Dead Space Thread

I say get the game on sale for $20. If you don't mind 2008 graphics and downloading a patch or two, play the original.

Things I Enjoyed
  • Issac being voiced
  • Visuals
  • The atmosphere of the original is retained (fantastic sound design, enemies look really good, jump scares got me a few times.)
  • New gameplay elements (zero G rooms, the fuse boxes that give you choices)
  • The story is relatively untouched
  • Some of the weapons changes are nice
Things I Dislike
  • Pacing issues (it's cool the ship is more connected now but the encouraged backtracking is just time padding)
  • Power creep (now that you don't need nodes to open optional doors and there are no more blank upgrade slots, you become powerful way too quickly. You can have around 10 nodes into your plasma cutter before chapter 3.)
  • Voice acting (besides Issac everything feels phoned in.)
  • Changed side characters
  • LGBTQRSTUV+ nonsense
In that last point, not only are there gender neutral bathrooms but they made Kendra Gay, text logs now include a another lesbian couple (still playing so could be more), every poster or billboard has been black washed to the point I think there are now more strong black women than Asian/white people combined ON A SHIP NAMED ISHIMURA.

I don't usually care if a game is diverse or not but that Japan/Chinese "economic invasion" trope that's popular in a lot of sci-fi was completely lost because of it in this case.
 
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Remakes: Not even once.
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Balr0g said:
I got the game yesterday and made a side by side comparism for the first minutes. The new one surely is a bit slower paced and having Isaac speak is a bit strange. Especially when you know how he sounded in Dead Space 2 (my favorite is "Fuck you! And fuck your marker!") Also, I had a praphics mod for the original installed.

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My god, its like the art of level lighting was lost over a decade just because of higher polycounts being the only thing people care about anymore.
 
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Sniperwoof said:
Depends on the context.

If it was randomly inserted by some troon to "own the chuds" then it's cringe.

If the joke is that in 2022 corporations are generally portrayed as woke instead of corrupt and shady like they were when the game was originally released that's actually pretty funny.
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The fact that it says "all-gender restroom" instead of just "restroom" on every single restroom sign on the ship, it almost makes it appear that the latter is the case.
I mean really, is that supposed to be such a ground-breaking concept in 2508 (when the game is taking place)? Why even specifically mention that it's all-gender when it already has the necessary signs?
It's probably the former, unfortunately. Subtlety is lost art these days. Trigger the chuds, own the chuds!
 
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Thanks for the heads up on the CurrentYear wokeshit. I was actually going to drop $70 on this shit today because I really loved the original. I'm not even touching it on sale, now. I refuse to be a part of the problem with EA pulling this shit just to get more Blackrock funds.
 
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>Kendra revealed to be a lesbian at the beginning
>It's never mentioned again lmao

I just finished the game and I actually loved it, definitely better than the original, it may still be great but all the QOL changes alone make the remake superior imo. The wokeshit was thankfully minimal (The Kendra thing, posters, toilets etc) Another great addition that I liked was how Isaac's hallucinations of Nicole were actually Cross, and likewise she hallucinated Isaac as being Temple
 
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Beat it, general gameplay is really good, loved the "Peeling" system and most the QOL they brought over from DS2, but gonna focus on the Story changes because they're a mixed bag.

Changes I liked about the story:
- Mercer is now has a lot more of a crazy cult leader feeling, I liked how they handled that and expanded on the creation of the Hunter. Kinda pissed he just gets dragged off by a tentacle instead of letting an Infector kill him and you being able to rush and prevent his "glorious rebirth" though.
- "Nicole" is now actually Elizabeth Cross, good way of explaining the times "Nicole" opened doors for you and was a cool way to add a small twist on a twist everybody knows about.
- I was worried about the side quests, but most are pretty non-out of the way and did a good job on adding extra backstory, finding Isaac and Nicole's conversation from the start of Dead Space 2 was a neat touch.

Things I didn't like:
- Hammond dying to Slasher Chen, it's fine how Hammond starts really feeling the effects of the Marker, but him dying to a Slasher makes him feel a lot less competent than he was in the Original, where he dies because he gets cornered into a dead end by an Enhanced Brute, which also served as a great introduction to it and made it feel really threatening.
-Isaac for some reason tries to save Daniels and even shouts "No!" after she gets splattered by the Hive Mind, it's fine how Daniels is less of a bitch to Isaac than in the Original, but she also gets an extra body count because she also kills Cross, so I don't know would Isaac will give a shit what happens to her.
- It was always pretty obvious to someone paying any attention that "Nicole" wasn't real, but the Remake now bashes you over the head with it.

Things I thought were fine or noticed:
- There's hints Daniels is playing both sides between Isaac and Hammond, as opposed to the Original where she just tries to cut Hammond out, she almost calls Isaac "Hammond" when mentioning the Valor for the first time and when the Shuttle is first mentioned it's obvious that Hammond and Daniels knew about it but Isaac didn't, so I'm pretty sure the intention is that Daniels can talk to Hammond fine and is just acting like Isaac is MIA when talking to Hammond and Hammond is MIA when talking to Isaac.
- As mentioned, Daniels is less of a bitch to Isaac than in the Original, even after she dumps your ass on the Ishimura, she says "You'll find another way off the Ishimura, you're a hell of an Engineer." in a pretty sincere tone.
 
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Übertroon said:
Fix the current year signs, and make the women look less like hags or goblins. Also bring old Isaac back.
Unfortunately there's nothing you can do about the script changes. I kinda dislike how originally Nicole was completely innocent, finding herself in a terrible situation because of advice given by Isaac. It gives a decent explanation for why he feels guilty.
Now that Nicole is a master at reeducating unitologists and served on the Ishimura to deconvert the crew her role as a victim is lessened.
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Well you cant have a woman character just be a normal person you have to make them have some stupid epic skill or something.
 
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Oh no, not Johnston! Not the guy that dies 5 minutes in, how dare they replace him with a character that dies, like, 10 minutes in instead.

xXEddie.DurellXx said:
is it worth getting if u have never played the original
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Depends on your level of tolerance for bathroom signs, I guess.

In all seriousness yeah, the original is a classic and this is basically a straight up upgrade so I'd say it's worth it.
Alternatively you can get OG Dead Space and try it out to see if you actually like the game, it just needs a bit of work to run on modern PCs but it still hold up fairly well otherwise.
 
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Beat it, general gameplay is really good, loved the "Peeling" system and most the QOL they brought over from DS2, but gonna focus on the Story changes because they're a mixed bag.

Changes I liked about the story:
- Mercer is now has a lot more of a crazy cult leader feeling, I liked how they handled that and expanded on the creation of the Hunter. Kinda pissed he just gets dragged off by a tentacle instead of letting an Infector kill him and you being able to rush and prevent his "glorious rebirth" though.
- "Nicole" is now actually Elizabeth Cross, good way of explaining the times "Nicole" opened doors for you and was a cool way to add a small twist on a twist everybody knows about.
- I was worried about the side quests, but most are pretty non-out of the way and did a good job on adding extra backstory, finding Isaac and Nicole's conversation from the start of Dead Space 2 was a neat touch.

Things I didn't like:
- Hammond dying to Slasher Chen, it's fine how Hammond starts really feeling the effects of the Marker, but him dying to a Slasher makes him feel a lot less competent than he was in the Original, where he dies because he gets cornered into a dead end by an Enhanced Brute, which also served as a great introduction to it and made it feel really threatening.
-Isaac for some reason tries to save Daniels and even shouts "No!" after she gets splattered by the Hive Mind, it's fine how Daniels is less of a bitch to Isaac than in the Original, but she also gets an extra body count because she also kills Cross, so I don't know would Isaac will give a shit what happens to her.
- It was always pretty obvious to someone paying any attention that "Nicole" wasn't real, but the Remake now bashes you over the head with it.

Things I thought were fine or noticed:
- There's hints Daniels is playing both sides between Isaac and Hammond, as opposed to the Original where she just tries to cut Hammond out, she almost calls Isaac "Hammond" when mentioning the Valor for the first time and when the Shuttle is first mentioned it's obvious that Hammond and Daniels knew about it but Isaac didn't, so I'm pretty sure the intention is that Daniels can talk to Hammond fine and is just acting like Isaac is MIA when talking to Hammond and Hammond is MIA when talking to Isaac.
- As mentioned, Daniels is less of a bitch to Isaac than in the Original, even after she dumps your ass on the Ishimura, she says "You'll find another way off the Ishimura, you're a hell of an Engineer." in a pretty sincere tone.
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I kinda dislike the attempt to whitewash Kendra. She murders several people to get the marker, so it's weird for them to try and humanize her at the same time. Her original cold hearted persona fit a lot better and she seemed more believable as an earth gov agent back then. Hammond got absolutely gutted as well. He barely does anything now and the voice actor is inferior
 
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Just made the connection that the Ishimura is the tranch in space. The necromorphs are the alpacas!
 
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Remake sounds like a pretty good game with some performance issues (purportedly alleviated and made tolerable by lowering your settings) and a few things that you'd really have to be autistic to get mad at.

Oh no, a black woman and a gender-special bathroom in a game where most everyone's gonna die a horrible death and become a Cronenberg body horror monster anyway. How terrible.
 
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I'm liking it a lot. Got an hour in so far and it looks amazing and plays amazing. They absolutely jacked up the aggression of the necromorphs and it shows.. I don't know if this makes sense, but the game looks great, it looks like what I remember the OG looking like when I played it all those years back.
 
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