Would I like Silent Hill?

[hollowleviathan]

The Silent Hill games (1-4, primarily) are third-person slow psychological horror games. You're supposed to be bad at combat in them, and try to avoid it as much as possible because the monsters (or are they people?) are generally really scary and not worth bludgeoning. Also, most of the time you'll only encounter isolated enemies, not raging mobs. They have great story with a lot of subtle and not so subtle points and symbolism, and a great time.

Silent Hill 1 controls are tank-like, in that left-right turns your character and up-down makes them go forward-back instead of moving towards the direction you hit on the screen, so that takes a lot of getting used to.

While SH2 and 4 do not requie you to play the previous games story-wise, definitely play SH1 before SH3. And, after playing those 4, you can play the others if you like, I won't tell you to avoid them, but I don't care for them.