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I hope this caters more to people not familiar with all of the lore. The original was exceedingly bland for me, nothing emotional or remotely interesting hit the mark.

Theory: Look, it's [CHARACTER] from [MEDIA]. How cool is that!

Reality: It's just a boring man I need to fight.

What bench thing?

Ok, plan before attempting Impossible:

- Rinse NG++ for enough nodes to update ALL weapons for trophy.

- New Hard run as practice. Probably saving at the start of each chapter and replay were applicable to learn pathing, enemy movement, inventory planning, choke points etc.

- Impossible

Edit: wait, it’s much easier than it sounds.

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Impossible is set to Hard difficulty for how much damage you take and deal, but autosave will be turned off, you will only have one save slot (you can overwrite this one save at every save point as often as you want so essentially infinite saves but limited to one slot), and if you die the save file will immediately be reverted to Hard.

I thought One Save meant just one save, not one save slot.

20 minutes ago, SuperCapes said:

 

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This sounds nightmarish as all it takes is a misstep and you get decapitated by the vine/tentacle throwing bastards. I think even the vines themselves can one shot you. 

 

However...

 

Do it. 

 

Do it!!!

Flamethrower works wonders on em.

Now to consider if I want to do the Impossible run. 1 save, 1 life.

For quests, yes. For collectibles without a quest attached, no

Yup, new. Progress is locked behind story progression but none can be failed until very late in the game (and the game warns you even then).

And yes, this involves backtracking. The map really does you no favours when it comes to that, I just completed a "collection" mission and it was far from fun. The map could really truly use a custom marker option.

And done. Medium, Plasma Cutter Only. Now to have some fun with the different weapons on NG+.

Decent enough. Not up for award, not laughable.

The Plasma Cutter Only run is not as easy as I remember.

I think I soft-locked myself in Chapter 3.

Dang it, sorted. Ignore the quest line, open the nearby locked door with keycard found nearby 🤦‍♂️

Changed to 60 fps performance mode, the 30 fps RT is not good enough.

Loving this. It's just different enough to have it not feel like the same game. Every so small differences to puzzles and scenes. Graphically it's disappointing from a shiny next gen point of view. It's just not that impressive in 4k RT on PS5.

Still, loving my time with this. There is just something to DS that ticks all the right boxes for me.

Extremely slight spoiler for Chapter 2 (new mechanic I do not understand).

Edit: and never mind, literally 3 minutes later I got it. Thanks story progression

I'm sure this is in no way shape or form is worth 80 euro (65 quid) and I am a complete fool for handing over this amount of cash for a remake. You're all morons if you paid this amount for Forspoken or any of the shite Ubi shits out nowadays.

But my situation is surely different. I am not part of the problem 🤔

You lot ever played The Persistence (supports both VR and non-VR)? Slow paced first person rogue-like horror. Plays nothing like Dead Space but in some way feels like it. Lineair and deliberate, I rather enjoyed my time with it in VR.

3 is actually not that poor an action game, it is a poor Dead Space though. Human enemies with guns, waist high cover, practically no horror, crafting fuelled by micro transactions. It had a neat idea with coop as well where you and your coop buddy would see different things. Also, you could craft the most ridiculous guns (like a shotgun taped to a shotgun).

8 minutes ago, Vulgar Monkey said:

Do we think there is any hope that theyre probing for interest in a DS4? Or is this remake likely to just be a one-off?

The issue with the DS franchise is its complete lack of identity. Each entry is vastly different; 1 is slow paced linear horror, 2 added more action, 3 is a full blown Michael Bay-esque action set piece. If this remake does well, what's a future remake of 2 or 3, or a brand new 4 going to be? I do of course hope Dead Space 4 is coming and follows in Dead Space 1's footsteps completely ignoring the events on 2 and 3.

51 minutes ago, Strafe said:

The main thing I noticed playing last night was that the Callisto Protocol wasn’t actually particularly scary. This is 😬

Have things or encounters changed? Played the original to death, not sure if anything’ll surprise if things stayed the same.

😧

dang it, day ruined etc.

Wait, this releases on the 27 right, should that not be 1 minute after midnight in about 6 hours from now?

The timer shows 22 hours remaining 😑

I hope we discover what Peng is.

Feeling bad about handing EA 80 euro.

Feeling good replaying the heck out of Dead Space again. Plasma Cutter Only run imminent.

Finger on the Pre-Order button. 4 minutes until embargo lifts 🤠

Good enough for me, pre-ordered.

4 minutes ago, Strafe said:

I’ll wait until 4pm until opening for the review embargo just in case.

You know, I actually like that cover. Nothing beats the original but this one is not bad.