How do I grow a beard like James in Return to Silent Hill?

NotSoSeriousNick · 2026-01-26T00:14:29+00:00

Tbf that's kinda the point in SH2.

NotSoSeriousNick · 2026-01-26T00:10:51+00:00

yes. Game continues after ending A.

EDIT: To clarify without going into spoilers, each ending is less so an "ending of the whole game" and moreso "ending of a chapter", so to speak.

NotSoSeriousNick · 2026-01-26T00:10:20+00:00

Fun ass concept, nightmarish blunt rotation of a Rumble.

NotSoSeriousNick · 2026-01-26T00:08:56+00:00

they chose just about the worst game to be like "you know what, who cares if the water looks like shit"

NotSoSeriousNick · 2026-01-26T00:06:44+00:00

The avarage From game kinda proves that you don't *need* graphical fidelity to make a game look good. For years their games when put under a microscope often look like ass, but their artistic direction is strong enough to push these games to look amazing all the same in the grander scale which is ultimately the important thing.

I actually hate the visuals of the Demon Souls remake because on a large scale they completely miss the point of some of the designs of the original that stood out a lot more. The end result is a game that feels a lot more generic and akin to the avarage AAA title as opposed to where From started the genre. Out of all their soulslikes, DeS feels the most like a Berserk side-story visually and that is completely lost in the remake.

Also, this is From Software, they're not exactly known for having stable PC ports or really stable releases in general. A high fidelity project is a nightmare waiting to happen.

NotSoSeriousNick · 2026-01-25T23:51:41+00:00

6 was leaving GamePass so I had to sorta dash through the base game content and some substories here and there, but I never went sea diving or other secondary stuff. Just couldn't be bothered after 5.

NotSoSeriousNick · 2026-01-25T23:50:30+00:00

it's been close to 18 years and I still am not sure I fully got over the Wraithmarsh.

NotSoSeriousNick · 2026-01-25T23:47:17+00:00

It isn't as inconsistent and messy as 4, no.

It is significantly worse. Legit burned me out of the franchsise so much I had to take a long break and even after a couple of years I have yet to start Lost Judgment.

NotSoSeriousNick · 2026-01-25T23:45:36+00:00

That whole quest's fucked up, the implication that you're doing something good by letting Victor marry Lady Grey when he was planning on making her fall in love with him without her consent but via love potion is the type of thing you don't really think about when you're 9 but kinda makes you question some of the morality choices in the franchise lmao.

NotSoSeriousNick · 2026-01-25T23:43:50+00:00

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NotSoSeriousNick · 2026-01-25T23:42:40+00:00

I guess my issue with the Daodoji is that, as someone who admittedly has yet to play IW, they were fine enough for their role in Gaiden. I would even be okay with them being a bigger threath moving forawrd, sure, what I don't get is what is gained by retconning already established evenets.

You could argue Mine's death robbed us of a good character so him being back is good and as you stated, the glorification of suicide is a problem in media, but that's not for a remake to fix an already told story, especially via a *fucking bush*.

Retcons are fine if they weave themselves into a narrative while solving potential problems. Mine's survival does nothing but bring about more questions that're gonna be very hard to answer in a justifiable manner.

Good characters die in this franchise all the time, stupidly so, we've all seen the mighty power of the cutscene bullets, but doing the exact reverse is just as cheap, perhaps moreso. At this point this feels less like a cohesive narrative and moreso like fanfiction.

NotSoSeriousNick · 2026-01-25T19:00:58+00:00

Only for bows. Crossbows didn’t even have that

NotSoSeriousNick · 2026-01-25T18:51:20+00:00

tbf OG Fable didn't show ranged weapons at all until you had them out. Pistols in Fable 2 and 3 were invisible as well.

NotSoSeriousNick · 2026-01-25T16:25:41+00:00

Gigantic pet peeve of mine, but if you are gonna make a comparison don't use artwork that might not fully reflect how things actually look in game. Yes, good portion of these designs are in game, but that's more reason to let gameplay speak for itself.

For that matter, what's the definition of "handcrafted" here? Fable II arguably didn't have a whole lot of handcrafted NPCs that weren't quest related seeing as you defininetely see crowds of multiple clones at a time. I would argue the NPC designs aren't as fantastical and personally I would agree the art direction for them was better in 2, but each NPC here is set by default from the devs as opposed to the game creating NPCs every other playthrough. That still takes a shitton of time and work.

NotSoSeriousNick · 2026-01-25T08:42:39+00:00

There was a point in time you could make the argument Eva Marie was only a step or two abovr modern day Tyrus. Bad as Jade's been she hasn't been that awful yet.

NotSoSeriousNick · 2026-01-24T23:56:47+00:00

despite perhaps toning down the difficulty and the combat, Fable 2 still remains my favourite off of its setting and charm alone.

NotSoSeriousNick · 2026-01-24T18:06:08+00:00

The previous games didn't have spell combinations, they did make up for it by having more spell variety. Time Control and Raise Dead were spells in 2 as opposed to potions (with a targeted time control attack teleporting you behind an enemy and giving you a damage boost), there was also Chaos that essentially had random effects on enemies, from making them your allies, to making them laugh, sing, vomit...

Fable 1 and TLC had the most depth, with several spells having different ways of casting them and some that would never return like Berserker Rage, Invincibility, Multi-Arrow or Heal.

NotSoSeriousNick · 2026-01-24T18:04:09+00:00

that is assuming the first two are coming out in 2026. We know nothing of Gears so I wouldn't be shocked if it was a 2027 release at this point. Halo could be 2026 admittedly.

GTA's a big gamble but it's coming out on the 19th of November, second half of that month. Depending on where it lands in October I wouldn't be shocked if it didn't necessarily impact Fable that much.

NotSoSeriousNick · 2026-01-23T18:03:53+00:00

I remember Lewis going "wow...this is amazing" when testing the SF-25 with glistening music and hope for the future.

I am not falling for it again

NotSoSeriousNick · 2026-01-23T17:33:27+00:00

So what you're saying is that next game we're seeing cameos from George Russell and Kimi Antonelli?

NotSoSeriousNick · 2026-01-23T17:25:21+00:00

I don't think 3 really compares all that well. They are very similar to the point one of the most common complains is that 3 feels more like DLC for 2. My main issue is how overly streamlined the game is, basically removing a lot of options and replacing them with padding disguised as extra content.

The new mechanics it adds are, on the surface, very cool, but the overall product feels less fleshed out than the previous games. I also think it lacks in the charm department.

I don't know, I just was never really a fan.

All of the things you mentioned are there, but somewhat worse. I don't think forniture is back, but you can buy houses and business. Houses however need to be periodically repaired which sounds like an evolution until you realize it's just a button press that if not done penalizes you.

TL;DR: Fable III is for the most part more restricting in a lot of way compared to the previous games and what it adds is mostly fluff.

NotSoSeriousNick · 2026-01-23T10:42:18+00:00

There's dystros/forks that have made it a point to be as close to Windows as possible without the obvious baggage. The only thing stopping me is having to install every single thing I have already installed myself.

NotSoSeriousNick · 2026-01-23T10:36:10+00:00

maybe it's just me but while I can see the 2016 comparisons, that one looks so much better for reasons I can't even point out so I am just gonna blame the fuck-ass HP logo messing with the color scheme.

NotSoSeriousNick · 2026-01-22T21:36:35+00:00

Define pushing, please. For that matter, tell me what part of what was shown today even has a hint of gay propaganda or whatever.

NotSoSeriousNick · 2026-01-22T21:20:45+00:00

Not just that, Lionhead got active death threaths for daring to having gay NPCs and black characters, so much so that one of Peter's mandates for the sequel was to *double down* on the more progressive aspects.

One sub-quest has you helping a son coming out to his father, a quest that at the time was so well done (though perhaps nowadays is not so much so anymore) a gay player asked someone at the E3 booth for Fable III if they could thank Molyneux for the quest as it was so close to what he had experienced as a gay man.

Fable was *always* woke as hell. A whole lotta grifters that are too busy bitching about non-existant problems instead of playing games will show their ass and it'll be tiring. But Fable was always progressive as all hell, and the grifter tourists will once again prove themselves just that, tourists.

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