That new Dead Space is out and I'll probably never play it but I do feel like writing down my thoughts on this game given I replayed it a few weeks ago. All in one day.
This game holds plenty of good qualities to it. It's a well made action game with a variety of weapons that range from decent to pretty good!
Isaac has always been one of my favorites when it comes to horror game protagonists. Just a guy trying to get through another one of them bad days. He's awkward but smart, but unlike the average STEM guy, the dude is brave.
The art design for the new space station also just kicks ass.
Anyways, here's the spoiler. This game is not a good horror game at the slightest. It's actually a fucking awful one. It is so try-hard and over the top edgy, it's just eye rolling. Of course it's still in that era of horror where mfs didn't know how to instill dread into their audience without sensory overload to make people's nerves twitch. It's boring, it's predictable and so much of this game is fucking tone deaf! I swear there must have been a couple of guys on the team that just despised kids and loved dead baby jokes.
Then you got Isaac's girlfriend. Everyone agrees she looks dumb and no one cared yet the game kept beating you over the head about it with guilt and letting go, blah blah blah. It's so hard to even talk about it because this game is just one of the many horror games that fuck this up so badly.
At least the enemy variety is pretty good. Well- mostly good. There are some really great enemies in this game and really pointless ones. So back to the whole kid thing. The fucking day care level? I don't care who you are that level and those toddler necromorphs are cringe as fuck. Ooo, so shocking! The horror! This totally makes your game look so good, you morons! It's impossible to take the game seriously after that and then include your lightbulb ghost gf beating the shit out of you.
I would've enjoyed the game more if they just dropped the whole horror act all together cause if that is all they had to offer then nah man. Keep your marker.
This game holds plenty of good qualities to it. It's a well made action game with a variety of weapons that range from decent to pretty good!
Isaac has always been one of my favorites when it comes to horror game protagonists. Just a guy trying to get through another one of them bad days. He's awkward but smart, but unlike the average STEM guy, the dude is brave.
The art design for the new space station also just kicks ass.
Anyways, here's the spoiler. This game is not a good horror game at the slightest. It's actually a fucking awful one. It is so try-hard and over the top edgy, it's just eye rolling. Of course it's still in that era of horror where mfs didn't know how to instill dread into their audience without sensory overload to make people's nerves twitch. It's boring, it's predictable and so much of this game is fucking tone deaf! I swear there must have been a couple of guys on the team that just despised kids and loved dead baby jokes.
Then you got Isaac's girlfriend. Everyone agrees she looks dumb and no one cared yet the game kept beating you over the head about it with guilt and letting go, blah blah blah. It's so hard to even talk about it because this game is just one of the many horror games that fuck this up so badly.
At least the enemy variety is pretty good. Well- mostly good. There are some really great enemies in this game and really pointless ones. So back to the whole kid thing. The fucking day care level? I don't care who you are that level and those toddler necromorphs are cringe as fuck. Ooo, so shocking! The horror! This totally makes your game look so good, you morons! It's impossible to take the game seriously after that and then include your lightbulb ghost gf beating the shit out of you.
I would've enjoyed the game more if they just dropped the whole horror act all together cause if that is all they had to offer then nah man. Keep your marker.