thegame370

Well, this game is one of the reasons why i bought my PS2, along with the hope for a RE4. Silent Hill 2 finally is coming on Tuesday and i cant wait. My PS2 is finally gonna get some constant use.

mljones99

I got it ordered from Amazon.com with a coupon so I will have to wait a few days after release to get it (amazon.com is so frickin' slow) but I am very much looking forward to this. Hopefully I can complete RE:CV before it gets here.

Thunderball

This one is a "maybe" in my book. I wasn't a really huge fan of the first one, and the 2nd one has more of the same.

The little demon kids in the school really bugged me for some reason

Static Cling

My jaded-on-video-games friend raves about SH1, so I will at least be renting this one. SH2 or Spy Hunter... hmm.... tough choice.

Deftones

wow, all you guys must be very special getting this game next week. it's not being released until November 23rd.

http://www.fgnonline.com/playstation2/news/20008.html


Silent Hill Given Solid Date

PlayStation 2: Konami has announced that the PS2 version of the terror-fest that is Silent Hill 2 will be released on Nov. 23.

Just in time to scare the pants of you this Thanksgiving, the highly anticipated Silent Hill 2 will launch on Nov. 23, according to the U.K. arm of the company.

AgtFox

Notice that it says UK arm of the company. This is obviously the UK date incorrectly made into a US date. Silent Hill 2 is still coming next Tuesday. I will not be getting it, will probably splurge on ICO though. Spy Hunter does not excite me either after the demo. Too bad Soul Reaver 2 was pushed back to October...it and Devil May Cry will be my purchases for that month.

Deftones

Uhhhh, dude, my distributors have been told it's been pushed back to November. I guess we'll see next week.

AgtFox

Certainly not saying you're wrong, but with it being a UK source it is at least questionable. I have seen no action on the major on-line outlets yet. Honestly, I don't care if it comes out because I'm not getting it anyway .

Outlaw

Yeah, something about little demon kids with knives creeping around a school in almost pitch black really freaked me out. I liked how they chose regular settings such as a school and a hospital which make some pretty scary area's at night when you can only see 2 feet in front of you.

This game is looking pretty good, I liked the original though I only rented it, and after checking out the trailer for SH2 I'm definitely going to check this one out, probably rent it first as I'm saving my cash for MGS2.

Decker

Well, then SH2 is now the ONLY reason you bought a PS2 as Capcom has announced that RE4 and all other RE games for the forseeable future will be GC-only titles. An unbelievably stupid decision IMHO, but that's the way it'll be. I'll be happy with Devil May Cry, I think. Besides, I never liked "driving" my characters around Racoon City anyway, and the franchise has gotten kinda stale by now.

gcribbs

Trust me this is the video game business after the lackluster japanese Gamecube release do not be surprised if Capcom makes an announcement around XMas letting fans know that they have heard them so they will be making their games available for the 20 million unit selling PS2. Capcom is in the business to sell games so unless Nintendo is paying them more than they could make with a release to the PS2 they will release it.

The time of releases being exclusive forever is past i think. you can make far more money releasing first to your preferred system then porting it over to the other and selling to them also with a change or two to make it seem new of course

Dragon Fly

Huh, see I heard that most of capcoms realeases will be multi platform... or maybe that was just the fighters? I dunno, I never played the first Silent Hill, so I doubt I will be playing this one... though i saw the trailer for it at my local EB and it looks pretty cool. I think I'm holding my cash for Devil May Cry, MGS2, Final Fantasy X and Spy Hunter .

Todd

PS. No way am I getting a GC at launch either, I think I'm gonna wait till Soul Calibur 2 or Perfect Dark Zero .

El Kabong

Herre's a link to the story that says RE will be exclusive to Nintendo. It says it's not necessarily forever, but at least for 6 games. The series will probably be dead by that time. My friend had one of the first ones, and I just got Veronica for PS2, and can't see what's so great. Akward controls, lame fighting- you can't see the bad guys till there right next to you, then they grab you. Onimusha was 100 times better. Was Silent Hill a gun game in the arcade? If so, how will it translate to a controller (Silent Scope? sucked). If it's not, are the controls at least better than RE- being able to move & react faster?

Static Cling

Silent Hill is NOTHING like Silent Scope... if you were to compare it to anything, you could compare it to Resident Evil, although I've heard the tone of the two series... hmm, what's the plural of series?... are different.

thegame370

Although ive eventually heard this also, im not taking it too seriously. I doubt that that capcom will just make the RE series only on Gamecube, they know thats a sucky idea. We'll wait and see.

thegame370

This is what i got from this game news website i go to:


Cube Terror Explained

Resident Evil: Capcom's Shinji Mikami has explained that the recently announced Gamecube versions of early Resident Evil titles will be straight ports.

Resident Evil 2, 3 and Code: Veronica will be nothing more than ports of the original version, with an obvious graphical overhaul.

Creator Mikami has told the Japanese press that it would not be practical to completely remake the older titles.


Hope that sheds some light on the situation.

El Kabong

I wasn't asking if the games were similarly themed, just if Silent Hill was a shooting/gun game in the arcade? I might be confusing it with another haunted house type shooter. I thought Silent Scope sucked using a controller and wondered if Silent Hill would be the same.(if a shooter).

Static Cling

You're confusing it with "House of the Dead," which was a first-person shooter. "Silent Hill" was never (as far as I know) in the arcades, and it is a third person game similar to the "Resident Evil" series.

I really liked "Silent Scope," but I just didn't see how it could translate well to a home console.

El Kabong

You're right, it was House Of The Dead.

AgtFox

See Deftones, I told you it would be out on Tuesday. The story was recanted and the November date is the UK release. I may not work in a video game store, but I do keep up on things. If your distributors pushed the date back, that sucks.

There is a review of SH2 up on Gamespot, they gave it a 7.7 (not good, glad I'm not getting it). Too much hype has hurt this game, I fear the same for Devil May Cry, although PSM gave it a 10 this month and gave ICO and SH2 7s. Here is the Gamespot review:

http://gamespot.com/gamespot/filters...437029,00.html

Deftones

hey, i'm just telling you what i'm hearing from distributors that backed up what that website says. games are notoriously bad about keeping strict release dates. 99% of the time, my distributors are right. occasionally they are wrong.

AgtFox

This is the problem with the internet, something can be construed incorrectly . It's no big deal, I just know SH2 is out as several people already have it. I hope you get it in time too as I'm sure it will sell well.

Alvis

Those losers at FedEx lost my signature release form(meaning they could leave it on my doorstep) so now I have to wait until tomorrow to get it. It's not that the game is that important, it's just that things like that hack me off.

thegame370

Well they were wrong this time, i got it exactly on the 25th