Dead Space - The blades only cover one half of the fucking asteroid. Seriously.

Muggins

I pretty much stole this from SA forums but it's awesome shut the hell up




Connected...

Greetings engineer, Concordance Extraction Corporation would like to remind you that your mission is due to begin within a two month time span starting October the 20th. You may of heard of some disparaging tall tales from detractors, but we assure you that there is nothing to worry about. The corporation takes care of it's employees!

Please remember to use the following systems compatible with your engineer issue environmental suit:

- Playstation 3
- X-Box 360
- PC-CD

As a corporate engineer, you are authorized to use the many tools provided to you to accomplish your mission. Only the most efficient means will provide you with success!

Be aware that on-worksite mishaps may occur while you are on the job.

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Mission Briefing Recipient: Isaac Clarke
Mission Location: USG Isimura
Issue: Total communications blackout.
Support Team: Standard Security Detail.
Assignment: Investigate lost signal and repair all necessary equipment in order to restore communications.

...

Update from Recipient: Have arrived on board USG Ishimura. No survivors present, power running low. Cut off from security detail at onset of mission. Ishimura crew has been overrun by alien hostiles. Attempting to restore ship systems. Unsure of communications are working, if message received send military support.

...Disconnected

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So! Dead Space is out and it's scary as fuck. You play as some poor bastard named Isaac Clarke, sent to the USG Ishimura, a planet cracker, to find out what the fuck is going on since it stopped calling anyone. Not only are you going there because you are an engineer, but your girlfriend was on that ship and you got a weird video transmission before it went totally out.

So are you some bad-ass engineer like in Team Fortress?
No you're just some regular engineer with no real combat experience, you don't have any real strength besides from your awesome work out and a pretty tough suit.

Are you just fighting space-zombies?
Not at all! For reasons unknown, it seems an alien virus stemmed from a- yeah actually it's pretty much space zombies. But shooting them in the head doesn't cut it anymore?

You mean I shouldn't shoot them in the head?
Well you can! It just won't matter! You gotta cut off those limbs and totally tear them apart!

Is it just cheap scares and monster closets like doom 3?
Far from it. The music is dynamic and the sound design is fucking wonderful. The ship is constantly clanging and creaking and you never know if you are safe or in immediate danger.

Awesome! How long will this thing last?
About 10 hours, I know it's short. But you can't upgrade everything in just one playthrough!

Woah what upgrades? What the hell?
Yup, you can get new suits and weapons and upgrade them on benches using power nodes. It works pretty well.

Cool! I should try this game out!
Yes you should.

Dee Kae

I want this. I need this. Look at all that.

That is awesome.

Dr.Funkenstein

Fuck you buy me this. And Fable 2 and Fallout 3 and Left4Dead and FarCry 2 and....

Blake T

I am extremely disappointed that this game doesn't come out in Australia until next week.

It's quite strange, everyone that knows about it seems excited about it, but there doesn't seem to be an awful lot of hype behind it either.

Moriveth

God I want this game.

But next week is Fable 2 and then Fallout 3, and those oughta take me a while

so maybe some time after that

trentsteel

HELLO first game I will buy for my brand new PS3 with naked Angelina Jolie replacement cover.

Orikaeshigitae

god, dead space is so fucking rad

defender, remember i was talking about how i wanted dead space to be good, because the design is exactly the way i think games should be designed?

well it works out, it is fantastic

it is like a more refined bioshock!

Orikaeshigitae

I CAN'T STOP PLAYING (i rented it)

Muggins

HERE'S SOME FUCKING PICTURES


That's all you get because I feel that Dee Kae was being sarcastic.

Moriveth

Orikaeshigitae wrote: »

god, dead space is so fucking rad

defender, remember i was talking about how i wanted dead space to be good, because the design is exactly the way i think games should be designed?

well it works out, it is fantastic

it is like a more refined bioshock!

fffffffffffuck you don't make me want this more

Orikaeshigitae

Moriveth wrote: »

Orikaeshigitae wrote: »

god, dead space is so fucking rad

defender, remember i was talking about how i wanted dead space to be good, because the design is exactly the way i think games should be designed?

well it works out, it is fantastic

it is like a more refined bioshock!

fffffffffffuck you don't make me want this more

i, the resident non-asshole game design writer nerd, love this game. everything about it rules

i haven't finished it, though. so i hope it doesn't take a sudden turn for SHIT like bioshock did.

bioshock was more character-driven, though. this is definitely plot-based, like system shock was: turn on the engines, etc.

Moriveth

I know, the game looks awesome

but I know that by the time I get it everyone will be bored with it

Promise me you'll talk with me about it, Orik

Dee Kae

Veretas wrote: »

HERE'S SOME FUCKING PICTURES


That's all you get because I feel that Dee Kae was being sarcastic.

Nooooooooo. I really want to get this but lack the money too. Plus those six comics that show just what happened before the main character gets to the Isimura were nice.

Muggins

ok then here is a huge image since you explained yourself.

trentsteel

Is that a special zombie-killing suit?

Muggins

trentsteel wrote: »

Is that a special zombie-killing suit?

It's an engineer's suit.

Orikaeshigitae

Koshian wrote: »

my only complaint is the lack of scariness

the game can get plenty tense, but I've yet to be actually frightened by anything

it is otherwise completely radawesome

really?

(medical lab spoilers)

the woman 'operating' on that dude who then cut her throat with a bonesaw, along with the dude who dashed his brains out on the wall, both scared the hell out of me

i really like the pacing of this game, it's a nice mix of 'OH GOD' jump scares with 'JESUS CHRIST' disturbing stuff - it helps if you read the incidental text on the walls for that.

one really struck me - it was "dear lydia, if i don't make it, take care of the kids. love you, steven' handwritten above a dude's desk.

they did an awesome job with this game.

Orikaeshigitae

Moriveth wrote: »

I know, the game looks awesome

but I know that by the time I get it everyone will be bored with it

Promise me you'll talk with me about it, Orik

i was talking about bioshock a year and a half after it was released, and i still make text adventure threads

of course i'll talk about it with you

Muggins

I'm watching my roommate play it and the first few minutes it was all, "Hey maybe you can use that to-HOLY JESUS FUCK SHIT"

Orikaeshigitae

every time a scary game comes out i hear the same thing, always

'i don't know. it didn't scare me as much as i would have liked.'

what the hell? do you have some sort of scareometer

'it's only up to fifteen gigashivers, i'm not impressed'

Moriveth

I'm not really scared easily but I expect Dead Space to scare my balls off. The atmosphere is very System Shock-esque, which was a fucking creepy game.

Mr. Henry Bemis

oh come on orik are you earnestly saying people can't measure how much a game is startling and getting to them

Orikaeshigitae

Mr. Henry Bemis wrote: »

oh come on orik are you earnestly saying people can't measure how much a game is startling and getting to them

no, but having some kind of scare threshold is ludicrous

Dr.Funkenstein

Orikaeshigitae wrote: »

every time a scary game comes out i hear the same thing, always

'i don't know. it didn't scare me as much as i would have liked.'

what the hell? do you have some sort of scareometer

'it's only up to fifteen gigashivers, i'm not impressed'

Well I mean the whole point of a horror game is that its supposed to scare you so I could see why people would be a bit disappointed that it didn't scare them as much as they thought it would.

Mr. Henry Bemis

Orikaeshigitae wrote: »

Mr. Henry Bemis wrote: »

oh come on orik are you earnestly saying people can't measure how much a game is startling and getting to them

no, but having some kind of scare threshold is ludicrous

well it's not unreasonable to have expectations of a game, i wouldn't call mentioning that it is different from those expectations ludicrous

Orikaeshigitae

how can you expect to be scared a certain level, though

here is my 'scare flowchart'

Am I scared? -> Yes. -> You're scared.
`-> No. -> You're not scared.

Mr. Henry Bemis

i think it's less the level to which you are scared, whatever that means, as much as the frequency of scares people talk about when they say that

Orikaeshigitae

let's make a scare plot graph

dependent variable: am I an idiot?

the result: an exponential increase over time

Dr.Funkenstein

Orikaeshigitae wrote: »

how can you expect to be scared a certain level, though

here is my 'scare flowchart'

Am I scared? -> Yes. -> You're scared.
`-> No. -> You're not scared.

Well maybe its not the level of scared you are but actually how many times you were scared in the game. You could think a game wasn't as scary as you thought it was if you weren't scared as many times as you thought you would be in the game

Muggins

Guys you are all missing one important fact.

You

curbstomp

babies

Orikaeshigitae

Koshian wrote: »

Orikaeshigitae wrote: »

how can you expect to be scared a certain level, though

here is my 'scare flowchart'

Am I scared? -> Yes. -> You're scared.
`-> No. -> You're not scared.

I'm disappointed precisely because I am not scared!

the game is completely satisfying is every other manner so let's end this conversation

oh that's completely fine then

itt i get pedantic!

Mr. Henry Bemis

The Otaku Suppository

I contend that Fatal Frame 2 remains the scariest thing I have ever played and thus is the golden standard against which I measure these games. Does it surpass this y/n? I will endeavor to find out.

Muggins

It doesn't surpass Fatal Frame 2. Because holy jesus. But it's pretty damn close.

Grey Ghost

So if I'm sorta strapped for cash, is it worth selling my copy of DMC4 and maybe a DS game or 2 to pick this up

spono

I'm honestly at a loss as to what game I should even play first

Dead Space
Fable 2
FarCry 2
Castlevania

Dr.Funkenstein

spono wrote: »

I'm honestly at a loss as to what game I should even play first

Dead Space
Fable 2
FarCry 2
Castlevania

Left4Dead

spono

Fuck I forgot about Left4Dead

Goddamn November 18th

Too many games!

This is awesome!

Muggins

Well dead space is out now

play that

spono

I would be if it weren't for this test I have in 10 days

After that I'm not leaving the tv until my eyes bleed

Mr. Henry Bemis

fallout 3