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I watched an analysis video that praised the new "your bullets actually cause visual damage and remove enemy flesh" system, it lets you see how much damage you've dealt without having enemy healthbars and it also makes enemies look scarier and more gross the more you hit them. This kinda stuff is what remakes are for, doing things with new technology that just wasn't possible when the game first released but contributes to the intended experience.
Yeah, you can really fuck up necromorphs in this game and it’s fucking great. The force gun will literally flay all their skin off and it’ll look like a fleshy red skeleton running after you.
@@sparta2662 I was incredibly shocked when I discovered the force gun was actually useful and not just kinesis but ammo powered like it was in the original
Funny enough, I didn't notice until I just read your comment and double checked. I though he did the helmet in the style of his avatar. I wonder if that proves a point he was trying to make?
Video games as an art form do have a much faster time table than other mediums. I’m not surprised they opting for a 15 year nostalgia wave rather than a 20 year one They’re gonna run of material very quickly though. Gaming hasn’t had any meaningful progression in the last ten years. Late PS3/early PS4 games would gain literally nothing from being remade now
The best way Isaac was described in this remake was how my friend described him "He's no longer an errand boy, he does what he knows to do from his engineering skills. So he went from being told what to do to knowing what to do and hoping it works"
Will say, as someone who lived and breathed Dead Space 1 for a long time: What makes this game easier is one regard is that Necromorphs don’t sprint wildly at you, limbs flailing like they did in the original. They shamble slowly, or at best have a brisk jog with their arms barely moving. Slicing an arm makes them stumble, making follow up damage easy too. To contrast this though, unless you sever a limb, the Necromorphs do not flinch when shot. In the original, to counter the full sprint speed, shooting a limb caused a reaction, even if it didn’t lop it off. So aiming for a leg was easy mode, because it made them stumble in one canned animation, so you could chain shots for easy dismemberment.
They still sprint or lunge at you from across the room in the remake they just don't do it as often. The behavior is there, I've see them do it. The only thing I can think they are missing is that they will no longer parry a melee attack with their arms at all. I also haven't noticed any of them do that weird crouch walk thing where they cover their head with their arms if you shoot at the head too much. Come to think of it I also think they tonned down some of the random swaying enemies used to do. I think the decision to slow them down stems from them being beefier in general. Also I think the lack of lunging and running may also be caused by the player shooting legs since a damaged unsevered limb will make them limp.
@comradecommissar1945 I do think they are bugged as they do it rarely Fe a reviewer called Mandaloregaming only saw it on NG++ and called like a bigfoot sighting
"Don't remake something that was good in the first place. Remake something that had a spark but failed to reach it's full potential." I've been saying that for decades and couldn't agree more. That's why Code Veronica needed a remake. Not 4.
It's true, artistically-speaking. Sadly, the people making the decisions when it comes to games with budgets required to reach most people's definitions of their 'true potential' are never going to see it like that. They're going to want the guaranteed hit that comes with having the name everyone loved. I don't even say that as any kind of anti-capitalist statement - it's easy to pour scorn on thinking like that when it's not your money and/or your job on the line - but it's still sad from the point of view of someone who'd be delighted to pay the money for something awesome like a Code Veronica remake but will probably never get the chance because it's slightly less guaranteed that everyone else would be too than they would be for a Fourmake (hmmm, that one doesn't really work). Still, it's not like even a game as brilliant as RE4 _can't_ be improved with modern technology if the devs have talent out the wazoo and they don't mess with the game's tone... ...and an even _better_ RE4 would be quite something.
@@bizmonkey007 I've been pondering this for a while as well because it was a damn good game and my best guess is still weak beyond belief. It was originally a Dreamcast exclusive and, while I adored _my_ Dreamcast and Skies of Arcadia remains one of my favourite games of all time... I was very much in the minority and that did badly hurt its launch performance compared to the 'number' titles of the time. If that is the problem, though, someone needs to Capcom (i) how well the ports did and (ii) how well Code Veronica sold compared to virtually every Dreamcast title. Easy rebuttals aside, I still can't come up with any better reason it wouldn't have gotten the remake treatment. Here's a thought: particularly given how quickly they rushed Nemesis to market, do you think its possible they wanted to capitalise on the remakes being in the public consciousness by getting the _really_ iconic titles out to market first before potentially going _back_ to Code Veronica once they see how RE4 does? EDIT: God, I just realised, the first two consoles I bought on my own as opposed to sharing with my brothers were the Dreamcast and the Gamecube. My endorsement of your console apparently spelt doom for your console when I was in my teens.
I recently played DEAD SPACE again for i do not know how many times and i know exactly what characters are going to say or which way to go. if a remake has same story, same weapons but better skins etc. then it is a REMASTERED not remake. for me, if they had made DEAD SPACE 4 rather than dead space remake instead this time it is not a space ship it is a whole colony. it would have made it more appealing.
@@hamzaahmad1345 they added bunch of new gameplay mechanic and tweak Isaac personality a bit(at least ds1 Isaac), besides it's also a good way to introduce new fan to the franchise that way if they're interested they probably will check ds2 and ds3, I genuinely don't know why you people are complaining here 🤷
3:58 "Another significant change is that the zero gravity sections have shifted to the omni directional free flying that the sequels had, rather than that thing where you point to a wall and torpedo to it, and also have a *50/50 chance of randomly dying* because good PC port that ties it's physics to the framerate"
Yahtzee hit the nail on the head when he said that the industry is justing waiting. Farting out remakes and remasters until some really good and popular indie game comes out that everyone can rip off the ideas from.
I love the "trace over the lines" interpretation of remakes, it's so optimistic. A couple more of these and maybe the industry will remember how to make fun games again! We're almost there!
But the Internet needs JK depicted in Yahtzee style and Daniel, Emma, and Rupert crying tears of betrayal as JK jumps into her swimming pool of money. And Yahtz can pan to camera saying, "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
@@CMGThePerson they actively want strangers to commit suicide and go out of their way to encourage it so yeah I would say they are the villains in this story.
When your clothes are made of plastic by the indentured labour of the country who supported you from way before you won the world cup it really puts things into perspective
@@hatimzeineddine8723 Instead of doing my taxes, I brought it to college for the free tax advisors to do it for me. Took almost five hours because they were students in training and I brought all my back taxes since 2017, but at least it is done and I should get a good refund.
2:18 that png collage instead of an actual in-style vector drawing of the helmet is what shows me how truly far Zero Punctuation has come over the years.
I definitely understand Yahtzee's points, and that's coming from someone who did enjoy the remake. Like, it made enough changes that I knew I wasn't in for exactly the same story, and that kept me on my toes. And I'd say that the remake is greater than its predecessor even without the graphics update. Having said that, I think it's safe to say if you weren't into it the first time around then the re-make probably will similarly fail to hit the mark(er).
It's a good thing the lion's share of the populace did enjoy it and that Yahtzee, both past and present are outweighed and in the minority. I disagree with the notion that it didn't hit the mark when the original came out. There's a reason it's regarded as a classic. Sure, it really throws you into the deep end with its horror, but news flash: Not everything has to be a slow burn.
I love Yahtzee but dimissing so much stuff about this remake (metroidvania structure, reworked guns, AI director, sidequests) felt... Exceptionaly dimissive. So much changes here but watching the vid you'd think all they did was rewrite some dialogue,
I knew the mouse aiming was going to make things trivial so I opted to use a controller. Definitely helps in making the combat a little bit more challenging.
"Better" controls don't always lead to a better experience if the game was never balanced around those controls. The most obvious example of this is playing the classic Resident Evil games without tank controls, it trivializes traversal around zombies.
The trouble with the controller is there is no difference in camera speed when aiming. So you sort of have to set it to an awkward middle ground where aiming is kind of erratic but it still takes uncomfortably long to turn around and face the necros coming at you from behind
I dont doubt that the actual (in depth) plot of Dead Space 1 is different than ALIENS I was merely pointing out that the way yahtzee described it, it shared some very similar plot threads with said movies
2:30 I could not disagree any less even if I tried as hard as I could. Silent protagonists can sometimes provide some of the most immersive and intimate narratives in gaming. Half Life 1’s story wouldn’t be nearly as immersive if Gordon Freeman was babbling out loud every couple of minutes and commenting on everything around him, Aloy-style
I think the remake got it right. There is a sweet spot where the character has just enough voice lines that they don't feel odd, and they have some personality. C.f. the Master Chief in Halo
Always gold, Yahtzee. You never fail to be witty and make me laugh. I've been watching you since was I in 8th grade and now I'm 28. With that, you're one of the very few things that have remained with me after all these years. Hell, my brother who introduced me to you is no longer around (not dead, but also not sure). Thank you for all that do and thanks to your team who help facilitate it. You're my spinning top in this inception-like dreamworld. The day you retire from this role will be a rough day, but it will be well-deserved.
Speaking of stories told from Japanese creators where the main protagonists are suspiciously qualified despite their age, isn't Leon from RE4 27 years old or something like that? Seems a bit young to be a Secret Service agent for the President, let alone the sole operative for a rescue mission involving Ashley, his daughter...
@@daniellewilliamson4215 I think it works because it still reflects the tendency in anime to default to children performing adult roles. Like yeah, child soldiers are bad, but why use them in the first place? Why are you risking children on the front lines against giant man-eating monsters? I don’t care how determined Eren is to fight or break free of the cage or whatever, the recruiters should take one look at him and say “sorry kid, off to the fruit-pickers with you. Try again when you’re old enough to drive.”
That contact beam weapon saved my ass so many times during my playthrough. Ripper blades were still good but didn't really work that well closer to the end.
Rippers blades were one of the most cost-efficient weapons in the early levels where sometimes you can kill multiple necromorphs with a single blade. Heck killing just one necromorph is already good. Allows hoarding other ammo types for later levels.
1:03 like GHOST TRICK (HD remaster expected this summer) which was a huge spark that no one payed attention to because it did not have shu takumi's name plastered on the ds box and surprise surprise capcom forgot to mention him in the nintendo direct p.s. shu takumi is the father of ace attorney
I'm shocked he even made a street fighter reference like that. I wonder if he'll get into 6 since it seems like it has single player content that could actually be fun plus its apperently like a tutorial for fighting game concepts
When Yahtzee says that "Isaac Clarke's fashion sense lies somewhere between The Michelin Man and an Edwardian Era central heating system", it makes me think he could be best friends with the Bourgeois Big-Bollocked Boiler from Conker's Bad Fur Day.
If there were was one gripe about the OG Dead Space, which I am hearing being said about the remake, is that Issac has to fix one thing after another. Never understood it. Issac is the one engineer on a 60 year old space hulk that has had it’s crew converted to sentient biomass. Of course he’s gonna be repairing one thing after another. I personally thought he should have being repairing more stuff while Necroes try to slice you up or the oxygen is about to reach zero.
Yeah seriously. Isaac was the guy in charge of actually repairing things, so it makes complete sense he'd be running around doing all of that, nevermind him being basically the ONLY guy still actively trying to get around the ship and fix things up enough to not die from the latest emergency that's resulted from his previous efforts to *not die*
Suddenly imagining a Dead Space movie with Chris Pratt where he tries to use The Hand Thing on a Necromorph and gets excessively disarmed by something that looks like it was designed by an incompetent teenager feeding a meat grinder at the local butcher shop, but he can only follow directions inside-out.
🎵 Twinkle Twinkle ...... little star. Watching that intro back in the day, with a brand new flat screen and the lights out still gives me awesome chills.
0:52 Yahtz will absolutely, 100%, most definetly, without a shred of doubt, it's-not-even-an-argument, HATE Hogwarts Legacy EDIT: See? I told you he'd hate it
"Whose fashion sense lies somewhere between the Michelin Man and an Edwardian-era central heating system" that one in particular got me good...ah Yahtzee never stop doing what you do. Also I don't think you *can* stop doing what you do so we both win!
Years ago, I played this creepy game where a motley crew of 5 or so were stuck inside a spaceship, with a years old relic haunting them or something. It wasn't called Dead Space. 7 Days a Skeptic was the name. It was a good game. Don't remember who developed it. :)
I want to see him cover the Metroid Prime remaster just because he never reviewed Metroid Prime and I want to see him openly appreciate something the way he did Paper Mario TTYD.
Dead Space is one of the rare times where I disagreed with Yahtzee's negative review (Because most AAA games do, in fact, suck.) It's probably just my unreasonable love affair with claustrophobic science fiction thrillers, though. I even liked the movie Pandorum, which probably only six other people watched. Give me body horror on a dark spaceship and I'm automatically pretty happy.
I don't think your supposed to take his videos seriously. Hell, his last take here sums him up quite nicely " being sensible is nice, but being a pr*ck is what gets attention". Your just supposed to enjoy angry bitter chair man ranting in fast creative ways.
Wait, he didn't like the Contact Beam? That thing is amazing in this game, either you power wash the necromorphs apart or just send a tiny nuke, either way nothing is surviving
Wow. After watching your review I have realized that I have reached a new level of depravity because I actually appreciated the cleverly crafted GH joke. I mean; well done Yahtzee, well done.
I remember first time with dead space when I played demo on 360, I was terrified, but I tried the whole game and it was great. As soon as I get enough pennies from the train station, I'm gonna buy this one.
Gotta disagree with their aesthetic ages in the original versus the remake. Original Isaac appeared older and had gray in his hair, original Nicole looked like she was in her 20s. The remake flipped it, Nicole looks mid 30s and Isaac looks fresh out of college.
With creative control, I would have done the jump around mechanic until you got to the loading bay area, maybe push that a little further in the story, if possible, _then_ give the jump jets
I wished Callisto Protocol wasn’t such a pile of dung. Much as I like Dead Space, I don’t want all future AAA games to be games I have already played before.
"Don't remake something that was good in the first place; remake something that had a spark but didn't quite reach its full potential." That's been my mantra as well, but given how many billions the Disney live-action remakes have made, I think "re-do things that don't need it" is going to be the market strategy for the foreseeable future.
Yup. And as much as I despise the lazy corporations for doing it, I despise the populace even more for financially rewarding the corporations for doing it.
2:35 to 2:49 Being 40 myself, I can't but laugh out loud feeling appreciated and understood for once in a looong time. Now allow me to go back to my rocking chair at the porch, so I can yell at clouds some more.
I actually liked the remake, and them adding a mode where one death means you need to restart or lower the difficulty did a lot to make the game scary again, at least for me.
Congratulations! You are now in that category of people who clearly have infinitesimal time if you are fine with potentially hours of gameplay getting wiped. For those who actually have limited time and thus have more restrictive tastes, I’ll defer to the man whose opinion I have found reliably matches my own over the past decade.
@@Firestorm6651 He's in the category of people who like to spend their limited time mastering the combat in a game they love, and that's bad somehow. Oh, and the man whose opinion reliably matches your own unfairly bashes Dead Space for not being more survival horror, refusing to accept the fact that many people like Dead Space the way it is, an action game with horror elements.
@@Jerry-dx3cb One can not master something with the limited free time their responsibilities give them, to master requiters no responsibilities. Also, action always kills horror. Good horror requires a balance, forced defenselessness eventually gets frustrating which eventually kills the horror, but being able to easily kill every enemy also kills horror. The best horror games are the ones where one can fight back but it is not a good idea, running is most often the best idea.
@@clwho4652 What an unbelievably dumb take. It takes time to master the game yes, but not unlimited time. People with real jobs and responsibilities and shit and have done it. And for the last fucking time, action game with horror elements =/= horror game. The game is tense and atmospheric, but it's not trying to scare you.
I did quite enjoy DSR, but it had several problem which I wasn't sure were just down to me being old now. Hearing it was £70 stung. My thumbs would hurt after not touching a controller for the best part of a decade. The lighting and Zero G sections made me feel dizzy and nauseous at times. And also minor gripe, but there were times where it just was straight up unclear you couldn't do stuff. I liked that you could explore the ship with it's interconnectivity, but at the same time there would be stuff such as the rig in a tram tunnel I spent like an hour throughout the game trying to grab with Kinesis only for it to turn out you couldn't do so for arbitrary reasons. Also backtracking to go visit stuff now that you had clearance felt bad since you'd usually only get resources, maybe some logs, and on a rare occasion a weapon upgrade. Couple this with the fact that in new game plus you lost your security clearance (I get that maybe there could have been a few issues with you accessing areas you shouldn't for plot reasons, but I don't feel like that would be too hard to solve), and there is no way to easily view rooms on the map you haven't visited without going and looking at every floor on the map to look for greyed out rooms. Oh also and the final chapter dragging on exactly as it did in the original was just dull. It was a good game and I'm looking forward to an eventual remake to the sequel (but not 3, I don't think there's any way to salvage that hot mess), but it could have been just a bit better. also lol good luck with Hogwarts Legacy
Worth noting that the devs are making an Iron Man game at some point so maybe the free-flying segments might be pulling a Ubisoft: proof of concept for the next game coming down the pipeline.
I definitely found the remake a lot less scary than the original, but it think it's just because all the weapons are so much more fun in the remake. It's hard to be scared when you're actively hoping to see something jump out so you can shoot it
3:54 hey that's the laser rifle from Xenonauts! Idk if you were planning on it or not Yahtz but are you going to do a Xenonauts 2 review when that finally releases?
I haven't heard any reviews comment on the change from RE4 style aiming (independent from camera) being changed to the newer locked-to-camera style of Dead Space 2 and every other 3rd person shooter. I figure this affects difficulty as well? Haven't played it myself but have hear nothing from critics about the change
This was my first time playing any Dead Space game. I found I really liked it, but I *was* disappointed that it wasn't very scary. Normally I get scared pretty easily, but I guess the lack of scare is kind of inevitable when you're so powerful. Seconded on the ripper, it was super OP. Wish I had invested in it more earlier.
We've come full bloody circle. A game he absolutely hated has now become a game he just couldn't be arsed to finish. The great journey of Yahtzee the Space Hero; Hero of Space is nearing completion.
This reminds me of that person that told me that internet game lobbies aren’t as funny as they were 10 years ago cause know everyone has quality mics. Half the humor in old freak out videos was the atrocious audio quality
4:24 that's the funny part, the original has awful PC controls cause it does that thing MnK hackers do where it equates 1:1 mouse aiming to velocity based stick aiming. So it was just as hard to aim on pc as controller back then
"The Pale Beyond" is a game right up your alley, a cozy resource management survival game set in the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. Gameplay is a bit simple, but I think it's worth it for the story, art and incredible soundtrack.
Pretty sure he did that once already for, I wanna say, the 100th video or something? It was really early on, and it was literally just a whole bunch of strung together non-sequitur jokes from each video thus far. I remember the Escapist running a contest for it at the time, with prizes for who could pinpoint exactly where each joke came from in order.
Yep, it basically has the same problem as The Witcher 2 did, it feels weird playing it on PC since the UI feels like it was made solely for consoles in mind.
So in conclusion, there's an important distinction between things that don't suck and things that are good. It's nice to take the things that sucked and make them not suck, but not sucking isn't necessarily the same as "good".
Yahtzee didnt like the original either. It's action horror, he just doesn't like that kind of game. Just one dudes opinion. In my opinion, the remake is fucking excellent, especially the sound design with 3D audio and headphones. Game is extremely tense.
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Comments are gonna be fun when people find Yahtzee insults Rowling.
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Please play The Outer Wilds :D
@@jysonberrington3131 he already reviewed that
Pro Tip: Watch this version if you don't want to hear bleeps, because apparently next week's version is going to be full of them!
I watched an analysis video that praised the new "your bullets actually cause visual damage and remove enemy flesh" system, it lets you see how much damage you've dealt without having enemy healthbars and it also makes enemies look scarier and more gross the more you hit them. This kinda stuff is what remakes are for, doing things with new technology that just wasn't possible when the game first released but contributes to the intended experience.
Agreed, and the devs call it "peeling".
Yeah, you can really fuck up necromorphs in this game and it’s fucking great. The force gun will literally flay all their skin off and it’ll look like a fleshy red skeleton running after you.
@@sparta2662 I was incredibly shocked when I discovered the force gun was actually useful and not just kinesis but ammo powered like it was in the original
@@sparta2662 it also reduce their speed, maybe their damage & make them more vulnerable to "slice" attack type
So overall, details!
Agreed
Nothing makes me feel older than seeing that there's a remake of a game that is inexplicably still in the "new game" category in my head.
I mean it's 15 years old. You have to move that threshold up eventually.
Shit. A game on my backlog has been remade...
I saw a post saying that Sunset Overdrive was 8 years old and i felt so old
Ouch... Yeah.
As far as I'm concerned, anything from the PS3/360 era and forward is still new.
I can’t get over the can of beans with the crayons on it for Isaac’s helmet. The funniest part of the video, lmao.
So creative and funny, cracked me up HARD. had to pause the video a few times.
my favorite has to be the final gloryhole joke
if someone were to tell me that is how they came up with Isaac's helmet i would think "improbable, but not completely impossible"
Funny enough, I didn't notice until I just read your comment and double checked. I though he did the helmet in the style of his avatar.
I wonder if that proves a point he was trying to make?
Drunk Yahtzee mistaking Dead Space for Dead Cells has gotta be one of the funniest tiny jokes he's done.
I didn't even notice that first time around, that's honesty well done
I'm just shocked we're at the era in which PS3-era games are considered retro and getting polished remakes.
Video games as an art form do have a much faster time table than other mediums. I’m not surprised they opting for a 15 year nostalgia wave rather than a 20 year one
They’re gonna run of material very quickly though. Gaming hasn’t had any meaningful progression in the last ten years. Late PS3/early PS4 games would gain literally nothing from being remade now
The xbox 360 turns 18 this year :)
@@LuciferLuckless👀
We're old
And my computer can't even run Kotor 2
Love how yahtzee showed his old character sprite for his past self, there’s something endearing about that lol
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Is it weird that Ididn't notice a difference.
I think he's saying it's funny that nothing changed?
@@blizzardblaze1649 Nah he's talking about how 'old Yahtzee' looks like he was pulled out of a 360p video.
@@tnecniw the tips of his hat, mostly.
I looked way too long to notice the resolution difference. How do you people pick up on these things so quick? Using 8k monitors too much? Lol
as a Spanish speaker you know you are on your peak of English when you can see a Yahtzee review without the subtitles on
Hah! Love how Yahtzee's "past self" is his older, lower quality, sprite. It's the little things I appreciate
It's ironic how our old selves are our young selves.
Was that "HAH!" a reference to the old Escapist ident?
"sensible is nice, but prick gets more attention"
Yahtzee just casually describing his whole media persona
While also summarizing the American News cycle in a disturbingly accurate fashion.
The best way Isaac was described in this remake was how my friend described him
"He's no longer an errand boy, he does what he knows to do from his engineering skills.
So he went from being told what to do to knowing what to do and hoping it works"
Will say, as someone who lived and breathed Dead Space 1 for a long time:
What makes this game easier is one regard is that Necromorphs don’t sprint wildly at you, limbs flailing like they did in the original. They shamble slowly, or at best have a brisk jog with their arms barely moving. Slicing an arm makes them stumble, making follow up damage easy too.
To contrast this though, unless you sever a limb, the Necromorphs do not flinch when shot. In the original, to counter the full sprint speed, shooting a limb caused a reaction, even if it didn’t lop it off. So aiming for a leg was easy mode, because it made them stumble in one canned animation, so you could chain shots for easy dismemberment.
They still sprint or lunge at you from across the room in the remake they just don't do it as often. The behavior is there, I've see them do it. The only thing I can think they are missing is that they will no longer parry a melee attack with their arms at all. I also haven't noticed any of them do that weird crouch walk thing where they cover their head with their arms if you shoot at the head too much. Come to think of it I also think they tonned down some of the random swaying enemies used to do. I think the decision to slow them down stems from them being beefier in general. Also I think the lack of lunging and running may also be caused by the player shooting legs since a damaged unsevered limb will make them limp.
@comradecommissar1945 I do think they are bugged as they do it rarely
Fe a reviewer called Mandaloregaming only saw it on NG++ and called like a bigfoot sighting
probably to appease the causals. They probably dont want casuals getting too mad the game is too hard and raging at the game.
"Don't remake something that was good in the first place. Remake something that had a spark but failed to reach it's full potential." I've been saying that for decades and couldn't agree more. That's why Code Veronica needed a remake. Not 4.
It's true, artistically-speaking. Sadly, the people making the decisions when it comes to games with budgets required to reach most people's definitions of their 'true potential' are never going to see it like that. They're going to want the guaranteed hit that comes with having the name everyone loved.
I don't even say that as any kind of anti-capitalist statement - it's easy to pour scorn on thinking like that when it's not your money and/or your job on the line - but it's still sad from the point of view of someone who'd be delighted to pay the money for something awesome like a Code Veronica remake but will probably never get the chance because it's slightly less guaranteed that everyone else would be too than they would be for a Fourmake (hmmm, that one doesn't really work).
Still, it's not like even a game as brilliant as RE4 _can't_ be improved with modern technology if the devs have talent out the wazoo and they don't mess with the game's tone...
...and an even _better_ RE4 would be quite something.
I don’t understand what happened with Code Veronica. It was a great Resident Evil game that got pushed to the side and forgotten. It was the true RE3.
@@bizmonkey007 I've been pondering this for a while as well because it was a damn good game and my best guess is still weak beyond belief. It was originally a Dreamcast exclusive and, while I adored _my_ Dreamcast and Skies of Arcadia remains one of my favourite games of all time... I was very much in the minority and that did badly hurt its launch performance compared to the 'number' titles of the time. If that is the problem, though, someone needs to Capcom (i) how well the ports did and (ii) how well Code Veronica sold compared to virtually every Dreamcast title.
Easy rebuttals aside, I still can't come up with any better reason it wouldn't have gotten the remake treatment. Here's a thought: particularly given how quickly they rushed Nemesis to market, do you think its possible they wanted to capitalise on the remakes being in the public consciousness by getting the _really_ iconic titles out to market first before potentially going _back_ to Code Veronica once they see how RE4 does?
EDIT: God, I just realised, the first two consoles I bought on my own as opposed to sharing with my brothers were the Dreamcast and the Gamecube. My endorsement of your console apparently spelt doom for your console when I was in my teens.
I recently played DEAD SPACE again for i do not know how many times and i know exactly what characters are going to say or which way to go. if a remake has same story, same weapons but better skins etc. then it is a REMASTERED not remake.
for me, if they had made DEAD SPACE 4 rather than dead space remake instead this time it is not a space ship it is a whole colony. it would have made it more appealing.
@@hamzaahmad1345 they added bunch of new gameplay mechanic and tweak Isaac personality a bit(at least ds1 Isaac), besides it's also a good way to introduce new fan to the franchise that way if they're interested they probably will check ds2 and ds3, I genuinely don't know why you people are complaining here 🤷
3:58 "Another significant change is that the zero gravity sections have shifted to the omni directional free flying that the sequels had, rather than that thing where you point to a wall and torpedo to it, and also have a *50/50 chance of randomly dying* because good PC port that ties it's physics to the framerate"
Gotta lock it down to 60fps, game goes hilariously nuts at anything above that
Yahtzee hit the nail on the head when he said that the industry is justing waiting. Farting out remakes and remasters until some really good and popular indie game comes out that everyone can rip off the ideas from.
I love the "trace over the lines" interpretation of remakes, it's so optimistic. A couple more of these and maybe the industry will remember how to make fun games again! We're almost there!
I enjoyed the "9 diametrically opposed internet communities" comment on the wizard game.
It IS indeed a clusterfuck.
@@AltiniaHoldingsInc just teases it for a year but never delivers then just a rushed review to put it in the blandest five.
But the Internet needs JK depicted in Yahtzee style and Daniel, Emma, and Rupert crying tears of betrayal as JK jumps into her swimming pool of money. And Yahtz can pan to camera saying, "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
@@veiddimaddur8354 are you the baddies?
@@CMGThePerson they actively want strangers to commit suicide and go out of their way to encourage it so yeah I would say they are the villains in this story.
When your clothes are made of plastic by the indentured labour of the country who supported you from way before you won the world cup it really puts things into perspective
Now that I'm an adult who works as a tax professional, the tax jokes are a lot funnier
It makes me remember that it's already march and I'm still putting off finding all my tax documents
@@hatimzeineddine8723 America really needs to look into PAYE... Also maybe automatically adding VAT to everything's price.
@@ICantSplel Hi, I'm an accountant in South Africa. What's the tax year on America? Ours just ended in February.
@@hatimzeineddine8723
Instead of doing my taxes, I brought it to college for the free tax advisors to do it for me. Took almost five hours because they were students in training and I brought all my back taxes since 2017, but at least it is done and I should get a good refund.
Dude same, when I watched his first DS review I was still in middle school. Now I'm in public accounting. Hope tax season is going well.
1:28 I really appreciate the 360p version of Yahtzee to symbolise going into the past. Very creative
It's insane to me that Yahtzee keeps saying OG Dead Space looked bad. It's from 2008 and still looks pretty good.
Playing the original right now and haven't found any big issues with the graphics.
seems he has more an issue with the art direction
2:18 that png collage instead of an actual in-style vector drawing of the helmet is what shows me how truly far Zero Punctuation has come over the years.
I definitely understand Yahtzee's points, and that's coming from someone who did enjoy the remake. Like, it made enough changes that I knew I wasn't in for exactly the same story, and that kept me on my toes. And I'd say that the remake is greater than its predecessor even without the graphics update. Having said that, I think it's safe to say if you weren't into it the first time around then the re-make probably will similarly fail to hit the mark(er).
It's a good thing the lion's share of the populace did enjoy it and that Yahtzee, both past and present are outweighed and in the minority. I disagree with the notion that it didn't hit the mark when the original came out. There's a reason it's regarded as a classic. Sure, it really throws you into the deep end with its horror, but news flash: Not everything has to be a slow burn.
I love Yahtzee but dimissing so much stuff about this remake (metroidvania structure, reworked guns, AI director, sidequests) felt... Exceptionaly dimissive. So much changes here but watching the vid you'd think all they did was rewrite some dialogue,
@@mister-BH well, he admitted to giving up halfway through because he was bored, so I don’t know what else you were expecting.
@@mister-BHI stopped playing during chapter 4, I got bored 😴
"hit the mark(er)," eh? I see what you did there.
"every single human authority is corrupt or mad" boy how glad I am this is totally unlike real world!
Yahtzee's "liking it a lot less" face is so fucking good
I knew the mouse aiming was going to make things trivial so I opted to use a controller. Definitely helps in making the combat a little bit more challenging.
Wow. I could never do that. Ideal controls for every game, has to be. Everything else can be worked around.
"Better" controls don't always lead to a better experience if the game was never balanced around those controls. The most obvious example of this is playing the classic Resident Evil games without tank controls, it trivializes traversal around zombies.
the mouse aim in the killer 7 re-release kills the game
The trouble with the controller is there is no difference in camera speed when aiming. So you sort of have to set it to an awkward middle ground where aiming is kind of erratic but it still takes uncomfortably long to turn around and face the necros coming at you from behind
Shocking to learn someone who didn't like the series does not really like the remake lol
the sky is also blue
The floor is made out of floor
Disliked for somewhat different reasons, though
i mean ....do you really expect him to like anything at this point in his life ??
does he even like anything other than fromsoft? (which he probably was bullied into liking anyway)
The way Yahtzee describes the plot of Dead Space 1, at least to me sounded almost like a 1:1 of the 2nd ALIEN movie and Alien: Isolation
Not really Dead Space is more focused on the body horror aspect. Also the plot twist is very different
I dont doubt that the actual (in depth) plot of Dead Space 1 is different than ALIENS
I was merely pointing out that the way yahtzee described it, it shared some very similar plot threads with said movies
It also has more than a few similarities to the PS1 game Martian Gothic
that and event horizon
Leave it to Yahtzee to use a stock image of a can of beans, slap 3 crayons on it, and boom, perfect recreation of Issac Clarke's helmet XD
2:30 I could not disagree any less even if I tried as hard as I could.
Silent protagonists can sometimes provide some of the most immersive and intimate narratives in gaming.
Half Life 1’s story wouldn’t be nearly as immersive if Gordon Freeman was babbling out loud every couple of minutes and commenting on everything around him, Aloy-style
I think the remake got it right. There is a sweet spot where the character has just enough voice lines that they don't feel odd, and they have some personality. C.f. the Master Chief in Halo
1:28 the fact that he actually made his "past self" lower res shows his dedication to the bit
Always gold, Yahtzee. You never fail to be witty and make me laugh.
I've been watching you since was I in 8th grade and now I'm 28. With that, you're one of the very few things that have remained with me after all these years. Hell, my brother who introduced me to you is no longer around (not dead, but also not sure).
Thank you for all that do and thanks to your team who help facilitate it. You're my spinning top in this inception-like dreamworld. The day you retire from this role will be a rough day, but it will be well-deserved.
Your representation of his helmet as a can of beans with some cyan crayons fucking killed me.
My memory is a bit rusty,
But i do agree with you that the Red Marker that created the Chocomorphs was indeed a Glowing Red Twix Bar
Waiting for that The Darkness remake to come out and cause Yahtzee to implode in on himself like a neon yellow ouroboros.
Put both of them together in one epic game!
The dig at anime storytelling killed me
Speaking of stories told from Japanese creators where the main protagonists are suspiciously qualified despite their age, isn't Leon from RE4 27 years old or something like that? Seems a bit young to be a Secret Service agent for the President, let alone the sole operative for a rescue mission involving Ashley, his daughter...
@@TomBombadil515
You think that's silly? How about Chris Redfield somehow managing to become an Air Force captain at what, age 18? Age 19?
@@ManiacMayhem7256 Right? I wish I could get promoted that early, lol.
If only he hadn't picked an anime where a lot of the point is 'maybe child soldiers are bad, actually?'
@@daniellewilliamson4215 I think it works because it still reflects the tendency in anime to default to children performing adult roles.
Like yeah, child soldiers are bad, but why use them in the first place? Why are you risking children on the front lines against giant man-eating monsters? I don’t care how determined Eren is to fight or break free of the cage or whatever, the recruiters should take one look at him and say “sorry kid, off to the fruit-pickers with you. Try again when you’re old enough to drive.”
That contact beam weapon saved my ass so many times during my playthrough. Ripper blades were still good but didn't really work that well closer to the end.
For real though dude. Contact beam is fucking awesome. Contact beam and the force gun's gravity well was the bread and butter to my Impossible run
Rippers blades were one of the most cost-efficient weapons in the early levels where sometimes you can kill multiple necromorphs with a single blade. Heck killing just one necromorph is already good. Allows hoarding other ammo types for later levels.
Yeah, I was barely able to use the plasma cutter towards the end as the necros became so beefy
At 5:12 I was like "Oh no, here comes the finishing joke" and I was not disappointed 🤣
I like how the helmet is made out of a can of Heinz beans and three cyan crayons
1:03 like GHOST TRICK (HD remaster expected this summer) which was a huge spark that no one payed attention to because it did not have shu takumi's name plastered on the ds box and surprise surprise capcom forgot to mention him in the nintendo direct
p.s. shu takumi is the father of ace attorney
I cannot believe how easily seeing Isaac Clarke use the Psycho Crusher on a wall made me lose it.
I'm shocked he even made a street fighter reference like that.
I wonder if he'll get into 6 since it seems like it has single player content that could actually be fun plus its apperently like a tutorial for fighting game concepts
When Yahtzee says that "Isaac Clarke's fashion sense lies somewhere between The Michelin Man and an Edwardian Era central heating system", it makes me think he could be best friends with the Bourgeois Big-Bollocked Boiler from Conker's Bad Fur Day.
If there were was one gripe about the OG Dead Space, which I am hearing being said about the remake, is that Issac has to fix one thing after another. Never understood it. Issac is the one engineer on a 60 year old space hulk that has had it’s crew converted to sentient biomass. Of course he’s gonna be repairing one thing after another.
I personally thought he should have being repairing more stuff while Necroes try to slice you up or the oxygen is about to reach zero.
Yeah seriously. Isaac was the guy in charge of actually repairing things, so it makes complete sense he'd be running around doing all of that, nevermind him being basically the ONLY guy still actively trying to get around the ship and fix things up enough to not die from the latest emergency that's resulted from his previous efforts to *not die*
Suddenly imagining a Dead Space movie with Chris Pratt where he tries to use The Hand Thing on a Necromorph and gets excessively disarmed by something that looks like it was designed by an incompetent teenager feeding a meat grinder at the local butcher shop, but he can only follow directions inside-out.
“He’s right behind me isn’t he?” 😂🤣😅
God, that Helmet design is so accurate.
🎵 Twinkle Twinkle ...... little star.
Watching that intro back in the day, with a brand new flat screen and the lights out still gives me awesome chills.
0:52 Yahtz will absolutely, 100%, most definetly, without a shred of doubt, it's-not-even-an-argument, HATE Hogwarts Legacy
EDIT: See? I told you he'd hate it
Can you maybe release extra punctuation after zp it's attached to? It feels akward otherwise
"Whose fashion sense lies somewhere between the Michelin Man and an Edwardian-era central heating system" that one in particular got me good...ah Yahtzee never stop doing what you do. Also I don't think you *can* stop doing what you do so we both win!
Years ago, I played this creepy game where a motley crew of 5 or so were stuck inside a spaceship, with a years old relic haunting them or something. It wasn't called Dead Space.
7 Days a Skeptic was the name. It was a good game. Don't remember who developed it. :)
I would watch a Zero Punctuation greatest's hits album!
Me too.
(I assume he meant ranking his own reviews).
those are compilation videos lol
This has to be one of your best zps, so many jokes dropped like nukes on me
I'll never understand why Yahtzee hates Dead Space so much. The first two games in that series are fun as hell.
The visual for Isaac's helmet in this is fantastic, nice choice.
Took me a second to realize those are can openers, in the outro.
I want to see him cover the Metroid Prime remaster just because he never reviewed Metroid Prime and I want to see him openly appreciate something the way he did Paper Mario TTYD.
That graphic for the Engineer helmet is so incredibly funny
Dead Space is one of the rare times where I disagreed with Yahtzee's negative review (Because most AAA games do, in fact, suck.) It's probably just my unreasonable love affair with claustrophobic science fiction thrillers, though. I even liked the movie Pandorum, which probably only six other people watched. Give me body horror on a dark spaceship and I'm automatically pretty happy.
They're good games aside from 3.
Idk why take y’all the reviews of a 40+ year old who barely plays games anymore and rarely finishes the ones he starts so seriously.
I don't think your supposed to take his videos seriously. Hell, his last take here sums him up quite nicely " being sensible is nice, but being a pr*ck is what gets attention". Your just supposed to enjoy angry bitter chair man ranting in fast creative ways.
@@2canwin635 How is respectfully disagreeing with one of his reviews taking them so seriously?
Hmm i get the distinct impression Hogwarts could be the new Borderlands 3, which yahtz does everything he can to ignore reviewing.
Thank god.
Next week is Hogwarts legacy
Probably because it’s shite
@@LIGHTNIINGSTORM Oh god.
cant blame him for this years roster so far reviewed
Wait, he didn't like the Contact Beam? That thing is amazing in this game, either you power wash the necromorphs apart or just send a tiny nuke, either way nothing is surviving
Well that was a trip. Not only is the old video 4:3 but you sounded different. My memory was "you will totally sound the same as you did back then"
I'm so interested in the Silent Hill 2 remake. If it stinks I feel Yahtzee will go on a killing spree.
Wow. After watching your review I have realized that I have reached a new level of depravity because I actually appreciated the cleverly crafted GH joke.
I mean; well done Yahtzee, well done.
I remember first time with dead space when I played demo on 360, I was terrified, but I tried the whole game and it was great. As soon as I get enough pennies from the train station, I'm gonna buy this one.
Also, should we expect a ZP of Metroid Prime Remastered?
Probably, as far as i know he haven't reviewed the original metroid prime yet.
I hope so. He clearly loves the original.
Gotta disagree with their aesthetic ages in the original versus the remake.
Original Isaac appeared older and had gray in his hair, original Nicole looked like she was in her 20s.
The remake flipped it, Nicole looks mid 30s and Isaac looks fresh out of college.
With creative control, I would have done the jump around mechanic until you got to the loading bay area, maybe push that a little further in the story, if possible, _then_ give the jump jets
I wished Callisto Protocol wasn’t such a pile of dung. Much as I like Dead Space, I don’t want all future AAA games to be games I have already played before.
"Don't remake something that was good in the first place; remake something that had a spark but didn't quite reach its full potential."
That's been my mantra as well, but given how many billions the Disney live-action remakes have made, I think "re-do things that don't need it" is going to be the market strategy for the foreseeable future.
Yup. And as much as I despise the lazy corporations for doing it, I despise the populace even more for financially rewarding the corporations for doing it.
2:35 to 2:49
Being 40 myself, I can't but laugh out loud feeling appreciated and understood for once in a looong time.
Now allow me to go back to my rocking chair at the porch, so I can yell at clouds some more.
I actually liked the remake, and them adding a mode where one death means you need to restart or lower the difficulty did a lot to make the game scary again, at least for me.
Congratulations! You are now in that category of people who clearly have infinitesimal time if you are fine with potentially hours of gameplay getting wiped.
For those who actually have limited time and thus have more restrictive tastes, I’ll defer to the man whose opinion I have found reliably matches my own over the past decade.
@@Firestorm6651 He's in the category of people who like to spend their limited time mastering the combat in a game they love, and that's bad somehow.
Oh, and the man whose opinion reliably matches your own unfairly bashes Dead Space for not being more survival horror, refusing to accept the fact that many people like Dead Space the way it is, an action game with horror elements.
@@Firestorm6651I think you meant to say “infinite” as “infinitesimal” means “extremely small or limited”
@@Jerry-dx3cb One can not master something with the limited free time their responsibilities give them, to master requiters no responsibilities.
Also, action always kills horror. Good horror requires a balance, forced defenselessness eventually gets frustrating which eventually kills the horror, but being able to easily kill every enemy also kills horror. The best horror games are the ones where one can fight back but it is not a good idea, running is most often the best idea.
@@clwho4652 What an unbelievably dumb take. It takes time to master the game yes, but not unlimited time. People with real jobs and responsibilities and shit and have done it. And for the last fucking time, action game with horror elements =/= horror game. The game is tense and atmospheric, but it's not trying to scare you.
I did quite enjoy DSR, but it had several problem which I wasn't sure were just down to me being old now.
Hearing it was £70 stung.
My thumbs would hurt after not touching a controller for the best part of a decade.
The lighting and Zero G sections made me feel dizzy and nauseous at times.
And also minor gripe, but there were times where it just was straight up unclear you couldn't do stuff. I liked that you could explore the ship with it's interconnectivity, but at the same time there would be stuff such as the rig in a tram tunnel I spent like an hour throughout the game trying to grab with Kinesis only for it to turn out you couldn't do so for arbitrary reasons.
Also backtracking to go visit stuff now that you had clearance felt bad since you'd usually only get resources, maybe some logs, and on a rare occasion a weapon upgrade. Couple this with the fact that in new game plus you lost your security clearance (I get that maybe there could have been a few issues with you accessing areas you shouldn't for plot reasons, but I don't feel like that would be too hard to solve), and there is no way to easily view rooms on the map you haven't visited without going and looking at every floor on the map to look for greyed out rooms. Oh also and the final chapter dragging on exactly as it did in the original was just dull.
It was a good game and I'm looking forward to an eventual remake to the sequel (but not 3, I don't think there's any way to salvage that hot mess), but it could have been just a bit better.
also lol good luck with Hogwarts Legacy
Worth noting that the devs are making an Iron Man game at some point so maybe the free-flying segments might be pulling a Ubisoft: proof of concept for the next game coming down the pipeline.
I feel so genuinely happy that you pointed out your old harshness that i’ll never make any complaint ever again about this content
I definitely found the remake a lot less scary than the original, but it think it's just because all the weapons are so much more fun in the remake. It's hard to be scared when you're actively hoping to see something jump out so you can shoot it
“Greatest hits album” hits different now that they’re releasing a dvd of fully rhamblomatic clips. Very odd considering it’s free online.
Just rewatched his original review. Man, I didn't realize how much his voice and audio quality changed.
Mr Potato Head has never looked so good.
LMAO
3:54 hey that's the laser rifle from Xenonauts! Idk if you were planning on it or not Yahtz but are you going to do a Xenonauts 2 review when that finally releases?
Okay, while I would watch a ZP clip show, I think we can all agree that what we REALLY need is a blooper/outtakes reel.
Not that I'm going to play the remake, but I am glad they got rid of Zero-G jumps in favour of flight. I love 6 degrees of freedom.
what is "that reminds of that one time" at 0:40 a reference to?
0:40 I have to wonder if the caption is he remembering one part of one episode or those times he did clip shows at the end of the year
I haven't heard any reviews comment on the change from RE4 style aiming (independent from camera) being changed to the newer locked-to-camera style of Dead Space 2 and every other 3rd person shooter. I figure this affects difficulty as well? Haven't played it myself but have hear nothing from critics about the change
This was my first time playing any Dead Space game. I found I really liked it, but I *was* disappointed that it wasn't very scary. Normally I get scared pretty easily, but I guess the lack of scare is kind of inevitable when you're so powerful.
Seconded on the ripper, it was super OP. Wish I had invested in it more earlier.
We've come full bloody circle. A game he absolutely hated has now become a game he just couldn't be arsed to finish.
The great journey of Yahtzee the Space Hero; Hero of Space is nearing completion.
What is the imp holding in the final gag?
That last line killed me. Also I love Dead Space despite living Yahtzee too.
I'm glad he also reflected on his old review
Dead Space remake is so hard and scary that I'm struggling to go back to it because it reminds me of myself.
This reminds me of that person that told me that internet game lobbies aren’t as funny as they were 10 years ago cause know everyone has quality mics. Half the humor in old freak out videos was the atrocious audio quality
4:24 that's the funny part, the original has awful PC controls cause it does that thing MnK hackers do where it equates 1:1 mouse aiming to velocity based stick aiming. So it was just as hard to aim on pc as controller back then
"The Pale Beyond" is a game right up your alley, a cozy resource management survival game set in the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. Gameplay is a bit simple, but I think it's worth it for the story, art and incredible soundtrack.
5:15 SECOND time I've ever seen one of those Imps look disgruntled or concerned.
I know it's a joke but I'd be all in for a ZP clip show
I thought that's what the 4 hour long videos were for
Pretty sure he did that once already for, I wanna say, the 100th video or something? It was really early on, and it was literally just a whole bunch of strung together non-sequitur jokes from each video thus far. I remember the Escapist running a contest for it at the time, with prizes for who could pinpoint exactly where each joke came from in order.
2:31: that image hurt my soul, and broke my heart 😔😢.
Yep, it basically has the same problem as The Witcher 2 did, it feels weird playing it on PC since the UI feels like it was made solely for consoles in mind.
So in conclusion, there's an important distinction between things that don't suck and things that are good. It's nice to take the things that sucked and make them not suck, but not sucking isn't necessarily the same as "good".
Yahtzee didnt like the original either. It's action horror, he just doesn't like that kind of game. Just one dudes opinion. In my opinion, the remake is fucking excellent, especially the sound design with 3D audio and headphones. Game is extremely tense.
@@johnwrath3612 isn't resident evil 4 action horror?
I love how Yahtzee chose to represent Issac Clark. Good shit, awesome visual gag! xD
Isaac's helmet looks in here like a bottle of menthol flavored 🌶 wasabi 😂!
Will there be a video on the new Bayonetta origins game?