Heheh. What’s the timing on the unlock? If I pre-order today, can I preload on the Series X?
Yes, mine preloaded earlier in the week.
I loved the original Dead Space so I’m 100% in at 50% off.
I’m totally in when it’s 5 bucks on steam!
This thread is going places.
Gah, now I have to decide whether to get this on PC or Xbox (is there a discount for GPU subscribers?) Anything involving precision aiming I usually play on PC, but I reckon it will be a lot more immersive on my TV and sound system. If it’s not too demanding I suppose I could hook up my laptop or even try it with Moonlight. Maybe I’ll just wait for the DF video.
Yes, the usual 10% off for EA Play subscribers (which GPU members are). So $63 instead of $70.
I “visited” New Zealand last night but still couldn’t play. It turns out it’s a global launch in about an hour from now, worldwide. So I came back to America so I can go to work instead. I guess this will have to wait until late tonight or early tomorrow morning. Gah!
Never played the original! Looking forward to the remake
A look back at the original, and a little at the new one.
I loved this bit about how they got the game approved at EA.
That said, Milham tells me the team employed one tactic of smoke and mirrors in order to elevate Dead Space in the minds of EA’s executives during the early stages of development. “It needed to give the impression that it had more momentum and buy-in than it actually did. We started in January, and I think we had posters, promotional material, and calendars to give away by March, when we had no software basically,” he says. “But if you were an executive walking from your office to the elevators and you looked over the top of the cubicles, it looked like a game that had already been approved. That was our goal, that there was signage and posters and all kinds of stuff, because it looked like, ‘Well, you can’t cancel that. It’s already going.’”
Dead Space is “System Shock” heavily influenced/altered by the release of Resident Evil 4.
WHAAAAAAAAAT
For me, Dead Space 2 was the best game of the trilogy, I wonder if they will continue doing a remake of that…
About 4hrs into it and really enjoying. Atmosphere in absolute spades. I don’t get scared by games, but if I did, this would do it.
I finally put my son to bed. Turned off the lights. Put the headphones on. About 70 minutes in now.
It doesn’t feel all that different from the original. It’s nice to have a new coat of paint. And then to splatter blood all over that new paint.
Can someone confirm if this is true? Because then I am not buying this game.
All of the screenshots look right to me, but I’d question why any of these changes would affect your choice to purchase the game or not.
As a big fan of Dead Space, this seems extremely faithful to the original - and it’s a testament to the audio and visual designs that I’m still a little freaked out even though the enemies haven’t presented any threat yet.
Already figured it out :D
And no I am not buying this then, I don’t support this kind of changes.
That’s certainly your prerogative, absolutely. Out of curiosity, though, what is it about the changes that you oppose? Is it a matter of artistic integrity, a feeling that the original work should stay as it was initially conceived? Some other reason?
I’m curious because unlike, say, a classic painting or sculpture, a game is more like a play or a movie or a song. As time goes by, remakes or revivals or covers tend to adapt the original work to the times. We don’t have white people in blackface playing Black characters any more, for instance. Shakespeare’s plays get performed with people of all different sorts of identities and appearances in all of the roles. We change the words in songs to adapt, too; the Beasty Boys in their later performances altered their original lyrics to remove a lot of the explicit and implicit misogynism of the earlier works. And so on.
Not that it matters much; your money, your call.