The Darkness 2 - Autumn 2011 - PS3, 360, PC

How many hours?

Boo! wrote:How many hours?

I'd say 6 is pretty spot on, on hard. Will check later

The wife just got in from a solid day's shopping and handed me the Ltd Ed as a Valentine's present!
Totally out of the blue. God, I love her.
Will start it tonight. Special thanks to Brer, who, having found out I'd owned the original for years and not played it, persuaded me to get stuck in. It was great, and I'm super-excited about playing the sequel later.

Saw it in Tesco.

Wife didn't buy it though

Something Fishy wrote::D Saw it in Tesco.

Wife didn't buy it though

Need to give her more lovin', Fishy...

That, or clothes...

yeah probably not as much lovin as was once the case but that's a mutual 40 something thing

Clothes though.. that will be happening on Wednesday so a visit to the game shop may be in order!

So far, this is a riot!

Nice. I loved the first and the books so look forward to it.

Brerlappins little hat wrote:

Fade wrote:Did you even play the first game?

She isn't really a love interest anyways. She's Isaac's conscience and a visual representation of the marker.

Yes i did. Shes a crap shock tactic that crops up once an hour every hour and goes OOOOOH YOU KILLED MEEEE and strawberry floats off.

Where as Jenny pops up every hour and goes OOH YOU LOVED ME and strawberry floats off.

Gave few hints to the missus but with my luck she will most likely buy me call of duty 2

Played an hour or so of this just now and it's class.

That is all.

Something Fishy wrote::D Saw it in Tesco.

Wife didn't buy it though

Was she all out of cash after buying your manhood?

Brerlappins little hat wrote:

Fade wrote:

Brerlappins little hat wrote:

Fade wrote:Did you even play the first game?

She isn't really a love interest anyways. She's Isaac's conscience and a visual representation of the marker.

Yes i did. Shes a crap shock tactic that crops up once an hour every hour and goes OOOOOH YOU KILLED MEEEE and strawberry floats off.

Where as Jenny pops up every hour and goes OOH YOU LOVED ME and strawberry floats off.

Yeah thats true, aside from the fact that she doesnt, and youre wrong. But yeah aside from all that, wise words there, Fade.

Jackie's VA and hair annoy me for some reason. I like the idea of this being short and sweet rather than drawn out and padded out.

Taking in everything, talking to all NPCs and exploring everywhere i could id say it took 6 hours. So it definitely doesnt outstay its welcome and not a bit of padding in sight. Theres also the vendettas campaign which seems cool, and a NG+ option.

I was exaggerating to make a point. What you said doesn't happen either.

Picked it up yesterday did it (on easy) in about 5-6 hours. Pretty good game

Brerlappins little hat wrote:

Anung wrote:In Dead Space 2 what brer says happens alot!

Seriously. She pops up and goes WAAAAAH IM DEAD and gooseberry fool so often it has zero impact on you after about the 9000th time. Dead Space 2 has a story and character so mindnumbingly gooseberry fool they couldve been written for an episode of Glee.

You may not like the story or characters. But strawberry floating god, they're average at worst. If you actually took any real interest in the story of the game you'd realise is quite deep. The marker(s) are pretty much the villain(s) of the games thus far. The hallucinations are your interaction with the marker, the game's villain. To give you constant reinforcement of what you're fighting leading up to the climax of the game where you destroy it.

ANYWAYS.

Just finished this game. DAT ENDING

Sad though
Kind of confused as to what exactly happened though. Someone explain it to me?

Fade wrote:
ANYWAYS.

Just finished this game. DAT ENDING

The Lightness 3? X-D

Sad though
Kind of confused as to what exactly happened though. Someone explain it to me?

EnragedYogi wrote:

Fade wrote:
ANYWAYS.

Just finished this game. DAT ENDING

The Lightness 3? X-D

Sad though
Kind of confused as to what exactly happened though. Someone explain it to me?

My take was that while trapped in hell Jenny allowed herself to be consumed by the Angelus for the good of saving Jackies soul as the Darkness would eventually overtake him. Unfortunately this leaves him stuck in hell, but ripe for a sequel, where they better revive that Darkling, what a sweet final line! I had completely forgotten about the Angelus sidestory and just got sucked into the whole Jackie escaping and rescuing Jenny plot, and the after credits bit came as quite a surprise!

I knew it was in the comics, but was that side plot in the two games anywhere?
I wonder if they'll do some DLC about how the Darkness Defeated the Angelus and imprisoned it. that would be cool. I'm chomping at the bit for any story based DLC they'd release right now

Brerlappins little hat wrote:

Fade wrote:
the story of the game you'd realise is quite deep

Dead Space 2
Deep Storyline

I like how you never actually back up your opinion with facts.

If you want people to take them seriously. It's a good idea to provide some kind of evidence. For example. Saying it's not well told. At least provide some evidence or something. Discussions like this are pointless if it's just about people saying 'I like this, you like that' with no one actually taking anything in or saying WHY they think these things.

Fade wrote:But strawberry floating god, they're average at worst.

That was utterly awful. For a start you have voice acting on a par with a low-rent student production (So. Uh... Bye ) but it's emphasised by a complete lack of timing. The initial half of the scene is dealt with in a minute (nowhere near enough time for something touted as an emotional moment), and then it immediately leaps into ghostly vision bullshit. There's no pause, no time to let the moment soak in, move onto MORE STORY. Only the following segment is criminally short as well, there's no appreciation for the characters there, just a token 'this is his dead wife that continues to haunt him, CAN'T YOU FEEL THE WEIGHT ON HIS SHOULDERS?' before we get back to the shooty-dismember-yay. It's hackneyed, the level of quality you'd expect from a SyFy Original.

Banjo wrote:

Fade wrote:But strawberry floating god, they're average at worst.

That was utterly awful. For a start you have voice acting on a par with a low-rent student production (So. Uh... Bye ) but it's emphasised by a complete lack of timing. The initial half of the scene is dealt with in a minute (nowhere near enough time for something touted as an emotional moment), and then it immediately leaps into ghostly vision bullshit. There's no pause, no time to let the moment soak in, move onto MORE STORY. Only the following segment is criminally short as well, there's no appreciation for the characters there, just a token 'this is his dead wife that continues to haunt him, CAN'T YOU FEEL THE WEIGHT ON HIS SHOULDERS?' before we get back to the shooty-dismember-yay. It's hackneyed, the level of quality you'd expect from a SyFy Original.

Are you actually serious? This is bad voice acting.

See what I don't get is. First someone says that Nicole appears too much throughout the game. And now you say they don't give enough time to her.

So are all emotional moments meant to have a pause then? Is that how emotions work? And it doesn't leap into anything. He sits down against the wall to think about what he's just done and the marker is trying to take advantage of him while he's vulnerable. He acts cold throughout the entire scene because he doesn't want to upset Ellie more than he already is.

And it's a game. If you want to take time to take in an emotional moment, you can. pretty sure after that happened in the game I spent 10 seconds looking out of the window. Maybe it's just me. But the Dead Space series has probably been the only video game other than the Darkness to effect me so emotionally. Not to the point of crying or welling up, but, I just mean a range of emotions. Finishing the first game was just so amazing for me. I still remember how fast my heart was beating now.