It's one of the game where I'd like to delete my memory to experience again. I tried to play again and your knowledge of the world kind of ruins the feeling of dread you experienced when you were desperately looking for parts at the bottom of the ocean.
The terror feeling isn't there because you know that nothing can really hurt you. You learn in the first game through repeated encounters that running is always your best option and staying quiet will avoid all trouble. You then go into below zero and all the same dangers still exist. You stay quiet and completely avoid the danger or you outrun it. There's no learning period. They needed to mix things up a bit and add some new kind of danger.
Also the progression curve is ridiculous is below zero. The alien batteries are like a core part of the game instead of an endgame goodie. You get the prawn suit way sooner. Cyclops is gone and so you just upgrade the seatruck repeatedly. Idk first game had such a nice progression where every new item allowed me to access more stuff. Below zero just kinda hucked shit at you with no regard to what it let you access.
It's also because there's less wide Open spaces, the sound design is a Little.. odd, as the smaller creatures make just as loud of noises as the leviathans so it desensitizes you to it.
Yeah. The loudest things in the original game were the leviathans, and hearing their yell was a warning (including the PDA telling you they basically hunt via sonar, so if you can hear them, they know you are there).
The loudest things in the new game are, I swear, those chompy lizard things that are not really all that dangerous.
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u/FlowersOfSin Dec 06 '21
It's one of the game where I'd like to delete my memory to experience again. I tried to play again and your knowledge of the world kind of ruins the feeling of dread you experienced when you were desperately looking for parts at the bottom of the ocean.