titles. If so, what other good titles are good? I still need to play The Evil Within, I own it but I got a backlog of shit to do.

The story is second silent hill movie tier

I stayed far the fuck away from the second movie.

From what I have seen it's pretty garbage, wasn't it 3D?

The first movie was horrible too, but people love to say it's great "for a video game movie." Really goes to show just how fucked up the movie industry is if people's standards are that low.


Anyway, if Downpour's scenery/atmosphere/gameplay is interesting I would play it.

All shit aside. It's not that bad. It's not as good as 2 or 3 but it was a little better than homecoming. It's probably super cheap now anyways so why the fuck not? It's still a silent hill game through and through just with less back tracking at least until you get to the actual town. It's just missing a lot of the blood and rust aesthetic so it's undoubtedly less "scary"

imho the best Silent Hill made in murrica. Considering they know jack shit about subtlety and psychological horror, the game is not very scary at all. Story can also dissapoint.

However, combat is tight and panic induncingly cluncky ( shooting is near impossible to do correctly ) which means you mostly want to avoid combat, and most of the time you can. A plus for that.

Also levels are very large and i honestly got lost in them, so confusing exploration to give a chilling atmosphere is done correctly in my book

A 5/10, not a bad try.

The scenery is ok. My biggest gripe for the atmosphere was that it was too bright. Like daytime cloudy and foggy rather than almost night like the first one. The story is a little lacking but at least it makes sense. The best areas are the inside ones. Like a library you go to. It got pretty spooky.

The game has some good ideas, and the exploration is somewhat ok. The combat is very, very clunky though. The story is very shitty, but well, it's a western SH so what do you expect.

I thought a Czech company did it? Or did you just mean western

OP just play The Room for the last acceptably-decent SH game.

Downpour is awful.

Avoid.

Has any silent hill ever have decent combat?

The only one that has ever had a decent combat system was Homecoming, and it was awful in almost every other regard.

2 bosses
Enemies are literally just humans in goth makeup
Story is as terrible as you'd expect from a post-SH3 game
Glitches and bugs out the ass.
Oh and the game doesn't make sense if you choose the good ending. They fully expected everyone to go down the "evil" route and didn't think to balance the story for both endings.

Western.

Not in the original 4 I played, but there's usually enough ammo or a really standout melee weapon to allow you to clear out every room if you really, really wanted to.

>Homecoming
Hah, the knife is so broken in this game

complete shit, awful monster design and the story makes NO sense.>america knows jack shit about psychological horror
>who the fuck is david lynch

I thought Zero/Origins was cool for what it was worth.

Shitty they had to fuck with the original story, but I guess they didn't want to make something original considering they were a new studio that would never live up to the older games' standards. Playing it on the PSP in the dark was an experience I won't forget.

I fucking loved whole mirror dimension hopping mechanic, but fuck the breakable weapons.

I think it is given a lot of unnecessary shit since it's probably the most faithful of all titles not made by Team Silent and is probably the best out of them.

Suck my dick. I thought origins was was the second best behind 2. And shattered memories deserves more praise than it gets.

Glad to see someone mention it before I did.

Who knew a ceremonial dagger would be the strongest weapon in the game? The human enemies become literal puppets to your antics.

Homecoming did have the best melee system.

I had to stop playing them for a while with all the really, really dumb story changes. The boat scene literally made me want to kill myself.

Zero was fucked from the outset.

>Beta version so bad it had to be redone from the ground up by a completely different studio in a very short dev cycle.