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| Love to Hate #8 by Denny |  | | PALGN Feature: I came, I played, I ran like a sissy. | | [View Article] |
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Dead Space is indeed scary, if only for the shock value and tension. System Shock 2 is still my favourite though =)
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I dunno, Dead Space never really scared me or had me wondering what was going to happen next, maybe because I got to the first boss and got bored.
What DID scare me was Resident Evil 2. Slow moving little girls and rabid zombie dogs, also the crows, filthy filthy crows.
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The reason why this game is so god damn freaky is the sound design. It's incredible.
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Condemned freaked me out a lot, as did FEAR, however they were more psychological scares, Dead Space is true horror as it should be. It's funny I never really found any of the RE games scary, though I haven't played Nemesis or Code Veronica.
DS really nailed it though, I love it so god damn much.
Nothing overcomes System Shock 2 for scares though, it's both freakish on a psychological level and on an "OMG HUGE GUY RUNNING AT ME AND I HAVE NO AMMO LEFT AT ALL" level as well. When you have to remove a level from the game via patches because it damn near causes spontaneous combustion in arachnophobes (hell, even if you're not it's still a hellish area), you know you're doing something right.
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| Sin Ogaris wrote: | | When you have to remove a level from the game via patches because it damn near causes spontaneous combustion in arachnophobes (hell, even if you're not it's still a hellish area), you know you're doing something right. |
They removed a level from SS2? Which? I don't remember that at all! =)
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| Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 1:09 pm Post subject: |
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Condemned 2
and slint hill
, dead space and RE just relie on jump scares ( played dead with the lights out @4am )
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It was actually really bad wording on my part because it's been so long since I played it, it wasn't a level which was removed but an enemy, Looking Glass released a "no spiders" patch for System Shock 2.
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| Sin Ogaris wrote: | | Looking Glass released a "no spiders" patch for System Shock 2. |
I think that might have been a fan-made mod.
I've got an urge to revisit SS2 with all the fan patches now =\
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Other recommended titles
Clive Barkers Undying
Thief (any of them, but the most recent iteration had 'The Cradle', which was very unnerving)
Vampire The Masquerade - Bloodlines had a couple spinetingling levels, the Ocean House Manor being one of them
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Vampire Bloodlines is my most fav 'horror' game to date. The manor was def the highlight. Walking round trying to watch out for ghosts flinging stuff at you and often getting hit in the back.
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Doesn't this go totally Event Horizon later on, and Isaac sees visions of his dead girlfriend or something?
Or am I thinking of the wrong game?
(No, I'm not talking about Silent Hill 2 and accidentally combining the two...)
I say this simply because thats what the James Wan trailer for this game seemed to suggest. If that is indeed the case, then I'm gonna check this badboy out!
Sin Edit: OMG SPLOIGERZ!
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Please, stop all the "incredibly masculine and capable of breaking a building in half with my toe nail" stuff. You'll seem more credible, and more people will actually want to read on.
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| Cyph wrote: | | Thief (any of them, but the most recent iteration had 'The Cradle', which was very unnerving) |
Yeah that asylum level was bloody frightening. Helping a ghost isn't all that much fun =\
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| Chrispys411 wrote: | | Please, stop all the "incredibly masculine and capable of breaking a building in half with my toe nail" stuff. You'll seem more credible, and more people will actually want to read on. |
Pretty sure it was a joke, being an opinion piece it's not like it HAS to be 100% straight laced.
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This is one of my fave games. I played through it twice in a row. Much better than RE5 IMO.
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| Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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It's unfortunate how PALGN has degenerated to release lists, bargains and opinion peaces.
Please get to reviewing games and posting news items the day they occur.
I love PALGN, but I'm losing patience.
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Sorry, pieces. A little frustrated.
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| Dutch Rootsman wrote: | It's unfortunate how PALGN has degenerated to release lists, bargains and opinion peaces.
Please get to reviewing games and posting news items the day they occur.
I love PALGN, but I'm losing patience. |
pfft  ,
that's what palgn is all about for me - if that wasn't here i wouldn't of ended up here in the first place and as for reviews on first day theres no point - they don't really get paid for writing as far as i konw ? the writers might but that's not the point this is entertainment provided to you by them.
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I think you need to grow a pair Denny.  I mean it's well done and small parts are scary, but mikezilla2 is right, it mainly relies on jump scares which stop being scary after they keep happening. The last game that I was scared from playing was REmake, but I was around 13? when i played it, which probably helped, and was yet to watch an MA movie. Love how parents follow the movie ratings like a bible, yet let me play Turok and other MA games when I was around 10.
And I agree with LeonJ as well, the sound design in this game is great, as is the lighting.
And the satisfaction of stomping on ememies on the ground and bashing them with the gun is one of the best parts of the game for me.
And slightly off topic, I disagree with Dutch Rootsman. News and reviews aren't that important to me. No offence to PALGN, but 95% of the news stores on here can be found on other websites (as with most gaming websites) and I'd rather look at gamerankings or metacritic that gives me a diverse range of reviews, rather than relying soley on PALGN's. If you want news, it would be way easier to set up an RSS feed from a number of gaming websites and check that each day. More varied too. I think oppinion pieces are better, as they are unique content and can't be found on every website sunder the sun.
Nice piece Denny.
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Arrgh, Sin's censored me! I guess, in a sense, that's an answer to my question in itself.
So let me be clear - this game gets psychological, yes? Rather than just a simple physical monster-riffic presence?
Hmm... might go back to SS2 and BioShock soon...
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| Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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It gets a little psychological, nowhere near as much as I would have liked but what is there is pretty cool.
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Ah, alright, thanks a lot :)
I'll look into it after my SS2 replay!
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I thoroughly enjoyed playing through Dead Space - excellent game. I didn't find it overly scary, though - it gave me a few jumps, but I didn't have a constant fear while playing through.
Come to think of it, the only game that has truly had me terrified as I played through it were the Project Zero (Fatal Frame) games. Utterly stunning, creepy and scary games.
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