Quick Questions XIV: A Question Reasked (Part 1)

3 and 1 are the best.

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wow here i thought it was a known fact 2 was the best

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no, 2 is the best spiderman movie.

no, that’s 3

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This is a great example of My Favorite Band syndrome, where you start off loving the critical darling and probably the best record, but after years of derangement you’re now constantly talking up their b-sides and early career experiments.

Dark Side of the Moon isn’t exciting any more, you’re blasting Ummagumma and Obscured by Clouds out the windows of your jeep.

Edit: I guess this would better apply if everyone were talking up 4, but sue me, I wanted to sneak Pink Floyd into this conversation.

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4 is the one I started with, and a fine choice. But some people lose interest in the second half. I think 2 would be the one to go with if you think you’re unlikely to play through more than one.

That said, it’s hard to imagine finishing any of the first four and not being curious about the others.

Shattered Memories might not be the best one to start with, but it’s worth playing. Origins, too, for that matter. It at least approximates the same appeal as the first four.

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the only silent hill game i’ve finished is homecoming, and i thought it was pretty good

Also the best spider man movie

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My first Floyd album was Meddle and I’ll stan it for all time

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I briefly thought we were discussing Spiderman 2 (the game) vs Spiderman: Shattered Dimensions

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Nabokov fans have a really serious case of this too

Pale Fire isn’t actually better than Lolita, guys. Not even close

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what about pnin and bend sinister

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Speak Memory (I haven’t read it :))

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I started with Shattered Memories and I grew up to be a perfectly reasonable fellow who believes that Silent Hill 2 was kinda mediocre. See, totally not crazy at all!

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3 is the best silent hill, but it’s a direct sequel to 1, so if you wanna be cool you can play 1->3, with the caveat that your best bet for 3 is to emulate the ps2 version (or get a disc and play on original hardware), because the pc remaster is atrocious (though there might be some mods that fix it?)… or you can just play siren instead, which is on ps4 to boot. sh2 is massively overrated imo.

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I was with you until you suggested they play Siren… Siren is pretty interesting, and the ending is amazing, but that game blew so much to play.

siren owns!!! the sequels are bad tho

I’d suggest just watching somebody play Siren.

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I’m totally sympathetic to the “2 is worse in practice than 1 or 3” argument, it just does a lot of really thematically unique stuff so I don’t feel I need to contest that