Dead Space 3: 8 Things We Want

OXM UK: "Hear that predatory rattling behind the walls? No, that's not the air con unit throwing a muscle. Visceral Games is hiring for work on Dead Space 3, the next chapter in space engineer Isaac Clarke's struggle to retain possession of his limbs, guts and sanity."

[dirigiblebill]

Scares that actually scare you, for starters. Dead Space 2 was a fine third-person shooter, but a middling survival horror game.

[JsonHenry]

They either just don't make horror games with enough "horror" or we are all just so used to it no matter what they do it will just be a shooter with survival-like ammo rationing added in.

The only way I can seem to add any suspense to these games at all anymore is to play on the hardest difficulty so that I will be more concerned about not using that ammo or getting through a fight without being hurt so I won't have to use one of my precious few health packs I need to save for a boss fight.

[BeOneWithTheGun]

That's a very good point JsonHenry. Nowadays we are so saturated that it takes a lot to get us going. I remember in my teen years in the 80s, I would find a playboy and was like "Holy Shit!" Now, it's like looking at a Sports Illustrated. I get more graphic pics ala spam in my email account.

The old Resident Evil and Silent Hill games scared the crap outta me but with all the FEAR movies and stuff I am totally de-sensitized to it all.

[WhiteLightning]

Dead Space 2 wasn't as scary as Dead Space, I think returning to the Ishimura was the best level in the game.

"A standalone co-op campaign"

No, No and No.....look what happened to RE5 and look what happened with Dead Space 2 when it tacked on an online mode, it was crap. They could of made the single player longer and more polished if they didn't have an online mode.

Why is everyone so obssesed about online in single player games, especialy horror games like Dead Space. You'll go on it for like a month and end up back on COD/Battlefield/Gears/Uncharte d online in like a week....making the co-op/onlne play you guys asked for dumbing down the game for the single playe players.

[dirigiblebill]

I don't get why everybody's so terrified of co-op, especially as an alternative to a wonky competitive multiplayer mode. Providing they keep it separate from teh campaign, give it real substance - proper missions rather than linear maps - and leave things sandboxy enough to accommodate replay, where's the harm?

[WhiteLightning]

"I don't get why everybody's so terrified of co-op"

Probably because every single player game it touches ends up not as good as the last game.

It's fine with games built up around co-op or had co-op in mind from the start like Borderlands, L4D, Fable and Halo

But why want it added where it's not really neccesary like in great single player games like Elder Scrolls, Mass Effect, Fallout, Bioshock, Dead Space, Resident evil.

[Lord_Sloth]

I can't believe White Lightning used Fable as a reference for good co-op...Sure it's a fun game and I enjoy it but the co-op needs some serious work.

Also, none of you seem to grasp the concept of "Stand Alone Co-Op."

This means it doesn't effect the single player campaign.

[MrSpace]

@Lord_Sloth: "I can't believe White Lightning used Fable as a reference for good co-op"

Erm...where did he mention the word good, he was basicaly saying it's fine to make a co-op/single game if the game has been built around co-op from the start which Fable was. He never mentioned how good it was and I agree with Whitelightning, people who beg for co-op these "Co-op online freaks" would go on it for only a short while, get bored of it and go back to a big online game like call of duty, leaving the single player ruined for people who actually liked the franchise for it's single player.

[CYBERHATER]

Just make it optional just other games. It's not rocket science

[trenso1]

im not terrified of co-op but in a game like dead space i dont think it belongs it take away from the survival aspect of the game you dont really feel like you have to survive if you have a buddy that you can take turns shooting with.

[banjadude]

Honestly... I want something much closer to Dead Space 1 than 2.

[Quagmire]

I loved DS1 morre than DS2. DS2 just didnt FEEL as scary as the first. The article is right about going back to a ship, because its secluded, claustraphobic, and in DS1 there was a max of maybe 5 people in the entire game, makes you feel more vulnerable, than watching about 20-50 people on the sprawl, which has wide open spaces.

[banjadude]

Couldn't have said it better myself.

However, they definitely should keep some of the DS 2 stuff:
- The locator ability (the thing that shows you where the next save point, shop, etc are)
- The ability to stomp corpses for items
- Having your stasis energy auto-regenerate.

[fooxy]

I wish they fuking release a patch to fix glitches that keep people from finishing the game

[jdfoster00]

1 thing we want:- NO MULTIPLAYER!

[Eiffel]

I actually gave that a shot, it's pretty ridiculous. Spamming stasis is truly god mode.

[CYBERHATER]

The multiplayer is not bad it's just mindless fun. Which is a good way to relax after you have beaten the campaign to death.

[jdfoster00]

That's what I mean. They could put MORE into the Single player. Which is what most people, if not all buy DS for! I would welcome a co-op type of survival mode though if it doesn't hinder the single player experience but multiplayer = meh and not needed/not wanted

[Empire X]

I want hi res. textures for the pc ver. and more horror.

[bobrea]

How about not making it the biggest rip=off of the year? The game took me 6.5 hours to beat on Zealot. It wasn't scary, it wasn't hard, multiplayer sucked, and they totally abandoned their PC fanbase. Fuck Dead Space.

This is coming from someone who loves the first one and bought it on both PC and PS3.

[Quagmire]

ooh...big man sizing up his e-peen.

[bobrea]

Yea, man. Being unhappy with something I spent $60 on is totally being an e-thug. Grow up, kid.

[FEARprototype]

what we want? that what you want! i want dead space 3 to be full of rainbows and unicorns and replace the monsters with happy fairs and wild sprites and i hope my weapons shoots rainbows too^^

[tigertron]

I really can't think of anything. DS2 was just brilliant.

I'm not going to jump on the "Dead Space 2 isn't scary" bandwaggon. Sure, it wasn't AS scary as the first, but it still scared the crap out of me.

[SkittlesLikesPopcorn]

just give us another shitty corridor shooter console port. im sure it will sell like hotcakes.

[1969]

I don't care just hurry and make it.

[Oldman100]

In regards to number 5, there's an option in the menu where you can change back to the original aiming style.