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Philip Cardgage · « **Reply #240 on:** January 28, 2011, 01:46:34 PM »

Yeah I have a save right before that so i said fuck it and moved on.

Herr Mafflard · « **Reply #241 on:** January 28, 2011, 04:36:53 PM »

wow turning SSAA on fucks this game up. I tried starting the game with 4x SSAA and the framerate is in the teens or below.

However, turn SSAA off but max out everything in the game's settings and the framerate never dips below 100fps.

I wanna turn vsync on, but the framerate gets capped at 30 (consoles

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Philip Cardgage · « **Reply #242 on:** January 28, 2011, 04:47:10 PM »

cool story, bro.

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #243 on:** January 28, 2011, 05:26:57 PM »

Quote from: InfectedGib on January 28, 2011, 04:36:53 PM

wow turning SSAA on fucks this game up. I tried starting the game with 4x SSAA and the framerate is in the teens or below.

However, turn SSAA off but max out everything in the game's settings and the framerate never dips below 100fps.

I wanna turn vsync on, but the framerate gets capped at 30 (consoles )

Try leaving Vsync off in the game and turning Vsync on with D3Doverrider instead. DS1 had the same issue.

Also, how are you turning SSAA on? I don't think any modern game supports SSAA in game. You usually have to use a tool like Nhancer to turn it on.

Stick with MSAA if you can. SSAA is way more stressful than MSAA. At 4X SSAA, you're basically rendering at 4 times the resolution.

Herr Mafflard · « **Reply #244 on:** January 28, 2011, 06:24:54 PM »

running a 5870 so I force SSAA in Catalyst. Stuff like Mass Effect 2 and NFS Hot Pursuit look gorgeous and run pretty well but, like I said, Dead Space 2 is just...

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edit: I wonder if I should override CCC's default options for the 5870 so I can enable MLAA, I hear Dead Space 2 runs pretty well with it turned on.

Anyway, just got up to Ch3 in this and I must say I'm impressed. Game just oozes atmosphere. The lighting, shadows, smoke effects; game just feels so damned polished. Also... every game should now use a lens flare effect

Also, if you have a choice, play this on the PC. Looks so damn good, and runs like butter.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #245 on:** January 28, 2011, 11:46:52 PM »

Playing through this now. Up to chapter 3 and will probably knock off for the evening. Very enjoyable so far. Exactly what I expected so far.

Third · « **Reply #246 on:** January 29, 2011, 07:36:00 AM »

This game is better, but the first game was scarier. The DS2 intro was creepy as hell though.
I'm loving the graphics also. It uses some great flashy colors at times.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #247 on:** January 29, 2011, 01:37:39 PM »

finished up dead space 1 last night

decent game, went on a bit too long in a lot of areas, i had become immune to the jump scares and was ready for it to be over by the end

it's an odd complaint, i know, but they could have cut a good two hours out of it and made the pacing better

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #248 on:** January 29, 2011, 01:56:54 PM »

How long is Dead Space 1? It's next up on my list because I want to try the sequel.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #249 on:** January 29, 2011, 02:45:55 PM »

Quote from: Smooth Groove on January 29, 2011, 01:56:54 PM

How long is Dead Space 1? It's next up on my list because I want to try the sequel.

around 10 hours for me, i think

demi · « **Reply #250 on:** January 29, 2011, 06:49:26 PM »

lol, I blazed throuhg Dead Space Ignition for the 200... yeah, that was abysmal.

BTW does the game start off the same way, with the nigra letting Isaac out? I'm guessig the nigra is a closet unitologist, by his AWE AND GLAMOR of the church.

iconoclast · « **Reply #251 on:** January 29, 2011, 07:20:09 PM »

I think the guy who lets you out is white in this game. I can't really remember, he doesn't make too many appearances.

Anyway, I'm up to chapter 13. Game's awesome so far. It's better than the first Dead Space in every way, and I really liked that game. I'll probably finish this up later tonight, then start a new game+ run to clean up missing achievements, and then I'll start my Hard Core playthrough tomorrow.

demi · « **Reply #252 on:** January 29, 2011, 07:46:34 PM »

I loved seeing how the white bitch kept dying.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #253 on:** January 30, 2011, 11:02:51 AM »

i see the game has continued the wonderful dead space tradition of picking the ammo of a gun i never use and giving it to me over and over and over

Philip Cardgage · « **Reply #254 on:** January 30, 2011, 11:04:02 AM »

Beat it last night, last boss sucked ass.

demi · « **Reply #255 on:** January 30, 2011, 11:14:11 AM »

Quote from: Dr. Feelbad on January 30, 2011, 11:02:51 AM

i see the game has continued the wonderful dead space tradition of picking the ammo of a gun i never use and giving it to me over and over and over

Oh god does it do that? Its so noticable when you start buying the guns. That's why I only played with Plasma Cutter on my Impossible run.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #256 on:** January 30, 2011, 11:20:36 AM »

yeah, i get javelin ammo 75% of the time

on the first game i just used the line cutter and the plasma gun, and kept a force gun around to deal with the swarms of little flesh creatures

maxy · « **Reply #257 on:** January 30, 2011, 11:22:29 AM »

yeah,focus on less guns as possible,i have only 2

game will still give you the wrong ammo sometimes but most of the time it gives you good ammo

Hitler Stole My Potato · « **Reply #258 on:** January 30, 2011, 01:22:23 PM »

I always carry around the contact beam. Not because I ever use it but because you pick up ammo for it when you have it on you and you can sell it for 6k a pop. It's like portable cash machine.

So I finished it yesterday and I really liked it but I think in the end I had a better time with DS1. Even with the backtracking, I perfer the Ishimura over the Sprawl. Ishimura felt like a real claustrophobic environment and all your tasks you had to do in the game made sense in context of what was going on, while quite a few times on the Sprawl I kind of lost the plot on why I was doing what I was doing. I read somewhere someone comparing the Dead Space games and saying that Dead Space 1 was Alien while Dead Space 2 was Aliens. That seems about right to me.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #259 on:** January 30, 2011, 01:30:28 PM »

so far i like the first one better, too

there's a lot of trial and error stuff, which i find more irritating than fun - "hey, you slammed right into that piece of space debris! look at you explode into a chunky shower of meat! isn't that cool? now try again!"

plus it isn't scary, not even a little bit, haven't jumped a single time

once you get desensitized to the wall of monsters they throw at you, you become immune to any shock moments when a single one drops down from the elevator or whatever

it's not a bad game, though

iconoclast · « **Reply #260 on:** January 30, 2011, 05:08:02 PM »

I find both games equally scary (ie. not at all) so I don't mind. Everything gameplay-related is improved in DS2. Game's awesome.

Gonna finish this right after I get some more of these infinite power nodes

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #261 on:** January 30, 2011, 06:45:28 PM »

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The stuff with Strauss (or Stross, or whatever) is so unbelievably stupid I don't even know where to begin. "Hey, there's this crazy dude, keeps making veiled threats and babbling to himself, been accused of killing his own family. We should just let him run around free and have access to sharp tools."

That bitch would still have her eyeball if she'd, you know, just tied the motherfucker up and kept him away from the goddamned screwdrivers.

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iconoclast · « **Reply #262 on:** January 30, 2011, 07:06:42 PM »

Finished. Game's amazing. Guaranteed to be one of the top 10 games of 2011.

EA

Now to start new game+ and start cleaning up the achievements I missed.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #263 on:** January 30, 2011, 07:32:51 PM »

Up to about Chapter 6. Still enjoying myself. It's different structurally of course from the first but I'm enjoying myself as much as I did in the first so far.

Herr Mafflard · « **Reply #264 on:** January 30, 2011, 07:54:07 PM »

I still find it funny that Isaac can't cross over knee-high objects in this game. The bit where you have to cross a cafeteria through an adjacent corridor because Isaac can't climb over kiddie tables especially sticks out and is sorta frustrating and breaks immersion. It's a minor complaint to an otherwise tight experience, though.

Anyway, up to ch7 now

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didn't really feel the unitologist Church area, kinda dragged. Fortunately things picked up soon after.

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iconoclast · « **Reply #265 on:** January 30, 2011, 11:07:55 PM »

Damn, you can really blow through this game on new game+. I started on survivalist so I could see how much damage enemies do compared to zealot (huge difference) and I almost made it to chapter 7 in an hour and a half

Got all the achievements I needed though. I think I'm gonna start my Hard Core run now and see how far I can get.

ffffffuuuuu your stats don't carry over on Hard Core. Guess I gotta keep playing my survivalist file so I can get the 'dismember 2500 limbs' and 'decompress 20 enemies' achievements. $:-\$

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #266 on:** January 31, 2011, 12:40:17 AM »

the ending was pretty silly

the story in this one didn't make a lot of sense, either - lots of gaps in logic, and the credibility got stretched hair thin towards the latter half of the game

plus, he's like the rocketeer in this one, flying around with those jet boots like he's some kind of daredevil stuntman

(spoilers for the first game below)

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so, nicole keeps appearing to clarke (again) throughout dead space 2, and i was thinking to myself that these two must have really had a long and deep relationship for her death to fuck him up so bad over and above all the other craziness and deaths he'd seen

and then, during one cut scene, nicole says "i know we only dated for two years, but they were the best two years of my life - "

i had to pause the game and laugh

really? two years? and you weren't even engaged or anything? you were just dating? and then you told her to go off on a spaceship for six months? i mean, it obviously wasn't that serious if you wanted the chick off the planet, dude

someone involved in making these games has some serious ex-girlfriend issues

Unhearted: Clarke's Dead Girlfriend

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Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #267 on:** January 31, 2011, 01:01:21 AM »

i liked the trickle of mystery in the first one, knowing something huge was going down but not quite knowing how all the pieces fit together

the more it gets revealed and explained, the more ridiculous i find it

iconoclast · « **Reply #268 on:** January 31, 2011, 02:52:33 AM »

I'm in chapter 9 of my hardcore playthrough and I'm getting tired... I haven't saved yet, so I'm gonna try to push to chapter 11 before I go to bed.

DS2 >>>> uncharted 1 & 2 combined btw

meh, stopped at chapter 10. Not gonna save until after chapter 12 now, and then once more toward the end of chapter 14. Gonna 1000/1000 this bitch tomorra.

maxy · « **Reply #269 on:** January 31, 2011, 05:57:20 AM »

From UK

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Superb horror shooter Dead Space 2 has landed squarely atop the UK all-formats top 40 chart.

Sales for the sequel are 70 per cent higher than for Dead Space 1.

Despite an alluring PS3 bundle - with Dead Space: Extraction thrown in for free - it was the Xbox 360 version with the lion's share of sales: 56 per cent. The PS3 commanded only 40 per cent (the PC filled the remaining 4 per cent).

DS2

xbros

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #270 on:** January 31, 2011, 07:01:38 AM »

Nice to see it get steady sales so the franchise will continue. Definitely one of my faves of this gen.

Robo · « **Reply #271 on:** January 31, 2011, 11:09:48 AM »

Man, the ending is pretty 'tarded. I hope everyone else is as terrible at playing this as I am so they didn't miss out on...

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Isaac spiking a javelin through his own face. It's maybe the single most gruesome thing in the game.

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Philip Cardgage · « **Reply #272 on:** January 31, 2011, 11:14:12 AM »

Yeah that was pretty funny. But generally the death sequences are too long.

Robo · « **Reply #273 on:** January 31, 2011, 11:18:17 AM »

Yeah, they go on for far longer than they should. I probably wouldn't have minded as much if I could tell what was happening during most of them.

Philip Cardgage · « **Reply #274 on:** January 31, 2011, 11:24:06 AM »

OH COOL HIS HEAD GOT RIPPED OFF

Uhhhh, not they ripped his arm off? Ok... Oh, there goes one of this legs.

And now they're tossing him in to space?

demi · « **Reply #275 on:** January 31, 2011, 11:32:58 AM »

Shit sounds awesome. Stop being a hater. Cant wait for the "Deaths of Dead Space 2" youtube.

Philip Cardgage · « **Reply #276 on:** January 31, 2011, 11:35:06 AM »

What did you end up buying instead of this game?

demi · « **Reply #277 on:** January 31, 2011, 11:41:58 AM »

PSP for $80

Philip Cardgage · « **Reply #278 on:** January 31, 2011, 11:43:25 AM »

Smart choice.

demi · « **Reply #279 on:** January 31, 2011, 11:43:55 AM »

Either 1 game, or 1 system that provides countless games... had to think with my wallet

Third · « **Reply #280 on:** January 31, 2011, 12:54:46 PM »

Quote from: maxy on January 31, 2011, 05:57:20 AM

From UK

DS2
xbros

Xbros don't have any other games to play.

Philip Cardgage · « **Reply #281 on:** January 31, 2011, 12:57:23 PM »

Sure we do, every third party game possible.

PS3

Cravis · « **Reply #282 on:** January 31, 2011, 01:08:29 PM »

The first half was a lot scarier than the second half. The retro suit was not what I expected. That thing was bulky as hell and looked a lot like Big Daddy armor.

I loved... [Ending Spoilers]

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When he's buckling up on the ship. I kept looking and thinking something would jump out ala his g/f in part 1. I then realized Isaac was doing the same thing. The chick gives him the strange look, asks "What's wrong?" and he replies, "Nothing."

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maxy · « **Reply #283 on:** January 31, 2011, 01:12:16 PM »

It's interesting that in UK PS3 DS2 comes in only one version,the limited one...DS2+Extraction(move support),same cost as 360 version
M $:-\$ VE

demi · « **Reply #284 on:** January 31, 2011, 01:13:43 PM »

Did you see the "plasma cutter"?

Such a chinese piece of shit... lmfao

Robo · « **Reply #285 on:** January 31, 2011, 01:15:30 PM »

Quote from: Cravis on January 31, 2011, 01:08:29 PM

The retro suit was not what I expected. That thing was bulky as hell and looked a lot like Big Daddy armor.

I was surprised they decided that was an upgrade to the Security Suit. Sure as hell didn't look like it.

Hitler Stole My Potato · « **Reply #286 on:** January 31, 2011, 07:28:28 PM »

Yeah, the retro suit is straight out of Bioshock. Thankfully all you gotta do is buy the thing to get the inventory and armor benefits so you can go back to wearing the security armor without having to stomp around for a few chapters looking like a big daddy but I hated having to change back into the thing whenever I bought anything at the shop so I can get that 10% discount. Pain in the ass.

The Riot suit is pretty bad ass looking imo. I know it's just a black version of the Security armor but I like it in black. Overall though, I like the idea of getting new suits for upgrades rather than the incremental plating from DS1 but I think they could've done a better job in designing the things.

iconoclast · « **Reply #287 on:** January 31, 2011, 07:43:32 PM »

Hard Core isn't very hard at all. The only time I died was right at the end, on the final stretch to the last boss, and that was because I was being careless since I just saved. But yeah, it's really not that hard.

Hard Core was more fun than Zealot though. On Zealot, I felt like 90% of my deaths were bullshit because some guy spawned behind me and killed me in one hit. On any other difficulty, that doesn't happen. You only lose a couple bars of health when you get smacked, so if you die it's your own fault for sucking. And the Foam Gun you unlock once you beat Hard Core is amazing. Insta-kills every enemy and blows off all of their limbs. Best fuckin' gun ever.

Amazing game though. It would be a shoe-in for GotY if it weren't for MvC3.

Philip Cardgage · « **Reply #288 on:** January 31, 2011, 11:41:55 PM »

Yeah fuck it, I'll do hard core when I'm done zealot.

The creepiest thing in this game has to be "Come iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnn Issac."

*shudders

[youtube=560,345]MRY8jh2xoQs[/youtube]

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #289 on:** February 01, 2011, 01:37:38 AM »

Up to about Chapter 9 now. I think its great. I play a few hours every evening and I think the pacing in the game is great. And I don't play enough in an evening where I burn myself out.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #290 on:** February 01, 2011, 11:02:54 PM »

My daily update. Up to Chapter 11 now. Game still rocking.

I'll probably finish this up maybe tomorrow if the last few chapters aren't crazy long.

maxy · « **Reply #291 on:** February 02, 2011, 06:01:49 AM »

Interesting tidbit from EA

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Speaking at an investor call today, EA chief operating office John Schappert boasted that the sequel, released last week, "is approaching two million units sold in – double the sell through of the original Dead Space."

Robo · « **Reply #292 on:** February 02, 2011, 10:54:39 AM »

i laffed

Philip Cardgage · « **Reply #293 on:** February 02, 2011, 11:02:53 AM »

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #294 on:** February 02, 2011, 06:29:23 PM »

Finished it up at around 12 hours.

Very enjoyable. Good stuff. Really immersive. Very polished. Lots of fun call backs to the first game. This series basically does what the Alien movie franchise has almost never been able to do in videogame format. I was playing through the game to see what the next bit would be like or the next story point would be bring which is always a good sign as you kind of forgot you are playing a game.

As far as flaws not many. I think the combat gets a bit tedious as you go on. The monsters don't ramp up or vary enough. And the camera gets a bit wonky when multiple creatures are attacking you and you get pinned up against walls.

But overall I thought it looked great and just a really good experience. Will easily be one of the best games of the year.

ManaByte · « **Reply #295 on:** February 02, 2011, 06:31:19 PM »

PS3 version showed up today. Want to play through the original and Extraction first though.

ManaByte · « **Reply #296 on:** February 02, 2011, 09:23:00 PM »

http://deadspace.wikia.com/wiki/Unitology

The Cult of Scientology is so going to sue EA.

ManaByte · « **Reply #297 on:** February 07, 2011, 09:54:26 AM »

Amazon selling all versions for $40 today (PS3 one is sold out) and the CEs for $60.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #298 on:** February 17, 2011, 01:20:13 AM »

I'm on chapter 7. Wow. This game is fantastic, they really upped the production values from the first Dead Space.

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #299 on:** February 17, 2011, 02:02:32 AM »

God I fucking hate the necromorphs that split up into 4-5 spider skulls. The little fuckers are a pain in the ass to stomp and a PITA to kill with anything other than the flame gun

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