Unfortunately the remake’s sales didn’t satisfy EAs greed enough for them to greenlight a Dead Space 2 remake
What helps the atmosphere is that the Dead Space universe is terrifying all by itself, no monsters involved. It's a full on dystopia with bad living conditions for almost everyone involved. Those ships are designed in a so non-humane way that people would've naturally gone insane in months while working on them. The corridors are cramped, the lights are dim and the walls are just pipes, rusty metal and grates, even in medical or crew decks. It's like no matter where you go, you're constantly in some filthy warehouse.
Deserved to be played by more people. Gutted EA arnt doing a Dead Space 2 remake but just thankful we got this masterpiece.
This is partially as to why I love Halo and The Flood because of how mysterious and how unsettling an intelligent outbreak can happen
And the most horrifying part of the story is that no matter how hard you fight, theres no hope of winning.
A Dead Space video in 2025? I'm here for it. Of course I want to see the sequels get the same remake treatment.
A lot of horror games tend to exaggerate certain physical details on characters to make it seem scary, but dead space's design and writing just makes the necromorphs so much scarier. It uses actual references to biology and science to describe the process of how a necromorph is made, using only the flesh and bones of its host to make it twisted
It always makes me happy to see that - even after all these years - TheRadBrad’s avatar on YouTube is STILL Isaac Clarke. This game left a huge impression me as a kid playing it in my cousin’s basement and being genuinely terrified, to finally playing DS2 on my own PS4 and now the remake on PS5. I’ve beaten every one of the games and must say I did enjoy the remake a lot, actually.
Dead Space Franchise, is literally the game that made me forget about Resident Evil, after Capcom killed the franchise, and that MF said: "Resident Evil is too big to stay as a horror game." Dead Space and Alien Isolation, are both my favorite games of all times.
I still consider the original 2008 Dead Space to be an example of a 'perfect' game, at least according to my own personal tastes. From the voice acting, to the level design, to the overall artistic design, to the length of the game, the horror style (Lovecraftian cosmic horror is my fave), the story/lore, etc. Everything about the game is just perfect to me. The original Dead Space is up there on the same level as classic Doom (Ultimate Doom, specifically) as a practically flawless game that I never grow tired of, no matter how many times I've beat it.
What I think the genius of this game is that at some point we realize that the horror doesn't really come from the monsters but from something far more dangerous and elusive. We can kill monsters. As bad and terrifying as they are we can fight them. We can at least try. But how do you fight a power that drills itself into your mind? We experience unsettling occurrences from the very beginning. The whispers in the dark corridors, the madness of the crew, the weirdness of Nicole, companions seeing things... It was all there and only getting worse. By the time we hear the dead and see the marker signs it's already too late. Realization that necromorphs are nothing but a tool and the true "monster" has been lurking all this time and done its work. Work that we can't even begin to understand.
This deserves to be either a tv series or a movie. Get the producers and directors from alien Romulus and evil dead remake together. This could be a masterpiece
I’ve recently just played it for the first time. It was absolutely incredible. Never played a game with such great suspense and sound design.
One of the main reasons I love Dead Space so much is that it combines Lovecraftian existential dread with slasher (no pun intended) in-your-face body horror in a very seamless way. "Over the top but subtle" is the way I usually describe this series to people. Also Dead Space Martyr is an excellent book!
How they remade the tentacles to be those heads at the tips it was a beautiful addition
The idea of getting stuck in a ship with necromorphs is terrifying.
Also the secondary missions of the remake give more depth to Nicole and Isaac's relationship, because Nicole was Isaac's mother's psychologist, but the latter committed suicide and Isaac reacted badly by blaming her, Nicole tells him to go to hell, that being their last conversation
Dead Space is such a great game i have to go back to every once in a while
The quality of your videos has come so far since Alien: Isolation. This may be my favourite one yet 🖤
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