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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: November 12, 2008 (06:48 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Great work as always Wade. And, as always, I found a passage I found particularly salient and well-written: the entire second-to-last paragraph.
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Author: overdrive (Mod)
Posted: November 12, 2008 (07:30 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Twas a good review. Pretty much said about everything I felt about the game, in that it's horribly flawed in many ways, but still does have the cool, haunting, atmosphere that's made the series so memorable. Your paragraph about that atmosphere where you were talking about the structure of the levels and how it's set up to make you wonder if you're actually making progress gave me a flashback to that part late in SH2 where your character spends a little while dropping down one hole after another. Nothing much in that area as far as opposition. You're just falling down one hole after another......and something about the vibe that little section of the game gave me made it probably the most memorable part of the game for me.
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Author: zippdementia
Posted: November 12, 2008 (09:49 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I'm pleased to read this review. I haven't played any SH games except for SH2 (which I disliked heartily). I was thinking about getting the room, but the reviews in general for this game are poorly written. Most of them say the game is bad, but then say nothing really about why, except vague references to the rest of the series being better. Sometime, if you're lucky, the reviewer will pick some little thing that bothered him to focus on, but it's rarely something universally annoying, or if it is, it isn't explained well.
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Author: EmP (Mod)
Posted: November 12, 2008 (10:25 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Hey -- one of those 'poorly written' reviews is mine!
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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: November 12, 2008 (10:28 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Don't feel too bad Emp -- one of them is mine too.
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Author: overdrive (Mod)
Posted: November 12, 2008 (12:10 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
But not me!
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Author: zippdementia
Posted: November 12, 2008 (12:17 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Suffice it to say that I probably won't be playing The Room, since it get almost unanimously negative reviews.
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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: November 12, 2008 (02:15 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
You're right on that one: Emp is nothing if not a seething, hating fanboy. ^_^
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Author: EmP (Mod)
Posted: November 12, 2008 (03:12 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I kid, but that just hurts, man.
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Author: bloomer
Posted: November 12, 2008 (05:06 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Thanks for all the comments. And in a true nerd story interlude, a guy came to the door and delivered a Silent Hill 3 shirt I ordered while I was typing in this box :)
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Author: bloomer
Posted: November 12, 2008 (05:17 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
In the light of this new day, I'm gonna change it to 5.
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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: November 13, 2008 (06:20 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
It reads much better with the 5 attached. I'm thinking of changing my Silent Hill: Homecoming review to a 6 from a 5. We'll see how I feel later today.
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Author: EmP (Mod)
Posted: April 05, 2010 (07:54 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I love how the score has been silently downgraded further still to a 4 -- which is, of course, the correct score.
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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: April 05, 2010 (08:18 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Quite honestly, it's the only one that did. ;)
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Author: bloomer
Posted: April 06, 2010 (01:05 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Silent Hill 4: Silent Downgrade
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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: April 06, 2010 (06:52 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Haha!
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