"it's a bad moral choice, there aren't enough rewards for nuking megaton! you can get all those caps easy in the lategame! if you try to turn burke into the sheriff instead, burke kills him and he drops one of the best assault rifles in the game early!"

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Incredibly stupid on-the-nose moral choices were the shit in the Xbox360 generation

    DO YOU WANT TO PET THE PUPPY OR WRING ITS NECK

    wow, deep

    • 7bicycles [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      But consider the consequence: your dad says that wasn't cool but we'll talk about it later

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        "Your mom wouldn't want to play this game" and shots of moms reacting to ingame violence was the marketing campaign for the first Dead Space

        • 7bicycles [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Excuse you, that was the second, where they started to give up on doing an interesting game for run of the mill action shooter because it has to sell 8 gajillion copies

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              A clumsily contrived co-op shooter with clumsily contrived crafting (as was the style at the time) with clumsily contrived monetization and bro-bro bootbro nonsense added on top of it all.

                • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                  2 years ago

                  It could have worked but it was jammed into a setting where it just didn't fit. For Dead Space's already established audience, it just meant content that a solo player wouldn't be able to access.

          • OutrageousHairdo [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            "Let's add baby necromorphs"
            "The first game already had those"
            "No, make them baby-er so we can increase the shock value"

    • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      You forget if you wring the puppies neck he drops midtier loot right now. But you can't get the golden ending unless you pet ALL the puppies, it's total bullshit.