NotTheGuyYouKill
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I agree. Gunner Wright is fantastic as Isaac. That was some of the best acting work of last year. A great performance. I look forward to his work on DS3.
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LTTP: Dead Space 2 (or: holy crap at the lighting)
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I agree. Gunner Wright is fantastic as Isaac. That was some of the best acting work of last year. A great performance. I look forward to his work on DS3.
BibiMaghoo
Member
I loved the first game so purchased the second.
I made the mistake of starting the game on Zealot mode, and am now very much stuck.
Not sure what chapter but
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I made the mistake of starting the game on Zealot mode, and am now very much stuck.
Not sure what chapter but
you are stuck in a lift with creatures breaking through the windows at random sides. They always kill me before I reach the top.
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NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
I used the force gun on them. It had a couple of upgrades in it, but it makes mincemeat of them.
mr_mcgregors
Member
Finished DS2 last week and loved it. Going straight into Mass Effect 3 only reinforced how right the controls in DS2 were.
But...you can kill that enemy in the first game. It's not beyond the pale that I should also expect to be able to kill the successor monster in the sequel.
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You can't kill it with conventional weapons in either game. In the first game you kill it with a blast from a ship engine. Why would you expect it to die with anything less in the sequel?
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
Technically you can shoot into a fan at the end of that sequence, but you raise a good point at just how ridiculous trying to kill that thing is. Plus, there isn't much time to find a jet engine anywhere nearby.
I wasn't actually. But I did think it could be killed. It was one of the reasons I decided to run actually - was hoping I'd find something that would help me kill the damn thing.
Monkey Pants
Outpost Games Creative Director
Gunner is great. He's not just the voice, though. He does the whole performance (we capture voice, body, and face at the same time for scenes). Although he does go back into the studio to do the gameplay voiceover.
We also used him as the likeness, although we tweaked things a little so Isaac wasn't as pretty.
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Monkey Pants
Outpost Games Creative Director
Returning for what?
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Man, I was hoping you would slip up.
JumpingTheGun
Banned
I'm about to start a Zealot run because of this thread. Any suggestions on the proper weapon loadout? Also, do all of your upgrades carry over from ng+ or do you have to start from scratch?
andthebeatgoeson
Junior Member
It wasn't the system but how they utilized it. I remember the oxygen being strategically on my mind do to the puzzles outside. Maybe I ignored it in 1 until too late in the game but I thought it was a consideration in DS1 for me on what and when to upgrade. You had more puzzles and enemies outside, to me it seemed. But I haven't counted and am purely going off my memory of how I felt. Just think it was underutilized and probably an area they could have taken more advantage of. I liked it in the first. I also liked the area outside in DS2 with the array.
The problem with the plasma cutter is that its just TOO GOOD
Its like the Hiigaran Battlecruiser in Homeworld2: it takes way more resources and time to build units of any kind and it doesnt improves combat that much.
The contact beam for example takes a lot of Nodes to be halfway decent, and even then is not that great, and you're always running out of ammo with the line gun.
Maybe if there were more Nodes around, you barely get enough to upgrade your rig and the plasma cutter
Its like the Hiigaran Battlecruiser in Homeworld2: it takes way more resources and time to build units of any kind and it doesnt improves combat that much.
The contact beam for example takes a lot of Nodes to be halfway decent, and even then is not that great, and you're always running out of ammo with the line gun.
Maybe if there were more Nodes around, you barely get enough to upgrade your rig and the plasma cutter
This game has some of the best animation, lighting, and sound effects of any game out there this generation
Really want to see what Visceral can do on a new original game
Honestly if I have any gripes with DS2, they're almost entirely about the core structure of the game, something that isn't necessarily poorly done, just not to my tastes (too linear)
edit: And if anyone can explain why they wasted development resources on a multiplayer mode, I'm all ears
Really want to see what Visceral can do on a new original game
Honestly if I have any gripes with DS2, they're almost entirely about the core structure of the game, something that isn't necessarily poorly done, just not to my tastes (too linear)
edit: And if anyone can explain why they wasted development resources on a multiplayer mode, I'm all ears
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
I'm pretty sure they hired a new and separate team to do that, so no resources wasted. It was pretty good.
MikeHaggar
Member
i agree with this 100%. give me the mechanics of the 2nd game with the level design of the first in ds3 and i'll be very, very happy.
and yes, the lighting is awesome in this game.
Dead Space 2 was great and improved on almost everything that a sequel should do, especially Isaac, he went from a character that said nothing to a character that I really cared for in the second game.
And while I am definitely looking forward to a Dead Space 3, I want to know if we are going to get a second novel, I enjoyed the first one as an expansion on the universe of Dead Space so really hope we get some more side stuff from the games.
Totally agree, I thought they did a great job going from a game where he didn't say a world to a much more evolved character, probably better developed than a lot of other protagonists that have always talked.
While I agree on the ending, the run up to it was iffy in my opinion.
I loved and played the first Dead Space a lot, but that last section, we can talk about how we had to run from an almost
all we like but the problem I have is it came out of no where at the end.
The first game set it up as
In DS2 they shove
, and I completely see why people wouldn't know they have to
, the game up to that point almost never forces you to rush through an area unless it is an "action" styled sequence that usually ends with some sort of QTE.
It to me honestly felt like it should have been a bigger part of the game than just put in at the end to move you forward, they build up a lot of things in the game and it just felt out of place compared to everything and everyone else.
And while I am definitely looking forward to a Dead Space 3, I want to know if we are going to get a second novel, I enjoyed the first one as an expansion on the universe of Dead Space so really hope we get some more side stuff from the games.
Totally agree, I thought they did a great job going from a game where he didn't say a world to a much more evolved character, probably better developed than a lot of other protagonists that have always talked.
While I agree on the ending, the run up to it was iffy in my opinion.
I loved and played the first Dead Space a lot, but that last section, we can talk about how we had to run from an almost
invincible necromorph
The first game set it up as
something you had to run away from with the possibility of killing it at some point, so you ran, you knew you had to because there was really another way at that point, then they stick you in a room where you have to freeze it showing that you can stop it.
In DS2 they shove
it in there out of no where while everything is going to pot, from memory you just walk in and it jumps out and so the run begins
run the hell away
It to me honestly felt like it should have been a bigger part of the game than just put in at the end to move you forward, they build up a lot of things in the game and it just felt out of place compared to everything and everyone else.
Monkey Pants
Outpost Games Creative Director
Mostly we were trying to provide more value and a longer relationship with the game to players, and thought there were a couple interesting ideas from the DS world that would translate.
The fact that we were doing MP got us more resources from EA to make the game, so it's not like if we didn't do MP those resources would've gone into SP. We just wouldn't have had them. It was purely an addition.