Comments on: Looking Back: Dead Space

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By: geldonyetich

geldonyetich — Sun, 10 May 2009 03:38:57 +0000

I was talking about this not long ago on my blog when I gave the game a spin, and I agree that the game is a whole lot better than the hype surrounding the game’s release suggested.

It seems to me that the game’s main problem was it’s trying to pass itself off as being scary. It has a few decent scares, but for the most part the scariness factor is rather corny. This is where the negative hype came from: as far as survival horror goes, it doesn’t deliver well in the horror aspect.

That’s fine: minor interface and plot quibbles aside, the rest of the game is awesome. Aside from a diminished RPG, it’s the kind of System Shock successor I was looking for. I don’t like being scared that much, anyway.

I can actually explain some of these plot holes:

“Why does X keep trying to kill you if it wants you to do what you’re doing?”
Because X is not controlling the Necromorphs that are trying to kill you but rather part of the agent that serves to thwart the Necromorph hive mind.

“Why do doors constantly lock and unlock themselves ‘randomly’ and yet always let you go where you need to go (assuming it isn’t waiting for you to watch someone die, first)?”
It some cases it makes more sense than others – you’ll actually watch people activating something on their wrist that opens the door. Most of the doors are unlocked later because those who had the access to do so unlocked them when they thought it was appropriate. In the least forgivable cases, it was because the developers wanted the players to see a premade scripted cutscene without it – a required GM restriction to progress the story.

“If Z was dead the whole time, how did said corpse get on the shuttle so that it could eat your face in a non-controllable cinematic? Or was that also a hallucination?”
These unasked questions are there deliberately to prompt a sequel.

One good question is how Z, on behalf of X, was able to manifest in such a way it must be defended so it can unlock a door for you. Is Issac actually the one opening the door? It seems to me that perhaps X had some telekinetic power, and was able to do things such as hack computers when needed (explaining certain faces and patterns to appear on screens).

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:48:07 +0000

The only games I can ever recall being fundamentally better on higher difficulties were things like Thief (and I think there are one or two others that do this) which add objectives in higher difficulties, thus expanding what you actually do in the game. Virtually everyone else just makes you less capable and the enemies more. I guess if challenge is your only criterion as to whether a game is enjoyable to play, the difficulty might make a difference there, but it’s certainly not mine.

By: Stromko

Stromko — Fri, 08 May 2009 03:41:52 +0000

I rather liked Deadspace, even though I find the plot and level design creatively bankrupt. Now that I’m not actually playing it, I can even poke a lot of holes in the game-play itself.

Really, the plot is just insufferably full of gaps– Why does X keep trying to kill you if it wants you to do what you’re doing? Why do doors constantly lock and unlock themselves ‘randomly’ and yet always let you go where you need to go (assuming it isn’t waiting for you to watch someone die, first)? How the f**k do all these chuckleheads manage to stay alive just long enough for you to see them die? How did one basic enemy manage to kill an entire ship full of badasses who should’ve known exactly what they were facing and should’ve been ready to fight? I could ask these kinds of questions all day.

The basic answer amount to: “So we could pad out the action another hour or two.” or “It worked for the game-play”. The story is absolutely there to feed into the action, nothing more, and the action is laid out in the most pragmatic, efficient fashion to maintain a certain level of tension/catharsis.

Ultimately I was infuriated by the plot, and the big ‘hallucinations’ reveal. We knew all along that people were seeing weird sh*t, but it’s not like we had any choice but to heed them since this a 100% sequential, non-branching plot. Once we hit the big reveal, it’s actually more sensible to assume that the main character was hallucinating anything and everything, because that would make more sense than the selective, externally-caused hallucinations that we’re supposed to believe in the ‘emotional’ plot twist. What was up with that ‘escort’ sequence, why were the aliens trying to attack something that wasn’t even there, and how did we get the door open if nobody was helping us? Also, if Z was dead the whole time, how did said corpse get on the shuttle so that it could eat your face in a non-controllable cinematic? Or was that also a hallucination? That anything could’ve been a hallucination is actually a sensible response to many of the plot and map design holes.

Maybe there were no locked doors or lockers, the protagonist was simply unable to conceive of opening them until the Director decided to let them.

But really I’m just overthinking. It’s a tight, methodical action game, and it does this well. There is no stealth, no branching plot, no sanity-check on the plot, it’s just a really spiffy corridor shooter. I even played it with V-sync on because I liked the slow, deliberate movements this forced, it felt right! ;)

By: Daniel Purvis

Daniel Purvis — Mon, 04 May 2009 02:56:33 +0000

Dead Space also accomplished something in regards to the way it employed sound that other games have not. When entering a room with exceptionally loud machinery, the sound is engulfing and suffocating and also drowns out the sound of nearby attackers lending a sense of claustrophobic anxiety in engine rooms.

In addition, areas when the sound is muffled due to the vacuum of space also negate the obvious suffling and screeching of incoming hostilities.

By: sigizz

sigizz — Sat, 02 May 2009 03:33:12 +0000

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By: Indy

Indy — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:20:35 +0000

As an aside I just found this on Gameplay for £12.99 this bank holiday. Have just ordered it and looking forward to playing it after reading this interesting article and posts.

By: absentblue

absentblue — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:27:01 +0000

I always did applaud DeadSpace, for while it didn’t do anything new everything it did do it did just right. Contrived as it may be it’s still a solid experience and the same reason you may thoroughly enjoy an action flick and re-watch it multiple times (say, Commando or something else from the 80′s).

It could certainly stand to be a slight bit original of course, and I suspect even an inkling of such would have propelled it greatly. Were it to step ever so slightly into the realm of the unpredictable it’d be great, but everything that happens is far too obvious to reap any enjoyment from it. In fact, the only genuine scary moment I can recall was a complete fluke as I did a 180 and found myself smack dab in front of a monster I had no inclination of.

By: Bassfreek

Bassfreek — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:39:02 +0000

After reading all these comments it leaves me wondering how many people played first time through on hard.

I beat this game on hard for 360 using only the first gun (for achievement) and went back and tried to play on medium to get the other gun achievements, i found medium to be such a droll i couldnt even play thru the first chapter.

For those of you struggling to find some replay value, i would go back and play through on hard or impossible using only the plasma cutter. It was one of my best gaming experiences of 2008

PS: for those of you saying it a copy and paste of RE over a space backround, RE:5 could have learned ALOT from this game, maybe this is a franchise that can pick up the horror genre where RE:5 dropped the ball