Silent Hull

protecting the woman in SH4 was not fun, also weapons breaking was annoying

I think that was semi confirmed previously, wasn't it?

Nah, other sites are posting it too also because it's a slow news day.

PS5 order CANCELLED

I remember using the rusty axe a lot in that game as it was quite powerful and didn't break.

Yeah, weapon breaking is a mechanic that just does absolutely nothing for me in any of the games/genres I've encountered it in. Just a pure nuisance (or, at least, a minor irritant) that does zero to enhance my experience.

They had it in the recent Alone in the Dark (2024) game, too. I can only assume it was to add some semblance of flavour, as there was such an abundance of strategically-placed melee weapons to pick up that any risk attached to breaking was basically meaningless in terms of the combat itself, which seemed to defeat any perceived gameplay purpose.

Just so meh.

Review embargo 4th Oct apparently. Konami feeling confident?

Really going to struggle to avoid over-exposure to this over the next few days. Snippets of gameplay are popping up everywhere. Whilst I'm hardly likely to have story beats spoiled, I'd rather not see too much of the game before experiencing it myself.

I absolutely loved the original version, still one of my all time favourite games, but I'm so rubbish at horror games these days I'm torn. Get so tense playing them and not sure how much "enjoyment" I'll get

I can't fap to that.

This might interest someone, or you might think its awful, but there's a nice instrumental metal cover album of some Silent Hill 2 tracks

Very much so, I think people forget that VA in the late 90s early 2000s had a very specific kind of direction that can be quite awkward and stilted these days.