My son and I played the original Silent Hill on a Playstation. It was a
lot of fun and the atmosphere was really good. Loved the radio in the
fog. :)


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My son and I played the original Silent Hill on a Playstation. It was a lot of fun and the atmosphere was really good. Loved the radio in the
fog. :)

I played an ARG called Majestic ("In Majestic, the game plays YOU...")
back in 2001. The game was turns-based and one of the turns was spent
looking for clues on real web sites and their own fake sites, and
talking to NPCs. While you were searching for clues, the game would play
a shoutcast stream of great late '90s ambient, techno and
trip-hop music that I captured - they're still my goto work music
playlist. Too bad they were only 64kbps streams...



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Re: Silent Hill 2 (PS5)
By: Ganiman to All on Thu Oct 24 2024 11:19 pm

It's tense! Hope I can finish it before Halloween. Anyone else playing or has played PS2 or PS3 versions?

I played the original from the PSX with some friends not long ago. It was very atmosheric. They had lots of issues rendering the game's scenario so they decided to use fog/darkness to ensure only small portions of it all were visible at any given time. The end result was the tense claustrophobic game the franchise is known for.


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On 01 Nov 24 08:51:00 poindexter FORTRAN wrote...

I played an ARG called Majestic ("In Majestic, the game plays
YOU...") back in 2001. The game was turns-based and one of the turns
was spent looking for clues on real web sites and their own fake
sites, and talking to NPCs. While you were searching for clues, the
game would play a shoutcast stream of great late '90s ambient, techno
and trip-hop music that I captured - they're still my goto work music playlist. Too bad they were only 64kbps streams...

To which Darklord replies...

Wow, that sounds really cool...! :)


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Darklord wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I played an ARG called Majestic ("In Majestic, the game plays

Wow, that sounds really cool...! :)

It was great, just a bad sense of timing. It came out a little too
early, and 9/11 happened during one of the seasons.

The game started out with you logging on, Seeing all of the PR
information about the game, then later finding out that there
was a fire at the game studio that made the game. You get a message from
one of the founders on the run that the game got a little too close for
comfort to a government program and the studio fire was arson and a
coverup, and the game begins...

Imagine connecting late at night, talking to NPCs on AIM, looking
through HTML sources on web sites looking for text clues and hidden
links, and suddenly your phone rings. It's a game NPC, warning you not
to look where you're looking or you'll be in danger.

If you had a fax, you'd receive "secret" documents with hand-written
notes scribbled on top.

That freaked people so much they added an opt-in message saying "The
following is a message from Majestic..."



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I played the original from the PSX with some friends not long ago. It
was very atmosheric. They had lots of issues rendering the game's
scenario so they decided to use fog/darkness to ensure only small
portions of it all were visible at any given time. The end result was
the tense claustrophobic game the franchise is known for.

Funny to realize how technical limitation became iconic design decision, right? :)

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On 05 Nov 24 07:05:00 poindexter FORTRAN wrote...

It was great, just a bad sense of timing. It came out a little too
early, and 9/11 happened during one of the seasons.

The game started out with you logging on, Seeing all of the PR
information about the game, then later finding out that there was a
fire at the game studio that made the game. You get a message from
one of the founders on the run that the game got a little too close
for comfort to a government program and the studio fire was arson and
a coverup, and the game begins...

Imagine connecting late at night, talking to NPCs on AIM, looking
through HTML sources on web sites looking for text clues and hidden
links, and suddenly your phone rings. It's a game NPC, warning you
not to look where you're looking or you'll be in danger.

If you had a fax, you'd receive "secret" documents with hand-written
notes scribbled on top.

That freaked people so much they added an opt-in message saying "The following is a message from Majestic..."

To which Darklord replies...

Now that's how to get your players *involved* in the story! :)


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