in DEAD SPACE no one can hear you soil yourself

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

i don't understand? the ending seemed pretty straightforward to me if you'd been reading all the logs etc as you went along.

SPOILERS
the whole "REAL" origin of the artifact, who the chicky really is etc was a bit rushed and confusing i found

okay, i will agree they could've handled the artifact better. the effect of the twist was lessened because they were still kind of vague about what it was in the first place. but outside of the detail of it, it was pretty clear that something was being covered up, and her involvement made sense. no great feat of story telling bit it did follow the template it was copying neatly enough that nothing jarred with me, and to be honest that's often as much as you can hope for with a video game.

ya it's like all you really know is it's some alien artifact that's keeping the bad guys down.. but it turns out it's a man-made artifact that's based on an alien artifact! wow what a twist. and are the bad guys supposed to be man-made too? and who does she work for? is she part of the cult or some other faction? they really should have forgone that dumb twist.

last level is a bit of a schlep too.

she's working for the GOVERNMENT (of Earth or whatever). it explained that the military ship actually came to destroy the Ishimura for taking the artifact off the planet and disrupting their EVIL experiment (presumably using TAX PAYERS DOLLARS!). SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!1

Stayed up late to finish it. Liked it a lot, particularly the fast necromorphs - next to the wallhuggers, the monsters I had the most trouble killing. Kept forgetting to use kinesis on exploding cannisters, for the wallhuggers.

Dumb question, I'm sure, but now that I've played through and have a cleared game file, if I want to ramp up to Hard, do I start a new game and save OVER the Cleared Game spot? Or do I load that game?

I'd like to use the bonuses you get (10 power nodes, $50K in credit) for the next run at it.

cannisters seemed a little underpowered (and melee was REALLY underpowered)

Finished this yesterday. I stopped paying attention to the story a while back, but the final battles were pretty satisying, esp. the zero-g tunnel.

ok so dead space is on Targets "Black Friday" lineup for $30. People who dug it initially still digging it?

i thought it was quality from start to finish. top 3 for the year for sure.

good enough for me!

Started playing this tonight. I finished the first two chapters and then decided I needed a break. This is very intense, and I love the interface. It really raises the level of the stress when you can't jump out of the game to check your inventory. I hate using the store, or a mod machine, and wondering whether something is creeping behind my back. (Especially because something often is.)

I do feel like it suffers as the most recent big game I played was Fallout 3. Obviously they are doing different things, but it still pales by comparison.