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By: Andy Turner

Andy Turner — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:07:51 +0000

You really have to give the makers of Dead space credit for putting together a fairly intense experience (I too especially hate that little killer snot ones) and their huge fat moms…rather than becoming a nervous wreck however the nerve shredding intense action seemed to turn me into a sociopathic monster (I hasten to add this is limited to the in game universe before the daily mail have me committed and video games banned.)

During one late night voyage through the Ishamura my flat mate eventually pointed out that the twitching dismembered, decapitated lump of meat that I’d spent the last two minutes stomping on was unlikely to come back and get me the second I turned my back on it…then I turned a corner something nasty dived out of an air vent and we started the process all over again….Can’t wait for resident evil 5 where headshots start being the way to go again. (Unless it’s like 4 and about halfway through that just pisses them off.)

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:52:06 +0000

Hey, Rook.

I did create the first ever Ready Up comic strip, but it wasn’t that one!

http://ready-up.net/2008/05/16/impatience/

By: Sikamikanico

Sikamikanico — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:00:19 +0000

I hate scary games. I’m a complete wuss when it comes to things of this ilk. Ever since those Cerberus dogs in the original Resident Evil, I just can’t play Survival Horror.

Although I do love Left 4 Dead with a passion, but then that’s just an FPS on crack. With Zombies.

By: The Rook

The Rook — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:28:05 +0000

Did Tony just create the Ready-Up.met cartoom strip?

By: Jonathan Grier

Jonathan Grier — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:56:56 +0000

I’m with you Andy, except from on Dead Space being an FPS.

By: The Rook

The Rook — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:40:48 +0000

I will be starting Dead Space this weekend. I’ll have the lights out but a duvet will be near by should I need to hide. Heard many people say positive things about this game, so looking forward to it.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:02:09 +0000

Dead Space starts out looking like a good game with some nice ideas, but quickly decends in to a generic FPS which does become a little dull once you’ve played it for a while.

And no, it’s not scary. Doom 3 was however and F.E.A.R also had it’s fair share of pant-wetting moments!

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:24:43 +0000

Yeah, c’mon now, she’s a singer!

By: Lorna

Lorna — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:53:33 +0000

One person’s scary is another’s hilarity…I get fed up of people saying that Billie Piper is an actress…

By: Duncan Aird

Duncan Aird — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:49:14 +0000

Not to be pedantic, but he only ever said it was jumpy. Never scary. ;)

By: Jonathan Grier

Jonathan Grier — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:40:09 +0000

I am fed up of people saying Dead Space is scary, it is not!!!

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:31:58 +0000

Sound is a huge part of games. I got surround sound for watching DVDs with, mainly, but it’s so awesome in games.

The amount of people that spend a fortune on a huge flat-screen TV and then put the sound through the crappy speakers built into it amazes me…

By: blagmasterg

blagmasterg — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:25:47 +0000

I cannot really relate to this in general, as I tend to be fairly immune to ‘jumpy scares’. That said I don’t tend to play much survival horror either (more cuz its not really my bag than beause it scares me.)

However, I CAN relate to this kind of thing, from my tense nights playing Half Life at uni with a pair of headphones in the dark. The way that sound was used in that game was genius and I think mostly underappreciated. I think its mainly because of how revolutionary the game was at the time – up to that point the only FPS’s I had played were Doom, Quake and Duke Nukem 3D -basically run around gun stuff down and move on. Half Life was vastly more complex, more involved and consequently more affecting. I started out dying a lot due tomy previous experience making me run around trying to gun stuff down. Then I learned, and soon I was listening out at every junction and doorway for the telltale gribbly sounds of aliens, the feedback and chat from Marine radios and a myriad other sounds that delivered into my stereo headphones and scared the crap out of me. I swear that for weeks afterwards I heard those sounds in my sleep, as I dreamed my way through the corridors of Black Mesa clutching my crowbar and praying for deliverance.

I guess its all down to what you’re prepared to immerse yourself in – survival horror doesn’t ‘do it’ for me generally because I find it difficult to immerse in something that doesn’t really grab me, but Black Mesa was a second home to me through uni, and for a while I lived and breathed those corridors. In fact I ma have to fie it up again i a minute and remind myself of its majesty!

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:51:05 +0000

It’s an affliction, I tell you.

The other day my partner knocked something over in the kitchen and I jumped so hard I very nearly threw my (brand new at Christmas) PSP across the room!

By: Duncan Aird

Duncan Aird — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:41:47 +0000

F.E.A.R. is my ultimate ‘hit the D7 note’ game for me. The game as a whole just scares the hell out of me so even the slightest non-loud noise gets me.

That Alma knows how to push my buttons…

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:26:37 +0000

Oh God yes, I just go through the whole game with my weapon – I’m stubbornly sticking with the Plasma Cutter, which can make things really difficult sometimes – ready; I do this both for a light source and to make sure none of the buggers get near me! I hate those tiny ones the most…

At times, the sound seems to be right out of Resident Evil 4. Anyone else get that?

Halloween must be a complete nightmare for you, Tony. And also funfairs. Maybe

By: Garvaos

Garvaos — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:24:51 +0000

I was the same with doom 3 when it first came out and i playedit on th original Xbox. I played the dead space demo and i almost cracked my cealing :p. Bioshock had the same effect on me too but i still can’t get enough of that game.

By: Lorna

Lorna — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:12:41 +0000

I sympathise entirely. I also jump at little things…I remember chickening out of Aliens Vs Predator years ago when my shaky marine rounded the first corner and saw an Alien streaking over the walls in the distance…then the motion tracker started….possibly the most terrifying invention ever. I couldn’t exit quit enough, disgusting coward that I am :(