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This week for me I’ve been playing more starfield. Took a break though to play the new re4 dlc. It’s amazing! Re4 remake is probably my favorite game ever at this point so I’m super happy to see separate ways turned out so great

  • Aidinthel@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    Dead Space 1, the original. I recently realized I own it on the EA account I forgot having made and figured I’d take a look. I’m partway through chapter 3 now. The game really shows its age graphically, the ragdoll physics on the many corpses lying around keeps glitching out, and if the game is actually trying to be horrifying I feel a touch more subtlety would have been called for. It often feels more like a haunted house than something that’s supposed to seem like a real place.

    That being said, the combat is satisfyingly visceral (the gimmick of focusing on cutting off limbs was a very good idea), and tech limitations aside both the art direction and sound design are very solid. The times the game actually manages to be unnerving is almost always due to the tension of hearing the monsters in the walls but not being able to pinpoint its location.

    Overall, I’m not exactly in love with it but I’ll probably play it all the way through.

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      There is a fix you can apply to fix the glitching ragdolls. If I recall correctly if you don’t fix it there will eventually be a physics related puzzle that won’t work right because the physics won’t be responding correctly and you’ll get stuck, but my memory could be wrong.

      It’s pretty easy to fix and will increase your immersion