Comments on: Dead Space Comic, #1 Free

By: Little Green Man

Little Green Man — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:48:33 +0000

Phuzz is disgusting. Also, WITH SALT!

By: James T

James T — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:01:16 +0000

If only.

By: mac

mac — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:45:40 +0000

Warren Ellis? From Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds and Grinderman? You mean THAT musician?

By: Christian Otholm

Christian Otholm — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:39:08 +0000

Everytime I come here and people discuss comics, I am infuriated. Templesmith is awesome. Dave McKean is a good designer, but a terrible storyteller.

And Anthony Johnson writes the excellent Wasteland, so not a bad word against him either.

PS. The Island ripped off Parts: The Clonus Horror.

By: Pags

Pags — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:56:10 +0000

It doesn’t prepare you for the “actual” plot twist.

No, the inner-cynic does that job just fine :)

But I get the feeling I like this game a lot more than I really should :P

Yeah, with the EA Redwood Shores moniker attached, it really feels like a guilty pleasure.

By: Ploddish

Ploddish — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:45:50 +0000

Spoilers in this post!

The fact that you find out other people are seeing people in the comics means nothing, because Kendra says she sees her brother during the game. There’s also a clear difference between the ghosts in the comic (as in, they’re ghostly), and your visions, so there wouldn’t be any reason for you to doubt that you’re seeing Nichole until you get on that crashed ship. The twist pertainig to this, I believe, is precisely *why* they’re happening.

It’s also probably a reference/stolen from Solaris.

It doesn’t prepare you for the “actual” plot twist. That whole Kendra thing. I can’t see how it would, anyway.

But I get the feeling I like this game a lot more than I really should :P

By: l1ddl3monkey

l1ddl3monkey — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:53:49 +0000

Or actual foetuses, rather than what look like babies of three or more months age.

I did wonder if they might be clones for spare parts al la Michael Marshal-Smith’s “Spares” (the basis of which was stolen and made into a pile of arse by the writer of The Island), but if you lose an arm in a mining accident would you realistically have a little baby arm attached and wait 14 years for it to grow to adult size? Actually I suppose that’s better than no arm at all…

Maybe it’s some sort of cryogenic nursery for really, really lazy parents?

By: qrter

qrter — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:30:44 +0000

Stem cell samples for each crew member from identical clone foetus for growing replacement limbs/organs.

Surely it would be easier, less costly and take less room to just take along stem cell samples themselves, already extracted from said identical clone foetuseseseses?

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:53:43 +0000

I dunno, all of those seem like major things that would ruin a game for me.

screwy camera, check.
3rd person only, check.
sucky save options, check.

Nope, not getting this one.

By: Sunjammer

Sunjammer — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:43:05 +0000

Tei your inability to appreciate what is on offer is depressing

By: Tei

Tei — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:02:31 +0000

My brother has buy this game, and I have started to play just now. The lack of control for FOV make me mad, the TPS perspective is ugly but combined with the wrong FOV is terrible anoyong. The controls are unresponsive, and I don’t see a quicksave option, seems theres some strange “save the game here” that break my inmmersion on the game.
ARRGGH. Other than it at terrible stupid consoley problems, I am just playing it. What I don’t really like is that thing “you play in tiny rooms separated by other tiny rooms with a door” and “I will spawn monsters behind you”. I am actually tempted to uninstall it, and install Doom3 again…

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:31:48 +0000

Actually i can think of a half dozen reasonable reason for having a bunch of babies.

Stem cell samples for each crew member from identical clone foetus for growing replacement limbs/organs. Is the most obvious answer, perhaps spacers tend to breed rarely as a result of not wanting to bring their children into a hostile environment but regardless a steady flow of young staff are required to allow for replacements and to allow retirement and promotion. So steadily the babies are brought to life and after growing up transition into crew members.

Also the cheapest 10000 person colony pod has 10000 tiny people.