Survival Horror Gets Fashion Showdown

Thanks to Crunk Games for their less-than-serious feature showcasing the fashionable world of the survival horror genre. As the introduction explains: "Every Resident Evil game thus far has awarded players at least one new costume for their chosen character on subsequent playthroughs, a practice that Konami has only recently added to its trademark Silent Hill series. We've decided to pit the cheesiest survival horror series against the scariest in a battle of pure fashion." This spoiler-including article then compares outfits that span the good (Jill Valentine's "classic blue S.T.A.R.S. uniform"), the weird (the "stunning heart-shaped belt buckle" of Silent Hill 3's Magical Girl Heather), and the plain hideous (Silent Hill's "68-year old Avril Lavigne", Dahlia Gillespie), before concluding: "Green herbs all around for those who stuck with it."

Comments

In other words.

[GMC-jimmy]

The author of this artical must mean something to the effect of: "My god I'm so F'ing bored waiting for HL2 to hit the stores."

Eternal Darkness

[Chris_Jefferson]

What about the women of eternal darkness? eh? eh? (can't find any direct links, but you can see them here )

Um....

[GwabbaWabba]

Well. That certainly was... something.

slow night

[cheeseSource]

4 posts in going on 5 hours...

Most uncommented story ever.

Re:slow night

[Anonymous Coward]

I've seen worse.

Not too long ago a single troll posted ~10 of the less than 15 total comments that a front page story got, before being archived.

And yes, it was a default front page story, not some unhidden sectional bullshit.

graphics quality

[technopinion]

Wow, actually, reading this, I hadn't realized that these games had this sort of detailed characters (from a graphics standpoint). Are these all live-action shots from the games, or are they from pre-rendered sequences?

Re:graphics quality

[Anonymous Coward]

The graphics quality of the characters in games like Silent Hill 2 & 3 are quite remarkable, the face of Heather in SH3 is very well designed, modeled and textured and includes effects such as the light reflection in the eyes as shown in the Half-Life 2 G-man movie. It's also a great game.

Re:graphics quality

[Lazyhound]

Detailed? Dude, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

http://www.angelfire.com/retro/lazyhound/maxpayne2 .jpg

Re:graphics quality

[Quobobo]

I don't know about the Silent Hill ones, but the Resident Evil (1 and Zero) pictures look just like in-game shots to me. The graphics in both games on the Gamecube are absolutely astounding (and terrifying, I might add).

Re:graphics quality

[megamouse]

I'm only familiar with Silent Hill II, but the shots of Maria in 'The Ugly Girls' section were a mix of in-game and pre-rendered. Specifically from top-to-bottom: in-game, pre-rendered, pre-rendered. While the top shot is obviously the kludgiest looking of the three, I have to say it doesn't do the game justice. I remember playing SH2 on X-Box and the graphics were rich, particularly the highly effective use of textures to impart that creep show "we're more than half way to hell" look to the environments. This game had me flinching and jumping out of my seat more than most horror movies do!

Re:graphics quality

[SuiteSisterMary]

The problem with a screenshot is a) you'll see aliasing that you won't see on your average TV screen, and b) you don't see the motion; the animation goes a long way to making the characters seem more believable.

Downright Wacky Costumes

[Jtheletter]

Let's not forget Onimusha, after you beat it you can replay the game in ... a giant panda suit. (sorry, couldn't find any screenshots) Complete with fliptop head. Nothing like battling demons and samurai as the gentle-giant-turned-warrior, fiercest of the selective herbivors. :P

humorous games sites

[jcruelty]

i'm always on the look out for funny game-related sites. oldmanmurray is dead and i've read all of seanbaby's stuff. are there any other good places to go?