Why did Resident Evil mog Silent Hill in popularity so bad?
The only actual popular Silent Hill in pop culture is 2 which is why its constantly referenced, the rest don't have pyramid head and domestic murder everyone soifaces over and nobody cares about SH's gameplay
>>738207438the wrong RE games are the most popular ones
>>738207438RE is funSH is scary
>>738207438RE is fun and retardedSH is anxiety inducing and abstruse
>>738207438Silent Hill was never good.
>>738207438it appeals to normies, simple as
>>738207438silent hill is one and done, re is more gameplay oriented making it more engaging and replayable.
>>738207438Good RE games (OG, OG2, CV): least popular Bad RE games (RE4, RE9): most popular this does not happen with SH.
>>738208812>>738209810>>738207438TLDR, RE failed at gatekeeping, SH did not
>>738209081RE is still fun, SH stopped being any of that since SH4.
>>738209405SH is definitely worth a replay but not for at least a year because it's very memorable. RE has good gameplay which SH never ever has had so I replayed RE4 as soon as I finished it to try out different gun builds.
>>738207438People are plebians>muh zombies ooh so scary
>>738207438they made the move to action, sh2 was great but it was a cult hit, specially the American market turned its back on it. sh1 sold like 3m and sh2 1m.
>>738210043no one who actually played SH4 would call it fun.
>>738210016>Forgets about Silent hill F, downpour, homecoming, origins and shattered memories.Townfall looks fucking shit too, the monster design is the laziest UE5 slop I've ever seen, just putting a corpse and some medical equipment together with no deeper symbolism and calling it done and it lacks the creepy Japanese perversity that made the original games have mood and atmosphere.
>>738210116This. The controls in SH4 are the worst in the entire series by far. Adding a stamina bar to it's terrible combat system was a bad idea.
>>738210116>immortal enemies>later half is an ending altering escort mission>no bosses (save for the last one)>recycled areasyeah, the game is alright and very beautiful but a pain in the ass most of the time.
>>738208812Code Veronica should've been popular? Because I fail to see how 1-3 the wrong games to be popular over 0 and CV and 4-5 were wrong to be popular over 6.
>>738207438Silent Hill got stuck in it's MUH TRAUMA, MUH DEPRESSION themes and only pretentious faggots care about it and only watch let's playsResident Evil on the other hand became an arcade series where you kill enemies to collect credits and buy new guns, the plot is pants on head retarded C-movie tier and no one takes it seriously, they just want Leon massacring hordes, buying new guns and quipping
>>738207438>dude.... le evil experiments !!!cringe
>>738210116SH4 feels like a game that if someone like Kojima made it everyone would've mindlessly sucked it off, but since he didn't everyone judged it a little (and I do emphasize: only a little) too harshly
>>738207438Man I hate these graphics, wtf happened to character designs? What the fuck are these faces?
>>738210116I didn't call SH "fun", it's an obtuse piece of shit in terms of actual gameplay (all of them were, until they attempted to modernize it somewhat with the SH2 remake) but it excelled in ambiance, sound design, being unnerving and sometimes even creepy. All those things lost when team silent stopped being at the helm. Now it's mostly a westernized piece of shit.
>>738210708sh1 was a perfectly competent psx action adventure.
>>738207438Capcom treats its franchises more carefully than Konami
>>738210116SH4 is a good game that becomes a terrible game partway through
>>738207438on the psx the two series fell roughly into the same action adventure box, and they both similarly declined into genre horror titles early in the sixth gen but it's obvious in hindsight resident evil was more primed to reinvent itself as a mainstream action hit. the cheesy b movie conventions, lightness in tone, and more explicit videogamey iconography perfectly lended themselves to the game re4 was. even with better arcade talent that resident evil had around it I don't see how you turn silent hill into the phenom re4 was. it's always going to be a moody moderately unpleasent capital H horror game.
