Comments on: Dead Space is full of tension, but lacks scares

By: iBrick

iBrick — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:32:48 +0000

Yeah, I agree with Sifer. The last few seconds of the game are a bit of a mindf***, but I wasn’t really afraid at any other point in the game. I had a lot of fun though; any game that screws the gore slider that far to the right gets a big thumbs up from me.

By: Sifer200

Sifer200 — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:24:17 +0000

i didn’t get genuinely scared till the very end like last 20 secs but the game is awesome

By: Krelith

Krelith — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:53:22 +0000

Finished the game today and I’ve got to say that you’re 100% right, tense but never really crap-your-pants scary. I think the weapons were just too effective to give you the “underdog” feel. I knew flat out that anything I came across (collossal or grotesque as it may be), was going to get a whooping. Plus there were only 2 enemy types in the whole game that could attack you at range… and they sucked… I mean where’s the difficulty in shooting things that HAVE to run toward you and then get halted because you shot off their legs?

Great game all round but certainly nowhere near on par (in terms of fear induction), with the mac-daddy of all horror games – Call Of Cthulhu: DCotE. Now that game made me crap my pants and THEN some!

Bottom line – If you like Jericho, Bioshock, System Shock, etc… you’re gonna like this game.

By: Farko

Farko — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:35:30 +0000

I actually went out to buy this game today, I figured that i could bring it over my friends on halloween to add to the horror movie marathon.

unfortunatly i guess alot of people had the same idea because it was sold out. i decided to get far cry 2 instead (i was in the shop already with enough games to trade and get it for free)

By: George McBain

George McBain — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:18:02 +0000

agree with you Havok. I think this and Silent Hill Homecoming (and possibly RE5) aren’t as scary because, like you said, the amount of ammo and the feeling of being a “bad ass”. Heck, when i have described this game since renting it, I say it is “Event Horizon” (a favorite horror movie) meets Halo … to which I get the question “Then, is it scary if you are kind of powerful”

The biggest scare I got out of the game was at the end … no spoilers.

By: NoneOfYourBusiness

NoneOfYourBusiness — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:36:11 +0000

*looks at the IPOD episode of the podcast*

hmmmm

By: Doc

Doc — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:34:51 +0000

the game scared me a lot.

guess i’m a wuss

By: NoneOfYourBusiness

NoneOfYourBusiness — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:34:45 +0000

It could also be that the general public is desensitized to the classic horror genre.

They need to change it up…I mean..evil haunted zombie anything is done..

Maybe some psychological game where you gotta find out wtf is going on in the real world, while you constantly see visions of demons and stuff (you are kind of schitzofrenic (sp?)) so some of them are horrible hallucinations while others are the real deal…combine that with ammo limiter and that would scare the crap outta me. And these demons are not poping out of windows…its kind of almost thin air or improbably hiding places

By: Kennyboy2502

Kennyboy2502 — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:22:42 +0000

A friend of mine bought it this afternoon.We played it for two hours or so, one of us was playing and the other had the headset on his head(cause my Benq screen doesn’t have any onboard audio). It was quite hilarious when the guy with the headphone heard something coming, it was like:”Dude, I think somethings coming, target the legs!! xD ”
Great game btw

By: Doc

Doc — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:13:26 +0000

That shouldn’t be too hard.

By: djdsf

djdsf — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:12:38 +0000

Well, if you go around and read everything there is to something (in this case “Dead Space”) then you will loose the “thrill” of the game.

Is just like saying:

You are walking down the hallway and I tell you, “There is someone that is going to jump out of the 3rd door on the right”, if you know, you will be expecting it, but if you don’t know, then you will get scared or W/E it is you feel when someone sneaks up on you.

I know I’m shielding myself from any H.A.W.X. info that might be out there.