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Dead Space Promo Post
Aug. 10th, 2021 04:34 pm── ✧《 THE BASICS 》✧ ── ── ✧《 YOU'LL LOVE IT IF YOU'RE INTO 》✧ ──
── ✧《 FAV CHARACTERS & SHIPS 》✧ ── ── ✧《 HOW TO GET IT 》✧ ──
── ✧《 FAV CHARACTERS & SHIPS 》✧ ── ── ✧《 HOW TO GET IT 》✧ ──
Genres:
Sci-fi, horror, survival horror, psychological horror, third-person shooter
But what IS it?
You play as Isaac Clarke, a ship engineer, responding to a distress call from the USG Ishimura. What you find there kicks off a story of horror, grief, and trauma that spans years of Isaac's life.
- Whump, iron woobies, and lots of suffering heaped on your protagonists. Canon pummels Isaac forwards, backwards, sideways, and diagonal from beginning to end and it never lets up. The best part is that none of it EVER keeps him down, and it's so very cathartic those rare times when he gets proper righteous angry.
- Cults. The entire story centers around a cult worshiping an eldritch alien artifact and, of course, this cult's obsession with Isaac!
- Cosmic/psychological horror and mindfucks. The question of what's real and not real is central to Dead Space. It really leans in to the mindfuck aspect of its lore. No specifics—I wouldn't want to ruin the surprises!
- Slash potential. The first two games pass without much potential for slash ships, but the third game really brings its A game in this regard with a great new character.
- Likeable male protagonists. Isaac is sweet, empathetic, and relatable. But he's also heroic, relentless, and absolutely balls-out awesome when he needs to be!
- Lore and story-rich games. I assumed Dead Space was all about shooting space zombies, and wow was I wrong. These games follow a continuous story with tons of lore and worldbuilding!
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Dead Space has a smallish cast that centers around Isaac Clarke, the protagonist! Here's a quick rundown of my favs!
Isaac Clarke - It's always nice when you can fall in love with the main character! Isaac is great. As I said above, he's easy to like—the events of the story affect him deeply, but no matter how much he goes through, he's always trying to be a rock for the people around him. And he's a space engineer! Which ends up being relevant to the story in some cool ways. He also looks fantastic in those space suits!
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FAVE SHIPS
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Ellie/Isaac - The canon het ship! And do you guys know how rare it is for me to like a canon het ship? This one stands out. It's so good! Ellie and Isaac have great chemistry, and of course this is in large part down to Ellie being cool and fun in her own right. Their banter is funny, their conflicts are interesting, and their skill sets complement each other for some satisfying competence/teamwork porn. Ellie has a prideful bravado that plays well next to Isaac's more quiet competence.
Carver/Isaac - They start out as straight up adversaries, and we get to watch their relationship evolve as they come to rely on each other through some intense survival horror, and that's always a good time! (THIS is their first meeting, for reals.) I was quite pleased with the shippiness between them. There's plenty of casual touching, they get in each other's faces about Deep Personal Shit, they get stranded alone on an ice planet together, Carver hallucinates Isaac is his dead wife...like I said, real shippy!
Carver/Isaac - They start out as straight up adversaries, and we get to watch their relationship evolve as they come to rely on each other through some intense survival horror, and that's always a good time! (THIS is their first meeting, for reals.) I was quite pleased with the shippiness between them. There's plenty of casual touching, they get in each other's faces about Deep Personal Shit, they get stranded alone on an ice planet together, Carver hallucinates Isaac is his dead wife...like I said, real shippy!
Method 1 - Play it
- As of this writing, the games are all available on Steam, as well as through EA itself. They are amazing games, well worth the time to play for yourself. If you do play them, the third is co-op and best played with a friend—it will make all the difference! If you can't play the third with a friend, I heartily recommend watching an LP for the truest experience of that one. The game does some very cool things with the Marker's mindfuckiness...the two players literally experience different things while in the same space sometimes!
Method 2 - Watch an LP
Watching a Let's Play (LP) is every bit as good as playing a game yourself, especially if you find an LPer who takes the time to read the lore and listen to the dialogue! You get the same experience as if you were playing the game, but it's lots more accessible to everyone! :D
Watching a Let's Play (LP) is every bit as good as playing a game yourself, especially if you find an LPer who takes the time to read the lore and listen to the dialogue! You get the same experience as if you were playing the game, but it's lots more accessible to everyone! :D
- Scribe - He has a lot of appreciation and love for both the game design and lore, and he makes sure to highlight all the best details! Unfortunately, he didn't play Dead Space 3 as co-op, which as I said above does make a BIG difference, however I will still link that LP for his insights in that game!
- Dead Space 3 - Here's a short collection of nice Dead Space 3 LPs specifically, for the full experience! The latter parts of the game are where most of the divergent POVs matter.
Method 3 - Cutscene Movies
Cutscene movies cut together the major story beats of a game, but will sometimes miss out on readable lore or small details that occur during gameplay. They're best if you need a refresher on things or if you only need the broader strokes of the canon!
Cutscene movies cut together the major story beats of a game, but will sometimes miss out on readable lore or small details that occur during gameplay. They're best if you need a refresher on things or if you only need the broader strokes of the canon!
- Dead Space 1 Cutscene Movie - Concise version here.
- Longer Dead Space 1 Cutscene Movie - A longer one with some gameplay to tie things together more!
- Dead Space 2 Cutscene Movie - Concise version.
- Longer Dead Space 2 Cutscene Movie - Longer version.
- Dead Space 3 Cutscene Movie
- Dead Space 3 DLC Cutscene Movie - Takes place after the main game!
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