Visceral talks Dead Space 2 effects

Published 2 February, 2011 Duration 5:32

Peek inside Issac Clarke's mind.

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  • FogHeart #1 1 year ago

    Oh dear. I'm gonna get negged for this, which is a shame because I love the Dead Spac series so much...

    The dementia sections were the only part of the game that I felt didn't work. Or at last didn't work well.

    - Nicole's voice was so distorted that I couldn't tell what she was saying, I had to turn on subtitles.
    - When I did, I found that she just came across as a bitching angry ex, not a baleful ghost.
    - The yellow grainy rumbling dementia effect was OK but Isaac just walks on. He doesn't stagger or recoil. I could walk right up to Nicole's ghost and swing at it.
    - When Isaac talked back to Nicole in those moments he didn't sound upset or choked up. He just sounded equally angry. The whole effect is that of a couple having a barney.
    - When her face appears on the monitors I can't tell it's her face. I just see white shapes too close-up to discern.

    I would have much preferred to Isaac to hallucinate scenes she could have had if she had lived - at the school, the hospital, and so on - and scenes of what she went through on the Ishimura. Actually seeing her ghost commit suicide would have been really gut wrenching.

  • ChthonicEcho #2 1 year ago

    @Fogheart
    Fair complaints, save for the ability to walk around and do as you will during the dementia scenes, and Isaac's voice. It's the player's fault if he decides to walk around and play soccer with a cardboard box while the narrative is taking place. If you're not willing to be immersed into the game, then the game can do nothing to pull you into the scene, and if it takes control away from you, you'll likely just feel annoyed.

    I had the sense to halt my movement whenever Nicole appeared. Once, I even tried to aim at her and shoot her, only to have Isaac lower the gun. Sure, that was a simple "don't shoot friendlies!" mechanic, but it fit so well with Isaac's feeling of guilt intertwined with hatred for Nicole's apparition. And that's why Isaac sounded angry. He was in denial, and he disregarded Nicole as sanity slippage. He was just being genre savvy.

    Remember when he entered Ishimura? Sounded pretty choked up to me, because he'd actually have to deal with problems that aren't some insanity pulling cheap shots to trick him into suicide. Had Isaac been sad or choked up over Nicole's ghost, he'd be disliked by fans due to becoming whiny, and he'd just end up like Stross. The Marker manipulates the weak.
    Edited by ChthonicEcho at 02/02/11 @ 13:20

  • tejo.hr #3 1 year ago

    Power node on 2:29 guys, don't forget to pick it up.