Ah-ha, an easy one.
Room of Angel, Akira Yamaoka – from Silent Hill 4: The Room. Sang sung singed hanglideded singamalated beautifully by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn.
It’s just a wonderful, hauntingly evocative track.
Hauntingly evocative of matricide, but still.
I’m going to talk about three, luckily, these three actually exist in the games. I have a somewhat strange habit of mis-remembering quotes, stressing words that weren’t, or making them up whole. Consider these two quotes ostensibly from Event Horizon.
“You won’t need knees where we’re going”, and “That’s not a load bearing structure … It is now”.
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Yup, I’m picking two, but you can consider the second more of a special mention if you want.
All the way back to the very first Silent Hill we must go to find the enemy that always creeps me out the most. It’s the Grey Children. Continue reading
Angela Orosco.
A somewhat odd choice, I realise. Specifically the version with the motion and voice of Donna Burke (also played Claudia in the original Silent Hill 3) rather than the newer HD Collection voice. Donna Burke was specifically chosen to make Angela appear (even her clothing), act, and sound like an older woman, the idea being she was prematurely aged due to the abuse she has been through. She also has very awkward speech patterns for similar reasons. She acts strangely, she talks strangely, she conveys the character beautifully. Her line about how she sees Silent Hill, “For me, it’s always like this” on an impossibly steep burning staircase is brilliant.
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It’s a tough pick betwixt Harry (Silent Hill 1 and Shattered Memories) and James (Silent Hill 2). I’m not keen on Heather (too annoying), or Henry (too much of the quiet ‘everyman’).
The newer protagonists are macho to unrealistic proportions and that rules them out immediately – with the exception of Shattered Memories Harry, but I have problems with the way he acts. Alex’s case was interesting because his bluster was partially due to his delusion.
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The short answer is Silent Hill 4: The Room. Notice that the title is not best Silent Hill game, simply the favourite.
Silent Hill 4: The Room is under-rated, weird, different, and most of all, combines creepiness and fear better than any other game I’ve seen. Even Silent Hill 2, which is a better game. That’s not to say, either, that there is nothing wrong with Silent Hill 4: The Room, although most of the things people complain about are imaginary.
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Inspired by the HellYeahSilentHill Tumblr, the idea is to write something about Silent Hill for each day of a full 30-day period. I won’t be quite doing the challenge as stated since it is somewhat of a Tumblr meme, and as such asks questions such as “Character you’d date”. I thought most of it would make an interesting series of posts though, and get me used to writing again after recuperating from a small operation.
So starting tomorrow, a month of posts (yes, 31, I will be changing the challenge) about Silent Hill.
He doesn’t have to actually do anything, so long as he’s on the credits somewhere for Fallout 4.
Having someone who was on the Fallout 2 team simply nullifies any negative sentiment generated by crippling bugs with a significant portion of gamers.
In a apparently genuine email, Sony has just refunded me $2.82 in taxes it erroneously charged me.
Dear Sony Entertainment Network account holder,
After performing routine system maintenance, Sony Entertainment Network sales tax records were mistakenly modified and some customer’s accounts were charged sales tax in error.
Between November 18, 2010, and April 11, 2011, one or more transactions originating from your account was charged sales tax in error. Correcting this, we will refund the errant charges back to your account in the amount of $2.82 via your Sony Entertainment Network wallet. This will appear in your transaction history as a one-time inclusive credit.
We are diligently working to correct this error and will have your account refunded by May 7, 2012. If you do not see the credit to your account by May 7, 2012, or if you have further questions please contact our customer service department at: http://us.playstation.com/support/contact_options/
Thank you,
The Sony Entertainment Network Team
Unexpected credit is always welcome.
Perhaps Tomm Hulett shouldn’t be the one talking to Silent Hill fans. Every time he talks on the subject, it is as if millions of Silent Hill fans suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced I can’t help but think that he doesn’t really get Silent Hill. In fact, he first came to my attention when talking about the voice acting changes, and when he talked about the decision to only include Silent Hill 2 & 3 in the poorly-named Silent Hill HD Collection. I suspect he’s just not very comfortable speaking to the public since the perceived nervousness some commentators have written about is present in every video I’ve seen.
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