Zero Punctuation: Dead Space 3

[Aaron Sylvester]

Jim Sterling is a HUGE Dead Space fan isn't he? What did he have to say about this game?

 

[Atmos Duality]

I do find it somewhat hypocritical when people keep complaining about all the generic shooters but then proceed to buy them and play them.

There's a reason they keep being made!

More realistically, the vocal minority makes a big stink about the stagnation, and the rest of the market marches on oblivious.

There have been a few instances of flagrant hypocrisy (cue the usual pic of "Protest Left4Dead/CoD/etc usergroup on Steam, with everyone playing the game they're protesting"), but some simple math will show the non-vocal consumer response must be much larger than those who are whining.

 

[daxterx2005]

Are there any main street horror games anymore....?

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

-snip-

Yaztee doesn't really view Zero Punctuation as a serious review, more of a bunch of nit-picks and jokes.

And to be honest neither to I.

 

[matsugawa]

"I wonder if there's a name for that?"

A Waste of Space.

(slow clap for genuine cleverness)

 

[krazykidd]

The Dead Space games has never been horror but I still enjoy the series, to me, the "scares" in the Dead Space games is just the signal of the start of a battle, I also can't find myself be scared at all, the loud noises resembles that of an exploding building in a modern military shooter.

I like Dead Space 3's crafting system and the attempt of being a bit more open, but I don't like how considerably easy this game is, the game just seems to love throwing medpacks at you, at one point, I had around 20 medium medpacks in my safe that I don't think I ever used.

Just because you don't get scared doesn't mean it isn't horror . In my opinion , Dead space is an action horror game , NOT a survival horror . Unless you take survival in the most litteral sense, and if you do that then every game where you can die is a survival game .

OT: I loved the ending to this video , very clever.

 

[Magmarock]

I loved this review.

 

[Evil Smurf]

+1 for the Sooty shout out- but we're all still waiting for that Farming Simulator 2013 review you surely have tucked away somewhere. Perhaps it fell down the back of the couch or something. Have you checked the sock drawer?

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Me and this video agree.

 

[Reynaert]

I do not follow this game serie but from what I am seeing through previews and reviews, they aren't doing it right. It being 'space horror'.There is definitely something to work with here. What (I think) is scary about space is the enormous vastness and emptiness. Another remark I have, why is the modern, state of the art spaceship so dark? Why not make it brightly lit and neat and tidy like in Moon and 2001:... . There should only be you and your mind (and maybe some sort of AI running things). Of course this would be hard to pull off. Not every development team has a Kubrick or Lynch in there ranks.

 

[Iron Criterion]

I do not follow this game serie but from what I am seeing through previews and reviews, they aren't doing it right. It being 'space horror'.There is definitely something to work with here. What (I think) is scary about space is the enormous vastness and emptiness. Another remark I have, why is the modern, state of the art spaceship so dark? Why not make it brightly lit and neat and tidy like in Moon and 2001:... . There should only be you and your mind (and maybe some sort of AI running things). Of course this would be hard to pull off. Not every development team has a Kubrick or Lynch in there ranks.

I think a Silent Hill style game set in space could work very well. Maybe on a moon base or space station. And you're the only human character there. In fact screw Dead Space, let's make this.

 

[Brainwreck]

Dead Space was never a horror game. It was an action game trying to be a horror game but never managing it for even a moment.
I guess they just decided to drop it and focus on the action. And I thought it was okay for the most part.

Want horror? Play Amnesia. Play STALKER. Or Penumbra. Or New Vegas with the ExistenZ mod. Play fucking anything that understands that human fear goes beyond "ew that's gross" and "oh wow, another monster spawner vent" and "oh, more scare chords".

 

[Lucid_Camel]

mm anybody know How was EarthGov was so easily overthrown and narrowed down to 4 people?. None Horror aside its an ok action game, anything with status equiped to the boomtube. kinda makes every other weapon useless.Was expecting a twist like, the red marker wasnt a complete copy, where the black marker would reanimate people the red one would do the same but slightly different.

 

[Guffe]

Loved the ending to this episode xD
The whole spaceception was a nice touch

 

[Starke]

Luckily the series ended just as I was running out of sci-fi authors

Oh please, you think they're going to stop making Dead Space games, if the third one sells even remotely well?

EA's said they'd take the series out behind the woodshed if it didn't sell 3m copies.

Jim Sterling is a HUGE Dead Space fan isn't he? What did he have to say about this game?

He gave it an 8/10. The review's over on Destructoid.

 

[ThreeKneeNick]

I'd love it if Yahtzee reviewed System Shock 2...

 

[Stillgard]

IMHO, someone needs to revoke EA's license to print money. Cause this is just getting a tad ridiculous. Ever since the whole SW:TOR thing with Bioware (which btw half there production staff has up and left the group) It's gone steadily down hill. Seriously if I see another piece of garbage from EA I think I am gonna hurl.

 

[Xman490]

And so, Dead Space becomes yet another series that lost its uniqueness to bland shooting affairs left and right, like Resident Evil and Mass Effect. If this is the way games are going, I'm not going to bother with the next generation of consoles.

 

[Al-Bundy-da-G]

So does this means that Dead Space is now Spunk-Gargle-Wee-Wee?

No, but it is a shooter that will let you make a gun that shoots shrukens saw blades and lightning.

So wait does that mean that if was labeled a shooter instead of a horror game, Yahtzee would have liked it?

My head hurts I'mma go lie down...

 

[Starker]

"ob·jec·tive (adj):
Not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; based on facts; unbiased."

If you want a objective game review to even exist then you'll have to wait until the SI develops a standard measurement of enjoyment. A review is by its nature biased and subjective. There is nothing to measure here. Not empirically at least.

A completely objective and unbiased review is possible.

Here's an example: http://www.destructoid.com/100-objective-review-final-fantasy-xiii-179178.phtml

A number of people who have read it think it's a review.

 

[kebab4you]

The Dead Space games has never been horror but I still enjoy the series, to me, the "scares" in the Dead Space games is just the signal of the start of a battle, I also can't find myself be scared at all, the loud noises resembles that of an exploding building in a modern military shooter.

I like Dead Space 3's crafting system and the attempt of being a bit more open, but I don't like how considerably easy this game is, the game just seems to love throwing medpacks at you, at one point, I had around 20 medium medpacks in my safe that I don't think I ever used.

Just because you don't get scared doesn't mean it isn't horror . In my opinion , Dead space is an action horror game , NOT a survival horror . Unless you take survival in the most literal sense, and if you do that then every game where you can die is a survival game .

OT: I loved the ending to this video , very clever.

Scary how exactly? The only thing I remember from dead space one, which presumably is the scariest out of them all, was shit jumping out of nowhere trying to startle me. startle =/= scary. A cute bunny is just as effective as a big ugly monster when you´re trying to startle someone.