Dead Space 3

[Souj]

Chapter 11/12 on Classic is pissing me off.
Especially me vs the black swarming things. Maybe I wouldn't be as pissed off if most of the time I died wasn't because I'm smashing on the stasis button but it wont shoot off any stasis.

bleh, finally got past it.

[-Zer0-]

Contact Beam's secondary is really good against the black feeders. After 12-14, I recommend getting the Pulse Rifle and upgrading the Grenade Launcher for the aliens.

[Myrrh_Quetz]

Anyone up for some PS3 Co-op?

[Souj]

Well then... just found a way to get infinite items...

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I'm in chapter 12, after I got out of the thing where I had to use the probe gun, I entered the room right before the boss encounter with a bench in it and the saving icon popped up. There's also about 6 item boxes in the room. I smashed all the item boxes and saved/quit the game. Next time I started it up, I was back in that same room, but the item boxes were back. And now I an infinitely keep smashing boxes, save/quit then reload.

[Callisto]

The infinite items bugs were found day 1 lol

[Souj]

meh, I haven't looked up a single thing about this game as I don't think I'll be attempting to platinum it.
Hardcore just sounds like too much of a pain. Hell, I don't know if I'll even finish up Classic. Just turned off the game after getting to Mission14, most likely wont touch the game the rest of tonight or tomorrow and Revengeance comes out Tuesday.

[Callisto]

Hardcore wouldn't be so bad if the tunnel flight part that you actually die at often was right at the beginning instead of 30-45 minutes in. I will probably end up just turning the system off if I die and hope I glitch it out to still be able to load the last save, lol. Much more interested in Pure Survival.

[-Zer0-]

If you're just after achievements/trophies, you could beat Classic and then do this:

[Callisto]

I have no concern at all of dying to enemies, just on the the stupid flying parts where you get one-shotted if something clips you. I'll probably use it during Hardcore, but using it for Pure Survival is dumb.

[Souj]

yeah, I'm playing on ps3, so that wouldn't work for me anyways, but it's the instakill stuff that has me mostly worried about it as well.

[Qalbert]

for me it would be one of those *stasis this instakill machine of death* *lightly brush it with my shoulder and explode into chunks*

[Callisto]

For those who enjoyed the song in the closing credits, that's a Chicago band named Pelican:

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[mightyg]

Song is fine but felt out of place as fuck. Really sums up all the shallowness and pandering to the young casual crowd they threw into the game. They could have done such a better job with the story and presentation. Listen to the song in the credits right after it and see what the dev team probably actually wanted as the end credits. Whole game could have been a whole lot impactful and scary had they managed to make me give a shit about the characters.

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[Souj]

Song is fine but felt out of place as fuck. Really sums up all the shallowness and pandering to the young casual crowd they threw into the game. They could have done such a better job with the story and presentation. Listen to the song in the credits right after it and see what the dev team probably actually wanted as the end credits.

The first song is like 3 years old. It wouldn't have been in the game if they didn't want it.
and if they wanted to pander to the young, casual crowd, do you really think they would have picked a fully instrumental band with, as far as I'm aware, no mainstream exposure?

[Callisto]

^That lol, Pelican has never even sniffed the radio or mainstream coverage locally here, much less nationally to the kids. Pandering would have been closing with Linkin Park like a Transformers movie, instrumental progressive rock does not move units of anything commercially, especially not to the brobox listening-to-Disturbed generation.

[Souj]

Yeah, I live about 50 miles away from chicago and I've never even heard of them until now. glad I know about them now though.
same thing happened with the Dark Souls trailers and The Silent Comedy. though I only roughly like half their songs

[mightyg]

Yes every change they made to the game was because visceral wanted to and not because EA marketing team wanted it in. I wasn't criticizing the band itself (or the fact that they chose to use THAT band as their end credits), only the tone. If this were gears of war or metal gear rising it would have been totally appropriate. The blatant dudebroness of the game is painful and jarring all the way through. It diminishes the whole product. I'm all for making things accessible for newer players, but they really took it too far making the product safe for kids worried the game wouldn't be "cool" enough. I have a friend at work that was totally suckered in by this terrible (or excellent?) commercial simply because he thought the Phil Collins cover song was cool. /facepalm

[Souj]

nothing says epic dudebro more than Phil Collins.

[mightyg]

nothing says epic dudebro more than Phil Collins.

Cover song. If they knew it was from the 90's they would totally think it's uncool.

[Ikarys]

Cover song. If they knew it was from the 90's they would totally think it's uncool.

"In the air tonight" was recorded in 1979. :-/