What Are You Playing (Autumn 09)

[Pineapple]

Picked up Brutal Legend yesterday and spent a few hours with it. REALLY enjoying this game, it's a lot of fun so far, but I find myself not exploring very much so that I can keep doing story missions, which I feel is wrong since it's such a big world with lots of shit to see.

[Despair]

I have too many games to play and not enough time.

QFT x 10

[A Robot Bit Me]

After I get through that or get sick of it, I'm gonna make a decision between Silent Hill 2 or Dead Space. What do you guys think?

Silent Hill 2 is the best horror game of all time and Dead Space sucks. One has a legitimately creepy and pervasive atmosphere, the other just tries to recreate Resident Evil Dogs Jumping Out Of The Window at every corner.

I do like, though, how the arrival of a Dead Space enemy is so often heralded with a screech of violin screens to remind you, in case you forgot, that this is a scary game! Better corpse stompin' and limb disenfranchisin' physics Dead Space, too.

[Tain]

the best parts of Dead Space are the first time you open the menu and like the first twelve stomps on a dead body to remove its limbs. it's kinda downhill after that.

[Rumpy]

Fuck you both, Dead Space is amazing.

[kingoffighters]

I don't get all the praise on SH2. You want scary? Play Fatal Frame.

[Hero]

Picked up Brutal Legend yesterday and spent a few hours with it. REALLY enjoying this game, it's a lot of fun so far, but I find myself not exploring very much so that I can keep doing story missions, which I feel is wrong since it's such a big world with lots of shit to see.

Exactly - lots of shit to see.

(the world design is pretty rad. Empty as all hell and what's there is repetitive missions/things to find. But at least its purty...)

OT: Playing A Boy and His Blob. Fuck the haters who think it only deserved to be a download game.

[A Robot Bit Me]

I don't get all the praise on SH2. You want scary? Play Fatal Frame.

Fatal Frame is the better game, but I maintain that SH2 far surpasses it in atmosphere and ambiance and all that touch-feely stuff.

Either way, people will still be talking SH2 for decades. Dead Space will be forgotten a couple of years after its final iteration.

[NeoZeedeater]

Silent Hill 2 may be scarier than Dead Space and it doesn't drag on as long but I don't think it's the better game overall. I like how Dead Space forces you to choose wisely about your upgrades because it won't let you have them all. It's kind of like System Shock 2 in that regard (and in general atmosphere). Speaking of which, Shock 2 is better than both of them.

[Gooch]

Bayonetta (J360)
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 (PS3)
Uncharted 2 (PS3)
Tekken 6 (PS3)