Dead Space Impressions

I picked up Dead Space today for a play through. This was after numerous recommendations from friends, journalists, Giantbomb users and more. It deffinately lives up to expectations but being a bit of a wus can I stand up to its terrifying ways. The first moment I took control of Isaac this game shit me up big style the sound design is brilliant and just makes the whole game extremely haunting. Stay tuned to my blog for further impressions and most of all to see if I survive.

I picked up Dead Space today for a play through. This was after numerous recommendations from friends, journalists, Giantbomb users and more. It deffinately lives up to expectations but being a bit of a wus can I stand up to its terrifying ways. The first moment I took control of Isaac this game shit me up big style the sound design is brilliant and just makes the whole game extremely haunting. Stay tuned to my blog for further impressions and most of all to see if I survive.

Epic :D Another Dead Space fan to add to the list.

It's one of those games that doesnt appear anything special from the outside or from videos, but it's sound design really makes it happen when your sat in front of it. It had me on edge the first time through but after that I could practically fall asleep, but i'm pretty hardened to this particular breed of horror having played countless Resi and similar games growing up.

If you've not seen the film it takes a lot of inspiration from, Event Horizon, do it :D You won't regret that either, Lawrence Fishburne and Sam Neil, what could possibly be bad about that? :D Not to mention other awesome famous dudes.

" Epic :D Another Dead Space fan to add to the list.It's one of those games that doesnt appear anything special from the outside or from videos, but it's sound design really makes it happen when your sat in front of it. It had me on edge the first time through but after that I could practically fall asleep, but i'm pretty hardened to this particular breed of horror having played countless Resi and similar games growing up.If you've not seen the film it takes a lot of inspiration from, Event Horizon, do it :D You won't regret that either, Lawrence Fishburne and Sam Neil, what could possibly be bad about that? :D Not to mention other awesome famous dudes. "

I didn't like Dead Space, it was like the Halo version of survival horror games.

Repetitive in both its gameplay and level design, It's also horribly unispired and generic. Not to mention it gets boring and the game wasn't very scary at all. Like Halo, it rips off a lot of movies in both its story and art design.

so you liked it?

"so you liked it?

..... i've lost faith in humanity

"

"@Ahmad_Metallic said:

"so you liked it?

..... i've lost faith in humanity

"

You've lost faith in humanity because somebody liked an awesomely good game?Wow... "

Huh, good to see there's others out there that appreciate this as much as me. I'm recently going for a rerun on hard, haven't died yet but I'm looking forward to it.

Generally I really enjoyed it first time purely for it's great atmosphere. I also found it to have lots of solid mechanics, many of which were "stolen" from other games, but with an added touch of polish.

"@The_A_Drain said:

"@Ahmad_Metallic said:

"so you liked it?

..... i've lost faith in humanity

"

You've lost faith in humanity because somebody liked an awesomely good game?Wow... "

Its not THAT good, its pretty generic and derravitive as far as RE4 clone can get "

"@The_A_Drain:  please tell me youre not being serious.. i wasnt being serious myself its just i dunno some sort of sarcasm im not supposed to explain it to you. 

i do find it very odd and uncomfortable that so many people like this piece of shit though. and dont ask me why i find it shitty, i did try to explain once and it seems like either nobody else has the ability to notice that detailed shittiness or that you find it great just like pervs find foot-eating appealing

"

" @The_A_Drain:  please tell me youre not being serious.. i wasnt being serious myself its just i dunno some sort of sarcasm im not supposed to explain it to you. 

i do find it very odd and uncomfortable that so many people like this piece of shit though. and dont ask me why i find it shitty, i did try to explain once and it seems like either nobody else has the ability to notice that detailed shittiness or that you find it great just like pervs find foot-eating appealing

"

" @The_A_Drain said:
Its not THAT good, its pretty generic and derravitive as far as RE4 clone can get "

" it seems like either nobody else has the ability to notice that detailed shittiness"

What does this even mean?

What, you noticed a few texture errors or animation glitches or what? Cos I have a pretty keen eye and didn't notice many instances of errors like that. It's ok if you don't like it, but offering such a scalding opinion without giving so much as even a "I just don't like it" is a little rich, it's not other peoples fault you don't like it. The problem is yours, not everybody elses.

Unless you want to explain what 'detailed shittiness' means... Cos it means shit to me.

Edit:

Since when was it so very wrong to enjoy a high quality, innovative game? Fuck some peoples standards are higher than the sattelite dish on the empire state.

I think it's a really great game.  However, for a horror game, it didn't scare me much at all.

Dead Space is a great game! I didn't like the character designs for the enemies, they were going for the horror demon weird freaky style, but that just made it feel generic to me. The game play is fast and fluid though and does a great job or making you feel like your the shit! And your right the sound design is brilliant! Dead Space and Mushroom Men have some of the best sound design of any game thats come out so far and they are both so over looked! Anyway, Read my spoiler free review!

I'm getting my copy on tuesday along with Lost Odyssey and Tales of Vesperia. Got it for free thanks to Gamestops buy 2 get 1 free.

I really enjoyed Dead Space, thought it was a bloody awesome game in fact.