Dead Space 1 just not scary?

[deckai]

The only difference between F.E.A.R and Dead Space I see, is the setting, one is more about the paranormal/ghost the other is more about the alien/Body Horror.

Both rely heavy on jumpscares. But in the end I found Dead Space more scary, since it still counts as survival-horror and not as a Fps. I kinda feared for my "life" not like in F.E.A.R, where most of the jumpscares were harmless.

And I don't agree with people who say jumpscares aren't really scary... if your gaming-style is changed by them, even slightly, for example by moving slower, wasting more ammo or have a eye on the darker conrners, than boys and girls, you a scared. That may be not be the kind of fear you were looking for, but in the end you still were scared.

There are countless kinds of fears and people react to them in different ways.

Oh and I just finished Dead Space 2, If you didn't like the first one you probably won't like the sequel (Although there a bit more of ghost/paranormal scares this time).

 

[WOPR]

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 have never been scared by a game... ever

(well that's not entirely true, when I was 4 or 5 I saw the bloodied up face in doom and that gave me nightmares, but that was it; plus I was 4 or 5)

EDIT: Only buy the squeal if you like the game
I found it fun, but not scary at all- it was pretty basic and all I saw was "LOOK! RESIDENT EVIL 4 IN SPACE!"

 

[End]

Not even slightly in my opinion, Silent Hill is much more my type of horror series, much scarier.

 

[JoshGod]

not one thing has scared me except for a jump scare.

Was it when the necromorph tried to get in the elevator, That made me jump, then again nothing else did not even the ending, infact i saw it coming. As for fear, i played one, two is sitting in my library.

 

[MaxP779]

Dead space is a far scarier game than fear, its also a much better game as well.

 

[Molander]

FEAR 2 was a god damn joke... LOOK OVER HERE! *Alma passes behind your back and you don't notice shit xD

Dead Space was scary the first chapters but then it went for action and the rest is history

 

[Kontar]

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 didn't find the first one very scary either, the beginning was creepy because you weren't entirely sure what was going on. Once you learned more of what happened, how to kill the monsters, that the plasma cutter makes the game easy mode once fully upgraded (and I played on the hardest difficulty first time through), it wasn't scary. I thought it was still a fun action type third person shooter with zombie/alien things.

The second one is quite a bit better than the first, once again it's not all that scary, if you thought the first wasn't scary you won't be scared by the second. It was still a good game in my opinion, decent story, good action etc. I recommend playing the second even if you slightly liked the first.

 

[jh322]

It's a combination of things, really. This is why DOOM3 came with a little message from the developers saying something like "if you want to enjoy this the way we had in mind, turn the lights off, the sound up, and lock your door". I did this, stupidly, with DOOM3 and it took me about 30 mins to genuinely fall off my chair in fright. Playing the same game a few weeks later with friends in a well lit room at around midday was comically not scary. It's about the world you're in when you look at the world they create. Now, survival horror games for me are all about waiting untill your housemates are asleep, nobody's around, you should really be sleeping but you're too excited, you turn on the console, wrap the sofa in a plastic bag to protect it from unintentional excretions, and get it on.

 

[teebeeohh]

the atmosphere was scary but I disliked the Necromorphs just lying on the ground jumping when you get close, this destroyed the scariness, after they got me once i just shot every corpse to check. Thats another thing: make ammo rarer, if you alway know that you still have 30+ ammo for weapons that can onehit most enemies it makes me feel less like i am running but more like i'm hunting


oh the shock effect always get me though, even when i know that they are coming

 

[DragonBorn96]

Strangely playing on Impossible it felt more tense becasue i knew they'd havea better chance of killing but I like games where its atmosphere is still shown and i think Issac not talking whule walking through the dark corridors and the music stings making me go ZOMGWHATSGOINGON! and then something going blurgle flurgle and biting my head off was oh so amusing as well as pant-wetting.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Dead Space 1 was quite scary when I played it when it was released.The jump scares wasn't really expected so my heart jumped out of my chest a few times.

Regarding for Dead Space 2..one of the most frightening times is when I was walking for more than 15min to reach an objective,checking every corner and not knowing when the necromorphs are gonna jump me.

The survival horror is scarier when you are expecting something to happen and it doesn't,gives you the suspense that something will pop out and insta kill you at any point and time.

That sells it for me..

 

[Tsaba]

SNIP

Personally, Dead Space isn't really that scary, but, it has a mood and feel like no other game, I really enjoyed the atmosphere. Personally, I find older horror games much better at what they do, horror just isn't done right anymore, movies or games apply to the last sentence. I personally think it's what you don't see that is the scariest part and I believe that's what dead space did right, the heavy breathing in space with limited oxygen, the dark blood covered hallways. Don't get me wrong, FEAR did this too, but, fear is a different kind of horror with the is she going to run across the hall or is she going to rape me moments. I personally didn't find the monsters scary, but, I did find it very exciting as I found fear and the wtf phantom moments.

 

[Diligent]

Not scary, just startling at points, and that's assuming you have the volume up.
Just been playing Dead Space 2, and while it's fun and has some pretty neat looking action scenes, it certainly isn't more scary as people have been saying.

Spoiler: minor spoilers

During the intro before you have your suit, I got the same sensation as walking through a cheap carnival fun-house. BAM static TV turns on in front of you. BAM water sprays in the shower. BAM pipes burst and steam comes out. etc... very cheap eye-rolling thrills.

I'm going to play some imported fatal frame 4 after dead space...now that ought to be ACTUALLY scary.

 

[yundex]

DS1 shits all over the fear series! I understand the two games use different kinds of horror, but I don't think fear was supposed to be a horror series. Mostly because when I first saw alma, I walked up to her and started shooting at point blank range.

DS2 on the other hand...not scary. Fun game but it tries to do the psychological thing which does nothing for me.

 

[CosmicSpiral]

Dead Space gives you jump scares but not dread scares (I don't count "jump scares" as being scary, it's just a bodily reflex). Shooters are very hard to make into survival-horror, it's just the way the genre exists.

 

[Geekmaster]

I would'nt call it particularly scary but it does have some shock value.

Regardless, it's awesome.

 

[Wurek]

minecraft if scarier than the entire dead space franchise

 

[Ordinaryundone]

Dead Space's scary was bsed round tension and grotesqueness, not around suspense. You always knew what you were going to face, you just never knew how bad it was going to be (and it always got worse).

 

[Brian Hendershot]

Dead Space one didn't really scare me (Except for the very last bit).

Then again, horror games haven't really scared me since the first Resident Evil And Silent Hill.

Of course, one could argue that Dead Space is more scary when you crank the difficulty level up. Then you get less ammo. Cause then it's like aw shit. I only have six bullets with my plasma cutter and those mother****** Necromorphs won't step off!

Anyways, Dead Space two seems to be more scary then Dead Space 1.

 

[C95J]

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

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

yeah I hated those parts of the game with a passion, definitely my scariest moments in Dead Space. I just hate it when things chase you, and you know that you can't look back. That sort of stuff REALLY scares me the most...

OT: I think that now I am used to the Dead Space series nothing really properly scares me anymore. When you see a Necromorphs body on the floor, it's obviously alive, you just know when the monsters are coming really most of the time.

It still makes me jump a lot, and there are a few parts which scare me, but nothing like playing F.E.A.R 2. With that game I am always completely scared, sometimes I just randomly run around the level trying not to think about anything!