Dead Space 2: Anyone playing it?
I am enjoying it. With the lights turned off there will be some moments that will make you jump and the space combat is wicked.
Any polycounters try this game out yet?
Any polycounters try this game out yet?
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lol, very fun and scary!
(Samples of bad, it cant understand multiple monitors, so it mimicks the desktop movement of the mouse. So while your playing on one monitor, your horizontal is twice as much as your vertical in movement. Then going into aim mode, your movement drops to nilla nd you literally have to keep moving the mouse of the pad and backdown to do large mouselooks)
I'll probably get it even if they haven't but I'm waiting for a steam sale, I hate that they put the first game on sale on steam instead.
I have it for PS3, so I can't complain about controls and the like.
As for DS2, it's in the post. We UK'ers have to wait you know.
my girlfriend doesnt let me play the 2nd one
(don't like survival horror where you can buy weapons and ammo and shit anyways..RE4 Im talking to you..)
Yesterday, I went out to Best Buy, and purchased a brand-new copy of Dead Space 2 for my PS3. I enjoyed the original game so much that I felt just fine laying down $60 for the sequel. The fact that it comes with a high-res version of Extraction (which I also enjoyed) didn't hurt.
I played to the beginning of the third chapter last night, with the lights off and my Dolby 5.1 system cranked up. So far so great. The graphics and art in the game are definitely a step up from the previous game. The character models are better, with much more convincing facial animations. In general everything looks sharper and more detailed. I've also noticed a bit more attention to detail in the environments. Even in the short two chapters I played through, the variety in the environments was much more diverse. There are the predictable grey corridors, but they mix it up with subtle touches of human occupation. It seems to me that this title is going to be even more linear than the first game. This will mean less freedom in exploration, but it will also mean less backtracking or recycled chapters. A bit of a toss-up in that regard, I always felt that the way in which the first game re-used its environments was actually quite clever.
If you can, definitely play this game with surround sound. The audio experience is just as good, if not better than the original. The ambient effects, noises, and voices you hear in the levels are incredibly unnerving. I can't wait to play more.
i barely got 30 or 40 minutes into the game before putting it down for a nice little break
it creeped me out right from the opening sequence.
+1
= a sign of a good game
First one reminded me of Event Horizon.
Habboi, Vsync was off.
Currently I am waiting on some stuff to arrive in the mail before I continue playing, so I can use my headphones (7.1 headphones, apparently? Sure.) although I assume some sound quality is lost through the adapters.
I just wish the ps3 had a headphone jack built in.
Or at least, my TV did.
on pc.. meh.
not realy sure. I enjoy tv games more when it comes to these types. Its a singleplayer tailored game !
Best 5.1 setup for headphones would be a really good pair of headphones combined with a dolby adapter, like the JVC SU-DH1 or Sony MDR-DS7000 (shit expensive). Using that combo you can hook up the PS3's toslink connection to the JVC's mini-toslink input and plug in your headphones from there. This is also pretty good for general music, cause the JVC has a built in amp (not great, but definitely better than non at all) that will provide juice for your cans.
I have some uh..
nice headphones. Planatronics gametron?
I have some adapter dealies coming in the mail. RCA ports, or some such thing?
I don't really know. It's supposed to work. Audio cords to jack, and then a female/female adapter to plug the headphones into.
Thats all I've got.
my only grip: the tank controls. why oh why can i not creep up around a corner in a horror game. that is what builds tension....and is what any person would do in a scary situation. but in this day and age....in dead space you push forward on the analog stick....and dude starts haulin' ass. i don't understand why they go with this control style.
Every game does.
I'd also really like to know.
Deadspace 2, it only gets better, smoother controls that feel right.
A world that has so much detail for those who take the time to look around. You can see they really wanted to make a world that makes sense and seems believable.
Enemies are just as twisted as always, the new ones only add to the fun
As for the sound, no game tops this. Such a rich soundscape, and yes, it freaks you out with 5.1.
I think a lot of love has gone into this game. Or atleast tons and tons of care.
This game truly deserves all the raving reviews its getting. Hats off to the visceral guys!
No issues, works perfectly fine with a keyboard and mouse.
Visually, the game is much darker than the first one. The game does look nice but I preferred the look of DS1 where I could actually see where I was going...
And the downside with triple buffering is that you can't run use both graphic cards in a SLI or Crossfire system.
Only thing I'm disappointed about is ....spoiler
Ran smoothly on my computer, was worried that it wouldn't but no problems there. Never got around to use one of the new weapons, couldn't really see the use of a rifle with zoom, since most of the stuff always is in your face. Loved the detonator though, helped a lot with covering my back. My main weapons was still the plasma cutter, the line gun, pulse rifle, didn't bother to buy any of the others.
put a spoiler on that!
tough game on zealot though. love it
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Overall though I wish they had included that song above. I also think they went overboard with the amount of NPC's near the end. Oh and needed more distinct bosses.
beautiful game, i'm in chapter 8. almost done
let me know if that answers the control question on PC.
No, it was answered previously. My question is why you would want to use a xbox controller for a shooter game? Even third person. I tried with the first and it was nothing like the mouse with trying to aim. Even with the mouse controls being fugly in 1.
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This is my favorite song in 1. The reverb is amazingly deep with good speakers.
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Damn I hate those adverts. I wonder if the dev team face palm everytime they see the great marketing idea...
just finally installed it after waiting a week
- played it for 5 mins screeched like a girl at the sound of a pipe bursting...and quit
Say what!? I played on survivalist and had my ass handed to me on a regular basis. I eventually had to change the difficulty to normal in order to finish the game. God, I'm such a noob
Anyway, awesome game with shitloads of wows but the story quickly goes downhill and had me ignore it entirely by the end of the game.
I've also been having this problem with DS1. But where do you enable triple buffering? Can't see it in the options anywhere.
This is pretty much what my settings are except that triple buffering (second from bottom) is set to 'on' instead of 'off' as it is in this picture.
I just finished the game. Pretty sweet game. Loved the atmosphere and sounds.
Great game anyways and the controls are much better than the originals were on PC.
That said, I still really enjoyed playing this game. It was a fun experience that neither bored me nor frustrated me. Hell, I'd recommend it based on EYE NEEDLE alone.
This is the only game I have actually let things kill me...Some of the death sequences make the game what it is. The Stalker death is so brutal, but the little tentacle head death sequence made me laugh out loud!!
It is a continuation of the Dead Space Extraction game, not Isaac's story.
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Not for the PC version for some reason!