Jesse from TVG writes "For those of you that have enjoyed the blood splattering, corpse dismembering, limb impaling, sci-fi shooter that is the Dead Space franchise then you may be interested to know that EA and Visceral Games are struggling to determine a suitable solution for this semi-profitable franchise."
An executive of Electronic Arts Japan has criticised the Japanese video game ratings board for allowing upcoming action game Stellar Blade to be released uncensored while EA's own Dead Space was banned in the country.
He’s got a point. If a game is M-Rated, which is the equivalent of an R rating, I don’t get why you need to censor anything. The rating is the indicator of the content and the age appropriate. If it’s appropriate for adults… why treat them like children? 🤷♂️
I don't know if the EA executive is going off the one close up of an arm being cut off in the demo. Maybe it's uncensored because it's the arm of a cyborg or it doesn't happen that often (didn’t see EVE dismemberment when killed in the demo) .
In the states there's a certain amount of swear words allowed to a PG13 movie before it is deemed R. So maybe it's the same in Japan for gore?
The remake teased an expanded universe, but now a sequel has no chance of delivering on it.
Honestly i believe it was mainly as retaliation for the original devs breaking off and making colisto protocol. They've done this a few times, ignoring fan demands for the return of a belived ip until someone does it for them, then they retaliate by only then announcing an entry. Colisto protocol was announced and EA announced the remake shortly after, Session finally hit consoles and skate 4 was announced, shortly after Undisputed was shown off, talks started happening about a new fight night.
It was a solid game and we'll have to move on and accept it for what it is. Just because we're not getting a sequel (original or remake) doesn't mean there's no point anymore in what is a great, tense, well-paced single player experience. No one's taking Dead Space Remake away.
I just hope that the game isn't so technically stitched together on PC that driver updates render the game unplayable like what happened with me and my RTX 4070 last year, requiring a driver downgrade just months after the game came out. If you're a console player then you've got no worries.
Most likely for EA to cash in on the remake craze that followed Capcom when they started remaking RE games. I am glad EA did it I enjoy the game. DS is one of my favorite franchises love the sci fi horror shit. What I don't like is EA not remaking DS2. So DS1 remake did not do well with the numbers so what. DS2 has a solid fanbase and is probably the best entry in the franchise depending on the fan. DS2 remake would have been a day one for me but I got a reminder on why I hate EA. Scrap the DS2 remake for a shitty Iron Man game.
It's because the gaming community want remakes and remasters over new games.
I think that is for the best of the franchise o be left alone then to be turned into a game as a service or something like that, EA has the awful habit of trying to monetize everything.
EA has shut down rumors that EA Motive considered a Dead Space 2 remake before shelving it due to low sales of the previous game, saying there's "no validity" to the reports.
Why not remake DS2 whether shot down or not it's still my favorite game next to DS1. As much as I hate EA I would buy or would have bought DS2 day one.
No validity XD "Guys guys, we cant possible make a good game or cater to the gamers wants, stop"
I don't know if sales met their expectations or not. I just know that the high review scores received my attention so I was interested in buying it, but its price stayed high (50+ bucks) for so long that I simply never bothered picking it up.
Bring back this series please!
They killed it off with number 3
Great video. Really enjoyed hearing this guy's input.
Unfortunately, it is most definitely dead.
EA just won't make something out of just pure artistry...no, it needs to big big bucks for them to even consider it. They said DS3 needs to sell 5M copies to survive, and they purposely made it more action orientated because it resonates / sells more compared to action-horror. ( I was caught so offguard when EA decided to make Mirrors Edge 2, despite it not selling so well ), but I doubt same thing will happen to Dead Space franchise.
Now that they have StarWars license cashcow, there is no way Visceral Games would be working on anything else than new SW games or new battlefield spinoffs. It's just reality.
I like the first two games a lot, and I think they should go back and remake Dead space some day with the mindset and ideas they had for the first game and rely on horror and atmosphere, sound design, graphic scenes and tension.
The first two games are a good source for inspiration, but maybe they should look to other popular and praised horror games to see what works and what people like, why they like it and keep it in mind, but keeping it true to dead space while developing a new entry or reboot. Id say make it the most intense, atmospheric and gripping game it can be. Alien Isolation, outlast, PT/Silent hills, Soma, amnesia.
Make it atmospheric (PT, Soma and Alien Isolation).
Tense (Outlast, PT and Alien).
Graphic (PT, dead space).
Interesting (Soma, Dead space, Outlast).
Give us characters we care about look at the last of us. The last of us made gamers care and cry, Alien Isolation had one or two good moments in it where it pulled on my heart strings, it had a sacrifice(the android), and it took away a good character right in front of us as we had just started to like him. Axel anyone?
Soma made us think and feel about our actions and decitions.
Just things and games I think is worth looking at and take into concideration for the dead space franchise.
Above all it got to stay true to itself and be nerve rushing and horryfying, atmospheric. :)