Silent Hill Or Resident Evil?

Yes, a battle between the two leading games in the survival horror genre.

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resident evil for me, although i haven’t played either series that much.

When the original Resident Evil came out, it scared the heck out of me, and probably most people who played it. It was something that was never done before in a video game: Survival Horror. However, Resident Evil, lately, was becoming stale, due to the repeated nature of how you play the game.

The camera angles were really dumb, and annoying.
Finding all these different items to open new rooms became stressful and tiring fast.
The storyline was pretty much the same throughout, with no real big changes or surprises that made you wonder what was next.

However, with Resident Evil 4 hitting the shelves in a few months, I have once again become extremely interested in this series: Mainly because RE4 is going to be a brand new addition to the saga.

There are no zombies, Umbrella is destroyed, you have a lot more control of the lead character. All this made me ecstatic as I learned more about this game. And, after seeing the trailers, I have a lot of faith that this will be the best game in the series, by far.

Well, i my self prefer silent Hills. Resident evil is cool to. But silent hills are just betterXD

I really enjoy both games, and they both succeded at scaring the shit outta me 🙂 but I prefer the new resident evil outbreak, just cause the addition of the online play has given it a new life, but with the addition of the new friendly fire, you can actully do what would happen in real life, someone becomes so scared, that they will do anything to survive, even if it means trying to kill you to get something you have 😀 or just doing it for fun 😀

but silent hill i’ll give props too, because its more of a mind game game will resident evil is an in your face scare fright fest.

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Silent, though its not sick enough to scare me or something..

Silent Hill definitely. I’ve never cared much for Resident Evil, and Silent Hill is what got me into survival horror in the first place.

The Silent Hill games can be pretty creepy and a little disturbing, but none of them have ever really scared me.

Fatal Frame on the other hand- those games terrify me.

I prefer Silent Hill, I started off as a Redisdent Evil fan, but once Silent Hill came out there was no going back. Resident Evil is cool to play for the ‘cheese’ factor in it, but Silent Hill has so much depth.

I used to be a big supporter of the Silent Hill side of this arguement, but after playing the remake of RE1 on Gamecube, and playing Resident Evil 0 on Gamecube, I have to say… Resident Evil is a much better game series. In fact I was just in an arguement with Gandalf this morning about this same subject, so instead of retyping everything, I’m just going to copy and paste my post I made to him.

I don’t know what you have been playing, but to say the Resident Evil series is "shameful" is just plain wrong. RE 2, 3, and Code Veronica were great games, and they all were released before Nintendo’s deal with Capcom. Maybe it is because you played them way after they were released, or maybe you just never gave them a chance, but they are excellent games.

I know you, Tom, are hung up on the Silent Hill series. Silent Hill was a blurry mess of a game that covered up it’s lack of graphic quality with fog that they claimed was used to give the game a creepy feel. The voice acting was HORRIBLE, and the story was sort of just… blah. Silent Hill 2 upped the graphic quality majorly, the voice acting got better, but the story was still fairly terrible, and the game could be finished in a couple of hours. Plus the puzzles were just sort of stupid. Silent Hill 3, I haven’t gone all the way through, but from what I saw it was exactly the same as the other 2 games. The only thing Silent Hill really has going for it (when compared to Resident Evil) is that it has some of the most disturbing visuals in any game I’ve ever seen.

Unless Konami decides to update their gameplay at least a little, the series is never going to be able to even get close to Resident Evil. Also… if you’re going to make the main character a female (Silent Hill 3), at least make her something I want to look at for the few hours it will take to beat the game.

Leave the HILLS and embrace the EVIL.

Ummm, About your complaint on voice acting, you don’t find it weird and shit when Jill almost gets crushed by the ceiling in that room and Barry saves her, that shitty line "You were almost a jibbled sandwich," hehe VERY funny Barry :whatever:

I haven’t played the Resident Evil version on gamecube, but Silent Hill up to the point before Resident Evil jumped to Nintendo, it was no contest.

I have my rebuttle to type up later.

I’ve said a hundred times before. I won’t do the gigantic pawning posts yet because I know some people develop ADD when reading my posts (I’m guilty of the same thing at times). To sum it up:

Resident Evil doesn’t try and it doesn’t work. Silent Hill tries and it works.

I think the biggest mistake people make about this game is the fact that they assume its an action, its not. Its an adventure game at its core, and should be graded as such. The numerous puzzles, places to explore, retracking…I don’t know how else to elaborate on the point at the moment, the blasted game even had a best adventure game award on gamespot, it is intended to be an adventure game. Resident Evil is an action.

The question is whether they do what they intend to do, and in contrast, Silent Hill simply is a mature fully realized game where Resient Evil is simply a silly sophmoric game that assumes difficulty and boo tactics are scary. Silent Hill realizes that fear is 99% psychology.

Ok…I just got my rebuttle done, so rather than break the rule and double post, I’ll put it here. 😛

Here it is:

Having ambition certainly doesn’t make a game automatically better. Some games are so full of ambition but fail in execution. My point is, the resident evil series before the gamecube version didn’t try, and didn’t work.

Also, I don’t think really think much of Silent Hill is a copy off of Resident Evil. You can’t fall from pits in RE, you can’t put on a bullet proof jacket that I know about, you can’t try to hide in the dark, you can’t block enemies (well, in the third installment you can dodge them instead).

I’m not sure quite how to describe that Silent Hill is an adventure game, I consider it a fault of me just because I have a hard time describing it. But take gamespot, Silent Hill won an Adventure game award there. On top of that, not really much happens in Silent Hill.

The pacing of the storyline is slow, especially in comparison to Resident Evil. You are meant to explore the town, find keys, and have a hard time doing so. You said yourself, there is no action. Its supposed to be a horror/adventure game. Not a horror/action one.

Resident Evil I’m guessing the reason they care about the puzzles initially, so little is because maybe they want one to souly focus their efforts on just surviving, but it doesn’t forgive puzzles that are still that bad. I actually had no problem running past enemies in Resident Evil and did frequently.

I don’t consider things such as boo tactics (which I predicted about 3 out of 4 of them) or difficulty actually fear. Boo tactics make you jump, and its over in a second. Difficulty, you have to think quick and this gets you in the action frame of mind, but I never got this overwhelming feeling of needing to stragetive in Resident Evil.

The fundemental thing in Silent Hill, it understand that true horror is psychological, about not knowing what is happening next and wondering if you wish to know. A game of tons of action isn’t really scary. The silence, the darkness…it makes you wish something would happen already because it creeps you out.

That isn’t to say if there were some hard parts and occasional boo tactics, that it couldn’t make the total experience complete. I’d like to see more stealth use and maybe try hiding in places like Metal Gear…

However, to add as much action as there is in Resident Evil would take undermine its atmosphere. The difficutly…well, they have several modes and even have some EXTREMELY hard modes from what I’m told after you beat it on the standard difficulty.

Also, I don’t agree with the logic just because someone doesn’t put something in a game, doesn’t mean it isn’t broken. As you said earlier, you can run past every enemy. Maybe the developers purposely wanted you to run past many of the enemies. Suppose a game had no backward option and you could never walk backwards. Sure, the developer can say it was their choice all they want, but you and me know better, its a screw up (unless there is a VERY damn good explanation behind it.)

However, the main point is these aren’t my complaints against the current Resident Evil, but the pre-Gamecube ones. I doubt they exceed Silent Hill by merit or execution, but that isn’t to say its impossible. I have heard in the online RE, you cannot communicate all that well between players, another thing I consider a common sense error (but I should take, I would fail common sense.)

my vote goes to RE, silent hill is just a big fogging ceap way to make ppl waste money. on the 1st silent hill the graphics were horrible you literally couldnt see anything unless you were a foot away from it. but the 1st RE’s graphics were good although the incredibly annoying camera angles persist through the series.
with the addition of online play to RE outbreak it will make it even more exiting to play and ive heard that if you are killed by a zombie online you become one and get to hunt down your teammates 😀 very exiting if its true i just might get killed intetionally

When talking about the best survial horror games how can you leave out the greatest one of all… Luigi’s Mansion
http://www.luigis-mansion.com/

Originally posted by lionheart2316
ive heard that if you are killed by a zombie online you become one and get to hunt down your teammates 😀 very exiting if its true i just might get killed intetionally

It’s true… but seriously, you don’t want to become a Zombie, you’ll be BORED since you can’t even do ANYTHING as a Zombie except walk around (extremely slow might I add) and jump at things (which almost never hit).

(extremely slow might I add)

Depends if you play as a Crimson head, or a super zombie from the remake.

At the moment i prefer Silent Hill, because RE has become bloated and predictable, however since SH4 and RE4 are coming out soon, with SH4 from the sounds of things being pretty much the same as 2 & 3, and RE4 totally revamping the series, well I may change my mind. 😀

Originally posted by Dazzer
<B> RE has become bloated and predictable, however since RE4 are coming out soon, and RE4 totally revamping the series, well I may change my mind. 😀 </B>

I think that there are going to be quite a few people who change their mind when RE4 is released this fall.

Hey Smokey in your earlier post, you said the zombies are gone, well when picking up a game mag recently it said something about zombie like characters, and a screenshot of some shuffling people, which sure as hell looked like zombies, whadda think, will we get those zombies we love so much?

Resident Evil gets my vote, even though I love Silent Hill.

Resident evil is better especially 4

Silent Hill is better, no bad cmera angles!

Darn, it’s currently a tie.
Hurry! Someone vote for Silent Hill!
lol

Probably would be better to vote for your banning.

Silent Hill is better!