Dead Space 3: The Dead Space Retrospective 

Can I humbly suggest Bioshock as a Retrospective? The world building/lore, horror background, mass appeal and limited games would make for a really fun deep dive! A man chooses...?

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Press "F" to Visceral Games and *Cheers* to Hoping *The Calisto Protocol* succeeding Dead Space and hopefully breathes another chance for it.

Isaac Clarke is just a lowly engineer in his 50's trying to survive, man.

EA also made the studio change the story a bit. The team wanted to make a inner Issac who keeps talking to issac. But EA said "No...CO-OP is popular make that" and that's why we have Carver.

DS3 is really good in terms of lore and expanding the DS universe, I really love the whole SCAF story as well as the Alien’s backstory.

For the multiplayer at 40:35, whoever is playing as Carver will experience hallucinations. They'll see things that whoever is playing as Isaac can't see. I feel like this is a detail you'd enjoy checking on if you ever go back!

The thing about this review. Having years of listening to others poop on this title gives it low expectations that are easily surpassed. This isn't an unplayable game, its not even bad, it just falls short of what the franchise was or could have been.

Holy crap 67 minutes? _HOLD ON TO YA BUTTS!_ Edit: Great send off to the franchise! Wow u really benefitted from not having prior ties/hopes for DS3. I remember seeing the trailer and going "Dead Space but setting of The Thing!" and being so happy, then finding out EA had EA'd all over it 😭 Figuring this is what they needed to do to survive, ok, but then cancelling DS anyway really stung. The worst of both worlds. At least we got this Retrospective out of it!

Ironically this was my first dead space game when it came out i thought it was scary as hell even with all the shooting military guns plus the crafting system made it addicting as hell i was 14 or 15 think . then played the other two in backwards order watched the movies, read one of the novels and i thoroughly love this series

Dead Space 3 is basically Resident Evil 5, a "bad" game compared to its previous counterparts, but a fun ass co-op game

Sad to know that we'll never figure out what that disturbing secret to stopping the markers and brethren moons were, but I'm happy that we even got a game as amazing the three Dead Space games. This series will always hold a special place in my heart and so will the talented people that made up Visceral Games. Thank you so much for this amazing retrospective series.

For a nightmare ending of Dead Space, image that Brethren moons were impress by Iassc victory over one of their brother that they determine to make him a brethren moon from the corpses from earth.

If I were Isaac I would be totally done with the necromorphs after barely scraping by twice before

I believe a bunch of the guys that made this series are working on that new horror game "The Calisto Protocol".

After the credits when Eli hears Isaac over the radio I always took that as she's starting to hallucinate after spending so long around Markers. Like with Nicole and Isaac. The Markers are influencing her

I really loved that Carter would see things that Isaac couldn't. It was an awesome mechanic and was so cool the first time me and a friend played. It was so trippy playing as Isaac as he was saying there was stuff in front of him that I couldn't see.

I would love to see a looter shooter with a weapon customization system like DS3.

Thank you so much for these videos man, as a long time fan of the deadspace it's really nice to see a full breakdown of the series from fresh eyes. Really appreciate the thought and detail you put into these videos and look forward to more that you do

The best part of this game is the weapon customization. The bad part Is that damn giant spider boss bug.

28:57 lmao best death scene ever

I would say Carver looks like a rejected member of the TMNT.

I like finding stuff like your channel. I'm about to binge everyone of these you've made. Dude please keep it up. I speak for everyone when I say we'll keep the ideas coming if you master work them together like this was.

I am so glad I found this channel, you do awesome work, and now it’s time to binge watch all of your videos

Dead Space 3 itself is a decent game. The problem is, it has "Dead Space" in the title.

I think the difference between DS3 and FF7 Remake is that FF7 didn't pretend to be like a classic FF game.

Also I love how close to the community you are man I really respect that from a guy who reviews games that have fan bases that can be quite volatile about them

I just want to personally say thank you for taking the time to play the entire dead space series, I've loved each and every video! Keep up the great work.

I must say, after playing all 3, im really loving the 3rd instalment, while it is certainly "different" i think the changes where positive! Very informative and a brilliant review!

I am really curious about what happened to Lexine after the Severed DLC, since she is the only person completely immune to the Markers. It would've been cool for her to meet Isaac at some point.

Even though you dont get as much views as other reviewers, I always watch your reviews and love them. You go into much more depth and detail than other reviewers do. I listen to your reviews even when I sleep because I love your voice and your reviews

I came for i binge watch as i often do to catch up on the last six months.i subbed a few years just before the RE2 remake and it's great to see you get some traction and steadily grow as it shows there is people who like long form videos.So well done and hope your keeping well and continue to grow

Honestly, Isaacs face in this makes me think of Ethan in Heavy Rain, blurry facial hair and dead fish eyes and over exposed skin and all.

I guess as a warm up to Resident Evil Village you could cover the rest of the RE7 DLC's.

I have lived through so many games through you. With work and family you allow me to play these games without doing so. You sir, are my honest to God favorite tuber. I've watched the 8 hour RE retrospective about five times and when I'm at work and need a good listen while I'm closing up shop, I put you on. Your voice is velvet and honestly, I'd love to see you go into game voice acting.

Love this channel, I’m sitting in my van for the next 30 minutes with nothing to do, this’ll see me through 😃 cheers Jared, I’ll be watching the rest later tonight

Other than the shoe-horned Microtransactions and universal ammo, I thought this game was a blast and loved where it went with the story. My only major complaint is stuff being locked in the main campaign behind co-op.

Ahh, I remember when this one came out and people were complaining about it "copying Lost Planet" lmao

I fuckin love your voice. Especially when you say "Retrospective" at the conclusion of your videos. Hits the nail on the head when it comes to that chill, cool guy vibe.

Thanks for covering my favorite horror game series I've been since I saw your RE retrospectives and I'm excited for the future 😁. Best of luck!

Cant wait to sit down and watch this Jared!

I really don’t like the writing in this game. All of the characters act like they’re in a parody and make so many poor decisions, plus the dialogue felt much more natural in 1 and 2. The sense of urgency and oppression was constant and kept things moving in the other games. 3 rolls around and a lot of that chaotic energy is just... gone? The lore was nice, but Isaac’s journey felt incredibly played out, Ellie loses all of her charm and Carver ends up dooming the universe like what the fuck? Definitely not a bad game by any means but nothing special. I’m just in awe at how uninspired it felt. I did like how the ending shows Ellie alone on the escaping ship though, keeping tradition since the first game.

Hey man, love your vids: especially the lenghty ones. My favorite thing to watch in the evening!

My ex and I used to have dates on Dead Space 3 when she had to move to another city for a while we'd see each other on the weekends but it was nice to sit looking at the beautiful landscapes and talk about our day. It might not be a perfect game but I'll always think fondly of it

Almost cried when I got the notification for this! Been waiting so long!

Please do The Evil Within next.

Jared, you rock! One of my favorite reviewers on youtube and definitely my go to guy for horror.

btw loved ur retrospectives for this series i love(also loved the re ones) i would love to see more of this in the future as the explanations and attention to detail are what makes them very enjoyable

I may be a fanboy of the saga, but i've never found any of the issues pointed in this review. Yeah the EA business model is crap and may tainted the view of the game pre-launch but i personally found out of proportion calling this a betrayal to the saga. I think this game deserves more justice.

Great review!!! Dead Space Mobile 2011 is worth a look at in my opinion it ties DS1 and DS2 together very well being a sequel/prequel and is a good 3rd person shooter that stays faithful to its console counterparts

Amazing in-depth analysis. Every single point was carefully fleshed out (hehe) and I found myself interested in every damn word you said. Conveying so much information can often be boring, even for a topic I love like DeadSpace.. but you kept me in it wholeheartedly the entire time! I’ve watched every video to its entirety and I’ve loved the journey culminating to this finale. I’d love to see more of these! Maybe not horror.. but I’d love to see your retrospective on Mass Effect since it suffered the same fate with EA, while also still being damn good games. Hope to see much more soon, man! Much love!

I look forward to these videos every week and have seriously loved every video since the resident evil videos. thank you for making my nights better. you nailed this video

I can’t wait to watch this, but I have some 3D animation and modeling that needs doing first.

Finally~ I've been waiting for this. My DS3 experience is the same with RE6. Lost interest in the game after 1-3 hours because the game just felt off and doesnt quite feel right. I've not touched either titles since. I'm glad your retrospective shed some light and gave many good points for the final sequel. It's sad that the proposed 4th game never got any traction. Visceral promised they would return to the roots of what made Dead Space what it is in an open world setting with Ellie was the protagonist.

On the issue of weapons - ironically, I found that a fast-firing weapon was the ideal solution, but the best automatic weapon does NOT come from the Military Engine. It is, in fact, the Telemetry Spike + Diffraction Torus. It creates a rivet machinegun with a pretty low damage per shot, but a RIDICULOUS fire rate, very high ammo capacity, and good stopping power. Slap stasis coating or acid bath on it, sling on an underbarrel force gun for crowd control, and you have yourself the all-rounder ultimate destruction weapon that will let you deal with anything at any range. Another quirk of the game, as you pointed out, lies in the universal ammo system. Through experimentation, I and many other people have deduced that it ALWAYS, ALWAYS takes 4 universal ammo to reload an empty magazine. Rocket launcher with 2 rockets per magazine? This means each rocket costs 2 ammo. Rivet chaingun with 400 rounds? One ammo equates 100 rounds. What this means is, the magazine size upgrades are the second best ammo saving mechanic in the game (direct damage upgades being the first one). The rivet chaingun (telemetry spike + diffraction torus) starts with 100-150 rounds base, I forget. But slap enough ammo upgrade chips on it, and you can stretch 1 universal ammo to kill several of the tougher necromorphs. The simple truth of more ammo capacity -> more ammo efficiency absolutely ruins any kind of ammo preservation balance the game might have had. And it's all due to the way universal ammo works.

i know I subscribed to your channel last year, but goddamn, I really enjoy your videos. I enjoy how thorough you are and go into specs, that just releases the happy chemicals. Excited for what you have next in store, dude

This has to be my favorite retrospective episode you’ve ever done. There were some arguments made throughout your Resident Evil Retrospective I didn’t agree with but completely understood your point, (see: the discussion on what defines survival horror as a genre), same with the silent hill series. But this video on the third Dead Space articulated the extreme highs and lows of this game I couldn’t put into words when I first played it at 13 years old. There’s a strange sense of catharsis that comes from finally seeing someone able to adequately put these feelings to words. Great job as always!

Man, I missed The “Dead Space” Series. It was basically the “Golden Age” of Horror Game back then. And now a many company just made cheap made horror game as a cash grab, instead of leaving scare factor to the person who is playing it. And what they Witnessed. Of course some small dev made amazing horror game with the amount of effort put in to it with some much idea. Instead of making it for the money. And that I’ve just named myself “Deadspacemike” because of how the game feels in it. And some much it has in it. I just wished another good game company could pickup and revive the series to fix and finished the story for the “Dead Space” Fans and other fans of Horror. 😕🙂

Another fantastic Dead Space video! I started 3 after adoring 1 and 2 and played for a few hours then was unsure. I got distracted and didn't return to it for a few months. I found my enjoyment was start stop and that the difficulty was extreme in places. I completed 1 on impossible and 2 on Zealot on my first run. I had what felt like wave after wave of necromorphs coming for me and ever dwindling resources. After a lot of swearing, near crying and headaches I completed it to find I had accidentally played on hard mode. I am a silly man.

It's funny that I've heard so many say Isaac attempting contact after the credits undoes everything. After my first playthrough, I thought this was the end of the series and played on the horror trope of being stuck there. Not to mention the added tragedy of missing being saved by Ellie by apparent minutes. I even remember thinking "you jumped out of there fast, Ellie! Not gonna wait around for an hour or two to see if any signals come back??" To be fair, it matched how fast Isaac slams the door in her face when she's getting gassed though 😂

Haven’t watched yet but I can’t wait to get a level headed view on this game to let me know if I’m just overly tolerant 🤷‍♂️

"I've been looking forward to this"

I just found this channel yesterday, so this is great timing!

The first Dead Space was such a great experience playing back on release. It was an absolute welcome breath of fresh air of a game. Something we all wanted but didn't even realise or put it into words that we did.

I don't know, feels a little disingenuous saying Dead Space failed because of corporate meddling when the devs had full control of everything with Dead Space 2 and even had an insane marketing campaign like you discussed to back them up. The game flopping isn't anyone's fault. Personally I think the series died because survival horror fanbases have a tendency to eat themselves. A common complaint going around was "it's not scary" as if to say that's a be all end all point of criticism which honestly kills a lot of horror games regardless of their quality. RE has only survived because they changed the formula almost immediately back then and the games are all different from one another.

Started watching this retrospective series a few days ago. Wasn’t expecting another one to come out on my birthday. Still haven’t finished this game. Will the Dead Space Retrospective cover the books? I think Dead Space Martyr is a great story that warrants its own video. Cheers.

Bro just found your channel not too long ago and been binge watching ever since! Keep up the good contents bro you definitely got a new fan here💪👍👌💯

I go onto RU-vid and see an Avalanche retrospective on Dead Space 3- I smiled. I see the video is over an hour long- that smile just got bigger.

The moral of Dead Space's story *'Trust No One.'*

Before I start this review I’d like to express my love for Dead Space 3. I know the reputation but what can I say? I was 14 or so and I really just had a ball playing it.

Damnnn....I rarely watch RU-vid videos over 15 minutes 😆 watched your entire video, loved it. So thorough and brought up so many good points about this game! Great content

I seen the entire trilogy can be played on Xbox Game Pass, might have to revisit the first and finally get around to playing the sequels after watching this retrospective. Bless you, sir, these are always a joy to watch.

I kinda liked the coop but it had so little impact on the story, it might not even be there. Unlike RE5 and 6, those coops were part of the story. Here, the story is basically the same solo or not and they had to account for if you aren't play with anyone.

Honestly, as a character, I couldn't stand Carver; though I do admit the side missions with him weren't too bad. Especially the ones where he see's the area differently to Isaac in as few of them. Didn't care for the copy/paste of DS2's final boss though.

48:53 I remember that hallway in 2, the lighting in that game was some of the best I've seen to this day.

I have a critique about the weapon customization that people have complained about. I am actually happy for it because its years beyond that second one and hes an engineer. So its like where finally getting to use some knowledge he could have gained from weapons on top of finally getting to be an engineer beyond just doing the odd puzzle.

The Evil Within Retrospective when??

Any chance you could do the alien and predator games. I would be happy with just Alien Isolation, but I would love your take on that universe.

Took you forever to get there with all those spinoff game in the way! I had forgotten I was waiting for this review.

Going through Dead Space 1 to 2 to 3 in quick succession, it's quite dazzling how much these games improve visually. They're not Uncharted 1 to 2 level of visual jump, but the consistency is there. DS2 has a lot more environmental variety and higher geometry complexity throughout, vastly more unique art assets everywhere (hell, they render an entire space station for a halo jump - same assets notwithstanding). Dead Space 3 has ambient occlusion, screen space reflections, tons of cube map reflections, vastly more light sources, bokeh like depth of field, higher polycount for enemies and characters, higher rez shadows all around. In Dead Space 1, the visor light was just a point light, which means it never actually emanated light unto your surroundings. In Dead Space 2, the visor light was technically still a point light, BUT the devs manually inserted light coming from the visor in a few sections where lights cut out OR mostly when you transition from one zone to another using a vent/shaft. In Dead Space 3, the visor light is no longer a point light. It's a proper light source. It always emanates light in the shape of the visor display. Well, for the spaceship parts at least. Not sure the visor light still works while on Tau Volantis.

Could a Deus Ex retrospective be possible in the near future?

I have absolutely zero iota of a clue wtf you’re talking about with your ff7 remake comment

Dead Space 3 was given to me as my first DS game and I loved it since I had not experience the other 2 games. If you never experienced DS 1 and 2 before then 3 is a great game. I still love it after beating 1 and 2 since I understand what game it is

I think you hit the nail on the head here and for the whole of this series. Absolutely loved this, as a old fan of Dead Space this retrospective really reminded me what I loved about this series. One question still remains: What about Peng?

I still think the dead space 3 dlc is just not cannon

The Resident Evil 6 of the franchise, awful in so many ways but still a lot of fun

I keep seeing the theory thrown around that the ending to awakened was actually more hallucinations based on the way the screen fades compared to other fades with hallucinations in the series. Though, I guess that could be reaching, given everything else going on in the DLC. Naturally people would want to hope for something like that, but I guess it doesn't matter with Visceral being dead. Great series retrospective. Haven't watched your other stuff, but this all made me subscribe, so I'll probably go back and watch older stuff at some point.

*stands up* I was locked in even during the playoffs. Bravo!! Excellent series fam👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Ironically, at launch nobody liked the game... expect for me. For some reason this is my favorite game in the series!

I have over 70 hours on this game, got it from the Humble Bundle of July 2013 i think, along with MoH 2010, DS1 and another game and i had a total blast. I loved the first two games, the thing with this one is that i had someone to play with and it was an awesome coop experience. I was never really scared with the first two games, but i really liked the challenge of a survival horror aspect of them, so with this one i started playing on the highest difficulty with my friend, oh boy 2013, much simpler high school times back then.

I know you won't probably read this like ever, but first, your retrospective reviews are just awesome and detailed. Second, There's one feature missing in the retrospective for Dead Space 3 that I thought was worth a section for itself alone. The way that, while playing in coop, whoever gets Carver will hallucinate and that is never part of the marketing campaign. so when you're playing with a buddy, that is genuinely scary and creepy. An elevator ride will be just that for Isaac, but my friend would be saying..." hey, wtf, what is going on here? what are those pictures?" and I'll be like "What pictures?" - "Here, man, on this wall!" - "I don't see anything... - Hey what are these birthday presents? - These ones, man... - Dude, these are coffins! - No, man, they are bd presents... Holy crap!

Great series dude! I've throughly enjoyed watching the retrospectives. I'll also add some hope, give your comment about seeing another DS game, Glen Schofield's new studio Striking Distance is working on a game called The Callisto Protocol which has the goal of " SETTING OUT TO CREATE ONE OF THE MOST TERRIFYING GAMES OF ALL TIME WITH THE CALLISTO PROTOCOL, AIMING TO SET AN ENTIRELY NEW BAR FOR THE SURVIVAL HORROR GENRE." Given the last time he made such a bold claim we got the OG Dead Space, I think this is a project very much worth following along with. Again thanks for the great series and I look forward to future retrospectives!

Loved it! A-lot of Carver's backstory is given to the player playing him on multiplayer only. He sees the enviroments differently than Issac does. Which is kind of dumb. I liked him as a character!

Thank you for this amazing retrospective, Jared! The Dead Space Trilogy looks awesome. Dead Space 3 -- despite all it's flaws -- still looks like a great game, imo. This was such a wild ride... Thanks again for all the love and effort put into your great content! I'm very glad I found your channel, and watched this beautiful retrospective series to the end. I wish you luck, also stay safe and healthy out there. And thanks for reading this. o7

Finally! I’ve been waiting for this one the most to hear what you had to say! Yay!

Yet another epic video. I think I will give this game a shot. Well and 2. Only played the first. Your editing, breakdowns and radio quality voice are awesome. Cheers.

Absolutely loved the retrospective on one of my most beloved game series. It's sad to see that Visceral is gone, but the legacy of Dead Space certainly lives on. As for another series: Lost Planet is a relatively niche series that had some very interesting identity changes throughout its 3 installments. I personally found the first to be the most enjoyable, but it could certainly be worth looking into as well.

I know this video is 2 years old now but thanks for your content. Keep up the great work

I absolutely adored the dead space series, my first one being the second game and then preordering in hope of 3 being just as great. And honestly I still really loved playing 3. But 2 will always be my favorite for the list of reasons you covered. Also the pew pew foam finger is the best thing ever in any of the games of the series

Awesome work, Another great game series covered. Keep it up!