Dead Space[Remake]

I always think unless they’re going the total reinvention route part of the art of good remaster/remake is giving you the game you remember/imagined playing at the time.

Dead Space with new shinies and moder QoL improvements. Plus I smoked a lot of weed then so won't have remembered everything.

Yes please.

Yous’ll love the Alan Wake remaster then because its exactly the same as first time around

Hope they do something with the dualsense for all the stomping of limbs I will be doing with every body I see.

Got so paranoid first time around I'd spend the first 5 mins in any new area stamping on everything.

Like a zombie riverdance

I was all about the mulchinator. Hopefully they can get the dualsense involved to make it feel even more mulchy.

The weapons seem to lack a bit of oomph in the videos they've released so far, I'm hoping they're working on it.

Yeah when people say the original still looks good and visually close to the remake it really isn't true. The level detail in the remake is on another level. I think there's some truth to what user Duffking says about how the remake has the same visual design so you're brain is doing some work.

I found a gameplay video of the original, which does a good job of showing the environment detail and lighting difference. Still, I trust my memory more than some YouTube video. They can do all this with computers now.

youtu.be/nqvYW0xsyCU

I was convinced the trailer was going to kick into the current version of the game, amazing how much heavy lifting our imagination did back then.

I am conflicted though. A quick wiki confirms my memory, in that EA effectively killed off the series with Dead Space 3, a few years later then closing Visceral games.

EA wasn't happy with sales of 4 million with DS2, which roughly matched the original. A studio lead and level designer said DS3's original design of retuning to the survival horror roots of the original was then binned by EA, who wanted the game to have a more mass market appeal. Horror replaced with action and set pieces, traditional co-op with wider open spaces to battle in along with micro transactions. Unsuprisingly the game didn't sell as well as DS2 and killed the series.

Even Viscerals suggestion of making the co-op part of the story, with another player dropping in as shadow Isaac, representing his imagination and broken mind due to the horror and trauma he'd been though was canned for something more traditional.

Adored every bit of this series up until 3. Now we've got to pay £70 for a fancy version of the original for any hope of the series being picked up again, when EA fucked it in the first place.

Had a quick scan through. Happy with that, looks great.

Goes against everything the original stood for.

Yeah I’m in for this big time. Melt it down and pour it all over me.

Resident Evil 2 Remake strongly disagrees with you.

It's like a bunch of old farts only wanting to listen to old albums and watch old movies. Let's put all the talented artists and creators onto new ips and the gaming releases would be so much more exciting.