Silent Hill or Resident Evil?

I love the RE games... don't get me wrong.  I've played RE4 to hell and back... I'm on something like round 16, I think.  And I've played the hell out of the Mercenaries mode.

But, as far as actual horror, silent Hil takes the cake. RE challenges you to fight the forces of evil with heavy weaponry while Silent Hill truly forces you to survive in a nightmarish alternate reality.  Yeah, yeah "butbut early Resident Evil"... I didn't see a Rocket Launcher in Silent Hill. 

So they are both good series but as far as actually being scary goes, Silent Hill takes the cake.  SH3 is a true masterpiece in scaring the everloving sh!t out of players.

I love the RE games... don't get me wrong.  I've played RE4 to hell and back... I'm on something like round 16, I think.  And I've played the hell out of the Mercenaries mode.

But, as far as actual horror, silent Hil takes the cake. RE challenges you to fight the forces of evil with heavy weaponry while Silent Hill truly forces you to survive in a nightmarish alternate reality.  Yeah, yeah "butbut early Resident Evil"... I didn't see a Rocket Launcher in Silent Hill. 

So they are both good series but as far as actually being scary goes, Silent Hill takes the cake.  SH3 is a true masterpiece in scaring the everloving sh!t out of players.

Not only that, but RE has never been "daring" with its plots... Meanwhile SH2 is one of the most artistically well made games ever.

I like Silent Hill, but to me there is no contest; RE blows Silent Hill clear out the water imo in every way. REmake alone is better then every Silent Hill game combined as far as I'm concerned.

RE has Resident Evil 4, so it wins.

I love the RE games... don't get me wrong.  I've played RE4 to hell and back... I'm on something like round 16, I think.  And I've played the hell out of the Mercenaries mode.

But, as far as actual horror, silent Hil takes the cake. RE challenges you to fight the forces of evil with heavy weaponry while Silent Hill truly forces you to survive in a nightmarish alternate reality.  Yeah, yeah "butbut early Resident Evil"... I didn't see a Rocket Launcher in Silent Hill. 

So they are both good series but as far as actually being scary goes, Silent Hill takes the cake.  SH3 is a true masterpiece in scaring the everloving sh!t out of players.

Not only that, but RE has never been "daring" with its plots... Meanwhile SH2 is one of the most artistically well made games ever.

turtlethetaffer

Silent Hill always annoyed me with the lack of appropriate weaponry (yes i know that's the point). If a deformed creature is coming at me then i want to kill it, running away won't make it go away!

Resident Evil had less of the deformation but more of the killing.

Both games have their quiet sections, but the difference is in RE you're usually looking for something specific or backtracking to complete a puzzle, whereas in SH you're just wondering around waiting for something to happen.

These factors are the main ones which make Resident Evil the better series for me.

Silent Hill is the better horror game, it's atmospheric, scary, unnerving, and gives you a genuine feeling of being scared.

Resident Evil does give you a feeling of fear, but it's only because ammo is scarce and enemies like Nemesis or Mr.X are almost unstoppable. 

Silent Hill always annoyed me with the lack of appropriate weaponry (yes i know that's the point). If a deformed creature is coming at me then i want to kill it, running away won't make it go away!

Resident Evil had less of the deformation but more of the killing.

Both games have their quiet sections, but the difference is in RE you're usually looking for something specific or backtracking to complete a puzzle, whereas in SH you're just wondering around waiting for something to happen.

These factors are the main ones which make Resident Evil the better series for me.

 

BarbaricAvatar

Funny you say that "runnign away won't make it go away..." Since most of the monsters in SH are pieces of a person's psyche, what you said is almost philisophical... You can't run from your demons, because that won't make them disappear.

But I disagree with almost everything you said.  IMO they both have similar gameplay, with RE more like Castlevania (with backtracking to previously unreachable areas, etc.) while SH is kind of like Mario (hear me out.  The games typically have distinct "levels..." in SH2 "levels" were the hospital, the htoel, historical society, etc.) but they are both very similar in terms of design/ general gameplay.  Don't know what you mean when you say that SH is "wandering around waiting for something to happen". Maybe you should replay some of the old SH games.

Silent Hill all the way. The gameplay's a little unexciting in both series but Silent Hill has an incredibly interesting setting and story.

Resident Evil is the better action-adventure series.

Silent Hill is the better survival horror series.

for me Silent Hill= more horror, creepy, better story and nice puzzles

  RE= more action, more fun gameplay, decent horror and creep

I like the Resident Evil games more. I've always been a big zombie-movie fan (the Romero movies are KING!). So Resident Evil IMMEADIATLY appealed to me. After RE4, though, I didn't like the direction the series went in.

Silent Hill, it's just more atmospheric and has a better story. Resident Evil on the other hand is still a fun game.