I've been playing Mass Effect 1 and 2 basically constantly for the past few months. Probably my favorite games of all time.

Just finished Arkham Asylum.
Really awesome game.
Considering playing Dead Space 2 a second time through.
Still undecided whether I like the original better or not.

I think they improved the second in Every way possible.
It's my favorite game of the year so far.

As well as my usual dosage of Morrowind, I've been playing a lot of Left 4 Dead 2 lately. I wanted to ask, is anybody here on Steam? I'm thinking about making a Steam thread, but I don't want to if nobody's on it.

Agreed, but it definitely wasn't as scary. The best part about the first one (or any good survival horror for that matter) was the desperation and helplessness, and the strategy when it comes to conserving ammo. The second still had tons of moments like that but it's kinda hard to be scared with a huge ass javelin gun

I have Steam, my account name is bigleaguechewer. My brothers are usually on my account, though, playing Call Of Duty: Black Ops. I too have Left 4 Dead 2 (as well as the first.)

A sad thing about making a horror themed game is that there are always people who will rip on it if they don't **** their pants when they play the game. I personally don't think that scaring the **** out of people was ever the goal of the designers .. They wanted to create a game which is exciting and scary enough to be engaging and I thought they succeeded in doing so. You're quite right that it's hard to be scared when you are so very capable of defending yourself.

Luckily, Dead Space 2 does not rely on the player to be scared for them to enjoy it any more than f.ex Half-Life 2 did and so I think people should stop using it as an argument against the quality of the game. Generally speaking, it is scary enough even if that doesn't mean we all quiver and quake. To not sufficiently scare it's players would be much worse for a game like Amnesia: The Dark Descent which overall has less else to offer.

amnesia scared the **** out of me, i loved that game.

Dead Space has way more bells and whistles, but the core game play wasn;t more satisfying to me then amnesia.

I feel the other way round. I loved Dead Space 2, but haven't yet finished Amnesia. It was scary, but not as much as I perhaps expected considering it's hype. I also disagree that Amnesia's core game play is more satisfying - at least it hasn't been to me. When I stopped playing, I was in rooms flooded with water, trying to jump between bits of flotsam. I didn't find it to be original, nor particularly entertaining.

I liked what happened before though, but I felt like it's 90% atmosphere and not much else. I'll pick it up again though and finish it one day soon and maybe my opinion will change.

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I think there's some psychology behind people praising games like Amnesia which stems from a knee-jerk reaction to support indie developers, particularly when they do something different from everyone else. Amnesia deserves a lot of praise, definetly, but I think the hype may well make out the game to be better than it really is. I wonder if people would have liked it so much had it been developed by Ubisoft f.ex.

the only game I found scary was the original Silent Hill

Hey that was flippin scary especially the scenes in the hospital with the hunchbacked nurses, wheelchairs and bouncing balls. I found most of the Silent Hill games scary in general.

the scariest part for me was in the rooms with the chains, where it's half-dark and you thought something was moving inside the room, but it's only the chains

Don't get me wrong, I wasn't ripping on it, I agreed that it was superior in every other way. I just pointed out that they decided to make Isaac down the 'badass' route, which was a stylistic decision that made it slightly different from what I got from the first one- obviously not necessarily a bad decision.

I just played through Resident Evil 4. Can't believe I never gave this one a try before. Awesome game and surprisingly long too (took me nearly 20 hours of gameplay to beat it). Tough to say if I like the moving camera better than the traditional still camera though. That added a lot of atmosphere.

For anyone who's played RE 4 though, is there any way to kill those regenerator zombies besides using the rocket launcher? I must have tried everything else on them but nothing worked.

We'll probably never see another "true" horror game in the AAA game industry ever again. Horror is such a niche genre and the costs of making AAA games is so astronomically high that it's not worth it in the end. That's why AAA horror games have more of a focus on action now. Resident Evil 4 laid down the ground work that has just been built upon (kind of) over the last 6 years. For true horror you'll have to delve into the indie market and find games like Amnesia: The Dark Descent or the Penumbra games. I think the last AAA horror game that actually frightened me was probably Condemned 2: Bloodshot but even that wasn't anywhere near as frightening as the first Condemned game. This Rise of Nightmares game looks like it could buck the trend, but like fuck I'm shelling out an additional $150 for the Kinect... also the game is being developed by the House of the Dead team so I expect horribly written/delivered dialogue and an over-the-top evil antagonist.

The Dead Space series triumphs over all other horror games I've played in recent times.
It's an epic game, it's longer, more entertaining and has better set-pieces and originality than the first.
However, I would've liked a few boss battles.

It does have some jumpy moments. But, I think you get to an age where horror games no longer keep you up at night.

The multiplayer, imo, isn't very good. Apart from that, it really is a good game, and I'd probably agree that it's the GOTY so far.

Thermal scope with sniper, it shows the weak spots you have to hit to kill them for good.

I draw a LOT of similarities between Dead Space and Resident Evil 4, both fantastic games. It's really too bad Capcom has shat all over the Resident Evil franchise lately, focusing more on the action-shooter genre instead of the horror-survival one, like what Pete was talking about.

Your probably right.`But i liked how the game never tried to be fun or give you a sense of reward. There's a section later on where if u die that's the end of the game.

I really liked how physics based and grounded in reality the puzzles were. I'm used to resident evil where you collect a key to open a box that has a half-circle which combined with another half circle opens up a door to the big key etc.

In amnesia your just throw a chair out a window to get through the window.

I'm back on Elder Scrolls Oblivion on the PC. Still fun. Can't wait for Skyrim. Other than that Halo: Reach and Rock Band.

Human Revolution out today, and from what I hear it's brilliant. Want.

Just ordered Deus Ex: Human Revolution on Amazon. They're crediting ten dollars back to the amazon account right now, so that's why I went with them.

Lucky man. I doubt my computer can run it, that's the trouble. Then again, I've got a beautiful year coming up to waste on Skyrim, Revelations and Mass Effect 3, so I'd better upgrade quickly.

I bought it for 360. If I tried to play it on my PC, it would probably explode.

I can push the Source engine to its limits without any trouble, so I might be able to run DXHR on a low resolution. It's better to try and upgrade to run it well than it is to keep it laggy though.

Assassin's Creed I. I've already played two, curiously. I am trying to catch up on my AC's before I can play Revelations!

Going back to an earlier topic.
There's a HD remake of Resident Evil 4 being released later this year on PSN and Xbox Live.
I don't tend to buy much stuff off of the Playstation Store, is it worth the purchase?

I never played it, originally.

Short answer: Yes.

Long Answer: Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Do we really need an HD Rerelease of Resident Evil 4? Didn't they just do one 2 years ago, I believe it was called Resident Evil 5.

I started on 2 and just flicked through the story of 1 beforehand. I hear it gets let down a bit by the average gameplay, plus 2 had just come out and it looked amazing, so I skipped ahead to Ezio's time.

Just installed Oblivion for the very first time, ever. Looking forward to making a cat-barbarian-thing.

Cool art:

http://i.imgur.com/ilLmo.jpg

If you don't post for a couple of years, we'll understand why.

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This is the first time in a long time that I've spent 5 hours on a game without realizing I just spent 5 hours on a game and stayed up hours later than I usually do.

Rule 1 of Bethesda RPGs: Prepare to spend the rest of your life playing them. I've put 160 hours into Morrowind over 3/4 months. Altogether I'd probably have gone over the 600 hour mark with all three of them. Oblivion's the worst for it.

http://ui09.gamefaqs.com/712/gfs_4161_2_17.jpg
Bazaru Degozaru, a Japanese puzzle/platformer for the TurboGrafx-CD system.

He does a little monkey dance when you beat a level. It's ****ing amazing.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution at the moment pour moi.

Breezing through Round 2 of Dead Space 2.

Question: If I was to borrow one of the following game's from my pal, which should it be;

-Red Dead Redemption
-Assassin's Creed: Revelations
-Resident Evil 5

Red Dead Redemption, easily.

Besides Mass Effect 1 and 2, RDR is probably one of my favorite games of all time.

I'd also recommend Red Dead Redemption. I picked it up yesterday afternoon and played for a good 4 or 5 hours before putting it down. There's a lot in it to keep you going, and from what I've heard, if you just play through for the story you still get a good 14-18 hours out of it.

As far as I know though, Assassin's Creed: Revelations doesn't come out till November, so I'm going to assume you mean Brotherhood, which from what I've heard is also quite a fun game to play. I'm a fan of the AC story and quite like Ezio, so getting to play him again later on in life should be fun, I've also heard the multiplayer is decent, but I don't give a crap about multiplayer so I'll probably never know.

As for Resident Evil 5... well with that one you will need to play the co-op because your partner's AI is so incredibly retarded that you might not be able to beat the game. I mean you'd probably just be better off playing Resident Evil 4 instead.