Dead Space 3 Gameplay

[Obliviator27]

For scary games I'd patiently await nightfall before playing. Why ruin my experience?

As for X being scarier than Y, I guess it ultimately depends on the person. For me amnesia (especially penumbra which I played first) was scarier of the two. If I were to logically explain it I'd say it boils down to the "Fight or flight" mechanism. While playing Dead Space it was more fight, while amnesia was flight. Dead space was scary though - I enjoyed the atmosphere and environments a lot.

I agree. I'd say the games have different forms of "fear". Amnesia has environmental "Dread" fear, where you don't want to continue because you dread what may be down that hallway. There are noises and you don't know what they are. Environmental fear.

Dead Space uses what I like to call "Stress" fear. You're at one end of a room with no ammo, reloading, as death comes straight at your face. The "Nononononono" effect of sitting there trying to defend yourself. Very well executed in DS2 when you're hanging from the train.

I'd have to say that I enjoy both. I'll look into DS3 for sure, but not for PC. I'm not fond of Origin and EA in general, but I like the Dead Space series.