Dead Space 2

[Callisto]

lol @ the hand cannon being in my safe, probably should've just started on hardcore

[Kyo]

You cant playthrough severed on hardcore. Do yourself a favor tho, if you have access to the hand cannon, dont use it the first time through, it makes the DLC about 15 minutes and cheapens the experience.

[Callisto]

Yeah I figured, will probably just plow through on normal/zealot first. I like things so far, good pacing off the start. Weird to see Lexine without the Joker makeup.

[greatandfoolish]

man i fucking hate all the weapons they started me off with as weller, maybe i just got unlucky and only got ammo for the flamethrower, but jesus i forgot how bad a weapon is when it isnt upgraded lol

[Callisto]

I got rusty as shit just by playing other games for a few weeks, and I have to put it down after only being 10 minutes in. Hoping to get back to it tonight.

[Souj]

was greatly disappointed in Severed.
And there seriously isn't a Hardcore mode for it? Waiting for the credits to roll by on my normal run through, because I was going to do Hardcore next, but now I just have to do Zealot. Oh well.


oh wow... you can't even do New Game+ for it. Lame.

[Kyo]

was greatly disappointed in Severed.

What didn't you like about it? Did you play extraction?

[Callisto]

was greatly disappointed in Severed.
And there seriously isn't a Hardcore mode for it? Waiting for the credits to roll by on my normal run through, because I was going to do Hardcore next, but now I just have to do Zealot. Oh well.


oh wow... you can't even do New Game+ for it. Lame.

To an extent a new game+ is kinda pointless, I mean if you're looking to max every weapon just because that'd be the only real point of it.

[Souj]

No, I didn't play extraction, and that's probably why I didn't like the story part of it.
Didn't like the recycled levels as they were pretty much just left exactly the same.
And the enemies were extremely underwhelming, especially near the end. Kids and Exploders were pretty much just to waste a bit of ammo, as were the normal Slashers near the end, and the levels were filled with them. Near the end it just gave out way too much ammo.
Granted, I was playing on Normal, but I was only doing that cause I planned on doing Hardcore next.
Only times I had trouble were during the Brute fight when I had no Stasis Packs, the Black Stalkers, and when I couldn't see Black Pukers/Slashers in a dark area.

To an extent a new game+ is kinda pointless, I mean if you're looking to max every weapon just because that'd be the only real point of it.

eh, I suppose

[Kyo]

Had to explain the same thing to Atredies, two chapters is pretty pointless to implement a hardcore mode or new game plus, would take alot of runs to max the weapons, unless you play it on casual and the whole point in hardcore was the saves, across a 15 chapter game, that was the challenge. Two chapters would be pointless in my opinion.

[Souj]

Yeah, I could see New game+, but I think Hardcore could have added a bit more playability. At least 1 more run through.
Was just a minor gripe that didn't really effect much else.

[greatandfoolish]

about the storyline, various parts of severed

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im not sure how i feel about weller dying, first they kill off the other guy whos name i cant remember in extraction. and then weller loses his leg because he gets overzealous trying to put the beatdown on his CO? it just seems like he couldve died a little less vaingloriously given his place as a developing character

furthermore, i dont understand why a military squad was down in the titan mines. i may be missing a major plotpoint from one of the games i didnt play.

and the unitologists in medical uniforms kinesis-choking the military guy who caught lexine. whats up with that?!

[Souj]

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Why they were in the mines, I'm not sure.
Darth Vader's probably going to be part of another story. either more dlc, dead space 3, or maybe another crappy movie.

[greatandfoolish]

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i dont usually buy dlc so getting severed for ds2 was an exception, do other games with dlc generally not flesh out story or plot? i want to say there should have been at least SOME audio/video logs.

[Souj]

what's the 3rd hidden trophy btw? I assumed it was going to be story related, but it wasnt.

Well, just found a big glitch.
I'm right after

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2 white coat guys take the girl

and a regular necromorph spawns behind you. I turn around and shoot him but he takes no damage whatsoever, He doesn't try to attack, he just stands there growling, so I go down the ramp and another normal slasher spawns behind you. I can't hurt this one either, but this one moves around. It walks right past me and down the ramp and into the next room where he just stands. There you can shoot/kill him.

[Callisto]

about the storyline, various parts of severed

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im not sure how i feel about weller dying, first they kill off the other guy whos name i cant remember in extraction. and then weller loses his leg because he gets overzealous trying to put the beatdown on his CO? it just seems like he couldve died a little less vaingloriously given his place as a developing character

furthermore, i dont understand why a military squad was down in the titan mines. i may be missing a major plotpoint from one of the games i didnt play.

and the unitologists in medical uniforms kinesis-choking the military guy who caught lexine. whats up with that?!

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I'm assuming he joined whatever the Sprawl form of P-Sec is since the events of extraction, and was sent down to check out disturbances in the mines(necromorph outbreak starting, etc). His suit is called a 'Patrol Suit' fwiw, I'm assuming he's in more of a cop/security wing of the service now.

edit: Yeah, the very beginning part says there's a hostile threat in the mines and they've been dispatched there

As far as him dying, yeah pretty disappointed in that...though largely because my perfect game would be a Dead Space with a co-op campaign a la RE5, and Gabe would have been a perfect 1b guy to go along with Isaac.

The story end was decent enough, I'm going to assume Lexine/her baby will be involved in whatever comes after since she appears to be a high-value target for the Unitologists.

Anyways per usual, wish it was longer, but don't regret buying it, at this point they could crap in a tin can, slap a DS sticker on it, and I'd probably pay for it but that's besides the point.

[Callisto]

what's the 3rd hidden trophy btw? I assumed it was going to be story related, but it wasnt.

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During the Gunship fight, killing it in 30 seconds or less.

[Callisto]

nvm lol, figured it out a second after I posted

[greatandfoolish]

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now that lexine, isaac, and ellie are considered MIA or KIA by pursuants, i'd be interested in the canonical timeline of dead space 2, because around the time lexine gets away in her gunship, issac should already be going through the church, which leaves a gap of mere hours (im assuming) from the final chapter and ellie/issac getting off the sprawl.

hypothetically, isaac dealt with his demons, or one of them. would this marker disease he has be put into remission by lexines presence, therefore extending the deadline before his collapse into insanity?

[Callisto]

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I'm still unsure if her marker immunity is just for herself or if people near here also gain it, Extraction kinda hinted at the latter but never said it explicitly. And yeah, it seems like a few hours at the least have passed since Isaac came through the hospital, based on the large amount of growth in a couple of the medical rooms that hadn't even really begun to crop up when Isaac passes through.

Edit: Just finished my Zealot playthrough, and I gotta say, Severed was more challenging to me on Zealot than regular DS2 was, maybe that's because my guns were already beefed up in DS2, but there were a few points when I almost ended up critically low on ammo.