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Re: Dead Space was a bad game. by Souffle of Pain 01/30/2013, 10:17pm PST
Jerry Whorebach wrote:

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.


I bought it, so I'm the asshole here but it was EA trying so adorably hard to make the kind of game that all the companies they swallowed up and shut down used to make. And they were all so terrible at it. I am glad you put a name to that shit.

A one-life mode for Dead Space. This just might work! If the game wasn't fucking Dead Space. Dead Space shows up with a one-life mode and I even accidentally try that shit, I'll be the first guy to get his money back through Steam.

(Also, what does "my contribution to the design" mean. He didn't have to do anything more than write "one life with save destruction" to design it, did he. Game designers: our best and brightest.)
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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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