Dead Space Thread -

[ZMOT]

I still remember the Phil Collins cover from 3's commercials. Shit went way too hard.

for reference:

imho it's breddy gud, looks great and that track always a banger. also gave isaac enough personality with a simple sneer instead of dropping some shitty quip.

EA has this weird habit of using songs/remixes for their trailer for some reason, part of me feels it's some boomer exec thinking "that's what teens like, right?"

also seems they harder to go with it the more it's desperation to shill to that "gaymer" demographic

The first two Dead Space games were outstanding, and did a great job on sci-fi horror with some amazing visual moments. Dead Space 3 fell flat because those horror elements were largely replaced with action, and with only action to push for there were already plenty of shooters that did it better.

It's a shame, but as said earlier at least it was merely memoryholed rather than completely falling into ruin.

fwiw enjoyed the first part of 3 more than the first (or even half) part of 2.
EDIT: in atmosphere. 3's gameplay changes were... eh. also felt the only reason it exists so EA can sell shit to lazy casuals and visceral did the best they could with it.

 

[Autistic AT-ST]

Well Dead space is coming back apparently. If there arent troons sacrificing themselves to be necromorphs I dont care beyond sharing the news.

 

[Miller]

Dead Space remake by EA Motive? It's going to be shit if Mitch Dyer is in charge of the story.

 

[Ihavetinyweewee]

Dead Space remake by EA Motive? It's going to be shit if Mitch Dyer is in charge of the story.

Thankfully, he doesn't work at Motive anymore.

But, I'm sure they have someone just as shitty to replace him.

Motive is EXTREMELY POZED.

 

[Mooger Meng]

Well Dead space is coming back apparently. If there arent troons sacrificing themselves to be necromorphs I dont care beyond sharing the news.

Okay, time to make a betting pool for how they're going to butcher it!

*2:1 - Isaac and/or love interest turned into a troon
*3:1 - Necromorphs good because hamfisted gender dysmorphia aesop
*5:1 - Isaac dies in Act 1, replaced with Snarky Action Protagonist Mk. 244 (female and/or colored variant)
*8:1 - Isaac subordinated to Snarky Action Protagonist Mk. 244 (female and/or colored variant)
*10:1 - Journalist mode as default difficulty
*15:1 - Atmosphere ruined my shoehorning in multiplayer mechanics from Dead Space 3 into other games
*18:1 - Pacing ruined by touting Dead Space 3's "Haha, you're fucked! Everything's fucked forever and there's nothing you can do about it!" wet fart ending in its prerelease advertising
*40:1 - Pacing AND atmosphere ruined by moving Dead Space 3's "Haha, you're fucked! Everything's fucked forever and there's nothing you can do about it!" wet fart ending to Dead Space 1 for reasons
*100:1 -Atmosphere ruined by turning Isaac into industry-standard Meathead Soldier Man™
*375:1 - Isaac becomes the Doomslayer
*1000:1 - Game is 3 spooky 5 scary, causes entire games journalism industry to suffer immediate and fatal high-pressure projectile diarrhea

 

[Miller]

Thankfully, he doesn't work at Motive anymore.

Really? Good to know.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

god damn it just let it rest in peace. they done enough damage.

 

[ChucklesTheJester]

god damn it just let it rest in peace. they done enough damage.

No amount of damage is enough until the hollow corpse of dead space is reanimated like a necromorph, and attacks the fans.

 

[Radola Gajda]

Another day another defiled dead franchise

 

[Ihavetinyweewee]

Well the new rumor is that its a remake of DS1. Its going to pull some mechanics from dead space 2 and 3 as well.

Its supposed to be in the same vein as the recent Resident Evil remakes.

 

[Michael Wade]

Well the new rumor is that its a remake of DS1. Its going to pull some mechanics from dead space 2 and 3 as well.

Its supposed to be in the same vein as the recent Resident Evil remakes.

Could work. They gotta get the main character right though. If its not Issac and it's some bitch or soy latte motherfucker, nobody's going to take it seriously if they are not portrayed as completely out of their depth.

 

[Snekposter]

Could work. They gotta get the main character right though. If its not Issac and it's some bitch or soy latte motherfucker, nobody's going to take it seriously if they are not portrayed as completely out of their depth.

Isn't half the point of DS1 that Isaac is just some random-ass repairman who's stuck kludging together weapons from industrial tools in-between shitting his pants at how utterly fucked he is?

 

[Michael Wade]

Isn't half the point of DS1 that Isaac is just some random-ass repairman who's stuck kludging together weapons from industrial tools in-between shitting his pants at how utterly fucked he is?

Oh yeah, that's the real beauty of it. It's a bit harder to tell in 1 because he's mute, but the journal entry's convey it well. The heavy breathing and stomp kill sounds did a good job of conveying how frantic he is too.

DS2 did a really fantastic job of giving him a voice without taking away his vulnerability. That's extremely difficult to do, and if they cant do it right they should just keep him mute.

He can be defiant and giving the monsters shit, but he cant constantly make quips. I think he was done solid in 3 but I never got the chance to finish it.

 

[Snekposter]

DS3 is... a mixed bag. Mostly because it has one of the stupidest standoffs I have ever seen.
So, its the end of the game, you have the MacGuffin that will either wake up the Brother Moon or finish the job of crashing it into the planet with no survivors, but creepy glasses guy has your GF. Isaac listens to his brains and not his balls and when his GF tells him to not hand it over and let the creepy villain kill her, does just that. Aaand then the dude who wasted no time killing off some of your fellow teammates in the name of the mission hits you, takes it, tosses it to the dude and says its not worth someone's life. I can just imagine the crisis the writing team had. "So we're at the heroic standoff, and... uh shit, Isaac is willing to kill everyone present if that saves mankind from the Markers, what do we do?"

 

[Ihavetinyweewee]

Could work. They gotta get the main character right though. If its not Issac and it's some bitch or soy latte motherfucker, nobody's going to take it seriously if they are not portrayed as completely out of their depth.

If its in the same vein of the RE remakes: that would mean that Isacc is the main character.

 

[JongleJingle]

Isaac DAMN WELL better be the protagonist; I won't accept any other main character. This would be like replacing Doomguy with some other military guy or Sam Fisher with another stealth assassin: Everyone would just be confused as fuck and disappointed.

I guess my only hope for this remake is that they make it first person. You can still keep the "Everything you need to see is on your suit" function of the RIG suits by putting your health and stasis meters on your arms/chest.