What the heck? I hope it's nothing like RE5 and we're going to fight necromorohs or whatever in some bright ship where we can see them coming 60 miles away...come on guys, we need more scary!

oh wtf.

And here comes the barrage of bullsh*t to make me hate Dead Space 2, before it's even released. The original's horror setting and gameplay were what made it, and now that's being wittled down.

I hadn't played a creepy abandoned-space-ship-with-monsters-on-it game that good since System Shock 2. In fact, a lot of Dead Space reminded me of SS2, which is probably why I love it so damned much.

Dammit, Visceral.
...seriously, what the fuck?

Might as well play RE5. These "horror" titles are all about killing zombies/demons/aliens with an unrealisical awesome gun nowadays.

i gotta say... it's disappointing that such a great game can be diminished by a marketing teams want to "appeal to a wider demographic". sad day indeed.

So its gonna have the same effect the first one did, except on purpose? TBH, I'd rather play a Horror game with better action than a game that tries to scare me and doesn't work, as completely stupid as that logic sounds.

"Empowering to the player?" What a novel fucking concept. Way to break from the pack guys!

Two nights ago I beat Dead Space. I know, I'm a slow poke and didn't buy it until recently.

I really enjoyed it, but thought it had the potential to be so much more horrifying if the game worked harder at exploiting the player's feeling of safety in, say elevators for example.

Regardless, I thought, "I enjoyed that so much, I will definitely buy Dead Space 2."

After reading this, I've decided to never ever use the word definitely again.

OMFG!!! NOOOO!!!


i just bought the game TODAY!!! because i thought that this was going to be one of the few vrabe franchises that was going to be horror-fucused unstead of action!!! i had really high hopes for dead space if it was going to stay with the survival horror genre!! now dead space is going out of control just like RE5 did!!!

why?? why??WHY??!!!!.

This will forever be the generation horror games died....at least i'll have my ps2

The only thing that could make this better would be the announcement of Eternal Darkness 2 on the front page, when I wake up in the morning. Make it happen, D-toid!

That is a pretty shitty sign :/ Dead Space scared the piss out of me, which isn't particularly hard. However, it also scared the holy bejeezus out of my super tough-guy brother, who screamed like a little girl more than once while he watched me play. That game had goddamned MOXIE, and it sucks that Visceral seems to want to betray their goddamned name and decide that scary isn't so much the thing this time around. Isaac can kick ass and still get the balls scared off him.
And hey maybe (and this is grasping a frickin straws like a mofo), they mean that they have the horror stuff down pat, and just want to make the action better? Maybe? ...God dammit.

There arent enough action focused games and far too many horror focused games...

right?

Maybe they watched Jason X and thought it was really fucking scary.

The first game was a success so this time around we're going to remove everything people loved about the original. Brilliant!

"Who the fuck decided that horror games had to either have shit-tastic controls and cameras or had to be regular action games except with monsters."

Remove shitty controls and a regular action game is what you have. They're just enemies with "scary textures".

I think what you're after is limited ammo and fear of dying, so crank the difficulty up. Works in Dead Space, and I'm sure it'll work in 2.

:( Damn.
Not a good sign.

WTF?

Waiting for game designers and producers to realise that by trying to cater to EVERYONE, you end up catering to NO ONE.

ugh, I just died a little inside.

Boooooo

Give this "sandorasbox" person a medal!

Or mark him on your maps as "voice of reason" at the very least.

@The RPGist "Went from day-1 to someday-maybe."

Wholeheartedly agree. I need more Event Horizon and less aliens vs predators in my sci-fi HORROR.

Fuck Nick Earl. Fuck that guy. What kind of name is that anyway, for a VP? Oh right, VPs are boring and feed us lies all the time. So Nick Earl, tell me it's a lie or it's your balls in the vice grip. Or blender. Or those things that flatten things in video games and you have to time your moves right to get past them without dying, but I don't really think that they exist in a physical form. That's right, you are going to miss a jump and lose all your lives.

That, or I blame the team for being such cockswaggles and catering to their "action-oriented target demographic". Also, Bioshock's much lauded focus-testing did not do wonders for the game. Some might say the game was total shit if you compared it to the source material. Those 'people' might even be me. Maybe. Just like how I 'might' hunt down VP-of-Pissing-Off-Their-Customers, Nick, (aka the Earl of Cocking Shit Up) and castrate him. It will be a great demonstration of stringy ball physics (TM). (Not Really)

But, really? Why would you do this to me, Dead Space Team? Visceral is dead, long live Sledgehammer. Until Activision makes them do a peripheral game, that is.

And for the record, it's just a rant, I will "see what this new game is about". It may extend to purchasing a box of said product, if this "action first" policy hasn't any weight.

P.S. I own both consoles, bitches.