I like that you never truly kill a necromorph. Unless completely vaporized they're still an active threat. What Isaac is doing is temporarily incapacitating the necromorphs by cutting off their arms and legs. After you leave they likely just grow new appendages with their remaining biomass and scuttle away or something comes by and absorbs it into their own biomass. Explaining why "bodies" are gone when revisiting areas.
@@YourFavoriteSon1 so how do you feel about the dead space remake now that calisto protocol is out? I am super stoked to play dead space again. I never got to play 2 or 3. I was out of gaming at that time. Im still playing colisto now. Dead space it is not. Lets hope this remake is as good as the first one.
Hey son, It's me Dad at about 1:34:53 when you were talking about the reticle there is actually a setting under controls that allows you to change back to classic aim. Don't know if anyone else brought it to your attention and as I understand it's a small nitpick, but its always been there just like that ketchup bottle you could never find in the fridge. Great retrospective keep it up. much love. -Dad
You can change the reticle in Dead Space 2 to be like the first game's dynamic reticle in the settings if I recall correctly, same with the third game.
Dude, please don’t stop making these long format retrospectives. Your taste in games is superb and I appreciate the time it must take you to make these. Cheers buddy!
Superb indeed, but subjectively our son could do with a bit of refining when it comes to his taste of videogame combat, I mean in the Witcher 2 and 3 he seems to roll in, attack, then instantly roll away and repeat. I dunno I might just be imagining it but if it is true he probably thinks it's just something that works relatively well but when it comes to effectiveness and more importantly style, I dunno I think other players can make Gerald look way cooler while not necessarily being better at the game.
I do have to disagree that DS2 isn't a great horror game I get your points and why you feel that way but I personally think it's a terrific horror game.
It's not that scary to horror fans probably cause almost nothing scares us, the only game I've ever played that's actually scary is VR games like dread halls, and amnesia. DS2 would be scary to any normal person
I love that for the second game they created a vision of the drag tentacle from the first game. Honestly, the first game reached for the stars and even a few AAA games tried to replicate some of the sequences. You can't pay for those ideas. Even my all time favorite, LOU, took things directly from Dead Space.
I'm a massive fan of the series, even the third one. I highly recommend it to anyone who is even slightly interested in a little pulse pounding with a decent story and a fun, satisfying gamplay loop and an ageless art style.And for the brave? Play the games without music. You thought it was scary before? Now you NEVER know when combat ends without the musical cues, and on higher difficulties, you'd be surprised at how quiet those fucking things can be.
There's a way to kill Dividers without having them blow into a bunch of little guys. A couple other necros have similar "dismemberment advantage or disadvantage" mechanic.
Dang, too bad this came out before Callisto Protocol. I'd be very interested to hear how the interviews at the end would have talked about the whole Callisto vs Remake thing now that Callisto is out
just completed DS2 again in anticipation of the DS1 remake (whenever i can get a PC that will run it without also cooking my dinner). i wonder if it'll make sense if the ds1 remake is secretly a ds 3.5 (isaac is going even more nutters, recalling things that didnt happen and that the crew of the kellion were different, etc etc)
I'll never forget my first time through Dead Space. The PS3 was in the unfinished half of a basement and people kept turning the lights off on me because for some reason the unfinished half was wired to the same switch as the stairs leading to the finished half.
I initially had the same reaction to the Saw, but it's ammo efficiency is second-to-none, so I fell in love with it during the later half of the game... In the Remake that is (and in DS2).
I personally liked the turret sections. it was the one part of the game where you didn't have to worry about the ammo counter and the threat was evident. it was one of the few moments when we knew what we were dealing with
1:35:00 if i remember well you can enable the classic aiming in options. Great review otherwise. I only can nitpicking insignifical things :) True im an imposible player.
Love the Dead Space series (even 3, the weakest) and also the books & comics (more lore is always good, imho). The amount of lore that was built over this franchise is impressive. So few companies do this and it looks like they are also trying to do it with the Callisto Protocol, which is also being developed by many of the same people who created Dead Space. Am so looking forward to the "Callisto Protocol" as well as the Dead Space Remake when they get released. Will have to trade in a bunch of games to be able to afford them.
What I'm loving more than ever is that more people are talking about dead space lately thanks to the remake and Callisto protocol. On a side note...am I the only one that found the secret rooms in dead space games, which are opened with nodes, to be mostly a waste of time. Most the time, I found the loot within to be lacking
Like in Deus Ex, it's a hit or miss system; Essentially a risk factor to at least weigh if it's worth chancing given your current resources, instead of just a 100% super-bonus room.
Dead Space 3 should of used an action heavy opener to subvert into a blindside horror where you have to manage against the cold and the necromorphs while your coop partner has a different perspective to certain events than you.
31:17 I like it because ut just shows how the ship is getting worse, more infested, more fucked up The ishumura pretty much isn't salvageable, it makes you feel like "yeah okay no we need to get out of here we're fucked if we stay" If it was just always more new areas then yeah maybe it could work still but it's an odd feeling of being familiar with an area while re-exploring it but also seeing it's become more and more overtaken by the necromorphs.
I guess we’ll see if the remake revitalises the series. I’m a bit bummed out about that since I’m a big advocate of games preservation and remaking games is not the same thing. Capcom seem to think it is, but then again the original Gears of War is still on Gamespass alongside the Ultimate Edition. We shall see.
I admire your effort putting a video this long but when I saw "retrospective" on the title I expected some general explanation in how the combat works, the lore of the games and so on, not just narrate the games from beginning to end as some kind of narrative audio book lol
Never seen anyone so harsh on dead space 2, it's one of my favorite games ever made. Also dead space 3 is underrated as hell. The suits look badass and the story is pretty good. The worst thing about it is micro transactions and the focus on double player
Dead Space is one of my favourite video game series (all three of them and including the Remake). I really love all games especially the Third game as it's crafting elements really allowed for fun combinations and have more replayability, my honest opinion is that 100% completion is locked off due to co-op, but it's still a really enjoyable and fun game, just that it shows it's H.P. Lovecraft influence, my honest weak points on the remake were the narrative (the love triangle).
This was amazing video 😍 and your voice is great to listen to, I had to sub to your channel 😁. Ripper and Force Gun are my favorite guns in Dead Space. I can't wait to play the remake 🔥.
Nah, you lost me at saying Dead Space 2 was a bad Horror game. Makes me cringe how small people's focus is on what can be considered Horror. Bad scary game? YES, totally. Bad Horror game? Nah dawg, not in the slightest. Dead Space 2 is a good game and Horror is WAAAAAY broader then it just having to be scary.
Best weapon Plasma Cutter very close second Ripper. I hope they change up the remake a lot. I’ve played this series on the hardest modes, including Extraction, a dozen times each minimum. Lastly the turret portion is probably the hardest part on the hardest difficulty. I died there more than anywhere. It’s just wonky & a bit cheap. Can’t understand how you don’t like the ripper. Once upgraded it’s great because it keeps the enemies off you. Enemies can walk through any weapon but the ripper does stop them. Go from leg to leg then an arm & you’re golden.
Loved this video. Love the series mostly. The first game to me is a classic, I’m excited for the remake. The second one is my favorite. It’s a departure from the horror roots a bit sure, but thematically it still FEELS good. Isaac Clarke has been hardened by the events of the first game, and while not immune to what’s going on around him, he has a good head on his shoulders. I loved his voice actor. The third game… the third game hurts my feelings to this day. I hate what they did to the franchise with this one.
I hate hearing how for the third game EA wanted to go for a more traditional coop mode and remove the horror element. Why not keep the horror and just focus on scaring one player? What you would achieve was a sequence where one player gets a well crafted scare while the other panics to help. I swear the people making decisions either forget or have never played an immersive game.
Personally... Dead Space doesn't need to be touched. It's a gem that to this day is beautiful. It seems like they are trying to make something that is already a gem, and make it better... even though it doesn't need to be better. It's great already! Can we remaster The Suffering? The first Silent Hill? Can we pick games from the past that need to be remastered? Dead Space doesn't need to be remade. If anything, remake it for VR. I would pay to play as Isaac in the Ishimura, seeing through his helmet. THAT, would be absolutely terrifying. Remake the game, and make it playable in VR, that's a nw experience. But what they're doing... not too much of a fan. It's going to look gorgeous but... the original already looks gorgeous. It doesn't need to look gorgeous. The way it looks adds to the horror.
I disagree that DS2 isn't a great horror game, simply due to the fact that your assumption of the idea behind horror having to be scary or inherently anxiety inducing is flawed to begin with. There are numerous facets to what defines horror, DS2 is indeed more action-heavy in how it handles enemy encounters, however 2 improves on the more visceral aspect of horror...disturbing the viewer. Overall as someone who lives and breathes horror, I'd say for me personally, DS2 is definitely a better horror game than the first, however it is a different facet of horror than the first. Additionally I'm honestly more exhausted by everything that marks itself as horror trying to specifically "scare" the audience or just gross them out. There's a lot of the lesser explored points of horror that could and should be explored more.
@@nicholasgeere5125 Not so much that, it's just that the way a lot of horror handles it is cheap. There can be good grossout horror but if that's the only trick you have then it's boring. I'd always considered Dead Space 2 to be scarier than 1 because it's always changing the pages, so even when it gets into harder action areas they're still equally as tense and terrifying, 3 even has some genuinely great moments like this as well.
DS 2 felt more like crisis management than it did horror, which makes sense in the game world but I don't think that makes it a better horror game than the first. It doesn't make it a bad game, but it does make it less of a horror and more of a "ok we need to deal with this also I'm still messed up from being so horrified the first time around" genre
I think every commet before this one explains it well but indeed DS2 is not a truly, pure horror game. And that's not bad either, maybe if you check this video again the son explains it very well, DS1 is about fightining the unknow, until that point the necromorph outbreak was really new. When DS2 takes places people already know about the virus. DS2 is a really good game because it represents the normal struggle against an outbreak, now you know what it is and it's time to fight back.
Yeah. It's less about the tropes and more about that DS2 shifts up the formula while remaining core gameplay. Moving forward you're always graced with something new and unexpected, while 1 just becomes formulaic after the first playthrough, something that DS1R remedies entirely. 2 Also shows the horrors of how an outbreak spreading through a colony can impact everyone, including younglings. I do think the misunderstanding is that I consider 1 to be bad, but it's less that and more that 2 is a masterclass in story, pacing, and gameplay while retaining a lot of the horror elements and dread without resorting to the same trick every time. I think Suzi SphereHunter's video on 2 specifically sums it up nicely.
2 random notes you got completely wrong: 1. The brutes in both 1 and 2 function exactly the same. You mention shooting the back in the first game, and how they have weak spots on their shoulders in the second. Their weak spots in both games are their shoulders. Not sure how you messed that one up. 2. The static aiming reticle in the second game is a setting you can change. It takes all of 2 seconds of googling to figure this out.
I always thought of Dead Space --> Dead Space 2 as Alien --> Aliens. Purposeful chance of pace, doing something a bit different while keeping a recognisable premise. Rather than simply repeating
Nice one man, and the ripper surprisingly found good, it kept them at bay, while cutting them up, where others could still get to me. Acting as a shield and destroying the necro…but love it gj
Dead Space 3 got to much hate. It's a fun experience and I like the pacing and the characters, especially Carver. It's nothing like the abomination that is RE6
Great work as usual son. I already watched the previous 3, but I think that your work warrants another view. Now I am wondering what other series will you work on?
Nah Best gun in the game hands down is the force gun Especially when fully upgraded you can literally take out swarms of enemies like there's nothing Body parts everywhere
I'd say Dead Space 1 -> 2 is similar to Alien -> Aliens. Horror sequels can suffer from players already being exposed to the monster and setting, by the end of the first game it's all just a bit to familiar for a full sequel to carry the horror easily. So pivoting to something more action-oriented whilst keeping the horror elements is an understandable thing to do, arguably the correct thing could do even. 3 by contrast is spinning in place chasing the current trends, though I have to respect the balls of the DLC ending to actually end a Lovecraftian Horror accordingly. You may be able to delay when Cthulhu wakes up, but it's only ever delaying the inevitability that Cthulhu will wake up. You were actually wrong with why they made the DLC: they knew they weren't getting a next game so that DLC is intended to be *the* ending.
You seem to have missed that the ammo in DS1 drops depending on your loadout. If you don't like constantly getting ammo for the Ripper, then get rid of the Ripper. Also, the "believer" that Mercer killed was an engineer whom you've been finding notes from throughout the game. I believe his name was Jacob. He went looking for his girlfriend, Elizabeth, the other dead person in the room. So you completely missed that parallel with Isaac, but hey, at least you made sure to talk about Z-ball. And finally, "it's not atmosphere, it's a feeling" is extremely pretentious. It's atmosphere. Everything you went on to describe makes up the atmosphere of the game. Just because it's a great atmosphere doesn't mean the word somehow fails to live up to it.
Played Dead Space 3 solo and hated the story, besides Buckle. And the love triangle was a joke. Best part of the DLC was killing Norton again. It was fun though if you turned your brain off. And went into co-op with a decked out arsenal.
I just finished the DS1 section and I noticed that you wasted a lot of ammo. You could have just cut an arm with a claw of and throw it back at the enemy to kill it
I think you may be right about it being an injoke; but rather than an actual product, I think part of that joke is that it is only being marketed that way. From the repeated use of the exact same woman in each ad and her always being the only physically identifiable object in each; I think she is Peng. Maybe Peng is a something specific to the creators but in a more general sense it seems to be a spoof on marketing using sex to sell and even putting more focus on this tactic than the product itself in the ad. In this, it seems they forego the product entirely and are just marketing this celebrity as if she were a product. It does come off as a comically biting sarcasm on celebrity fixation culture and targeted marketing if this was the case. This hypothesis may be well of its mark, but that's what seems to be telegraphed to me.
I like that you never truly kill a necromorph. Unless completely vaporized they're still an active threat. What Isaac is doing is temporarily incapacitating the necromorphs by cutting off their arms and legs. After you leave they likely just grow new appendages with their remaining biomass and scuttle away or something comes by and absorbs it into their own biomass. Explaining why "bodies" are gone when revisiting areas.
Nah man, it's just a way to save memory.
@@oh-not-the-bees7872 It's apart of the lore
Thanks for having me on and doing a good job of editing down my ramblings!
Glad you enjoyed Extraction. Fantastic game.
you can chage the reticle by going into controls and selecting classic aiming
@@Epic_Gamer1521 ederse
@@berkay6134 what does that mean?
Your consistency on continually putting out over hour long retrospectives is seriously mindblowing. Hope you don't burnout.
Thanks Dad
@@YourFavoriteSon1 for real though, lengthy deep dives are the best content, especially when they are gaming related.
You gonna blow him?
@@jarlwhiterun7478 What?
@@YourFavoriteSon1 so how do you feel about the dead space remake now that calisto protocol is out? I am super stoked to play dead space again. I never got to play 2 or 3. I was out of gaming at that time. Im still playing colisto now. Dead space it is not. Lets hope this remake is as good as the first one.
I was unreasonably excited to have something new to watch about something I like for 3 hours
Hey son,
It's me Dad at about 1:34:53 when you were talking about the reticle there is actually a setting under controls that allows you to change back to classic aim. Don't know if anyone else brought it to your attention and as I understand it's a small nitpick, but its always been there just like that ketchup bottle you could never find in the fridge. Great retrospective keep it up.
much love.
-Dad
This comment should be at the top and it’s a outrage that it isn’t.
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Your such a nice dad, my dad would have just shouted at Mr for playing video games and not out getting girls
Watch whole movie on Netflix: nah, I dont have energy and time.
Listen to 3h of analasys on game series: count me in ;)
You can change the reticle in Dead Space 2 to be like the first game's dynamic reticle in the settings if I recall correctly, same with the third game.
Yeah. There's quite a few things this guy gets wrong. The brutes work exactly the same in both games yet he says they are different in 1 and 2.
@@Dorraj don’t think the brute in the first game had the yellow pulps visible right away, or else it would’ve been killed in a flash.
Woah, went to go rewatch your Silent Hill video and caught this 59 seconds after it was uploaded, can't wait to watch!
Hope you enjoy!
The hunter segment was great, it's just encouraging dread as your ammo runs out and you can't see any escape. Loved it!
Deadspace- alien
Deadspace 2-Aliens
Deadspace 3- At the mountains of madness. Deadspace 3 wears it H.P Lovecraft influence and isn't afraid to show it
Dude, please don’t stop making these long format retrospectives. Your taste in games is superb and I appreciate the time it must take you to make these. Cheers buddy!
Agreed, I have no life so these long videos to listen to are awesome!
@@SeviathTheHumanDrago I have a life. Wife, baby, dog, job, but these long videos are fantastic for long workdays or cleaning up the house.
@@armouredjester1622 Having a life is expensive so I have hobbies that keep me home but that's about it lol.
Superb indeed, but subjectively our son could do with a bit of refining when it comes to his taste of videogame combat, I mean in the Witcher 2 and 3 he seems to roll in, attack, then instantly roll away and repeat.
I dunno I might just be imagining it but if it is true he probably thinks it's just something that works relatively well but when it comes to effectiveness and more importantly style, I dunno I think other players can make Gerald look way cooler while not necessarily being better at the game.
It's honestly impressive how consistently and regularly you are able to pump out videos of this length, without drops in quality. :)
that "your mom is scared of deadspace" ad actually made my dad ban me from playing it at like 16 lol
Based dad
I never thought someone with a relatively large audience would ever mention Akuji The Heartless. Great retrospective overall about Dead Space.
I do have to disagree that DS2 isn't a great horror game I get your points and why you feel that way but I personally think it's a terrific horror game.
It's not that scary to horror fans probably cause almost nothing scares us, the only game I've ever played that's actually scary is VR games like dread halls, and amnesia. DS2 would be scary to any normal person
I played Dead Space Extraction with my mom when it came out, she really loved it, might not be the best game but we had fun playing it together.
Well done, sonny boy! Would you consider a Kingdom Hearts series? Your approach to review and story recap is exactly what that series needs.
I love that for the second game they created a vision of the drag tentacle from the first game. Honestly, the first game reached for the stars and even a few AAA games tried to replicate some of the sequences. You can't pay for those ideas. Even my all time favorite, LOU, took things directly from Dead Space.
I'm a massive fan of the series, even the third one. I highly recommend it to anyone who is even slightly interested in a little pulse pounding with a decent story and a fun, satisfying gamplay loop and an ageless art style.And for the brave?
Play the games without music.
You thought it was scary before? Now you NEVER know when combat ends without the musical cues, and on higher difficulties, you'd be surprised at how quiet those fucking things can be.
Playing as carver in co-op has more of a horror element then with Isaac giving him hallucinations.
There's a way to kill Dividers without having them blow into a bunch of little guys. A couple other necros have similar "dismemberment advantage or disadvantage" mechanic.
1:34:41 The aiming can actually be changed in dead space 2 and 3 to be a full beam like in dead space 1 it’s in the settings
Dang, too bad this came out before Callisto Protocol. I'd be very interested to hear how the interviews at the end would have talked about the whole Callisto vs Remake thing now that Callisto is out
just completed DS2 again in anticipation of the DS1 remake (whenever i can get a PC that will run it without also cooking my dinner). i wonder if it'll make sense if the ds1 remake is secretly a ds 3.5 (isaac is going even more nutters, recalling things that didnt happen and that the crew of the kellion were different, etc etc)
Hahaha nice shirt! Kick, kick, punch......turn. dig the video. Lots of detail. Loved that
Whenever life gets hard, I try to remind myself that... you know. There's always Peng.
I love my Peng
Thank you I needed to hear that
I'll never forget my first time through Dead Space. The PS3 was in the unfinished half of a basement and people kept turning the lights off on me because for some reason the unfinished half was wired to the same switch as the stairs leading to the finished half.
I initially had the same reaction to the Saw, but it's ammo efficiency is second-to-none, so I fell in love with it during the later half of the game... In the Remake that is (and in DS2).
Dark souls 2?!
Played them all. Great trilogy! DS3 included 😎👍
I personally liked the turret sections. it was the one part of the game where you didn't have to worry about the ammo counter and the threat was evident. it was one of the few moments when we knew what we were dealing with
Remake is incredible
1:35:00 if i remember well you can enable the classic aiming in options.
Great review otherwise. I only can nitpicking insignifical things :) True im an imposible player.
Love the Dead Space series (even 3, the weakest) and also the books & comics (more lore is always good, imho). The amount of lore that was built over this franchise is impressive. So few companies do this and it looks like they are also trying to do it with the Callisto Protocol, which is also being developed by many of the same people who created Dead Space. Am so looking forward to the "Callisto Protocol" as well as the Dead Space Remake when they get released. Will have to trade in a bunch of games to be able to afford them.
What I'm loving more than ever is that more people are talking about dead space lately thanks to the remake and Callisto protocol. On a side note...am I the only one that found the secret rooms in dead space games, which are opened with nodes, to be mostly a waste of time. Most the time, I found the loot within to be lacking
Like in Deus Ex, it's a hit or miss system; Essentially a risk factor to at least weigh if it's worth chancing given your current resources, instead of just a 100% super-bonus room.
Dead Space 3 should of used an action heavy opener to subvert into a blindside horror where you have to manage against the cold and the necromorphs while your coop partner has a different perspective to certain events than you.
I always thought the purpose of the Dead Space 3 DLC was to truly finish the franchise. Earth is fucked, humanity lost, and there's no hope. Done.
31:17 I like it because ut just shows how the ship is getting worse, more infested, more fucked up
The ishumura pretty much isn't salvageable, it makes you feel like "yeah okay no we need to get out of here we're fucked if we stay"
If it was just always more new areas then yeah maybe it could work still but it's an odd feeling of being familiar with an area while re-exploring it but also seeing it's become more and more overtaken by the necromorphs.
kinda funny rewatching this video after both Calisto and Remake came out. Love your channel. keep the good work.
I guess we’ll see if the remake revitalises the series. I’m a bit bummed out about that since I’m a big advocate of games preservation and remaking games is not the same thing. Capcom seem to think it is, but then again the original Gears of War is still on Gamespass alongside the Ultimate Edition. We shall see.
You should upload this videos to Spotify. When I play this videos I only hear them.
Co-op in DS3 also offers a few co-op only missions. They are completely optional but just some FYI.
I admire your effort putting a video this long but when I saw "retrospective" on the title I expected some general explanation in how the combat works, the lore of the games and so on, not just narrate the games from beginning to end as some kind of narrative audio book lol
Correct me if I’m wrong, but couldn’t you change the reticle in DS2? I also prefer the more dynamic reticle from a he first game
your voice reminds me of Adam Scott, specifically as if his character Ben Wyatt was giving me lore and I love it
Never seen anyone so harsh on dead space 2, it's one of my favorite games ever made. Also dead space 3 is underrated as hell. The suits look badass and the story is pretty good. The worst thing about it is micro transactions and the focus on double player
Dead Space is one of my favourite video game series (all three of them and including the Remake). I really love all games especially the Third game as it's crafting elements really allowed for fun combinations and have more replayability, my honest opinion is that 100% completion is locked off due to co-op, but it's still a really enjoyable and fun game, just that it shows it's H.P. Lovecraft influence, my honest weak points on the remake were the narrative (the love triangle).
I wont play these games but i listen to these anyway because the lore and cosmic horrors fascinate me
The immortal enemies in horror games are terrifying
i love dead space. i dont even think dead space 3 is bad. just mid
The action scenes are mint though, like when Isaac first suits up in the space ship is fucking awesome
Yup, I can see where the Event Horizon influence went into :D
This video is how I brought in the new year, and it was excellent!
This was amazing video 😍 and your voice is great to listen to, I had to sub to your channel 😁. Ripper and Force Gun are my favorite guns in Dead Space. I can't wait to play the remake 🔥.
First run of Deadspace? Screaming
Second run of Deadspace? Screaming *but with Doom music.*
Third run of Deadspace: *The Only Thing They Fear Is You*
Gex 3 is the best dead space prequel
Nah, you lost me at saying Dead Space 2 was a bad Horror game.
Makes me cringe how small people's focus is on what can be considered Horror.
Bad scary game? YES, totally. Bad Horror game? Nah dawg, not in the slightest. Dead Space 2 is a good game and Horror is WAAAAAY broader then it just having to be scary.
Not everyone's into occult stuff or whatever to know the difference. To most people it's just being scared and thats enough.
Best weapon Plasma Cutter very close second Ripper. I hope they change up the remake a lot. I’ve played this series on the hardest modes, including Extraction, a dozen times each minimum. Lastly the turret portion is probably the hardest part on the hardest difficulty. I died there more than anywhere. It’s just wonky & a bit cheap. Can’t understand how you don’t like the ripper. Once upgraded it’s great because it keeps the enemies off you. Enemies can walk through any weapon but the ripper does stop them. Go from leg to leg then an arm & you’re golden.
"I would put my money on callisto..." bad son, no dessert tonight
That the "stutter" protocol segment in this video age like milk lol
Loved this video. Love the series mostly. The first game to me is a classic, I’m excited for the remake. The second one is my favorite. It’s a departure from the horror roots a bit sure, but thematically it still FEELS good. Isaac Clarke has been hardened by the events of the first game, and while not immune to what’s going on around him, he has a good head on his shoulders. I loved his voice actor. The third game… the third game hurts my feelings to this day. I hate what they did to the franchise with this one.
I remember when this came out and playing it with the lights out and scaring the shit out of myself lol.
The actor who plays Hammond also plays a character called Hammond in jason x,who is also a soldier.
I like your narration of the story and gameplay.
The shop isn’t the first time you fight the leader. You fight one shortly after getting the stasis module and slowing down the malfunctioning door
I hate hearing how for the third game EA wanted to go for a more traditional coop mode and remove the horror element. Why not keep the horror and just focus on scaring one player? What you would achieve was a sequence where one player gets a well crafted scare while the other panics to help. I swear the people making decisions either forget or have never played an immersive game.
Thank you for talking about Dead Space.
Personally... Dead Space doesn't need to be touched. It's a gem that to this day is beautiful. It seems like they are trying to make something that is already a gem, and make it better... even though it doesn't need to be better. It's great already!
Can we remaster The Suffering? The first Silent Hill? Can we pick games from the past that need to be remastered? Dead Space doesn't need to be remade. If anything, remake it for VR. I would pay to play as Isaac in the Ishimura, seeing through his helmet. THAT, would be absolutely terrifying. Remake the game, and make it playable in VR, that's a nw experience. But what they're doing... not too much of a fan. It's going to look gorgeous but... the original already looks gorgeous. It doesn't need to look gorgeous. The way it looks adds to the horror.
My favorite part was when the guy said "The radio waves were cut, it's just Dead Space"
I disagree that DS2 isn't a great horror game, simply due to the fact that your assumption of the idea behind horror having to be scary or inherently anxiety inducing is flawed to begin with. There are numerous facets to what defines horror, DS2 is indeed more action-heavy in how it handles enemy encounters, however 2 improves on the more visceral aspect of horror...disturbing the viewer. Overall as someone who lives and breathes horror, I'd say for me personally, DS2 is definitely a better horror game than the first, however it is a different facet of horror than the first. Additionally I'm honestly more exhausted by everything that marks itself as horror trying to specifically "scare" the audience or just gross them out. There's a lot of the lesser explored points of horror that could and should be explored more.
You are exhausted by horror attempting to gross you out but also disagree with DS2 being less than great at horror
@@nicholasgeere5125 Not so much that, it's just that the way a lot of horror handles it is cheap. There can be good grossout horror but if that's the only trick you have then it's boring. I'd always considered Dead Space 2 to be scarier than 1 because it's always changing the pages, so even when it gets into harder action areas they're still equally as tense and terrifying, 3 even has some genuinely great moments like this as well.
DS 2 felt more like crisis management than it did horror, which makes sense in the game world but I don't think that makes it a better horror game than the first. It doesn't make it a bad game, but it does make it less of a horror and more of a "ok we need to deal with this also I'm still messed up from being so horrified the first time around" genre
I think every commet before this one explains it well but indeed DS2 is not a truly, pure horror game.
And that's not bad either, maybe if you check this video again the son explains it very well, DS1 is about fightining the unknow, until that point the necromorph outbreak was really new. When DS2 takes places people already know about the virus.
DS2 is a really good game because it represents the normal struggle against an outbreak, now you know what it is and it's time to fight back.
Yeah. It's less about the tropes and more about that DS2 shifts up the formula while remaining core gameplay. Moving forward you're always graced with something new and unexpected, while 1 just becomes formulaic after the first playthrough, something that DS1R remedies entirely.
2 Also shows the horrors of how an outbreak spreading through a colony can impact everyone, including younglings.
I do think the misunderstanding is that I consider 1 to be bad, but it's less that and more that 2 is a masterclass in story, pacing, and gameplay while retaining a lot of the horror elements and dread without resorting to the same trick every time. I think Suzi SphereHunter's video on 2 specifically sums it up nicely.
Sonny and Sonny 2 were primo flash games ngl
The games that taught me about grinding a ridiculous amount in the early game just to own everything easier later on lol.
2 random notes you got completely wrong:
1. The brutes in both 1 and 2 function exactly the same. You mention shooting the back in the first game, and how they have weak spots on their shoulders in the second. Their weak spots in both games are their shoulders. Not sure how you messed that one up.
2. The static aiming reticle in the second game is a setting you can change. It takes all of 2 seconds of googling to figure this out.
I always thought of Dead Space --> Dead Space 2 as Alien --> Aliens.
Purposeful chance of pace, doing something a bit different while keeping a recognisable premise. Rather than simply repeating
A nice short video 📹 👌.
Just a quick watch
@@YourFavoriteSon1 lol
its still crazy the first one came out in like 08 and it looks better then some aaa games out now
Love these videos. Did you know you can change it back to the original aiming style in Dead Space 2 and 3 in the settings?
Yo sonny what a Legend of a Flash game!!!!
Dude rancid moon is the funniest name for a game I’ve ever heard
EA; King of counting their chickens before they're even hatched.
Nice one man, and the ripper surprisingly found good, it kept them at bay, while cutting them up, where others could still get to me. Acting as a shield and destroying the necro…but love it gj
Always good to see ya, son
Nobody has a better stomping game in the business than Isaac. TWU
Dead Space 3 got to much hate. It's a fun experience and I like the pacing and the characters, especially Carver. It's nothing like the abomination that is RE6
Great work as usual son.
I already watched the previous 3, but I think that your work warrants another view.
Now I am wondering what other series will you work on?
Count the amount of time he said "terrifying"
Never beat the original. So I'm pretty excited about it.
Nah Best gun in the game hands down is the force gun Especially when fully upgraded you can literally take out swarms of enemies like there's nothing Body parts everywhere
In norwegian, the word "peng" is slang or - street talk if you will - for money.
I'd say Dead Space 1 -> 2 is similar to Alien -> Aliens. Horror sequels can suffer from players already being exposed to the monster and setting, by the end of the first game it's all just a bit to familiar for a full sequel to carry the horror easily. So pivoting to something more action-oriented whilst keeping the horror elements is an understandable thing to do, arguably the correct thing could do even.
3 by contrast is spinning in place chasing the current trends, though I have to respect the balls of the DLC ending to actually end a Lovecraftian Horror accordingly. You may be able to delay when Cthulhu wakes up, but it's only ever delaying the inevitability that Cthulhu will wake up. You were actually wrong with why they made the DLC: they knew they weren't getting a next game so that DLC is intended to be *the* ending.
That's my boy!
Man, everyone put their money on Callisto Protocol..... And we all lost big.
Wow the Calysto comments are like a bears poop on a granite rock
You seem to have missed that the ammo in DS1 drops depending on your loadout. If you don't like constantly getting ammo for the Ripper, then get rid of the Ripper.
Also, the "believer" that Mercer killed was an engineer whom you've been finding notes from throughout the game. I believe his name was Jacob. He went looking for his girlfriend, Elizabeth, the other dead person in the room. So you completely missed that parallel with Isaac, but hey, at least you made sure to talk about Z-ball.
And finally, "it's not atmosphere, it's a feeling" is extremely pretentious. It's atmosphere. Everything you went on to describe makes up the atmosphere of the game. Just because it's a great atmosphere doesn't mean the word somehow fails to live up to it.
Played Dead Space 3 solo and hated the story, besides Buckle. And the love triangle was a joke. Best part of the DLC was killing Norton again. It was fun though if you turned your brain off. And went into co-op with a decked out arsenal.
clicked so fast I may have violated causality
I just finished the DS1 section and I noticed that you wasted a lot of ammo. You could have just cut an arm with a claw of and throw it back at the enemy to kill it
1:35:07 you know there's actually asetting to use classic reticle right? i use that all the time it helps for lining some weapons up better
as if glen was part of akuji the heartless i loved that game
Ellie had dat rump back in DS2 lol okay ima chill
I think you may be right about it being an injoke; but rather than an actual product, I think part of that joke is that it is only being marketed that way. From the repeated use of the exact same woman in each ad and her always being the only physically identifiable object in each; I think she is Peng. Maybe Peng is a something specific to the creators but in a more general sense it seems to be a spoof on marketing using sex to sell and even putting more focus on this tactic than the product itself in the ad. In this, it seems they forego the product entirely and are just marketing this celebrity as if she were a product. It does come off as a comically biting sarcasm on celebrity fixation culture and targeted marketing if this was the case. This hypothesis may be well of its mark, but that's what seems to be telegraphed to me.
1:35:42 howard phillips lovecraft?
would be nice if you do the evil within next, Son