10 Overpriced Video Game BS You Should AVOID

It's been a tough decade for Silent Hill fans, and things just recently got a whole lot worse.

More than 10 years after the release of the last proper Silent Hill game, the franchise made its dubious return this past Halloween night with Silent Hill: Ascension - a mixed media interactive experience that blurred the lines between video game and TV show.

The "game," played through web browsers and mobile devices, will see a cinematic animated series unfold over the next few months, with players voting on crucial character choices and taking part in QTE sequences to determine their fates.

Ascension was widely panned out of the gate for its lackluster visuals, terrible writing, wonky voice acting, and worst of all its grotesque implementation of microtransactions.

Though Ascension is free-to-play, players were heavily incentivised from the game's introductory video onwards to drop $20 on a Founder's Pack.

The pack included cosmetics for the player's own custom character, hilariously tone-deaf chat stickers such as one that simply reads, "It's Trauma!", and Influence Points - in-game currency which lets wealthier players lend more weight to their votes on the branching narrative choices.

Or it would, if not for the fact that the morbid curiosity of Ascension's first few hilariously atrocious days has already worn well off, and it's tough to believe that many will stick it out to the bitter end.