I'm not going to really speak on glitch/bug issues I had with the game, as I think most of them were attributed to me using an HDD instead of an SSD to play it and a number of things didn't load in quickly (or in some rare cases, at all). It was specified in the requirements that playing on an HDD might yield some quirky things. If anything, I'd rather praise the dev team for making a game that my potato rig can run on Medium for settings without much in the way of framerate drops.
As for the game itself -- well, I didn't think much of the original, and although there are improvements to this iteration, they just weren't enough to really make me feel fulfilled.
I think that I have a monkey brain and a lizard brain. When I'm playing Silent Hill games and a puzzle comes up, monkey brain comes along and tries to figure out how the pieces fit into the holes and I'm fine with this because it's a slow survival horror game and the tension and creep are supposed to build on you over time. When I'm playing an action-based horror game like Dead Space, my lizard brain kicks in and goes, "Me want shooty things" and I...shooty things. When you interrupt my shooty things moments with obtuse puzzles that kill the pacing, lizard brain just goes, "why am not doing the shooty things?" And I just go shrug-emote. Neither of us are satisfied, but we both do the puzzle so we can get back to shootying things.
Is it scary? Well, according to some friends that have been playing it, it's terrifying to them. I wouldn't take my opinion on it because when stuff jumps out, I just aim for the area and spray with no hesitation or concern. I'm not cool, calm, and collected -- I just don't seem to have that proper switch for fear unless it's spiders because spiders are awful.
Spoiler alert: There are no spiders in Dead Space. GOOD.
Everyone else seems to like it, so I'd say that if you want to play an action-horror game, you may as well jump on it. NG+ is supposed to have a new ending, so that's also a thing for previous players who are on the fence. That's all I've got.
As for the game itself -- well, I didn't think much of the original, and although there are improvements to this iteration, they just weren't enough to really make me feel fulfilled.
I think that I have a monkey brain and a lizard brain. When I'm playing Silent Hill games and a puzzle comes up, monkey brain comes along and tries to figure out how the pieces fit into the holes and I'm fine with this because it's a slow survival horror game and the tension and creep are supposed to build on you over time. When I'm playing an action-based horror game like Dead Space, my lizard brain kicks in and goes, "Me want shooty things" and I...shooty things. When you interrupt my shooty things moments with obtuse puzzles that kill the pacing, lizard brain just goes, "why am not doing the shooty things?" And I just go shrug-emote. Neither of us are satisfied, but we both do the puzzle so we can get back to shootying things.
Is it scary? Well, according to some friends that have been playing it, it's terrifying to them. I wouldn't take my opinion on it because when stuff jumps out, I just aim for the area and spray with no hesitation or concern. I'm not cool, calm, and collected -- I just don't seem to have that proper switch for fear unless it's spiders because spiders are awful.
Spoiler alert: There are no spiders in Dead Space. GOOD.
Everyone else seems to like it, so I'd say that if you want to play an action-horror game, you may as well jump on it. NG+ is supposed to have a new ending, so that's also a thing for previous players who are on the fence. That's all I've got.