If there's one game I that deserves to be remade, it's Dead Space 3. I wonder if the new guys at motive are capable of fixing everything that went wrong with Dead Space 3. Like bring back the horror, get rid of love triangle and the human enemies.

Great review and critique! I do feel like I disagree when it comes to the usefulness of the other weapons besides the plasma cutter. They’re all really useful when you take the peeling system to its limit. Even guns like the flamethrower or the force gun will make the necromorphs very very easy to cut apart, even with the pulse rifle. The flamethrower was useless in the original. I’m really happy that the combat is flushed out and polished enough to allow for those guns to have a specific use and strategy.

I can't stand isaac's new face tho

I do think that the remake is largely a better game however, I do think they stand on their own because of one mechanical difference. Enemy aggression, in the remake necromorphs have more health. Because you have to cut through layers of their skin to several a limb. To account for that they lowered enemy aggression. as well as lowering movement speed and increasing Isaac's. It's this aggression that I think characterizes the necromorphs so well. There an entity where every cell their body wants you dead. An illusion that would often be broken for me as I watch a necromorph just casually walking towards me. Where in the original they were almost always in a full sprint. Outside of that I do believe that this is largely the better experience

I loved that they kept it the same very faithful and didn't cut anything unlike the resident evil remakes also I've never played the original dead space and the remake was my first time experiencing the hype of the franchise 😀

I'm not sure I like where this remaster trend is going it feels like history washing. Gaming history washing

I disagree with you about dead spaces difficulty i think dead space can be very difficult if you are careless

It sounds like overall you didn't follow the devs' thought process while the game was being made. You said it has no artistic reason to be made. I can think of three. The peeling system, the Intensity Director, and the ALIVE system. 3:28 "Time wasting backtracking"? It's only a waste of time if you don't care about the extra lore or a feature or two. And most of the time, you only really backtrack if you skipped something. 4:58 You must not have seen many people play this game. Especially newcomers. They'll forget or not care enough to see the difference. It's warranted. You know because you already played the original. Speaking of which, your experience with the remake seems to be strongly colored by your experience with the original, based on how you talked about the resource management and weapon variety. 16:48 Some of us really love the additional details added through the side missions. And maybe you were unlucky with the Intensity Director, because there are some very cool possibilities. You could get random quarantines. Or certain events on the tram. 19:29 The idea more to be faithful than to one-up the original, there was a lot of discourse about that. People were already very cynical and angry that they dared to change anything. So it's the old game with some QoL changes, AI changes, dynamic events, and lore additions. Overall, I feel like it was absolutely worth the price mostly *because* of what they changed. The movement, control scheme, certain setpieces, some dialogue, the features I mentioned at the beginning if this comment, it all recontextualizes the whole experience even if the core gameplay on the surface is the same. My only real gripes are that they changed the Pulse Rifle secondary fire, and didn't give us the DS2 version of the Contact Beam. Also the Hunter should have chased us more. They definitely made the final three chapters way different though, even if most of the plot points are the same.

I wondered about this myself for this game as I've never played it, along with this new remaster of Metroid Prime, a game that I *am* very familiar with. As excited as I am to play Prime Remastered when the physical version releases, I was a bit disappointed to see that the game has no major changes at all - it's exactly the same, with no improvements made to the gameplay. I really like Prime, but the mandatory artifact hunt at the end is a slog, and I was hoping to see the game address this, even if it was just an optional "enhanced/remastered" mode. The game still looks incredible, especially for Switch, and I truly do want to play it as soon as possible, but even with it already being sold for less than full price, I still think Nintendo could have gone a little lower. Dead Space, on the other hand, is something I've never played before, so I'd probably get a big kick out of it, but I agree with you that remastering/remaking games with such little change in mechanics and artistic meaning does seem a little bit pointless. I suppose it's a by-product of games being so limited by their technology, unlike film (after a certain point at least) which still looks great today. I don't really have an issue with taking an existing game from 15-20 years ago and just polishing it up, but when that's being sold for full-price, I agree it can feel a bit greedy. Maybe even soulless. I work in the Unreal Engine for my day job, and I know that there is no "easy part" of development, even when the pieces have all been provided. But in the grand scheme of things, the "hard part" was already done - the game design concepts, level design, set-piece planning, structure - I would argue that *these* are the hardest parts because they're fundamental to the entire experience, and require so much thinking, planning and simple trial and error. Arguably it's the same for video creators like us - the hardest part isn't capturing the footage, recording our voice over or editing the final product - the hardest part is writing the script. That's not to negate the countless hours of recording and editing that takes place for producing the actual final product, but the script dictates everything, and it's easily the hardest part to lock down. Once I have a script, I almost enter autopilot. I know exactly what to do from that point onward. The hardest part is sifting through all my footage for hours and then saying "screw it" and going to re-record whatever I'm looking for anyway. Remastering or remaking a game is undoubtedly difficult, and takes a lot of time and effort from talented people, but artistically, it's just not the same as a new release, and I agree that we probably shouldn't price them as such.

I am just happy that the franchise is back, like a fixer upper that's deserved to be.

Yeah, it's definitely a minority opinion to have any negative criticisms about this game. Especially if you try to post any negative criticisms on the Dead Space subreddit, no matter how small the criticism may be. As much as I love this game, I do wish they did more, even the most minute criticism that most would write off, I'd consider to be completely valid since we have a DIRECT comparison to compare to, from a game that did it better almost 2 decades ago.

My biggest theory as to why we have the remake despte the first one bieng good as is, is that i hope it leads to retcon/fix dead space 3. It would have been out of place if they made a remake of DS3 out nowhere.

New game + should of said harder enemies and ammo scarcity

I honestly just wanted more variety of enemies and a harder difficulty with harder enemies

20:07 I've been trying to figure where that background Music is from. It's Dead Space 3...