An older protagonist (as in senior citizen) would be unviable in a horror game wouldn’t it? Realistically, under the duress horror circumstances they wouldn’t be able to be cope physically (as in unable to partake in combat against monsters and escape from them. Wouldn’t they likely get a heart attack?) or emotionally.

An older protagonist would also mean the target audience (generally the youth) wouldn’t be able to effectively to relate to him or her, unless he or she is embroiled in a universally afflicting conflict of some form.

I think what they could do is have a protagonist and develop him throughout his or her lifetime, as Ubisoft did with Ezio Auditore. I though this was quite effective, as the time he entered his latter stages in life we readily identified and connected with him and his quest. However having a character recurringly visit Silent Hill would be unfeasible, as Silent Hill is a place where you visit to prove your worthiness in having your sins purged and cleansed or be punished for them and become trapped (“full circle”) in the process.

But, as said before in the comments, a child protagonist would be very interesting, and would gain alot of kudos, as someone very young would be hard to do. They wouldn’t have had much time to build up that much grief, so whatever the kid had done, it’d be very, very bad. The heightened vulnerability would make the game slightly scarier, too.

A commenter mentioned using Laura as an adult for a protagonist. . .I like that idea. It sort of follows the disturbing, ongoing theme that, even when the story ends for the character, Silent Hill never really lets you leave.

Ahem. Anyway. Good editorial. “Henry Townshend: doorstop.” LOL

Vatras reason for making Murphy a male is that we would identify ourself with him better???

I mean am I that shallow that I a male could not identify myself with a women?

I mean I though Heather was and still are one of the most realisticly portrayed video game characters ever and yeah felt and identified myself with her alot anyway in many ways.

I wonder if that a reason Konami and other Silent hill producer asked themself,player wont identify themself with a female protaganist that much?

Wrong thinking in that case what if Murphy would have been a female prisoner that would maybe been even more interesting, what could she been done murdered an abusive boyfriend/husband or maybe her own child.

Which would have been a deep plot seeing as most other mothers would defend a child with her life and as protective as a lioness but guess she could been one of the more bad parent like Dhalia but more realistic take?

Or is she innocent.

A female Murphy could been awsome.

But I still hope we will see yet another female,I know Vita Book of memories will let us create our own hero/heroine but I dont think it will be the same especially if characters are without a voice of their own.

No I hope for atleast one more female protaganist in a main series title.

Little of topic I guess Silent hill SM had a female protaganist too while not playable though but the memories Harry experienced was about a young women’s pain and suffering for obvious reason revealed at the end but yeah prefer a playable women.

The following comment includes SH2 spoilers:
@Xoc: Don’t think they will do that. There are many Laura haters in this world (does not include me). Furthermore that would require additional tragedies to happen to Laura after we got to see her. Because in SH2, she’s still quite pure, and so is her Silent Hill. No monsters, nothing to fear, just a foggy, empty and very lonely (which is indeed related to her past!) town. Would be quite boring to visit such a version oh SH… :/
Oh, and: We don’t know if she could ever leave SH. In any ending except the Leave ending she makes no attempt to leave the town, and she has nobody to return to anyway. And nobody who could drive her. She probably just keeps roaming around there until she starves or something like that.
And in the Leave ending she attempts to leaves with James, but we know (for example from SH4) that James never came back from SH , so…

I totally agree with Amy – an older protagonist would be nice to see. With age comes inevitable regrets, and doing questionable things holding onto that youth. Could make for some interesting stories.