How Dead Space Seems Designed to Reduce Fun - Negative Gamer Rant

Negative Gamer writes (or should that be rants?):

"After a thrilling and frightening first hour or so, the game began to become a bit of a chore. By the 5 hour mark I was hoping this was a minor hitch and things would soon improve, but after a couple more hours of arduous battling against the game, I'm almost at the point of giving up.

What went wrong? How did a game, praised by nearly every corner of the videogame world, drive me to this point?"

[Harry190]

First it was about Mirror's Edge, now Dead Space. Both blew me away in terms of quality and entertainment and they said something negative about both. I guess they really are negative gamers. It's sad because they will die younger. Stress kills.

[rogimusprime]

you'd be suprised to see how many @ssholes there are that just seem to linger around...like a bad odor.

It's easy to sit back and criticize a game and think "oh they could have done this better and it would have been WAY cooler", but none of these critics (or me) have the responsibility with coming up with all the combined story, design, and art, elements to make a 'good game'. A new IP.

I bought it day one. It's not perfect, but it's a damn good game. Better than RE4? maybe not, but RE4 wasn't about survival horror. This game is damn scary. Play it with the lights out alone on an HDTV and some surround sound....you'll be scared.