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I'm definitely down for BlooperTeams Silent Hill 1 Remake...Ahem, which apparantly is in development as we speak. And when it finally debuts, the PCVR mod will be available in both first & 3rd person VR in about a month afterwards with constant QOL updates(With the help of AI) so it reaches perfection. So I'm set! SH2, tonally speaking felt like such a departure from the original. 1 was like you entered some hellish demonic nightmare, where as 2 was littered with sexual themes, manifestations of trauma, guilt etc. But I'm glad, i prefer it when devs give us the unexpected instead of another familiar retreed!

Now Silent Hill 4 was the entry that always caught my eye the most. But by that point, I was in and out of gaming by 2004. My time was being heavily eaten by the amount of hours i had to pour in working on movie sets when i was 19-21. Plus drinking and partying always tended to override wanting to play video games prior to 21. I remember some extra on the set of Final Destination 3, told me his friend played through Silent Hill 4 and it threw him in a state of severe depression for weeks. It left a dent in his psyche I guess you could say. lol I guess i can imagine that, if i were that young again(19, 20), at that time, and i played through a video game as graphically cutting edge and disturbing as that, it may of done the same to me too. I never had a PS2 back then though, during the 6th generation of consoles.

I had the all mighty and incredibe Dreamcast at launch(Best console launch of all time i'd say, next to SNES and then PS1), and then GameCube at launch. A couple of cousins and friends of mine had PS2, but it always felt so underwhelming to jump into. The regurgitated old and dated-ish DualShock 1 Controller(But with the inclusion of those awful L3 & R3 analog buttons & black finish), hideous step-back bland console design, and many of the games were capped at 30fps with dreary muted color-palletes felt as video games had lost their smile.

Although, Devil May Cry 1 was super impressive when i caught in action at some mini house party in the early 2000's. Favourite PS2 expeirnce bare none, even though my play time was like less 30 minutes. PS2 just wasn't groundbreaking, whimsy, exciting or next level the way the DC felt, imo. PS1 on the other hand, felt magical in 95, just like DC did in 99. And it was ground breaking for most simply because it was the first console to transition most gamers from 2D to 3D polygon graphics, coming from SNES & Genesis. Most gamers skipped Saturn(Which i also had a launch) after all, so most lost their 3D polygon viriginity to PS1 in the mid 90's. Such a glorious launch.

The PS1 was the only PS console, at least in it's very beginning in 95 - 97, to have it's own unique identity, just it's own distinct vibe that set itself apart from the rest of the pact. It had such a beautiful fun console & Controller design that was unlike anything prior(As was DC). even the memory card felt special, because it was also the first of it's kind. I don't know, the PS1 felt like SNES crossed pathes with a PC Engine and something new entirely in terms of it's appearance. People were like...."PlayStation!? what's a playstation!? Sony's making a video game console!?" The first and last PS ever to embody the mid 90's I guess you could say, and it showed in spaids. Unfortunately, not a single PS console afterwords has ever smacked me with the same whimsical feeling, magic, other than maybe PSVR1, purely in terms of being ground breaking and absolutely transformative. it was like rediscovering gaming for the first time again. But The headset design was ugly, including the triple stacked black-sandwich PS4 Pro. Very 2010's...

Anyways! Silent Hill 4 easily has the creepiest enemies, and the most intersting hub setting in the franchise imo. That's the one I'd love to see be remade the most.