Silent Hill 4, Now with 50% less Piramid Heads! Options

[unitself]

So... SH4.
I love Silent Hill 2. I've never played 1 or 3, but I bet they're cool too. So, I was totally psyched when SH4 came out.
Now that I been playing it for a little bit, I am ... a bit ... underwhelmed. It's still a lot of fun, but I am just not getting into it the way SH2 got me. I think it's the lack of damage I dish out. The first monster things you run across are these horrible skinned dog looking things. Well, they are tough S.O.B.s! And you only have a damn bent pipe (and maybe a glass bottle) to hit them with... and they take ALOT of hits to go down. Meanwhile, they are chopping on you like no tomorrow. So, I soon found that running away is simply the best option. Then along came the ghosts. Now these guys don't die... they're already dead! So, you have to just run away from them too (for now)! And they have this ability to hurt you without touching you. It seems that you are allergic to ghosts and they give you a "killer" headache.
So... so far, I am doing alot of running away. Yeah, it's allows for some very tense moments, but I am kinda used to blasting my way past the ghoolys. Maybe that's why I am not very good at RE games. Still... I hope it gets a bit better. Yeah, I'm gonna play it all the way through, because I've read a bunch about it and I know there is ALOT more spooky stuff down the road. I just hope that I find a shot gun or something so I can just do what I wanna do. Blast those baddies!

Oh yeah... the apartment... Now, this part is very cool. I love looking out the peep hole at my front door and seeing something random going on in the outside world. I've even just looked out the window for a long time. I don't think I've even seen the same car, or set of cars, go by twice. Very nice touch.

[unitself]

Oh yeah, Crushinator, I forgot all about the non stack items in your inventory! I did notice the two packs of bullets side by side.
I don't really mind the inventory thing, I am used to it from all the RE games. I'm not saying I like it mind you, just that I am used to it.

You don't think the combat was harder than the others? Everytime I try to beat on a dog, it takes me forever! Like almost 10 hits or something! I know it wasn't like that on SH2, and I hope it wasn't that way in 1 and 3. Also, I didn't notice any way to reload your gun before you ran out of a clip. Yeah, I only skimmed the instructions, but I have pressed all kinds of button combos and the gun never reloads unless I empty a clip.