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Tomorrow! I was gay for the first one, so I'm looking forward to this.

Yeah, I think I might make this a day 1 purchase.

Hmm, I got bored after a bit in the first one. But then I'm generally not a fan of games that relentlessly play on claustrophobia, I always want to get to a section where I break out into a big area.

The first one was ace, but I'm having to hold back temptation on this one for a while.

Ta-da!

I'm thinking about getting it, but might need a final push towards it. So I think I'll wait until you and Craster play it and gush about it, then I'll crack.

I only played the demo of 1 and the demo of 2.
Id like to get into it, but it seems so relentless and difficult I got sick of dying.
It felt like resident evil, but with enemies that would be in an on the rails shooter, but didnt die easily, and there was loads more of them...

Now the words "Craster", "gush" and "crack" are in the same part of my brain.

There was a huge emphasis on slowing enemies down by removing their legs in the first one, and presumably it'll still be a strong theme in the sequel. Did they convey that at all in the demo?

The demo for the first was a bit mental, it just threw you in at the deep end.

The actual game's a fair bit easier. In fact I'm pretty sure the demo room features later on in it & was nowhere near as bad. Odd.

I want this a lot, as I was also gay for the first one, but as there's only money for games or beer, I'll be getting it when it's cheap.
Besides, I've got Mass Effect to finish and ME2 (which the fucking C&VG review of Dead Space 2 spoiled the beginning of for me) to play yet.

The first one is definitely in my top five "current gen" games.

Yeah, the demo for the first game was horrible. Probably the worst demo on Xbox Live. No wonder the game didn't sell as well as it should have, I certainly never would have bought it if not for comments made on this forum.

Yeah, I hated the demo for the first game as well. It was too hard. I dont think I actually got it until several months after it was released but the actual game itself was so good I played through it once and immediately reloaded it on completion just so I could mete out some serious ass kicking with all my upgraded weapons. Fucking awesome game.

I'll definitely be getting it but finances dictate that I will have to wait until it's fallen off a cliff price wise much like the first one did.

The first one was so good I still get annoyed about the Eurogamer review. Tits.

probably worth checking out the first one then?
I got the impression the demo put you in that room and just overwhelmed you with enemies til you died and it was impossible.
Was it actually possible to survive the demo? its absolutely turned me off and other folk i know..

FWIW I also found the demo for DS2 very difficult....

As has been pointed out, I think the demo drops you into a section several hours into the game and is off-putting in it's toughness because you don't know how to play the game. It put me off getting the game initially, but I'm glad I did in the end. It starts much more gently, it is tough though, but satisfyingly so. Just pay attention to the tutorials for all the weapons and aids, unlike me, who didn't read one screen for the stasis power-up and got to Chapter 5 before I realised it could be used to slow down enemies as well! When you play it yourself, you'll realise why I was seriously considering redrafting the game on "easy" [facepalm]

It's worth noting that the first game is £14.99 on Games on Demand. The last time I looked in town it was about £12.99 preowned.

Like the reactor room, bridge, ship exterior and planet surface?

I'll be getting it.

When it's £10.

I'm sure I used to have Dead Space, I've tried ringing it but there's just no answer, odd.

Definately looking forward to getting this. About the only thing I hated about Dead Space was the final level shifting that big pointy relic thing about on rails while being attacked. And doing this while raising a bridge or pressing a button to move the relic on. Pointless ran-out-of-ideas tedium. Thankfully it didn't last too long.

Here's hoping that this will be the Resident Evil 5 that Resident Evil 5 wasn't.

Harsh!
RE5 totally was RE5.

Er.

RE5 was great, fool.

My copy of DS2 is here. It's on two DVDs, immediately raising the "which ones do I install to the HDD" question. I'm off to play now.

How does this compare to DS1?

I loved the game engine from the first game - and the convenient blue line thing - but I hated the game intensely due to the missions.

Fix the power.
Fix the air supply.
Fix the trams.
Fix the asteroid shields.
Clear out a big jobbie from the men's bogs.
Fix the gravity generator.
Wipe up some grafitti in the bridge.

"The vending machine just swallowed my 50p can you battle over here and fix it"

Fucking game should have been called Space Janitor. It had tonnes of potential though.

You'll be pleased to hear the awesome blue line is even better, with additional lines pointing to sub quests, save points and benches.

Resident Evil 5 was great. But it wasn't Resident Evil 4 2. Or Resident Evil 4+1. Or, hang on, I've forgot what I was trying to say already...

I'd say RE5 and 4 are very much cut from the same cloth. Now, it's a different cloth to the older Resident Evil games, admittedly, but as the games are palpably better I don't mind that one bit.

Fuck off and play DS2, freak.

I wants to know if it's good.

It's still installing. (I did both discs.)

Hmm. RE4 hooked me from the start and I played through it twice. RE5 felt like I was being hampered too much for playing it in single-player so I stopped after less than an hour in.

I've completed RE4 twice and RE5 about three times, once (ish) solo and twice co-op. I don't think it's as compromised in single player as people seem to think it is.

Me neither, RE5 is a great single-player game!

Funnily enough I've gone through Resident Evil 5 more times than the forth, mainly due to the co-op though, including both DLC and having had loads of fun with Mercenaries and a buddy. But I'd still say that the singler player in Resident Evil 4 was something special ("100% funability" - Up to Jump) whereas Resident Evil 5 was merely servicable. The wider gaming public agrees judging by how highly rated Four still is main years after release.

Mercenaries (especially in two player) is absolutely awesome - don't think I've ever had so much fun with one of the tacked on extras of a videogame.

I'm so glad you're all talking about Resi in this thread, as I'd probably be getting my shoes on to buy Dead Space otherwise. Cheers!

I'm about 1.5 hours in. It's awesome.

Fuck off

Minor spoiler, but hilarious: the special "gun" you unlock for completing the game on Hardcore in action.

This appears to have accidentally fallen into my pocket.

Then it set the alarms off, so I had to go back and pay for it.

This is excellent stuff!

As good as the first? Better?

Check out the iPhone version, too. It's really good.

This will probably be a day 91 purchase for me. That translates to a first week purchase in other people's units of wantingness, because I never really buy anything until the price has fallen a bit.

Better, for my money. Cleaned up gameplay mechanics with some welcome tweaks; more variety of guns and locations; and having Isaac talk is cool.

So I am hearing, aye. I think I'll also get the PS3 move version of Extraction.

Crikey, Normal difficulty is certainly plenty hard enough (I'm up to chapter 9 now and it's making me really work for it).

It took me over 20 attempts to realise that the bit approximately 8 seconds into the game was a QTE

Ah, but the first one was tough without the infinite stasis cheat, remember

I didn't start using that cheat until my second playthrough of the first, so I do know.

Oh my. I didn't realise pad support on a PC game could be so seamless. You switch your pad on, launch the game, and not only are all of the controls configured for you (in, presumably, the same mapping as the Xbox version), but the menus and in-game interface change to show your pad buttons instead of clickable buttons.

As for the game, I promised I'd wait on playing it until Miss Malabar is here. I love having a girlfriend who not only plays games, but is happy to watch me play them. But I did have a brief go to see how my PC could cope (so far, perfectly, on the highest settings at 1680 x 1050, or whatever it is) and, as someone else noted, died pretty quickly when the non-obvious QTE popped up. Sloppy, but I'll live with it.

Yeah, Fallout:NV does this too. It's very neat.

I'm really impressed. Last time I tried to use a pad with a PC game, it was a right ball-ache, and still required mouse input anyway. This just turns my computer into an Xbox with better visuals, albeit with the possible sacrifice of friends support.

Now, is this limited to connecting my 360 pad, or would it be as good with actual PC pads? Not that I particularly care too much now I have this receiver, of course.

You're playing it on the PC!?!