So I'm staring at my games collection and wondering what to play, I've narrowed my choices down to finishing Dead Space 2 (playing on Hard) or playing Killzone 3 multiplayer.
Killzone 3 won for a couple of reasons. First is that I've completed the story mode on medium and am currently playing through it every now and then on Veteren when I feel like a challenge. And second is that any online game that I can grab an enemies face and smash his goggles into his eyes to kill him is, for obvious reasons, a barrel of laughs and massive fun.
Dead Space 2 lost, but not because of what you might think, I don't know the ending of Dead Space 2 yet and really want to know what happens without using the Internet and really want to play it to find out what it is. I love the gameplay of Dead Space; third person, over the shoulder shooter with jetpacks, dismemberment physics and weaponised carving tools are all plus points in my book, but Dead Space fell down when I tried to challenge myself in it. DS1 had a perfect veteran mode, just hard enough to keep me on my toes but just easy enough to play through without dying too much. But this is where DS2 falls down for me, because I'm playing on hard level, it is obviously hard, but it's a game where you can't counter everything REASONABLY in one attempt.
In DS1 I could sneak into a room and be ambushed by 3 super/black necromorphs, 2 of those wall crawling baby things with 3 tentacles and that thing that reanimates bodies into more necros, and while it would take careful aim, sharp eyes and enough Red Bull to no longer care, I could pass the room in one attempt and still with a reasonable amount of health and ammo to take the odd necro vent-jump in the small corridors.
In DS2 however, I am currently stuck in a level I can't remember because I haven't played it in months, but after doing the fucking ridiculous space elevator level where you get assaulted on all sides by tentacles and get maybe 2 hits before dying (which I can imagine would be super fun on easy mode, fire, swing round, fire, collect ammo drop, twitch from left to right to see where the next one is coming from, but on hard it's just bullshit), I got to some room afterwards with maybe 5 ammo for my plasma cutter and 7/8 physics javelins and I can't get past it because it's way too hard and there are way to many enemies for for 5 bullets and my massive Issac boot to take on.
So do you feel the same? Do you play games on easy first (or only) and then the hardest level, or vice versa?
As such, Dead Space 2 is still gathering dust, despite me wanting to know the ending. I haven't actually checked, but there might be a way to alter the difficulty halfway through the game. Which is what I'd do, but killing British space nazis with portable homing mortar rocket launchers wins every single time.
Killzone 3 won for a couple of reasons. First is that I've completed the story mode on medium and am currently playing through it every now and then on Veteren when I feel like a challenge. And second is that any online game that I can grab an enemies face and smash his goggles into his eyes to kill him is, for obvious reasons, a barrel of laughs and massive fun.
Dead Space 2 lost, but not because of what you might think, I don't know the ending of Dead Space 2 yet and really want to know what happens without using the Internet and really want to play it to find out what it is. I love the gameplay of Dead Space; third person, over the shoulder shooter with jetpacks, dismemberment physics and weaponised carving tools are all plus points in my book, but Dead Space fell down when I tried to challenge myself in it. DS1 had a perfect veteran mode, just hard enough to keep me on my toes but just easy enough to play through without dying too much. But this is where DS2 falls down for me, because I'm playing on hard level, it is obviously hard, but it's a game where you can't counter everything REASONABLY in one attempt.
In DS1 I could sneak into a room and be ambushed by 3 super/black necromorphs, 2 of those wall crawling baby things with 3 tentacles and that thing that reanimates bodies into more necros, and while it would take careful aim, sharp eyes and enough Red Bull to no longer care, I could pass the room in one attempt and still with a reasonable amount of health and ammo to take the odd necro vent-jump in the small corridors.
In DS2 however, I am currently stuck in a level I can't remember because I haven't played it in months, but after doing the fucking ridiculous space elevator level where you get assaulted on all sides by tentacles and get maybe 2 hits before dying (which I can imagine would be super fun on easy mode, fire, swing round, fire, collect ammo drop, twitch from left to right to see where the next one is coming from, but on hard it's just bullshit), I got to some room afterwards with maybe 5 ammo for my plasma cutter and 7/8 physics javelins and I can't get past it because it's way too hard and there are way to many enemies for for 5 bullets and my massive Issac boot to take on.
So do you feel the same? Do you play games on easy first (or only) and then the hardest level, or vice versa?
As such, Dead Space 2 is still gathering dust, despite me wanting to know the ending. I haven't actually checked, but there might be a way to alter the difficulty halfway through the game. Which is what I'd do, but killing British space nazis with portable homing mortar rocket launchers wins every single time.
