Poll: Was Dead Space scary?

[ALKATRAZACAZ]

Hell yeah it was.

 

[Axle_Bullitt_19]

Well you have to admit RE is barely trying to be scary anymore, RE is an action game now, no matter what anyone says.

Yeah and to me thats just sad. Man I need to get the 4th one..

 

[aruseusx]

More tense than scary, I'd say. It's too predictable, action-oriented, and easy to create any sense of genuine fear.

This. Plus the boss battles are way too easy.

 

[quiet_samurai]

For the first half hour or so it was, especially the very beginng where you are running unarmed and you can hear them behind you. But after I got the feel of it and just shot at everything lying on the ground and it lost it's appeal. The very end scared me though...alot. It startled me so bad that I startled someone else in the room with me.

Fatal Frame is still the scariest game to date. I as a 20 yr old at the time had to stop playing it a few times.

 

[Jandau]

The middle part was somewhat scary. The beginning was just cheap shock effect crap and very little atmosphere. The last few levels are a shooting gallery and are also devoid of any atmosphere or suspense. The middle part is where they got it right.

 

[Clirck]

Only in beginning because it has a great scary atmosphere but the it gets old while you play through the game, in fact I quited playing it because it felt so boring but I still have the game saved somwhere in the middle and I will return to it when game companies stop making great games every 5 minutes.

 

[sephiroth1991]

scary...no. Like yahtzee said it lacked ambiance

 

[acklumos]

Only the time I was looting a room and then turned around to find a small army of enemies behind me even though I thought I had cleared the room.

 

[silversun101]

Dead Space was STRESSFUL, and that, for me, often spilled over into the realm of scary. I like being scared, I enjoy the tension, so when playing a horror game I will do a marathon session of sorts where i will play the game for as long as possible in one sitting. This means that I usually blast through horror games rather quickly but it also means I build up excess levels of stress that require ventilation. So by the end of say, 5 hours of Dead Space, I am a nervous wreck constantly checking my ammo supply as blast to pieces every "dead" body that I see while dreading to turn the next corner

 

[xavierxenon]

It was certainly a lot scarier than Silent Hill 2 thats for sure.

 

[Kollega]

Yes, yes it was. I didn't even play it myself - just watched, and in a broad daylight. Still scary.

But then again, "entertainment" for me is about tearing shit up and being king of the hill rather than getting the living daylights scared out of me.

 

[SonicKoala]

No, Dead Space wasn't "scary" - as Yahtzee pointed out in his review, all the game does is jump out and yell "BOO" at you every 5 minutes or so; there's no pacing, nor is there anything psychologically scary about the game itself - I liked the atmosphere of the game, although it was painfully unoriginal, but as far as "scary" went, Dead Space scored very low in my books.

And I'm not going to quote the guy above me as I don't want to get into an argument, but Silent Hill 2 was WAY SCARIER than Dead Space - the thing with Dead Space was after the baddies were gone, you weren't scared anymore. Silent Hill 2, on the other hand, maintained this consistently creepy atmosphere that stuck with you throughout the entire game.

 

[IanBrazen]

Oh god fuck, that Hunter on my second playthrough: I knew the damn thing couldn't be killed without being in the right room & I knew you had to 'resist' it in certain places before that, I just couldn't remember where. So every time I heard it clanging around in the ventilation shafts, I nigh-on shat myself.

well while the fights with the hunter were intense and reminded me A LOT of the regenerator from RE4, it still never scared me.
I would just blast off his legs and the casually walk away, but the part where all the doors were locked and abunch of his friends joined in was pretty epic.

It was certainly a lot scarier than Silent Hill 2 thats for sure.

BLASPHEMY! HOW DARE YOU SIR!
jk.
actually im really curious why you thought D.S. is scarier.
would you mind elaborating for me.

 

[IanBrazen]

The results are in.

45 people said yes.
93 people said no.
and 107 said sometimes.
Thanks for voteing everyone.

I really hope they do set out to make the second one much more intense and frightening.
Dead Space is a series that I feel has alot of potential to be one of the greats, and I really hope they do even better with #2.

 

[Frankydee]

It made me jump the first couple of hours in but after that you sort of expect the scary parts to happen.

 

[Edmaniak]

Bah... Sometimes. I admit I jumped from my chair a couple of times.
Without wanting to quote Yahtzee... It's not frightening, it's startling

 

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[Eclectic Dreck]

Generally speaking it wasn't scary per se. It did, from time to time, offer up startling moments and rarely managed to brush up against the spooky but it couldn't linger long. I was too well armed and health was far to plentiful to fear the shadows for long. There was a certain. . . intensity to the game that I suppose might be confused for fear. In general however, this simply meant I was being engaged my more hostiles than I could reasonable cope with at the moment and I was in the middle of a reload. Generally i'd still pull it out of the fire, assuming I had ammunition for my rifle or plasma cutter. God forbid I was reduced to the ripper - some people swear by that gun - personally I was usually just swearing when forced to use it.