29th January 2006, 2:19 PM
It's not that I don't think they can do it, I'm sure they could. However, one of the most prevalent themes of Silent Hill is isolation. You can't get that when you have roving bands of murderers ganging around town. Note too that murder isn't what brings a person into Silent Hill... Eddie shot a dog, and Laura didn't kill anyone. It seems to me that it isn't guilt that draws a person to Silent Hill, but rather any emotion, or a mix of them, that is overwhelmingly strong in a person. Each SH2 character, for instance, has a different mix:
James: Longing and guilt. He misses his wife, though he handled her illness poorly and then, of course...
Eddie: Fear and anger. He has a grudge against those who he feels wronged him. He carries out a sort of vengeance, but it goes wrong, and he runs away in fear of the authorities.
Angela: Guilt and self-pity. She is overwhelmed by what her father did to her, and is then overwhelmed again when she does something about it.
Laura: Longing. She's in town because she misses her best friend.
Anyway, like I said, a muliplayer SH would work with a small group of people that act mostly independent of each other. Having people travel in groups would just seem totally out of place. Only once, in one of the end scenes of Silent Hill 1, do you ever see more than three characters onscreen at once.
James: Longing and guilt. He misses his wife, though he handled her illness poorly and then, of course...
Eddie: Fear and anger. He has a grudge against those who he feels wronged him. He carries out a sort of vengeance, but it goes wrong, and he runs away in fear of the authorities.
Angela: Guilt and self-pity. She is overwhelmed by what her father did to her, and is then overwhelmed again when she does something about it.
Laura: Longing. She's in town because she misses her best friend.
Anyway, like I said, a muliplayer SH would work with a small group of people that act mostly independent of each other. Having people travel in groups would just seem totally out of place. Only once, in one of the end scenes of Silent Hill 1, do you ever see more than three characters onscreen at once.
YOU CANNOT HIDE FOREVER
WE STAND AT THE DOOR
WE STAND AT THE DOOR