I really did enjoy this game. But about halfway through I adopted the mindset of a pest exterminator. "Yes, yes how terrifying you are. Now allow me to allevaite you of your legs." "Oooooh look at you! Your such a big boy aren't you? Now hold your knobly orange bits still or we'll never get to the room full of dead tentacle babies."
+Matthew “The Hoodless Hunter” Hunter I honestly don't think Just Cause can really fuck up its third installment. If you think about it, 2 was basically a fuckaround sandbox hayday with a story tacked to the end, so as long as 3 has even MORE ways to fuck around and do crazy things, and improves on the few shortcomings of 2, then I don't see how it could be considered any worse, because its more of the same formula that works but with more bells and whistles. (NOT saying that Just Cause is bad, by the way, just realized the last sentence could be taken way outta context)
Here's a parallel: Halo 1, there's a halo, Dead Space, there's a marker. Halo 2, woops, turns out there's another halo, Dead space 2, woops, turns out there's another marker. Halo 3, woopsy, there's a bunch of halos, Dead Space 3, woopsy, there's a bunch of markers
Halo 1/Dead Space 1: Oh crap, space zombies are trying to parasitize my corpse! Halo 2/Dead Space 2: Oh crap, space zombies are actually being directed by a diabolical sentient intelligence! Halo 3/Dead Space 3: Oh crap, I killed all the space zombies (I think?) but I'm now marooned millions of lightyears from civilization! Halo 4/Dead Space 3: Awakened DLC: Oh crap, I've unwittingly unleashed an ancient evil from its eternal slumber! Halo 5/Avengers: Age of Ultron: Oh crap, the AI I thought was going to save humanity has gone rouge and is trying to cheat death by raising an army of expendable robot bodies! Wait... What were we talking about again?
well to be fair in halo 1 there a control room that shows more than one halo ring, theres also a cutscene where they explain theres more than one with the whole kill all sentients thing to starve the space zombos.
For what its worth I really like the concept for the first half of the game, that of being trapped in the decaying remnants of a 100 year old fleet in orbit around a mysterious planet and its weird unnerving moon.
Here's an EA joke: How many EA people does it take to replace a light bulb? I'm sorry, our basic lighting package is a candle, if you'd like a light bulb, please visit the DLC marketplace.
Pretty much covers my thinking on Call of Dead Space. The first Dead Space scared me out of my skin at times because necros didn't just jump out and run at you. There were times I was standing at a bench doing something, and when I exited out I saw something pointy on the top of my screen. I turn around and a guy is just standing a foot from my back staring at me. That shit is just gone now, but it was genuinely freaky, you kept sweeping every corner to try to spot them first.
Ikr, Dead space 1 is one of my favorite games of all time. The necros would actually sneak up behind you quietly. Also I liked having fun with cute minigame just to be reminded about the horrific environment once you stepped out of the room. As for dead space 2, it was awesome. I loved how they made it baddass with the transforming helmets and the space flight. (advanced suit has the coolest helmet in the history of ever) But they still kept it pretty damn scary. I also really enjoyed the competitive multiplayer. It was an awesome feeling to be stomping down the hallways with your friends as a badass security team and then gunning down monsters from all directions once you got to an open room, forming a shield around the guy on a console, and escorting someone to victory as you halt executions and call out targets. Necro gamplay was awesome too, waiting for the human to round the corner before you leap out and start an execution with your friends cutting them down. It's so sad no one plays it anymore. DS3 was good. The co op was very well done, and the customizable weapons was an amazing upgrade, along with the combat roll. I was disappointed by the lack of a competitive multiplayer mode, a refined version of DS2's with more necros and customizable weapons would be amazing. They could even use it to tell the story of the sovereign colonies on tau volantis as shit was hitting the fan 300 years before isaac gets there. Also, NO ADVANCED SUIT?!?!? T.T
So, what's funny is the fact that I actually like the first couple of chapters. The ones leading up to crash landing on Hoth and then, like, 1 or 2 chapters after that, because it tries to maintain the atmosphere. I loved the bit when you first crash land on Hoth and you're at risk of freezing to death, but Necromorphs keep popping up out of the snow to moider you. Its tense because you instinctively going slow because A) you don't know where or when they're going to pop up, and B) because you don't want to be jump scared. But you have to keep moving because you'll freeze otherwise. It was tense as hell. Then it just got over-the-top dumb.
i think he hit the nail on the head in the video in saying that it's an adventure in making the product as unoffensive to as many palettes as possible. this just generally has the result of making a more "tolerable" experience for a wider audience while reducing how many people outright dislike it, but also how many people can outright enjoy it.
GCN no fuck EA, ubisoft made crappy games and good games, ruined them with dlc bugs,whatever, EA on the other hand has been doing this shit for ever and made bullshit loads of money. you think ubisoft games are buggy, well i hate fifa as much as the next guy, but this is their second most important franchise, and its the most bugged out game ever. Battelfield wants you to pay 50$ extra for a full price game. mass effect is origen excluseive, witch means i won't get to play it. inquesition was ok but nothing special. shit, the sims 4 and city are just the worst insults to fans of the sims. why has EA been trustworthy, becuse they were so obviusly shit ?
If you removed the QTEs, DS2 was the best, IMHO. In terms of atmosphere, DS1 nailed it. Playing DS3 now and it is a generic action game that likes to take the control away from you and have you just watch.
When I saw the micro-transaction aspect of the game I lost hope in all EA games, they just milk the fuck out of their consumers like the evil leeches they are. Hell, the real conclusion to DS3 was a paid DLC for fucks sake.
Comrade Carlos Someone should nuke their site with a virus and then offer to fix it with a paid DLC of the virus. That would be funny but, the stupid fucks probably wouldn't even get the irony.
Dead space 1= resident evil + atmosphere in space Dead space 2= uncharted + action in space Dead space 3= offensive sitcom + horror spoof movie in space
Micro transactions i never really minded that much, people that are lazy or stupid can make it easier on themselves or buy skins and fancy hats but ONLY IF ITS FUCKING FREE TO PLAY!!! If you make a game, pay 60$ on a half assed piece of crap someone scrubbed off the toilet and put it in a DVD case, then you don't ask the person to cough up 10$ bucks to unlock god mode Back in the day there use to be something called "Cheat Codes", its like they make the games a pain in the ass on purpose, so people buy weapons just to get the bloody nightmare over with sooner If I'm suffering from crocodile disease you don't walk up to me with a gun and say "Hey buddy, 50$ to end it sooner"
Sorry for old post, but @RobertGameFreak that kind of apathy is what will make this "industry" expand. There will always be idiots, you can't cull them all. But not beating the shit out of the fucker that sells diarrhea to the idiots, and walking away, thinking "This isn't my problem, i'm not affected" is really the fucking problem... Beat the shit out of that fucker and get done with it, because sooner or later IT WILL BE your problem. And guess what, you already are affected in a manner.
No good salesman is gonna offer you a gun if you're dying. They're gonna give you the gun and raid your pockets after you put yourself of your own misery. Coming from the futuristic year 2025, that practice mostly worked, because the past 12 months were an excersize in watching live service games pulling a Kurt Cobain
Been through 5 play-throughs of Dead Space 3, one Co-Op and I still go back to play it. Despite having iffy story elements and not being a full on horror game, it's at least a lot of fun to take down Necromorphs with whatever crazy weapon you've decided to duct tape together. There are moments in co-op that can be scary, like the Carver missions where at times, Carver is actually separated from the Co-Op partner and brought into his own inner world full of scary demon children and a dead wife whose all too happy for you to "Make Us Whole." Course, the partner has to defend his real body as he's doing a little booty shaking dance of crazy in the corner (or rather, the NPC version of the co-op partner) which is brilliantly done. The "Horror" aspect is mostly brought in during the co-op missions, for the other player, while the other just defends the former from endless waves of enemies.
What I'd think would be a good idea for a co-op horror game would be the idea of having the characters getting separated being something that could happen either at fixed points and/or randomly, with some encounter with a monster causing a cave in, or the floor giving way under the leading player, or needing to go down separate roads in order to pull something off simultaniously and having to support each other throughout. The idea behind it being that, despite the fun you're having, it can all be cut off in an instant, leaving you and your partner both stranded, alone, unable to help each other, and very much in danger of getting fisted on their own, leaving both of you scrambling to find each other again before the super zombie death muncher finds either of you.
More of this needs to happen. This will make co-op scary. It's the reason why I'm still feeling tensed in Dead Space 2 despite meeting characters who aren't trying to kill me face to face quite a number of times. We just keep getting split up!
The transformation from survival horror to action game actually makes a lot of sense. In the first game, Isaac was a useless, terrified, scrawny, relatively young engineer with literally no combat experience. As the series progressed he got more and more used to seeing necromorphs and fighting Unitologists, not to mention slowly becoming gradually more insane. He became stronger, faster, more experienced with weapons, more willing to kill, and a lot stronger-willed. He made the transformation from damsel in distress to serious badass action hero, and the game's followed his character progression. I enjoy all of the DS games, 3 included, because the gameplay perfectly matches the character progression.
I would like to mention that after I stopped treating it like a horror game, it became a lot more fun. It wasn't like old Dead Space, but if I kept thinking that way, it was no fun at all.
Trifon Trifonov Hmmmm yup... you have a point there :) I'm curious as hell why those shitheads at Capcom didn't port those games to the PC or new consoles yet? There are legions of people who would still play those games.
The only reason why co-op horror games don't usually work is because no-one knows how to be scary(horror is a lost art) and devs only want to appeal to people who have attention span of a gnat. Modern devs think the action part in "action survival horror" means give the players enough weapons and ammo to conquer several small nations.Throwing a second player in just kills the scariness further.
I really should be getting on with my homework... however I find it much more satisfying to sit here and listen to Yahtzee rant on about games that I both enjoy and/or will never actually play.
One game I thought had a good balance of action co-op and crap your pants scares was star wars republic comando. The co op was actually single player with AI THAT ACTUALLY WORKED!!! and the crap your pants scares came from the trandoshan levels where you and your squad mates were forced to separate. It was a brilliant blend because even though you are in a group of 4 badasses you where still saying oh crap when trandoshans came. the ammo was common but scarce enough to leave you sweating.
I really liked the first two games though. Neither of them were scary but that doesn't mean that they weren't fun. Both of them have some really fun combat with creative weapons and some great set pieces. Not Scary but really good. Dead Space 3 however is just bad.
Forgetting the fact that the only true horror element of any of the three games was almost dying, I had no quarrels with the game. I enjoyed the repetitive gameplay especially considering that I crafted every single gun ever invented under the sun and slightly modified it ever know and then. Repetitive? Yes. Boring? Not quite... I did want a continuation for dead space 2 story and I wasn't disappointed especially since I didn't expect much. Bad game? No. Recommend? Maybe, but only so that I can co-op. Good game? Eh, sure...
Dead space 3 is like that Thing game from back in 2002, except they got rid of the most interesting mechanic. (The fact that some of you redshirt teammates could be Things)
to be fair, they borrowed from John Carpenter's The Thing ever since the beginning; the game's story more closely follows H.P Lovecraft's "at the mountains of madness" in the 2ed and 3rd act. You should read it, it's pretty good.
I watched Dead Space: Downfall a while back, and after seeing the movie, I realized the first game actually continues it. You are on board that little ship investigating at the end of the movie.
Yeah, I don't think it's exactly fair that anyone living in Australia gets to be the defnitive judge of horror. It just raises the bar too high. They're already living in Earth's little death-world microcosm. Seriously though, I'm perhaps the only person not scared by the parts of Silent Hill 2 that I should have been scared by. I need some tension and jump scares. Constant overbearing pressure from a nebulously existing enitity is fine, but after a while it's like get on with it. At some point I actually have to feel like my person is in danger. There's also the fear that the person whose headspace you're subletting won't actually resonate with you. I mean sure you analyze them, "The nurses are the manifestation of his psychosexual manifestations!" However, looking at horror clinically is not scary. Horror touches a primal nerve. Fire. Darkness. Failure. A fucking guy with a bag on his head taking shotgun blasts to the face before lopping your bean off with a chainsaw. You know, primal elemental stuff. There are some genuinely scary parts in Dead Space 3. Walking across snow for instance.
I don’t even consider myself a gamer despite running a minecraft server (is that embarrassing to admit?) and even I want EA to choke on their own sphincters for how much they charge for Sims 4, a game that’s had half its content gouged out so it can be sold separately
Dead space kind of went the way of resident evil. Scary at first but then went action. Difference is that Dead Space doesn't have revelations that breath some life into the survival horror.
but that can be said about any horror story - scary at first but when it goes on for too long, ya just get used to it, so they just focused on making the game more etnertaining and actiony,.instead of trying to do horror ( when they now it wont be as affective as the first time) ; + they left it with closure , not many games do that
Hriska Marinov Dead space didn't go on for that long though. The 3rd game just tossed anything scary about the window. At least 2 still had an atmosphere. But this one is like the resident evil 6 of dead space. Difference is I like 6 because it was campy like 4 but without the atmosphere.
DS3 does have some scary and tense moments, the open snow fields where the necromorphs hide under the snow, when they don't move they can take you by surprise, then theres the artifact storage optional mission, that make you be chased by 4 regenerators, and two words :ration seals, you don't need to use your money on the resource packs
you can do co-op horror. do a game where one person is walking around, trying to survive but can't see the monster, the other player flies around but can't see player one but can see the monsters. them trying not to die, and probably dieing a lot.
God damnit Yahtzee I was planning on going to play video games an hour and a half ago, why do you have so many good videos that keep appearing in the bloody suggested section!
If people wanted this kind of "Fun" they would have spend less money buying Resident Evil 6 or Gears of War Its kind of Ironic when people keep bitching around that EA is the worst company ever, then every time they release a new game they come crawling back and bending over for another ass rape
RobertAniFreak Well for critics, it's kinda their jobs. But for the average schmoe, you're right. EA isn't really horrendous so much as they are mediocre. The only thing they've done that outright pisses me off is butchering C&C.
Well I Sorta Liked Dead Space 3 But The Only Game I Truly Do Like Is PvZ Garden Warfare, The Only Reason I Do Like It Is Because It Has More In Common With The Original PvZ Instead Of The Lesser Liked PvZ 2
RobertAniFreak Yeah, I think the issue with EA is that everything released under their label feels crammed full of market research insights. Survey says people think games with multiple settings feel more epic? Stick that shit in there. Crafting system? Yeah, why not? People like love stories. Gotta have one and damn the rest of the plot. And be sure to give the protagonist a self-sacrificial attitude. People idolize that shit these days. They seem to pour a ton of resources into mechanics and presentation devices and story elements that people have loved forever, but they rush the part where they assemble those things into something that means something interesting. For example, why on Earth did this game need a love triangle? How does that possibly advance or strengthen the game's message? The first game (and even the second) hinted at the trilogy's message being something interesting about the infectiousness of religious zealotry. That message played water boy to this series' slurpy, explosive, hard-knock protagonist quarterback.
I came back here after watching the recent review of the remake of the original. I've never heard the longer version of the ZP outro until now. I think the newer quick cut makes the gags funnier but the guitar solo is really cool.
I partially agree with you, DS1 brought some cool new concepts, but once EA saw any promise and fully sank in their fangs, there was nothing left for the series except a shriveled up corpse. Also DS2 had a few promising moments, but overall was too EA'd up to fully enjoy, not really a fan of shooting my way through something I once called horror.
I guess Isaac was tired of shitting his pants every time he saw a necromorph in Dead Space 1 and 2 so he decided to grow bigger balls in Dead Space 3. That's probably why this game didn't end up being scary as the last two.
There's no justification for the protagonist not being scared of the monsters in a horror game. Give Isaac PTSD, or more hallucinations, or something. Or at least make it so he's not constantly in contact with friends and allies, or you're actually in danger of running out of ammo or health kits. But none of that is feasible when you have to weave a Co-op partner into the story, I suppose.
I just borrowed it from a friend from work...I was telling myself the exact same freaking thing last night. I was having a blast with my damned electrified Electric Ball bazooka that shoots electrified spinning blades of death as a secondary fire. I think it's the first time I was laughing manically in a game while using a weapon.
Kinda reminds me of RE4.... RE5.... There's a pattern here... Oh right, they want to appeal to the biggest market aka "casual gamers". Hell, even the latest Amnesia dumbed down the horror.
Javelin minigun with underslung force shotgun makes it so easy. At least in Dead Space 2 I still run out of ammo every once in a while and have to use a less ideal gun.
+LukaBlight69 I actually very much enjoyed RE4 once I started setting myself challenges like using only a single pistol for the whole game, though I guess it's debatable whether gamers setting themselves challenges not included in the game means that it's still inherently bad or not.
My little brother got this game for his birthday, and Yahtzee is right when he said that one line of dialogue sounded like something out of a Monty Python film.
The first text log you get explains how after they escaped Titan Station they bought ellie a new mechanical eye, only they couldn't afford a blue one so now she has 1 green eye and 1 blue eye
Did everyone just forget about Co-op mode in DS3? If you've ever actually tried it, it's pretty incredible. The character development between the two characters is fun and new, the shooter gameplay, though not the scariest, is still fun and becomes incredible not because of the creatures, though they are disturbing, but because the new missions. You get the basic gameplay and the amazing psycological horror, where SPOILER you get to see the two characters deal with one slowly losing his mind, and having to deal with scenes like fighting an endless amount of shadow demons and being able to witness things the other character can't, questioning reality and making the situation super tense. Having to protect others from steadily increasing waves of enemies while having to finish hard-to-make-out shape puzzles breeds a whole new kind of tension, never knowing when your unprotected self will get your spine ripped out by a speedy necromorph who slipped by....
I think the first game did the best, it did all it wanted, with the creepy visions, singing in your ears, the group sacrifice room - which is the scariest place to be - and the unkillable one make a good game, also with low ammo and health all the time makes for a 'NOOOOOO AAAAGH' *glack swing swing chop chop chop* oh my... i need the toilet now
But..Co-op CANT be scary. Even if your companion is a AI.. yoou lose most of the tension. If there is ANYONE with you in any sense that you know of.. then well fuck might as well just be a boreing borefest.
Two reasons why that's false: One, tension can be created by one player being helpless while another has to save them. High stakes combined with total reliance on someone else is a great source. Second, psychological horror is better when one doesn't fully understand what's going on. When two characters are there, a barrier forms between what they perceive, which can increase tension as well.
While psychological horror relies on not being able to understand it, the main focus is providing tension by not actually showing the mosnter or by having the monster be symbolic. Dead Space 3 has the mosters in clear daylight that just look like malformed clay people with leprosy. Compare that to, say, Silent Hill, you have creatures with coherent shapes (humanoids, dogs, religious depictions, etc.) that have a form of symbolism, one example being Pyramid Head. Silent Hill also does a good job of not having jumpscares, but instead prolong the monster's reveal by having clear sound effects showing something is off, then refusing to show the monster, making you think of what it could be, getting more and more scared until it reveals itself and you have no other thoughts but "Run!"
Fact: you can earn ration seals to be able to buy resource packs for components to build weapon parts and items. it is OPTIONAL to use real money to buy them. just wanted to correct the one part of this video. but besides that, love these videos you make! keep em coming!! :D
I agree on one thing Yahtzee says in this video: there's an entire game's worth of character development for Carver in the game. Mostly, though, it's given in the 3 co-op only side missions.
Not to be rude, but there are optional missions that you can play solo. For example the armory level that pops up right after you fight the nechromorph spider for the second time, and the conning tower level when you escape the unkillable necromorph's for the first time in the space ship's cargo bay.
They should go the rout of alien isolation, and take the survival horror back to a point where it's actually scary, enemies are a serrious threat, ammunition, and maybe even weapons are scarce, and so is health. You should be alone, or partnered with someone you can't trust to keep you safe as far as you'd throw them. The monster should be at least partially hidden, or hard to see under. Most circumstances, cueing it's arrival with either a noise that is out of place, or a muted monster noise and a slam as something falls, creating tension before it ever apperes on screen,
I'm late to the party here but I will say I liked the game; specifically one mission in the game where I was playing as the Co-Op partner and I was seeing things that my friend wasn't. While not exactly subtle, it was effective in that moment where Isaac thinks his co-op friend is crazy because he's ranting about things that he can't see, my friend thought I was crazy because I was ranting about things he didn't see. It was a beautiful little moment that I believe played out exactly as the designers intended.
The truly shocking thing about this game is that EA's strategy of selling microtransactions for a linear story-based game _did_ apparently work. I mean it must have, it's become the fucking industry standard by now. Even fucking Devil May Cry 5 did it! Makes you want to weep...
I didn't play Dead Space 2, but I did play 1 and I loved it, despite being scared shitless during that one part in the decontamination chamber. What Dead Space 3 is is no longer a horror game, but almost a third person shooter with a huge amount of weapon customization. When I play it, it''s not for the terror or walking around a corner to find 3 necromorphs right after I ran out of ammo, but more to have fun blowing them to little giblets.
If they ever plan to make another sequel, they could try to make it a little scary again in some ways. First, I think it would be best if they'd dropped Isaac as the main character (though they could still have him arround as a supporting one). Playing a character who survived three major calamities really kills the feeling of vulnerability. Personally, I think it would have played out better if Isaac had died at the end of DS 2. Secondly; they should take a good look at how DS Extraction and mobile handled the hallucination aspect. Fleshing those out could create some real tension. In fact, at the end of the first chapter in Extraction after fighting off insane attackers, it turns out you were mad all allong and spent the whole time slaughtering innocents. The mobile game on the other really fucks with your perception of reality, making you question if certain events are even real.
Now that he's reviewd this and Colonial Marines, two sci fi action horror games that aren't scary or good, I think next week is the perfect time for a retro review. One of an influential sci fi action horror game that's actually scary and good. One that Dead Space was certainly influenced by. One that was recently re released. System Shock 2 review please
while cover shooting was part of crysis 2's gameplay, I don't remember using it much heavily on even the hardest settings. and it wasn't you constantly running to chest high walls and and taking pot shots. you had to keep moving out into the open for proper firefights and it heavily relied on flanking and ambush tactics. and even in mass effect, though the primary gameplay mechanic was cover, It did encourage you to use close combat tactics. I can't speak for dead space though.
That's a valid point. The regenerating enemy was the scariest in the game. And it's true that supplies could be a little more scarce. It wasn't so bad in the first two, but I've been told that DS3 loads the supplies in excess. I accept your argument.
I don't get why people can't like DS3 because it has the natural progression of any person who goes through a horror scenario. Horror works when the protag doesn't know what's happening, is ill-prepared and are up against insurmountable odds. If that protag survives and chooses to go back into the fray, then horror doesn't work as effectively.
People don't give shit to ds 3 because it lacks horror moments. Ds 3 is simply a bad game overall, repetitive lackluster gameplay, terrible story writing and so on.
freier_maurer1338 Well, I expected it. There is a reason RE1 and RE2 had different protags. If you let the horror survivor survive, they will eventually turn into a badass. Game is not bad. I won't say it's great though.
That's no excuse. This isn't an RPG, fans don't give a shit about character development. They just want it to be scary! Moreover plenty of excellent horror games have characters willingly returning to a bad situation and having it be just as scary(Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Corpse Party, Clock Tower, ect.). Plus I somehow doubt one can be overly prepared for creatures that dynamically change with every situation.
(cont.) In the first game, Isaac is a civilian engineer with basic combat training who navigates a ghost ship of horrors through a combination of jury-rigged weapons, technical knowhow, incompetant villain cliches, and frankly insane amounts of dumb luck that was proof the fates had decided Isaac deserved to suffer but not necessarily die. EVERY other game is the same formula except we get more of humanity's backstory, the marker's influence is introduced, and Isaac develops as a character.
Yes, most developers usually want to make games the way they usually have, 1 price to buy, maybe some addons later that are not required; or a f2p system where you could purchase upgrades at your choice. EA's hire ups were the one that tried the hybrid bastardization between free to play and AAA price steam which effectively killed Dead Space. And I believe its from one of the voiceboxes the company uses to say "now you will really enjoy this game, just need some more money."
When I think of dead space 2 I have the vivid memory of entering the ishimura again and shitting myself when I entered the dark, long corridor of death a couple of rooms in.
I actually quite enjoyed Dead Space 3, though that’s because I never played Dead Space to be scared and because I wasn’t at point in time where I was smart enough to understand why microtransactions in a pay-upfront game like this was so hilariously greedy. Had I actually stopped to think about it, I’m sure I wouldn’t have enjoyed it as much, but I do think it’s very telling that since the Awakened DLC came out, I haven’t touched the game at all. I do however think the Build-A-Bear weapons were a missed opportunity. So many things to try out and in the end, the best two guns for me were the standard Plasma Cutter and a hybrid rifle-shotgun. Not even a rifle stand-in or a shotgun stand-in, the way the Plasma Cutter is pretending to NOT be a generic handgun, these weapons are the “new” weapons in this game and rather than being mining tools that operate in a similar way to other weapons in games but at least have a reason to be mining tools instead of military weapons, they’re just actual, bullet-firing weapons. What a load of bollocks...
Only ten thousand of the Marker EA edition or $120 edition were sold. You had to buy from EA's website but the purchasing system was almost always down back then.
Oh, come on. That's every presidential election ever. You know why everyone with a serious chance of becoming president is obscenely wealthy? Because you *need* that kind of disposable income to pay for all the ads and to travel all over the country kissing babies in front of cameras so people know who you are. And you know what? Despite the media hysteria, the country's doing pretty good after four years of Trump. This year has been pretty bad, sure, but blaming covid on Trump is a little past insane.
first off there are no less than 7 singleplayer optionial missions - all but one are handed to you(the player) on a platter. second, the purchaseable resources? No need to use real money on them - use the scavenger bot to collect Ration seals(a resource that can't be gotten any other way) to "Purchase" the resource packs. 30 ration seals for one pack, 60 for the other. third, try playing the game on hardcore and see what happens to your ammo supply.
I tried to raise velociraptors and rabbits in the same pen once. HUGE mistake. It was a bloodbath. Those poor velociraptors never had a chance.
The killer rabbit, should have listened to the enchanter....Tim
*LOOK AT THE BONES!*
Blue Laser ordinarily, I don't like UA-cam comments. well done for actually getting a like from a stingy little bastard
*LOOK*
_Scare Chord_
*JESUS CHRIST*
Better get the holy grenade
"They all just kind of show up to the sound of an entire orchestra pit being simultaneously tazed" is a wonderful line.
I really did enjoy this game. But about halfway through I adopted the mindset of a pest exterminator.
"Yes, yes how terrifying you are. Now allow me to allevaite you of your legs."
"Oooooh look at you! Your such a big boy aren't you? Now hold your knobly orange bits still or we'll never get to the room full of dead tentacle babies."
This is even funnier to picture with you as "Kim Jong Un: Zombie Exterminator."
I would pay for such a movie
+Magnus Bergman He's Kim Jong Il
Issac Clarke: Necromorph Control
Its kinda sad now hearing his take on microtransactions, knowing that they will eventually dominate the market and be absolutely EVERYWHERE.
And they're even worse now because they're RNG lootboxes instead of just buying the thing directly
"Tension? What is that? The thing that comes before elevension?"
XDDDD Im so dead
Everyone in the business knows the third game in a trilogy is just a throwaway!
What's that? Witcher what? Oh.
skykid Thats why Half Life 3 has me worried.
You mean Monster Hunter 3?
skykid Gears of War 3 :P
+skykid Pray to the MOTHERFLUFFING lord, that we get a good Threequel to Just cause. Same with Mafia 3, and (Hopefully someday) Left 4 Dead 3.
+Matthew “The Hoodless Hunter” Hunter I honestly don't think Just Cause can really fuck up its third installment. If you think about it, 2 was basically a fuckaround sandbox hayday with a story tacked to the end, so as long as 3 has even MORE ways to fuck around and do crazy things, and improves on the few shortcomings of 2, then I don't see how it could be considered any worse, because its more of the same formula that works but with more bells and whistles. (NOT saying that Just Cause is bad, by the way, just realized the last sentence could be taken way outta context)
Here's a parallel: Halo 1, there's a halo, Dead Space, there's a marker. Halo 2, woops, turns out there's another halo, Dead space 2, woops, turns out there's another marker. Halo 3, woopsy, there's a bunch of halos, Dead Space 3, woopsy, there's a bunch of markers
well that explains the white noise.
Woopsy Poopsy.
Halo 1/Dead Space 1: Oh crap, space zombies are trying to parasitize my corpse!
Halo 2/Dead Space 2: Oh crap, space zombies are actually being directed by a diabolical sentient intelligence!
Halo 3/Dead Space 3: Oh crap, I killed all the space zombies (I think?) but I'm now marooned millions of lightyears from civilization!
Halo 4/Dead Space 3: Awakened DLC: Oh crap, I've unwittingly unleashed an ancient evil from its eternal slumber!
Halo 5/Avengers: Age of Ultron: Oh crap, the AI I thought was going to save humanity has gone rouge and is trying to cheat death by raising an army of expendable robot bodies! Wait... What were we talking about again?
well to be fair in halo 1 there a control room that shows more than one halo ring, theres also a cutscene where they explain theres more than one with the whole kill all sentients thing to starve the space zombos.
For what its worth I really like the concept for the first half of the game, that of being trapped in the decaying remnants of a 100 year old fleet in orbit around a mysterious planet and its weird unnerving moon.
Here's an EA joke:
How many EA people does it take to replace a light bulb?
I'm sorry, our basic lighting package is a candle, if you'd like a light bulb, please visit the DLC marketplace.
Colin Burke It's been a while since a light bulb joke made me chuckle. Thank you Mr. Burke.
Timeseye You're quite welcome!
Colin Burke You have to get the season pass, and it'll be unlocked in 2-3 weeks.
+Colin Burke haha nice one XD
thanks for the laugh
+Colin Burke Also, don't forget the electricity pre-order upgrade.
Pretty much covers my thinking on Call of Dead Space. The first Dead Space scared me out of my skin at times because necros didn't just jump out and run at you. There were times I was standing at a bench doing something, and when I exited out I saw something pointy on the top of my screen. I turn around and a guy is just standing a foot from my back staring at me. That shit is just gone now, but it was genuinely freaky, you kept sweeping every corner to try to spot them first.
Ikr, Dead space 1 is one of my favorite games of all time. The necros would actually sneak up behind you quietly. Also I liked having fun with cute minigame just to be reminded about the horrific environment once you stepped out of the room. As for dead space 2, it was awesome. I loved how they made it baddass with the transforming helmets and the space flight. (advanced suit has the coolest helmet in the history of ever) But they still kept it pretty damn scary. I also really enjoyed the competitive multiplayer. It was an awesome feeling to be stomping down the hallways with your friends as a badass security team and then gunning down monsters from all directions once you got to an open room, forming a shield around the guy on a console, and escorting someone to victory as you halt executions and call out targets. Necro gamplay was awesome too, waiting for the human to round the corner before you leap out and start an execution with your friends cutting them down. It's so sad no one plays it anymore. DS3 was good. The co op was very well done, and the customizable weapons was an amazing upgrade, along with the combat roll. I was disappointed by the lack of a competitive multiplayer mode, a refined version of DS2's with more necros and customizable weapons would be amazing. They could even use it to tell the story of the sovereign colonies on tau volantis as shit was hitting the fan 300 years before isaac gets there. Also, NO ADVANCED SUIT?!?!? T.T
So, what's funny is the fact that I actually like the first couple of chapters. The ones leading up to crash landing on Hoth and then, like, 1 or 2 chapters after that, because it tries to maintain the atmosphere. I loved the bit when you first crash land on Hoth and you're at risk of freezing to death, but Necromorphs keep popping up out of the snow to moider you. Its tense because you instinctively going slow because A) you don't know where or when they're going to pop up, and B) because you don't want to be jump scared. But you have to keep moving because you'll freeze otherwise. It was tense as hell. Then it just got over-the-top dumb.
"broadening the demographic" usually means "making that fun thing you liked fun for someone else but not you, you have less money".
i think he hit the nail on the head in the video in saying that it's an adventure in making the product as unoffensive to as many palettes as possible. this just generally has the result of making a more "tolerable" experience for a wider audience while reducing how many people outright dislike it, but also how many people can outright enjoy it.
***** It's _just_ like sex in a canoe!
Fucking close to water!
You seemed to forget about the fact that EA sold the ending of the game in a DLC.
Tell me if there's anything more pathetic than that.
Nope, that is all i needed to hear, fuck ea.
Whats funny is that EA is the #1 publisher for PS and Xbox in 2014. They've been trustworthy but Ubisoft.... is another story.
GCN
no fuck EA, ubisoft made crappy games and good games, ruined them with dlc bugs,whatever,
EA on the other hand has been doing this shit for ever and made bullshit loads of money. you think ubisoft games are buggy, well i hate fifa as much as the next guy, but this is their second most important franchise, and its the most bugged out game ever. Battelfield wants you to pay 50$ extra for a full price game. mass effect is origen excluseive, witch means i won't get to play it. inquesition was ok but nothing special. shit, the sims 4 and city are just the worst insults to fans of the sims.
why has EA been trustworthy, becuse they were so obviusly shit ?
Eric Cartman Well they are trustworthy because you can always trust them to be shit.
*"Tell me if there's anything more pathetic than that."*
People not only buying it, but defending EA's god given right to do so!
If you removed the QTEs, DS2 was the best, IMHO. In terms of atmosphere, DS1 nailed it. Playing DS3 now and it is a generic action game that likes to take the control away from you and have you just watch.
Dead Space or Dark Souls?
"the sound of an entire orchestra pit being simultaneously tazed"
aaaaand, I'm laughing harder than I should have
I liked Dead Space 3, I thought it was cute when it was trying to be taken seriously.
When I saw the micro-transaction aspect of the game I lost hope in all EA games, they just milk the fuck out of their consumers like the evil leeches they are. Hell, the real conclusion to DS3 was a paid DLC for fucks sake.
Comrade Carlos Someone should nuke their site with a virus and then offer to fix it with a paid DLC of the virus. That would be funny but, the stupid fucks probably wouldn't even get the irony.
Dead space 1= resident evil + atmosphere in space
Dead space 2= uncharted + action in space
Dead space 3= offensive sitcom + horror spoof movie in space
Dead Space 2 is just more action in a horror setting, it's less like uncharted and much more like Resident Evil 5/6 (except actually good)
Micro transactions i never really minded that much, people that are lazy or stupid can make it easier on themselves or buy skins and fancy hats but ONLY IF ITS FUCKING FREE TO PLAY!!!
If you make a game, pay 60$ on a half assed piece of crap someone scrubbed off the toilet and put it in a DVD case, then you don't ask the person to cough up 10$ bucks to unlock god mode
Back in the day there use to be something called "Cheat Codes", its like they make the games a pain in the ass on purpose, so people buy weapons just to get the bloody nightmare over with sooner
If I'm suffering from crocodile disease you don't walk up to me with a gun and say "Hey buddy, 50$ to end it sooner"
Thine hate tis most gratified. Thank you.
true but they could of made the purchasable stuff unlock-able ingame but yaXD
What's funniest is that you can use a cheating device or a trainer to get the resources in Dead Space 3 without spending any money at all.
Sorry for old post, but @RobertGameFreak that kind of apathy is what will make this "industry" expand. There will always be idiots, you can't cull them all. But not beating the shit out of the fucker that sells diarrhea to the idiots, and walking away, thinking "This isn't my problem, i'm not affected" is really the fucking problem... Beat the shit out of that fucker and get done with it, because sooner or later IT WILL BE your problem. And guess what, you already are affected in a manner.
No good salesman is gonna offer you a gun if you're dying. They're gonna give you the gun and raid your pockets after you put yourself of your own misery. Coming from the futuristic year 2025, that practice mostly worked, because the past 12 months were an excersize in watching live service games pulling a Kurt Cobain
Been through 5 play-throughs of Dead Space 3, one Co-Op and I still go back to play it. Despite having iffy story elements and not being a full on horror game, it's at least a lot of fun to take down Necromorphs with whatever crazy weapon you've decided to duct tape together.
There are moments in co-op that can be scary, like the Carver missions where at times, Carver is actually separated from the Co-Op partner and brought into his own inner world full of scary demon children and a dead wife whose all too happy for you to "Make Us Whole." Course, the partner has to defend his real body as he's doing a little booty shaking dance of crazy in the corner (or rather, the NPC version of the co-op partner) which is brilliantly done.
The "Horror" aspect is mostly brought in during the co-op missions, for the other player, while the other just defends the former from endless waves of enemies.
What I'd think would be a good idea for a co-op horror game would be the idea of having the characters getting separated being something that could happen either at fixed points and/or randomly, with some encounter with a monster causing a cave in, or the floor giving way under the leading player, or needing to go down separate roads in order to pull something off simultaniously and having to support each other throughout. The idea behind it being that, despite the fun you're having, it can all be cut off in an instant, leaving you and your partner both stranded, alone, unable to help each other, and very much in danger of getting fisted on their own, leaving both of you scrambling to find each other again before the super zombie death muncher finds either of you.
That's a teriffic idea!
More of this needs to happen. This will make co-op scary. It's the reason why I'm still feeling tensed in Dead Space 2 despite meeting characters who aren't trying to kill me face to face quite a number of times. We just keep getting split up!
Punishthefalse Although I really did like Dead Space 1,2,3, I cannot describe how hard I sighed in Dead Space 3 when the fucking ladder broke.
The end where he has the animation of the vampire mask, the machine gun, and the kilt is the BEST way to show how that game makes me feel. No joking.
The transformation from survival horror to action game actually makes a lot of sense. In the first game, Isaac was a useless, terrified, scrawny, relatively young engineer with literally no combat experience. As the series progressed he got more and more used to seeing necromorphs and fighting Unitologists, not to mention slowly becoming gradually more insane. He became stronger, faster, more experienced with weapons, more willing to kill, and a lot stronger-willed. He made the transformation from damsel in distress to serious badass action hero, and the game's followed his character progression. I enjoy all of the DS games, 3 included, because the gameplay perfectly matches the character progression.
Or you could just Change the character like with dead space mobile
I had fun with the game, but more with this video. lol ''Tension, what's that? The thing that comes before elevension?''
I would like to mention that after I stopped treating it like a horror game, it became a lot more fun. It wasn't like old Dead Space, but if I kept thinking that way, it was no fun at all.
"tension? what's that? the thing that comes before elevension?" :D:D that's my favourite line.
maybe not velociraptors and rabbits but what about velocirabbits
The opening music on these videos is badass.
You CAN have intense survival horror game and coop (up to 4 people). Proof? Resident Evil Outbreak for the PS2.
Well yeah, but that was the exception that proved the rule.
Trifon Trifonov Hmmmm yup... you have a point there :)
I'm curious as hell why those shitheads at Capcom didn't port those games to the PC or new consoles yet?
There are legions of people who would still play those games.
MocnyBrowarek There's a PS2 emulator called PCSX2 if you're that desperate to play it on another platform (PC, obviously)
MocnyBrowarek Perhaps because they're shitheads? Answered your own question there.
The only reason why co-op horror games don't usually work is because no-one knows how to be scary(horror is a lost art) and devs only want to appeal to people who have attention span of a gnat. Modern devs think the action part in "action survival horror" means give the players enough weapons and ammo to conquer several small nations.Throwing a second player in just kills the scariness further.
I really should be getting on with my homework... however I find it much more satisfying to sit here and listen to Yahtzee rant on about games that I both enjoy and/or will never actually play.
One game I thought had a good balance of action co-op and crap your pants scares was star wars republic comando. The co op was actually single player with AI THAT ACTUALLY WORKED!!! and the crap your pants scares came from the trandoshan levels where you and your squad mates were forced to separate. It was a brilliant blend because even though you are in a group of 4 badasses you where still saying oh crap when trandoshans came. the ammo was common but scarce enough to leave you sweating.
Imagine thinking a survival horror game needed crafting
I may violently disagree with Yahtzee on the first two games, but I wholeheartedly agree on this one.
"Tension? What's that? The thing that comes before Elevension?"
LOL!
"Tension? What's that? Is that what comes before elevension?" ROFLMAO
I was waiting through all the credits for. Him do go "OH YEAH DEAD SPACE"
I really liked the first two games though. Neither of them were scary but that doesn't mean that they weren't fun. Both of them have some really fun combat with creative weapons and some great set pieces. Not Scary but really good.
Dead Space 3 however is just bad.
thank you! finally someone in the comment that understands. the first two were fun but not scary and not nearly as intelligent as it thinks it is
Idiot
So someone named George Bush is cqlling me an idiot for figuring out the twists in a plot line early....... ya let's go with that
U rlly got ur head up ur ass
Good god mate, your micro transaction rant was damn prophetic.
3:36 dangit Yahtzee. Shoulda been more indignant.
I love your totally kind it really adds some substance
Ah, yahtzee, i always know where to go if i need a good source of sarcasm, cynicism and unparalleled hatred thanks to you. You have my thanks.
The best opening line of any review he’s ever done. Change my mind.
Forgetting the fact that the only true horror element of any of the three games was almost dying, I had no quarrels with the game. I enjoyed the repetitive gameplay especially considering that I crafted every single gun ever invented under the sun and slightly modified it ever know and then. Repetitive? Yes. Boring? Not quite... I did want a continuation for dead space 2 story and I wasn't disappointed especially since I didn't expect much. Bad game? No. Recommend? Maybe, but only so that I can co-op. Good game? Eh, sure...
1:40 to 2:32 has got to be one of the funniest parts of ZP I have ever heard.
Dead space 3 is like that Thing game from back in 2002, except they got rid of the most interesting mechanic. (The fact that some of you redshirt teammates could be Things)
to be fair, they borrowed from John Carpenter's The Thing ever since the beginning; the game's story more closely follows H.P Lovecraft's "at the mountains of madness" in the 2ed and 3rd act. You should read it, it's pretty good.
I watched Dead Space: Downfall a while back, and after seeing the movie, I realized the first game actually continues it. You are on board that little ship investigating at the end of the movie.
I always thought Danick was an alternate version of Elton John.
This one time, I was playing Resident Evil 3, and Nemesis popped in the room, and I saw the curvature of the Earth.
True story.
Yeah, I don't think it's exactly fair that anyone living in Australia gets to be the defnitive judge of horror. It just raises the bar too high. They're already living in Earth's little death-world microcosm.
Seriously though, I'm perhaps the only person not scared by the parts of Silent Hill 2 that I should have been scared by. I need some tension and jump scares. Constant overbearing pressure from a nebulously existing enitity is fine, but after a while it's like get on with it. At some point I actually have to feel like my person is in danger. There's also the fear that the person whose headspace you're subletting won't actually resonate with you. I mean sure you analyze them, "The nurses are the manifestation of his psychosexual manifestations!" However, looking at horror clinically is not scary. Horror touches a primal nerve. Fire. Darkness. Failure. A fucking guy with a bag on his head taking shotgun blasts to the face before lopping your bean off with a chainsaw. You know, primal elemental stuff.
There are some genuinely scary parts in Dead Space 3. Walking across snow for instance.
Is there a gamer alive that doesn't feel betrayed and wants to see EA die in agony?
I don’t even consider myself a gamer despite running a minecraft server (is that embarrassing to admit?) and even I want EA to choke on their own sphincters for how much they charge for Sims 4, a game that’s had half its content gouged out so it can be sold separately
Dead space kind of went the way of resident evil.
Scary at first but then went action. Difference is that Dead Space doesn't have revelations that breath some life into the survival horror.
but that can be said about any horror story - scary at first but when it goes on for too long, ya just get used to it, so they just focused on making the game more etnertaining and actiony,.instead of trying to do horror ( when they now it wont be as affective as the first time) ; + they left it with closure , not many games do that
Hriska Marinov Dead space didn't go on for that long though. The 3rd game just tossed anything scary about the window. At least 2 still had an atmosphere. But this one is like the resident evil 6 of dead space.
Difference is I like 6 because it was campy like 4 but without the atmosphere.
DS3 does have some scary and tense moments, the open snow fields where the necromorphs hide under the snow, when they don't move they can take you by surprise, then theres the artifact storage optional mission, that make you be chased by 4 regenerators, and two words :ration seals, you don't need to use your money on the resource packs
At least the DLC was a bit better. Though I never got to it cause the game was so broken I gave up trying to play.
Captain Rave Slendy Eh, it was a bit too sequel-baity for my tastes
DefinitelyNotYakra Yeah, but at least it was a little more creepy.
you can do co-op horror. do a game where one person is walking around, trying to survive but can't see the monster, the other player flies around but can't see player one but can see the monsters. them trying not to die, and probably dieing a lot.
God damnit Yahtzee I was planning on going to play video games an hour and a half ago, why do you have so many good videos that keep appearing in the bloody suggested section!
i feel ya man
I especially love those quips he made about Exxon and Bank of America. That was hilarious.
Dead space 3 wasnt scary but i still liked it it was still fun i think
If people wanted this kind of "Fun" they would have spend less money buying Resident Evil 6 or Gears of War
Its kind of Ironic when people keep bitching around that EA is the worst company ever, then every time they release a new game they come crawling back and bending over for another ass rape
RobertAniFreak Well for critics, it's kinda their jobs. But for the average schmoe, you're right. EA isn't really horrendous so much as they are mediocre. The only thing they've done that outright pisses me off is butchering C&C.
Well I Sorta Liked Dead Space 3 But The Only Game I Truly Do Like Is PvZ Garden Warfare, The Only Reason I Do Like It Is Because It Has More In Common With The Original PvZ Instead Of The Lesser Liked PvZ 2
RobertAniFreak Yeah, I think the issue with EA is that everything released under their label feels crammed full of market research insights. Survey says people think games with multiple settings feel more epic? Stick that shit in there. Crafting system? Yeah, why not? People like love stories. Gotta have one and damn the rest of the plot. And be sure to give the protagonist a self-sacrificial attitude. People idolize that shit these days.
They seem to pour a ton of resources into mechanics and presentation devices and story elements that people have loved forever, but they rush the part where they assemble those things into something that means something interesting. For example, why on Earth did this game need a love triangle? How does that possibly advance or strengthen the game's message?
The first game (and even the second) hinted at the trilogy's message being something interesting about the infectiousness of religious zealotry. That message played water boy to this series' slurpy, explosive, hard-knock protagonist quarterback.
I came back here after watching the recent review of the remake of the original. I've never heard the longer version of the ZP outro until now. I think the newer quick cut makes the gags funnier but the guitar solo is really cool.
I'm probably one of the few that actually kind of enjoyed this game. Definitely not better than the other ones but the co op was pretty interesting.
I partially agree with you, DS1 brought some cool new concepts, but once EA saw any promise and fully sank in their fangs, there was nothing left for the series except a shriveled up corpse. Also DS2 had a few promising moments, but overall was too EA'd up to fully enjoy, not really a fan of shooting my way through something I once called horror.
I guess Isaac was tired of shitting his pants every time he saw a necromorph in Dead Space 1 and 2 so he decided to grow bigger balls in Dead Space 3. That's probably why this game didn't end up being scary as the last two.
*Necromorph. Xenomorphs are from the Alien franchise.
Daniel Temple Oh, fail. Thanks for correcting me m8.
There's no justification for the protagonist not being scared of the monsters in a horror game. Give Isaac PTSD, or more hallucinations, or something. Or at least make it so he's not constantly in contact with friends and allies, or you're actually in danger of running out of ammo or health kits. But none of that is feasible when you have to weave a Co-op partner into the story, I suppose.
then replace the protagonist
I just borrowed it from a friend from work...I was telling myself the exact same freaking thing last night.
I was having a blast with my damned electrified Electric Ball bazooka that shoots electrified spinning blades of death as a secondary fire. I think it's the first time I was laughing manically in a game while using a weapon.
Wanna see real horror keep on reading the comments.
Gandalf The White some of em are actually pretty good
Absentmindedly eating paper. The boy aimlessly walks down the hallway. His blank expression grim and set.
His eyes glaring in opposite directions
Dead Space 2 had a better ending,soundtrack,AND IT REALLY WAS A SURVIVAL HORROR !!!
the coop campaign is genuinely fun. seeing my friend go mad is pretty fun
Dead Space 3 was not only a disappointment, but a very easy game... so, I guess it's just a disappointment.
Kinda reminds me of RE4.... RE5.... There's a pattern here... Oh right, they want to appeal to the biggest market aka "casual gamers". Hell, even the latest Amnesia dumbed down the horror.
Javelin minigun with underslung force shotgun makes it so easy. At least in Dead Space 2 I still run out of ammo every once in a while and have to use a less ideal gun.
+LukaBlight69 I actually very much enjoyed RE4 once I started setting myself challenges like using only a single pistol for the whole game, though I guess it's debatable whether gamers setting themselves challenges not included in the game means that it's still inherently bad or not.
My little brother got this game for his birthday, and Yahtzee is right when he said that one line of dialogue sounded like something out of a Monty Python film.
Who else is here right after watching Amnesia MfP review?
The first text log you get explains how after they escaped Titan Station they bought ellie a new mechanical eye, only they couldn't afford a blue one so now she has 1 green eye and 1 blue eye
Did everyone just forget about Co-op mode in DS3? If you've ever actually tried it, it's pretty incredible. The character development between the two characters is fun and new, the shooter gameplay, though not the scariest, is still fun and becomes incredible not because of the creatures, though they are disturbing, but because the new missions. You get the basic gameplay and the amazing psycological horror, where SPOILER you get to see the two characters deal with one slowly losing his mind, and having to deal with scenes like fighting an endless amount of shadow demons and being able to witness things the other character can't, questioning reality and making the situation super tense. Having to protect others from steadily increasing waves of enemies while having to finish hard-to-make-out shape puzzles breeds a whole new kind of tension, never knowing when your unprotected self will get your spine ripped out by a speedy necromorph who slipped by....
yeah yeah I know. I've watched his Halo reviews enough. I'm just saying others shouldn't jump on the wagon that makes co-op unable to be scary.
I think the first game did the best, it did all it wanted, with the creepy visions, singing in your ears, the group sacrifice room - which is the scariest place to be - and the unkillable one make a good game, also with low ammo and health all the time makes for a 'NOOOOOO AAAAGH' *glack swing swing chop chop chop* oh my... i need the toilet now
But..Co-op CANT be scary. Even if your companion is a AI.. yoou lose most of the tension. If there is ANYONE with you in any sense that you know of.. then well fuck might as well just be a boreing borefest.
Two reasons why that's false: One, tension can be created by one player being helpless while another has to save them. High stakes combined with total reliance on someone else is a great source. Second, psychological horror is better when one doesn't fully understand what's going on. When two characters are there, a barrier forms between what they perceive, which can increase tension as well.
While psychological horror relies on not being able to understand it, the main focus is providing tension by not actually showing the mosnter or by having the monster be symbolic. Dead Space 3 has the mosters in clear daylight that just look like malformed clay people with leprosy. Compare that to, say, Silent Hill, you have creatures with coherent shapes (humanoids, dogs, religious depictions, etc.) that have a form of symbolism, one example being Pyramid Head. Silent Hill also does a good job of not having jumpscares, but instead prolong the monster's reveal by having clear sound effects showing something is off, then refusing to show the monster, making you think of what it could be, getting more and more scared until it reveals itself and you have no other thoughts but "Run!"
the part when he puts the glass dome over mclovin's head xD
Fact: you can earn ration seals to be able to buy resource packs for components to build weapon parts and items. it is OPTIONAL to use real money to buy them. just wanted to correct the one part of this video. but besides that, love these videos you make! keep em coming!! :D
honestly the cat food part made me laugh the hardesti have in a long long time
I agree on one thing Yahtzee says in this video: there's an entire game's worth of character development for Carver in the game. Mostly, though, it's given in the 3 co-op only side missions.
Not to be rude, but there are optional missions that you can play solo. For example the armory level that pops up right after you fight the nechromorph spider for the second time, and the conning tower level when you escape the unkillable necromorph's for the first time in the space ship's cargo bay.
Yeah, there's a name for that.
I'm reminded of the time I found an Empty Spot on a shelf between Dark Void and Dead Space.
They should go the rout of alien isolation, and take the survival horror back to a point where it's actually scary, enemies are a serrious threat, ammunition, and maybe even weapons are scarce, and so is health. You should be alone, or partnered with someone you can't trust to keep you safe as far as you'd throw them. The monster should be at least partially hidden, or hard to see under. Most circumstances, cueing it's arrival with either a noise that is out of place, or a muted monster noise and a slam as something falls, creating tension before it ever apperes on screen,
I'm late to the party here but I will say I liked the game; specifically one mission in the game where I was playing as the Co-Op partner and I was seeing things that my friend wasn't. While not exactly subtle, it was effective in that moment where Isaac thinks his co-op friend is crazy because he's ranting about things that he can't see, my friend thought I was crazy because I was ranting about things he didn't see. It was a beautiful little moment that I believe played out exactly as the designers intended.
The funny part is at 3:10 is that the door is also my profile picture.
That was a journey.
The truly shocking thing about this game is that EA's strategy of selling microtransactions for a linear story-based game _did_ apparently work. I mean it must have, it's become the fucking industry standard by now. Even fucking Devil May Cry 5 did it! Makes you want to weep...
I didn't play Dead Space 2, but I did play 1 and I loved it, despite being scared shitless during that one part in the decontamination chamber. What Dead Space 3 is is no longer a horror game, but almost a third person shooter with a huge amount of weapon customization. When I play it, it''s not for the terror or walking around a corner to find 3 necromorphs right after I ran out of ammo, but more to have fun blowing them to little giblets.
If they ever plan to make another sequel, they could try to make it a little scary again in some ways.
First, I think it would be best if they'd dropped Isaac as the main character (though they could still have him arround as a supporting one). Playing a character who survived three major calamities really kills the feeling of vulnerability. Personally, I think it would have played out better if Isaac had died at the end of DS 2.
Secondly; they should take a good look at how DS Extraction and mobile handled the hallucination aspect. Fleshing those out could create some real tension. In fact, at the end of the first chapter in Extraction after fighting off insane attackers, it turns out you were mad all allong and spent the whole time slaughtering innocents. The mobile game on the other really fucks with your perception of reality, making you question if certain events are even real.
alright... ive been watching these reviews all day time for bed.
Now that he's reviewd this and Colonial Marines, two sci fi action horror games that aren't scary or good, I think next week is the perfect time for a retro review. One of an influential sci fi action horror game that's actually scary and good. One that Dead Space was certainly influenced by. One that was recently re released.
System Shock 2 review please
while cover shooting was part of crysis 2's gameplay, I don't remember using it much heavily on even the hardest settings. and it wasn't you constantly running to chest high walls and and taking pot shots. you had to keep moving out into the open for proper firefights and it heavily relied on flanking and ambush tactics. and even in mass effect, though the primary gameplay mechanic was cover, It did encourage you to use close combat tactics.
I can't speak for dead space though.
That poor newly-multi'd necromorph at the end :P
Danik looks like a cross between Alfred Molina's Doctor Octopus and the villain from the first Despicable Me.
That's a valid point. The regenerating enemy was the scariest in the game. And it's true that supplies could be a little more scarce. It wasn't so bad in the first two, but I've been told that DS3 loads the supplies in excess. I accept your argument.
I don't get why people can't like DS3 because it has the natural progression of any person who goes through a horror scenario.
Horror works when the protag doesn't know what's happening, is ill-prepared and are up against insurmountable odds.
If that protag survives and chooses to go back into the fray, then horror doesn't work as effectively.
People don't give shit to ds 3 because it lacks horror moments. Ds 3 is simply a bad game overall, repetitive lackluster gameplay, terrible story writing and so on.
freier_maurer1338 Well, I expected it.
There is a reason RE1 and RE2 had different protags. If you let the horror survivor survive, they will eventually turn into a badass.
Game is not bad. I won't say it's great though.
freier_maurer1338 I do understand where you are coming from. I played DS1 and DS3 back to back and DS1 is still freaking scary.
thing is Isaac is one of they few people that could never be ill prepared. He's already been through this twice, what's a third time?
That's no excuse. This isn't an RPG, fans don't give a shit about character development. They just want it to be scary! Moreover plenty of excellent horror games have characters willingly returning to a bad situation and having it be just as scary(Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Corpse Party, Clock Tower, ect.).
Plus I somehow doubt one can be overly prepared for creatures that dynamically change with every situation.
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In the first game, Isaac is a civilian engineer with basic combat training who navigates a ghost ship of horrors through a combination of jury-rigged weapons, technical knowhow, incompetant villain cliches, and frankly insane amounts of dumb luck that was proof the fates had decided Isaac deserved to suffer but not necessarily die.
EVERY other game is the same formula except we get more of humanity's backstory, the marker's influence is introduced, and Isaac develops as a character.
Yes, most developers usually want to make games the way they usually have, 1 price to buy, maybe some addons later that are not required; or a f2p system where you could purchase upgrades at your choice.
EA's hire ups were the one that tried the hybrid bastardization between free to play and AAA price steam which effectively killed Dead Space. And I believe its from one of the voiceboxes the company uses to say "now you will really enjoy this game, just need some more money."
I can always come here and find a review I agree with.
When I think of dead space 2 I have the vivid memory of entering the ishimura again and shitting myself when I entered the dark, long corridor of death a couple of rooms in.
I actually quite enjoyed Dead Space 3, though that’s because I never played Dead Space to be scared and because I wasn’t at point in time where I was smart enough to understand why microtransactions in a pay-upfront game like this was so hilariously greedy. Had I actually stopped to think about it, I’m sure I wouldn’t have enjoyed it as much, but I do think it’s very telling that since the Awakened DLC came out, I haven’t touched the game at all.
I do however think the Build-A-Bear weapons were a missed opportunity. So many things to try out and in the end, the best two guns for me were the standard Plasma Cutter and a hybrid rifle-shotgun. Not even a rifle stand-in or a shotgun stand-in, the way the Plasma Cutter is pretending to NOT be a generic handgun, these weapons are the “new” weapons in this game and rather than being mining tools that operate in a similar way to other weapons in games but at least have a reason to be mining tools instead of military weapons, they’re just actual, bullet-firing weapons. What a load of bollocks...
Only ten thousand of the Marker EA edition or $120 edition were sold. You had to buy from EA's website but the purchasing system was almost always down back then.
"You bought your way to victory! Have you ever considered running for President?" And this was more than THREE YEARS before the horror began!
Oh, come on. That's every presidential election ever. You know why everyone with a serious chance of becoming president is obscenely wealthy? Because you *need* that kind of disposable income to pay for all the ads and to travel all over the country kissing babies in front of cameras so people know who you are.
And you know what? Despite the media hysteria, the country's doing pretty good after four years of Trump. This year has been pretty bad, sure, but blaming covid on Trump is a little past insane.
@@brigidtheirish Fuck off.
first off there are no less than 7 singleplayer optionial missions - all but one are handed to you(the player) on a platter.
second, the purchaseable resources? No need to use real money on them - use the scavenger bot to collect Ration seals(a resource that can't be gotten any other way) to "Purchase" the resource packs. 30 ration seals for one pack, 60 for the other.
third, try playing the game on hardcore and see what happens to your ammo supply.
I've watched so many of these videos my internal monologue sounds like Yahtzee.