Was Dead Space as good as I remember? - A look at a new breed of horror game 

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There is something about the struggle against a unknowable, unkillable and unfeeling monster. But that's enough about EA, let's talk about dead space.

I like to imagine that Isaac is not a silent protagonist hes headset is just muted and no one told him

Playthrough 1: *uncontrollable sobbing, incoherent screaming* Playthrough 2: THIS ISN'T EVEN MY FINAL FORM

So thoughtful of the ship architects to include all those massive glass panels for us to observe horrors from a safe place.

Isaac does have a Journal in the game next to the objectives list where you can see what he thinks, but it's not very obvious and so most people miss it. But yeah, apparently he knew some of the people on mining deck and theorized that the Marker was sentient in some way, in the Journal.

I'm a simple man, I see a Salt Factory video, I Click

I think the slasher killing the military vessel scene would have been better if the escape pod we launched had the regenerator on it instead. it'd make sense

I like to think that Earthgov didn't actually want the Marker back, that was just something the Marker fed to Kendra, it fits with her falling under the Marker's influence earlier with sightings of her brother.

Anyone else watch Salt's vids as comfort videos over and over? Like you watch it once and hella enjoy it, and then you watch it again, and eventually you put it on to listen to quietly as you fall asleep? Not trying to imply they are so boring they put you to sleep. Rather they are so good you watch them over and over until they feel like a safe space you can escape from the world into.

I’m glad you mentioned the comics but the Dead Space animation showing the fall of the Ishimura is practically a work of art

That very last scene is not just a final jumpscare, it hints at the fact that even though the marker was destroyed, the madness in his head regarding his dead gf still persists. Which, as you said, get's expanded upon in the sequel. This game is so clever & so good while being "just" a brutal survival horror game, it's astounding. It was always very high on my imaginary "please remake THIS - list"...

the worst part of dead space 1 will always be a single nercomorph taking down an entire ship while a single engineer takes out an army of them

13:10 I have learned that Isaac has a falling animation, and I am blown away by that. I can’t think of a single time in all three games where Isaac has the ability to have an unscripted “fall” where an animation with his arms out doing the Mario “ouh” is necessary. Wild.

Damn you really bout to get me through this boring ass work shift thanks Salt

Yes. Yes it was. I played it thrice years apart, and every time it blew my mind. A true masterpiece of the 7th generation.

Kinesis was so cool, cutting a limb off a Necromorph and launching it back at it "Hey buddy you dropped your hand, here, take it back!"

God I love this game. I always liked the fact that at the end of most missions you take a tram off to the next area and you get that safe feeling knowing you're done with the level and you don't need to be on high alert but then you get off to put yourself in danger some more and the game is so compelling that you can't help but just keep pushing forward.

I recently replayed the entire trilogy myself and what I took from DS1's ending was that returning the marker triggered a convergence, but the massive energy burst caused the big rock to be untethered. So either the marker didn't know about said huge rock or was banking on somehow being able to survive it.

Love you and your videos Salt, not only do you give us a deeper look into the story and gameplay of these games we either loved or missed out on growing up ON TOP OF the backgroud of the games development and any controversies related, you tie in your own personal anecdotes that give your videos a great sense of personality. lowkey part of me wishes the upload schedule was a little closer together, i look forward to your videos every month (or two) but I totally understand you gotta take your time with these n do them right, keep it up brother. thanks for all your hard work a dedication ❤️

If I remember right, if you take the first letter from the name of every chapter it spells the sentence "Nicole is dead"

these exhaustive reviews are my favorites ever. i dont even have to be wholly interested in the games being reviewed, but the extensive lookovers are interesting and long, but never too long. thank you salt.

The plasma cutter is probably my favorite video game weapon of all time. The sound it makes and animation is just chef's kiss! Can't wait for the remake

Really interesting that the lead dev wanted this to be a prison escape game, and now years later he's making the Callisto Protocol which is exactly what that is

I recently played dead space recently and I gotta say, it REALLY holds up despite its age

I just got done watching the first Alien movie with my wife and I was just telling her how much this movie influenced a lot of video games like “ Dead Space” . And here we are . Well done my friend

I always put the difference between the Markers actions in DS 1 as a part of its Lovecraftian/alien background. Any rules that the markers follow are beyond our understanding, as are the motives they might have for any of their actions.

The nostalgia I have for this game is unreal. It's just one of those games that makes me remember exactly where I was in life at the time. FFVII is that game for my childhood. Dead Space is that game for my early adulthood... it's just strange to picture those memories so vividly and who I was at the time..wish I could relive it..

Ah you never mentioned the two characters that you follow around the whole game! You hear their story through logs and you're always one step behind them. The man who the doctor kills behind the window is one of them and the one of the floor the other! It was a big moment if you follow their story but otherwise just looks like a generic murder.

I always play Salt’s and Stratedgy’s videos when i get off work. Usually end up falling asleep to them playing. Every day for the last year and a half just about.

Dead space is honestly probably one of my most favorite if not my most favorite horror game of all time it had that perfect balance of skin Alan's of scares mixed with just pure action a fun enjoyment it's like they took the best parts of Resident Evil 5 and the best parts of Resident Evil 3 and 1 and combine them

Hearing Stones at the start was a direct injection of nostalgia into my veins.

You’re getting pretty fast at releasing vids all things considered. Very nice, always a good time listening to your thoughts of games’ past. It’s a good way of reliving nostalgia without actually having to literally play every game I thought was great at the time only to be disappointed later in life (looking at you GoldenEye 64👀)

There's a book called a Martyr, which describes the origin of necromorphs and Altman's "accident". Very dark and gritty read, and yet, quite interesting.

I like that whole prisoner on a prison ship idea that was the original plan for this game is getting used as the premise for Callisto Protocol which is also being made by the original Dead Space creator.

The dividers wails still haunt me and is probably one of the creepiest things ive heard

I'll never forget the time I actually tried to get Resident Evil 5, but I was suggested this masterpiece instead when I was younger. _Never regretted it._

Absolutely love the videos you put out, and it's a comforting feeling having some way to revisit nostalgia-praised games at almost anytime with a funny and genuine personality critiquing them. Thank you so much for keeping to your channel, and for releasing videos constantly while still feeling like they took a whole year to make on their own

Just got done watching the Mass Effect 3 video and you upload this. My afternoon is stacked. Great to listen to your stuff while I draw or hammer away at my gaming backlog

Life is great when i can enjoy TSF videos... cant believe its been already 3 years since i started watching TSF... and atleast 5 times... and you always cover the games i am interested in too! (and if i am not interested in it... you smack the interest flat on my face till i am)

One of the few creators who actually makes me laugh. Like really laugh. Like one that scares the cats. The bit about whipping around the satellites really got me. Love your work. 👍👍👍👍

Dead Space and Dead Space 2 have consistently been my favourite games of all time since they were released 🙏 I honestly think it’s crazy underrated

So three things from this, 1. Amazing video! Greatly enjoyed this! 2. Dead space 2 review? 3. Honestly Dead space 3 is my favorite and really needs a replay at the least, recommended with a friend as that's how it was designed.

Opened the video to a song that’s burned into my memory, then you said Ultima Online. I love when people bring up one of my favorite games haha. Awesome video man, I really enjoy all of them!

This makes me want to see you evaluate Alien: Isolation.

Your retrospectives are my favorite on the internet. Love when you drop a new video man

He always tells me not to be too alarmed by the sponsor sections, and yet, I always am.

I had a rather strange experience when I had first played Dead Space. I had just gotten dumped by a girl named Nikole, and Isaac was looking for his ex, Nicole.

Salt factory is genuinely one of the best creators on the platform right now

Honestly the most impressive things about your videos is how current you are on pop culture lmao

I was JUST thinking you should make a video on DS1. Been playing the second one to get ready for the remake, very hype to watch this.

One thing that really stands out to me about this title and has solidified it as a classic since it’s real ease was indeed its release 14 years ago. For it’s time, this game was ultra immersive silent hill in space. Given my era of gaming, it was the resident evil 2 of modern generations. Revolutionary.

Neat, my current favorite youtuber has uploaded a 3.5h video \o/ Because I usually watch these about 3 times. Salt just has that certain type of humour and content in the videos, that just resonate with me really well. Thank you for all your work :)

Yeaaaa salt time baby!!! Two hips for brotha salt!!! Thanks man for all your detailed reviews. Get this man to one mil🤘

It’s crazy because I just finished watching yourfavoriteson’s video on dead space. This is a wonderful companion. I love the contrast between your two review styles. Thank you for another great piece of content.

The star of the show is that graphics engine and in particular how well it handles lighting. Damned fine looking game more than a decade after it came out.

I love Dead Space. Space Horror and Cosmic Horror are my favorite Genres. Alien, Event Horizon, From Beyond, The Thing, The Void, etc. I'm just drawn to it.

I don't know if Dead Space is as good as I remember because I've never played it, but that hasn't stopped me from watching your videos. Now that you've made one Smashmouth reference I feel compelled to go back and rewatch some of your videos to see if I can pick up on a pattern of it.

I'm sure you put alot of effort into this video, but I'm sure I'm one of the many thousands who add these retrospective/analysis-type videos to their "fall asleep" Playlist, and I would like to thank you on behalf of us for the video.

Just sat down to unwind off work with some games and now I get new salt factory content to go with? Yeaaaah boi

Such a good game, excited for this video. Great time for it too with all the hype surrounding the remake. Thanks for the amazing content homie!

Hey Salt? I just wanted to share some of my experience with this game. I am NOT a horror fan in general. I startle easily and getting scared usually makes me a little angry because I’ve never found any amusement in that emotion. That goes for movies and videogames. In short bursts that couldn’t have been more than a couple hours max, I beat Deadspace in high school. It was always daytime and as brightly lit as possible. It was also the very first horror game I ever managed to finish. Something about it just always lured me back, like a shrimp to an angler fish in the ocean. I legitimately screamed at the top of my lungs so loud and so frequently at points that I scared the crap outta my mom because she thought I was hurt. I was in the basement while she was up too and she still heard me clear as day. I then resorted to playing the game only while she was gone and during daylight as she said I needed to stop “giving myself a heart attack”. And normally I’d agree, but something kept me coming back until I beat the game and survived and beat the story. Every new clue scrawled on the walls, in a voice log, disturbingly wrong new necromorph, and breadcrumb what I later found to be the cause of all the horror kept me coming back. It was terrifying. It was also something that stuck with me for more than just getting scared. I think it’s something special, even if I can’t exactly put into words WHY. So thank you for making a video about this. That’s my own experience with it and I enjoyed hearing about yours.

love the video, came across your stuff about a week ago and have been binge watching them at work since. with how long it's been since this video I would be curious for you to play the remake and do a comparison video to the original. I love hearing different people ideas on the differences and whether the changes were good or bad.

Love opening RU-vid and the first thing I see is salts new video up top. Fantastic content on one of my favorite classic games. Love you dude!!

I love these videos salt. You literally put out banger videos every time. For me it's great, as it let me relive a time in my life when gaming was everything to me and I dumped 100+hrs into each of these games as a broke teen I had nothing else to do. Now as I adult with a full time job I have the money but none of the time to invest in these games and it always surprises me when you trigger and memory or find out something I'd missed in the story or learn something about the development! Keep up the great work man you're doing an amazing job.

Been on a horror kick lately, love seeing this.

Dead Space is one of my all time fave games, I loved what you said about the more residential setting as well. It reminded me of a similar area in System Shock 2, going from typical sci fi hall ways, to areas where everyone just sleeps and goes to the bar for a drink and chat. Really good stuff

I don't think Klein was lying or even giving it his best guess when it came to the marker and sealing the Hive Mind away, it was the orders he was being given. The second and third game lay out that in order for a convergence event, the final stage a marker goes through to create a Brethren Moon, to play out it needs to be on a planet surface so it can suck up bits of said planet to form a new moon. So, I think the idea here is that Klein is being told by the Marker using visions of his wife (same with Isaac and Nicole) to deliver the marker back to Aegis VII so that when the time comes, it can begin convergence. It just makes it seem like bringing the marker back will end the outbreak, which it will not, but it helps convince Klein and Isaac to willingly take the marker back.

53:22 , it could be that there are different departments/cliques in Earth Gov that want differing things. Also, with regards to the marker shutting down the necromorphs with what we learned from dead space 2 and 3 (spoilers ahead) It's likely that Aegis 7 and the Ishimura didn't have enough colletive biomass to make a brother moon so the marker instead ordered a shut down.

Love this game. The atmosphere is incredible.

Thanks for another awesome vid man. Always happy to see your stuff on my feed and the inevitable DS2 vid in the future. 😃

one of the few games i inmediately wanted to replay as soon as finishing it, the horror aspect is always present but what shines the most imo is the gameplay.

Damn, your wife drew that portrait? It looks rad.

Salt factory is a certified classic.

It’s crazy how every time you binge watch a RU-vidr they post a new video!

Salt, I wanna watch this, but I’ve never played Dead Space and I haven’t gotten any major spoilers. I want to play this through clean. Your work is always excellent and even though I can’t add to your view count, I hope my appreciation and like is enough. I’m sure this was a great video and I can’t wait to see it once I finish the game. Love you and your content ❤️

You should definitely do the second game, as it really brings the whole story together and fixes a lot of issues the first game has (like Isaac not having a voice).

The whole betrayal scene made me laugh. First the doctors dead body flying around, then the obligatory corpse shot. :*D

so glad you finally covered this game and hope you cover the sequel in the future love the videos

Thanks for the October relevant vid, Salt! The one thing I appreciate the remake is doing is actually adding voice to Issac *and* it's still his DS2 and 3 voice actor. He also seems to only speak in small amounts but they tweaked conversations so it's less people cutting in to demand you do things vs. Issac and the other person working out what to do in the moment.

The beginning hit me hard, I'm 51 years old and vividly remembers when EA was the torchbearer of quality and experimentation in the games' industry, in short way different from the monster they ended up as.

Dead Space is still hands down my favourite horror game

What I love about this channel is most of the videos are things I didn’t know I wanted until I see the video title

I also fell through the map in this game, I'm not sure if it's the same elevator but its a funny bit of nostalgia. In fact, that moment got me thinking about game design since I was thinking that it's funny they added a falling animation since he never jumps or falls off anything in a gravity environment. It eventually led to my job today, so thank you dead space 👍

And when the world needed him most on a Friday…Salt delivered.

A space prison escape, huh? Sounds like what Callisto Protocol is shaping up to be

Love these sort of "reading of X" videos. It's really fun going back through a game you love through the eyes of someone else and seeing things from a different viewpoint.

it really feels like you and your favorite son are on the same game pipeline rn and its great cause I love hearing both of your perspectives. you both did the fable trilogy and just recently dead space

Every video from you is a treat, thank you!

I still play this game all the time, it's still a masterpiece

YUS! Every time I see that you've uploaded I celebrate. Can't wait to watch this.

I love your videos, always so well put together

I seriously hate how this games HUD didn't become industry standard

can we also talk about how good this game looks after sooo many years? ☆_☆

(36:39) I love how they made him twist the new head around so that it can see properly. 🤪

All look forward to your videos you do a great job especially its always games I loved when I was a kid. Keep up the great work brotha

Yes my boy is finally talking about the greatest horror game to ever exist before it was violated by EA. God bless the holy spaghetti lords.😺

I appreciate the effort you put into flawlessly entwining humor and info into every level of these videos. even the sponsorships are easy and enjoyable to watch.

Thoroughly enjoyed the video, as always. I’ve only ever made it ~10 minutes into this game, but watched a 2-3 hour lore video about the entire series last year that really made me wish I could play this game without pausing after every step to see if I’m about to get jump scared.

Hey Salt, this was yet another fantastic video! I'd suggest looking at some of ids games to do soon. Lots of juicy bits there.