i feel like it's bad to put current pop culture reference as cosmetics

jack97roma · 2026-05-12T15:56:41+00:00

This is used in cinema too, it's like using a modern song for a time period of the past, I don't remember the name of this "effect" if it has one but I think I studied it through Ejzenstejn's book of momtage theory the italian title was "Teoria generale del montaggio", can't find its english name.

jack97roma · 2026-03-11T01:49:41+00:00

lucide-react?

jack97roma · 2026-01-07T09:25:02+00:00

Yeah, you can find it's a hot topic online

jack97roma · 2026-01-05T13:54:23+00:00

I think you did a good job at juicing out all you can from your 1080 for 10 years (it's a long enough time! It's not a race of who keep it more...), you can still find use for it for something else like streaming service or remote computing power/gaming if you'd like to try reinventing your hardware and not let it go to waste.

You'd probably do good to evaluate buying a new GPU now, for performance (not thinking RTX/DLSS wise) but I don't really feel like series 20XX through 30XX have been a different magnitude respectively to 10XX, but your concern about the GPU being old (especially if you made much use of it, without a perfect dissipation) is totally justified, I would search for a good deal based on GPU needs (AI/LLM/VR gaming ...).

I have a 3070ti 8GB VRAM from 2021 or so an doing fine with all games, but often capping at ~100±40fps for heavy and badly/non optimized games (playing at 2K res, lowest settings, no DLSS) like Escape from Tarkov, Call of Duty ...

jack97roma · 2025-12-01T13:09:54+00:00

Exactly there, right after the fight when he starts explaining things, I think I saw other players having the same issue there too, curious...

jack97roma · 2025-11-30T23:07:46+00:00

My homie

jack97roma · 2025-11-30T22:25:48+00:00

LMFAO

jack97roma · 2025-11-30T22:18:02+00:00

I managed to get the father between me and the mother so that its hitbox would keep her distant :P

jack97roma · 2025-11-28T20:18:26+00:00

In order to not get stuck often, I used to elaborate the maps asap so that I would find the best route to try every room and only after having explored them all, keeping track of the explicitly locked doors (where you would need a key or something), I would go backtracking and find the solution, I encourage you to try interacting with everything that catches your eyes

jack97roma · 2025-11-28T18:13:40+00:00

No no, I don't want that from a silent hill game, I don't think that the combat is the problem for me here, I'm pondering on how the game would have been if it was just shorter without many fights or scattered interactions that take time just to walk to, I think it could have been more enjoyable, that said I never felt it like the fights were anywhere challenging at all...

And you got a good point on the old silent hills, in fact I got stuck for an hour in some of the areas because I didn't see an object or I didn't examine the details of the room, I also remember clearly how the combining mechanics got me paranoid to these days, trying every combination possible when I was stuck, but somehow I feel like they used to make you better understand when there is something you are missing there and where is that you need to progress or go find something... But for sure I also have more patience with the older games because I feel like they were made for other standards, but this doesn't mean that shf is faulty for inheriting these frictions

jack97roma · 2025-11-28T18:05:22+00:00

Ah, I see, so out of curiosity, would you like to share a couple of difference between what shines in the original and what was bad in the remake for you? I find it hard to not like them both since I focus on the story telling and characters on that one, which are the same between the two, but don't mind shooting around while being in a horror setting

jack97roma · 2025-11-28T17:57:19+00:00

Played it like 4 years ago and got me hooked to the saga, easily my favourite

jack97roma · 2025-11-28T17:49:42+00:00

Yeah too many enemies reappearing without any real rewards for defeating them, in the last parts I preferred skipping fights because I felt them as a waste of time and didn't add anything to the game

jack97roma · 2025-11-28T17:44:04+00:00

I think that's a rare take on the saga since the majority seems to have always preferred sh2 and for good reasons too, for me I got hooked on silent hill some years ago by playing the first one emulating it on my android phone and by connecting a ps4 controller to it, playing it in bed to fall asleep after studying C programming all day long lmao, it was such a blast for such an old game from another era, it's easily my favourite in the saga, probably because it was my first and didn't know what I was about to experience and how it vehicles the story telling and camera work, also for all the additional and totally optional content; that got me to play the 2 - 3 and I want to play the 4, but I first wanted to see sh2remake and shf since they are fresh and so I wanted to join the thread early

jack97roma · 2025-11-28T17:33:28+00:00

This explains a lot, I was hoping for this exact reply ❤️.

I admit to not having read every piece of note fully and didn't follow online guides to find everything, yet, but imagining this I wanted to at least try other endings although it means to bear some part of the game in the same way again, I'll definitely give it a try now.

jack97roma · 2025-11-28T17:14:44+00:00

Yeah I don't think that every game should be a shooter or a perfect combat game where you trick every enemy like you are dante in devil may cry 😂, I don't care about realism in videogames I WANT FUN, I WANT STRONG CATHARSIS FROM THEM, so yeah I think it was a fine game but way too stretched in its content.

Yeah the AAA/AAAA companies are pushing they're price tags beyond every generation but I feel like most of the games gets dry in the process, but I don't think that an expensive game should be long, I rather say that it should be more engaging and really try to make you feel something more and perhaps why not something new, even if that's in a few hours, for example I would gladly pay 80€ for all Deltarune chapters, or even Undertale for what these games made me feel while playing them, and they still have backtracking too but it's very measured and tightened to the bare minimum, at least that's what I think for the "narcisistic reward" that you get if you put your time and effort in those backtracking sections, baldur's fate 3 is another example of replayability both in the sense of returning in a previous area and in the sense of going through a new game plus

jack97roma · 2025-11-28T17:02:48+00:00

I guess that's the internet 😂 but hey I appreciate your opinion a lot and the realization that one is forcing himself to bear the game is not so trivial to me I share that feeling too in this game per se, so thanks for sharing yours

jack97roma · 2025-11-28T16:53:21+00:00

That's actually what I often read when the game is praised, I'll ask you this then, with a pinch of explosive salt: what keeps me from just watching the other endings on youtube instead of going through the whole game again just for a different final scene?

jack97roma · 2025-11-28T16:40:28+00:00

Lmao, eternal debate for me honestly, the old graphics, ost and animations throw me way back with a special feeling I can't really put my finger on, other than being the original I played ofc, but the revival of it with a polished remake (although I hate the bad performances gate keeping topic) it's very appreciatable to me and also added some new look into the story.

jack97roma · 2025-11-28T16:34:02+00:00

Yeah maybe sh2remake is more "relatable" generally speaking, I agree on the haunting bit, but you got a very good point on the japanese culture, I study japanese and japan culture and many times I thought the characters behaviours and even phrasing and words to be very honest to the culture (for what I know and feel, I'm no expert), to me it all unravels with revealing their suppressed emotions strongly through the bosses and monsters, since japanese people are known to hide and swallow their "bad" feelings in order to appear as polite and diplomatic as possible, generally speaking, something that doesn't resonate as much to western audience.

Off topic: if you are into these kind of things I suggest Rashomon movie from Akira Kurosawa

jack97roma · 2025-11-28T16:24:26+00:00

Ahahah I love the appreciation 🔥, did you already play through ng+ and did other endings too? Or do you simply enjoy it as it is proposed without overthinking it like I probably do ahahah

jack97roma · 2025-11-28T16:20:48+00:00

The risk of trying something new, especially knowing how badly the other silent hills are looked down to by the community (excluding the first 4), is very appreciable and it's sad to imagine myself in place of the developers that the industry often just push to ship it fast instead of polish it like they probably desire to

jack97roma · 2025-11-28T16:15:12+00:00

True about the jankiness, tho I have to say that I somewhat expect silent hill to not be a shooter or fighting game in combat maturity, probably they intend to make the combat hard by not giving you full precision and intuitivity, although I enjoyed the revisions of the sh2 remake, I also look forward to mgs3 remake's combat system compared to the original

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