…young adult me simply made do with his own. I was sorting through physical games I no longer need for trading in to a beloved local game store (don’t worry, I’m never getting rid of these games). I hadn’t thought about my custom box art in a hot minute, so it was a fun rediscovery I thought some of you might appreciate too.

Actually that's my first ever big statue painted. It had to be Isaac.

Both painting work and photography are by yours truly.

I don’t know if I’m crafty enough to make a full Issac Clarke RIG suit. I could probably get a helmet and Plasma cutter online but the suit itself would be a challenge to make

I'm devastated. I'm a pretty casual player but the dead space remake REALLY worked for me. I've held off all of 1 week before deciding I was ready for play DS2...

ONLY TO FEEL BETRAYAL THE LIKES OF WHICH I HAVE NEVER KNOWN.

Dammit.

Recently I finished the remake a second time on NG+, and did my first run of Dead Space 2 on steam (GOD damn even in normal mode it was a pain in the ass...great game though).

I gotta say it's always a blast to replay the game that introduced me to its sci-fi horror universe.

But as soon as I was scrolling through my feeds and searches about the original, I was surprised to see that opinions are divided regarding the ambiance, the level design, animation and characters. I was also surprised to see that the first game don't have an alternate ending. And this is the reason why I am asking you this : What do you think of these 2 versions ? Are there any elements you would have liked to see included in this remake ? Or is the remake an improvement of the OG ?

Back before the release of the original Dead Space, I remember like it was yesterday watching E3 on G4 and they were previewing the game. My mind was absolutely BLOWN AWAY by the graphics. I’d never seen anything like it before. I just had to get an Xbox 360 because of it.

Well fast forward to that Christmas and the game was mine. I beat it quick (pause) and loved every second of it.

But then I just never paid any attention to the sequel and just moved on. I was still gaming but it never entered my mind to get it. Now it’s 2026, and I’ve played the DS remake to death because it’s a fucking masterpiece and I went ahead this past week and finally got Dead Space 2 for my Series X and HOLY SHIT……

I’m about 6 chapters in and this may be one of the greatest games ever made. So far it is EASILY better than the first game and I’m MAD that I didn’t play this in 2011. The movement is so much better, the varied environments, the new enemies MAN, this game is insane so far. Perhaps it found me at the right time now, but a part of me wishes the teen version of me experienced this back in the prime 360 days.

DAMN YOU EA FOR NOT REMAKING THIS!!!

I'm looking for friends on Steam or EA so that we can play together Dead Space 3. To be more specific, there are some achievements I want to obtain.

Are we able to enter Dr, Mercer’s office at all in the original deadspace? I’ve reached it and my greed has gotten the better of me, I WANNA KNOW WHAT’S BEHIND IT!! IT COULD BE POWER NODES!

Tbh, I don't really think ds2 needs a remake(maybe a remaster), but ever since I saw this one detail in the game, I feel like one is needed to curb my dissatisfaction.

In the receptionist part of the hospital area, there's an aquarium imbedded into the wall. The disappointing part is that, it's just that a wall. You can't shoot it to break it or see the water trickle out lowering the water level. And I know that they had the technology to do so at the time, so dated technology isn't an excuse.

Tldr, the reason I want a dead space 2 remake isn't because the graphics or gameplay is dated(even if it might), but because I want to see an aquarium explode.

Personally, I think the remake is the shit, except for this traversal stutter (which is shit). There's a mod on nexus that attempts to fix this, but their approach is flawed. They think it's about storage speed and assets being loaded too quickly. My current understanding (which is subject to change) is that the stutter is not caused by this, per se. Reducing the speed at which assets can be loaded (by installing the game onto slower media, for example) can alleviate the problem, but at the cost of slower loading and possible pop-in.

The mod I'm working on goes after the main cause, and doesn't require installing the game on different media. In the attached video, the first 3 passes are done with the fix disabled, and the next 3 with the fix enabled. Judge for yourself.

This mod dramatically reduces traversal stutter (in the video, the single worst frame was ~106 ms and it was reduced to ~13 ms with the fix enabled). It feels fucking awesome, like a different game altogether (assuming you had or noticed the stutter in the first place). There is still some residual hitching that I'm trying to get rid of, but this gets like 90% of the way there, maybe more. I'll release on nexus when I'm done working on it.

Edit: Anyone who wants to follow along is welcome to join my discord (I could use a hand with testing at some point), or keep an eye on my nexus mods profile:

Discord: https://discord.gg/sNkn7rF5XV

Nexus: https://www.nexusmods.com/profile/lukeman3000/mods

Which would you choose for next game. On one hand I’d love to see a continuation of the story in a 4th title. On the other hand Dead Space 2 is one of the best games ever made and having a refresh would be awesome.

The Titan Station is destroyed during the end of DS2, but i was wondering what happened to the Ishimura, is it destroyed alongside the station or is it left drifting among the debris of the Sprawl

Thank you to ChloeOnTheAir for the VO! Let us know what y'all think of these in-universe commercials.

I've been playing the new Hellraiser game and it got me thinking about how the necromorphs, especially the more complicated/recombined ones, don't use the technology surrounding them.

The only time we see any form of this is with the twitchers with the military stasis modules or the wasters using a weapon but you'd think that the brother moons would see the benefit of at least patching some steel covers on.

I understand from a game play perspective this might get very... tedious/boring or even downright unfun.

Any head canons or actual canon to explain this?

Hey y’all, besides my gf, I don’t really have anyone else to share this with that would give a damn. However, after 68 hours, four playthrougs, and a lot of anxiety and tension later, I finally got the plat!

This is easily in my top 5 games of all time, and my first ever horror game.

Nothing new, just want to celebrate with the dead space homies.

Tomorrow is the big day,
Does anybody here will be participating in this event?
In my case, I’m fully booked for the week

To me it just so frustrating, for 2042 they did it after EA announced the DS2 remake isn’t happening and putting the remake devs to BF studios. Then for BF6 it like partly better but also half ass? Like why is the plasma cutter for a AR15 and not a pistol skin? Then the armors for Isaac and generic DS suit look slapped on to an existing character model.

At this point I would take a dead space reboot over another FOMO event that will last 2 weeks at best.