Silent Hill HD collection-silent hill 2 (both scenarios) review

 I just finished both scenarios of silent Hill 2 from the SH HD collection.  First of all just building off of my review of SH3 I had no idea that the voices in that version were not original.  But in SH2 you can choose either OG or new voice acting tracks.  I picked the original.  The voice acting was meh either way.  

The story is fantastic for the main scenario and it is a very enjoyable game with multiple endings incase you want to replay the fuck out of this game.  The game does have its flaws. 

 It has ps2 flaws and ps3 flaws.    The camera and lighting-Jesus christ man at certain points because of the camera angles and the lighting I straight couldnt see shit.  I had to go up to the TV to see things a bunch of times. Or just walk along the wall pressing x until a door opened or he picked up the item etc.  The sub scenario is way worse cuz they dont give you a light (or atleast I did not find one).  All I could see was Maria and the rest of the screen was black and even going up close with my face I could not see anything.  Obviously these were ps2 flaws.  

The story for the sub scenario was kind of meh.  I dont think I will ever play it again.  It was short and I honestly straight didnt give a fuck about the sub scenarios story.  

The PS3 flaws in SH2 arent as bad as SH3.  The "HD upgrade"  of the graphics look acceptable to me.  I thought the cut scenes looked good.  I had very little lagging issues in both scenarios of SH2.  SH3 lagginess was way worse.  The common gripe I read with other reviews is the fog doesnt look good.  I thought the fog was very acceptable.  Also the audio being out of the sync with characters lips moving during the cutscenes was not noticeable (If it even happened) like it was in the SH3 portion of the collection. 

This HD collection isnt a knock out of the park homerun like the MGS HD collection was.  But if you want to play SH2 and SH3 this is the cheapest way to go.  Otherwise get ready to have your wallet raped for the PS2 copies.  Or grab a xbox copy of SH2.  Everyone complains about the issues and they make all these comparison videos about it.  Unless you are looking for issues like that with a fine tooth comb you will be fine.  I thought this version was completely acceptable. 

I have a copy of SH2 for xbox.  I chose to review and play the Ps3 HD collection version because the xbox seems to be on life support.  

I also have SH4 for both ps2 and xbox.  I manged to obtain a ps2 but it is also on life support.  I am going to review SH4 for ps2 and hopefully my ps2 will survive so I can finish the game.  Otherwise I will try for the xbox version as a backup plan.  It will be my first time playing it.  So stay tuned ya cunts.

silent Hill HD collection-silent hill 3 review

 I played this game back when it came out on ps2.  I beat it one time and then never picked it up again.  I really regret it because first of all used copies of the ps2 version of silent hill 3 are really expensive.  Also supposedly the ps2 version is the superior version.  

Silent hill 3 was the first silent hill game I played.  I got it on a recommendation from some jackass friend of mine.  I really dug it and ended up becoming a fan of the early games in the series.  He actually told me to get the first 2 games and start with those but I ended up starting with this one.  Matter of fact my memory is kind of fuzzy I think I got 2 and 3 at the same time and then grabbed silent hill after I finished and enjoyed SH3. 

Anyway the story is fantastic and interesting.  The graphics were top notch at the time.  It was challenging but not impossibly hard that it would make you quit out of frustration.  Also it was short and didnt require a lot of commitment because I hate being commited to a game where I have to grind and work as if its the only thing in my life.  I was able to blitz through this game in a relatively short amount of time and still feel satisfied. This was the ps2 version.  I bought 3 ps2s and they all eventually crapped out on me. So I let this game go without ever replaying it, my dumbass.  I ended up focusing on GTA games and MGS games for the most part.  Fucking San andreas destroyed 2 of my ps2s.  And MGS 3 destroyed the final ps2. 

Over the last couple of years I thought about this game and certain scenes which I didnt really get to fully immerse myself in.  I watched some videos of youtube but that just gave me the urge to play it.  So I grabbed SH HD collection for ps3.  It has been sitting on my shelf for 2 to 3 years.  Never played it once.  I did download the patch that konami released for it though. 

I recently watched a full playthrough of silent hill 4 the room which I never got a chance to buy for ps2.  And it made me want to play this series again.  I also had bought the ps1 classic SH 1 to play on my PS Vita and I completed 2 years ago with the full intention of finishing the HD collection but I never got around to it.  Watching the SH4 playthrough sparked my interest again.  

Everyone complains about the HD collection but no matter how much I read about it I cant see any legit reason.  People only say "it sucks" without a lot of detail.

Konami supposedly lost the source code to the 2 games in HD collection and gave the HD upgrade to some unfinished versions of the game. At this point in time I have only finished the Silent Hill 3 portion of the HD collection so this review is for that.  

The graphics in some parts of the SH3 portion of the game look pretty decent.  They look upgraded similar to the metal gear solid HD collection.  In other parts the graphics look like shit. And sometimes it is hard to tell what it is I am actually looking at.  Also the games lags a lot.  It lags when there are 2 or more enemies on screen.  It lags when you run.  The sound skips alot during gameplay and cutscenes.  The sound skips and lagging actually scared me that it would crash my ps3.  Oh in alot of cutscenes the audio is out of sync with the video.  Meaning the characters lips move while the audio is already finished.  I dont remember it being like that on the ps2. 

 People say that the fog is shitty but truthfully I thought the fog in SH3 was pretty good.  I couldnt see shit so I think it did its job.  Also they say there are some sound effects missing. I didnt notice this but I played the ps2 game in 2003 so I cant really say I remember for sure.  The only missing sound I really noticed is when you are in the B3 section of otherworld brookhaven hospital one of the bodies is supposed to be making noises but I couldnt hear anything.  

Konami released a patch to try to mitigate some of the issues.  I have no idea if you can still download this patch because we are on ps5 right now and I am still acting as if ps3 is new.  

I found SH3 HD completely playable.  I got it for $30 a few years ago.  And I was able to enjoy SH3 again.  Now if you can get the ps2 version go for it.  If you cant get one then SH HD collection is a viable option.  

Konami is releasing MGS master collection for ps5.  So I am hoping they do the same thing for SH.  Idk if it will happen.  But they are making a SH2 remake.  Everything is a fucking remake now lol.  I was thinking about grabbing a ps5.  For upcoming games and for ps4 games I missed.  But I then realized that every game I was going to get was a remake.  In the end I decided against grabbing one.  If a SH master collection comes out for it though I will rethink my decsion.  Although most likely I would buy it and then not playing it for a real long time.  

Coming soon SH2 HD collection review.  Also SH4 xbox version review.  Stay tuned you kunts. 

 

Review: Metal gear solid V sucks Balls

 I have been with this game franchise since the beginning.  The first 3 games are hands my favorite games of all time.  Matter of fact I basically don't play video games anymore unless it is one of these 3.  (On a side note I just recently replayed and finished MGS3).  But Metal Gear Solid V the phantom pain seriously sucks wart covered donkey dicks. 

Fuck this shit pain in the ass game.  I bought it the day of release and thought the same thing.  Let it sit on my shelf the last couple of years and decided let me give this another shot today.  What a huge mistake.  It was exaclty as unfun an experience as the last time I played it.  

 

I have multiple complaints about this:

1.  Looking at the map/weapons/items happens in real time.  Basically the guards can see you while you are trying to figure things out. it is a pain in the ass trying to figure shit out and getting spotted like this.  

2. All the controls have changed a lot.  Everything is different.  MGS4 changed it up to but it wasnt so drastic.  I am sure if you actually play this game you will get used to it but I feel like it is not MGS.

 3.  No David Hayter.  I realize I am late to the party on this.  But David Hayter is snake.  That is what made snake so cool having that kurt russel escape from LA sounding voice.  I immediately made that connection when I played the first game back in the PS1 days.   

4. Cant Save whenever you want.  Now the game automatically saves and creates a checkpoint where you have the option to restart from.  I guess I can live out the codec saving but I would like to save when I want.

5.  This is basically just a bigger graphically improved peace walker.  And its all the same game.  Majority of the missions are you have to infiltrate some village and get some sort of item/free a prisoner/or kill some enemy CO.  Its all the same repetitive shit over and over.  I miss it when it was one gigantic level and you are in for a good 7 to 8 hours of gameplay and cutscenes.  On a side note kojima borrowed so many concepts from metal gear 2 to use for metal gear solid that it looked like MGS1 was a remake of MG2.  TPP is a remake of the PW.  

6.  It is so big it is easy to get lost.  You get dropped off and have to travel to where you are supposed to go.  So basically is like 30 miles of running/galloping to the villiage you are supposed to infiltrate.  I ran all over the map for an hour until I said fuck this bullshit. 

7.  This isnt fun.  I know alot of people are pro gamers and shit and are automatically no alerting these games on day 1.  I am not like that.  I played the fuck out of the first 4 MGS games to get a no alert run.  I had to practice to really get decent.  Yeah I fucked up on the way to getting decent but it wasnt so frustrating as to make me think it is not worth it or impossible.  MGSV was making me so miserable I turned the game off the middle of the mission after about an hour.  I got spotted a lot and I got lost in the middle of the woods trying to get my prisoner on the helicopter.  Honestly fuck this game.  

Bottom line it is MGS to me in name only.  The other games even though they all gradually changed over time with improvements/changes etc but this is so drastically different that I cant even consider an MGS game.  Again fuck this game.  I was so pissed I considered flinging the game disc out the window like a frisbee.