5th March 2015, 10:31 PM
I have Doom, but never really cared for it. It actually scared me as a kid, though now I realize it was never intended to scare, so much as be a metal album cover you play through. It's just not really my thing. There's a reason I never really got into any FPS games until Goldeneye and Perfect Dark came along. Even now, it's not even close to my favorite genre (but it is America's favorite genre). Basically, my favorite FPS games are the ones that do everything they possibly can to NOT be a FPS (Goldeneye, Metroid Prime, those are the ones I like).
Silent Hill is a very psychological series. The point of the games, other than standard survival horror, is to interpret everything you see. You'll get it later on, if you get to that point.
That said, I can totally understand your frustration. Silent Hill and Resident Evil may be classics, and Silent Hill 2 may be one of the deepest games ever made, but as far as the gameplay? Yeah, it's awkward and outdated. Silent Hill 2 could probably do with a remake, to be totally honest. SB's right though, the heavy use of perspective on those camera angles is a major part of those early entries. As modern survival horror eschew that almost entirely to make way for modern control schemes, something will be lost. However, other things can be gained. The ultimate proof of this would be the P.T. demo.
As much as I love Perfect Dark, for example, I'll be the first to admit the game hasn't "aged" particularly well. Anyone playing modern FPS games as their first introductions, well, I really wish they hadn't, because Perfect Dark will be spoiled by those expectations.
Silent Hill is a very psychological series. The point of the games, other than standard survival horror, is to interpret everything you see. You'll get it later on, if you get to that point.
That said, I can totally understand your frustration. Silent Hill and Resident Evil may be classics, and Silent Hill 2 may be one of the deepest games ever made, but as far as the gameplay? Yeah, it's awkward and outdated. Silent Hill 2 could probably do with a remake, to be totally honest. SB's right though, the heavy use of perspective on those camera angles is a major part of those early entries. As modern survival horror eschew that almost entirely to make way for modern control schemes, something will be lost. However, other things can be gained. The ultimate proof of this would be the P.T. demo.
As much as I love Perfect Dark, for example, I'll be the first to admit the game hasn't "aged" particularly well. Anyone playing modern FPS games as their first introductions, well, I really wish they hadn't, because Perfect Dark will be spoiled by those expectations.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)