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| on that note, fuck EA's marketing by sdroa jists 01/15/2012, 7:29pm PST | ||||
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| they made 2 different attempts to sell this game, everyone here already knows the most infamous one ("the game your mom will hate") but the standard horror game marketing is also a giant mistake. this really is an action game with horror elements.
yea, a lot of the startle elements don't work, mostly because they're incredibly obvious, or when they aren't obvious they're some kind of attempt to make you drop your controller or something? so when you don't drop your controller and run screaming from the room, they fail. it's fucking stupid. people who like horror movies are fucking stupid. and no, the thing is not a horror movie so it doesn't count, eat a dick. anyway however, this game does have a few minor effective TENSION elements, the only things that actually work to make a player truly scared but also want to keep playing. the last game to do this correctly was stalker, whenever you were fighting bloodsuckers or the psychic brain burner guys. dead space 2 does apply a light coating of dread over your hilarious baby stomping simulator, but it also loads it down with shitty horror elements that are always detrimental to gameplay. it doesn't stop the game from being fun, but it almost succeeds. don't get me wrong, the atmosphere in the game is top notch (haha?) but it could have used less loud noises and monster closets |
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actually a good game, I did not know that by 01/15/2012, 6:37pm PST  on that note, fuck EA's marketing by 01/15/2012, 7:29pm PST Re: actually a good game, I did not know that by 01/15/2012, 9:02pm PST Calling any aspect of Dead Space "sandboxy" verges on the deliberately misleadin NT by 01/17/2012, 2:14am PST Let's go with the "catboxy" term for the Dead Space franchise NT by 01/17/2012, 7:26am PST It's like Schrodinger's Box. Except the cat is a baby. And the way you check NT by 01/17/2012, 9:59am PST it allows for free roaming and returning to previous rooms up to a point by 01/17/2012, 8:57pm PST Yes I always remember all the roaming and back tracking I did in the sandbox. by 01/17/2012, 11:41pm PST Like Halo? NT by 01/18/2012, 3:08am PST |
