Dead Space 1 just not scary?

[CianHunt]

I've been playing through the first Dead Space (I never finished my play through cause it got boring) so that i can buy the sequel, and im about 3/4 of the way through and not one thing has scared me except for a jump scare. I'm quite surprised, i was hopping there would be some genuine scares, but so far nothing, i mean F.E.A.R 2 was a lot scarier than Dead Space, did any one else find this so. Also if you have play the sequel would you give me a yay or nay on whether to buy it?

 

[Polock]

Dead Space = BLASTY BLAST BOOM RAWR GHOASTS! Kind of like DOOM3.

Fear is suspense and ohgodwhenisitgoingtopopoutOHNO! moments.

Generally the second will give you more scares, but both work.

 

[spartan231490]

I've been playing through the first Dead Space (I never finished my play through cause it got boring) so that i can buy the sequel, and im about 3/4 of the way through and not one thing has scared me except for a jump scare. I'm quite surprised, i was hopping there would be some genuine scares, but so far nothing, i mean F.E.A.R 2 was a lot scarier than Dead Space, did any one else find this so. Also if you have play the sequel would you give me a yay or nay on whether to buy it?

I had pretty much the same reaction. a friend suggested that I play alone in a dark room, but I think that defeats the purpose, if it even works. Then again, i had the same reaction to the "creepy" atmosphere of bioshock: meh. Probably just not our thing.

 

[Nunny]

Not realy scary but more "OH SHIT SHIT SHIT" followed by lots of shooting and corpse piles.

 

[Lord_Nemesis]

Are you kidding? Dead Space is the scariest videogame I played since the first Resident Evil.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I found Dead Space very scary.

F.E.A.R. on the other hand... I felt it needed a different name.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I thought the set-pieces in Dead Space were better placed than the set pieces in F.E.A.R. 2. Granted I've only ever played a demo of F.E.A.R. 2 and dislike that series. After having rented Dead Space I began referring to it as the good version of F.E.A.R. xD

Anyway, Dead Space didn't scare me either. I got to chapter 2 when I realized I was running through the same motions and, chapter 3 when I decided to give the game up. Even the necromorphs playing possum until you breech their personal bubble didn't make me jump. I don't plan on getting the second one. I may rent it but that would likely be as far as I go with it.

 

[Batfred]

This was a scray game. As Polock and Yahtzee have both said (although maybe not in that order), it is the atmospheric stuff that works the best. Therfore, much like Silent Hill, it wasn't the monsters that got me, it was the thought of the monsters in the sound effects and the crazy flickery lighting. Give me stuff that just runs at me through happy music on a sunny day anytime.

 

[Ubermetalhed]

I found it as scary as Resident Evil 5. For what supposedly is a survival horror it didn't feel like that at all.

The only scary part was the beginning sequence where you have no weapons and are chased by the necromorph, as soon as you got a weapon all the horror disappated fast.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Nope, not even remotely. I could see it really tried with it's excellent lighting techniques and sound effects, but I wasn't even a wee bit nervous. There weren't even any startle moments! What a silly game. Entertaining though, shame I couldn't finish it.

Now Amnesia: Dark Descent, that is a scary game. I can't even play it! Hence why I love it so much.

I think it depends on what personally scares you. To me, it was atmospheric enough to scare me, and it gave me a lot of jumps & jolts too.

Jumps and jolts? How did it manage that? Each time a monster popped up the game started playing 'scary' music so you knew what was coming. And it wasn't like the 'dead' monsters on the floor that weren't there when you entered the room are really obvious or something.

I found Dead Space very scary.

F.E.A.R. on the other hand... I felt it needed a different name.

Heh, funny, I found F.E.A.R to be quite creepy at some moments. One level in particular was pretty damn hair raising. You know, the office one where you meet the melee ninjas for the first time. It takes ages for them to actually show up, 't was pretty grueling to not know when nor knowing how powerful they were. But after you found out how they worked the nerves calmed down.

 

[endnuen]

I didn't have the nerve to play it..
I just can't do scary games for some reason..
Sadface

 

[The Wykydtron]

It only gets mildly scary when the big regenerator shows up and when they start throwing legions of Necros at you, and that's only the "shit i may die" type of fear.

DS2 kinda threw horror out the window and whent for a kinda survival/action TPS thing with flickery lights. Which is a good thing.

 

[Midnight Crossroads]

It might have been scary if I wasn't too busy counting bullets, looking in the room before and thinking, "Goddammit, not another ambush," or making it policy to shoot every corpse. The game was actually scary in the beginning, but it relied on the same scares too much for it to long be effective. It took the scary and made it as routine as having Issac stopping to actually repair the ship.

It needed more stuff like that doctor slitting her own throat.

 

[mParadox]

I got quite scared during the fights with the Regenerator Necromorph.

When you didn't know how to kill it, that was bad.

Yep. First time I tried, I was scared like hell. but after figuring it out it became easy. Although the fact that an unstoppable Necro was following you was a bit disturbing and scary.

 

[Trolldor]

I've been playing through the first Dead Space (I never finished my play through cause it got boring) so that i can buy the sequel, and im about 3/4 of the way through and not one thing has scared me except for a jump scare. I'm quite surprised, i was hopping there would be some genuine scares, but so far nothing, i mean F.E.A.R 2 was a lot scarier than Dead Space, did any one else find this so. Also if you have play the sequel would you give me a yay or nay on whether to buy it?

I actually found the invincible Necro quite scary on my first play through. An unstoppable beast that could show up at any time.
Once I realised the events were fairly well scripted rather than have it hunt you randomly, it stopped being scary.

 

[SofaEater]

yeah, people don't know how to do scary. Surprise works sometimes but its not scary. Amnesia: The dark descent scares the life out of me even when I'm not high(its a pity it's an adventure game, I'm colour blind so it's hard to find object and shit, especially in the dark) and the more emotionally realistic that scarier it is, not graphics wise. But something that could actually happen.