Current Events > Reminder: Dead Space is overrated. *spoilers*

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Drrobotniks posted...

every single high rated game in the world is overrated

Well no, a lot of them are correctly rated.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Drrobotniks posted...

every single high rated game in the world is overrated

Well no, a lot of them are correctly rated.

No no, by your standards, any game can be considered rated too high

so every game is overrated

UnfairRepresent posted...

has no understanding of pacing or tension.

UR being completely wrong again.

Must be a day that ends in Y

Webmaster4531 posted...

thanosibe posted...

Everything in the OP is like the exact opposite of reality.

That's the gimmick.

This.
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RoboLaserGandhi posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

has no understanding of pacing or tension.

UR being completely wrong again.

Must be a day that ends in Y

Sigless user logic

Game starts with fully lit monsters going "Rawrt barglewargle!" chasing you down a hallway as you fire lazers at it and then doesn't stop doing that for the entire game.

You see them everywhere waving their arms about, making loud noises as the music goes nuts.

There's never any escalation, never any building of tension, never anything that makes you mind creep yourself out.

Just waves of generic monsters in corridors. But unlike Doom it's not colorful or fun, it's serious and gloomy, which just makes it fall flat.

I mean compare to REVII or Half Life where it's 20 minutes before anything even happens. Or Silent Hill 2 were it starts creepy and slow and builds.

There's no atmosphere in Dead Space (fittingly enough) just cliches and generic stuff
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hockeybub89 posted...

no

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How do you feel about Prey?

As a fan of System Shock 2, I really want to play it, but haven't gotten around to it yet. I've heard mixed things about it, but I'm sure I could overlook the flaws given how much I usually enjoy this type of game.

As for Dead Space, I thought it was a pretty good game, but nothing particularly special.

luigi13579 posted...

How do you feel about Prey?

Which one?

Assuming you mean the new one, I liked it.

It's plot is pretty poo poo and it has flaws but honestly you listen to a lot of people who hate it and It just sounds like they didn't get it, and just ran in like they were playing Doom, died and then said they hated the game.

I saw a guy on CE the other day whining it sucks because you have to hit every inch of every room in the lobby with a wrench every time you go through it to check it for mimics.

And just thought to myself.

1. You do know you can scan a room for mimics?

2. You do know you can easily create your own short-cuts and avoid everyone?

I played as stealth, non-lethal with no special abilities like I was playing Deus Ex or Dishonored and had a great time. I also liked the side-quests which were pretty neat.

I can't say if it's more or less fun playing it like a shooter with the crazy abilities you can learn, but I assume it's less because it's meant to be tougher if you do that.

However like Dead Space it really isn't very scary. It is however much more atmospheric. It does have pacing
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UnfairRepresent posted...

hockeybub89 posted...

no

Yes.

Name 1 thing about Dead Space that wasn't cliche or badly written.

Only one I can think of is that aiming for the limbs instead of a head or "weak spot" was actually pretty innovative. Other than that, what did it do for gaming that's on par with Silent Hill or System Shock or Resident Evil or Amnesia or Doom.

And taken as a cliche game that added nothing to gaming but was a fun experience, what did it do better than The Last of Us or Alien Isolation?

Having the HUD be on your character and weapons was a new thing back then. Most of the weapons and gear was all engineer based too which gave them a unique feel. Often you were using tools designed to cut/destroy rock to cut off the limbs. You also had the cool power stuff like stasis and telekinesis. I don't recall seeing a horror game that had all of the physics stuff incorporated into the combat.

I don't think anyone says it was as impactful as Silent Hill, Resident Evil, System Shock or Doom.

Last of Us and Alien Isolation came out years later. Even then I think the combat is better in Dead Space than both of those games.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

If you say yes I won't believe you

Unfair arguing in a nutshell.
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Game was a Friggin classic!
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3 is terrible. 2 is amazing. 1 is a fun ride.
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I remember when Proudclad sent me that game. It blew my mind. I played it twice.
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How is it overrated? Nobody said it was a genre redefining masterpiece or anything.

It was still an excellent game though
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Yeah, I think TC is unfairly representing what people said about this game.
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MakoReizei posted...

How is it overrated? Nobody said it was a genre redefining masterpiece or anything.

It was still an excellent game though

People are lirtally arguing that in this topic

Well I say arguing. More insulting people who disagree
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Looking back at Dead Space 2 I can see why I hardly remember it

It's like 80% either walking down a corridor or a ridiclous action set piece that's more cut-scene than gameplay.

It's closer to Uncharted than horror.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Well I say arguing. More insulting people who disagree

You literally said that anyone who disagrees with you about being scared by the game is lying.
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That's a non sequitur
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And he was never seen again
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