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Dead Space was a bad game. by Jerry Whorebach 01/30/2013, 9:35pm PST
Dead Space 3 is coming out soon, so one of the developers is over on NeoGAF trying to staple a human face over the slavering corporate abomination that is EA Visceral. Here's what he posted in a thread about hardcore modes:
codecow wrote:

I can't speak for other developers but one of my favorite games is Diablo. The first thing I wrote on Dead Space in terms of my contribution to the design had a one life mode with save destruction. I think it fits well with the survival theme, it wasn't until DS2 that we got around to it.

Dead Space was eleven hours of sub-Doom 3 dogfood, sandwiched between an unskippable thirty-minute introductory credits sequence (that was still unskippable on subsequent playthroughs - I checked) and a final boss fight that reversed your controls. If you took one look at that design and your first note was "needs a one life mode with save destruction", that would make you... jesus, that would make you exactly as stupid as a guy who made Dead Space.
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I didn't realize I had a problem... by Jerry Whorebach 09/11/2011, 6:39pm PDT NEW
    It's when you do it all using only the GRAAAAAAH stomp that you have a problem by Lizard_King 09/11/2011, 8:19pm PDT NEW
        You know, it never occured to me to use anything BUT the stomp. by Jerry Whorebach 09/11/2011, 10:58pm PDT NEW
            Spoilers! by Jerry Whorebach 09/13/2011, 6:48pm PDT NEW
                The scariest part that made me stop playing by fabio 09/15/2011, 6:43am PDT NEW
                    They're fun action games. by Gutsby 09/15/2011, 7:41am PDT NEW
                        I thought they were velociraptors NT by WITTGENSTEIN 09/16/2011, 5:49pm PDT NEW
                    I was really riled up when I started out playing this game. by Fullofkittens 09/15/2011, 7:41am PDT NEW
                    The Asteroids minigame was maybe my second-favourite part. by After all the stomping, of course. 09/15/2011, 11:39am PDT NEW
                        I'm probably being too harsh on this one. by Jerry Whorebach 09/15/2011, 1:07pm PDT NEW
                        Re: The Asteroids minigame was maybe my second-favourite part. by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/15/2011, 9:50pm PDT NEW
                            Unlike others, I'm not clever enough to make something like that up. by Jerry Whorebach 09/15/2011, 10:43pm PDT NEW
                    What was the last game that scared you? by Arbit 09/15/2011, 8:24pm PDT NEW
                        The original Aliens vs Predator remains scary due to random alien placement NT by Mischief Maker 09/15/2011, 9:37pm PDT NEW
                        The Penumbra games and Amnesia Dark Descent NT by fabio 09/16/2011, 6:37am PDT NEW
                        S.T.A.L.K.E.R. ( the original ) with full lighting by WITTGENSTEIN 09/16/2011, 5:11pm PDT NEW
                    The asteroids mini-game was what finaly killed Deadspace for me by E. L. Koba 09/15/2011, 10:29pm PDT NEW
                        Horror game wishlist by fabio 09/16/2011, 6:01pm PDT NEW
    Dead Space was a bad game. by Jerry Whorebach 01/30/2013, 9:35pm PST NEW
        Re: Dead Space was a bad game. by Souffle of Pain 01/30/2013, 10:17pm PST NEW
 
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