[Zomboid]

Yeah, the story in resident evil is very intricate and multi-layered. It's not at all full of sci-fi and horror cliches. The voice acting is also top-notch! I recommend the live action intro video for resident evil if you haven't seen it yet. It's a real treat.

Silent Hill is like 2 parts Jacob's Ladder, 1 part The Mist, with a bit of The Changeling.

Resident evil is essentially an amalgamation of a bunch of B zombie movies.

The gameplay at this point is better in the RE series just because of RE4, but before that they were almost indistinguishable save for the fact that SH had a consistently good storyline and RE was only good if you kinda sit back and enjoy it for the B movie cheesefest it is.

Not that I'd expect you to understand anything that lacks bright, vivid colors and RANDOM, WACKY HUMOR.

Edit: I loved RE2 on n64, but that came out when I was still around 14 or so and even then I didn't take it too seriously. A couple years later when I played through code veronica it was the same thing. I like most survival horror in general, but to me there's just no comparing the two.