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Post by blacky on Dec 17, 2010 3:21:26 GMT
A fun future Silent Hill game could be Douglas searching for James. Would be fun, playing as a detective would give an new demention to the game, with a gather the clues and solve mysteries game play. the only proublem is if it's to be an Silent hill game, it would require there to be monsters and the otherworld. Which would suggest that Douglas has encountered them in the past. Dougas said the town was screwed up. But I think he meant that as to the people living there, and didn't encounter any Silent hill weridness. In Silent hill 3 he had no idea what was going on and even said that he had seen nothing like it before. He also had to ask Heather if going to Silent hill would be safe. He didn't sound like an silent hill veteran to me It would only work if it was an no monster scenario based in the real world
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Post by Judas on Dec 17, 2010 7:20:29 GMT
Perhaps he would somehow be drawn back to the town to resume his search for James, just like the town drew James in using Mary's letter. Although, after the events of Silent Hill 3, it would take a lot to draw Douglas back. Assuming Douglas survived SH3, that is.
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Post by mr. worncoat on Dec 22, 2010 13:04:25 GMT
Two ideas come to mind: the old amnesia excuse, or else the game has little to nothing direct with Silent Hill's more seedier underside. Douglas would interact with people, following James' trail in the real world, gradually coming into contact with the culties well enough that, maybe, he comes to meet Claudia or what have you.
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Post by Judas on Dec 23, 2010 3:45:00 GMT
A Silent Hill with no Otherworld, while intriguing, would be a commercial disaster I think.
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Post by k0n0k0 on Jan 15, 2011 14:53:19 GMT
Just like a lot of people, I also do believe it could be James. Everything seems to lead to him.
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Post by mr. worncoat on Jan 19, 2011 23:38:32 GMT
And in the coming game, we'll find out that James was Harry's old college buddy and that the protagonist shared a cell with Walter.
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Post by moraismeep on Oct 19, 2011 23:19:03 GMT
I think the problem with these suggestions..."POSSIBLE SPOILER" there's one theory that James is actually dead and that he committed suicide before you finished the game. Which means that he can't leave Silent Hill. I'll prove this in the following details both physically visible and gently stretched interpretations: If you look at the pose of the "dead man" in the Woodside apartments (the guy supposedly modeled after both Harry and James) in front of the television, it's the exact same chair and nearly the same pose as when you watch the video-tape in your room in the Toluca Lake-view Hotel. -The surreal trip through the jail in which it is obviously stated that you are taking a trip deeper and deeper into James' mind (a crumbling, decaying place). -The death of Eddy -an also blond character- whose only purpose was to displace blame onto others for his own inability to cope with the harshness of his reality, (similar to James facing the inevitability of his wife dying) could easily be a representation to how James was slowly coming to terms with the fact he murdered his wife. May also be a very subtle hint to James having been in the military at one point and having to take orders or some form of child abuse/parental neglect and throwing off all authority figures. -Laura fleeing from James when he tells her that Mary is dead, that he killed her, is another example. Laura, also being a blond character, like James, could be a representation of his naivete. Perhaps his denial and his innocence, created to repress the memories. We can see this relationship in how she treats Eddy (the side of James that murdered Maria), it's one of disgust, he is weak for having succumbed to killing and denying the reality of the situation. She also never sticks around in one place very long and James is chasing her around (trying to recapture that feeling of denial/innocence and repress the memory of murdering Mary). There's no proof that she even really existed other than her telling James that she was a girl Mary meant to adopt. Yet in all the time he visits Mary he never once noticed Laura with his wife? -Facing the two judges (pyramid heads) in the hotel+the speech proceeding it. This directly confirms that they aren't real, that none of monsters are real. After this fight, in fact, most of the monsters just seem to disappear... -Maria is another example of James' spiraling psyche and reasons why he could have easily killed himself. Her very presence was created to fill the void James had in his heart for Mary. Her hair is also blond (instead of brown like Mary's) like the other two "people". Going back to the previous theory that Eddy is a figment, branched off of James' negative denial, he never meets Maria, even though they're within shouting distance of one another at one point, in the bowling alley. This could be a forced separation because James' killer instincts shouldn't be mixing with the entity filling the void in his mind/heart he has for Mary. She is also not a real person, but hardcore fans that have seen this just from the "Born from a Wish" special side-game or any obvious notes in the game...even the hint that it was just a stripper's name in the SH3. -Angela Orsco going up the burning staircase. This woman is a metaphor for suicide and child abuse if I've ever seen it. The closer you look though...she seems to be a dead-ringer for Alessa. Dark brown hair, only seems to be interested in finding her "mama" (which was the only family figure that Alessa is evidenced in having), and the burning staircase (supposed method in how she was sacrificed for the "God"). There's a chance...maybe James and Heather have already seen one another in some eerie way. -And finally, if we look at the arrival of the dead body that inspired this theory and when it appears...it's not until after Pyramid head first appears...staring you down from the other side of those iron bars. It's like he's saying..."I'm watching you James, I know what you've done. I've come to judge you." And...the final time you see him isn't until after you watch the tape in the hotel. Full circle.
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Post by Judas on Oct 20, 2011 6:31:32 GMT
@moraismeep - Likely everyone who found this site has already played through SH2 an embarrassing number of times, but you still might want to put some of those plot points in a spoiler tag.
As for your theory, even if it were true why couldn't Douglas be looking for James? It's not like he would have gotten the memo.
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Post by moraismeep on Oct 20, 2011 10:30:05 GMT
@ Judas - Sorry, it's a force of habit, I've accidentally horribly spoiled multiple movies, games, and books for friends by not asking first, so pardon the sage to hear me out. I don't know how critical people are on this board so I'm just walking on egg-shells to avoid accidentally stepping on a toe or two.
Also, I wasn't discrediting that Douglas is looking for James. Hell, I do believe he "is" searching for him. My only input was, with that long-ass theory, was that James might not be around for him to find. Or...the only James that Douglas would find, would be a corpse, maybe even a ghost of a person, cursed to forever be... walking the mile, walking alone...in the town that takes all.
Also, Douglas didn't seem to be as deep as the other characters in the series with the kind of problems that he had.... I mean he kinda had little with the mention of his son, but that was kinda it. =/ I mean...the only way I could see them extending it might be to make another Origins...but I'm not a fan of that version of SH really.
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