Originally Posted by Ki (Post 1215663)

Dead Space 2 is better than Dead Space 1, but you have to beat Dead Space 1 for it to make any sense. Hell yeah, it's scary as hell. I can't wait until the release of Dead Space 3, I have a feeling there will be co-op.

Originally Posted by spaceman89 (Post 1215670)

FF7, been playing this game forever and I still love it

Originally Posted by Ki (Post 1215636)

Likewise. Playing it through the night is the scariest experience. I heard Amnesia: The Dark Descent is supposed to be pretty scary too, but I haven't played that yet.

Originally Posted by NEWGUY562 (Post 1215669)

:) I know I'll have to beat this first before I play Dead Dpace 2..
Now with certain games I know I'll love I'll just get all the games in that series..like I did with Uncharted..God of War..Infamous..Bioshock...Prince of Persia (Now all those series I had to get the whole collection.)
I seen the trailer for Dead Space 3 and it doesn't look scary at all pretty disappointing. :/
look:

Dead Space

Originally Posted by LoathsomePete (Post 1215677)

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is easily the scariest game I've played in recent memory and shits all over what Dead Space tries to do. Horror is a hard thing to do and it's hard to quantify what makes something scary and what makes something that tries to be scary, not scary. The problem I have with Dead Space is that it's less about horror and more about startles. There is some decent atmosphere in the beginning, but it never really builds on it, and that's largely because of the combat. Combat and survival-horror go hand-in-hand, but with Dead Space it's all about dismemberment, and in order to properly defeat an enemy (which you're suppose to do), and with that kind of specfic combat style, you're forced to constantly have a good idea of what the enemy looks like, and that's a problem because your imagination is no longer doing the work.

Conversely in Amnesia: The Dark Descent, you're always unarmed so there's no combat, you have a very finite light source, and you can never see the horrorable shambling monsters that persue you, and if you do your sanity drops and controlling your character becomes troublesome which makes you even more vulnerable. Hell, you don't even get the idea that you're being persued by anything until a good 30-40 minutes into the game, but there's always this chill up your spine. That's good pacing because your mind is already conjuring its own idea of what's scary, with the added bonus of never really getting to see the monsters, those conjurations are always with you, and nobody knows how to scare you better than yourself.

If you have a PC that can handle Amnesia and like horror you should definitely get it, just be warned if you have Intel video cards you won't be able to play it, but if you have NVIDA or ATI you should be fine.



It's not going to be a horror game at all, it's going to be straight action. The game has to sell 5 million copies just to justify its development costs so you can bet that they're going to try and tap into the full 3rd person shooter action market by junking as much of the "horror" elements as they can justify.