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08-24-2011, 02:29 PM | #3684 (permalink) |
AWhatup Ganache?
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As well as my usual dosage of Morrowind, I've been playing a lot of Left 4 Dead 2 lately. I wanted to ask, is anybody here on Steam? I'm thinking about making a Steam thread, but I don't want to if nobody's on it.
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08-24-2011, 11:11 PM | #3685 (permalink) |
Jewish Cowboy
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Agreed, but it definitely wasn't as scary. The best part about the first one (or any good survival horror for that matter) was the desperation and helplessness, and the strategy when it comes to conserving ammo. The second still had tons of moments like that but it's kinda hard to be scared with a huge ass javelin gun
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08-25-2011, 02:39 AM | #3687 (permalink) | |
Juicious Maximus III
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Luckily, Dead Space 2 does not rely on the player to be scared for them to enjoy it any more than f.ex Half-Life 2 did and so I think people should stop using it as an argument against the quality of the game. Generally speaking, it is scary enough even if that doesn't mean we all quiver and quake. To not sufficiently scare it's players would be much worse for a game like Amnesia: The Dark Descent which overall has less else to offer.
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08-25-2011, 04:08 AM | #3689 (permalink) |
Juicious Maximus III
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I feel the other way round. I loved Dead Space 2, but haven't yet finished Amnesia. It was scary, but not as much as I perhaps expected considering it's hype. I also disagree that Amnesia's core game play is more satisfying - at least it hasn't been to me. When I stopped playing, I was in rooms flooded with water, trying to jump between bits of flotsam. I didn't find it to be original, nor particularly entertaining.
I liked what happened before though, but I felt like it's 90% atmosphere and not much else. I'll pick it up again though and finish it one day soon and maybe my opinion will change. edit : I think there's some psychology behind people praising games like Amnesia which stems from a knee-jerk reaction to support indie developers, particularly when they do something different from everyone else. Amnesia deserves a lot of praise, definetly, but I think the hype may well make out the game to be better than it really is. I wonder if people would have liked it so much had it been developed by Ubisoft f.ex.
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