Dead Space Remake (Zero Punctuation) 

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I'm just shocked we're at the era in which PS3-era games are considered retro and getting polished remakes.

Nothing makes me feel older than seeing that there's a remake of a game that is inexplicably still in the "new game" category in my head.

I watched an analysis video that praised the new "your bullets actually cause visual damage and remove enemy flesh" system, it lets you see how much damage you've dealt without having enemy healthbars and it also makes enemies look scarier and more gross the more you hit them. This kinda stuff is what remakes are for, doing things with new technology that just wasn't possible when the game first released but contributes to the intended experience.

Drunk Yahtzee mistaking Dead Space for Dead Cells has gotta be one of the funniest tiny jokes he's done.

I can’t get over the can of beans with the crayons on it for Isaac’s helmet. The funniest part of the video, lmao.

Love how yahtzee showed his old character sprite for his past self, there’s something endearing about that lol

Hah! Love how Yahtzee's "past self" is his older, lower quality, sprite. It's the little things I appreciate

as a Spanish speaker you know you are on your peak of English when you can see a Yahtzee review without the subtitles on

"Don't remake something that was good in the first place. Remake something that had a spark but failed to reach it's full potential." I've been saying that for decades and couldn't agree more. That's why Code Veronica needed a remake. Not 4.

"sensible is nice, but prick gets more attention" Yahtzee just casually describing his whole media persona

The best way Isaac was described in this remake was how my friend described him "He's no longer an errand boy, he does what he knows to do from his engineering skills. So he went from being told what to do to knowing what to do and hoping it works"

Will say, as someone who lived and breathed Dead Space 1 for a long time: What makes this game easier is one regard is that Necromorphs don’t sprint wildly at you, limbs flailing like they did in the original. They shamble slowly, or at best have a brisk jog with their arms barely moving. Slicing an arm makes them stumble, making follow up damage easy too. To contrast this though, unless you sever a limb, the Necromorphs do not flinch when shot. In the original, to counter the full sprint speed, shooting a limb caused a reaction, even if it didn’t lop it off. So aiming for a leg was easy mode, because it made them stumble in one canned animation, so you could chain shots for easy dismemberment.

Yahtzee hit the nail on the head when he said that the industry is justing waiting. Farting out remakes and remasters until some really good and popular indie game comes out that everyone can rip off the ideas from.

I love the "trace over the lines" interpretation of remakes, it's so optimistic. A couple more of these and maybe the industry will remember how to make fun games again! We're almost there!

3:58 "Another significant change is that the zero gravity sections have shifted to the omni directional free flying that the sequels had, rather than that thing where you point to a wall and torpedo to it, and also have a *50/50 chance of randomly dying* because good PC port that ties it's physics to the framerate"

I enjoyed the "9 diametrically opposed internet communities" comment on the wizard game. It IS indeed a clusterfuck.

1:28 I really appreciate the 360p version of Yahtzee to symbolise going into the past. Very creative

"every single human authority is corrupt or mad" boy how glad I am this is totally unlike real world!

Now that I'm an adult who works as a tax professional, the tax jokes are a lot funnier

The way Yahtzee describes the plot of Dead Space 1, at least to me sounded almost like a 1:1 of the 2nd ALIEN movie and Alien: Isolation

2:18 that png collage instead of an actual in-style vector drawing of the helmet is what shows me how truly far Zero Punctuation has come over the years.

It's insane to me that Yahtzee keeps saying OG Dead Space looked bad. It's from 2008 and still looks pretty good.

I definitely understand Yahtzee's points, and that's coming from someone who did enjoy the remake. Like, it made enough changes that I knew I wasn't in for exactly the same story, and that kept me on my toes. And I'd say that the remake is greater than its predecessor even without the graphics update. Having said that, I think it's safe to say if you weren't into it the first time around then the re-make probably will similarly fail to hit the mark(er).

Yahtzee's "liking it a lot less" face is so fucking good

1:28 the fact that he actually made his "past self" lower res shows his dedication to the bit

I knew the mouse aiming was going to make things trivial so I opted to use a controller. Definitely helps in making the combat a little bit more challenging.

Waiting for that The Darkness remake to come out and cause Yahtzee to implode in on himself like a neon yellow ouroboros.

Leave it to Yahtzee to use a stock image of a can of beans, slap 3 crayons on it, and boom, perfect recreation of Issac Clarke's helmet XD

Shocking to learn someone who didn't like the series does not really like the remake lol

My memory is a bit rusty, But i do agree with you that the Red Marker that created the Chocomorphs was indeed a Glowing Red Twix Bar

Your representation of his helmet as a can of beans with some cyan crayons fucking killed me.

The dig at anime storytelling killed me

That contact beam weapon saved my ass so many times during my playthrough. Ripper blades were still good but didn't really work that well closer to the end.

At 5:12 I was like "Oh no, here comes the finishing joke" and I was not disappointed 🤣

Always gold, Yahtzee. You never fail to be witty and make me laugh. I've been watching you since was I in 8th grade and now I'm 28. With that, you're one of the very few things that have remained with me after all these years. Hell, my brother who introduced me to you is no longer around (not dead, but also not sure). Thank you for all that do and thanks to your team who help facilitate it. You're my spinning top in this inception-like dreamworld. The day you retire from this role will be a rough day, but it will be well-deserved.

1:03 like GHOST TRICK (HD remaster expected this summer) which was a huge spark that no one payed attention to because it did not have shu takumi's name plastered on the ds box and surprise surprise capcom forgot to mention him in the nintendo direct p.s. shu takumi is the father of ace attorney

I like how the helmet is made out of a can of Heinz beans and three cyan crayons

I cannot believe how easily seeing Isaac Clarke use the Psycho Crusher on a wall made me lose it.

When Yahtzee says that "Isaac Clarke's fashion sense lies somewhere between The Michelin Man and an Edwardian Era central heating system", it makes me think he could be best friends with the Bourgeois Big-Bollocked Boiler from Conker's Bad Fur Day.

2:30 I could not disagree any less even if I tried as hard as I could. Silent protagonists can sometimes provide some of the most immersive and intimate narratives in gaming. Half Life 1’s story wouldn’t be nearly as immersive if Gordon Freeman was babbling out loud every couple of minutes and commenting on everything around him, Aloy-style

I would watch a Zero Punctuation greatest's hits album!

God, that Helmet design is so accurate.

Suddenly imagining a Dead Space movie with Chris Pratt where he tries to use The Hand Thing on a Necromorph and gets excessively disarmed by something that looks like it was designed by an incompetent teenager feeding a meat grinder at the local butcher shop, but he can only follow directions inside-out.

If there were was one gripe about the OG Dead Space, which I am hearing being said about the remake, is that Issac has to fix one thing after another. Never understood it. Issac is the one engineer on a 60 year old space hulk that has had it’s crew converted to sentient biomass. Of course he’s gonna be repairing one thing after another. I personally thought he should have being repairing more stuff while Necroes try to slice you up or the oxygen is about to reach zero.

The visual for Isaac's helmet in this is fantastic, nice choice.

This has to be one of your best zps, so many jokes dropped like nukes on me

"Whose fashion sense lies somewhere between the Michelin Man and an Edwardian-era central heating system" that one in particular got me good...ah Yahtzee never stop doing what you do. Also I don't think you *can* stop doing what you do so we both win!

That graphic for the Engineer helmet is so incredibly funny

Years ago, I played this creepy game where a motley crew of 5 or so were stuck inside a spaceship, with a years old relic haunting them or something. It wasn't called Dead Space. 7 Days a Skeptic was the name. It was a good game. Don't remember who developed it. :)

Took me a second to realize those are can openers, in the outro.

Hmm i get the distinct impression Hogwarts could be the new Borderlands 3, which yahtz does everything he can to ignore reviewing.

I'll never understand why Yahtzee hates Dead Space so much. The first two games in that series are fun as hell.

🎵 Twinkle Twinkle ...... little star. Watching that intro back in the day, with a brand new flat screen and the lights out still gives me awesome chills.

I'm glad he also reflected on his old review

Dead Space is one of the rare times where I disagreed with Yahtzee's negative review (Because most AAA games do, in fact, suck.) It's probably just my unreasonable love affair with claustrophobic science fiction thrillers, though. I even liked the movie Pandorum, which probably only six other people watched. Give me body horror on a dark spaceship and I'm automatically pretty happy.

That last gag had me wheezing

Well that was a trip. Not only is the old video 4:3 but you sounded different. My memory was "you will totally sound the same as you did back then"

Wow. After watching your review I have realized that I have reached a new level of depravity because I actually appreciated the cleverly crafted GH joke. I mean; well done Yahtzee, well done.

I'm so interested in the Silent Hill 2 remake. If it stinks I feel Yahtzee will go on a killing spree.

I want to see him cover the Metroid Prime remaster just because he never reviewed Metroid Prime and I want to see him openly appreciate something the way he did Paper Mario TTYD.

Hope to see you check out Metroid Prime Remastered!

0:52 Yahtz will absolutely, 100%, most definetly, without a shred of doubt, it's-not-even-an-argument, HATE Hogwarts Legacy EDIT: See? I told you he'd hate it

I love how Yahtzee chose to represent Issac Clark. Good shit, awesome visual gag! xD

Mr Potato Head has never looked so good.

Okay, while I would watch a ZP clip show, I think we can all agree that what we REALLY need is a blooper/outtakes reel.

0:40 I have to wonder if the caption is he remembering one part of one episode or those times he did clip shows at the end of the year

I knew you’d end up doing this. Can’t wait to see what you say.

Great Stuff, as always!

That last line killed me. Also I love Dead Space despite living Yahtzee too.

I was wondering when he would get to this. I still remember when he went live with the first one and I still laughed my ass off. Well done

what is "that reminds of that one time" at 0:40 a reference to?

5:15 SECOND time I've ever seen one of those Imps look disgruntled or concerned.

I feel so genuinely happy that you pointed out your old harshness that i’ll never make any complaint ever again about this content

Wonderful and joyous as always 🙂

"The Pale Beyond" is a game right up your alley, a cozy resource management survival game set in the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. Gameplay is a bit simple, but I think it's worth it for the story, art and incredible soundtrack.

I remember first time with dead space when I played demo on 360, I was terrified, but I tried the whole game and it was great. As soon as I get enough pennies from the train station, I'm gonna buy this one.

We've come full bloody circle. A game he absolutely hated has now become a game he just couldn't be arsed to finish. The great journey of Yahtzee the Space Hero; Hero of Space is nearing completion.

I remember missing silent Isaac from DS1 when I started playing dead space 2.

Just rewatched his original review. Man, I didn't realize how much his voice and audio quality changed.

3:54 hey that's the laser rifle from Xenonauts! Idk if you were planning on it or not Yahtz but are you going to do a Xenonauts 2 review when that finally releases?

I liked the beginning of this video a lot.

2:38 had to laugh so hard at the anime characters gag :D :D

OMG YOU STILL EXIST - I REMEMBER YHE ORIGINAL VIDS YOU UPLOADED IN LIKE 2010 OMGGG

2:31: that image hurt my soul, and broke my heart 😔😢.

Hey whiskey sours are my fave too Yahtz

Also, should we expect a ZP of Metroid Prime Remastered?

With creative control, I would have done the jump around mechanic until you got to the loading bay area, maybe push that a little further in the story, if possible, _then_ give the jump jets

I wonder if that's a reminder or a warning above the hole in his bathroom door

I did quite enjoy DSR, but it had several problem which I wasn't sure were just down to me being old now. Hearing it was £70 stung. My thumbs would hurt after not touching a controller for the best part of a decade. The lighting and Zero G sections made me feel dizzy and nauseous at times. And also minor gripe, but there were times where it just was straight up unclear you couldn't do stuff. I liked that you could explore the ship with it's interconnectivity, but at the same time there would be stuff such as the rig in a tram tunnel I spent like an hour throughout the game trying to grab with Kinesis only for it to turn out you couldn't do so for arbitrary reasons. Also backtracking to go visit stuff now that you had clearance felt bad since you'd usually only get resources, maybe some logs, and on a rare occasion a weapon upgrade. Couple this with the fact that in new game plus you lost your security clearance (I get that maybe there could have been a few issues with you accessing areas you shouldn't for plot reasons, but I don't feel like that would be too hard to solve), and there is no way to easily view rooms on the map you haven't visited without going and looking at every floor on the map to look for greyed out rooms. Oh also and the final chapter dragging on exactly as it did in the original was just dull. It was a good game and I'm looking forward to an eventual remake to the sequel (but not 3, I don't think there's any way to salvage that hot mess), but it could have been just a bit better. also lol good luck with Hogwarts Legacy

Sounds like should of played it on the super hard mode. We did for are play thru recently and it was really great. The horror of the Perma dieing and such added a lot more to it. Also just used the first gun only in the run XD Add's a lot to it we felt

What is the imp holding in the final gag?

2:35 to 2:49 Being 40 myself, I can't but laugh out loud feeling appreciated and understood for once in a looong time. Now allow me to go back to my rocking chair at the porch, so I can yell at clouds some more.

Wait, he didn't like the Contact Beam? That thing is amazing in this game, either you power wash the necromorphs apart or just send a tiny nuke, either way nothing is surviving

These sci-fi helmet approximations are getting really good.

Worth noting that the devs are making an Iron Man game at some point so maybe the free-flying segments might be pulling a Ubisoft: proof of concept for the next game coming down the pipeline.

Will there be a video on the new Bayonetta origins game?

I'm watching this back-to-back w/ the Honest Trailer

I completely agree, making them older and actually believably seasoned improves the story immensely

Not that I'm going to play the remake, but I am glad they got rid of Zero-G jumps in favour of flight. I love 6 degrees of freedom.