[FKW'07]Silent Hill on ePSXe

haircute · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:45 am Post subject: [FKW'07]Silent Hill on ePSXe

Way back in Aug '05 I posted some screenshots from my playthrough of SH1 on ePSXe. So...uh...here they are again. I think that I caught a few good screens!

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charlie · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

I honestly think the low-res polys and textures contributed a lot to the overall ambience of the game itself. Didn't some famous dead dude once say something along the lines of "letting the reader's/viewer's/player's imagination fill in the blanks is more powerful then doing it yourself." Or something like that.

tacotaskforce · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: Logical, Practical

That would be why they added a filter effect (that could not be turned off until after the first playthrough) to the PS2 SHs.
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showka · Joined: 04 Dec 2006

I played through Silent Hill on ePSX, mostly so I could have an FAQ open in one monitor. Its amazing how scary the game looks despite the low polygon count. At the same time, the game is often unfairly criticized for using fog and darkness to hide the graphic engine's weaknesses. The game maintains a surprisingly high polygon count for a PS1 game.

Levi · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

It easily looks every bit as good as Metal Gear Solid, but no one ever criticizes that engine.

Just the same, would it have played better with pre-rendered environments?

showka · Joined: 04 Dec 2006

I think not. I heard once that photoshopped images don't look convincing unless they make every element the same low resolution as the lowest-res element on the image. Likewise, the dramatic contrast between the perfectly pre-rendered back drops and the garbly PS1 rendered characters would've made it all seem phoney.

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Lestrade · Mary McMoePanties Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: Toronto

Those screenshots are gorgeous. The art direction in the game is what really sold its atmosphere, regardless of technical limitations. It's nice to play a Japanese-based game where no one is running around in holographic body armour, and where the main character isn't, say, squaring off against a resurrected version of his dad. While playing sports. Or something.

I'm saying, Konami made the most American game they could here, and that counts for a lot.
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shnozlak · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:24 pm

meauxdal · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:42 pm

Elder Toups · Joined: 04 Dec 2006

Actually, I first played Silent Hill on ePSXe on my old Sony laptop on an airplane.

When I got home I immediately started playing on the actual console.

Red_venom · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: California

Am I the only one that prefers SH2 and SH3 to the first? I didn't finish the first SH but aside from the amazingly terrifying opening I thought it was just pretty tough and annoying. Story wasnt interesting to me at all and even back in 1998 it looked pretty bad to me.

Rud31 · forum ruler of Iraq Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: SanAnTex

diplo · Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Location: Brandy Brendo's bungalow

this looks surprisingly good for a ps1 game. stuff on that tends to age more horribly than almost any other platform.

Toups · tyranically banal Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Location: Ebon Keep

Yeah, playing through this game right now.

It seems ePSXe can't do lens flare!
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haircute · Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:02 am

Rud31 · forum ruler of Iraq Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: SanAnTex

I just finished up Silent Hill 2! I'll post about it in my thread when I can think clearly. I'm trying to decide whether I want to run through SH3 again (Seriously this would be like time 8.)
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Mr. Business · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: Hiding

Anyone tried playing this on pSX? How does it compare to ePSXe?
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