ive seen the trailers and gameplay footage and im quite looking forward to it. Resident Evil in space only much more disturbing and grotesgue (sp?). One of the 1st games ive seen thats disturbed me ever so slightly :P ( plus, if you havnt seen it, watch the twinkle twinkle little star dead space trailer :D).
anyone played it yet?

I haven't played it yet, definitely will get it when it deigns to show its face in South Africa.
Been getting 9's and above in all the reviews I've seen.
Cant wait...

God if that thing disturbed you never play Condemned.

That game isn't horror, it's a zombie shoot em up.

...

Aren't there enough of those "that game is megawesome, anyone else buying it?" threads?

Yeah, I like it. I want it. It is disturbing. I'll buy it.

Richard Groovy Pants:
God if that thing disturbed you never play Condemned.

That game isn't horror, it's a zombie shoot em up.

Yeah, the horror-ific thing with Condemned was that you were just an Average Joe, and had just pipes for fighting.

This is a shoot 'em up, but there still might be jump-out-of-your-seat moments.

Fraught:

Richard Groovy Pants:
God if that thing disturbed you never play Condemned.

That game isn't horror, it's a zombie shoot em up.

Yeah, the horror-ific thing with Condemned was that you were just an Average Joe, and had just pipes for fighting.

This is a shoot 'em up, but there still might be jump-out-of-your-seat moments.

You're probably right but when i saw the "twinkle, twinkle, little star" trailer on youtube i thought
it was actually a horror/survival sick game...let's just say i was disappointed when i saw a gameplay video:(

Richard Groovy Pants:

Fraught:

Richard Groovy Pants:
God if that thing disturbed you never play Condemned.

That game isn't horror, it's a zombie shoot em up.

Yeah, the horror-ific thing with Condemned was that you were just an Average Joe, and had just pipes for fighting.

This is a shoot 'em up, but there still might be jump-out-of-your-seat moments.

You're probably right but when i saw the "twinkle, twinkle, little star" trailer on youtube i thought
it was actually a horror/survival sick game...let's just say i was disappointed when i saw a gameplay video:(

Wait, wait, wait, wait. You people think that trailer was spooky and disturbing because the background song was a children's song?

Wait, you guys are probably right.
But yeah, the trailer was pretty disturbing, but the game is just a shoot 'em up.

That's what I told them, big guns + horror = big magazines saying "this game is freakin' creep-astic!" while it really isn't.

I mean, look at the videos. I mean, do really in the future miners get weapons/tools that can cut off limbs of organic objects? Wooh, mining, here I come!

Going to pick it up today after work, and I can't wait.

I think the suit of armour looks nifty in a utilitarian way. Whole thing reminds me just a little of old game creature shock. Would play if had the hardware.

"I mean, do really in the future miners get weapons/tools that can cut off limbs of organic objects?"

Industrial accidents! Heh, and i'm pretty sure everything in an arborist's toolkit at least is INTENDED for 'organic limbs' XD

mooncalf:
I think the suit of armour looks nifty in a utilitarian way. Whole thing reminds me just a little of old game creature shock. Would play if had the hardware.

Hot damn, I remember Creature Shock, must see if I can wrangle up a copy for sake of nostalgia before I get Dead Space.

Dead Space looks like a high tech sci-fi version of RE4's take on survival horror imho.

Onomatopeia:

Dead Space looks like a high tech sci-fi version of RE4's take on survival horror imho.

I am hoping this has more of the horror aspect than RE4, because that was total shooter. I've been watching all the developers comentary and it looks like they really tried to create a creepy atmosphere. All of the reviews I have seen are really good, so fingers crossed.

Gonna buy it as soon as I get home.

I'm really interested and curious about it.
The anti-gravity feature is exiting.
A shame they blantantly copied RE4 gameplay and camera. They could have come up with their own.

wgreer25:

Onomatopeia:

Dead Space looks like a high tech sci-fi version of RE4's take on survival horror imho.

I am hoping this has more of the horror aspect than RE4, because that was total shooter. I've been watching all the developers comentary and it looks like they really tried to create a creepy atmosphere. All of the reviews I have seen are really good, so fingers crossed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzAjPIMhXfI&feature=related

If that's not resident evil 4 in space, then i don't know what is!

Or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9I0PmiP8rU&feature=related

from what i've seen somewhere between resident evil and bioshock.... but it does sound freakin' awesome....

i doubt i'll get it tough cos i'd end up wetting myself in terror like i nearly did whilst playing bioshock...

I think it looks quite interesting, and it's a good place for me to start in the Horror/Thriller genere in games.

Been following it since i first heard about the game, and to anyone Who HAS NOT seen the animated comics.... well looks like your in luck and that im a nice guy.... heres some linkage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rZ6v5jRFKQ
Thats the first part. Its an animated comic, chronicaling the events before the marker was place aboard the USG Ishimura (sp?).

Yeah deffinetly getting this game, wish i knew the release date for here in Aus, i heard it was the 24th?

yeah, i have done, its a good game

Well the animated comic was awsome & anime film looks pretty good itself; but the game just looks distictly average (kewl zero-g physics aside). Might be one of few occasions where the film of the game is better than the game :-D

Mr. Nucking Futz:

Richard Groovy Pants:
God if that thing disturbed you never play Condemned.

That game isn't horror, it's a zombie shoot em up.

condemned wasnt horror its wasnt even remotly scary

Look at the balls on you!

DND Judgement:
from what i've seen somewhere between resident evil and bioshock.... but it does sound freakin' awesome....

i doubt i'll get it tough cos i'd end up wetting myself in terror like i nearly did whilst playing bioshock...

Bioshock? Scary? Nahhh. I found it quite comical, whacking all those splicers.

This stuff actually makes me wanna play it and I hate Survival Horror. Any reviews out yet?

TsunamiWombat:
This stuff actually makes me wanna play it and I hate Survival Horror. Any reviews out yet?

Maybe because it's a shooter and not a survival horror game? ;o

Ign reviewed it but DON'T TRUST THEM! THEY'RE EVVIKLLALAAFDSJJGA....*gets taken away by IGN suits*

None of the youtube stuff makes it look scary... Hell, Resident Evil has never been scary on it's own I just have a thing about zombies and that is the only thing that gets my blood up. If you replaced zombies with aliens then Resident Evil would lose every single bit of scare factor for me.

In fact, that is a pretty good way of assessing a game's scare factor, replace the main enemies with something less inherently scary and then tell me if it's still frightening. If I were being chased by dinosaurs in Condemned I would probably still jump because it isn't the weird drugged up hobos that are scary it's that you are in a dark building, have no idea where the enemies are coming from, and don't feel particularly safe since you lack a minigun.

Count_de_Monet:
None of the youtube stuff makes it look scary... Hell, Resident Evil has never been scary on it's own I just have a thing about zombies and that is the only thing that gets my blood up. If you replaced zombies with aliens then Resident Evil would lose every single bit of scare factor for me.

In fact, that is a pretty good way of assessing a game's scare factor, replace the main enemies with something less inherently scary and then tell me if it's still frightening. If I were being chased by dinosaurs in Condemned I would probably still jump because it isn't the weird drugged up hobos that are scary it's that you are in a dark building, have no idea where the enemies are coming from, and don't feel particularly safe since you lack a minigun.

That's what i've been saying for a while now.
The scary factor starts loosing ground when you find a gun bigger than you and start tearing everything to shreds. Why would you be scared of zombies/aliens when you have something like that?!

That's why i loved condemned, the melee combat was visceral...

This game to me reaks of that old Xbox classic game called The Thing, only set in space and a bit more flashy.

I couldn't really stand that game, admittedly i had a real issue with gore and horror back in them days and a binge of Dead rising fixed that, made the whole thing laughable to me, but really i don't know if i could handle "More of the same... IN SPACE!"

I bought a copy today, but as a gift for my friend's birthday. I wanted to tear it open and play it so badly, but I restrained myself... *twitch*...

Archemetis:
This game to me reaks of that old Xbox classic game called The Thing, only set in space and a bit more flashy.

That's because one of the major inspirations for the game is John Carpinter's movie The Thing, upon which the game is is based.

Personally non of the trailers I've seen make it look much lke a shooter more than a horror game though but I haven't seen them all.

Richard Groovy Pants:

Mr. Nucking Futz:

Richard Groovy Pants:
God if that thing disturbed you never play Condemned.

That game isn't horror, it's a zombie shoot em up.

condemned wasnt horror its wasnt even remotly scary

Look at the balls on you!

I couldn't help but laugh after seeing the guy's name is "Mr. Nucking Futz".

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LAiHfqnbGYo

Been watching the Launch Trailer over and over, the musiks good.

the basic gameplay elements of a traditional survival horror game is high ammo conservation (going apeshit with a pistol in Resident Evil is a good way to fail hardcore), draconian inventory management, and death in 2-3 hits with very little in the way of armor or free healing

If a game has you constantly worrying where you next bullet is coming from, or it expects you to squeeze non-stacking healing items with questline items and perhaps weapons in 8 inventory spaces, and that zombie just haxed his way onto your neck and killed you in 2 seconds from full health, you're playing a survival horror game.

Otherwise, it's a shooter, either FPS or TPS. In this case, I'm thinking it's a TPS.. not necisarily a bad thing, and it's ok for a TPS or FPS to be scary, and often they need to be. But if it doesn't include those 3 indicators, calling it survival horror is just wrong.

From another topic about dead space.

Great game. Controls well, good atmosphere. It's learned lessons from bioshock and system shock 2 and puts them to good use. The messages scrawled on the walls (which you can decipher if you learn the alien/mutant/thingie alphabet) are great. The environments are a little dingy though and if you don't like sci fi this game isn't going to change your mind. It makes a few obvious but at least interesting observations on religion. In particular it sends up a certain belief system starting with s and rhyming with 'ientology'

If you're one of those people who likes their survival horror with responsive controls and a useful camera it's a good choice but as good as the atmosphere is, the fact you can shred aliens left right and centre with mining equipment means the game isn't psychologically scary and quite often resorts to-BALARAGH!!!!!- shock tactics. Worth a 9 in my book. End of topic.

Edit: Comparisons with system shock 2 are very very fair. The game takes a lot from that particular masterpiece and certainly doesn't suffer for it. It doesn't however have a strong antagonist, or at least not so far.

SUPEREDIT: I give it two regular thumbs and one horrible mutant thumb up.

SUPEREDITMEGATURBOEDITION!: Stomping on shit is amazingly good fun. You'll find yourself stomping on everything. Aliens. Dead Aliens. Humans. Dead humans. Items. Doors. Planets etc

Altorin:
the basic gameplay elements of a traditional survival horror game is high ammo conservation (going apeshit with a pistol in Resident Evil is a good way to fail hardcore), draconian inventory management, and death in 2-3 hits with very little in the way of armor or free healing

If a game has you constantly worrying where you next bullet is coming from, or it expects you to squeeze non-stacking healing items with questline items and perhaps weapons in 8 inventory spaces, and that zombie just haxed his way onto your neck and killed you in 2 seconds from full health, you're playing a survival horror game.

Otherwise, it's a shooter, either FPS or TPS. In this case, I'm thinking it's a TPS.. not necisarily a bad thing, and it's ok for a TPS or FPS to be scary, and often they need to be. But if it doesn't include those 3 indicators, calling it survival horror is just wrong.

Exactly, because your CHARACTER isn't surviving- YOU ARE! See, the aim is not to -win- at the game, it's to not let the -game- win. Once you've tricked yourself into believing bad gameplay is good it all comes together, you'll see.