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"Konami reveals new Silent Hill game". *holds head* The series is gonna get the Resident Evil treatment, isn't it? Inundated with a fuckton of sequels while the original engaging storyline becomes a shadow of its former self
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No, honey, they don't. Maybe you do because you inherited the idea from SH fandom, but the RE fandom in and of itself does not do this and has never done this. I've been in RE fandom since 2001. I was there when RE4 came out. People might say that they hate the direction that RE4 and RE5 took the series in, they might say that they're shitty games, they might say they miss the zombies, but they never discount them as being "not RE enough" because it's a fucking stupid arbitrary term that SH fandom pulled out of its asshole. And if you do see fans say it, I guarantee that they're in SH fandom, too.
Honestly, I don't know dick about Farscape, but I think it's fucking pretentious as hell that people claim that the people who created that show don't release episodes that fit some idealistic view of the show that the fans created in their head, like the fans know the mythos and storyline better than the creators do. Again, with Supernatural fandom, some fans hated the apocalypse storyline and stopped watching the show over it. It wasn't because it "wasn't Supernatural enough" -- it was because, sometimes, people just recognize things as being shitty and call them on it.
The phrase is meaningless and the idea behind it is meaningless.
Silent Hill game MUST have a supernatural element. There is no way around that. It must create tension for the player, in the form of the danger that lurks around the corner. It must have complex storytelling, beyond what is usually expected for a horror game. The Otherworld must be intimidating, a place where reality becomes a nightmarish place and where the player feels terror that will freeze their blood.
NO. That is your opinion and that is precisely the kind of bullshit that makes the "it's not SH enough, waaaahhh" phrase so goddamn stupid. What I gave as what constitutes a SH game is something objective, it's something logical, it's something that ties the games together and connects everything tightly in order to make it a series. You can't put a sense of fear, terror, danger, and anxiety objectively into a game, because it's completely different for every single person. Every single one of the non-Team Silent games had a supernatural element, a complex story, and an Otherworld. Basically, what you're saying constitutes a SH game is that it's scary. That's complete and utter crap, and I'm going to make no apologies for it. So, what, I can now claim that SH2 wasn't an SH game because it didn't scare me at all, even a little bit? And, eight times out of ten, you had to go looking for the monsters in that game. So, uh, I guess SILENT HILL 2 FAILED AS AN SH GAME! IT IS THE SHITTIEST EXCUSE FOR A SILENT HILL TITLE I'VE EVER SEEN.
See the errors in logic in that? I hope you do.
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