Zero Punctuation: Dead Space

[xLiKx]

wrong Yahtzee wrong. this game was awesome and was not as terrible as you made it seem in your "review". the best you could say about it was that the good parts were "fine"? do you have some sorta bias against EA or what? this game was polished and fun. even if they borrowed elements from other games, that doesn't automatically make it bad or generic.

your negative schtick is getting mad old. you call Dead Space repetitive? maybe you should look in the mirror.

 

[GunslingerUK]

Dead space completed it in 2days...brilliant graphics...but same old stuff, and for those who haven't noticed, but Yahtzee is wrong about the system shock. its more bioshock if you ask me, weapon upgrades, and the lack of nodes to upgrade with, other then the over the shoulder spaz look, the body armor looks like a smaller big daddy.

ALSO! one more thing before i leave this to rest, a big 1930's posters everywhere and the story line is pretty much the same as Bioshock......i shall leave it now because it has been punished enough.

 

[Poptart Fairy]

your negative schtick is getting mad old. you call Dead Space repetitive? maybe you should look in the mirror.

There's more to Yahtzee than a constant string of "OH NOES CONTAMINATION DETECTED" set pieces, tho'.

 

[Firia]

People around these parts get so angry over opinion.

wrong Yahtzee wrong.

Telling someone their wrong is about as futile as trying to *force* someone to share that opinion.

 

[HotKakes]

Well, I'm going to take the high road and not sound like an uber-nerd by saying some of the statements made in the review were a little off such as the "exwife" comment. Overall, Yatzee has some well founded ideas and opinions on the game and I think he is correct in his views. I will not say that my opinion matches however because I had a blast playing the game. None the less, I think Yatzee is spot on the flaws of the game but I was never deterred by these problems. So, keep up the good work Yatzee.

 

[skelegrow]

bah. asking space ships to be homey is like asking a final fantasy game to NOT include "summons". it would ruin the atmosphere, upset the player, and make the game as a whole, altogether lacking.

...oh wait.

 

[gretchen8642]

hah! that's awesome. good job yahtzee!

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[MikePhilbin]

sorry,
I've missed the last few of these 'review's and had forgotten how much the ribs ache laughing along as you slaughter some corporate greyness.

well done, milad.

 

[acebrainbuster]

the game is ok i've been playing scary shit for years and yet when somthing like this comes along you just have to think"where would a bland game maker put a potentially deadly creature in a game like this? hmmmm" ether way it was fun non the less but games theses days need to just have more effort put in them. Hell get one of those fat 45 year old pigmen that haven't comeout of home for weeks becuase of a new game to make a new game addicts like that have some good ideas when they put some god dawm effert into it.

 

[OuroborosChoked]

At 1:30 to about 1:40...

Couldn't the same be said about HL2? The game constantly tries to tug our heartstrings with that blatantly obvious sidekick bullshit. Am I really supposed to give two shits about Alyx? Why? Because she constantly fawns over Dr. Mute with her doey eyes for no adequately explained reason? Gordon doesn't do anything she can't do... and she could probably do it all better because she doesn't need a powered suit! Oh, and whaddya know... a silent protagonist who uses a physics weapon...

I wonder if Dead Space is supposed to be a parody of HL2...

 

[Techni]

So the point of the game was to be unoriginal?

Most games are based off other things. Gears of war was based off Resident Evil 4 for example. Being based off a movie doesn't make it unoriginal. Being unoriginal doesn't make something bad either.

While the dilapidated status of the ship might make perfect sense in the context of the game, it's still unoriginal.

And effing neccesary. It's the site of a disaster for christs sakes, you'd have to be retarded to expect it to be in one piece.

there are always other factors to consider) automatically inferior to creating (or at least trying to create) something that's actually original.

Completely false. Being inspired by something does NOT make something inferior to something not inspired by anything.

 

[HeroOfLegend]

I didn't think it was that funny this week. The most clever part in my eyes is when he says "It's repetitive," twice. Aw well, better luck next week (Fable 2?)

 

[Agh-a-meme-knottle]

If my learned colleague finds Dead Space boring, but, as he says at the end of his review, is "still hung up on Silent Hill," then this could mean one of two things. Either he's hung up on the original Silent Hill or the series as a whole.

In his review of Silent Hill: Homecoming, he stated that Silent Hill 2 was his favorite, which suggests he means the entire series -- otherwise, he'd have mentioned 2 in his review of Dead Space. Yet his reviews of Homecoming and Origins were largely negative, which suggests he doesn't favor the series at all.

The apparent contradiction makes more sense if seen as a case of poetic license: he pretends to despise games which annoy him slightly in order to emphasize the flaws for comic effect.

Or does he mean "hung up" in the romantic sense? Is he explaining to Dead Space itself that he can't offer his heart to more than one franchise at a time?

It's possible Yahtzee Croshaw is a boy who enjoys tossing invective at the girl on whom he has a secret crush. Perhaps his harshest appraisals of games are sometimes expressions of affection.

Short answer: He might have enjoyed Dead Space more than he lets on.

 

[Thirtysomething]

Ok, so I just got to the last boss in the game, and after witnessing the last few chapters I can't help but think

Spoiler

the whole "religion" sub-plot was a reference to Scientology.

I haven't seen that mentioned anywhere, and I don't know enough about Scientology to be sure though, but did anyone else think that or am I reading too much into it/interpreting it completely wrong?

 

[DarkBlood626]

Love the starship troopers
And cowboy bebop references

 

[Sar212]

I like your reviews, but don't agree with you on Dead Space. The game may have some repetitive parts, but definitely not enought to object to. It really depends on what is being repeated -- if you are repeating enjoyable gameplay elements there is no problem. I mean take chess or baseball -- they are both plenty repetitive, but people still come back for more of the same.

I am not a hard-core gamer, so I also care about the graphics and environments. Those are incredible here. The visuals and the sound are very immersive. The game is scary, at least to me, enough to need to take a break every 30 minutes or so. I love the feeling of dread and intensity that stays with you during the game, but don't want a heart attack! So I take a break.

The immersion factor is greatly helped by the unique menu mechanism. While you use menu or map, you stay "in the game". This is brilliant.

The other thing I want to mention is that the game on easy setting is very friendly to casual gamer. The control scheme is very well done, and doesn't require some ridicoulous button combinations that take forever to master. I am sure you played a game that in order to pass to another level required you to press: button A + button B, followed by left trigger, followed by scratching your right ear with your left hand, followed by three short presses of button C. Dead Space doesn't have any nonsense like that.

One thing I don't like is the map in the game -- the control is not very elegant. But there is this path finding device your character has -- press it, and there is a thin "laser" line pointing the path to your next objective. This is very elegant, and is probably useful to both, casual and hard-core gamers.

I am not a fan of EA, but Dead Space is top notch. I hope people give it a chance.

 

[Sar212]

I haven't seen that mentioned anywhere, and I don't know enough about Scientology to be sure though, but did anyone else think that or am I reading too much into it/interpreting it completely wrong?

Absolutely! That was my first thought. I am actually surprised that they are not protesting the game.

 

[Azzaevil]

cool

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

Oh wow! An original game concept about deep space and zero-gravity! ...Wait, it's another Aliens rip-off. Sigh.

Spot on about characterization. I'm not going to sympathize with someone just because I'm told to.

actually there isn't much in the game that is similar to Aliens, a movie that I know line for line. and as for sympathy, well you don't have to feel tied to Isaac to understand that the game is fun... just a little cliched.

 

[Tomw1812]

Not as funny as the others, but still adequate