Why Was Dead Space 1 SO AWESOME?!
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
- The horror genre of gaming seems to have all but died out as far as Triple A gaming is concerned. But there was one game that came out 10 years ago, that forever changed the way I looked at horror games: Dead Space...
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___TIME STAMPS___
Introduction - 0:00
Setup, Presentation & Immersion - 2:46
Gameplay (Strategic Dismemberment) - 13:54
Tension, Fear, Horror - 23:52
Story - 32:47
Conclusion - 40:30
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Welp, I didn't make it in time for Halloween so I really took my time with this one! Hope you guys enjoy it and be careful out there! Wouldn't want you guys to shit your pants and all that. Also, I didn't know what sort of background music to use for Dead Space as the game's music is all bombastic orchestral pieces that are kind of distracting so I put some Left 4 Dead songs in there just FYI
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Pls make Fallout:New Vegas video
Best opening line ever.
Also- are you planning on doing more dead space videos?
The Act Man “F”
The Act Man I saw your comment on bacons video, oblivion boii
i will never forgive EA for ruining Dead Space
Fuck EA altleast we got the first 2
Still liked the 3rd one
#FUCKEA
DS 3 was actually pretty good, you people just didn't give it a fair chance in it's own right.
You look at Microtransactions and refuse to play a game you bought, despite having no clue if they actually affect gameplay balance at all.
Spoiler: It doesn't. You can fully max yourself out in a single playthrough and have powerful guns without MTs at all. Also the 3rd one does have some pretty decent scares and dark atmosphere.
@@Slimurgical i also like the 3rd one but for me the 2nd was the best one for me the 1 and 2 were more horror the 3rd was more like a typical 3rd person shoter and had less horror.
How to put lootboxes into horror games: Every crate has a 5% chance for a skeleton to pop out and shout boo.
That sounds like something Devolver would do.
Yes
1 percent chance for Rattle me bones
Thats funny ass shit bro
Is it spooky and tries to scare you or gives you a jump and says it funny so you laugh?
I think that Issac being a silent protagonist in the first game was one of my favorite parts of the game. A man of Action not words
I think that’s the worst part of DS1. Him showing not emotion or not talking when he definitely should just comes off as awkward. Hammond literally gets kill brutality in front of Issac and he really doesn’t have anything to say. I’m glad they are going to make him talk
In other words: An act man
Less chatter and more action. To say always the same things it's better not to say anything.
Just like the call of duty campaigns…
Im really interested in the remake that comes out 2023. There he gets a voice.
I really wish he touched on how some of the enemies will play dead after taking a hit and if you turn around they spring back up without making any noise but once you look back they start screaming as they tear towards you!
Also, the first time you run into a play dead Necromorph is absolutely terrifying, and keeps you on your tippy toes throughout the whole game. It's like the mimics in Dark Souls
Im playing DS2 ch14 doing the ch14 duplicate awesome sauce getting both nodes and the ruby conductor
Dream warriors bury the fucking thing we aint got all night Freddy3
God I miss dead space 😢
Sup
Same my dude. Same. It's a shame they killed it.
Oh my God it's Ihe
Something you don't hate?? THIS IS GROUND BREAKING!! MAKE A VIDEO ON IT!!!!
Wtf are you doing here
“We... we made it! I can’t believe we made it!”
“...son, you just ran across the hall. Let’s not throw a party.”
Literally every second of this game
it was a left for dead reference
@@jace_519 now that's epic
Thing is Left 4 Dead came out the same year
Me during gym class
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I feel Dead Space 1 had the best Suit Designs as well, and the natural progression of Isaac’s engineer Rig into full on Body Armor was great. Something the future games didn’t nail quite as well with the exceptions being the advanced suit and Arctic Survival suit in my opinion which had great aesthetic to them.
It would be cool if in The Dead Space Remake, instead of finding Suit Schematics, you would find them on the bodies of previous engineers who died during the Outbreak. Not a required change, but nonetheless would make the player feel more vulnerable and paranoid since even the strongest Rig wouldn’t be enough protection from the Necromorphs.
this is a really cool idea!
The suit would take up 1 inventory slot just like the schematic and then you can take it to the shop to fix using credits. It would still have you buy the RIG’s but it would look and feel so much better.
Would be a neat idea to improve upon the set dressing and immersion instead of all “pay money for upgrade” like your usual video game tropes.
I feel you, but I kinda see why the suits in Dead Space 3 look somewhat shitty is because your using 200 year old rigs rather than the modern in the year 2514.
Same
The suits are iconic. Looks like metallic skeleton erm exoskeleton.
Like flesh and bone vs metal and electrical stuff
Speaking of Isaac’s suit, I recall reading somewhere that the developers took some inspiration from hard hat diving suits, especially those designed for industrial areas where the person wearing the suit is expected to be repairing a piece of equipment while completely submerged.
Watching the footage you’ve captured after all the years since I last played Dead Space or its sequels, I can definitely appreciate the rugged utilitarian aesthetic they were going for in regards to Isaac’s iconic suit.
DS2 did a really good job of showcasing that inspiration with the vintage engineer suit. It's bulkier, has an air tank on the back, and the suit has couplings for the gloves and boots instead of looking like armor plating over a body glove.
I greatly appreciate the aesthetic in Dead Space 1, while it's already going for a stylized look, it's still feeling gritty, not like modern sci-fi where everything is designed like it's meant to look appealing to the game's publisher, with clean and curvy look to everything
"If you want to test a man's courage, let him play Dead Space" - Confucius
I read your name right after hearing the video's first line... was accidentally (not regretfully) impressed xD , at least we don't go our own way alone. :)
Make us whole again
KEEP US ALIVE ISSAC
Me and my friend clocked this shit in intermediate. Some scary ass nights...
Hell yea played when i was 5 im 11 now it was scary shit
"I'm safe in the elevator."
Words that every ds1 and ds2 player learns to regret.
As a soulsborne player i can confirm that those words fucked me over a bunch of times
elevators in ds1 are actually safe
@@jtcye1162 Only once you get attacked in ds 1. And that is the big elevator around chaptet 7-8.
@@emaniajr6553 Ah yes, but that wasn't really the kind of elevators I was referring to. Those enclosed indoor kind of elevators are safe in ds1, but in ds2 there were times where the necromorph actually jump in from the vents into the elevator as the elevator was closed and moving.
@@jtcye1162 Yes. As a guy who played deadspace 2 first. It took me 5 chapters to realise that.
the biggest reason why I like Isaac Clarke is simple, he has a gun and is scared and alone. He is a badass that realistically does not want to be in the situation he is in. A lot of Indie horror deals with characters who are scared and when they meet the monster they push and run away, and if it gets them well they are dead. Isaac (to me at least) is that human feeling of "oh Shiz I don't wanna die" and in a last ditch effort for survival we swing for the fences. a lot of his struggle animation is him not only overcoming the beast but punching it and stomping it to a bloody mess. Hell if Isaac was in a horror movie he would absolutely be the type of guy to "Double tap", "Triple tap"... "Multi tap", the Monster once it's down, not turn around and say "well glad that's over." But I also love the fact that he is scared, he isn't a badass that KNOW's he is going to win in the end, He is a normal dude who is an engineer in the most horrible situation ever. But does he give up? no, Should he give up? maybe. Is he going to give up? fuck no. He is going to Hail Mary this shiz and hope he makes it to the other side.
Perfectly said ♡
I never realized how frantic the melee animations were until I read your comment, that's actually mad cool
I can still remember how bad the nicole jump scare right before the credits got me lol. I was actually pissed off because I was like... come on game, I just won.. I've earned a bit of respite here, a bit of safety and PEACE... and you do this to me!?! Literally made me jump off the couch. This game was an incredible experience...first time I played it, I had 2 friends over late on Halloween night, and we stayed up until the sun came up playing through the game.
Best way I can explain it is.. playing this game for the first time was like experiencing the movie Alien for the first time. It was that damn good.
The gravity of that comparison is overwhelmingly underrated.
At least I think it is. Because cosmic horror is a hard genre to get right. Let's be glad we didn't necessarily get what Alien was originally written as. "Space Trucker's" isn't nowhere near as terrifying as "Alien" was. It's kinda funny how O'Bannon and Shuster I guess tried selling there screenplay. Described it as it's like truckers, but in space lol.
I've had worse "COME ONE!" jump scare moment in a game. Stupid Sadako in Dead by Daylight, scaring me when I have her selected.
It's not scary anymore
@@gergocsaki9828 yea i was pretty disappointed with it in the remake
@@cheeseburger7788 haven't played the original or the remake, would you recommend the original instead of the remake?
Playing this now in 2020, the game is years ahead of its time.
Oh I'm not the only one playing in 2020
I just played and finished it for the first time this year. I’ve never been scared shitless by a game in such a long time. I think it doesn’t help that I played it in the dark in the middle of the night. I wish I played it when it was at the height of its popularity.
Replaying 1 & 2 again. They really don't put much effort into games anymore
Captain Mutato I agree, most games now are just cash grabs. Gone are the days where games used to be created out of pure passion and offers a lot of replay value.
It still feels so good. Like games today of this genre dont play or feel this good you know what i mean?
Just imagine how much PTSD Issac must have after this god damned nightmare
Play the sequel and you’ll see.
@@ALJ9000 yeah and by the 3rd game he is a one man army in a 3rd person shooter instead of horror game
I tried playing this game a few year later and I had PTSD from my first play through
Thats a part of the story of DS2
I know i did, and revisiting Ishimura on Dead Space 2 wasnt easy.
I really love how Dead Space, when looting you are almost always guaranteed ammo for the weapon you have equipped at that moment. Nice touch👌
I dunno about this one. I always main the plasma cutter but only ever find flamethrower fuel. Feels bad when the new bodysuit tier is available but you spent all your money on ammo in the last room
@@Saad-pj7ip I agree-
I was constantly running out of ammo for the plasma pistol/cutter and with always either pick up Flameflower or those blade rounds?!? End it would really aggravate me because I would be like what the fuck I don’t have either of these guns?!
@@turismofoegaming8806 The ripper was actually pretty useful for those little critters that swarm you. Other than that, accurately aiming it was a pain so I stuck to the plasma cutter. Either way, I mostly found force ammo, fuel, and ripper blades.
@Saad I don’t know whats wrong with your dead space but whenever I have only one weapon equipped this goes for 2 as well the game throws the ammo for it at me in droves. I’ve never ran out of ammo in dead space 1 or 2.
@@doomslayer1210 even on the the hardest difficulties the game drops the weapon ammo you have equipped. They are misremembering lol it occasionally drops different ammo but it'd a guarantee for equipped weapon ammo.
The first dead space was by far the scaryest of the three. I remember when i played ds2 and i had to go onboard the ishumaru again, i got flashbacks of horror and got sweaty. For me it is evidence that the first one did it right.
Dead Space is basically a perfect game, the developers fought hard to get their vision faithfully made without cutting corners or bowing to budgeting.
And *THAT's* why the fans are faithful, take some notes 'Bethesda', until you *Miraculously* do, I will never look at you as a respectable company again!
You can see this nowadays with games such as:
-The outerworlds
-Deathstranding
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... Well shit
@No Go I mean it's a fair point but to me outerworlds felt like an oasis in a place where triple a devs can get away with shity business practices
@No Go I completely agree. I can't say I'm not disappointed with outer world's. I only played for 10or 15 minutes before I realized it's just too cartoonish for my liking. I still haven't played through it. I just lost interest in it. Which sucks cause I paid full price. The graphics alone turned me away and killed the immersion. And I love Fallout 3and New Vegas. Graphics suck in those games but they're not cartoonish or like you're reading a comic book. I wasn't a fan of fallout 4 either. It was too colorful and the b.s. with dialogue and dumbing it down so that COD players might buy it pisses me off to no end. Either way I was hoping for obsidian to give me a REAL RPG with at least semi realistic graphics and a good story. I'm not happy with what I bought.
@@josephstalin3586 comrade stalin I didnt know you were a fan of dead space
"Why is dead space so awesome "
The real question is. Why haven't they remastered it yet.
Orionbelt430 rea yea no shit
Because Golden Eye? You can't remaster the nostalgia people manufacture from games with older graphics and mechanics. They replace the cracks in fractured memories with only the good feelings because that's simply what people do. It just was, will never be again, and any denial of it is really sad. But hey, go play FF7 remastered. Even assholes who destroy the turn-based battle system of an entire genre and replace it with action that makes you want to puke your fucking guts up need money too.
Why the fuck would it be remastered for? There's nothing wrong with the original one
@@swagit4174 Mostly for newer console users to get a chance to play again or for the first time
Also if they touch up on the graphics and lighting itd be doubly amazing
The series is open-ended with no possible DS4 in the future and you expect a remaster?
And the ending music is kind of fitting now, as Dead space is getting its own "intensity director" that dynamically spawns and paces the game around us! But not only with the necros themselves, it's also a lightshow generator, darkening places you're already been, using smoke or sprinkles or other sounds in combination with spawns... or not-spawns.
I'm excited to see how that plays out especially if i were to go back to an area i already went through!
@@LoganFlores you get security clearence levels that will enable you to open doors in chapters/decks that are locked for that level, so it gives you an actual incentive to go back.
So…a more in depth take on the dynamic difficulty from resident evil 4 but with the horror…which makes it seem each persons experience will be tailor made to how they play throughout…holy shit!
Now that the remake is out making it’s splash, you’ve gotta make a vid on it! This original was and still is: a MASTERPIECE.
This game taught me to aim at every motherfucking vent in existence, and yes, i aim at vents in other games too out of damn irrational paranoia
Among us😳
@@WhiteHat262 sussy
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Imagine him killing an impostor in among us by shooting him cause of that paranoia
"Oh shit, is that a v-v-v-v-VENT?!"
*Dead Space necromorph flashbacks*
The day I picked up Dead Space 2 we had a pretty massive blizzard. So playing the game with winds howling at night was pretty cool.
That’s sounds like an awesome experience man. I always loved playing Dead Space at night with all the lights turned off or when it was raining.
My buddy I visited completely closed all his windows to where the the room was pitch darkness then told me to play Dead space. That Dick completely scared the shit of me. Love that guy. Wish we had a HD collection for PS4 and XBOX one.
I WILL NEVER FORGIVE THE JAPANESE btw this is a JoJo reference
tbh? that sound super damn cozy. Like, you could fall asleep while playing levels of cozy.
that sounds great im about to replay one and two on the harder difficulties
one of my favorite parts of dead space was the audio stinger you would get when enter/exiting the tram during the start of a chapter. that sort of apprehensive violin showed this sense of mystery and horror while also showing me that I was make progress, that I was getting somewhere. being able to feel proud yet uncertain at the same time is just genuinely amazing sound design
24:17 "The goal is not so much to create discusting enemies that grose the player out"
A few years later:
Callisto Protocol
Real disappointing that was.
@@TrixyTrixter indeed it was xD
@@somekriegsoldier2561 My sadness was immeasurable. And my day was ruined. It was not even scary.
@@TrixyTrixter yep, so much hype for nothing. I honestly fell like they stole my money
@@somekriegsoldier2561 With the amount of times their marketing mentions Dead space, I was expecting so much better. I agree tho, definitely felt like my money was stolen.
My cat had a habit of jumping on my shoulder from behind when I was sitting by my PC. When he did this at 3 AM, while I was playing Dead Space... Damn. I almost got a heart stroke that time...
cute cat lol
@Goldmanschnozsteen sixtrillionberg, he was a true master of jiu catsu.
May I ask what a heart stroke is
@@bjblazkowicz332 heart attack, heart seizure, heart failure, cardiac arrest, any way you'd like to call it. Or if you preffer a more vulgar expression: I shat tons of bricks. :)
Тимур Булатов strokes are only in the brain. :-)
The fact that Issac had so much character without saying one word throughout the game is amazing
Well he's based off half life 2 main character
Same voice actor too.
His character comes from his few expressions and body language we see along with his journal entries.
Of course he says… words… but only when there is a fragile box with a soft pulsing light.
*Isaac proceeds to bellow a screech loud enough to disturb the dead, whilst stomping his foot with enough force to decapitate a human being by stomping their wrist*
All for a chance to get ammo, money, or a frick load of swarmers.
And that beautiful word is
*”HHRRRRGGGNNGG!!!”*
@@afailureofaanimator6744 gottem
Here's hoping the Act Man covers the remake and compares it to the original.
This game needs to be played with headphones. My first play through was without them which was awesome but when I played with headphones the whispers, isaac’s breathing and heartbeat and the movement in the vents really keeps you on edge it’s truly a whole different experience
💯
They only sent 5 people to fix everything because it was an "illegal mining operation", remember?
small detail but speaks volumes
everyone was supposed to be alive, also.
Well, Kojima and Konami send a single man to do the job of multiple units and those games kick a**. I think the game killed all of them, but Isaac because one is enough, two is too many, and three is right out.
Gt
I actually was to scared to played the first game so I had to sell it back. Then I grew a pair of balls and got it again and beaten it, and it became one of my favorite horror games of all time
Same thing happened to me man lol I played it when I was younger it scared tf outta me then I played it like 2 years after
Nice balls you have there. I respecc.
Before I started playing this game, I was watching how Issac dies from all the necromorphs back in middle school, and when I saw the hivemind eat part of Issac, I started smelling vomit out of nowhere. I was just watching these videos on my ipad, relaxed, and I smell vomit right after he dies, it was sudden and weird.
Me back when I played PS2 all the time, I was scared of Mortal Kombat cause of all the blood and stuff. LMAO Literally a little bitch.
Didn't have that problem.
Got the game, loved the hell out of it, and played it for so long on my first sitting that my parents had to call my girlfriend over to get me to stop.
Twas a good day, and dead space remains one of my most beloved games to this day.
dead space was one of my favorites for sure. i just wish the series didnt end the way it did. it was so unique in its delivery and horror that no one else could really compete. i hope they do a prequel or something one day. this series deserves a last hoora of amazing story and horror to the fans whove not had a new dead space in years.
Man, you explain games perfectly. I miss playing this masterpiece. It's the first or only game that actually "scared" me while playing.
"A good Horror game, is like a hot girl that isn't crazy...they are basicly extinct"
"Act man GF sharps the knife"
Bold that you assume he has one.
@@somm150 he has
It's better that he doesn't have one. That is real..life...horror.
@@somm150
But... he does have one?
Oof... forget what I said. Stay strong, Acting Male. We all gotta keep our heads up
I love how the USG Ishimura feels like its own character
Especially in the second game when you have to go back. That feeling of dread is unmatched.
The USG Ishimura is itself a character.
And then in dead space 2 Poor Isaac wakes up and lives to see another day alive only to see the whole place get USG Ishimura'd all over again might want to sleep forever
Very reminiscent to event horizon
I love the lore and concept art for all the dead space games
When I was a kid this game gave me
Ancraophobia -Air vents
Nyctophobia - Dark
Necrophobia - Dead
Astrophobia -Space
Fun memories and nostalgic too
I love dead space just cause how big the ship is it’s so damn small, every corner you always aim every dead body you see you shoot it or stomp on it, every character you interact with you are hoping they don’t die or don’t try to kill you, you’ll see a shadow figure in a door way then it’ll disappear, you’ll forget about it then it’ll come back. This game was fun as heck.
“A couple of guys who are going to be dying” lol
Lol
lol
"The store is gonna be your best buddy." "Every time you see one, you can rest easy." Don't go around giving people fake security spots in this game.
Onat Akosha The Third It was already spoiled in this review. Not sure if you were paying attention or not.
The best part of the stores is that they emit ominous whispers which are apparently just a standard feature. Space Cola just don't taste right without the creepy chanting to help it down.
@@Lyubimov89 I assume thats supposed to be the voices in your head caused by the physiological effects that alien collossus thing is having on the pathetic humans brain tissue.
He said later in the video that stores and Benches are never completely safe.
@@ncshuriken good point! I remember that this specific thing was the only point in the game where it went from genuinely scary (I mean, DS1 is a freaking spooky game) to narmy. Like, come on, at least make the shops not spooky! But Isaac going bonkers would explain the whispers.
I remember after playing through the first game I should have expected that goddamn final jump scare, but I didn't. It got me.
I remember playing dead space 2 and by the time I returned to the ishimura I was low on health, I had like 5 shots in my plasma cutter, I had no money, and I had nothing else. For the majority of the walk through the ishimura I feel like I was reliving the horror I felt when I first entered it in the first dead space. I felt hopeless, I felt dread, I felt fear that I haven't felt since the first game. I find a broom that I can use with kinesis to impale the limbs. I slowly continue to scour the ship not finding anything realizing it has no supplies. And thats when I got to the big room with the two brutes, and several of the impaler babies and the suicide ones. I was very lucky with a couple of my shots with the broom to the suicide babies to decapitate the heads and use them against the brutes weak spot. I had a sliver of health left and somehow I finally managed to get them all using the brooms, the babies, and 3 of the 5 shots I had left. I managed to scrounge up some more ammo, health packs, and credits. That is the kind of fear I love to feel when I play games like that
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"The infection process is doing something strange to these soldiers. They all have built-in stasis units in their body armor. The infection is somehow merging the stasis unit... into their flesh or something, making them move fast. Really fast! Be careful."
Creepiest description of a new enemy I've heard. This game is so horrifying (T_T)
I was frightened when these enemies first appeared
Those twitchy assholes still make me jump and I've done a dozen or so playthroughs
What confuses me about them is why does stasis a thing that slows stuff down speed them up?
@@danielliebergall856 I thought it was because it slows things down for the user, so from everyone else's perspective you're sped up, that's what you look like when using stasis too.
He didn’t mention this but I think it’s a good feature is the whispering when it’s silent it always creeps me out
I like to think it’s the game subtly telling you that Isaac is slowly being driven insane
"Isaac~"
@@ImGazu yep. its the marker actually trying to corrupt him.
Yh that woman's voice who kept on repeating some ship protocols
@@AnonymousSWAT n o
DUDE!!! you knocked this vid out of the park! ... I'm sharing with everyone, even my wife who is not a gamer but enjoys that I enjoy them... I've tried so hard to encapsulate my first dead space experience to people, but you put it into words that have always escaped me! well done... VERY well done!
REALLY looking forward to The Callisto Protocol, Negative Atmosphere, and the Dead Space remake even more now.
It took me 10 years to notice the first letter of each chapter spells out “Nicole is dead”
1, 3 and the Mobile game have that letter trope
So, what does this all mean?
@@nguyenquyetthang1326 yeah apparently it says “brother the moons are alive” talking about the brethren moons
@@kirstyjerkic4362 in the Mobile it spells "HE WILL BETRAY", referring to the eventual betrayal of your ally
@@nguyenquyetthang1326 what’s the mobile game called?
I started watching this video, stopped it, played the entire game for the first time, and now have come back to watch Act Man talk about it. I’m very glad I didn’t miss out on experiencing this game first hand rather than having everything told to me.
What did you think about it at the time?
The good news is there is 2 more games but the og is the spookiest imo
you have chosen.... wisely
This comment gives me hope.
Same here always wanted to play this but it was seeing that the act man made a review that gave me the kick in the a** to buy it
We "need" The Act Man to cover the remake. I wanna see a veteran's opinion
Time for a Why is Dead Space 2023 is so AWESOME!!!!
"Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is the fear of the unknown." -H.P Lovecraft
@@pvtbx4198 Don't even get me started on his cat's name.
Ain't that true
nice quote
The Act Man is the perfect combination of a badass and witty dude combined with that gamer that you know is great the second u join the lobby with him and a professional journalist that ACTUALLY tells u what going on TRUTHFULLY unlike what it is nowadays. He tells us these games and what's it's about in a smart and fun way while also being human and like a normal person while somehow being professional at the same time. He knows how to tell us what the game is like in the best way possible whether it's good or not. The Act Man... best game reviewer ever.
Edit: Oh damn, this got liked by The Act Man himself and somewhat popular, nice.
Straight facts my dude!
THE ACT MAN = FACTS , "GAME JOURNALISTS" = FAKE NEWS
FACTS CAPTAIN
And that is why "The Act Man" is so Awesome.
AssassinGamer5_ u got that damn right chief
32:09 You cut that perfectly, and brought back all my PTSD from this fu**ing game XD
I love that my at the time super young nephew showed me this game. I was shocked he would like a game like Dead Space.
This man talking bout Dead Space and then plays the FLOOD theme from Halo CE
And the music from L4D
Hey, it works.
It matches
Yeah I noticed that immediately and also noticed every single L4D track..... I am one of those people who listens to soundtracks for things I play/watch instead of regular music.
I can't remember any music at all from Dead Space and the Flood theme is good creepy music. 🤷♂️
@@Arassar I listened to the dead space soundtrack a lot too (yes there is one) and he barely used it in this video, if it all. Kind of a weird decision on his part but it was still an awesome video.
*N I C O L E I S*
Chapter 9: Dead On Arrival
Isn’t like the last 4 chapters have the word dead in them?
Each first letter of the chapters through out the game spell “Nicole is dead”
@@dan78789 Which is another big hint that you're on a mission to save a dead woman.
Okgt
@@blmao5150 we know idiot
I just picked this game up. It’s rare for a horror game to keep me playing. But this did. And oh my god the halo flood music goes over dead space gameplay so well
Something that always get mentioned is the stomp but no one ever says why. The reason his stomp is stronger is the magnetic boots triggers midair to bring down a stronger impact.
All that foreshadowing with Bioshock during the entire video is hyping me up for the "Why was BioShock 1 so awesome" video.
Fuck I love The Act Man and all his review videos. He is like a "Happy Video Game Chad"
"why was bioshock 1 a masterpiece"
@@fuzzyfoodfrenzy well I don't know about you but I think it was pretty fucking good
@@cramoslo0423 no bioshock is not just "pretty good".... bioshock is GODLY
Omg I will probably just die on the spot when that happens
"You have to dismember them" Me using the Pulse Rifle shooting center mass with 225 rounds of can't tell me how to play!
I tried this on my first play through with the first few guns and actually ran out of ammo.. good old school games lol
Maximum difficulty and only using the starting weapon was the way to go. Every shot counts.
Survivalist, Zealot and Hard Core: no
I really hope Glen Schofield saw this, he really needs to be reminded what a masterpiece he created for us gamers.
Hopefully he watched this even more after the release of Callisto Protocol 😂
Ah yeah I get it. Really unfortunate though, I really wanted that game to do well
@@lukezuccaro5441 Same! Shame that it didn't tbh
The motion comics were so cool. They were available for free on Playstation at the time and I watched them multiple times as a kid. I miss those. Super dark.
I still think that Dead Space has some of the best world building in any videogame.
Hands-Frikkin-down!
@Kyros Droztamyr no it dont lmao yall really think microtransactions ruined the story too? Good god the micro isnt even that much of a deal in DS3 and DS3 is a great game just not as good as dead space 1&2 still fits still is a great game
@Kyros Droztamyr thats literally the only thing yall ever bring up when yall say DS3 is bad i know the problems with DS3 but its really no where near horrible or makes the game bad
Kyros Droztamyr You’re being the sperg here. DS3 upped the ante on its lovecraftian lore. Of course
autists will overlook that fact when blinded by the business practices that are separate of the artistic merit.
Also the only comic series based on a game that I actually enjoyed
Act Man: We made it... I can't believe we made it!
Man on screen: Son you just ran across the hall, let's not throw a party... Until we fix the ship.
I died from laughter.
Blue Dragon was that suppose to be a quote from Bill from Left 4 Dead but with a twist?
Will Smith Yeah
So much l4d music
The man on screen is Zac Hammond. Just letting u know😎
2:45 the flood music is such a nice touch! gave me goosebumps
Cant wait for Actman to make a video comparing this to the remake :D
The rest of the internet: Ninja got mad again in fortnite
The act man: Dead Space 1 is so awesome!
This is why I subscribed to you : )
Fortnite is overrated anyways. Older games may not have the graphics of today's games, but they are superior in almost all other ways
@@TacticalBaguette yeah add overwatch in there too
Preach
Spirit yeah I dont go two craps abou ninja
why is everyone freaking out about a human being expressing one of the many emotions we possess? is he normally calm or what ?
"A good horror game is a lot like a hot girl who isn't crazy." Damn brother...you pulled off a universal truth in the first 4 seconds. That's gotta be a freaking record!
@Ru paul okay enjoy pulling your hair out after first month of dating
If you were ever fortunate enough to play this through a decent home theatre system, you'll likely appreciate just how incredible the sound design in the game was. The 3D positioning, the haunting, eerie sounds, the depth of the lows and shriek of the highs combined to create an atmosphere that really needs to be experienced.
Alone in a dark room with the sound cranked up, I couldn't manage more than an hour at a time before my nerves were shot to shit. No game before or since has had this effect. The game is a masterpiece.
My favourite tag line for this game when it released was "Nobody can hear you scream in space" fucking love it, it Builds Up suspense before you even play the game.
lmao, this reminds me of the time my cousin was playing this for the first time, and he was all like - and this is, word for word I remember - "watch this be a breeze". and then I kid you not, about 5 seconds later, 3 of those things jumped out the hallway vents one by one, and 2 more came around the corner swinging like a Tasmanian devil. and my friend turned around like "oh fuck this, let's play something else". lmao, I will never forget that face he gave me.
ROFL talk about being scarred for life
When I first got DS1 I brought my old mate round to have a blast on it together, death for death style. Told him I found this sick new horror game that was actually scary (the last actually scary horror game I remembered was Condemned 1, yeeaars earlier). Booted it up and told him to have the 1st go, and there were some fireworks going off in someones backyard. After the first panic scene on the lift its all quiet, my guy takes a few steps forward then a firework goes off and he literally flies out the chair almost breaking his skull on my storage units! This shit made the game even better from then on.
That’s some funny shit
Is he your cousin or your freind
@@jev8665 yes
I introduced my best friend to Dead Space by secretly loading the Hivemind boss fight and convinced him that he was playing the first chapter lol.
You clever bastard!!!
Fucking NICE!!
"You son of a bitch"
You, you are a special kind of evil
What did he think? What did he say?
*I CAN’T WAIT FOR THE REMAKE BECAUSE IT LOOKS GOOD SO FAR.*
*I JUST HOPE IT ALL WORKS OUT WHEN IT FINALLY RELEASES NEXT YEAR.* 🙏🏽
Already pre-order from the game collections for £54 after I sold that diabolical "successor" the calisto protocol. Dead space remake is gonna be one hell of another ride .
Unfortunately it's next Gen only and I think my pc would unalive itself trying to run it *que evil Morty theme*
Hope it's in a better state than bf2042
Boy do I have good news for you
@@____Carnage____ I was 6 mins too late to say the same thing 😞
10:30 this is why i love dead space so much.
i also love how your intelligence is what cans save you from being turned into a necromorph. its why Isaac can survive and not be turned into one. its because he's an engineer. he's obviously smarter than the average person. its perfect.
For me the scariest part of playing Dead Space was when an enemy would run from you and escape into the vents. You jus knew he was gonna come back eventually, but not knowing when and where created that stressfull antecipation that makes yours hands sweat. Such an awesome game.
Imo, Dead Space is one the best games I’ve ever played, easily.
I really felt alone, like I was a hundred lightyears away from earth and everyone I knew... on a ship full of dead people turned into monsters lol. Every chance you had to get near another character was like a psychological break from it, and you looked forward to it. That’s what made it so different for me. Also everything else was perfect.
Spot on what I felt, wish they could only remaster it now atleast
I liked finding audio logs of chief engineer Jacob Temple and Dr. Elizabeth Cross. They made feel less alone on that nightmare ship. I wanted them to survive the whole thing. I was very angry at Dr. Mercer after he killed them in chapter 10.
To add that feeling of isolation, is the feeling of no control,. Let's talk about the mechanics and enemy AI.
The game play didn't make you feel like an unstoppable bad ass, but a bad ass non the less. But the mechanics were tougher then just mowing down baddies with an AR with a huge clip. Or sniping head shots, or blowing them away with a big fucking shot gun. No, you had an engineering tool, that was bad ass but could easily miss, and very limited ammo (at least on hard). Which made you always have to sit up, and pay fucking attention to every shadow, every noise. Situational awareness was crucial, and tense. Most FPS games or 3rd person, whathaveyou, is fun, yeah, challenging, sure, but are you sitting up, ears perked, dialed in at every moment? No, we're sitting back feet up, having a thrill shooting the hell out of enemies that are more meant to die, then to actuality kill you .
I played dead space on my series x when Xbox released it on game pass and loved it. It truly is a masterpiece!
Fun fact about Dead Space's executions: They aren't scripted whatsoever. Whatever that Necromorph did to you, the Necromorph itself decided and is a normal attack in its moveset
So I always assumed everyone thought this, but with Issac Clark’s stomps being able to destroy planets practically, I just figured he would activate the mag on his boot as he was stomping to add additional power
Wouldn't that break his own bones with that much force? Lol
@@suryagiri3798 some science mumbo jumbo idk I’m not a mathematician
@@suryagiri3798 probably something like shock absorbtion in the boots.
I also assumed that because the boots are magnetized for Zero-G, that he uses that to stomp extra hard.
I think it can just be the exo-skeleton that gives it extra force
In the lore it's basically the suit upgrades that are giving him that type of strength so yes he is enhanced which is why his stomps do a shit ton of damage
Isaac gets so scared he passes out. He wakes up in the back of a cart.
"Hey, you're finally awake."
Good one, m8ty.
Ave a fishy stick.
... and when he sees a guy (looking like what I think is a man in roman general armor) talking to some woman with freakishly long ears, he says: "Whoa, what the f-US RO DAH"!
How do I delete someone's comment?
"you were trying to cross the border weren't you"
@@Mr.Scott86 xD
15:00 I wonder how this compares to *Control or Quantum Break.*
*14 years later, with a Remake trailer out with developers* explaining how the remaster is in the works, I finally rushed back to this game I haven't touched since 2013 and gave its first mission a try. The one you showed. It leaves me... wanting to know what other weapons and enemies and characters and possibilities exist.
If only I wasn't so scared of how real they still come off.
I'd take an hour of tense uncomfortable feeling buildup with 5 minutes of action over endless jump scares any day of the week.
*cough*five nights at Freddy’s *cough*
Fun fact the “make us whole” is referring to the brethren moons, it messes with a person to activate a convergence event and then all of the mass comes together to make a necromorph the size of a moon and their only goal is to kill all life in the galaxy
This has always made me wonder if the brethren moons may at one point converge to make something greater, or eat one another if they eat everything else in the galaxy, which the games seem to hint is the case after humanity is gone.
fun fact brethren moons killed the game not EA
/s
@@SomeOne-vf1rs this is why the game is called dead space
@@lanakaneti9524 no not really it was lore I actually liked it it pretty cool but the problem was Isaac no way could have defeated one
No, "make us whole again" was about the Marker pleading to be returned to Aegis 7. The moon bullshit was shoved into the sequels.
Dead Space was way ahead of it's time. Shame EA destroyed this company. I thoroughly enjoyed 2 as well and although 3 was super far from what the original was in terms of horror over action I still beat the whole game with a friend. I wish they somehow could make a Dead Space 4 and bring it back to its horror roots
MakaveliTheResurrection rumors that they will show off either dead space 4 or a reboot at e3 next year or in 2020 along with playstation 5
I enjoyed Dead Space 3 the most, mainly because like you said, they went more towards the action and gameplay rather than a full-blown horror game... Still, the Dead Space series had one of the best storylines I've ever seen in a game. Idk if this was intentional or not, but floating around in space has always been one of my biggest 'fears' lmao. Obviously having a cool space suit/power armor makes it a lot less 'dangerous'. But if your suit randomly lost power, you'd basically die lol. A tiny crack in your gear could lead to death. Not to mention any kinda high-speed maneuvers would be extremely difficult or even fatal, especially over long periods of time.
typical, ea is what is good at...destroying games
The best option is to remaster the first two games, fix the bad checkpoints, make good pc ports, and make Dead Space 3: The Visceral cut. This would be the dead space 3 visceral wanted to make, using leaked ideas as a basis to help create the dead space 3 we all wanted. I don't think a reboot would be the right way to go, because than Isaac would probably talk, and while I love Gunner Wright as Isaac, the first game is better without a voiced protagonist. The game's atmosphere would not work if Isaac talked. Even worse, with how EA works, they wouldn't bring back Gunner to voice Isaac, because why stay consistent and bring back a fantastic voice actor when we can save some money and just have one of our speed dial voice actors play the part.
You know dead space 4 will have lootboxes and microtransaction as enemies.
Dude I am so in love with the presentation of Hive Mind, this huge monster thing trying to kill you with the backdrop of this dusty brown golden sky while a fucking piece of the planet is slowly making it's way to crush everything and all you can do is kill this thing as fast as possible, I can't wait to see it on the remake, if they get it right it's gonna be amazing
Fully upgraded: Starting Suit, Military Suit and the Tank Suit (for the health bonus) are my favorites.
The creator of dead space is making a new game called “Callisto protocol”
The creator as in, the head of Visceral when DS1 was made or like... a group of people from Visceral?
@@monke12354 the creator glen schnofield
This is the best news I've heard of something to happen in gamedev after HL:A
we need dead space 4!
@@WaxTheDolphin I don't think you understand what you're asking for
I think one of my favorite small details is the fact that Isaac has REALLY shitty posture, which makes sense for a guy hunched over for his job, repairing shit and just living. Good attention to detail.
Some headcannon for me at least is that the RIG is supposedly like 60-80 pounds with the whole suit on so I figured he was slouching from the weight. Such a good design too.
Could be also that he has those magnetic boots which keep him pressured to the floor
@@Future-Corpse That's not called head Canon that's just called an inference, a prediction, an interpretation. I hate that fucking word head canon.
DETHKLOK
And additionally, I believe, the lower the health level the more hunched over Isaac actually is.
Although it's unrelated to your comment Toki I think it's interesting nonetheless. One thing I always asked myself is; why does he speak in the second and third installment after all that sh*t Isaac has gone through in the original one.
One of my favorite games, right behind Bioshock 1. Played though both at least 3 times and about to start Bioshock again this weekend since I never played the remastered version and never on the Playstation so I figured it will be a new experience for me. Never ended up finishing Dead Space 2 or 3 since I just couldn't get into them like I did the first one. I can't wait for them to remaster Dead Space so I can make another couple of weekends out of it, this time on a huge screen, in the dark and the surround sound turned all the way up..
Love this video! You bring up excellent points and can verbalize all that I can't articulate which is enjoyable about this gem. Dead Space 2 is so excellent itself, but I prefer this one and how much of a character the setting plays. I need to play this one again next month.
Dead Space was a Masterpiece.
damn right
Key word was😔
@@mdietrich6474 Still is lol
it's still a masterpiece, is top horror game of all time; it's number 1 in my eyes
@@fr.Angel21 same here, there's no horror game I enjoy more than dead space, I've played through it somewhere around 6-7 times.
"we're killing babys now? jesus"
dead space 2 tho lol.
"Plays Dead Space 2 for the first time and walks into the school level"
Oh no where is this going
Stomp children for ammo and cash
@@halloween4594 r/cursedcomments?
Robert's got a quick hand
He'll look around the room he won't tell you his plan
He's got a rolled cigarette
Hanging out his mouth, he's a cowboy kid
Yeah, he found a six shooter gun
In his dad's closet, in a box of fun things
And I don't even know what
But he's coming for you, yeah, he's coming for you
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You better run, better run faster than my bullet
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You better run, better run faster than my bullet
Daddy works a long day
He's coming home late, yeah, he's coming home late
And he's bringing me a surprise
Cause dinner's in the kitchen and it's packed in ice
I've waited for a long time
Yeah, the slight of my hand is now a quick pull trigger
I reason with my cigarette
Then say your hair's on fire
You must have lost your wits, yeah
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You better run, better run faster than my bullet
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You better run, better run faster than my bullet
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You better run, better run faster than my bullet
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You better run, better run faster than my bullet
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You better run, better run faster than my bullet
@@GV-ew1dm is that from a text log ?
I banged my head on the wall because of the Nicole jump scare scene before the credits when I thought the game was over and credits were about to begin.
Jesus man I feel like you and I grew up side by side playing games. Every little small background music you put into your videos I can spot and name and visualize right off the top of my head. It's crazy how close some fellow gamers can be when you really look at it. Even caught that Star Fox 64 song from Sector X at 24:22. Heh
Believe On Jesus Christ And You Will Be Saved 🙏
“The lesson is to beat the fuck out of anything that scares you”
Literally any horror movie: “Welp guess I’ll just walk into the living embrace of this clown holding a knife with blood as red paint.”
Yeah, that's right. Beat the fuck out of that clown- oh shit. He stabbed me...
Hood instincts on point
I was shaking my head when he said the shops were safe. I shit my pants when I was attacked by slasher while shopping
What? That's not supposed to happen. The shops, benches, and save stations are all the Dead Space equivalent of the Resident Evil safe room
r q One specific shop ( in both 1 and 2 ) have a trigger for an enemy spawn, but only on the first time you go to it. And one specific bench has that too ( was even shown in the video )
25:44
Haha I'm glad I'm not the only one who experience this. It may be a random occurence because it didn't happen again after that. But I didn't trust shops for shit after that😂
@@courier6640 there are at least 2 instances I can think of where you will guaranteed be attacked at a shop if you aren't paying attention
Just got done playing the remaster/remake of dead space and man what a game this is. Refreshing to play such a good single player horror shooter. The storyline is top notch too.
I remember when I very first played this, I thought pausing it would stop the tension, I was so wrong
Dead Space 1 was a damn masterpiece. I loved this game so much. Sadly EA fucked it all up, like with most of their franchises.........
Lost planet suffered a similar fate to dead space
I think, along with everything you said about Dead Space, one of THE BEST THINGS TO REMEMBER....is that Isaac is just a man, not we've seen "Just Men" take on impossible odds on their own before
but he isnt a super human like The Master Chief
he's not a security marine that got so fuck ass mad he kicks hell's face in every conceivable universe to the point he was becoming blessed and empowered by other entities
he's a regular guy, an engineer! he didn't train for combat, he didn't train for psychic bs, he didn't prep for ANYTHING and has to use the equipment provided on hand to get through a nightmare!
he is a common guy who managed to survive something noone else could, but he didn't get out of it without a scratch or two, isaac is FUCKED UP in the 2nd one, always double checking if what he's seeing is real or not and stuff like that.
He's a future engineer. It doesn't count!
Also like the main character from Condemned 1, who is just a normal beat cop who got framed for murder after a shift gone wrong, and goes on the run. Thats only the beginning of his journey into an urban nightmare. Somehow tho, between the excellent Condemned 1 and the weak Condemned 2, the main guy mysteriously transforms from some Puerto Rican looking guy, to a bearded white guy looking like a cross between Kurt Russel and Chuck Norris, and its still the same guy. They never explained this...
Isaac was part of Merchant Marines, and skilled enough to build rocket launchers and assault rifles from scratch.
@@Boltscrap Sounds like a futuristic version of the Merchant Navy.
@@HelghastStalker "After graduating with high honors, Isaac enlisted in the Merchant Marines. He quickly gained a reputation for his resourceful engineering solutions and after two years was promoted to a higher-profile position closer to the major shipping lanes." Not just a regular engineer.
I just beat this game for the first time, and it was amazing. It was easily one of the best horror games I'd played through in some time.