in DEAD SPACE no one can hear you soil yourself

Ha -- I've been spending my credits on ammo & health, & only have the cutter & line gun.

line gun seems to be the best weapon in general, especially using the alternate firing mode mines (stasis+mine=1 shot death, more than 1 monster at once if you're lucky). you can't rely on having enough ammo for that so plasma cutter gets most use. pulse rifle has proven very useful situationally. i have a friend who claims the flamethrower is great vs brutes but i experimented and didn't really find that. have experimented with the others too but didn't rate them much. too much messing around.

just finished Chapter 6. for a game that is supposedly repetitive i have been impressed with the new ideas they've consistently added as each chapter progresses. the monsters get so distinct and there is so much strategy to how you go about killing them, not least to conserve ammo. i am glad i hoarded medipacks and ammo early on because it is getting brutal now.

and it's still consistently fraying my nerves. i think i'm getting a stomach ulcer.

I had no interest in this after having seen a few previews but this thread has definitely piqued my interest! is it genuinely scary? how does it get its scares, general creepiness interspersed with classic movie frights?

you wouldn't like it

Yep, you got it -- they do what everyone else does when going for a shock (use loud noises, cut lights, cue the soundtrack), and it still works. Their use of timing is impeccable, too, especially when they SHOW YOU WHAT'S COMING and then leave you waiting a little longer than you expect. And the environment is totally immersive.

xpost -- I'm a little more optimistic than RS wrt yr potential enjoyment of DS

stasis+mine=1 shot death, more than 1 monster at once if you're lucky)

I just passed a part where I did this, except I got a little itchy w/ the trigger finger because I was FREAKED OUT.

um, OK RS

thanks DR, shame there's no 360 demo but might pick this up tomorrow over far cry 2, which is apparently a little dull

i'm just playin with you dude, you'll love it. in your top 3 for the year.

: )

that settles it

unless the PDC world championship darts demo I'm downloading now successfully convinces me otherwise (don't think it will tho, looks awful)

wish I had a ps3 for this game, the rattle and hum of my 360 will probably lessen the quietness and tension : /

It actually fits right in!

yay yay just arrived, will be sampling this at lunch time

Okay, why am i finding it so hard to press the right buttons. Is there anyway of changing R1 and R2 around, I hate it that games keep mixing these up.

Sadly this hasn't blown me away like I thought it would, on my first hours play. The aliens are ridiculous looking, like something from Red Dwarf.

And what's with this stomping inaccuracy? I assume I'm supposed to use it on the injured aliens to save on ammo, but it's impossible to time it right and get any aim with it.

i wouldn't recommend stomping monsters unless you have hit them with stasis first. the aiming on stomping is a little funny but i am used to it by now and it's not an issue any more. don't really understand your problem with the monsters tbh. i would like to see that episode of Red Dwarf.

haha i think it was the vindaloo monster i'm thinking of particularly.

i'll obv hammer this game tonight so we'll see how it goes, it's by no means a rubbish game i was just expecting more survival rather than what so far has been a standard baddie blasting affair.

playing it on Hard has definitely worked out for the best. where i am now is nails at times but in the way that you want from a game like this. i had a friend over who wanted to try it so i put him in Chp 1 on Easy and the monsters went down with two shots and you got a lot more ammo in each pack, which basically ruined a lot of the tension in the game.

yeah feeling that, i'm on medium. I think i'll start again on hard then.

again, would def recommend getting DLC obsidian suit (which is free; think it's called elite suit on 360). a scorpion suit is available and is better than the obsidian but costs money, and i'm too tight for that scene.

to be fair, i'm really looking forward to spending my entire evening on this tonight. with the lights out of course.

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

The first DS is one of my 'pretty good game that I never finished but don't have any reason not to really, also stop buying new games idiot'

so I might have to jump back into that hothouse boss fight then.

Never forget the STOMP

Own DS 1-3, but haven't played the 3rd yet (have that same "stop buying new games, finish your plate" situation). Enjoyed the DS story, so would recommend finishing the first, at least. The final battle is fun. Speaking of story, reminds me I haven't finished "Bioshock: Infinite" either.

i bought DS even though it's not officially supported on my OS and i am only about 25% of the way through downloading it. i hear it's good though.