Dead Space 3

[Souj]

this example is still not 100% accurate to what you want, but I'm able to run netflix from the same netflix account at the same time on both my PS3s that are linked to the same PSN ID.

[Callisto]

Probably game specific. Callisto is commonly online with both of his PS3's, one for games, the other for Netflix.

Does it show up like that? I was under the impression that when g/f fires up the 2nd PS3 it boots me from PSN.

[BadKarma]

Kinda moot since I already ordered the game, but I was wondering if there were more boss fights this time around as boss fights r gud and Dead Space 2 was a little underwhelming in that department.

You get eaten alive in one boss fight....and thats supposed to happen.

[Callisto]

What types of weapons have you guys been putting together that you found work well? In co-op Ikarys and I found a ton of success with one of us having an up-close knockdown weapon like shotgun/force gun and the other having either the slow, heavy-hitting charge/explosion weapons to finish them when they hit the ground, or something more precise to pick off limbs while they're down.

I figure this carries over to single-player as well, something like a plasma cutter or line gun upper tool with a force gun lower tool, but I've always been bad about not being super-creative with weapon usage in DS games. The two pre-order weapons are both really strong but I'd like to put together more of my own rather than relying on those.

[TacoTaru]

I think it has to do with the psn network and seeing the same game, so idk if that's a good example since those are two different things.

For sure we both remember that we couldn't do civilization at all with it.

Regardless, want to see first if people did it with DS3 or not.

I'm not sure if this answers the question at all? My buddy and I split a Playstation Plus subscription and share all the games we get from it and we regularly play the same games online at the same time; Saints Row 2 we did the entire game co-op. GRANTED we don't live together, but I don't think it has to do with PSN seeing the same game is online. Does that help at all? Sorry if it isn't relevant at all .

[BadKarma]

This is actually a fairly long game for a third person shooter

[BadKarma]

What types of weapons have you guys been putting together that you found work well? In co-op Ikarys and I found a ton of success with one of us having an up-close knockdown weapon like shotgun/force gun and the other having either the slow, heavy-hitting charge/explosion weapons to finish them when they hit the ground, or something more precise to pick off limbs while they're down.

I figure this carries over to single-player as well, something like a plasma cutter or line gun upper tool with a force gun lower tool, but I've always been bad about not being super-creative with weapon usage in DS games. The two pre-order weapons are both really strong but I'd like to put together more of my own rather than relying on those.

I use the Evangelizer Carbine with the Evangelizer shotty attached and a custom mini gun that shoots fire rounds for spray and pray

[The Blackrose]

I've been using a Line Gun with an underslung shotgun as my heavy piece. I just got my PC heavily upgraded for a small precision piece. Still feeling a bit dissatisfied with how much of a bat they've taken to the PC and LG, although I think that has more to do with the necro changes.

[Qalbert]

spoilers for chapter 12-13ish

Spoiler: show

Anyone else stomp norton to pieces and then TK each piece off the cliff or just me?

[Callisto]

I've been using a Line Gun with an underslung shotgun as my heavy piece. I just got my PC heavily upgraded for a small precision piece. Still feeling a bit dissatisfied with how much of a bat they've taken to the PC and LG, although I think that has more to do with the necro changes.

Yeah Line Gun has been getting me fucking murdered since it's slow and takes several shots to actually take legs off, I was intending to use the pre-order weapons until I can get enough upgrade chips on it to make it able to sever limbs in 1-2 shots, with a Force Gun alt as a get-off-me.

[Souj]

is there local co-op, or only online?

[Callisto]

Online only, though when you play it you'll realize how local would just have not worked at all so it makes sense. LAN party that shit.

[The Blackrose]

spoilers for chapter 12-13ish

Spoiler: show

Anyone else stomp norton to pieces and then TK each piece off the cliff or just me?

That's like SOP for any bodies I come across, sans the tossing. Don't need more of them coming back.

[Callisto]

Didn't check the spoiler but I get the gist of the question lol, and I just yank claws off everything I kill and throw them at anything that hasn't moved yet.

[Qalbert]

protip: if you have a rocket launcher on a weapon with the stasis coating attachment, make sure to remain outside the blast radius, or else you will ragdoll at horrendously slow speeds. amusing, but annoying.

[Callisto]

lol

Also what attachments seem useful? Just gone with Ammo Support for now, I tried the one that picks up nearby ammo but unfortunately it appears to only work on ammo, and not on medpacks/stasis packs/etc.

[Souj]

Who the hell are all these med kits for? Why did they feel it necessary to have so many at the beginning of the game?
I'm literally leaving med kits behind.

[BadKarma]

Who the hell are all these med kits for? Why did they feel it necessary to have so many at the beginning of the game?
I'm literally leaving med kits behind.

You will need them unless your playing casual. You get fucking bumrushed with alot of enemies and just wait until you fight groups of fucking twitchers

[Souj]

Yeah, I've been using quite a bit of them on chapter five. Started on Hard- I think I did anyways...


Warning! Rant time!
Though despite everything I will say, I'll still finish out the game.

Spoiler: show

One word to sum up this game; Repetitive.

Basically just an echo of other reviews, but it seems like I've only seen 3 different rooms so far and they just keep throwing the same enemies at me over and over again. I know it's still a little early in the game, but if you keep throwing enemies at the player non-stop, I'm going to fault you for not diversifying them better.
Seriously... why are there so many enemies? In DS1 and 2 I went through areas really slow and really carefully. I didn't know if a room was going to be enemy-less or I'd end up getting stuck in a room and have to fight off a large horde.

DS3, I find myself just rushing through the areas to inevitably set off the next encounter. It's not making me feel tension, it's making me feel impatient. And if I'm going to get stuck in a room and get swarmed, I will know it the very second I open the door. And even when there's only 1 or two enemies, it's so well telegraphed I can surmise how many enemies and exactly where they'll come from. Oh, I just passed up a vent and it didn't explode an enemy on me. But wait, there's another vent up ahead. When I get close to it, that one will throw an enemy at me and in an attempt to surprise me, the first vent I passed up will then pop out one as well.
I seriously don't think I have seen a single vent not get used by a necromorph. Also; Oh hey, a corpse I can't grab with Kenisis. Something definitely isn't going to happen to it.

All of the enemies move so fast and it makes most of them incredibly hard to hit- That sounds like an odd complaint, I know, but it's like the developers made them move faster and more aggressive, but to compensate for that, they give the player a shit load more ammo, so the result becomes I often just aim down at the lower half of a Necro coming after me and just mash the trigger until it falls to the ground, which just feels so unsatisfying.

And a thing they apparently got rid off from 1 and 2 which I don't understand why;
In 1 and 2, if you ran from a confrontation and went into another room, the necromorphs would go back in the vents and come after you. These ones just sit there. Not only that, if they do follow you into another room, it will only be a few seconds before they immediately run right back into their room of origin, leaving you unmolested.
Maybe they do that later on? idk.

and why did they get rid of the moth looking things that turn people into necromorphs and instead make the little baby things fill that role? Personally I don't have a problem with it that much from a gameplay perspective, I think it works out better. It definitely makes you really extra careful not to rupture the Pregnant Necros. It just doesn't make much sense from the mythos point of view.

[The Blackrose]

All of the enemies move so fast and it makes most of them incredibly hard to hit- That sounds like an odd complaint, I know, but it's like the developers made them move faster and more aggressive, but to compensate for that, they give the player a shit load more ammo, so the result becomes I often just aim down at the lower half of a Necro coming after me and just mash the trigger until it falls to the ground, which just feels so unsatisfying.

Pretty much. They exchanged the dismemberment mechanic, which I liked, for faster enemies that can get molested by standard shooter targeting. It's ended up to where certain classic weapons (read: line gun) have become too dangerous to use. I have an upgraded Carbine/Shotgun with Stasis Coating and it tears through all of these one trick ponies. Anything that's not dead is temporarily stasis disrupted. If I didn't have that gun for when they decide to throw millions of pounds of shit at you, I don't know what I'd do.

And a thing they apparently got rid off from 1 and 2 which I don't understand why;
In 1 and 2, if you ran from a confrontation and went into another room, the necromorphs would go back in the vents and come after you. These ones just sit there. Not only that, if they do follow you into another room, it will only be a few seconds before they immediately run right back into their room of origin, leaving you unmolested.
Maybe they do that later on? idk.

I've experienced the same thing. It's rare for them to shift rooms and continue after me. I really expected this with the new Pack replacement, but they mosey on back to their point of origin.

Speaking of which, fuck the new Pack. I liked the bastard children and explosive babies better. These assholes can choke on sunlight and die.