Comments | nano_moose: I'll probably talk more about this later.

nano_moose

I'll probably talk more about this later.

Feb 03, 2009 11:48

I want to hate Dead Space so much. So much. You can't even understand how much. Almost as much as I wanted to love Mirror's Edge.

But I can't. I just can't.

Oh god.

Oh god.

Forgive me.

It does fail pretty spectacularly at being even the least bit frightening, though.

gamerage

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muted_lark February 4 2009, 13:53:37 UTC

I should play it. Guarantee it'll scare the shit outta me. Then again I'm a coward.

nano_moose February 5 2009, 00:33:23 UTC

I don't know, if you're going to play any game that involves horrible space monster zombie things invading a ship, you should really play System Shock 2. Much more interesting. Dead Space is a game that has been done before, much better.

DS is really only frightening if you still find jump scares frightening - if monsters SUDDENLY JUMPING THROUGH THE WALL AND ALL UP IN YOUR FACE makes you freak out. For me, it doesn't. Like, even a little bit. I twitch a bit, and then calmly blow their legs out from under them. I've played too much Thief and Silent Hill and System Shock, where the fear was more slow creeping paranoia and dread based on the fact that the environment itself actively seemed to hate you and you couldn't trust your own perceptions.

squeemu February 6 2009, 19:00:39 UTC

TELL ME ABOUT IT!

ps how is everything going.

PPS ...why does it seem like I had a dream that was Thief related awhile ago? You'd think I'd remember something like that, instead of just having this vague notion of Thief + dreams.

nano_moose February 7 2009, 00:36:55 UTC

There's a really unsubtle Scientology parody! (And I just made a disturbingly long post about it, so you can read about it FOREVER!)

Everything is going sort of okay - more okay than it's been for a while. I'm feeling pretty good! I am going back to class soon, though, so we'll see how long that lasts. I can't wait to get back to my friends and my computer in Brisbane.

THIEF INVADES YOUR DREAMS. ...I know whenever I have Thief-dreams, they tend to be pretty nebulous and weird - the content isn't exactly Thief-y, but there's a sort of atmosphere to them, you know? That could be it.

I...was going to say something else. WHAT WAS IT. Um. I wish I could talk to you guys more? I wish I had the time to post more? I WISH THIS COMPUTER HAD AIM. Yeah, I'll go with that.