Matt Maguire: ''When Dead Space 3 appeared to have gone all brotastic co-op cover shooter at last year's E3, the reason given was simple: EA wanted the game to appeal to a wider audience. The reason for that was equally straight-forward: Dead Space 3 needs to sell five million copies for the series to continue, according to EA Labels president Frank Gibeau.
Okay, but considering that estimates have the total combined sales for previous Dead Space games (excluding Extraction) at around that number, the game will need expand its audience greatly if it has any hope of clearing that hurdle.
Or will it? Last week it was revealed that Dead Space 3 would include microtransactions, which, if successful, may ease the sales pressure somewhat. However, they are unpopular enough in the mobile space, and their inclusion in a hardcore full price singleplayer title has many concerned about game balance and what sort of precedent is being set. The words "slippery slope" come to mind...''
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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...Lost Planet 3?
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.
No kidding, not like they're gonna dis their own business tactics.
I can understand that everyone is pissed off, but what about Battlefield? Those games let you purchase all MP unlocks (for a hefty price I might add) but people never mention that.
I have certain ideals and values, and one of them is to not be a hypocrite. Maybe other should give it a go. But, you can make an exception for other games like Battlefield right?
FYI to all the whiners, I don't buy Battlefield OR this (I'll borrow it from a friend). That way, I don't look like an idiot when I'm trolling Dead Space articles and praising Battlefield ones :-)
Just gonna sit back, and wait for the inevitable teenage nerd rage and how much more they know than me throughout their insignificant life :-)
These microtransactions REALLY aren't a big deal. If someone wants to pay a little more of their own money to grant themselves early access to something EVERYONE will be able to acquire by playing the game normally, so what? I'm pretty sure someone from Visceral has already confirmed that a person will not be able to just purchase tons of weapon parts and resources during the opening chapters of the game with which they can instantly forge a superweapon to tear through the campaign. Even if they could, it seems like the people that take issue with the microtransactions are for the most part the same people that are anti-co-op (Which I must admit I am also, I will only be playing co-op with a friend after completing the campaign solo at least twice) and why does anyone that will not be playing co-op care if someone else out there that they will NOT be forced to play the game with will be able to purchase a few extra parts for weapon crafting?
Anyways, I feel like everyone is being quick to judge Dead Space 3. I was very worried that this would be a giant step even further away from the masterpiece that was the original Dead Space. Dead Space 2 was a good game, slightly less horror and more action than its predecessor, but I still greatly enjoyed the experience, and I now have hope that 3 will be just as good, if not better. The marketing has been focusing on the action aspects on the game, which was worrying, leading us to believe that it was going to have far fewer scares than the last two installments, but over the past couple days I've seen a livestream of Dead Space 3 gameplay, and some walkthroughs are starting to pop up on youtube, and to my delight they contain much of the horror we should expect and deserve in a Dead Space game.
If a dev needs to make the game more generic to sell X amount of copies to keep the series alive, then the series is already dead...
5 million! No chance they move that many units. Why develop a game against those odds. This is why studios close and people get laid off... Ridiculous expectations.