I think it will be considerably less scary, a lot more frustrating, and the voice acting will be done not as the original was, and also not by the movie actors.

Also: Storyline will make too much sense.

Well, yeah. If you want to be a cynical asshole about it.

I'm kind of hoping that Yamaoka isn't in charge of this one, because he'll probably Silent Hill 3 it all up, which I'd hate to see.

I'd like to ask and see if its alright to watch the movie without beating any of the games (played some of the first, really) but then playing all of the games in order in a summer marathon.

But I truly can't!

EDIT: It also explains that they wanted to adapt SH 2 for the screen almost verbatim, but didn't think they could pull it off. The director thinks 2 is the best in the series and didn't want to fuck up people's expectations of it.
I'm thinking he isn't going to screw this up.

Yet they decided to use P. Head completly out of context and have him talk even?

Lies, all lies.

Yet they decided to use P. Head completly out of context and have him talk even?

Lies, all lies.

Did anyone pick up Silent Hill: Experience for PSP?
I asked a GameStop if they were getting it in, and they said it wasn't listed in their systems. Maybe Konami's website is the only place to get it.

Someone please answer this for me, cos no one did last time: isn't Pyramid Head a part of Silent Hill's history, and not just a creature meant to torment James?

The director himself basically stated that it's a fan-made movie with a big screen budget.

Someone please answer this for me, cos no one did last time: isn't Pyramid Head a part of Silent Hill's history, and not just a creature meant to torment James? Unless I'm crazy, Silent Hill 2 made it pretty clear that Pyramid Head was an executioner in the old days of the town.
Or was that history made up just for James, too?

And it looks the part. That's...what worries me. I want someone that fucking respects the games, not a god damn fan. You get a fan, and you end up with a remake of the first game with a hot chick and more people to kill and pyramid head OH MY GOD! instead of a thoughtful exercise inspired by the world and atmosphere of the series. Basically, you get Silent Hill 3: the movie instead of Silent Hill 2: the movie. Only it's done with the original's plot. Get it?

they did this shit with the street fighter movie back in the day, and the results were god awful.

download the MAME version of it, it's horrible.

terrible game, based on a terrible movie, based on a great game.

I'm just praying for nightmares this Friday night. Maybe I'll watch the movie sleep-deprived, like how I played the games.

A PSP Silent Hill game is sounding more attractive to me the more I think of it (despite that little wrinkle of not actually owning a PSP). In the dark, alone, with a good pair of headphones and the PSP close at hand could in fact be a very good way to play a disturbing horror game.

I keep thinking, What if the game actually creeped you out to the point that you didn't want to hold the PSP? With this system, you aren't separated from the interface so much; if there's something on the screen that genuinely disturbs you (I think of how twitchy and squirmy my wife gets when she thinks of say, an insect infestation), would you drop the PSP? If so, would that not be the mark of a unique horror game?

(Let's assume you're playing this game on or near a soft surface, like a sofa or bed!)

I can't visualize what might cause this reaction, but maybe a portable version of Silent Hill would be better off done in a completely different perspective — perhaps even first-person. Think of it; if you play the game as I described — in the dark, alone, close, and with a good pair of headphones (preferably taking advantage of some flavour of faux 3D sound) — wouldn't a first-person game make some sense?

By clutching the PSP, you're effectively holding a little window in front of you, and removing your avatar means that you're embodying him/her a little more.

I don't know how this would work with combat or other gameplay elements, necessarily. But I can't help but think that a first-person Silent Hill game on PSP could be an awful lot like a very good, soul-eroding take on Myst. If Konami went for pure atmosphere — again, remember the notion of sitting alone in the dark (har har) when you hear that whispering from SH2 behind you — and focused more on puzzles and story than complex combat, I really think this could be a terrific project. The SH series has always made excellent use of sound, and Doom 3 has taught me that I can in fact be scared shitless by something coming up behind me (especially in surround sound!).

I suppose enough FPS games have sucessfully integrated melee combat into their design that this sort of combat (if it even had to be there) is possible, but I don't think it's unrealistic to think that a slower-paced, first-person game rich in atmosphere would make an excellent portable game. Just look at the sections in Silent Hill 4 that occur in the bedroom: in my opinion, they're the only worthy portions of that game. They are genuinely disturbing, especially when you start seeing certain things that you know you shouldn't.

I'm getting excited just thinking about it!

Yet they decided to use P. Head completly out of context and have him talk even?

Lies, all lies.

I'd like to ask and see if its alright to watch the movie without beating any of the games (played some of the first, really) but then playing all of the games in order in a summer marathon.

But I truly can't!

Yeah, Pyramid Head = Val'Tiel wearing a helmet.

Val'Tiel is the dude who's always running around in SH3. I think he has brief cameos in the other games too.

I kind of want to play through Silent Hill 3 again for this.

If Valtiel is Pyramid Head, then how come he's not violent? Why doesn't he attack Heather? Does he have a thing for chicks?

Could you make a peripheral for the PSP that detected balance, like a gyro maybe, that would detect whether you're looking up, down, and turning.

I'm pretty sure they're different. Different entities, sent to do different things in relation to different people. I prefer to keep Pyramid Head completely and totally tied to James, but I guess he could just be some creature that took on James psychosis when the poor sap wandered into the town.

"Pyramid Head is James' creation" has always been the assumption of fans and nothing more.

Yeah, Pyramid Head = Val'Tiel wearing a helmet.

Val'Tiel is an agent of Sammael.

That's not true.
They're retconning, that's all.

There's no "Samael"/"Sammael" or whatever. The Cult's god was never given a name. The whole "Samael" thing was just part of Dahlia's lies.

What official sources are you basing this on?

Now, give me a good reason to believe Pyramid Head is all in James' head. Not a fan theory, I mean something supported by the games which makes it obvious.

That's not true.
They're retconning, that's all.

I don't know, maybe that's what he is now, post-retcon, but before that, Valtiel was just supposed to be the model for the executioners' outift (which was the model for Pyramid Head).
(also, it's "Valtiel")

There's no "Samael"/"Sammael" or whatever. The Cult's god was never given a name. The whole "Samael" thing was just part of Dahlia's lies.

oh God.

We should make using the word "retcon" a bannable offense.

Anyway, the concept of "retconning" doesn't really make sense for a series like silent hill. The notion of "continuity" within a game or between games doesn't really have much weight in the series. Every game liberally reinterprets what the prior games laid out, which is part of what makes the series so fun for me.

Bitching about a lack of continuity regarding Silent Hill seems to miss the point, in a way.

I'd like to agree, y'know... I really liked their approach in "Silent Hill 2", how they simply kept the town and went for a totally different story...
But ever since "Silent Hill 3", Konami keeps going back to "the Cult" and its god, despite being apparently unable to keep the whole thing coherent.