They're weird even with the XBOX 360 controller.

Maybe somebody could have known a fix man, he can ask here too.

He just has less chances of finding help.

Just beat this and it's pretty much the best game out of 08 for me, I haven't been this freaked out by any game or movie ever. It's all because of the atmosphere too, did you guys notice the sick amount of details that went into everything? When you're in vacuum you can only hear the sound waves that go along the metal of the ship, and into the metal of your suit, it's so awesome and well done. And when you're in zero-g but have air, objects that fly around actually slow down because of friction with the air, I mean they even thought of that just wow. It all felt like it did everything right that Doom 3 did wrong, and came up with a lot of original ideas on top of it, and then you add EA $$$ for tons of polish on the whole experience and just... wow. I'm glad this thing is selling well, even my bro who usually only plays FIFA and shit got totally hooked just from watching me play it and kept discussing the game and story with me.

Pretty much the best part of the game was the sound, there's this one place where you have a sound that sounds like someone pulling the emergency break on a train, coupled with swinging lights and smoke coming out of some machinery that made me almost shit my pants even though there were no enemies there, and it's pretty much all because of the sound.

I don't think I would have felt the same if I didn't play on Hard though. I think what got to me was the insane hunt for ammo and resources because you only ever had just enough to survive if you didn't fuck up and waste ammo or get hit needlessly. Couple that with the way you can get fucked out of half your lifebar just by letting a single enemy close, and it made the whole experience fucking intense, facing these completely overpowered enemies (their health and damage are completely nuts on Hard) that can come from anywhere anytime, but I don't really want to shoot at them because every time I fire a gun all I see is that ammo counter going down. It never let up either, throughout the whole game I was constantly low on resources and usually only had enough ammo to kill say 10 enemies if I didn't waste any shots, and being in that situation and running into a huge fight in a small room or tight corridor is about the worst thing ever. Thank god you have the Stasis.
tbh I was only scared by things coming out of nowhere a few times but the thing is since you knew it can happen at any time, from anywhere, and a fight can go bad so fast, it keeps you on edge all the time. It wasn't predictable either like in Doom 3, I really had no idea what was going to happen at any time.

About the story, I got kind of hooked on it and looked up some details and I just have to point out everything you guys got wrong since i'm a massive cunt and i have nothing to do right now!
First of all the marker is not designed to repel the necromorphs - while it does have that ability, that's not its purpose. The black marker was actually created to start the infection. The inscriptions on it represent changes to the human DNA to turn humans into necromorphs, which means it was designed to start the necromorph infection among humans. The red marker has the ability to repel the Necromorphs, but i'm not certain that ability has ever been documented with the black one. Additionally there isn't any document of the black marker being able to fuck with peoples brains and make them hallucinate and see their dead girlfriends and shit. So the black marker is definitely intended to start the infection and the red's ability to repel it might just have been because it's an imperfect copy.

And then well, Nicole. It's pretty obvious the marker is helping you return it to its original position, and is (maybe among other things) using Nicole to do it. Mostly it's hallucinations so that checks out, like those screen projections, or her appearing from behind the marker in chapter 12. The thing at the end is a necromorph in her body so that checks out too. The only real problem is that sometimes Nicole while she should be a hallucination interacts with physical things, plus the necromorphs are actually attacking her at one point, so what the fuck is that all about?

She's dead before the game starts, she's a necromorph at the end, but when you are flying the shuttle there is definitely a real body sitting next to you helping you pilot the ship. Now obviously the whole point of Nicole is to make you question what's real and what's not, if you're going insane or not, so there aren't many details in the game to tell you what's going on because well, then you'd... know. And the whole point would be lost. And as it stands everything in the story makes sense except for Nicole.

There is one explanation that checks out though, that she is the embodiment of the Markers attempt to help you. Sometimes she's a hallucination and sometimes she is definitely not, her body is definitely there and moving on its own. So something must be moving her dead body, and also keeping it from being infected since she hasn't shown any sign of becoming a necromorph up until when you last see her real body, which is for a minute or two after landing on Aegis VII. An explanation that makes sense (only one I know of that does) is that the Marker is animating Nicole's dead body. It seems to have a lot of kind of random abilities and it wouldn't be a surprise if it could do this as well. So if this is the case, not only will her dead body be walking around and helping Isaac out, it would possibly not turn into a necromorph either since we know the marker can do that too. So if this was the case, the marker is controlling her body all the way until you land on Aegis VII, at which point it lets go at some point while you are there. At that point she turns into a necromorph, ends up on your ship and GRAAAAARGH. This is also the only viable explanation because the Nicole necromorph must have entered the ship on Aegis VII or she would have come at you on your way down in the shuttle. She died on the USS Ishimura though so she must have made it from there to the planet without getting infected.

So really, this explanation makes a lot of sense. To me at least. The only question then is HOW CAN IT MOVE DEAD BODIES to which I respond it's an alien fucking artifact that can wipe out an entire race!?!?!?


Also as for how the USS Valor got infected, they get a distress call from the Ishimura, and an escape pod arrives from it, it's not entirely unreasonable that they were simply careless and just recklessly opened the pod, some men get killed and turned into monsters, and that's all you really need for a shitstorm.

"That is the only reason they use the vents" naw mate the reason they use the vents is because it's a good way to get around the ship and ambush you especially when lots of doors are locked. And Isaac is pretty much Chuck Norris because its a game and what do you here's a great game , you find a deserted space ship and then aliens kill you after 5 minutes??!? Plus Hammond is a nice guy and takes the obligatory gory scripted death scene so you don't have to

I really like the story of this game because it's so bloody detailed, makes a lot of sense, is a great set up for a horror game, and also because the implication is that scientologists are fucking idiots  only things I don't like: scrip

hold on though, and i thikn we can kill spoilers now, on the valor example, wasn;t there only ONE NECROMORPH that could turn dead bodies? the infector? that wasn't the one ejected.

that and the valor was READY FOR WAR man the entire ship gets taken over in less time than the ishimura but NOT ISAAC THE ENGINEER. CAN WE BUILD IT, YES WE *KABLAM*

Actually yeah the infector is also a way for people to be turned but mainly the whole thing is actually an infection that can turn people into necromorphs. While you have the marker kickstarting the whole thing, after that it's similiar to a zombie infection. I'd say you can think of the whole thing as a zombie flick but instead of satellite crashing into earth or whatever, in this zombie flick it's set in space and the Marker is what kickstarts the whole thing. Point being, if you get hacked down by a Necromorph, that should be enough to turn you into one as well. It can happen fast too but that depends a bit on luck I guess since you can see half turned bodies all over the Ishimura that have obviously been laying there for a while. I think the advantage of the Infector is that thing does it instantly and it creates those black powerful ones.

So while yeah they all had guns you could say it wouldn't be a total surprise if they managed to get the fucker, but it also wouldn't be a total surprise if the whole ship got overrun. All you need is for someone to die and then hell can break loose real fast. Yeah that ship got owned really fast, but so does the Ishimura in the anime. Also the USS Valor wasn't completely taken over at the point it crashed, there are still living soldiers when you arrive there, and probably a lot of people died in the crash so when it crashes into the ishimura there was likely still heavy firefights going on.

And yes, Isaac Clarke is a fucking tank and it is completely fucking stupid but I am willing to let that one slide because there really is no way to work around that if you want to make a game like this. He would have gone to shit real fast without the Stasis pack so he's lucky to have that, plus lots of people have died and left audio logs so he can collect info from that to stay alive. Plus he doesn't have to deal with thousands of people panicking and killing themselves around him and Hammond and that bitch help out. Plus you can bet your ass he's infected a million times over so when he's dead he's got to become like at least ten necromorphs or something. And maybe the marker is doing more than just hallucinations to help him, like maybe projecting a little dead space around him or something. But in the end the fact is just that this is a game and it simply needs a Gordon Freeman dude killings thousands of enemies.

the funniest part of the game for me was when you pick up a text log near then end of the game talking about the religion (forgot what it was called) and it's a not at all subtle reference to scientology. 

yah this whole game is a big fuck you scientology, it's the best thing ever!!

also that's scienunitology

also I didn't know there were two markers???  I must not have been paying very much attention!  I wasn't wild about the story anyway, I knew from the very beginning that Kendra was going to be a bad guy.

Also I was pretty pissed that you didn't get to kill Kendra yourself (if nothing else they did a great job of making me hate the shit out of her for the entire game, but that might have been more from lame writing than good characterization), but at least she did die instead of letting her go and saying COMING SOON: DEAD SPACE 2 or something

I liked this game alot and I was happy that it was an actual japanese game that wasn't anime as shit, they need to make more games like this.

I liked this game alot and I was happy that it was an actual japanese game that wasn't anime as shit, they need to make more games like this.

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this game is american as heck. it was made by americans.

oh I thought it was japanese because the ship was called the ishimura or some crap hahahhaa

well now its not quite as good anymore because this game is american and I don't expect american games to be as anime

yeah it was made in japan where all the jap voice actors speak english with no accent.....

So Sarevok then the two markers have the exact same abilities then. Also it's not an exact copy it's red duuuh

Also you're welcome to point out the hole in that explanation for Nicole, (marker moving her dead body and keeping it from getting infected) as far as I can tell it makes sense chronologically, explains all the events that happened including Nicole getting attacked by Necromorphs and opening doors for you, the only thing it assumes is that the marker can make dead bodies move which isn't a far stretch imho since it can do a lot of things already and seems to have a mind of its own.

As for the USS Valor again it's not like they expected a clawed monster to jump out the escape pod, it had surprise on its side. Plus it's possible they just went and opened the pod unarmed and carelessly as they picked it up seeing as they just had an emergency call from Ishimura. They were also armed with pulse rifles and wouldn't know to shoot it in the limbs. They also wouldn't expect their dead to turn into monsters. Just the whole surprise element would be enough for the necromorph to kill a few people. Anyway there is definitely a possibility it just jumps right out of the pod as they open it and kills a few people before anyone has any idea what is happening, it's what happened on the Ishimura! Yes there is a chance they could have got lucky and killed it quickly without casualties but since that's not what happened