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Simply Simon posted:My girlfriend needs me to comment that the hell children look like sloths. Murdersloths. They even have "claws"! It's true! Can we keep calling them Murderkids because I hate children and don't want sloths ruined?
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Rick_Hunter posted:Can we keep calling them Murderkids because I hate children and don't want sloths ruined? What if I hate both?
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Jun 26, 2017 21:16
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bman in 2288 posted:What if I hate both? 
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Jun 27, 2017 01:16
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I'm just going to chime in here to say I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought the sign said: NOTICE HELL CUM When I first saw it. (it shows up again in the bathroom, too)
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Jun 27, 2017 01:34
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I see you found the giant key from Torque at the end there. Also I thought the notice said "hell is coming", which is less fun but still sort of weird.
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Jun 27, 2017 01:44
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One interesting thing is that, although it is hard to tell due to the low resolution, the image for the fairy tale appears to actually have the same English text as the translation you read on it.
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Jun 27, 2017 01:54
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Psychotic Weasel posted:I'm just going to chime in here to say I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought the sign said: You're all perverts. I just noticed hell. Nothing so lewd as what you're all on about.
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Jun 27, 2017 02:40
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I thought it said 'hell is coming.' 
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Jun 27, 2017 03:39
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Hmm... note written in blood. Okay. Children trying to hug and kill me, ho-hum. Sudden occult symbols on the ground? Oh, that's odd. Big fan covered in rust and blood and who-knows-what? Probably ought to keep my distance, I guess. A WHEELCHAIR?! In an elementary school? What horrifying reality is this?
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Jun 27, 2017 05:27
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Kangra posted:Hmm... note written in blood. Okay. One thing I have always loved about these games is what the protagonists choose to be frightened or unnerved by. It's so strangely selective. Personally I'd just be sprinting around going AAAAAAAAAHHH at every single thing, so I admire their mental fortitude.
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Jun 27, 2017 05:36
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According to the TCRF.net page for SH1, the Grey Children we see here only appear in the North American release, and both Japan and Europe had the other monster instead. I'm not sure if that is true because I've never seen the Japanese versions of any of the SH games, but TCRF is usually pretty reliable when it comes to this kind of thing.
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Jun 27, 2017 06:32
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It is true! I mentioned this in the comments section of the video where I mentioned that for the first time, but uh... get ready for like 10 more episodes of me being wrong about the Grey Children and their replacements in almost every permutation of ways one can be wrong about that subject.
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Jun 27, 2017 06:49
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CJacobs posted:One thing I have always loved about these games is what the protagonists choose to be frightened or unnerved by. It's so strangely selective. Personally I'd just be sprinting around going AAAAAAAAAHHH at every single thing, so I admire their mental fortitude. Silent Hill seems to run on something very much like dream logic, which makes things of this sort make more sense. Most of the stuff is the right kind of weird to just seem strange, or fit in with the general oddness, but a few things just stand out.
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Jun 27, 2017 21:56
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CJacobs posted:One thing I have always loved about these games is what the protagonists choose to be frightened or unnerved by. It's so strangely selective. Personally I'd just be sprinting around going AAAAAAAAAHHH at every single thing, so I admire their mental fortitude. It's the build up, you know? One thing I've always said about SH (especially SH 1) is that the games just feel exhausting to experience. What you see and deal with is so relentlessly awful that it's less moments of big shock and more that playing for a couple hours makes you feel worn down. So it's fine that Harry's trucking along and keeping his cool until something just happens to slip past his defenses.
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Psychotic Weasel posted:I'm just going to chime in here to say I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought the sign said: The T was pretty faint so I always saw NO ICE HELL and just kinda went "well duh"
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Jun 28, 2017 06:53
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 Gyromancy is a method of divination in which a person spins around inside or walks the circumference of a circle drawn on the ground, the perimeter of which is marked with the letters of an alphabet. The divination is inferred from the letter at the position where the person either stumbles or falls across the circle’s edge. The person would repeat the practice "...till he evolved an intelligible sentence, or till death or madness intervened."[1] The dizziness brought on by spinning or circling is intended to introduce randomness or to facilitate an altered state of consciousness.[2]
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Jul 2, 2017 17:25
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Silent Hill only has the one medical hospital, which is Alchemilla. The other two you briefly mentioned are psychiatric hospitals. Which manages to say a lot about a small town like Silent Hill needing two psychiatric hospitals.
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Jul 2, 2017 19:15
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In Japanese, the word for "4" sounds the same as their word for "death". So yeah, it's low-brow, but this game is supposed to be explicitly spooky. I do not like the sound of the generator. It sounds like someone's breathing really heavily into a microphone.
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Jul 3, 2017 01:48
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I can no longer hear "My name is Harry Mason. I'm in town on vacation." without then hearing in my head this piece of music Generic CAW made for VB's SH LP. ... Seven years ago, are you serious? Ugh.  Also, useless trivia; the "concerning generator noise" was part of the soundtrack. I recognise it from having listened to the SH soundtracks a lot over the years.
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Jul 3, 2017 02:59
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You missed the bus, man. Seriously, there's a bus in front of the school you can enter. It's got a save point and some items.
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Antistar01 posted:I can no longer hear "My name is Harry Mason. I'm in town on vacation." without then hearing in my head this piece of music Generic CAW made for VB's SH LP. I'm glad I am not the only one who hears that song as well with that voice line.
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You know, harry is a pretty trusting guy. Most people when faced with a crazy person dabbling with the occult in the middle of a church would probably back away real fast. But harry just implicitly trusts her and even grabs her doohickey because it cant be dangerous in the slightest.
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Oh man, I had completely forgotten about that gyromancy line. Silent Hill 1 really does get pretty silly at times.
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Watching the video back and I just realized I called it a rubik's cube even though it's a pyramid oh man I'm such an idiot
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It's one of those puzzle pyramid things the Riddler was selling in that one Batman: The Animated Series episode!  edit: Gum Heads were the monkey creatures in Silent Hill 4, I don't remember off the top of my head what the ones in SH1 were called but I think they're "Rompers" or something like that. DMorbid fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Jul 3, 2017 |
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Yup! I am determined to be technically-correct-but-wrong-game about the name of every enemy in this drat thing! I almost know what I'm talking about! 
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I've always called them "gently caress gently caress gently caress get away from me"
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Kibayasu posted:I've always called them "gently caress gently caress gently caress get away from me" There's also the "Oh gently caress it's flying" genus and the "getitoffmyleg" genus.
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bman in 2288 posted:In Japanese, the word for "4" sounds the same as their word for "death". So yeah, it's low-brow, but this game is supposed to be explicitly spooky. The 4 appearing after you get back in is one of those really subtle things that creeps you out and I love it.
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I really love that little mind trick. It's also a real good way to make you feel like you're being "routed" through the area by some creepy invisible hand. I believe the fourth floor is gone when you return in Origins and Homecoming, as well, so maybe it doesn't even exist at all 
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CJacobs posted:I believe the fourth floor is gone when you return in Origins and Homecoming, as well, so maybe it doesn't even exist at all  [e] please don't take this as some sort of "hurr only the glorious Nihonese are allowed to make Silent Hill" nonsense, I just really dislike those two games.
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Homecoming is just alright, but Origins is one of the best games in the series imo. The gimmick it employs with the mirrors is fantastic, and it streamlines the series' problem with areas actually being twice as large as they first appear (once for the normal world and then check all the doors again for the other world). edit: Also, chucking TVs at monsters is the dumbest poo poo and I love it. CJacobs fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Jul 5, 2017 |
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I thought the mirror gimmick in Origins just cheapened the otherworld transition, because that's supposed to be a Big Deal(tm) when it happens. They did have plot justification for it at least (which I won't spoil here, obviously), but being able to just go in and out of the super hosed up version of Silent Hill at your leisure never sat right with me (well I guess you kinda do that in SH4 as well, but I'm not really a fan of that game either and it has a different take on the otherworld anyway).
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chitoryu12 posted:The 4 appearing after you get back in is one of those really subtle things that creeps you out and I love it. I always thought that the best touch was that it appeared as a normal elevator button. In this series you'd expect a control from out of nowhere to be all bloody or rusty or even just painted on, but the button-out-of-nowhere here just looks like you could have easily missed it.
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Doc Morbid posted:I thought the mirror gimmick in Origins just cheapened the otherworld transition, because that's supposed to be a Big Deal(tm) when it happens. They did have plot justification for it at least (which I won't spoil here, obviously), but being able to just go in and out of the super hosed up version of Silent Hill at your leisure never sat right with me (well I guess you kinda do that in SH4 as well, but I'm not really a fan of that game either and it has a different take on the otherworld anyway). Yeah, that's fair, I also felt that way about it. But they haven't repeated it since, and I think that kinda makes it special in that way.
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Shei-kun posted:This is a very versatile name for the entire family of creatures you find in Silent Hill. There's actually only ever been a few Silent Hill enemies that set that off in my brain. And honestly I didn't even remember they showed up now, I remember them from a later level which prompted that.
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I think the first appearance of the Otherworld in Downpour was great, but would have been a lot better if the game didn't have so many beforehand that made sure you knew the transition was coming. It's a huge and spectacular thing, but you just know it's coming and you cheer more than get scared. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrGt9Eh9VZo
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That boss at the school creeped me the *gently caress* out when I first played this. Enemies with a one-hit kill that involves eating you hit my Nope button (the giant fish in Mario 3 also falls under this).
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Antistar01 posted:I can no longer hear "My name is Harry Mason. I'm in town on vacation." without then hearing in my head this piece of music Generic CAW made for VB's SH LP. oh hey I didn't know the tindeck upload was still around  The youtube upload has been a go to of mine for...wow 7 years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss67ho-5obA
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Aces High posted:oh hey I didn't know the tindeck upload was still around Every time I hear this I weep salty tears of joy for its perfection
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