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Dead Space: Extraction staying away from strict co-op rules

According to John Calhoun, senior designer of Dead Space: Extraction, the game will not be following strict survival-horror rules. Instead, the team is taking a different approach.

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Campy da Camper5393d ago

Every great game of the genre seems to have jumped the shark. I like the "all alone, almost out of ammo, what the hell was that???" style of playing. Silent Hill, RE both great games and then BAM, action based took the foothold of true horror.

Anyone can make a moster jump out at you for a quick scare but the ambience setting, music score and subtle horror is what makes a game great.

I remember playing the Silent Hill for the first time and it took me 20 minutes to get the nerve to go into certain rooms. I would sit there, peek inside, try to "trick" the game by taking one step in then running out, hoping to trigger the creature and still be in the hall where there is light...lol, good times.

50CALheadshot5393d ago

no replay value........but an ok game nonetheless.

mirroredderorrim5393d ago

I want to believe the same can be said for movies. When was the last big horror release scary?

SHHC was not as atmospheric as I would have liked it, nor was it as much as the previous in the series, and it also fits the bill of games that have dumbed down scares.

I guess having seen most of the monsters being revealed through magazines and what-ever-else, has seemed to help brush aside any potential emotional attachment to the game.

I guess team Silent Hill were right to abandon the series, but I am always going to wonder how they could have ended it, that way no one can continue to F it up.

Chopkilla5393d ago

yeah, they really need to start making some better horror games. i bet two player horror games would be scary and fun if done properly. but i don't make games! so what do i know eh?

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Dead Space Games Ranked From Worst to Best

BLG writes: "Dead Space. It’s a beloved horror series – one that yours truly can’t stop talking about on stream! Yet there are more Dead Space games than you may be aware of. So it’s my duty to introduce you to the best Dead Space games, and one very, very bad one. It’s time to grab a plasma cutter, cut off the limbs of terrifying necromorphs, and decide once and for all (on this website) which of the Dead Space games reigns supreme!"

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-Foxtrot653d ago

Dead Space Extraction better than the original Dead Space?

Okaaaaay...

lucian229652d ago

I played all three. Didn't find them fun, just had nothing to play. I don't think I beat third game though. Combat was super clunky, graphics and art design were ugly imo, story in first game wasn't too bad, rest were meh.

Over hyped series imo, also it doesn't help horror games don't scare me, so I guess that's a big reason for me too.

MIDGETonSTILTS17652d ago

Play Alien Isolation on Hard or Nightmare.

Start on the movie DLC so that you don’t have to play a bunch of campaign in order to find out if you’ll be scared.

lucian229652d ago

I heard that was a good one. Honestly vr games scare me with jump scares because of how the threat feels real.

MIDGETonSTILTS17652d ago

There isn’t an official VR mode, unfortunately.

The audio should pull you right in if you use headphones.

CDbiggen652d ago

Just finished playing the first, enjoyed the fact Isaac was a silent alien crushing psycho doom-guy type. Just started the second yesterday and I'm annoyed he's a talker now and sounds like a regular guy who hasn't been through hell, but I suppose he couldn't remain silent.

VersusDMC652d ago

Dead Space 2 is my favorite followed by 1 then 3. All are good to me though. Just beat all 3 on series X and they hold up.

Xenial652d ago

As simple as 1,2,3.

Extraction, then Ignition.

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Link Cable Gaming Podcast: Episode 23 - Halloween

This week the Link Cable Gaming crew gets all dressed up in their finest Halloween garb to discuss their favorite horror and even just spooky games in a special Halloween episode!

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EA Talks About Closing Visceral And Single-Player Games

The decision to close the studio and shift the focus of the Star Wars game is not a statement about the future for single-player games, EA says.

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DarkOcelet2387d ago

"'This was just a single-player game [and it] needed to be a live service.'"

What kind of a stupid mindset is that? It didn't need to be a damn live service. Single player games can work and you have the damn Star Wars name attached to it so it will sell well regardless of it having MP or not.

Ashlen2387d ago

How can you say this.

"We are seeing an evolution in the marketplace, and it became clear to us that to deliver an experience that players wanted to come back and enjoy for a long time, that we needed to pivot the design."

And then say this in the very next paragraph.

"It wasn't about, 'This was just a single-player game [and it] needed to be a live service."

I would say "do they really think people are this stupid?" But since people keep buying EA games after all the crap they have done over the years and decades that made gaming worse... I guess, yes, yes they are.