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Edited by Wilky:
1/12/2013 1:39:30 PM
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Play Dead Space only at night?
I bought Dead Space 1&2 over the holidays and so far I've been playing DS1 in 30 minute segments (because that's all I can sanely manage so far >.>) at around 12:30am.
By this time; my parents are asleep, I have no radio on, it's pitch black save a small lamp beside me and the internet is switched off (Not by choice, /mothers). I find I can only do 30 minute segments or so else I fear I might lose all composure and be unable to sleep.
So far it's actually been fun, edgy, scary as HELL (over the 1 chapter I've so far managed), all the things a horror game should be. My first PROPER experience with a horror-esque game.
I have spare time on my hands over weekends and Monday/Tuesday night when I don't have to write massive essays and do assignments for college, should I stick to playing at night or should I just play during the day to get through the games? I know I won't be anywhere near as scared, but still.
What did you do when YOU played these games, hammer through them like a Soviet armoured regiment, or did you pitter-patter along the storyline a little bit at a time when it was late and there was nothing to do but be terrified?
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Yes, I only played Dead Space and Doom 3 at night.
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Playing Horror games is only acceptable when you are alone and it is at nightfall. Deadspace is a great game for that, same with the Silent Hill games
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1 ReplyThe Dead Space games are some of the [u]best[/u] horror games out there. Not only are they jump-scary at times but they can also be psychologically scary. First time I played a Dead Space game was the first one at a friends house. It was around 11:30 when we started. We would switch off every 20-30 minutes or so. We ended up playing until 2:30 in the morning both of us were too stressed to sleep... So we popped in Borderlands and had a real fun time until about 4:00ish when we passed out. I bought the first dead space after that and the second when it came out and have only played them in the dark hours of night and the early morning. Both incredibly fun, and incredibly scary. At the moment I'm actually making a Halo 4 map as an homage to them.
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1 ReplyI played whenever I felt like for as long as I felt like. Man, insanity was tough for both of 'em.
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1 ReplyYOU ARE BABY
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1 ReplyPlay it however you want, man. Whichever is more enjoyable/fun for you. I can't play horror games. I think it's my ADD, because I become too immersed in the game while I'm playing (No matter what the environment) and it becomes insanely freaky. The funny thing is I can watch horror movies with no problem at all. I can get a little creeped out, but nowhere near the same as when I'm playing a game. Hell, I can hardly play Zombies in CoD or run through "Cortana" in Halo 3. I'm actually starting Bioshock soon. I have 1&2 and I think it's going to actually be pretty horrifying for me. But, I'm also hoping to make some sort of break-through and learn how to handle playing "scary" games. (I know Bioshock isn't [b]scary[/b], but it'll be enough to spook me for sure).
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1 ReplyYeah I played them on easy and ran through them as fast as I could because I'm a baby. But I did so in the dark! And I never cried.
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1 ReplyGames like Dead Space and Bioshock can only be played at night for me. I [i]love[/i] getting immersed in the atmosphere of the game, I like to feel like every turn of the corner could result in some kind of gruesome insta-death if I don't play my cards right, and I love searching around these gorgeous, freaky environments looking for hidden things. Dead Space 1 does atmosphere well. [i]Really[/i] well. The sound design is some of the best of this generation, but I can only appreciate that fully when in the mindset of everything around me being dark and quiet. Even with Halo, I prefer playing the Flood levels at night because of the atmosphere they generate - especially 343 Guilty Spark in Halo CE. It just makes the experience that bit more immersive.
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1 ReplyI took my time with Dead Space as I always assumed there was something going to jump out at me at every turn
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I played in the day and was talking to friends the whole time, they wanted me to talk to them while I played it so they could hear me scream. Dead Space is one of the best games to play in the middle of the night but it's also very bad when it causes you to scream and you wake everyone up within a 100 mile radius of you, it's not too fun.
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Neither of them are scary.
