The death spiral of the arcade in America is a vicious cycle. If more people were populating arcades, we'd probably get more games like Silent Hill: The Arcade, released in Japan last month. Of course, if our arcades included more games like Silent Hill and fewer sweaty meat sacks trying to lose that last 230 pounds on a DDR machine electronically beeping out a prayer for a quick death, we'd probably be more apt to go there.
Luckily for us, we have footage like the above clip. Just make your fingers into a gun shape and go to town. You don't have to pay any money and (best of all) you don't have to keep yourself from staring at Chunky Brewster performing his Slurpee rehydration.
You go in, 50% of the games suck, at least to you.
All of the good games are filled with 2 kinds of players:
PROs
SCRUBS
I am no pro but I know what I'm doing on most games. So I don't want to play vs the pros who know every damn combo, and whom I have 1% chance of beating. I don't want to play against to totally horrible people because I feel bad ending their games slaughtering them. and I don't want to play against the computer.
that's why home online PC gaming or XBL is better, I can play against people I know are close in skill, or play ranked matched games say in Guild Wars, and get paired agaisnt people with similar records.
I don't want to pay 0.25-1.50 a game to either get owned or hurt someone's feelings.
That happened to me every time, a good example Marvel Vs Capcom 2
I used to play that game every chance I had and just when I was about to defeat the last boss all these f*ggets get out of nowhere to challenge me without permission, they inserted the coins and defeat me pretty quick without saying a word and kill the boss in a blink just after spending 4 coins, those little b*tches.
I had to A) Put tape when nobody see me so I can play solo or B) Act Badass
But don’t think you are safe from them in the xlive, Achievement and leader board whores are still screwing online gaming, for example in Halo 3 the spam bots in Ranked Team Matches.
Just watching that..my god. It looked amazing. I really wish that the arcade market here in the states hadn't died so long ago. I would be thrilled if somehow, it was resurrected with an insurgence of new and awesome arcade games and actual arcades opening up country-wide.
Will probably never happen though, and with games like this, too bad.
ZOMG Torrent PLS!! Better yet port it to the Wii!!! It prints money!!!
BTW speaking like a total Silent hill fan what's with all these House of the Dead rip offs? I mean Resident evil chronicles and now this? , what’s next fatal frame? Actually a Fatal Frame rail shooter would be awesome.
Yeah, we played this game in Japan. It sucked. A lot. It's too action-y to be Silent Hill, but not action-y enough to be a good shooter. So it fails at both.
I hate to say it, but Silent Hill: The Arcade is utter garbage. Andrew Yoon and I played it at an arcade in Tokyo shortly after TGS. Not only does it fail spectacularly at being Silent Hill(because it's a lightgun game!), it fails at being a lightgun game (because it's Silent Hill!). It's a plodding mess.
I saw this Silent Hill game in Japan in August, but didn't play it because it was always in use and looked boring. I just stuck to my Taiko Drum Master and my Pop 'n' Music Adventure, since I knew I'd never get to see them back in the states. But on the other hand, I saw this... a Half-Life 2 arcade game?!?
I hope Konami bring this to the PS3 or 360 seeing as Namco Bandai is bringing Time crisis 4 to the PS3. I really would like to play this so I hope the game will get ported to either of those two systems or both.
i'm a huge slient hill fan, but this doesn't look fun at all infact it looks boring.let me get this straight, you shoot pyrimid head with a thousand bullets, which has apparently no affect, what so ever, so that every 60 sec. you have to put more coins in? seems like a scam by the arcade IMO....come on kids it's silent hill! just pour in your coins! the game seems pointless you might as well have a water gun..
Give me another hundred yen and i'll chase you with a knife while you can make your fingers into a gun shape and go bang bang bang. I'll even throw some bugs at ya.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Putt Pirate @ Oct 1st 2007 10:48AM
THAT. LOOKS. AWESOME!!
joeyg @ Oct 1st 2007 10:50AM
it says "insert coins"...i guess coins aren't considered money?
WiNG @ Oct 1st 2007 11:01AM
My problem with arcades is this:
You go in, 50% of the games suck, at least to you.
All of the good games are filled with 2 kinds of players:
PROs
SCRUBS
I am no pro but I know what I'm doing on most games. So I don't want to play vs the pros who know every damn combo, and whom I have 1% chance of beating. I don't want to play against to totally horrible people because I feel bad ending their games slaughtering them. and I don't want to play against the computer.
that's why home online PC gaming or XBL is better, I can play against people I know are close in skill, or play ranked matched games say in Guild Wars, and get paired agaisnt people with similar records.
I don't want to pay 0.25-1.50 a game to either get owned or hurt someone's feelings.
Life in a Game!
Episode 1: http://youtube.com/watch?v=TyXUVd2c83c
Episode 2: http://youtube.com/watch?v=J9nTx0nLX8U
Word of the street(IDF-Digital Ruler). @ Oct 1st 2007 11:54AM
That happened to me every time, a good example Marvel Vs Capcom 2
I used to play that game every chance I had and just when I was about to defeat the last boss all these f*ggets get out of nowhere to challenge me without permission, they inserted the coins and defeat me pretty quick without saying a word and kill the boss in a blink just after spending 4 coins, those little b*tches.
I had to A) Put tape when nobody see me so I can play solo or B) Act Badass
But don’t think you are safe from them in the xlive, Achievement and leader board whores are still screwing online gaming, for example in Halo 3 the spam bots in Ranked Team Matches.
sinergy @ Oct 1st 2007 11:04AM
too bad all the arcades have vanished around here....no one cares for them anymore. i loved playing these games :(
Mr. P @ Oct 1st 2007 11:10AM
I can't wait to kill myself.
StrangeBum @ Oct 1st 2007 11:14AM
Just watching that..my god. It looked amazing. I really wish that the arcade market here in the states hadn't died so long ago. I would be thrilled if somehow, it was resurrected with an insurgence of new and awesome arcade games and actual arcades opening up country-wide.
Will probably never happen though, and with games like this, too bad.
Paul @ Oct 1st 2007 11:54AM
I think it's fair to say that I want that.
Want that now.
Word of the street(IDF-Digital Ruler). @ Oct 1st 2007 12:00PM
ZOMG Torrent PLS!! Better yet port it to the Wii!!! It prints money!!!
BTW speaking like a total Silent hill fan what's with all these House of the Dead rip offs? I mean Resident evil chronicles and now this? , what’s next fatal frame? Actually a Fatal Frame rail shooter would be awesome.
danny. @ Oct 1st 2007 12:12PM
So the arcade cab would have the camera obscura attached to it?
Andrew Yoon @ Oct 1st 2007 12:01PM
Yeah, we played this game in Japan. It sucked. A lot. It's too action-y to be Silent Hill, but not action-y enough to be a good shooter. So it fails at both.
LAZoftheTamarinds @ Oct 1st 2007 11:57PM
Well that's a dissapointment. I was expecting it to be a decent light gun game which would then release onto PS2 and PS3. Oh well.
Robobagins @ Oct 1st 2007 12:03PM
Aww man. I'd love that game. Oh well at least I'll be able to enjoy Silent Hill Zero.
jadnice @ Oct 1st 2007 12:54PM
Wii....
need I saw more
Gambit @ Oct 1st 2007 1:00PM
Now, how long till this hits MAME?
Ludwig Kietzmann @ Oct 1st 2007 1:17PM
I hate to say it, but Silent Hill: The Arcade is utter garbage. Andrew Yoon and I played it at an arcade in Tokyo shortly after TGS. Not only does it fail spectacularly at being Silent Hill(because it's a lightgun game!), it fails at being a lightgun game (because it's Silent Hill!). It's a plodding mess.
Rubang B (NDF - Heart) @ Oct 1st 2007 1:37PM
I saw this Silent Hill game in Japan in August, but didn't play it because it was always in use and looked boring. I just stuck to my Taiko Drum Master and my Pop 'n' Music Adventure, since I knew I'd never get to see them back in the states. But on the other hand, I saw this... a Half-Life 2 arcade game?!?
http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/4900/20070806halflife2arcadeqt8.jpg
Joe @ Oct 1st 2007 3:19PM
I hope Konami bring this to the PS3 or 360 seeing as Namco Bandai is bringing Time crisis 4 to the PS3. I really would like to play this so I hope the game will get ported to either of those two systems or both.
LaughingTarget @ Oct 1st 2007 4:10PM
Silly gamers, don't aim for the head. There's a huge metal pyramid in the way.
cainnum @ Oct 1st 2007 5:11PM
so you're making fun of fat ppl for trying to lose weight?
Doc @ Oct 1st 2007 5:56PM
i'm a huge slient hill fan, but this doesn't look fun at all infact it looks boring.let me get this straight, you shoot pyrimid head with a thousand bullets, which has apparently no affect, what so ever, so that every 60 sec. you have to put more coins in? seems like a scam by the arcade IMO....come on kids it's silent hill! just pour in your coins! the game seems pointless you might as well have a water gun..
jesus_bon_jovi @ Oct 2nd 2007 2:36AM
Give me another hundred yen and i'll chase you with a knife while you can make your fingers into a gun shape and go bang bang bang. I'll even throw some bugs at ya.
ThornedVenom @ Oct 2nd 2007 3:08AM
Dude... don't even try to headshoot the Pyramid Head.
PYRAMID head, remember?
Optimus Prime @ Oct 2nd 2007 10:14AM
That made me cry a bit on the iside. Horrible garbage. So NOT Silent Hill. I for one am glad arcades have died. This is the reason why...
syco @ Oct 1st 2007 7:51PM
It's... it's obviously a spinoff. Every popular series has spinoffs.
If they had released this on consoles and called it Silent Hill V, yeh, you would have a point, but this is essentially the Mario Golf of Silent Hill.
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