Fallout-NL
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ScrabbleBanshee said:
Oh Christ, don't remind me. Horrible bossfight.
As for those close encounters, I find that the seconday fire mode on the pulse rifle works extraordinary well. It's like swinging a scythe around.
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Oh Christ, don't remind me. Horrible bossfight.
As for those close encounters, I find that the seconday fire mode on the pulse rifle works extraordinary well. It's like swinging a scythe around.
dreamer3kx
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currently on chap. 9, scariest chapter so far for me.
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The final chapter, or ratherDanielsan said:
the environment it was in and the fantastic visuals[/spoiler got me excited to see what EA Redwood are going to do when they're not "confined"(in a manner of speaking, don't get me wrong I love DS's setting) to a space ship.
SketchTheArtist
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Rez>You said:
Awesome use of spoiler mate. :lol
â Narayan
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Yes.Zeliard said:
Days like these...
Have a Blessed Day
I just got this game yesterday. I'm at the beginning of level 4 medium setting. What do you guys suggest I spend the power nodes on. Ive been using them entirely on stasis and my rig. I've completely ignored spending any nodes on my weapon and kinesis. Am I doing it rite?
Days like these... said:
You're gonna want to put some nodes into a couple of your most-used weapons, especially in damage. Makes you a lot more efficient at dismembering with the ones that can.
I went through medium difficulty and completely ignored Rig, and had a relatively easy time. Didn't put a single node in it. I maxed out Stasis, which is tremendously useful, and put nodes into other weapons like the Line Gun, Plasma Cutter and the Force Gun. Didn't upgrade Kinesis at all.
plagiarize
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i haven't tested it yet, but i'd imagine it's the range of the throw rather than it's reach to pick stuff up that gets upgraded.ultron87 said:
Mohonky
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Darunia said:
Not really. The achievement definitely is one that requires multiple play throughs, but once you have gone through the game once the second time it should be fairly easy, just sell ammo for guns or stasis units you aren't using and purchase the nodes. I had over 100k worth of credits at one point and near maxxed out one gun from just purchasing nodes that way. As it is I have 3 weapons maxed out before finishing the game even once. Now I also have all 6 suit upgrades, I'm not saving credit for those upgrades.
ScrabbleBanshee
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Flock said:
I was disappointed to learn after starting that playing the game on hard pretty much does nothing for you in the achievement/trophy department as it did in uncharted. It almost seems that playing thorugh the first time on easy is the best bet in terms of trophy whoring but I'm sure it kills a lot of what the game is about if your first playthrough is a cakewalk.
Tarin02543
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Well since today is launch day for Dead Space I quickly went to my favourite game store after work only to find out the retail price is 69.99 euro. As much as I'd like to explore a dark and abandonded star ship I find that price way too expensive.
Time to wip out my visa and find a cheap online store.
Time to wip out my visa and find a cheap online store.
Baron
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There have been questions asked about the DLC suits - I put on the Obsidian suit and was able to change to the Scorpion suit, and back to the Obsidian suit, and so on. I think the game allows you to upgrade or "side"-grade to a suit if it is the same level or higher than the one you are currently wearing, but not to downgrade to a lesser suit. Also, a keen eye will show you that the Obsidian suit has a 10% armor rating while the Scorpion suit has a 25% armor rating. They both have all available inventory slots open, so clearly the Scorpion is the better of the two. And from what I've read, I believe you can upgrade to the military suit awarded at the end of the game while wearing either of the DLC suits.
BuckRobotron
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Spent some time with the game last night and up to Ch. 6 (at
).
-- Love the standard cutter weapon. It has the subwoofer-pleasing aural punch of a shotgun yet you can precisely aim (smooth as always on Xbox analog sticks) and dismember limbs far off in the distance. See that limb sticking up on that creature across that chasm, like a hair standing up...bam!
-- Playing Medium first-time through and using the Xbox Elite suit and doing One Gun as I expect no real problems. Some challenge, especially when first meeting certain new enemies. But moving at a quick pace with a lot of $$ to spend (already covered the $300K and all weapons--stored away--Achievements).
-- Replay guaranteed not just for eventual Impossible run, but I won't even be personally seeing what any other gun can do until after this first run.
Overall, very impressive game and production values in equal quantity and quality.
4/8 targets terminated in the arboretum-like area
-- Love the standard cutter weapon. It has the subwoofer-pleasing aural punch of a shotgun yet you can precisely aim (smooth as always on Xbox analog sticks) and dismember limbs far off in the distance. See that limb sticking up on that creature across that chasm, like a hair standing up...bam!
-- Playing Medium first-time through and using the Xbox Elite suit and doing One Gun as I expect no real problems. Some challenge, especially when first meeting certain new enemies. But moving at a quick pace with a lot of $$ to spend (already covered the $300K and all weapons--stored away--Achievements).
-- Replay guaranteed not just for eventual Impossible run, but I won't even be personally seeing what any other gun can do until after this first run.
Overall, very impressive game and production values in equal quantity and quality.
Fallout-NL
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Tarin02543 said:
videogamesplus.ca 42 euros shipped (ps3 version)
lawblob said:
Single player, most definitely. But Left 4 Dead has a good chance of topping it. Seeing as it combines four of my favorite things: Valve, zombies, a very solid engine and co-op.
Looking at my upgrade level after about 1 and 1 half run throughs, I imagine I will be fully upgraded within the first two chapters of my third run.Darunia said:
At chapter 6, second playthrough, I have maxed the ripper, the pulse rifle, the charge up sniper thing, stasis, the rig, and kinesis. So I have like 4 weapons to start maxing.
ScrabbleBanshee
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So it's seeming to me that most of the weapons in the game are pretty much redundant. Is there really any point to carrying the flamethrower around, for example?
Redundant is a fair way to describe them, but I think the intent is that every weapon is useful in all situations, and so you could theoretically beat the game using only one single weapon, if you chose.ScrabbleBanshee said:
However, I do agree that some weapons are simply not as useful as others. The flame thrower and the charge up gun both seem very specialized, and therefore kind of useless in some situations.
plagiarize
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i hear it's really good at killing swarms. i can believe it. they can be a bitch to kill without it (though explosive cannisters are a good substitute if you have one to hand). i don't fancy wasting a few dozen cutter rounds on a swarm.ScrabbleBanshee said:
the charge up gun was hella powerful against
leviathon
Cornballer
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I've been doing one-gun so far, and the swarms are a pain in the ass. Explosive canisters or stasis are the way to go.plagiarize said:
FirstInHell
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Just finished chapter 9 last night. This is probably one of the most intense gaming experiences I have ever had. This is the first game that literally made me jump out of my seat from the scares. The game spaces the intense jolting scares out just enough that while I know they are coming, but I never know exactly when. It's keeping me on edge the whole time.
This is easily my GOTY thus far.
It is like the developers took my favorite movie of all time (Event Horizon) and made a game based on it.
This is easily my GOTY thus far.
It is like the developers took my favorite movie of all time (Event Horizon) and made a game based on it.
Well, I finally got some good, hard time with it. I avoided all spoilers so I'm sure this has been mentioned here many times. Chapter 4
when you first enter that huge room and there are asteroids, a huge planet, the sun. O M F G. It could be the most beautiful scene in a game EVER. All I could think of was the film Sunshine. Once again, holy fucking shit.
BuckRobotron
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newsguy said:
Yep. This is one of those games that if exclusive to one system the fanchildren of said system would be using it to pimp that console's supposed graphical superiority.
Dash Kappei
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It's probably been mentioned already, but:
Dead Space's italian version features Dario Argento as the narrator/doc voice.
He also talked about videogames in a radio interview and in-talk of a possibile involvement for a sequel/new project but I guess you people wouldn't give a shit do you? :lol
Dead Space's italian version features Dario Argento as the narrator/doc voice.
He also talked about videogames in a radio interview and in-talk of a possibile involvement for a sequel/new project but I guess you people wouldn't give a shit do you? :lol
BuckRobotron said:
Oh absolutely. This game screams big budget, high polish. I was scared most of the night, yet I still had a Kool-Aid smile just taking in the atmosphere. I found myself constantly remembering these awesome Sci-Fi space films with every new chapter. For a game that's been called highly derivative, it does all of those things so, so well that it feels like it's perfected each little thing it's copied.
Fallout-NL
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Cornballer said:
Yeah the little swarm things are pretty much the only problem I think. How do you take care of them with stasis? Freeze and then stomp?
Cornballer
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Yup, freeze then stomp. A couple times I just ran past them after using statis and didn't bother stomping if I knew I wasn't going back into that particular area later.Fallout-NL said:
BuckRobotron
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Fallout-NL said:
Stasis the whole batch and stomp them. It looks like it isn't doing anything, but after stasis breaks all those you stomped will simultaneously die. If not all, I just let a couple stragglers catch and throw them off with A for minimal damage and move on.
razgriz417
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Fallout-NL said:
Force gun primary fire is full of win
Fallout-NL
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Cool, cheers.
That'd be more than one gun though.
razgriz417 said:Force gun primary fire is full of win
That'd be more than one gun though
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BuckRobotron said:
I don't know. I don't find the graphics particularly groundbreaking. They are well done, and well polished but they are still fairly small enclosed areas and the enemies are always few on the screen at any given time and pretty low poly.
Somebody has to say that dirty word at some point in this thread. Uncharted is still more impressive in this department, IMO.
Not really. Some areas are pretty damn big. The lighting is phenomenal and the textures are high quality 95% of the time. Uncharted may get the edge (though it has lower poly enemies I think) but Dead Space had more wow moments, especially the bridge and the areas in Chapter 12 come to mind. A stunner of a game and it blows anything on the Unreal Engine to bits in my opinion.ScrabbleBanshee said:
Fallout-NL
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ScrabbleBanshee said:
True, but it has a nice way of combining all its modest features and coming up with a pretty good looking overall picture.
Danielsan said:
No reason to start pushing it. Gears of War is still the best looking game around in my opinion. Some of the architecture in that second chapter (pitch black or nightfall I think?) is simply stunning and the pretty rock solid framerate's gotta count for something.
