User blog comment:The Milkman/ The Dawnfire Fiasco/@comment-4237253-20120910123650/@comment-3492791-20120911002224

You miss alot when you go live real life for a few hours. =/

Dead Space

I loved Dead Space. I have all the achievements in both of them XD. 2 was actually better than 1, which is honestly rare for most sequals in the industry >_>. DS1 was alot of creepy music with boogymen jumping out of every third vent; and there was ALOT of vents. To scare someone you require fear, without fear all you can do is startle. DS2 was actually scary in some parts. Return to Ishimura... O_O It also had one of the most difficult hard modes of any game i've ever played.

Hardcore mode (or whatever it was called) actually made the game terrifying. When death actually has real consequence (dying doesn't just send you one or two rooms back, but like 4-5 hours back), and the enemies can easily (and quite literally at times) rip your face off in only 2-3 seconds of attacking you, AND you have so little supplies that MacGyver wouldn't be able to make use of them, it becomes scary in a very real way. Near the end of my hardcore playthrough I had to stop a few times because playing the game was just too stressful. I didn't get mad, my nerves were just completely frayed (It didn't help that I had to watch the failing animation for the eye needle like 12 times. I really hate needles, and I really like my eyes!). Sad thing was that once you've actually got the foam finger of fury...there is nothing left to do. =(

The Multiplayer was equally horrifiying, but in a very different way. When I first started I loved the multiplayer. It seemed really fresh. A feeling I hadn't had since AC's multiplayer. I loved collecting the suits (I got a cool camo Viral suit in my first game =D), trying different guns, getting the puker and obliterating the foolish humans with my pinwheels of death. What really killed it was the horribly easy to exploit design. Once I got into the higher levels (like barely double digits here) and got away from the newbs that didn't know the exploits, I found the noobs that always used the exploits. Humans never stopped using stasis. NEVER. Round a corner, stasis. Jump on someone's face, stasis. Zerg rush, still stasis. Beat someone to only 1hp, they can still stasis you first. The other was the fucking spitters. Those spitters always choose to spawn on the ledges it was immpossible for the humans to reach, the snipe everything that moved, and as soon as anyone shot back they just backed against the wall so you couldn't see them, and couldn't be hit because there was no way to get up there! Then they do it all over again until they died. And when they finally did die? 12 seconds later they are right back doing it all over again! The Multiplayer in that game had so much potential, a lot of potential, but it fell on its face because of terrible players that exploited bad design flaws. I vowed that if they didn't fix those issues, I would no longer play it. I haven't touched it since.

DS3 I was looking forward to since the moment I saw the credits of DS2. When I saw it at E3, I was disappoint. Co-op takes all the scary out. Fear comes from the fact you you are ill suited for the situation at hand. Add in Mister Man Buddy Friend Pants and suddenly you can lean on the aid of someone else. Thus you are less fearful because you got someone watching your back. What is even worse than co-op, is that it's a completly optional co-op. Don't get me wrong, i'm glad I can keep the co-op button firmly in the off position, but think about it... A completely optional charactor in the main campaign? The game is designed around the fact that one of the main charactors might, or might not even be there at anytime! That is going to fuck with the story so hard I can't even imagine. The absolute worst part of all, was the moment that door opened, a space ship flys down, bullets start coming at you, and it's not a cutscene, it's human enemies. Human. Fucking. Enemies...EA! WHY DO YOU RUIN EVERYTHING! I can already see a "Mercs Vs. Engi" mode.

But you know...i'm still gonna buy it and stuff...