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Dead Space Wants To Scare You
Kotaku recently ran a story questioning whether the survival-horror genre still exists, and how Dead Space may or may not fit into it. With reviews for the game starting to come in, Ars Technica reports that the game is, indeed, both scary and good. Gamespy wrote up a Dead Space survival guide, and Gamasutra has a lengthy interview with the game's senior producer. In the production of the game, the developers studied things like car wrecks and war scenes to increase the level of realism. They also want the game's sounds to terrify players, including appropriately timed silence. The launch trailer is also available, though it does contain spoilers.
Wow. "Shit the door". Well, I stand by that. It sure has been a while.
Glad you caught that first. I personally only shit bricks, and that's already painful enough. That door must be brutal, what with the slivers and all.
Man-Bear-Pig is as scary as it gets!
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A game can look as creepy as Hell, and the sound can be spot on. But, if I am not afraid to die, to lose something I've worked for, I'll just think it's cool.
Ya, whenever my router's internet light goes out while playing a game, all I can do is hide beneath the sheets and pray to God it's not the end of the world.
That door must be brutal, what with the slivers and all.
Especially if it comes out sideways. Ouch!
"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better." - Unknown
loud noises and mixed with strobe lights can get me every time.
Hmm, you should probably stay away from nightclubs then. :)
I intend to live forever, or die trying. - Groucho Marx
I stopped playing Doom 3 when I realized that I had developed an instinctual tick of turning around and firing every time the lights went out.
All the time, or only in Doom? Remind me not to follow you at night...
Once after playing a marathon weekend-long LAN party of Counter-Strike, a group of us went to get milkshakes before heading our respective ways. When we got there, there was someone on the other side of the lot who looked familiar. My first instinct was to raise my rife to my eye and scope out who it was. I knew that I'd been playing way too many video games at that point.
Do you also crap your pants when the Teletubbies air on television?
Super Mario. When they play that sound that shows you are running out of time to complete the level and then the music plays fast, rushing you and you know you're nowhere near the end of the level. I can't go on.
Back in the day...
Whenever I GM'd, it was all about survival, in fact it wasn't a successful game unless someone died.
I was not exactly sadistic, but there were logical and very simple ways of avoiding death. It just so happened that everyone was a complete moron.
Once, I even let them build a fortress (with traps), free of charge. Sure enough, someone fell into the pit of spikes.
Good times!
"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." -- Yogi Berra
Remember fighting those green spider things in the dark by throwing flares around and lighting up little areas?
yah. i do it once a year. it's called "house cleaning".
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I stopped playing Doom 3 when I realized that I had developed an instinctual tick of turning around and firing every time the lights went out.
this could become a bit unsettling in intimate situations. i hope that your girlfriend loves you anyway.
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Hey, as long as you're taking requests, please don't follow me at night, either. It kind of creeps me out.
>> Standing on head makes smile of frown, but rest of face also upside down.
It's okay, there will be a non DRM version out. In fact I hear it's cheaper
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You don't kill your enemies in CoC - they kill you!
So it's kind of like a Russian FPS then ?
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Nice. One improvement if the original isn't hardcore scary enough:
This way, you get to sit there in suspense for a while as your hard drive goes berserk, hoping desperately that it comes back with "You live". (Replace /dev/md0 with your root.)
really? so i can burn a copy of the original and play that, so i don't have to worry about scratching it?