Dead Space 3 Demo, As Experienced By Game Grumps

[Beautiful End]

Hey, thanks for posting this here! I would have eventually noticed it on my subscriptions page but better now than then! And, like someone said, we don't have to deal with the random, dumb comments from Youtube like "Seven asses" and "Should've rolled".

We should do this more often!

OT: Is it wrong for me to say I did get lost in Half Life 2? They mention that was a well designed game but sometimes, the solution to a problem wasn't that apparent and so I'd start wandering on and about until I got tired and went to gamefaqs. It was a straight line once you figured out how to skip that obstacle but the problem for me was realizing a portion of that map WAS an obstacle and not just there to look pretty.

But anyway, Dead Space doesn't attract me at all. Seems like I've seen all this before (I probably have). The random enemies popping you, the big ass enemies that you fight once then run away then come back (Cause they gotta come back!), the seemingly easy boss battle that gets much harder because of random enemies, etc.
Also, I love the Game Grumps but most of the time, I find myself yelling at the screen telling them where to go, like now. I've never played the Dead Space 3 demon but I sort of figured out what to do just by watching them. And yet, it took them ages to figure it out; the two of them together.

Captcha: "Good work". Yeah, okay.

EDIT: This was an advertizement video? I guess it makes sense now. But it didn't feel like it. They mocked the "hints" that came with the package, they don't seem to like the Kinect feature, they pointed out the crafting feature was kinda random, they actually mocked it more by comparing it to RE4 and Uncharted 2 and they very sarcastic about the "exciting" features of the game. So yeah, I'm fine with that type of advertizement.

 

[xptn40S]

Waaaait...so...the link in the description on both the Grump's and Jesse's video both have the same link with a slight difference:

Grumps:
tiny.cc/ds0019

Jesse:
tiny.cc/ds0017

Different numbers for different channels?

Sooooo...what the hoozie is the EA marketing department up to now? Other than indirectly making the grump-video's comments section into a cesspit of people bitching and moaning at each other and yelling different variations of "SELLOUTS! BRAWGRGURGUG!", etc.?

 

[Kopikatsu]

I found the video hilarious except for the bird parts. The bird thing got old halfway through the first instance of it.

Anywho, I couldn't stop laughing through the drill boss section. Definitely not regretting having paid off my preorder already.

 

[EHKOS]

I loved the drill part, because it was intense and frightening to be by something so big and out of control. The rest....ehhhh oh boy. I'll still buy it because I like action and adventure too, but dammit there goes a respectable survival-horror franchise down the drain.

 

[major_chaos]

I don't know why people are getting so angry over DS3, first off I love Dead Space but it was never all that scary, 1&2 both had a few decent jump scares and a few disturbing sections with particularly good atmosphere, but I'm just seeing more of the same here. Second if you need more "real" horror games there is already about a dozen generic as shit Amnesia knock offs that have been Greenlit.

Personally seeing this just made me more excited for DS3. The game leaning more tords action shooter really isn't a problem as long as it is a quality shooter. There were a few things that did bug me, namely that the "normal difficulty looked a bit too easy, so I'll most likely be starting on one difficulty up from that. The much bigger problem is that having Dirk Hardpecs Mc. genericmarine as the Co-Op partner instead of Ellie really pisses me off, and if he lives and Ellie dies in the end I might just put my keyboard through the screen.

As for the Gamegrumps, they are a bunch of shrieking morons and I don't think I have ever disagreed so strongly and so constantly than with EgoRaptor who manages to live up to his name in the worst way while spewing more BS then an actual bull's arse.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

Hell I just know this game isn't going to get the 5 million sales it supposedly needs in order to be successful. The sad part is that EA won't learn a single thing from this.

 

[Zhukov]

You can pretty much throw any hopes you had for survival horror out the window and accept that it is just Call of The Thing.

This attitude confuses the hell out of me.

I can understand not being happy about the action-ization of survival horror. I'd like to see more horror/survival horror as well.

But in the case of Dead Space? Please. The first game was a cheerful, alien blasting romp with pathetic pretensions of "survival horror" in the form of the odd spoooooky alien occasionally jumping from a spooooky air vent and going "Arrgleblaaarghle!" in your face. Then you'd calmly blow its legs off and stomp its head into mush before continuing on your merry way, looking for more necromorphs to fuck up.

The second game was more of the same, except Isaac had finally finished his gobstobber from the first game. (Also, it had the eyeball machine which as far as I'm concerned is the closest the game has ever come to even being in the same room as horror.)

Now the third game adds dodge-rolling and suddenly it's ruined... ruined forever.

It's like a baker putting icing on an ice cream cheese cake and suddenly everyone declares that it's not healthy any more.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

You can pretty much throw any hopes you had for survival horror out the window and accept that it is just Call of The Thing.

This attitude confuses the hell out of me.

I can understand not being happy about the action-ization of survival horror. I'd like to see more horror/survival horror as well.

But in the case of Dead Space? Please. The first game was a cheerful, alien blasting romp with pathetic pretensions of "survival horror" in the form of the odd spoooooky alien occasionally jumping from a spooooky air vent and going "Arrgleblaaarghle!" in your face. Then you'd calmly blow its legs off and stomp its head into mush before continuing on your merry way, looking for more necromorphs to fuck up.

The second game was more of the same, except Isaac had finally finished his gobstobber from the first game. (Also, it had the eyeball machine which as far as I'm concerned is the closest the game has ever come to even being in the same room as horror.)

Now the third game adds dodge-rolling and suddenly it's ruined... ruined forever.

It's like a baker putting icing on an ice cream cheese cake and suddenly everyone declares that it's not healthy any more.

Eh, I enjoyed the Atmosphere of the first game, and I feel that the third game is just losing anything that I enjoyed from the original. I liked the claustrophobic feel of the game, like Event Horizon mixed with Aliens. I just can't avoid the Lost Planet comparison or The Thing with this demo.

 

[Zhukov]

You can pretty much throw any hopes you had for survival horror out the window and accept that it is just Call of The Thing.

This attitude confuses the hell out of me.

I can understand not being happy about the action-ization of survival horror. I'd like to see more horror/survival horror as well.

But in the case of Dead Space? Please. The first game was a cheerful, alien blasting romp with pathetic pretensions of "survival horror" in the form of the odd spoooooky alien occasionally jumping from a spooooky air vent and going "Arrgleblaaarghle!" in your face. Then you'd calmly blow its legs off and stomp its head into mush before continuing on your merry way, looking for more necromorphs to fuck up.

The second game was more of the same, except Isaac had finally finished his gobstobber from the first game. (Also, it had the eyeball machine which as far as I'm concerned is the closest the game has ever come to even being in the same room as horror.)

Now the third game adds dodge-rolling and suddenly it's ruined... ruined forever.

It's like a baker putting icing on an ice cream cheese cake and suddenly everyone declares that it's not healthy any more.

Eh, I enjoyed the Atmosphere of the first game, and I feel that the third game is just losing anything that I enjoyed from the original. I liked the claustrophobic feel of the game, like Event Horizon mixed with Aliens. I just can't avoid the Lost Planet comparison or The Thing with this demo.

What atmosphere?

"Oh no, the lights are flickering! Oh no, I'm in yet another corridor!"

Also, I don't really see how ripping off The Thing is some great step down from ripping off Event Horizon.

 

[chozo_hybrid]

And I'm not trying to be mean or anything. I think the second game is very good, but it's a very good action game.

I think of it as an action/horror hybrid. Not exclusively one of them, though leaning more toward action. I liked the first two, so bring on the third.

 

[K84]

First one - Alien/DS1. Pretty decent with a good atmosphere.
Second one - Aliens/DS2. Still pretty decent but with added action.
Third one - Alien 3/DS3. You wonder why they are still making them if this is the best shit they can produce.

Actually, that would be Alien 4.
Alien 3 was pretty effin' awesome.

So by your logic, DS3 could be a underrated gem.
Sweet!

 

[Rawne1980]

First one - Alien/DS1. Pretty decent with a good atmosphere.
Second one - Aliens/DS2. Still pretty decent but with added action.
Third one - Alien 3/DS3. You wonder why they are still making them if this is the best shit they can produce.

Actually, that would be Alien 4.
Alien 3 was pretty effin' awesome.

So by your logic, DS3 could be a underrated gem.
Sweet!

Alien 3 must be the marmite of movies then.

I've never, until now, met anyone who actually liked it.

Up until Resurrection it was one of the worst films i'd ever had the misfortune to watch. Since then Open Water and The Village have taken over but Alien 3 was still a shower of shite.

Killing off one of the better characters from Aliens, Hicks, in the opening section of the film. Granted it did the right thing in getting rid of Newt as well, she was fun in small doses in Aliens but if they had kept her then they would have made her a liability that got in the way.

The problem I had with Alien 3 is it tried far too hard to reignite the atmosphere of Alien. 1 Alien, no guns and enclosed spaces .... the only problem was I didn't give a toss about the characters.

Alas, my original point still stands. Out of the first 3 Alien films, Alien 3 is still the weakest whether folk think it's underrated or not.

I gave Alien Resurrection a pass by not including in the series and pretending it's an insane fan fiction. Although it did have a gun made from bits of wheelchair which also gave it a plus point .... but it did have Winona Ryder in it which lost it that plus point. In fact she was such a big minus that she lost the plus point for having Ron Pearlman as well.

Resurrection went from a being a bizarre film that made very little sense to introducing a human alien hybrid and going bat shit insane making no sense at all. Also, clone Ripley .... really?

But it was so bad it was entertaining. Alien 3 was just bad.

 

[someonehairy-ish]

Looks extremely pretty, but they've forgotten to even pretend to be subtle in this one. And subtlety is the basis of good horror.

In other words, style but no substance.

 

[Jimmy T. Malice]

while the first one was more akin to alien and the second was to aliens, they were ferpect. This one looks boring.

Like Alien 3.

So it's following a trend.

First one - Alien/DS1. Pretty decent with a good atmosphere.
Second one - Aliens/DS2. Still pretty decent but with added action.
Third one - Alien 3/DS3. You wonder why they are still making them if this is the best shit they can produce.

Does that mean that the fifth game will be a cross over with Resident Evil or something if they continue with this trend?

 

[King Billi]

I'll admit that Dead Space was a pretty damn scary game, plenty scary enough for me in any case... but having said that it still gave you a gun... LOTS of guns in fact and a flamethrower and this ridiculous thing that shot spinning sawblades which completely eviscerated the bad guys... like just tore then up...

Yeah sure the Ishimura had a very grim and spooky atmosphere and the the sound and lighting was very effective but seriously this game could only truly scare you up to a certain degree... such as when you finally got your hands on the aforementioned spinning sawblade weapon and the majority of enemies are suddenly at your mercy.

I'm just saying that the direction this series has taken in emphasising the combat and weaponry really isn't that much of a departure from what it started as as people say it is...

 

[Silvanus]

too much ammo

Too much ammo? Methinks you're playing it a difficulty setting or two too low for what you want. On the higher settings, you'll be scrounging for every last Plasma Cutter charge. It adds a lot to the experience.



As for DS3... more action isn't the direction I want them to go, but I'll reserve judgement and get it anyway, inevitably.

 

[Ljs1121]

That was one of my favorite GameGrumps episodes ever. I lost it when Arin had to fight the big drill thing.

As for the game, it looks interesting I guess. I never really got into the Dead Space series.