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Yeah I can't imagine how someone could say Bioshock was scarier when there biggest scare was a shock one, and it was a trick they used a couple times.
Also Dead Space at least had a story all the way till the end unlike Bioshock...
I find Penumbra rather scary, and I am told Amnesia is even scarier.
I have it but I have not installed it yet.
I've got a rulebook and a 30-page handout to read
The thing that robbed BioShock of its fear for me was the life restoration chambers.
Still beautifully atmospheric. The ending may not have been powerful, but the twist everyone knows about was well done.
Dead Space fails to be scary in the same way, even on hard mode.
Bioshock was all in the atmosphere. Something that Dead Space put a lot of effort into but never really sucked me in with. Ultimately Dead Space felt very...gamey? While Bioshock did a lot of things to pull me into the story.
Also the sound files were better in Bioshock.
bolded for WHAT THE FUCK
He also gave us Krull.
This is something you could say if Dead Space actually had a story.
I'm excited, I hope its like an alien/aliens, thing where they really bring it for the second game. From the previews it looks like we have a predator 2 subway train fight from hell, that should make for fun times.
For me, I just couldn't get into the story they were trying to tell.
We played it with six people in front of a big tv, chatting and mocking the plot, and everyone still got scared out of their minds every time something came out of the dark to look for the player.
this line of thought, which i'd held since the Bush II's first term, now makes me a little sad. I don't really think I like the idea of disingenuous rhetoric any more.
but i dunno, like, if we take this to heart, then do the [strike]terrorists [/strike] republicans win? or are we just taking advantage of the stupid for the common good and its ok.
it might be time for me to go reread the prince.
If they ever make SS3, I wonder how much they'll pay her voice actress?
It's true, SHODAN makes System Shock. Without her it's not the same.
um, it does?
It's fun to build rigs for older games, because with cheapo eBay parts you can put together something that would have been an absolute monster at the time of the game's release.
Or Undead Space.
My current plan is to try to do the drive in one go.
Is this a bad plan?
I think BioShock 2's strength is its gameplay. I found toggling between plasmids and weapons a little fiddly on Bioshock, so having both out at once was a good touch.
Looking forward to BioShock Infinite in any case.
Really? I must've missed it.
Since Dungeon Keeper is one of my favorite series and System Shock 2 scared me half to death I would say yes.
Fuck you undead monkeys.
Yeah, I ran into my first necromorph doing that this morning and I still screamed and shot at it really badly, even though I knew what it was on sight.
I've played through the entire game and it's still freaking me out this time through.
It has been my experience that Windows is a pretty good OS if you give it three times as much horsepower as it was designed for.
Dangit, why? It's a three day weekend! Its the perfect kinda weekend for this sort of thing.
"Beware, the Lord of the Land approaches."
That line sticks with me today.
The story was told mainly via items you looted off of the ground or in various rooms, sound recordings, those sorts of things.
Exactly like Bioshock, actually.
Its not a method of story telling I much enjoy, personally.