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As it stands. It was marked down to 19.99 yesterday which is the price I purchased it at. I went back online today and noticed it's even lower. So for those who are interested, you can get a game that was released not that long ago for a budget price. I can't wait to play it!

http://www.amazon.com/Silent-Hill-Do...ll%3A+Downpour

There's a reason why it's at a budget price. I picked it up for $20 at BBY when it was the DotD. I lasted about 2-3 hours before I went to playing something else.

It's just....Not good. Such a disappointment. Not sure about the 360 version but with the PS3 version I ran into a lot of lags just in those 2-3 hours of gameplay.

OP, mentioning the $8 S/H would have been nice

Originally Posted by GBAstar OP, mentioning the $8 S/H would have been nice

I noticed it, but thought the default was the 2-3 day shipping. I figured there would be an option for standard shipping at 3.99???

Originally Posted by TaylorM06 There's a reason why it's at a budget price. I picked it up for $20 at BBY when it was the DotD. I lasted about 2-3 hours before I went to playing something else. It's just....Not good. Such a disappointment. Not sure about the 360 version but with the PS3 version I ran into a lot of lags just in those 2-3 hours of gameplay.

Well that's just your opinion. Not saying I'm not going to value it, but I've read decent-good reviews of the game and user reviews with most saying it's at least better than Homecoming(which I thought was alright).

I'm a long-time Silent Hill fan, and I got it on release day and played through it twice in a row. I really liked it (especially my second run through when I did all of the side quests). Also some cool easter eggs and references in there for fans of the series. I guess it depends on what you're into. It does have technical issues (stuttering framerate here and there and the occasional loading pause) and some bugs (nothing game-breaking, at least not as far as the main story goes). They're supposedly still working on a patch. The game was good enough that I was able to overlook the flaws, though, and probably got 25 or 30 hours of horror fun out of it. Definitely a solid deal at that price.

3rd party, not Prime eligible.. not as good of a deal as the OP makes out.

Originally Posted by miniviking10 I noticed it, but thought the default was the 2-3 day shipping. I figured there would be an option for standard shipping at 3.99???

Nope; the $7.99 is standard shipping and there is no option for combined or discounted shipping if you order more copies.


Basically the game is ~ $24 which is still a solid price

Originally Posted by miniviking10 Well that's just your opinion. Not saying I'm not going to value it, but I've read decent-good reviews of the game and user reviews with most saying it's at least better than Homecoming(which I thought was alright).

I just expected something better, and was disapointed. I missed out on Homecoming, so I can't compare the two.

It doesn't matter how good of a game is, it's virtually UNPLAYABLE thanks to how insanely buggy it is. A fellow user on there made this video to illustrate how completely unfinished and untested this game was:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amu1h8JwVxY

It was only like that when walking through town,and it never came up whenever I was in the middle of combat.It's not a gamebreaking issue,just an annoyance.Other than that,I thought it was the best Silent Hill since the third,with Murphy being one of the best protagonist of the series.

Originally Posted by TaylorM06 I missed out on Homecoming

No you didn't, don't worry.

I mean, it wasn't the worst game I ever played or anything..but it truly defined the word mediocre.

Despite that, I will still try out Downpour someday. But it will be on my terms (sub $15 after tax & s/h).

I watched the video above for about a minute. I didn't see anything I would consider to be unplayable in it, though it certainly isn't a standard for quality gameplay.

i installed the game to my hd and had no problems. love the game.

Anyone know how the stereoscopic 3d was?

Originally Posted by miniviking10 Well that's just your opinion. Not saying I'm not going to value it, but I've read decent-good reviews of the game and user reviews with most saying it's at least better than Homecoming(which I thought was alright).

Some people really liked it, it's definitely mixed (and a lot of people experience glitches which ruin things), whereas Homecoming was pretty much a disappointment to everyone.

Lol...I love how gamers these days jump straight to the word "unplayable" whenever a game has a few framerate dips or the occasional stutter.

$7.99 for shipping a game. No, thanks.

I had it for the PS3 from that BB DOTD and I just could NOT keep playing it with all of the framerate drops/stuttering. I really did wanna play this game too, but at times the framerate drop was SO bad on the PS3 that I thought the game had frozen several times.

Originally Posted by RaidenMGS3 It doesn't matter how good of a game is, it's virtually UNPLAYABLE thanks to how insanely buggy it is. A fellow user on there made this video to illustrate how completely unfinished and untested this game was:

That is hardly unplayable. I agree it is annoying but you're being a bit dramatic.

I suppose some people just have a higher tolerance for that sort of thing than others. I played WoW at 5-20 fps for years!

Raiding Black Temple at 5 fps was a treat.

I played through the game and really enjoyed it alot, i always install my games to my HDD, But it NEVER lagged like that video showed.