Silent Hill Downpour Will Be Scarier then Resident Evil & Dead Space

On December 8th, Konami invited Gamerfitnation to an event at the Beats by Dre store in Soho to showcase new Silent Hill titles. GamerFitNation's BlackBible Interview's Silent Hill Producer Devin Shatsky who says "Silent isn't like Resident Evil or Dead Space..." Includes Video & Images.

[BLACKBIBLE]

I really want to play this game. For me this would be my 1st time playing a Silent Hill Game Ever.

[Snookies12]

Same here man, this has me wanting to play it, yet I've never tried the Silent Hill series before now. I was looking into the ps2 ones, but have yet to try them.

Anyway, here's hoping it's scary as all hell. I miss the true horror genre games. Keep wishing RE will go back to its roots!

[MaxXAttaxX]

I suggest you two get the Slient Hill HD Collection which includes SH2 and 3, the best ones IMO.

[Army_of_Darkness]

Scarier than dead space?! Those are some mighty big words there partner!

[Acquiescence]

The definitive survival-horror game. May I recommend getting a hold of the HD Collection, which hopefully will be coming out before Downpour.

Get a hold of Shattered Memories for the Wii at some point too. It's a 're-imagining' of the first game, but really they're nothing alike apart from names of the characters and locations. It's not particularly scary, but otherwise it's a really gripping game on the whole.

Seriously though...Silent Hill 2.

[scrambles]

SILENT HILL 2 was so scary it was like having a a 60 lb blanket ontop of u held down with large stones kind of atmosphere. IT WAS AMAZING. Better than anything ive played in the past few years easily. It rivals bioshock in terms of atmosphere maybe passing it at times.

[dark-hollow]

Sorry but you cant beat RE's 5 motorcycle riding zombies on broad daylight.

That sh1t is scary!

[Virtual_Reality]

4:40 Anyone notice the Stare face position as the Konami Conference at E3?

Lol.

[Tdmd]

Yes, wtf was that? lol

[gaden_malak]

Get the original Silent Hill. feckin brilliant.

[Pikajew]

It won't be hard. Dead Space isn't scary. And I hate playing horror games because I hate getting scared.

[Snookies12]

Eh? Dead Space was pretty damn scary man, at least at night with all the lights off, crank up the sound for when things pop out at you. Especially on PC... o_o

[scrambles]

Dead Space was scary in the sense that they jumped out at u every 10 seconds goin a boogy woogy woo. Old silent hills would scary u then leave u alone for 30 min while you freak yourself out cuz ur wondering when the game will strike then freak you out 8x more! Dead Space can excite and startle me but it cannot scare me.

[Snookies12]

Good point, maybe I should have used startle rather than scare. It wasn't anything psychological, but more along the lines of jump scares as you said.

[Pikajew]

I played it on PC at night with no lights on. You know stuff will pop out and try to scare you and that's why it isn't scary because it's predictable, the envirment is creepy and that's about it.

[jaymart2k]

Dead Space 1 was scary, but Dead Space 2 wasn't.

[BuLLDoG909]

yeah, resi and dead space are all about doing the "cheap scares", where something will jump out of somewhere,
where as silenthill is more about psychological horror, mood and atmosphere, real fear

[fredolopez]

awesome interview!!

[aznrunner1881]

Resident Evil isn't even a horror game at this point.

[leahcim]

I doubt it

seriously

[SeraphimBlade]

Not exactly a high bar to jump there. It's like having better gore than Zelda.

[kma2k]

say whatever you want but dead space serisouly scared the bejesus out of me.

[Megaton]

Doesn't seem like too difficult a goal in the first place.

Scariest thing about the Resident Evil series these days are the outdated, wonky controls. They build tension by throwing mobs of non-zombies at you, arming you with an inadequate TPS control scheme. I'd like to think that the elite soldier I'm controlling can move and shoot at the same time. Capcom disagrees.

Dead Space is a different case, though. While I have yet to finish DS2, I played through DS1 several times. Very fun, good scares. More "HEY! LOUD NOISE AND MONSTER COMIN' AT YA!" type scares, but still a solid horror game.

[vikingland1]

shouldn't it say scarier than? And not scarier then?

[Dowie]

The jump scares got me for a bit in both dead space games but I eventually managed to get used to it. Silent hill plays against your mind, giving you a chance to build up some false sense of security.

When it comes to fear, your mind is your worst enemy. If a game can manipulate you into thinking negatively then it is successful as a horror game.

With all that said, the scariest game i've ever played is Fatal Frame. I can barely stand playing it.

[BLACKBIBLE]

Since I've never played Silent Hill I have to say so far the game that gets me the most is Dead Space, before that it was "The Suffering"

[Kyosuke_Sanada]

I really recommend starting from the top. I personally love the first Silent Hill for Playstation and if you can stand going a generation or two behind it is worth the download....

[VIPER534]

Yes..Start from the beginning.. I Started with Silent Hill & Resident Evil...on Playstation,..then followed it onto Xbox.. EITHER CONSOLE is Great for me.. AS LONG AS I HAVE THE GAMES lol ;)

[Game4life]

well thats cool. I don't think they are all that scary. (at least to me; I don't get scared easily.) Hopefully though it's a good game. I have never tried a Silent Hill game and this will probably be my first aside from the collection whenever it releases

[Rigogo]

That was a great event!

[Plagasx]

NOTHING. I mean NOTHING can beat RE5's Chris Redfield's bolder punching!!!

NOTHING!

[Tdmd]

Scarier than resident evil? Obviously. Scarier than dead space? That's an bold statement...

edit: and I hope they can live up to that. It pains me that I've been trough an whole generation of videogames with just two scary games to remember...

[kris9512]

It's amazing how people still use "then" instead of "than".