in DEAD SPACE no one can hear you soil yourself

Slowly advancing in this. Got to the first zero g section yesterday - bit tense leaping around to avoid the necromorphs, reorienting and aiming, all at once.

The ship environment is a lot of fun. Great textures.

Buying the scorpion suit seems like a cop out. Its available immediately for free, is powered up and has all the inventory slots. Kinda takes alot out of the tension and difficulty of the game early on.

i dunno, i got the obsidian suit from the start, before i realised that it was a top level suit, and i definitely regretted that for a while but i don;t any more. the idea that it takes the difficulty out of the game is wishful thinking in the extreme. it doesn't kill any monsters. maybe the 25% armor on the scorpion suit is more of a game changer than the 10% on the obsidian. the extra inventory slots just meant that i wasn't going back and forth to the store all the time to squirrel away my items, which i was pretty pleased about to be honest. it does mean that you save a lot of credits on not leveling up your suit but i can;t say that has spoiled the game for me.

I have the offensive looking elite suit so Im not blameless here. Just think the scorpion is kinda ridic esp since I read its the second best suit in the game.

No other opinions on the weapons? Anyone use the ripper or force gun?

okay after some more play i think it's a pretty good game, still a little irked in that it's nothing amazingly original like I was led to believe but it's still a lot more fun than COD4.

I think it's pretty accurate that the reviewers are saying this is a combination of etc games, it truly is a lot more obvious than most other games that borrow ideas.

I just stopped play for tea, and also because I'm up to a horrible part **spoiler alert** shooting asteroids with a gun turret.

love the saw tool

(is that the ripper?)

and forgot to say, loving the zero g parts more than i thought i would.

there's enough ideas and variety in the game that focusing so much on the derivative elements in reviews seems unfair to me. even if a lot of mechanics are familiar, it's not exactly the same as playing any other game in particular, so i don't understand the beef.

nobody is having any 'beef' with it, the games it borrows from are all great games and for me it really really really is similar to Res Evil 4 in gameplay, which has been said to death I'm sure. But it has cool Alien/Ridley Scottesque type atmostphere and industrial visuals which I love.

Having said that I've just finished playing the game for the evening but with a hint of 'hmm not sure if i'm going to be in a hurry to pick this up too soon' as it just got too stressful trying to run everywhere with my oxygen levels running out and bad guys everywhere.

Up to chapter 3 now. It's been awhile since a game has kept my interest like this.

btw what's these suits you guys keep talking about? The only suits I can buy are called "level1", "level2", etc. is this some difference between xbox and ps3?

oh just found post upthread which explains it.

this game is fun!

okay so i played it a lot today, am now in the hothouse area.

i'm preferring the line gun more now, its pretty devastating.

i wish i still had my friend's copy here on this rainy day:/

turning into a sleeper hit on the forums this, after not really reviewing tht well

everyone seems to love it

luckily enough i found it for rent at blockbuster

it's aweeeeesome

i mean it' spretty much all fetch quests. but that's ok.

Yes after the initial 'grab claw' puzzle (which had me ruddy stooped for a while for heavens sake) it's all just 'go to room X, get Y, repeat'

use of the statis and gravity gun should have made for some crazy puzzles.

great game nonetheless.

its ok, its just an excuse to send you wandering around the spooky spaceship. there's a couple ok puzzles with the stasis/gravity gun (like decoupling the asteroid) but i think i would be annoyed if there were much more.

i am nearly done, just the last boss to beat. i thought this was really superb. it became more of a shooter at the end, with the game throwing more monsters your way to keep it tough, but i didn't mind that so much. i will definitely play through again next time i am stuck for something to play.

I'm just trying to dodge some lightning bolts in the feeding chamber.

that's life, eh.

Going to get this tomorrow, not going to get a chance to get in to it 'til Thursday night though, seems to be getting unanimously good reviews on the forums plus IRL word-of-mouth reaction is also really good too. Looking forward!

this is officially the first THING i've ever booted up on my new 5.1 speakers (i haven't even watched a movie with them yet) and O M G THE SOUND

omg me too will... just went 5.1 last friday!!

:( only thing 5.1 about my speakers is score out of 10.

lovin' this game so far.

how out of character haha.

I know, it's crazy!

Seriously never thought a game about monsters in space would appeal to me on any level.

s1ocki, did you get the logitech ones on sale at future shop too?!?! we might be SPEAKER BROTHERS

nope i got samsungz!!

I managed to get killed by the first enemy in this by wasting the ammo from my gun before I encountered him, just to check out the ROF and how quickly the crosshair moved around. Epic fail.

in real life you would be dead

I'll remember that next time I'm on a space ship full of necromorphs...

Its kind of worth it to get killed by every enemy in the game just to see the incredibly drawn out death animations.

in real life you would be dead if you did that too

in real life, you can watch a youtube video of all the deaths

Wow, some of the death scenes on youtube are super-gross.

there are these face-hugger dudes with tentacles, and if they strangle you to death they tear off your head and then go into the hole where your neck was and operate your corpse like a puppet. don;t know how you might go about youtubing that, but would recommend.

omg

i havent seen that yet

if i had seen that in real life, of course, i would probably be dead.

http://splicd.com/aIdkR85kpKs/210/232

superb, good work.

i finished it!!

i'm definitely buying dis.

after watching that youtube link i mean.

it'll be a nice contrast to age of booty u__________u why did i pay for that

not that the game's story isn't the most derivative alien/aliens/event horizon bite to begin with, but man, does it go to shit in the end. are you supposed to have read teh comic book or watched the straight-to-dvd movie to figure out what the deal is? so lame