EuroGamer - Sci-fi survival shooter Dead Space 3 includes micro-transactions, Eurogamer uncovered last week, as a way to save time with the game's weapon-crafting system. The response to this news was fairly one-sided: that publisher EA had switched into full money-grabbing mode to nickel-and-dime hardcore gamers. It was another example of a company initiating a "pay to win" scheme, and an encroachment of free-to-play principles into a game that already costs £40. But is it really such a controversial move? Is it that unexpected? Or is it, like other time-saving examples in console games, something you can just ignore?
If EA and Motive Studio plan on remaking all the main Dead Space entries, they have to change a lot of what made Dead Space 3 so divisive.
Simple, do not bother with a Dead Space 3 remake. Rather have a new entry for Dead Space.
Yeah I agree. Make a dead space 3, but have an original story/setting. They’ve proven they can do the game justice, and I think they could evolve 2 in a good direction, keeping a similar tone. I’d love s Dead Space 2 and 3 though. The remake was fantastic. Top tier remake, up there with RE2.
Remaking 3 would need to be a reworked and somewhat changed remake as 3 was flawed in most peoples eyes and the worst entry.
WTMG's Kyle Nicol:
"Was Dead Space 3 really that bad?
Well, it’s a complicated question. Dead Space 3 is undeniably the weakest of the trilogy. It’s a game that deviates so far from the original formula, that it throws a lot of what made Dead Space special in the first place out of the window. Although, where it does make up for it is one of the best cooperative shooters on the market, even after all this time. Do I recommend playing this game ten years later? Hell yes. But make sure your expectations are in the right place. It has a lot of problems that bring it down."
With the upcoming Dead Space Remake, we replay and rank the original three games.
Dead Space
Dead Space 2
The Callisto Protocol
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They need to seriously continue this ip with a new entry. Even if it's just another movie I don't care I love everything about this game.
"But is it really such a controversial move?"
Yes.
"Is it that unexpected?"
No.
" Or is it, like other time-saving examples in console games, something you can just ignore?"
No it's not. If you ignore sh*t like this, it'll only end up getting worse. EA will gain more courage to integrate this into their other games and then they're going to find something else that completely wrecks the balance just because people kept their mouths shut/supported this. And I'm not even going to get into how they slowly turned a great survival horror game into another shooter heavy crapfest. At least they had the dignity to remove the "universal ammo" though.
I'll have no trouble ignoring the micro-transactions, since I'll be ignoring the entire game. But don't worry, EA...I'm sure millions of iPhone gamers will snatch that crap right up.
I'm not surprised that the gaming media would be defending
EA's greed.
If EA is looking for better sales, they're making all the WRONG moves.
man i miss the good ol days of free cheat codes and the game shark