I picked up a DS just t oget in on this game. I was never too hardcore into the Pokemon scene, usually just emulated the previous titles, but I was pretty excited about this one. Plus, my buddy has a DS, so we can battle and trade, and all that.
I've got a question, though, and not even GameFAQs has provided a satisfactory answer. Exactly how large is the Pokedex in this game? I'm fairly certain that not all ~500 little doods can be caught in the wild, but how many can? The main reason I ask is because heaps of my old favourite guys haven't surfaced anywhere yet (Sandshrew :<). I've got six of the badges and I haven't even got 100 Pokemon registered in my dex. I doubt there's going to be a 400-strong population boom between the sixth and eighth badges.
I say Silent Hill, no contest. Well, a little bit of contest from Resident Evil, because the first one scared me half to death when I was a wee one. But since then I've come to think of Resident Evil as being more about blowing zombies' faces off (wicked but not scary) and Silent Hill as being more about horror. I've played every Silent Hill game so far (well, I never beat 4, but I'm going to!) and I'm always impressed with the art direction and atmosphere. Plus, they're scary like crazy!
I think it has a lot to do with the characters and the gameplay. In Resident Evil you're always playing as cops and badasses, and you get machine guns and sniper rifles and bazookas, &c. I find it hard to get scared when I'm that sufficiently trained and equipped. In Silent Hill you play as just, you know, a guy, and your weapons are always pipes and golf clubs and useless crap like that. It's even worse in the fourth one because your weapons break after a few uses, and your inventory is so small that you usually end up with like, half a golf club left to fight all the hideous beasts you encounter. Brr, nasty. I can take out a zombie at 100 yards with a rifle pretty comfortably, but I don't enjoy having to fight a demonic nurse armed with only a plank of wood.
1. Suikoden
2. Metal Gear Solid
3. Sonic the Hedgehog (I know... there are some titles that need to be forgotten)
4. Silent Hill
5. Castlevania
Yeesh, I really dig Konami, I guess. There are a couple of notable absences (Kingdom Hearts!?), but I tried to include mostly franchises that had gone more than two proper installations and still proved themselves to be decent. With the exception of Sonic, which has had some truly hearbreakingly awful games in its lineup, but I was raised on the Genesis classics, so I forgive the series all its flops.
I suppose an introduction is in order? I'm called Krawnik, I used to roll with the folks at Ansem Report, until it mysteriously vanished, and I was getting bored of not having a forum to troll, so I decided I'd register around here, since this place seems to me to be the best KH site on the web at the moment. Let's be pals?
