Silent Hill 3

Small question. Does the number of times you save affect anything? I don't exactly have a lot of time to play, so usually what I'll do is play a little bit and then save and quit, slowly progressing through the game without having to set aside large chunks of time. Obviously, this arrangement presents some problems if you are limited on saves and one of the main reasons I tend to avoid games with save systems similar to Resident Evil.

So, are you penilized in anyway for saving a lot? I want to know before I get too far in so I can just restart if need be and only play when I have a nice chunk of time to set to it.

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Originally Posted by frostwolf ex

still no news of a x-box version?

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Well, Maybe in a year :lol: Just like last time.

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Originally Posted by UndeadKing

So, are you penilized in anyway for saving a lot? I want to know before I get too far in so I can just restart if need be and only play when I have a nice chunk of time to set to it.

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Well, first, there's unlimited saves.

Second, I figure(basing this off of previous SH's) that it will only effect rank... It won't effect endings or bonus items you can acqquire.

Third, it's a short game... shorter than the first or second. I beat SH within 10 hours, SH2 took me 8 hours, and I'm at the end of this one at 6 hours. Frankly, it's not a bad thing, because they minimized the back tracking and running around town that annoyed me in the first two installments. They just condensed the action and story and got rid of the unnecessary filler.

The game fucking owns.

I'm about an hour or so away from finishing up the game.....and wow. This is some good stuff. Very unique, creative stuff, and really goddamn freaky.
I really like Heather as a main character, she can be annoying at times but she's definately one of the more unique and realistic horror series heroines I've seen.
Unfortunately I have to say the story is a little lost on me, due to the fact that I never played SH1 and 2. I still am really enjoying SH3 though, which is more than I can say for a few other games I'm playing *cough*Chaos Legion*cough* In fact, now I am interested in going back and playing the first two....

So far, it's been the only horrorgenre type thing that's ever made me scream "OH FUCKING JESUS!" and throw down the controller and run out of the room because the room was dark and i was REALLY scared ;_; I won't spoil you on what event it was......you'll just have to see for yourself! rawr!

ps-does everyone else hate those stupid crawlers as much as I do? =/

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I completely forgot! besides the imagery, the music is FANTASTIC. Be very, very happy that this game comes with a soundtrack.

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Originally Posted by Satsuki

Unfortunately I have to say the story is a little lost on me, due to the fact that I never played SH1 and 2.

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Just play SH1 or look up a story/faq... SH2 is more of a side story.

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So far, it's been the only horrorgenre type thing that's ever made me scream "OH FUCKING JESUS!" and throw down the controller and run out of the room because the room was dark and i was REALLY scared ;_; I won't spoil you on what event it was......you'll just have to see for yourself! rawr!

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I think there were several moments like that... like
the hospital room with the mirror... that creeped the living shit out of me. And the haunted house... that made me jump through the roof.

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ps-does everyone else hate those stupid crawlers as much as I do? =/

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I can't stand them... so fucking annoying.

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I completely forgot! besides the imagery, the music is FANTASTIC. Be very, very happy that this game comes with a soundtrack.

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Too bad it doesn't have every track in the game... =*(

Hmm...Now that I'm farther into the game, I can say that this is the best horror game I've ever played. This is probably my favorite game this year so far. Good stuff. And I agree that the soundtrack is great.

Quick question...does anyone else find that, when the game's first booting up, that it hangs on the initial black screen with "Silent Hill 3" in the lower right corner for a really long time?

Otherwise, it's an awesome game so far, though I see that almost every door is either locked or broken, just like in SH2... :)

Dolemite,
Yeah, the initial boot up process is insanely long. I thought my Ps2 had frozen when I first put the game in. They should've putten a progress bar or something.

fiend_of_rejections ,
Thanks for the info!

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Originally Posted by fiend_of_rejections

I think there were several moments like that... like
the hospital room with the mirror... that creeped the living shit out of me. And the haunted house... that made me jump through the roof.

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My friend was over watching me play at the hospital mirror part........and I think we were at the "hyperventilation scary" point.
When Heather's weird mirror thing just stopped .........oh god I don't even want think about it!!!!!!!!! :xx:

The part that actually made me scream the most was when she was in the mannequin room, and she looked at the only one with the head....and so you make your way towards the door, and then it screams so loud.......... wahhhhhhhhhh I just flew out of the room and screamed so loud it woke my dad up XP

It's too bad that they didn't put all the music on the soundtrack, i wish they wouldve left out the Claudia talking bits >_< I mean I know it's important but it's kinda weird to be listening to this dark breakbeats and then this chick starts talking!

anyway, this is by far the best game I've played of the summer.

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Originally Posted by UndeadKing

Dolemite,
Yeah, the initial boot up process is insanely long. I thought my Ps2 had frozen when I first put the game in. They should've putten a progress bar or something.

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Thanks! I thought my disc was busted. ;)