@Void No that's not true, at least for Fatal Frame and Silent Hill 2 they have been exactly the same, the only thing that changes the puzzles is the Riddle Difficulty.
I played silent hill 2 on a tube television, with black and white color scheme during lonely sleepless nights in a rented rundown apartment. That place was already creepy enough on its own, greatly enhancing my experience. I'll never forget jumping down that historical society hole at 3AM. One of the best games ever.
Cybeeeerrrr shelllllllll what’s a beautiful human specimens such as yourself doing in a scary hood like this ! Also can you make silent hill bOnUs ViDeO ! (;
I like how, with the cutscene removed, it looks like James just guns down Eddie in cold blood for no reason even though he wasn’t fighting back and was just trying desperately to escape
Interesting that because you don’t get the radio from killing the first monster, you don’t get to hear the static noise when enemies are nearby. Actually makes the game a lot scarier!
My man, I absolutely adore these videos. I've watched every single one no matter if I'm even remotely interested in the game involved, because the stories you share and your presentation are just so top-notch. Please keep it up, and take as long as you need.
The town is probably scrambling and triping over itself to get all the fucked up shit in place as James is sprinting through Silent Hill with the grace and speed of an Olympian gold medalist.
Yes!! You're my favorite speedrun commentator(or explainer? lol), by far. Something about your tone of voice and your ability to entertain & fill most of the empty air yet stay relevant to whats happening is immaculate. Keep it up man!!!
fuck yeah new ThaRixer video, literally my favourite channel ever, with a close second being DougDoug. Absolutely love your channel, its always my highest priority if I see a notification for a video of yours
Only in the video game community would there be a group of people actively hunting down the fastest way a man can experience the worst traumatizing horror
I rarely put commentaries but I watched all your videos and Silent Hill 2 is one of my favorite game of all time so thanks for this awesome video. Keep up the good work, greetings from Belgium in Europe !! ^^
Definitely love these videos. They feel more relaxed and give a nice, closer look at how runs are done. Also the fact that they're in horror games like Silent Hill feels like a nice change of pace as well. :)
Glad to see this finally came out! Just recently finished this game and it has quickly become one of my favorites. Happy to know some of my best friends in speedrunning could lend a hand to this project as well!
I've had this video on my watch later for months. At home sick and decided to finally watch it. Really liking this style, often I watch speedruns and I'm like wtf is going on. I've never even played Silent Hill.
Your production quality is masterful. These type of videos always get me excited the moment I see them in my feed. Somehow the bell icon got changed off, so I fixed it.
I've begun learning to speedrun this game and while I'm far from good at it, I can't recommend it enough. It's such a fun experience and getting my first time-saved splits after all these years of watching speedruns feels unreal.
This brought back some memories. I used to watch Nubzombie when he first came onto the Silent Hill speed running scene. I’m unable to watch him much anymore since I am no longer on graveyard shift. But all the little tips and tricks from quick saving and the RNG on the clock.
Great video, I was waiting for it and was pretty sad when it did not came out at Halooween, I thought it won´t come out anymore, but here it is and I love it
I hardly comment on RUclips but man I found your channel through your ratchet videos and within 2 days almost binged watched your entire your channel. Thank you for all the effort that you make into documenting speedruns and glitches. It was such a breath of fresh air. Sadly I only have a few videos left but that makes me excited for the content to come. Thank you again, you really make some exceptional content ♥️
i played silent hill 2 during 2021 and it was the first silent hill i had ever played and have never watched anything about it, i never spoiled myself with the ending nor been spoiled, and at first I thought the voice acting was really goofy and cheesy but after playing through the game and getting immersed, it almost felt more real as james acted like people you would find in real life, not overly serious sounding like a voice actor, but they sound serious enough in their own rights as a normal individual. And the music, so perfectly orchestrated, with such bangers. plus the graphics are quite amazing for its time especially with the cutscenes. James is such a relatable character on the whole level of him just wanting a normal life, but not getting that because of his ill wife causing him to be shackled by her, but when in silent hill maria gives him the alternative to a more fun and fulfilling life that acts just as a band aid to the full issue. But what really got me was Eddies character, he's portrayed as this big fat idiot who just seems like comedic relief but turns out to have this really tragic story that makes him seem so evil because hes so socially inept. From a completely fresh view of the game, it was absolutely amazing, and from a gameplay perspective, I really enjoyed the tank controls since re 4 is one of my favorite games.
I also played SH2 in 2021 for the first time ever. I knew nothing about the story of this game so it made it more enjoyable for me. I remember that at first I wasn't sure If I wanted to finish it because I was quite angry that I managed to survive PH first fight at my first try only to die 15 minutes later by some monster and I had to reload a save before the fight with PH. I thought this game is too hard for me but after some thinking, I decided to go on. I'm glad I did because finally I've fallen in love with this game and with the whole series (well, except Origins and Homecoming). When I finished SH2 I played all SH games apart from Book Of Memories because it's shit. To this day my favourite one remains Silent Hill 3. I love Heather and her sassiness.
A lot of people have made the observation that Silent Hill 2's voice cast falls into the uncanny valley. There is a humanity to each character's line delivery that is simply not there with professional voice actors doing 'movie voices', but they are human in an almost off-putting way (even James), that is to say, they actually sound like mentally ill people who have stilted speech patterns. This makes them more real and unsettling to listen to. There is no comparison between Silent Hill 2 voices and actual bad voice acting like the first Resident Evil. These actors were milked for the perfect delivery by TeamSilent.
Absolutely Ricky, I love these kind of videos and I'd love one on SH3 next halloween ^-^ The whole frame rng mechanic is super interesting! They definitely did the right choice by allowing it to become part of official runs.
Love the Silent Hill runs and was looking forward to this! Hope to see Silent Hill 3 explained next year. Your videos are always super engaging and entertaining :)
I just realized, that I‘ve seen the video on the first one. I was confused how I recognized a video from just a month ago without having watched it. Great narration again, very well done.
Not really into speedrunning but I've liked your channel for your easy to digest video breakdowns. Commentary ones like this are fun, wouldn't mind seeing more of these types of uploads.
What a great video!! I always loved this game, and I’ve never really considered the speedrunning capabilities it could have, especially after your first video. Once again, a great doc Ricky!
this channel is the definition of quality over quality in my opinion definitely the best types of channels, super under rated youtuber for how engaging your content is
I actually had no idea which ending would happen, and wasn't planning to even try to guess. But then, during the corridor before the final boss, I remembered that the amount of time that the player spends in the corridor matters. If the player runs through it and leaves as fast as possible, which the speedrunner obviously does, then James exits as soon as Mary tells him to. But if the player doesn't leave, then Mary becomes increasingly angry that James is still there, before finally breaking down and begging him to stay. The chosen option probably represents how the event actually happened. The former shows James is able to let go of Mary and 'leave'. While the latter shows him still hanging on to Mary, to the point of clinging to her substitute: 'Maria'. Since I didn't notice any other ending-affecting actions being taken, my guess was 'Leave'.
Personally, in the several times I've played this game, I've always stayed until Mary completely stops talking. I don't want to imagine her alone and afraid, apologizing to James and begging him to come back, but knowing that she's driven him away.
Great job man!
Great job man!
Great job man!
Aaron! Great to see you here! Ya English bastard how are you? Wow it's been a very long time.
@@totalhydration5240 ñ
@Void No that's not true, at least for Fatal Frame and Silent Hill 2 they have been exactly the same, the only thing that changes the puzzles is the Riddle Difficulty.
Well presented. Unsure if it is the writing or your voice, maybe both, but it was really chill to listen to. Great video.
nice seeing you here
Oh my! Mr viper! Hello!
I'm really happy to see the likes of DarkViper watching these videos. Amazing.
It's his connection to, and apparent enjoyment of what he's doing that makes his content so enthralling.
Ayy Matto.
All that can be said about this run is one thing.
"GAME SAVED!"
Which ironically is what the PC version did to silent hill 2 considering konami today
I played silent hill 2 on a tube television, with black and white color scheme during lonely sleepless nights in a rented rundown apartment. That place was already creepy enough on its own, greatly enhancing my experience. I'll never forget jumping down that historical society hole at 3AM. One of the best games ever.
so you played silent hill in real life i guess
Bro is James.
I watched my mom play as a child. Wayyy creepyb
Bro said when life gives you lemon
Wow that sh2_luck story is crazy, lol. Nice vid.
@@ItsJabo You are not funny.
Cybeeeerrrr shelllllllll what’s a beautiful human specimens such as yourself doing in a scary hood like this ! Also can you make silent hill bOnUs ViDeO ! (;
Id be down to watch a whole series of you walking us through historical speedruns from various games over the years
SummoningSalt does videos just like this, except he mostly covers Nintendo games. I don’t care for those games but his scripting is top notch.
Summoning salt is brilliant
the commentary was the main resone i watch AGDQ/SGDQ/The equivalent.
@@chrism1518 lol I know I’m late to the party but that’s exactly what I was about to say haha
@@lukycharms9970 That's what the thumbs up button is for buddy, not the reply function
I'm down with spooky videos after Halloween. We have to fight back against Christmas's illegal occupation of November.
Yea my stores are already full of christmas stuff, yet nobody is selling sugarlaced almonds on the streets, what a scam. Still halloween in my book
yeah I despise this
Eh, I love Christmas so I don’t mind it.
Christmas just starts and ends when it fuckin wants, I swear. Smh
Haha that's a very funny but very true mission statement
13:37 "Now Aaron is just gonna stand in the corner to assert his dominance".
I like how, with the cutscene removed, it looks like James just guns down Eddie in cold blood for no reason even though he wasn’t fighting back and was just trying desperately to escape
Interesting that because you don’t get the radio from killing the first monster, you don’t get to hear the static noise when enemies are nearby. Actually makes the game a lot scarier!
There's something chilling about that radio though
@@benroberts2336 huh radio whats goin on with that radio?
@@ErikAlves300 it makes noise when enemies are near. The enemies can hear this noise too, generally.
@@hicknopunk he is quoting to harry from silent hill 1
@@soloparaplaystation6624 oh!
I loved watching James bust in and just blast Eddie with no hesitation and no conversation. Hilarious
You skip the cutscene and POW! Just like that!
A true gem of a game, all the love for it is 100% deserved. As always astonishing job on the production Ricky!
Speedrunners: A dedicate type of gamers who spend an immense amount of time playing a game in order to spend as little time playing it as possible.
This is Tas
It's been a long time since I saw the word "dedicate" as an adjective.
@@soloparaplaystation6624 what do you think the S stands for in TAS
"Who stores lightbulbs inside of a can?"
Me, who did exactly that last time I moved from one apartment to another:
ò.ó
My man, I absolutely adore these videos. I've watched every single one no matter if I'm even remotely interested in the game involved, because the stories you share and your presentation are just so top-notch. Please keep it up, and take as long as you need.
Thank you!
Love seeing his head turn just to glance at the enemies he is avoiding.
The town is probably scrambling and triping over itself to get all the fucked up shit in place as James is sprinting through Silent Hill with the grace and speed of an Olympian gold medalist.
James is just completely out of fucks to give, which makes this hilarious.
43:10 the cat is also vibin to the music
43:12 Love that little catjam on the bottom left
Yooo! New Rixer! I always love how selfless your videos are, more focused on the games runners and making them look like heroes
I can't thing of a more absurd game to speedrun than SH2, which is all about the mood, lol
Yes!! You're my favorite speedrun commentator(or explainer? lol), by far. Something about your tone of voice and your ability to entertain & fill most of the empty air yet stay relevant to whats happening is immaculate. Keep it up man!!!
No annoying music, no fake overly energetic annoying narrator. Perfect
I just wanted to say I appreciate you adding closed captions despite video being lengthy:)
This guy is crazy, the quick turns around corners are near perfect
fuck yeah new ThaRixer video, literally my favourite channel ever, with a close second being DougDoug. Absolutely love your channel, its always my highest priority if I see a notification for a video of yours
I don’t play horror games, but I love watching these commentated runs! Keep up the good work!
I found this by accident the week before Halloween 2022 lol
Only in the video game community would there be a group of people actively hunting down the fastest way a man can experience the worst traumatizing horror
I rarely put commentaries but I watched all your videos and Silent Hill 2 is one of my favorite game of all time so thanks for this awesome video. Keep up the good work, greetings from Belgium in Europe !! ^^
always fascinating learning about these things
Definitely love these videos. They feel more relaxed and give a nice, closer look at how runs are done. Also the fact that they're in horror games like Silent Hill feels like a nice change of pace as well. :)
I used to speed run when I was a kid but now I find it takes all the fun out of gaming.
“Today we’re fighting eddy”
*walks in, blasts eddy in the face*
*eddy walks out*
LOL
Ricky, you've bleesed me. This is exactly what I needed to finish my own WR history video.
lmao watching the eddy fight in a speed run is hilarious for some reason XD
Glad to see this finally came out! Just recently finished this game and it has quickly become one of my favorites. Happy to know some of my best friends in speedrunning could lend a hand to this project as well!
So glad this came out, loved the 1st one and was nearly dossapointed there was no 2nd one, so glad it came out, looking forward to it
I’ve never tried speed running but god damn I watched the jak2 video and I’ve been hooked on this channel since.
Amazing content man, keep it up!
Good Stuff man, always a pleasure to see some speedrun commentary
I've had this video on my watch later for months. At home sick and decided to finally watch it. Really liking this style, often I watch speedruns and I'm like wtf is going on. I've never even played Silent Hill.
13:26 the humiliation here is inmense. Kinda feel bad for him :(
So happy to see this uploaded! Can't wait to dive into this
Your production quality is masterful. These type of videos always get me excited the moment I see them in my feed. Somehow the bell icon got changed off, so I fixed it.
I was so excited to see this one, Ive watched the SH1 TAS more than a few times cause its damn interesting.
It's so funny when James is running room to room in the hospital and Maria just gets dragged along and then gets left in the dust
I lold at "its gonna go from fun and games to pretty fuckin scary now"
I've begun learning to speedrun this game and while I'm far from good at it, I can't recommend it enough. It's such a fun experience and getting my first time-saved splits after all these years of watching speedruns feels unreal.
EXACTLY what I was waiting for, thanks for sticking to your plan!
13:22 I love how it just went from 0 to 100 in less than 5 seconds
38:04 Eddie is like "Fuck this shit." *RUNS AWAY*
This brought back some memories. I used to watch Nubzombie when he first came onto the Silent Hill speed running scene. I’m unable to watch him much anymore since I am no longer on graveyard shift. But all the little tips and tricks from quick saving and the RNG on the clock.
never been interested in speedruns but im glad i found this channel randomly. these gamers got skill and also i love ur commentary 🤙🏻
I just find how quickly Eddie was dispatched to be hilarious. James ain't playing around.
"Nothing scary in this tunnel...except for the SUBSCRIBE BUTTON"
I screamed. Don't scare me like that....*subs*
Can't wait for Silent Hill 3 Record next year.
Thank you for making this video on my favorite game of all time. I'm looking forward to more!
Great video, I was waiting for it and was pretty sad when it did not came out at Halooween, I thought it won´t come out anymore, but here it is and I love it
Wait, so you don't kill the, uh, "Abstract Daddy"? Oh no, Angela!
I've been watching your videos for a bit now, and i love the work you put into it. Keep up the good work!
as a silent hill fan it's amazing that there's still plenty of people who talk about this game I love it
love your stuff. this type of video where you explain things as they come is pretty dope. it's great to hear it from a legendary speed runner.
Was not expecting the dog ending.
I hardly comment on RUclips but man I found your channel through your ratchet videos and within 2 days almost binged watched your entire your channel. Thank you for all the effort that you make into documenting speedruns and glitches. It was such a breath of fresh air. Sadly I only have a few videos left but that makes me excited for the content to come. Thank you again, you really make some exceptional content ♥️
i played silent hill 2 during 2021 and it was the first silent hill i had ever played and have never watched anything about it, i never spoiled myself with the ending nor been spoiled, and at first I thought the voice acting was really goofy and cheesy but after playing through the game and getting immersed, it almost felt more real as james acted like people you would find in real life, not overly serious sounding like a voice actor, but they sound serious enough in their own rights as a normal individual. And the music, so perfectly orchestrated, with such bangers. plus the graphics are quite amazing for its time especially with the cutscenes. James is such a relatable character on the whole level of him just wanting a normal life, but not getting that because of his ill wife causing him to be shackled by her, but when in silent hill maria gives him the alternative to a more fun and fulfilling life that acts just as a band aid to the full issue. But what really got me was Eddies character, he's portrayed as this big fat idiot who just seems like comedic relief but turns out to have this really tragic story that makes him seem so evil because hes so socially inept. From a completely fresh view of the game, it was absolutely amazing, and from a gameplay perspective, I really enjoyed the tank controls since re 4 is one of my favorite games.
i also played it this year for the first time completely blind and I feel the same. So brilliant
This game is just incredible even after years.. I played this and the 3 and I think they’re probably the best horror games in my opinion
I also played SH2 in 2021 for the first time ever. I knew nothing about the story of this game so it made it more enjoyable for me. I remember that at first I wasn't sure If I wanted to finish it because I was quite angry that I managed to survive PH first fight at my first try only to die 15 minutes later by some monster and I had to reload a save before the fight with PH. I thought this game is too hard for me but after some thinking, I decided to go on. I'm glad I did because finally I've fallen in love with this game and with the whole series (well, except Origins and Homecoming). When I finished SH2 I played all SH games apart from Book Of Memories because it's shit. To this day my favourite one remains Silent Hill 3. I love Heather and her sassiness.
A lot of people have made the observation that Silent Hill 2's voice cast falls into the uncanny valley. There is a humanity to each character's line delivery that is simply not there with professional voice actors doing 'movie voices', but they are human in an almost off-putting way (even James), that is to say, they actually sound like mentally ill people who have stilted speech patterns. This makes them more real and unsettling to listen to. There is no comparison between Silent Hill 2 voices and actual bad voice acting like the first Resident Evil. These actors were milked for the perfect delivery by TeamSilent.
Absolutely Ricky, I love these kind of videos and I'd love one on SH3 next halloween ^-^
The whole frame rng mechanic is super interesting! They definitely did the right choice by allowing it to become part of official runs.
Love the Silent Hill runs and was looking forward to this! Hope to see Silent Hill 3 explained next year. Your videos are always super engaging and entertaining :)
amazing mate :) keep it up. Congrats to Aaron on the speed run.
'2nd floor innit' you're spot on there 😅 great vid man👍all the way from UK 🇬🇧
I just realized, that I‘ve seen the video on the first one. I was confused how I recognized a video from just a month ago without having watched it. Great narration again, very well done.
Just watched the silent hill 1 tas at halloween again so this is perfect
late nothing, holloween is more a state of mind. great video, thank you
Scrolling RUclips for two minutes for something to watch.. This is my jam
I forgot your first Silent Hill video was how I found your channel. Was glad to see this on my feed.
I love your videos, I’ve watched the spyro, touval video so many times, helps me sleep
Great video as always, thnaks for always taking the time to really explain this stuff in depth, it's always so interesting.
This is one of the best games ever to be made, the memories i have with this game are priceless and eternal.
Not really into speedrunning but I've liked your channel for your easy to digest video breakdowns. Commentary ones like this are fun, wouldn't mind seeing more of these types of uploads.
Banger video my dude
Characters in speed runs are great because it seems like they’ve done this before and know everything seems funny to think that way
definitely do silent hill 3, thats my favorite in the series. i used to speed run it when i was a kid
Eddies death scream has me dying
What a great video!!
I always loved this game, and I’ve never really considered the speedrunning capabilities it could have, especially after your first video.
Once again, a great doc Ricky!
This video is one of the coolest on RUclips, I was trapped into it and every joke was priceless
Please yes Silent Hill 3!! I’m going to show my friends this channel. Good quality stuff!!
this channel is the definition of quality over quality in my opinion definitely the best types of channels, super under rated youtuber for how engaging your content is
These videos are always awesome! Can understand they take a lot of time to be made, but that makes them all the more better. Keep it up Rix!
Ah, I didn't know they'd cracked the RNG in this game as well. Interesting stuff.
Love these vids, silent hill 3 next year would be great! So would other videos like this :)
thank you for acknowledging the queens english, great vid xx
@43:10 Señor cat is jamming to some classic 🐱🤠
Nice video man, well edited and entertaining to watch
Love the content man. Keep up the great work!
Watched dark and loud, outstanding content as always.
Yes! I was worried that this wasn't going to happen this year.
Awesome video, i love the commentary you added and how you fill in boring parts of the game (like item collecting) with cool facts like the RNG stuff!
I actually had no idea which ending would happen, and wasn't planning to even try to guess. But then, during the corridor before the final boss, I remembered that the amount of time that the player spends in the corridor matters. If the player runs through it and leaves as fast as possible, which the speedrunner obviously does, then James exits as soon as Mary tells him to. But if the player doesn't leave, then Mary becomes increasingly angry that James is still there, before finally breaking down and begging him to stay.
The chosen option probably represents how the event actually happened. The former shows James is able to let go of Mary and 'leave'. While the latter shows him still hanging on to Mary, to the point of clinging to her substitute: 'Maria'.
Since I didn't notice any other ending-affecting actions being taken, my guess was 'Leave'.
Personally, in the several times I've played this game, I've always stayed until Mary completely stops talking. I don't want to imagine her alone and afraid, apologizing to James and begging him to come back, but knowing that she's driven him away.
You are to blame for my sudden interest in speedrunning history.
Love your videos, dude.
Go binge SummoningSalt.
loved the vibing cat during the music box section
Kinda surprised it wasn't the "In Water" ending, given how long his health was down.
I wouldn’t expect that In Water could be triggered from low health alone since it’s mostly scored by items.