Dead Space [Remake] vs Original | Direct Comparison 

Concur'd. It's... _very_ easy to watch some guides on the game and say "Ugh, flamethrower? No thank you!" or just think "I don't have the money for this, I need NODES" But this way, you are GOING to get that weapon and you are GOING to try it.

I remember having to grind just to get those weapons.

Well, the point of making that as "schematic first, buy second" in the original is to have a sense of resource management. It's a survival game, you must use items (credits, ammo, nodes) wisely so it would be on your advantage. The new one is less risky and too tame.

@@blukekbruh Imagine playing on the easiest difficulty and saying the game is less risky and too tame xd.

@@fluffywolfo3663 sounds awful

Agreed, as well as his heavy footsteps, which give you the sense of the weight of the gear he was wearing

Tbh i didn’t even notice that

why you women and trn men love to fetize us men. Look at his hips. Look at his body structure and the animations are way better in original.

​@@youtubehero1764 People can't notice these little details at first look, but they really improve the atmosphere.

it's audible in the remake. i can hear it in my headphones

It’s too bad it doesn’t have a framerate buff though

Meh not particularly, in my opinion

@@LeoGaming55 Yeah. Game is basically locked at 60fps. You can force it higher, but the physics get wonky at 120fps. Same is true for Dead Space 2 and 3 sadly. This remake is the first dead space that plays properly at high framerates

@@Nick930 Lol you have it good. I forgot to specify that I play on the Xbox Series X, which doesn’t have a performance boost for the original dead space

@@Nick930 60 fps are plenty. Not all people have NASA computers like you do.

that was there in the original too, just harder to hear

@@YaBoiEye Ah okay that's awesome, I didn't remember that.

@@kieranduffy3434 When i replayed it recently i noticed it, though in the remake, that expanded upon it. Now even running and stuff increases your heartrate, in the original, it increased based off of proximity to the nearest necromorph, and was easier to hear in vacuum environments. I could always tell if something was creeping up behind me by hearing my heartbeat

It’s nice to see things like that in a horror game I remember seeing that in alien when I was younger. At the end when Ripley was arming the self destruction sequence It really gave a tense tone

That heartbeat definitely comes in clutch especially when you are going back through previous sections… it’s kind of like that radar in the Aliens movie lol the game even has music that sounds like the Alien movie

They also brought back the cool stomp dialogue from 2 and 3. Really nice touch

Love this comment horizon forbidden west is horrible with this 😂

Didn't they do just that in that new awful God of War game? 😂

There were a couple of moments where Isaac flat out says the solution to a little puzzle. So they do that here after all, but not to the extend as other games.

@@endless_limes what are you talking about ? Kratos is almost never alone of course there's going to be dialogue

@Vinny no I’m really excited since it bring new levels of jump scares kinda like the re2 remake did in the rpd section!

Especially if you crank the brightness to zero

@Vinny we are not all haters like you 🤡

I recently went and redownloaded the original game from the Xbox Gamepass to play on my Series X and it was not suited for a 4K television at all and visually didn’t look like it aged very well.

@@tmac326 I think that might be because it’s still using all the old Xbox 360 graphics settings and can’t be pushed any further then that. The new one on ps5 looks and feels amazing so far and I’m gonna assume the Xbox series x version is gonna look just as good

Also the shocking thing is the complete lack of discount for anyone who has the original game already. €60 for some extra bells and whistles when all the hard work has been previously done is just bs. Think of all the new AAA games someone could get on Steam at discount for €60.

@@Substance2020 meh, I'll stick to the OG.

@@Substance2020 they did more than just update the graphics you know

15 years ago... imagine

@@GoldenWolf115 “I’m saving so much money by not buying a updated game over ten years later teehee 🤭”

Something about the original makes it feel like the noises are surrounding you and echoing from all sides making it feel closer which is why I think I like it better than the remake which sounds a bit more distanced but I really do love the heartbeat effect that was added to the remake.

@Lasumex Aranethon The heartbeat is one of those things where I'm sort of indifferent to. Like it is neat and all but it can sometimes get a little annoying, that's probably just me though lol

same

Especially when it comes to some of the actors. I miss the OG Kyne...

Dead Space was the first game I played that had its score adapt to what was happening on screen, and was truly terrifying in its application. Jumpscares and fighting sequences were accented by intense scoring that would fade in naturally, and fade out as soon as the coast was clear. The layering in with atmospheric SFX, foley, screams, and gunfire was also very ahead of its time; something I feel that the remake is sorely missing. It was also PIVOTAL to understanding when the player was in danger or not. With the original game devs communicating how hard it was hard to portray an enemy coming from behind you with such a tight third person angle, sound design was an important communication tool for understanding danger. It also worked to deepen the games tension ("why do I hear tense music even though I don't see anything?") with little to nothing visual to cause it. The quarantine comparisons here are so stark. When the quarantine begins in the original, a strong asynchronous bass drum banging (which sounds like movement in vents) can be heard along with the also rhythmic whirling of the alarm, creating a mismatched pattern of sound that creates a more dynamic guttural reaction, heightening the anxiety and tension. Like an unescapable march or war drum, spelling out your demise. In the remake, that drum banging isn't in the scene, and just has the higher pitch rhythm of the alarm. It's a small difference in the big picture, but for a game that had such a lasting impact in its sound design, it's pretty disappointing to see that stripped away.

a nice detail i noticed at the end of the game tho is that if you look really closely, he’s subtly shaking a lot of the time (look at the plasma cutter to see it best)

@@khogs im at the engineering section and he's already got a bit of a shake to him when holding the plasma cutter lol you can even see his trigger finger twitching like he's just waiting for another necromorph to come around the corner.

he does have that when hes holding his gun out and he shakes quite a bit.

I find it the opposite. In the Remake Isaac is very stiff, like he is ready for anything to jump out at him, unlike the original where he looks pretty relaxed.

I agree 100%. In the remake his steps feel faster and lighter. In the original he stomps so hard and slow like you can feel the weight of the suit.

Ignoring the graphics that still look great, for me it's the gameplay that really blows me away still. SO few games from the PS3/360 gen hold up at all in terms of gameplay, many being next to impossible to enjoy anymore due to the advances in fluidity of modern gameplay. Yet, somehow Dead Space still plays astoundingly well

A wholly unnecessary remake.

@@Grandmastergav86 I know your at least 30

@@Grandmastergav86 I wouldn't say totally unnecessary however I do wish there was even a small discount for players who already own the original because while it looks great $80 + tax for minor tweaks and improvements on already good graphics for a game I've played like 4 times is a bit much. The most noticeable change is the improved lighting.

The developers (specially Glen Schofield) took inspiration from not The Thing and Event Horizon, but also japanese and european horror films, all for the sake of crafting the atmosphere. Then EA Motive took the atmosphere to a new level, but without sacrificing too much. If the remake succeeds, then we might finally get Dead Space 4 out of the freezer.

Not really. Alien isolation looks better. Lol

@@danielyoungblood8525 hmm?

Bro I like the remastered look as much as the next guy but Dead space remake has very different lighting compared to the first game. I just enjoy it for what it is.

@@419chris419 I was hoping they'd make it longer/bigger.

@@danielyoungblood8525 best $60 I've spent in a few years

yup. constantly reminds u that they were all once regular people

In OG they had uniform too i'll even argue the slashers were more variative in OG than in remake. Like as example those guys in mining section of ship

​@@ratking7383Yeah, but wasn't there only, like, 3 variations of Slasher designs? The naked one, the male one, and the female medic jumpsuit one? Oh and the Armored Legs one? And of course the Enhanced Slasher.

What about The woke stuff and desings changes???

@@Sgto.Wolvington woke stuff? And are design chaces supposed to be hated? My guy you heard the girl say she hada a gf and you freaked out, having minoritys in a game dosen't make it woke.

@@Sgto.Wolvington I haven’t run into any “woke stuff” that is of any comment, and the noticeable design changes are very much in the style of the original but just updated. Sounds like you gotta touch grass homie.

@@Sgto.Wolvington didnt really give a damn. What one girl doesnt have big knockers anymore and another had a GF. Who cares

@@Sgto.Wolvington Oh my gods they made a bathroom usable by anyone what a nightmare.

The whispers are insane lol. I've already heard a few like, "self inflicted ocular injury" another mentions recombination. It's awesome and disturbing at the same time..also noticed A LOT more crazy writings and notes on surfaces.

@@andrewwitham8493 I think you mean the AI talking. But I remember him hearing ''Isaac...." and some unintelligible whispers as I was passing through dark corridors. It was indicating he's hallucinating about Nicole. It was almost on the same volume levels as his breathing.

@@arch5701 No, the game has lots of new psychological warfare going on in Isaac’s head.

im playing the game right now and i heard a whisper say "issac help me" it was fucking spooky man

Played it with headphones on in the pitch black darkness last night. Those whispers made my skin crawl.

Yes!!

Force gun was one of my fav guns in the original. It’s even better now because of this feature alone lol so cool.

The flamethrower peels them, and so does the prototype stasis you get for doing one of the side quests

I love it. Especially if they survive, so you then have a skeletal necromorph coming at you. Looks even more nightmarish.

lmao i’m in the same boat, i’ve been replaying DS1 and DS2 for the past 10 years now and i still can’t believe there’s a new game now

Sadly, the sequels are abandoned.

@@razoblicavanje4231 The first remake has barely been out for a day and you are already declaring the sequels abandoned?! I hope that EA will remake DS2 but DS3 can rot in hell.

@@razoblicavanje4231 dude if Dead Space 1, a game from a studio that got completely killed in a series that’s been dead for a literal decade can get a remake - then Dead Space 2 remake is much more likely considering the series has traction now

@@NeThsDomain I mean, I understand where his coming from. EA remastered Burnout paradise; (a series that has been dead for some time now) and it sold fairly well and I gave hope to all the fans of the franchise to see another game or a remaster and we haven't heard anything since then

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Theres actually a whole thing called the ALIVE system, isaacs heartbeat will slowly speed up when running or jumpscared

What about ugly female characters?

I’ve played through the remake 5 times already and am currently attempting my 3rd impossible run. The first 2 the game broke on me but I think that’s my fault for being to good. None of the characters designs bug me. At all if they do to you then you need to get over yourself. They are modeled after their voice actors so it make sense why they look they way they do.

@@doomslayer1210 isaac's wife looks like she would be his mom though

@@unhommequicourt also why do people keep thinking they are married. Nicole is Isaacs girlfriend they aren’t married!

@@doomslayer1210 I've now gone through a fresh game on Hard, done NG+ on medium with the alternate ending and maxed out upgrades, and I'm now on my third doing a plasma-only run. LOVE the game. I like all the character designs. Nicole looks fine to me, especially if we consider both Isaac and Nicole are in their 40s. I've always thought Kendra has always been attractive, and Cross looks adorable. Jacob Temple done well.

To be fair you can still hear all of this in the remake they just made it way quieter so you can only really hear it with headphones

agreed the remake plasma cutter doesn't have any punch to it.

I have to disagree with you on that. Grab some decent pair of over the ear headphones and twerk the sound settings they sound beefier and more powerful like the original...or you're simply getting older thus your hearing is getting weaker

i was just thinking that. The originals had such a deep resonating thud sound when you fired them, they sounded like you were launching big hunks of super heated energy at an enemy and it was just powerful. the plasma cutter kinda sounds a little too pew pew instead of the original boom boom

@@Faded.Visuals it should sound better by default tho

Nostalgia burnes

Was thinking the same. Why no tentacles reaching for you out of it's mouth in remake? The strobbing bottom-lit lighting is also better, IMO. Everything so glossy...

I agree also the face in original looks more creepy than Remake

@@LLAAPPSSEEthe glossiness of games over the past decades really disturbs me. It’s awful. Plastic.

​ It's really the one real bad example of the remake. It's a strange choice. It's such a slow animation too. It's really weird. It's like they used some generic zombie-type animation.

I also remember having the necromorph's head roll around with you in the elevator in the original lol

I didn’t play the original and it sounds better than the remake. Weird that they decided on this route. I guess to be more “realistic” but that doesn’t always mean better

Sound design in regards to the atmosphere as well as voice acting were leagues better in the OG. However the remake made major improvements to the sound of Isaac’s tools (save for the ripper, of did it better) The contact beam’s charge up sounds and looks as beefy as the damage it does.

This speaks to a wider problem in both the game and movie industry that no one knows how to sound mix any more.

The opposite for me

@@greatdelusion7654 Spot on, Crazy how badly some games sound now... I can't stand Hogwarts Legacy with headphones on the Mixing is just awful

Didn't they ruin the character models and made one if the women gay for no reason

RE2?

Mafia 1?

I can't think of many remakes that ruin the game...

@@talpatv512 Plenty of people have issues with Mafia Definition Edition. I loved it, but diehard fans don't like the changes to the story or the bonus open world mode.

Good to hear. I do not have a Playstation 5. I have a PS4 which I heard you can not play the Remake on it. But I can get the original now for cheap! I never played it. Sounds like from what you posted. I would not miss much with the Remake.

He still does breath, it's just quieter and gets louder during tense situations. Also the new walking animations are stiff but i think they fit better for Issac who's walking around in a giant heavy work suit

You can hear his breathing quite well actually, played the game with some decent headphones and you can hear both his breathing and his heart beating too, especially after running for a few seconds or after finishing an intense fight

The remake is great so far, my only complaint is the footsteps are abit quiet and the stomp isn’t as aggressive / loud as the original.

All these replies are making me more excited to play

Breathing is there, don’t worry.

some people just aren’t happy with anything

@@jaden7454 how is that not being happy with anything.... i could go on and explain everything about the comparisons but holy shit stop with that mindset... people can still enjoy the remake while preferring to the original for the things it does while the remake doesn't like the animations and so fourth... stfu with that mindset

@@jaden7454 he didnt say it was bad. just that he liked the sounddesign before more. get lost with ur cringe ass comment

How nice is the freedom of speech, for example your comment is shit but you can express it freely.

I actually agree on the case of the breathing. To me it helped really relate you to the tension of the scene and his place in it.

It never was.

unless they want to milk the corpse of course

@@iamboringvideos6832 they ended up milking it to death the first time so why not do it again with new fans or ones with short term memories

they are greedy and werent able to make any new games that catch on like this did 15 years ago.

now we get both!

tbh the new one maintains the art style really well imo. but ur right, its crazy how good it looked for a game in 2008

It's like resident evil 4

The Government Sector?

I’m thinking of the window from the room just before the elevator that takes you to Daina.

I like finding weapons because it makes people actually check out and use other weapons instead of just fully upgrading the plasma cutter XD that thing was OP. There's a reason One Gun was an achievement you could unlock. It's very easy to do

Yeah i never liked finding parts for just 1 weapon

Don't you mean spacebox?

Yeah sound is awesome specially with the headphones you need to play it in PS5 with 3D audio and trigger feature

they actually have the classic look of the original DS level 3 suit but its DLC/Deluxe Edition

I'd say the original face of isaac on a surface level looks more detailed like his slight stubble, age visibility and having slight grey hair at the side which the remake isaac obviously looks graphically better... it's just that gunner wrights model ingame looks bland in comparison to the original

@@godzillazfriction Thanks for the info ! That`s better than nothing but shouldn`t it be the other way around ? And why not let players choose which look they prefer from the get-go ? Always sucks if companies hide these "features" behind paywalls.

@@godzillazfriction actually no that specific skin is free with any version, I don’t have deluxe edition and own this skin, I think it’s supposed to be a bit of a “thanks for playing” kind of ski

@@SR_illustrations ok good to know

nah the OG's color grading is very much of the era and looks super ugly. It has the late 2000's Unreal Engine 3 look

@@bitbat9 You don't get it, that's all

You'll be happy to know there's a few new areas and corridors to explore in the remake.

Yea probably a couple bucks in 2 years but do u

@@TheMostOrdinaryMan not only that, but you have complete freedom to explore previously trekked areas allowing you to experience Ishimura immersively

@@TheMostOrdinaryMan yeah and also the shitty asteroid shooting scene is completely changed and actually fun now

If you really love dead space I recommend buying it full price it’s great and definitely worth it

I don't know man. I remember characters having different faces and Nicole being like 30 years younger.

For real. I immediately wondered why Isaac's girlfriend was so old. Surprised his crewmate didn't ask if that was his mom.

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Tf? This is so untrue lmao

@@blmao5150 Compare the first tram scenes between the two ! :) By the way I'm replaying the original :)

Absolutely. The clunky controls were one of the few blemishes of the original, while the controls in the remake are absolutely perfect! Perfect sensitivity and precision and the seamless walking speeds are perfect too.

@@Jigsaw407 wouldn't you say that actually detracts from the realism though, in a sense the clunkiness was part of isaac not being cut out for the job he was in at that time

@@nathanperquin9910 Not really. Isaac's speed is still limited enough. The gamepad controls just weren't that enjoyable in the original game, while they are just right in the remake.

@@Jigsaw407 i never had issues with the original dead space controls personally, People complained about it. but the people i did see complain are people who would put their mouse away to play it with a controller, and anyone who plays a game with precision shooting with a controller is a discarded opinion

@@nathanperquin9910 now you see. if a game is meant to be playable on a controller, it is the game dev's job to make the controls smooth on that platform. just casting away the opinions of peopel who prefer controllers isn't the right solution. if anything, if ur forcing ur customers to use mouse and keyboard, that is a sign that ur controls aren't good enough. sure mouse and keyboard might be easier, but ur form of controller shouldn't matter much in a single player game like this. there are plenty of single player games with shooting that can be smoothly played on a controller. this isnt valorant or COD. its not meant to be competitive. its supposed to be a single player game where how well u can aim is only so important. the smoothness of the gameplay is more important

It is very inconsistant, it doesn't get as fast as it's supposed to for a ordinary guy to be in that situation and it doesn't come up everytime.

@@finnish_hunter There's a point where they can't really make everything 100% realistic due to possible annoyances. Carrying all that gear and running, shooting and dodging, you'd probably sound asthmatic af but hearing your character heavily breath all the time isn't exactly pleasing in the ears, especially if you're trying to listen to audio files, sounds, anything. Edit: also just thought, being in a closed off helmet, having your breathing constantly smacking against metal and amplifying it even more so, god damn that'd be fucked. I'm playing an atmospheric horror game, not Tarkov.

@@jagglejiggle7108 The breathing brings atmosphere, Isaac is scared shitless and no wonder, it fits to Dead Space and the other noises and sounds are hearable even when Isaac is breathing. I don't think it bothered anyone at all but I guess people are different.

They still run while flailing in this, but it's rare and is usually a set up for a lunge attack

Really? They chase me around a lot.

They run in the remake.

@@ShymNoiz Probably they fixed it already, they didn't run a week ago

@@trickjacko8482 no they always ran

Sounds reasonable. I'm having a blast with it as somebody who played and loved the original. Generally speaking, the remake looks fantastic. Much better. I like all the new content as well, and the new and expanded zero G stuff. I'm glad I started playing ASAP. I'd do it again its great!

Not to mention they botched all the sounds desgins for the necromorphs. Those twiggy ones with the exploding arms don't scream when they spawn anymore and I keep getting sneaked up on, it's pretty frustrating

VR ftw!!

@@Carcosahead VR would actually kinda be perfect, the lasers that come off the weapons (like the plasma cutter) would be a lot easier to aim and see where youre shooting in Vr compared to conventional FPS Guns having a wacky laser coming out of the barrel taking you out of the immersion

Dead Space Extraction Remake would be perfect for VR

True. This "remake" is trying way too hard to go for the horror scene with little to no atmospheric feel that you're not alone compared to the original. It's ruined by the shoot, enemies thrown at you, loot, obj. The original was also like that but at least in the original you had good lighting and weren't bombarded with enemies in every room you go into.

@@autismogamer Finally someone understands it falls into the typical horror genre, rather than allow the environment and mood to assist in the lifting. It instead relies on the characters, people forget that backgrounds are characters too. While the remake may look pretty on the surface it fails to tell a story without speaking. If that makes any sense, truly a tell not show conundrum.

@@grimsonforce7504 the original has that rustic horror feel but this new one is too polished and loses all what the original has to offer when playing.

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Yes. The original "weapons" sounded like heavy tools from worksite. Not just gunshots but beefy jackhammers of some sort. The sound design of the remake is very much the most desapointing thing in this remake. Also... the monster seemed more aggressive and enraged when screaming and yelling in the Original.

She's actually quite old, this is more accurate.

@@davidcardozo290 she looks like 60 lmao

@@Mortis3897 Let's say she wasn't using make-up or something

@@Mortis3897 Well, then u dont know how 60 yr old women look like then

Isaac is canonically 47 himself, don’t see what the problem is.

Exactly my thought. So i disabled the dlss and nope... its just the ultra setting for screen space reflections

Try going into nvidia control panel and setting texture filtering to high quality and see if it helps with the reflections

@@GodActio textures filtering is an entirely different effect, and one that is often set quite high in modern games anyway

@@existentialselkath1264 yeah, just looked through some other guides, you are entirely correct

probably not, i saw that same effect in the same area on an xbox series x. Think it's just a more general rendering issue, similar to how the lab looked in RE2.