tiger@sound.net on 2/4/2006 at 16:51

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(SmallFish, can you have multiple save-games on your XBox and how many?)

. . . Here is what I am doing about special replays of missions . . .
I will always save one game, at the very beginning, before any real action.
And then I use that Quick Save as my "running game" within that mission.
(And when I am very near the end, I will save-over that Quick Save.)

And that will become my "restart save-game" for the very next mission.
And then, from that mission to starting-up the next mission,
I can nicely decide and change the level of game-play, also. :thumb:

So, for your "restart save-game" of the "ShalBridge Cradle Mission",
[SPOILER] I would say that you need one for the prior "Audale Mission". And this will be long after Inspector Drept talks about the Hag at his workshop and just before leaving the Old Quarter, for your "ShaleBridge Cradle" start [/SPOILER]

ShadowKeeper on 7/3/2007 at 02:57

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Yeah, like any taffer with a pulse, I have to say that the Cradle level is an amazing piece of interactive art. It was so radically different than any other thief level I'd played that I was totally unprepared for it emotionally. It avoided most of the thief cliches (the reassuring conversations of guards in the distance. The bored sighs of a long night's patrol. The gentle humming of pedestrians...)

The only thing I've experienced that is any way similar to it would be the dream sequences in Max Payne 2 (another amazing piece of storytelling through interactive art imho). Even the green is the same in max payne dreams and in the cradle. But the cradle was much more disturbing since it threatened to trap my very soul. In Max Payne, I knew my character would wake up eventually. In the Cradle, I feared he never would.

Beleg Cúthalion on 21/3/2007 at 08:33

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One of the absurdest moments I had inside the Cradle was when I was playing with the Minimalist Project. I was finally...able to eat that fifty-year-old apple near the Pauper's Ward. :erm: (:eww:)

tiger@sound.net on 27/3/2007 at 20:26

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Heck ~s:a:n:i:t:y~ try playing it, like I do with Silent Hill 2. . .
(Btw, for some SH2 trivia, players have actually taken their portable PCs to old graveyards, at night, just to get a wee bit more of that Silent Hill "feel".) :ebil:

So, at night, turn off any outside noise and excess lights in the room.
And always remember to turn-up the difficulty for some more fun in your game.

And then become just another Ghost. . .
And just ghost the stuff out of that "bad boy" Cradle! :angel:

... Jim ...

Dia on 28/3/2007 at 13:07

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:weird:

One does not endeavor to encourage heart-stopping moments, let alone enhance them. At least this one doesn't! :p

The last time I started the Cradle it was a stormy night; I was home alone and the thunder and lightening merely added to the ambience (and to my tension). I could only play for so long before I was drenched in sweat and every muscle in my body started to ache from being tensed. I remember deciding I'd had enough for the evening and walking away from my pc muttering fervently, 'It's only a game; it's only a game...'

That was about two years ago. I'll not be playing that level again any time soon. Count on it.