#i hate when ppl abuse the shit out the the block button like that

[hey-moonwtf]

I’m literally still so pissed that someone I talked to regularly on here blocked me in the middle of a conversation, then continued on about their regular tumblr activities like nothing happened lmao

[twinvictim]

your opinions on each of the post team silent games and a rating out of 10. hand 'em over

YEAHHHHHH FINALLY CATERING TO ME!!!

Uh really long post oops. for reference, my rating for the first 4 sh's are as follows

Sh1: 9/10 Sh2: 7/10 Sh3: 9/10 Sh4: 9.5/10

Silent Hill 0/Origins

overall score: 7/10

Alot of the games issues can of course be attributed to it being a psp game, and while i won't excuse everything bc of that, j have to be honest and say I think it had so much potential as a (very) late ps2 game. Not to mention, the game ON THE PSP functions as it should. (The ps2 port does fucking not tho..oops) ans you'll see that this is...a rarity post team silent.

The story has alot of potential, Travis as a character is interesting and sympathetic and j think his dynamic with alessa js super fascinating to dig into, both of them being abused children and there was alot of intrigue regarding his powers, the game feels like a smaller more watered down she, and for that I can't fault it too much. The weapons system isn't my favorite but the combat itself is reminiscent of 1 and 2 and I really like a good chunk of the monster design, there was clearly thought and care put into it, nurses and strughtjackets/lying figures be dammed. The unlockables are pretty cool though and alot of the environments look pretty cool for a psp game, hell i LOVE the theater level its super unique, I would love to see it in (actually functional) better graphics. I also think the puzzles are pretty solid, not hair pulling like sh1 even if they're not quite as clever as say sh3.

My biggest criticisms come from the reuse of sh1 characters (just alessa and Travis would've been fine, maybe dahlia and some more org characters would've been better) the bad ending being straight up bad writing. Not to mention they did the sh3 thing of "kill too many monsters and get the bad ending" which is...stupid. The foreshadowing of the butcher being? He's just kinda there, I like the lead up but it would be more interesting if the butcher represented something from those years between Travis' father dying and him being an adult. And while there's more replayability imo than sh2, it doesn't have difficulty sliders and that makes it kinda hard to come back to quite as often. Not to mention unlike sh1, 3or sh4 there's not as much horror focus and random events.

Overall, solid game its fun to play, very silent Hill and if you're willing to look past a few continuity errors and accept its a little different and slightly derrivitive at the same time, I like to say I had alot of fun with it and still do. (Maybe I just like Travis alot...idk)

Silent Hill: Homecoming

Overall score: 6/10

Once again most of the issues here are gonna be corporate fuck ups, but I'm also not gonna beat around the bush, this game isn't like...good. its bad actually. "But you gave it a 6/10?" Yeah bc its not NEARLY as bad as some other games I've.. experienced.

The negatives here are, many and vast, so let's run them down. Firstly the games performance is janky on console (ps3 at least) and abysmal/unplayable on PC, what with framerate issues that are detrimental to game play on pc and make the third boss impossible. That said on console it is completable and not even too terrible...usually. Scarletts boss fight however is terribly unbalanced and broken on all skews so :/. The combat is...functional but not anyone's favorite, it's difficult to use any actually strong weapon and you can pretty much strong arm ur ways through shit with just the knife (except scarletts first form..don't try it, it won't work) for some people this will be borening (not my opinion but w/e). Most of The puzzles...leave alot to be desired. I hate sliding block puzzles. Also no run button? At all?? No easy mode? Ok... also what is this.. wheel design for the inventory...im accidentally using my serum..what is serum also? And why is the item pickup noise like...bass boosted.

The character models look awful most of the time, and comically unfinished other times, some human models are just grotesque, (judge halloway, Adam shepherd, mayor Bartlett. .you get it) and yes...there are sexy nurses. Bc of course there are. (Whole ass out???) They did straight up have some terrible endings for this game (ph ending for one, the way you get the ufo? Hell the ufo ending is kinda boring. I like the in water ending here too but. Yeah.) the story has some, problems. To say the least.

However, while the performance is bad its not the worst I've played (on the ps3 once again..unplayable on pc) and I hardly noticed the framerate when I was just running around, I personally found the combat kinda fun, between trying to dodge accurately and still attack and not use all my health items (bc those and ammo are actually rare! Unlike some games...) it is kind of a challenge and reminds me of a much worse sh4. And hey, the health items both heal an understandable amount of health that i can easily read with a bar (unlike 1-3) and they're not a complete joke (unlike sh4...) i find the exploration really fun and sure the characters look shit but the environments are Fucking great. The church is one of my fav sections, short as jt might be and yes it stole the confessional scene but its pretty well written and acted I think. The monster design is pretty fucking rad too honestly, I like the schism, siam, I like the DESIGN of the needlers even if they make me so mad to fight, and hey the nurses and ph don't show up that much to be too aggregious. The boss monsters are also fantastic design wise, very unsettling and the boss rooms are interesting as well.

The story has problems but it also has alot of potential, the concept of people sacrificing ther children for silent Hill and being overcome by their own pain and guilt is pretty fucking cool, and alex is a good character they did a good job of giving him personality, ppl bitch about him being a soldier but a) he's not and b) soldiers are people too, and a sh game that could tackle toxic masculinity, be critical of the military, and also tackle abusive religeious parents is pretty intriguing, not to mentions themes of brotherly love that's complicated bc of how they clearly favored Josh . Sure, it misses the mark, but I like taking the potential and thinking about it bc its compelling to me. And like I said, i like alex alot.

Overall, bad game yes, but not the worst as it has enough good for me to honestly really enjoy it, besides it is pretty funny when it is bad. Don't play the pc port tho

Silent Hill Shattered Memories

Overall Score: 8/10

Unpopular opinion im sure but honestly? I find this game ALMOST on par with the team silent games. Its really that good, yes its a wii game, so this is my score taking into account the motion controls BTW.

For the good, man where do i start. Its BEAUTIFUL for a wii game and esp for a post team silent game, the graphics are nice and Constsitent, the environments are pretty and it has a pretty nice cold color pallet to contrast the warmer tones the series tends to skew towards. The acting and intrgrige are all on point and the WRITING is fantastic, its one of those games you play the first time not knowing the twist and play the second time picking up more and more clues and things that strengthen that twist so much more. Like sh2 its a simple story told in such a clever and interesting way that you'll probably be too invested to put it down, I beat it in one sitting in 6 hours bc i was so engrossed in the narrative. And the Puzzles man! The puzzles are phenomenal and fun to accomplish and there's even a little bit of variety in a few places on repeat playthroughs. The level of detail in this game is insane really, the things that change with the different psychology answers are pretty cool too and tho it all plays out relatively the same its still fun to see the different things you can get to happen. The gimmicks like the phone as an object, taking pictures, sneaking and zooming in, they're not too intrusive as to take away from the exploration or other game play but not completely useless and have some pretty fun Easter eggs too. The game plays sort of like a worse outlast with good puzzles and for that I do have to commend it. Oh and the fucking MUSIC is INCREDIBLE idk something ab this soundtrack has alot of heart put into it clearly.

Now, it's not perfect. The thing is, it is a WORSE outlast type game, in the running and hiding sense but well, the hiding is completely useless, its a run away game, which is ok, but I understand that people aren't gonna be a big fan of that when silent Hill has always balanced combat ad puzzles and exploration. The running segments are..aggravating, mostly bc its hard to figure out where to go, not to mention using motion controls that don't like to work half the time to fight the monsters off of you. Also, the monsters are not scarey in the slightest and the raw shock scream is actually enragaging if you've died one to many times, there's also...not really any penalty for dying. And once you're out for these running segments,there's no danger, no monsters, nothing to hide from despite having a hiding mechanic. Its not really a horror game more of a psycological thriller and I understand that the fact that its not horror can be disappointing. The psychology things might be a bit overhyped And yeah fine, the wii foreplay scene...well yeah its weird but it IS also funny as fuck.

That said, there's still alot thats good and alot thas unfair criticism lobbed at this game. Harry didn't have much of a personality in sh1 bc he's a ps1 character and sm really fleshed him out well, not to mention giving cybil some nice characterization, and they did some interesting things with dahlia and kaufmann. And Lisa.. well I'm gonna be honest I never found Lisa all that interesting in sh1..so it doesn't bother me that she's the way she is in this game. I know people hate the "horny" aspect of it but to be completely fair, YOU choose to make the game that way, don't answer in a sexual manner or look at boobs or anything else and you won't have an overly sexual game, its...literally that easy. Its given as an option for the play id they want to go for what is arguably another joke ending. (You cannot tell me sleeze and sirens is meant to be a real serious ending to the game. Cmon) and you can complain about the innacuuracies if you want but its a spin off, a retelling of the original game. Its not canon, and it didn't change the original game. It just took the ideas presented there and made them more human and lest fantastical, there's some supernatural elements but it takes a backseat to the human moments. And its honestly really cool.

Overall, great game, i reccomend it if you don't mind some slight jank with the motion controls and honestly? Look up directions on where to go for the running segments and you'll have a pretty good time overall.

Silent Hill Downpour

Overall score (so far): 7.5/10 *to be noted i haven't finished actually playing it yet but I know the basic plot and some of the details so I doubt it'll change

And so for the final silent Hill Game, I have to say, i don't think it deserves NEARLY the hatred it gets, there's alot about it that i find really cool and even fun and I think its a solid entry, a little better than origins in some parts and its downsides are both unfortunate and once again, mostly Konami's fault . That said, I'm also not gonna kid and say its a good game, just that I like it alot and we should be nicer to the last silent Hill game were probably ever gonna get.

Downpour has a pretty good, original story overall, there's alot to it, alot of intricacies and intrigue to it that honestly make it a pretty sold silent Hill game. Its different enough from the others to stand out but not super far removed from its themes and messages. I like that it doesn't try and lean into the cult aspect and tries to do something else with it, it doesn't try to explain silent Hill, but just use it to torment the characters, as it should be. There's tragedy ad human feelings here and some of them aren't the most...sensitive but they are pretty reasonable reactions id say. Playing as someone who's odds are stacked against him from the beginning as he's a prisoner is a cool way to open the game, someone convicted and you must discover if he is a good person or not. Themes of revenge explored more than in sh3 which is pretty cool. The environments look pretty nice, and i like the look of the otherworld, once again being unique with its cooler color pallet, but without the ice so it really feels like its own thing. The EXPLORATION is awesome with an actual open world which I think works well, there's alot to do in town (unlike sh1 and 0 on limiting hardware and 2 which just pretends you can explore to town but you cant) there's alot for cool little stories and sidequests to do, my favorite so far being the cinema (which has a section of ACTUAL fixed cameras like old Resident evils which is smth SH has never done and its super fucking cool!) And all the sidequess help strengthen murphy as a cheacter and argue for his innocence or complexites. The weapons system is pretty cool, picking up items and attacking with whatever you might find, finding cool Easter eggs with exploration and having fun noticing things. And it does honestly have the strongest side characters outside of SM. The puzzles are pretty solid and fun to figure out with some cool mechanics and the seperate difficulties is a great thing to bring back (actually done well like sh3) I also kind of like the method of triggering the night world/rain/monsters, and silent Hill really feels likes its constantly punishing Murphy, as it should. The music might not be Akira but its still pretty damn good, and fuck yall I like the Korn song, and you CAN press start and skip it yknow. (Thx tomm hewlit)

The negtitives tho, well they are there. For one it has the worst performance of any sh game outside of pc homecoming and like...the hd collection, the framerate like to shit itself alot lmao, its not usually detrimental bc I've played re2r with similar framerates but, yeah its not great. Not to mention while the models look better than hc they don't animate well or often at all, and the game has trouble loading in the models as fast as they should. The sound mixing could use...some work too, poor murph sounds like he's eating the mic. While I find the games exploration really fun, murphy also has the issue of not running very fast so it can be a little annoying to get back to a place you want to be when you can't run that fast, not to mention the loading times. The monster design is def the worst in the series, maybe on par w SM. Which is disappointing bc there's some pretty good moments here and there, but not nearly enough to make it scary and there's so much you can do with monsters with this premise. Also, the running sections in the otherworld are better than SM ad even more engaging than the brief ones in 2 and 3, but still, I'd prefer to do puzzles or fight a boss or smth. I will also say, the endings are, iffy while the main 2 endings are really good and Anne's bad ending as well as the joke ending are great, murphys bad endings are weird and ooc for the muphy you come to know in the game (even more so than Origins) plus, idk that the writers knew all that much about prison andbprison culture, nobody in a real prison would be mad ab Murphy killing a pedo (there's some racist implications here and there too which is. Unfortunate and disappointing. I like Howard and Robbie but they are a bit tropey, esp Howard) that said Anne is a compelling albeit unlikable character and thas pretty cool to see pulled off.

Overall, while it has downsides, I don't think Downpour is worthy of all the scorn it gets, this can have problems and you can point them out without disregarding the good parts and while it is unfortunate it doesn't run better and have some extras and didn't handle some things great, I still think its worth a playthrough, esp if you go out of your way to do the sidequests.

Bonus round

Book of memories is not a game I intend to play bc I don't wanna get a vita and can't imagine I'm missing much. It doesn't look bad pwr say but I'm not interested tbh

Fuck PT. :)

[elfyourmother]

the reason people are talking about tagging instead imo is because so many writers seem to have an antagonistic view towards readers about tagging in general, because they seem to care more about numbers than an audience (even when people repeatedly explain that tagging helps ppl find stories they want as much as avoiding it), and by not prefacing your question with your stance on it you kinda left the door open for the tag tangent

but I’ll talk about it. I strongly believe the reason you’re seeing so much “negativity” around angst without a happy ending is because the current trend in original fiction for a while is toward shock endings, grim darkness etc and folk are tired of that shit. especially folk who almost never get to see characters they relate to have a happy ending—LGBT ppl, POC (particularly black women), disabled ppl, abuse survivors, etc. when literally all you see in stories are the few characters who represent you struggling and toiling continuously w little or no reward, being killed off for able bodied cishet white ppl, etc it’s exhausting and angry making. especially when this trend is nearly always accompanied by creators being condescending shitheads about it, treating folk as though we’re juvenile and childish and naive for feeling a way about this. Hell I’ve seen it in this very comment thread and I don’t think I’ve blocked so many ppl and made note of their names so as to avoid their work on AO3 in these discussions before. I’m so tired of all these tv shows, movies, video games etc treating POC and LGBT ppl as expendable tokens whose only beauty is in suffering and death—likely to further a cishet white character’s story. (every white Star Wars geek that waxes rhapsodic about how beautiful Rogue One’s ending was puts another gray hair in my head)

I don’t care if ppl like to read or write downer endings. The problem is when it’s not enough for them to write downer endings, and they have to go on about why it’s superior and “realistic” and the rest of us are just babies who want saccharine Disney shit fed to us. Being condescended to by largely white male creators that “real life doesn’t always have happy endings” is hilarious when you’re marginalized, and/or an abuse survivor, etc. Seeing the same sentiment parroted over and over in fandom is infuriating. A few years ago there was an abusive stalker going through the tag for the most popular happy ending mod for Mass Effect 3, sending anon hate to every single person posting content in it. Sometimes repeatedly for days on end. this individual hit me for months calling me all kinds of entitled, leaving “You think your Shepard deserves a happy ending just because she’s a black woman” messages and similar garbage in my inbox.

So ofc ppl are angry and fed up and pushing back.

I didn’t even mention the state of the world. we see enough bad endings on the news on a daily basis. for many folk fiction is an escape. if I wanted to see cruelty and brutality w no light at the end of the tunnel from anything but an oncoming train, all I gotta do is turn on the news. I’m not trying to seek that out in the little free time I have outside of work and social obligations. Particularly working in local government as I do, dealing with agencies who are trying to mitigate the fallout from all this garbage happening on the federal level. For me, reading fic is an escape from all of that. And for me writing fic is an act of defiance—putting a thing of beauty and hope in the world however small or inconsequential. You damn right I believe every black female character deserves a happy ending. I write fanfic to give it to them, and the people who love and care for them. Every LGBT character deserves to live and be happy with the person/people they love. Disabled folk deserve happiness. And folk can stay mad about it tbh. Nobody is obligated to read my fic, the back button is free.

in general, I'm curious about people's opinions on angst without a happy ending. mainly because it's great to want happy endings, but writers are not obligated to provide them. thoughts?

As long as you tag (or otherwise indicate) that it’s a sad ending, I’m good to go. I know not everyone wants that kind of spoiler but personally I read fic because the characters don’t have happy endings in the source materials. I want stories to rectify that. 

If I’m prepared for it, a sad ending can be really cathartic and incredibly well done. If I’m not prepared for it, it shatters me.

But that’s just me. What do the rest of you think about unhappy endings?

[averageatbest]

ALL 20 PLEASE :)

aww thanks pal :)

1. meaning behind my url: i used to have this old best friend who i was really close with, and every time we’d asked her dad somethin like “how are you doing” “how was work” or “how do i look” he’d always answer with “average at best” and i just loved that guy he was so funny i miss him

2. a picture of me: tbh im a dummy and i can’t figure out how to insert a pic of me in here so i’ll post one later (or just go under tagged “me” i think there are some old pics of me)

3. tattoos i have: none but i want a lil simple one like the outline of a flower or somethin like that

4. last time i cried & why: two days ago bc of a bad dream 

5. piercings i have: I just got my ears pierced a week ago!!!! it’s my first piercing and i know it’s so simple it’s just my lobes but im so happy i finally did it and i love them 

6. favorite band: hands down phoenix i’ve loved them since 7th grade, i might be seeing them in a couple months and im so excited. i literally have a dog named after them. pls check them out

7. biggest turn off: probably either if the person is rude or if they have like bad dental hygiene?? idk i used to date this guy who never brushed his teeth and he was rude and i basically hated him

8. top 5 (subject): u didnt give me a subject so i’ll just do my top 5 fav things in general :)

my first fav thing is def Quinn ily i know u wont see this bc i’ve had u blocked on tumblr since 8th grade out of embarrassment but luv u ur my fav thing

 my dog phoenix she’s the best dog ever

my friends: i have the best friends in the world and i couldnt ask for anything better!!

music!! for obvious reasons music is just the shit u know

writing: i havent done it in so long but i’m starting up again and i love it!!

9. tattoos i want: lil flower thing i mentioned earlier

10. biggest turn ons: sense of humor!!! being gentle!!! pretty eyes!!!! payin attention to me & being nice!!!

11. age: 16 turnin 17 real soon

12. ideas of a perf date: goin somewhere cool like a park or a lil cafe or a museum and taking cute pictures of each other and holding hands and telling stories to each other about our pasts or fun times we’ve had together 

13. life goals: go to college in nyc, write music or a book or star in a movie or write and direct one, to tell my story somehow and make a difference in peoples lives, be successful and happy 

14: piercings i want: kinda want my belly button pierced but first i’d want a flat stomach so i just have to lose a few pounds real quick

15. relationship status: i’m that really annoying girl who won’t shut up about her boyfriend!!!!!!

16. fav movie: ok usually i’d say something like my babysitter’s a vampire (truly a MASTERPIECE) or chicken little but more realistically i’d say baby driver bc i saw that last month and that shit MOVED me it was just a great film and i could talk for hours about all the great shit in that movie but i’ll move on now

17. a fact about my life: this is kinda sad but i just love to travel lol i’ve been to nyc 5 times and i’ve been to hilton head 15 times in my 16 years of life, that’s not a rlly interesting fact but i think it’s pretty impressive tbh

18. phobia: heights, planes, all the basic stuff but i also FREAK OUT sometimes when certain ppl touch me?? i think that’s like an abuse thing but idk it counts as a phobia kinda i guess??

19. middle name: I LOVE MY MIDDLE NAME so much it’s Jane after my beautiful grandmother who i miss so much and i just luv it bc it reminds me of her and it’s so classy and cute i just 

20. anything u want 2 ask: please ask me more stuff i love doing things like this!!!!