Most influential games of the decade

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Most influential games of the decade

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I was happy to see SH2 get some credit for influencing the gaming industry.

"Separating itself from the formulaic, zombie-laden schlock that was beginning to define the horror-game genre, this PlayStation 2 game was grounded in a certain kind of horrific reality..."

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2009/12/t ... -decade/5/
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That paragraph explains the whole game.
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Call me crazy, but I thought you got banned, and a really, really long time ago at that.
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That is pretty cool!
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Silent Hill 2: Overrated. I like it, but still, Overrated.
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Mephisto wrote:Silent Hill 2: Overrated. I like it, but still, Overrated.
Why is that?
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^People thinks that God created the game for example :P
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I didn't know God was into videogames? :)
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I agree with Mephisto, alot of people i know compare EVERY survivial horror game to SH2 :/ its annoying.
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yeah i agree sh2 is overrated Sh3 is easily the best one :mrgreen:
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SPRINGS02 wrote:yeah i agree sh2 is overrated Sh3 is easily the best one :mrgreen:
Woohoo! Yeah Silent Hill 3's my favorite! But, I think Silent Hill 2 deserves all the respect it gets.
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Post by sumcaker »

silent hill 3 is awesome, and is one of my top two silent hill's. I think that games trying to be like SH2 a good thing, as they try to add a Silent Hill kind of feel to a game.
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Wonderful, this thread is turning into this one.
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Axel_98 wrote:I agree with Mephisto, alot of people i know compare EVERY survivial horror game to SH2 :/ its annoying.
It's because Silent Hill set the bar higher in terms of survival horror quality. People will always compare works to what they deem to be the best example of the genre. Look how many fantasy books are compared to Tolkien, for example.
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rm2kking wrote:Look how many fantasy books are compared to Tolkien, for example.
Which is annoying for those of us who barely got through LotR and have only a lifelong hatred of elves to show for it!

My personal gripes aside, that's an excellent point and exactly the problem. It's not so much that SH2 is overrated, it's that we can feel a little burned out on it because it's mentioned so often - and it's only mentioned so often because it's very, very good. If I hear Beethoven's Fifth in a movie and wish they'd used something more original, that's a result of my overexposure to the piece of music, and no reflection on its quality. I'm thrilled to see SH2 get the recognition I think it deserves.
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^Hit the nail directly on the head in quite a few ways.
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SH3 has the best gameplay, graphics, monsters, etc. in my opinion.
SH2's gameplay wasn't as great as 3 at those but it's the story and it's plot-twists that made this my favorite Silent Hill game.
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Silent Hill 3 didn't have better gameplay than Silent Hill 2. The actual mechanics of both games were all but identical.

Silent Hill 3 just had more to do.
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Hmm, I guess it's been a while since I've played 2 then. But what I meant was that I think SH3 just 'feels' better than 2. SH2's story was just a lot better than 3 in my opinion.

Anyway, back ontopic:
I think the first Silent Hill should be there instead of 2. That's the game that started the series and took survival-horror into a different direction.
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Post by alone in the town »

Except, Silent Hill came out in 1999. This list accounts for games from the last decade.
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