Dead Space 3

[Valdarez]

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Just started playing. Playing solo on Normal setting. WAY more drops than in previous games. I'm leaving tons of stuff behind, which I don't recall doing in Dead Space 1 and only occasionally in Dead Space 2, which leads me to believe the games are getting easier with each release.

[Phobia]

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Just started playing. Playing solo on Normal setting. WAY more drops than in previous games. I'm leaving tons of stuff behind, which I don't recall doing in Dead Space 1 and only occasionally in Dead Space 2, which leads me to believe the games are getting easier with each release.

First half of the game is easy, wait till you hit the Snow planet. It can get pretty brutal in the back end.

[Valdarez]

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First half of the game is easy, wait till you hit the Snow planet. It can get pretty brutal in the back end.

Looks like I'm about 20% of the way through now. I was thinking, that since I'm playing solo, and not co-op, that perhaps there are more drops as they planned the game for 2x players? Helps that I know to stomp on all the dead bodies to produce extra drops too I suppose (at times the drops don't appear unless the bodies are stomped).

[mrprice33]

Eurogamer is reporting the series has been cancelled after poor sales of DS3. If true, this sucks.

[Valdarez]

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Eurogamer is reporting the series has been cancelled after poor sales of DS3. If true, this sucks.

That would be bad and unfortunate. Not a fan of EA, but this has been one of the better games to come out of that company in years. The first Dead Space was truly inspiring, and DS3 has been enjoyable for me thus far, even though they have sullied it with all of the micro-transaction crap. If this story proves to be true, and if nothing else, perhaps one positive can come of it if the sales issue can somehow be registered as a micro-transaction failure?

[mrprice33]

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EA has come out and said that the report wasn't true. We'll see.

[Vice]

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Just picked up DS1, and am hoping to get hooked on it. So far, I'd say my dominant feeling is claustrophobia.

[Valdarez]

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Just picked up DS1, and am hoping to get hooked on it. So far, I'd say my dominant feeling is claustrophobia.

Enjoy it. IMHO it's still the best one in the series. Half way through DS3 now and I'm pretty disappointed in the lack of gameplay evolution. The features added for resource gathering and gun creation just aren't interesting or 'fun' and the gameplay is far too expected now (no claustrophobia feeling sadly). Nothing thus far has really caught me off guard or inspired a 'wow' moment like the DeadSpace 1, and there are far too many gaming options/capabilities they left on the table. Not to say it's a bad game, it just feels like more of the same, and less inspired than the previous titles in the series.

Only halfway through, so that may change, but can't see any real major gameplay revelations now, though there is plenty of time for a few big wow moments. Back to killing Necromorphs!

[Valdarez]

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Not really a spoiler, just a name of a suit that I found funny.

Spoiler

What's the first thing you do when you land on the plant? Go looking for A.S.S. AKA the Arctic Survival Suit.

LOL

[Armor and Sword]

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Enjoy it. IMHO it's still the best one in the series. Half way through DS3 now and I'm pretty disappointed in the lack of gameplay evoluation. The features added for resource gathering and gun creation just aren't interesting or 'fun' and the gameplay is far too expected now (no claustrophobia feeling sadly). Nothing thus far has really caught me off guard or inspired a 'wow' moment like the DeadSpace 1, and there are far too many gaming options/capabilities they left on the table. Not to say it's a bad game, it just feels like more of the same, and less inspired than the previous titles in the series.

Only halfway through, so that may change, but can't see any real major gameplay revelations now, though there is plenty of time for a few big wow moments. Back to killing Necromorphs!

I think as far as refinement, DS3 is the very best in the series. As far as total package? No doubt The original is king. Scared the living crap out of me and was a ground breaking title for this generation of consoles. DS2 was still a freak fest too.

It is like Halloween. After the first one the fright factor got less and less. And that was the real beauty of Dead Space one.

But still DS3 is a high quality titles and worthy of a play through and full retail price.

[Valdarez]

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Wish there had been some type of retention net gun/capability. You know any time you come up to a vent that nine times out of ten something is going to pop out of it at some time. A net could be used to cover them to keep something from popping out and from keeping other necros from rising up / regenerating. Then they could have introduced harvesting from live (live dead?) necromorphs while netted.

On a complete side note, I can't help thinking of Falling Skies while playing Deep Space 3 this time around. The health bar (blue lights and all) looks so much like the harness the Aliens are using on the kids in the Falling Skies TV series.

[Valdarez]

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Finished up DS3 tonight and have to say that I'm pretty disappointed with the ending. We're not given a choice as to the outcome and then the final fight was way too easy. Feels like they intentionally didn't finish the game so they could include additional DLC for it, which irks the hell out of me as a gamer.

Overall found the game FAR too easy compared to past titles. I literally had 60+ health nodes saved up at the end, with another 10 statis and 20 ammo. Just way too many drops for the game, and from a balance perspective, far out of line from past releases.

[Valdarez]

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Feels like they intentionally didn't finish the game so they could include additional DLC for it, which irks the hell out of me as a gamer.

Played the Awakened DLC and finished it today, and sure enough, they basically left the end of the game off in order to charge you an additional $10, so DS3 is basically a $70 game if you want to know how the story really ends.

Just way too many drops for the game, and from a balance perspective, far out of line from past releases.

Seems this is true. From reading other boards, classic mode basically puts the game on Hard (which is what past titles were on) and reduces the number of drops, though how much I can't attest to at this time.

[18 eighty 5]

I am thoroughly enjoying DS3. Campaign length seems generous.

Ent it?

[18 eighty 5]

I have just this second finished the game. Wow, what an intense, action packed and atmospheric journey.

Graphics and game world were really something. Lots of variety but it never lost the dark and claustrophobic sense that everything was happening in deep, eerie space.

Towards the end I thought the sets resembled the movie Aliens vs Predator with all the alien glyphs and the dark hewn stone maze like environs.

The music score was spectacular. The gameplay was first rate third person shooter fare. Weapon construction was just awesome and addictive. By games end I had assembled some pretty dangerous firepower and was wasting Necros with speedy satisfaction. Little extra things like equipping bullets with statis or acid or fire helped alot.

Game + next but not for a while. Time to give Bioshock Infinite a go and also to finish Gears of War.

Again, an outstanding game. The best game I have played this year alongside Ni No Kuni though they are from completely different generes.

Ent it?