[Adilegian]

Just like the title says. Taking requests, BTW. I prefer storefronts and background shots. Also set pieces. I am strolling through town on an Easy playthrough and taking snapshots.

Also, spoilers. (Duh?)




















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[internisus]

You're doing a great job for avatar positioning and cinematic framing. I hope you do the whole game like this!

[winkerwatson]

silent hill 2 made w00t cut scenes guys
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[Adilegian]

[Churippu]

That "There was a hole here. It is gone now" has always creeped me out beyond belief for some reason.

and lol at the fresh meats.

[nocturnedelight]

[Adilegian]

[Adilegian]

Inside the apartment. Some of the screencaps are washed out because the caps appear darker in WinTV than they actually turn out. This leads me to overcompensate on the brightness in the program.

And there are lots of good camera angles in the apartment!




































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[Shapermc]

Can you get some really good images of the sign of Metatron (sp?)

Thanks!
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[tacotaskforce]

As for the wispering, I remember it was something to the effect of "Get out of here James. Leave here now." but played backwards.

I'm not really sure what to make of the corpses in SH2. Most of the corpses in Silent Hill (in foggy Silent Hill at least) seemed to me to be members of the cult that Dahlia had offed before you'd gotten to the town (for example one of the cult members was the police chief, and you get a key early in the game from a bloody squad car next to one of the cliffs). In SH3 the corpses were your allies. With the exception of one room in the whole game if you saw a corpse in a room it meant there would not be any enemies in the room, and the corpses would often have useful items for you.
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[Shapermc]

Actually, I lied

I want the best possible image of this iconography:



I can't find a good image of it anyfuckingwhere. Also, I'm not sure what it is a symbol for. I don't think the metatron symbol is even in the game.
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[chompers po pable]

on the ground in the second to last area in the game, there is one on the floor.

the room with two pyramid heads.

nice pics!

[chompers po pable]

shaper, that looks like the save symbol from sh3.

[wackodave]

Those stoplights are very Twin Peaks. I wonder if that's why they went to the bother of having them change.

[Shapermc]

[chompers po pable]

shape, don't you have enough video game tats?

[Shapermc]

I don't have any :(
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[Moogs]

[wourme]

Nice work--I actually like the way the brightness-enhanced screens look extra grainy.

This makes me want to play a Silent Hill game again. But it's hard for me to bring myself to play any game more than once (other than scrolling shooters).

Also, here's a site that has lots of good screenshots from 2, 3, and 4.

[dementia]

This is the PS2 version, right?

Maybe it's my rose-tinted glasses, but I remember Restless Dreams on Xbox looking nicer.

oh, and requesting any Pyramid Head you can capture!

[Churippu]

[RecessRapist]

Could you take captures of the bowling alley when you get there? Its my favorite part of the game. I guess its because of the feeling of safety it provides. And the music is soothing too!

Anybody remembers the prison corridor where all the demons are imprisoned but you hear that very loud mumbling as if some creature was going to get you? I hate that part :(

And I also remember a part in the prison's toilets where i approached one of the open cabins and i heard a small "eeeeek!" and the door slammed. I was shocked and amused when it happened.

[Adilegian]

Doublepost!
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[internisus]

Wow, very nice summary right there. I love your thinking on the corpses and agree that it's a very interesting implication that they were themselves exploring the town in their own ways, and that you can guess at what it is they saw.

[Lestrade]

Man, despite advances in technology, Silent Hill 2 will never ever look bad. It still amazes me. Chalk it up to spot-on art direction and the brilliant shadows, I guess. I think it really is my favourite game of all time—at the very least, my favourite-looking game of all time.

Those are great images, very inspiring. I think I may have to play some SH2 or something for FKW as well. I wish Restless Dreams worked on the 360, though....

As for the creepy whispering: I only heard it on my second playthrough, and it scared the shit out of me. My friend heard it his first time around, and he was alone in his apartment, in the dark, wearing headphones. He said he ripped them off his head and looked behind him, only to realize it was the game.

I mean, seriously. There has never been another horror game as good as this, period.
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[internisus]

SH2 is the reason why I look forward to FKW.

[boojiboy7]

Man, I really wish I had been able to participate in this. Well, I have a three day weekend, so I may be playing through some SH2 on my own for the project. I didn't notice the corpses before, but I plan to pay special attention to them now. I also am interested in the Otherworld retconning of SH2 over SH1, so I will be looking into that as well. I mean, it is convenient to view the world as a creation of James's head, but it obviously isn't just that. To try and figure out where the "real world" i.e. actual Silent Hill and also the Silent hill of the cult (the Otherworld, which in 2 seems to be the only world) ends and James mind begins in pretty difficult, though should be interesting to examine. Actual Silent Hill in 2 seems to be the framework that Otherworld Silent Hill is laid over, so you really never get to see it (actual) specifically. James then seems to lay his own fucked up mental framework over Otherworld. Maybe. I don't know. Fuck I need to work on this more.

[Adilegian]

[boojiboy7]

Dammit, Adilegain, you need to move to Cleveland or something so we can talk this shit out. I mean, I am still definitely going to do it on this board, but yeah. This is going to give me a lot to think about this weekend. This is officially Silent Hill weekend now for me, with some Chulip if it shows up and wrestling if my friends come over to break it up.

[Shapermc]

Check it out! I see at least one symbol connection here (the double circle for round on the good spirits side) and possible more (sinister symbol in the center?). I need a better image of this damn symbol.

Anyways, this amount of depth is really good for a game. This is because of the art direction, and even if some people miss the point of the game, or gloss this stuff over, it's still there. I am constantly floored at how deep this game goes and am always learning more. I am convinced that a gigantic essay could be compiled about this game without hardly talking about it as a game, just symbolisim and iconography.

Anyways, I would love to sit around and chew this over with a few people in a coffee shop setting or something. Perhaps even with a program that would allow a free-camera type exploration of the game.

Shall we dare talk about what the monsters mean? (I would honestly like to explore the iconography a bit furhter.)
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[chompers po pable]

the character in the center of the seal looks like the character for "Mind" from what Adilegian posted.

a better picture would be nice...though in that cell, the camera probably automatically goes to a bird's eye perspective.

[Adilegian]

Alright. More pix. Nao.

Before new stuff, a rehash:



The more I look at this picture, the more I'm confused. What exactly distinguishes Old Silent Hill from the Silent Hill that James goes through? Judging from the first game, I thought they were basically a drawbridge apart from each other... yet the sign says that Old Silent Hill is 50 miles away.

Now, for more Apartment scenes:



























^^^ Backboard reads "Travis Painting Service," I think.











^^^ The room where James finds Angela. If I recall rightly, the flesh and concrete texture of the ceiling is the same as the room where James fights the "False Daddy" monster.



^^^ This confuses me. I remember that James observes, "Just a strange painting" when looking at the map. I don't know exactly what's happening with the painting, but I guess Silent Hill's Otherworld is Republican. Or Angela's Dad was.









The second Pyramid Head encounter:

























^^^ Viva Blue Velvet.









In the pool:







Eddie Dumbrowski:









Jumping between apartments:









DOING WHAT NEEDS TO BE FUCKING DONE:









Angela:





































Pyramid Head showdown number one:









And the Walter Sullivan connection:











Will respond with textings later!

EDIT: I had accidentally posted this as an edit to the initial post. Apologies. All is restored.
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[Toups]

I forgot how awesome that Walter Sullivan article was.
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[chompers po pable]

excellent. the picture of james jumping between the apartments is nice.

[internisus]

This is a thread from last year chronicling my impressions during my first playthrough of SH2. Towards the end, there was a lot of discussion regarding the symbolism of the monsters in the game. We also talked about the different primary characters' subjective views of Silent Hill (Angela and fire, Laura seeing no monsters, etc.) and the ties of those experiences to each's reason for coming to the town.

My only disappointment in SH2 was that, excepting events from the Historical Society onward, the town's transformations into its Otherworldly form were uninteresting. Without question, the most distinctively frightening and interesting aspect of the first game was the fact that the town transformed into something horrifying when Harry needed a new route to open up.

His goal as he explores the school building turns out to be unlocking the schoolyard clocktower; he enters, climbs up, walks through a corridor, climbs back down, and exits from the same door through which he had entered, only to find that the school is now a terrible, bloody, industrial complex. This excursion in, through, and back out of the tower exhibits a spacial discontinuity implying that Harry's movement is not from one place to another but rather between worlds.

Later, in the hospital, Harry explores the building and charts out all of the locked doors on the first, second, and, finally, third floors, eventually coming to a point where it becomes clear that there is way for him to work his way deeper inside the facility. Upon reentering the elevator to leave, however, he suddenly finds a button for the fourth floor. You aren't quite sure, but you don't remember it being there before. The map indicates that no fourth floor exists. When Harry presses the button and exits the elevator on the fourth floor, the corridor he finds himself in is vastly different from the first three floors. It is dark, metallic, and gory, much like the transformed school had been. He makes his way along and comes to the previously inaccessible stairwell, but when he descends to the third floor and turns around, he finds that the route he had come from is now a solid wall. The fourth floor is gone. He now has access to the rest of the building, but the nature of the place is horribly different.

The implication in both of these situations is ambiguous. It is unclear whether the town's transformations are manipulated by Harry when he has nowhere else to go or whether the town itself is changing while granting him passage. However, when Harry later leaves the hospital, the outdoor spaces of the town have transformed as well, and, gradually, the routes open to him simply disappear until he is penned into a single thin catwalk. When I first played the game, this left me utterly terrified. My impression was that the town, whether it had been awakened by Harry's having abused his power over it when reaching those desperate dead ends or had always been sentient and guiding him along a path, was taking over and caging him in. Experiencing this progression in the manifest town as a character all its own could never be translated to a non-interactive medium. This fear is very special.

In SH2, movement through the town is much less interesting, but the things that you find are much more interesting. I really would have liked to see both types of psychological horror implemented simultaneously.

[Toups]

[luvcraft]

shit, this thread makes me wish that I didn't already have four major projects going on simultaneously and could work on my Silent-Hill-inspired game. :(X
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