Ok lads, I'm about to fall for it. I want to get into the Silent Hill series

You play Silent Hill 1, and try to get the best ending. Don't use a guide, the game was meant to be replayed, just explore.
Then you play Silent Hill 2, and it's recommended you get all of its endings. Silent Hill 2 also has an extra scenario called "Born From a Dream" included in some releases.
Silent Hill 3 after that, and you're pretty much done. SH3 is a fairly conclusive game.
If you want more, Silent Hill 4 is a very Japanese game, literally about being locked in an apartment and haunted by vengeful spirits, but its second half is legendary for how dull it is.

The other spin-offs all kind of suck, and also lack good PC ports, or require obscure hardware to play.
>Origins
Notorious for its development hell which leads to a nonsensical story that contradicts multiple aspects of SH1, it also just doesn't really have a lot going for it. It also plays into the most generic and bleh trope possible Travis was the killer all along!!!111!11
Only released on PSP and PS2, PSP release is superior
>Homecoming
Barely a Silent Hill game, also got its direction raped in development, this time by one of the Origins guys funnily enough, Tomm Huelett. Attempts to be Silent Hill's RE4 and fails horribly, and a pretty dogshit predictable story that preys on gross out horror and referencing Pyramid Head.
Released only on PS3, Xbox 360, and PC, but the PC port is ass.
>Shattered Memories
Another fairly mediocre game, but this is probably the least mediocre of these three SH games. Has a competent enough story that tries to actually have things like themes, but the actual game may as well not exist and it lack any sense of subtlety whatsoever.
Wii/PS2/PSP, Wii best
>Downpour
It's actually pretty good Eurojank, issue is that it's trapped on two consoles that can barely run it, meaning it lacks the best part of Eurojank- mod support. The post-4 game I recommend the most.
PS3/360
>Book of Memories
SH Dungeon crawler, sucked ass, I owned 5 copies.
Vita

Just started downloading, seems to be working fine. Thanks again

I'll definitely go blind first in any case, if the SH games are as replayable as they're said to be, I'll enjoy getting all the different endings etc.
Shame about the spin-offs, if the mainline games grow on me I'll definitely check them out
>I owned 5 copies.
Based collector

Get the Silent Hill HD collection, it's the quickest and easiest way to play. And don't go with the original voices, they hired a bunch of no-name actors who can barely string a sentence together.

And here's the last few things to round it off.
>Silent Hill: Play Novel
A visual novel adaptation of Silent Hill for the GBA. Last I checked it had been fully translated (I think?) and it reportedly comes with alternate scenarios and endings for SH1.
>Silent Hill: The Arcade
Actually a pretty fun arcade shooter with arcade tier voice acting. Story is worthless, but it has an insane UFO ending that makes it all worth it if you came for that.
>Silent Hill: The Experience
Only putting this here because you might see it, it's a package of Silent Hill media relating to the movie that was about to come out at the time, as well as a new Silent Hill comic. The comic sucks.
>Silent Hill: Orphan
A trilogy of phone games that you can't play officially anymore, but they're all pretty nonsensical and play like a shitty Newgrounds flash game.
>Silent Hill (The Movie)
This is alright schlock on its own, just don't go into it expecting a faithful representation of Silent Hill. Completely fucks up the portrayal of several characters and really makes a lot of SH1 stuff into really schlocky horror. If you want a comparison, I'd say it's like how the Higurashi visual novel had to rely solely on descriptions for its horror, and it allowed itself to be understated, and then the anime came along and just showed little girls killing each other and made it a selling point. That's a very obscure comparison for people in a Silent Hill thread.
>Silent Hill: Revelations
Laughably bad sequel film, honestly worth checking out if you want to lose your shit at an awful adaptation of SH3.
>Downpour: Anne's Story
Reportedly this was scrapped DLC for Downpour that got turned into a novel. I say reportedly because I am convinced nobody has read it.
>P.T.
The final Silent Hill entry is Kojima's teaser P.T., which you can't play anymore unless you're fine with mediocre recreations of it. An experience unlike any other, but it's also completely antithetical to what Silent Hill is.
That's it.

Just play 1-3 and 4 if you really like the series. The rest are dogshit and not even worth checking out. Everything that's not made by Team Silent has zero worth.

I seriously cannot fathom how anyone could even try to recommend or defend Downpoor.
Would it not be for the 0rigins' lore rape, DP would be the most insulting of all-the nu-SH games.
The gameplay is terrible and very buggy, the story is practically nonexistent with stupid as hell characters, and the OST and visual design are just pathetic even if compared to the PS2 games.

>Downpour: Anne's Story
I thought that was just a bunch of comics. Read them years ago and I really remember nothing about them, they were totally forgettable.

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I wouldn't say the SH games are replayable so much as they have reason to replay. Especially with SH2 the games show they don't have a lot of gameplay depth that lends themselves to replays, but once you know what you're doing, a game like Silent Hill 1 is short and easy.
Playing SH on original hardware is a tough order nowadays because the games cost over $100 a piece. Got 2-4 for $40 and wanted to wait for 1 to get a price drop, which never came. Fuck, Shattered Memories on PS2 is almost $200 and it's the least interesting version of the game.
I found it to be more interesting than any of the other post-4 SH games. Tried to do its own thing. It's complete jank, but once you play every game that preceded it, it doesn't really matter.
I guess it is. I misremembered I guess.

Silent Hill 1 - 3 are all fantastic games that become even better if your have some sort of sound system hooked up to your TV. Just a stereo receiver with 2 speakers (sub is option, but recommended) is all you need. Even Silent Hill 1's sound design is top notch.

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>mega into torrent
but for why

It's been said a few times, but 1 to 3 are the absolute musts. 4 if you really liked the games. Avoid everything else. Play the original games. Emulate if you cannot afford purchasing them in physical or through whatever the Sony e-store is called.

origins is a glorified phone game
homecoming and downpour are insufferable trash regardless if you compare them to other games or not

you sound like a big stupid cringy faggot

3 is better as port.