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Horror game wishlist by fabio 09/16/2011, 6:01pm PDT
E. L. Koba wrote:

And then noticing that whenever you get to a group of lockers more of the lockers had a green light on (meaning you could open them) if I was low on ammo, but then only a few were green if I was a little flush - so why bother trying to conserve ammo, since you can't possibly get ahead because even if you are the crackest shot in all the universe, when you get to the next ammo dump they are only going to give you a minimal amount of bullets to INCREASE THE TENSION.


That developers someday drop the idea that resource rationing is essential to an effective horror game. I guess Halo had one thing right in that regenerating health forces designers to make each individual encounter a challenge that could kill the player. That makes for a scarier experience than the Doom 3/Bioshock enemies slowly eroding resources.

If Deadspace was supposed to mostly be an action game, then it was like someone had sucked all the fun out of Resident Evil 4, a game where the 1% of playtime devoted to genuine scares was more effective than the entire sum of Deadspace.
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I didn't realize I had a problem... by Jerry Whorebach 09/11/2011, 6:39pm PDT NEW
    It's when you do it all using only the GRAAAAAAH stomp that you have a problem by Lizard_King 09/11/2011, 8:19pm PDT NEW
        You know, it never occured to me to use anything BUT the stomp. by Jerry Whorebach 09/11/2011, 10:58pm PDT NEW
            Spoilers! by Jerry Whorebach 09/13/2011, 6:48pm PDT NEW
                The scariest part that made me stop playing by fabio 09/15/2011, 6:43am PDT NEW
                    They're fun action games. by Gutsby 09/15/2011, 7:41am PDT NEW
                        I thought they were velociraptors NT by WITTGENSTEIN 09/16/2011, 5:49pm PDT NEW
                    I was really riled up when I started out playing this game. by Fullofkittens 09/15/2011, 7:41am PDT NEW
                    The Asteroids minigame was maybe my second-favourite part. by After all the stomping, of course. 09/15/2011, 11:39am PDT NEW
                        I'm probably being too harsh on this one. by Jerry Whorebach 09/15/2011, 1:07pm PDT NEW
                        Re: The Asteroids minigame was maybe my second-favourite part. by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/15/2011, 9:50pm PDT NEW
                            Unlike others, I'm not clever enough to make something like that up. by Jerry Whorebach 09/15/2011, 10:43pm PDT NEW
                    What was the last game that scared you? by Arbit 09/15/2011, 8:24pm PDT NEW
                        The original Aliens vs Predator remains scary due to random alien placement NT by Mischief Maker 09/15/2011, 9:37pm PDT NEW
                        The Penumbra games and Amnesia Dark Descent NT by fabio 09/16/2011, 6:37am PDT NEW
                        S.T.A.L.K.E.R. ( the original ) with full lighting by WITTGENSTEIN 09/16/2011, 5:11pm PDT NEW
                    The asteroids mini-game was what finaly killed Deadspace for me by E. L. Koba 09/15/2011, 10:29pm PDT NEW
                        Horror game wishlist by fabio 09/16/2011, 6:01pm PDT NEW
    Dead Space was a bad game. by Jerry Whorebach 01/30/2013, 9:35pm PST NEW
        Re: Dead Space was a bad game. by Souffle of Pain 01/30/2013, 10:17pm PST NEW
 
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