Dead Space is one of those series where the first 2 games set the expectations UNBELIEVABLY high. So high, in fact, that the developers were actually terrified they couldn’t live up to the legend, and were terrified they were gonna make a bad game that ruined the series. But they were gonna try their damndest.

And then EA executives came along, and they saw that “”“all the rage”“” those days was in Co-Op action shooters a-la Resident Evil 5/6 and Army Of 2, or Gears of War, and they DEMANDED that Dead Space 3 be “”“more like that”“”, or else. So they did it, and were also forced to shove microtransactions into the game with crafting materials.

The end result? Dead Space 3 was an… alright 3rd-person action-horror co-op shooter. Not great, not terrible, but… alright. An above-average shade of mediocre, certainly worth playing on its own merits, both mechanically and plot-wise, but not much more than that. A perfectly OK game.

And an absolutely TERRIBLE Dead Space game. Previous installments sold millions on multiple platforms. DS3… didn’t, and it ended up killing the studio.

Bait used to be believable smh…

Worse, they’re glorifying the loss of critical thinking and analytical skill that would’ve been gained from reading. They aren’t just becoming perfect con marks, they’re loudly, and PROUDLY crippling themselves intellectually in an effort to appear “cool” today.

They’re literally wagering their own intellectual future against the hope that what effectively amounts to a drugged-up version of Clippy will, against all common sense, decency, and economic theory, become so mainstream and ubiquitous that Humanity as a whole ends up relying on them for everything.

It’s complete and utter madness.

Bait used to be believable smh.

Nah, build the planes and send them to Ukraine. Deny the Fascists twice in one move.

What a sack of shit. Throw him into the volcano.

If that were true, why do they keep getting their asses handed to them in court, and why do they keep complying with those rulings?

I never thought they’d manage to make Gavin Newsom of all people look decent, but that’s just what happens when you live in the Dumbest Timeline™️ I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Because I can be platonically proud of him, duh.

Real and Straight. Proud of Anon.

Forgotten (Aromantic and Asexual).

They’re exceptionally upset that the rough-and-tumble female bounty hunter lead character of the 80’s cassette-retro-futurism sci-fi action game isn’t some generic-looking 80’s supermodel type, instead of someone who you’d actually expect to be a space-bounty hunter. I have no doubt Naughty Dog has made another banger game, but sexist coomers are gonna be sexist coomers, and there’s not a whole lot you can do for them.