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Dead Space 2 - Multiplayer

Posted on 2/1/11 at 5:55 pm
Posted by ChroniX
Deep Web
Member since Nov 2010
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Posted on 2/1/11 at 5:55 pm
Finished the single player campaign last night, and tried out the online gameplay. I have to say, its disappointing.

Who ever said it was close to L4D was giving it too much credit. The necromorphs greatly outpower lower lvl players with the default weapons, trying to shake off one by pressing "E" is pointless, Mics are left open by default (playing the PC version), etc...


Has anyone else tried it? If so, what is your opinion so far?
Posted by Bama and Beer
Baldwin Co, AL
Member since Oct 2010
80921 posts
Posted on 2/1/11 at 6:05 pm to
Your avatar =
Posted by Ross
Member since Oct 2007
47824 posts
Posted on 2/1/11 at 6:29 pm to
Haven't tried it, heard it's average at best.


I thought it would be an interesting idea to have objective based multiplayer like that, but oh well. The game obviously focuses on awesome single player campaigns.
Posted by ChroniX
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Member since Nov 2010
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Posted on 2/1/11 at 6:46 pm to
quote:

The game obviously focuses on awesome single player campaigns.


Couldnt agree more, thats why i took my time with it, didnt want to finish too fast

But yeah, the objective based part...its lacking. In the one match i played, the only objective was to run to the next room (where the necros spawn) and destory a replica marker...thats about it...
Posted by JAE20
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Member since Jul 2009
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Posted on 2/1/11 at 8:23 pm to
quote:

quote: The game obviously focuses on awesome single player campaigns.
awesome where? The game play was good. I just finished the game and I'm like WTF?! Anyone Care to explain.
Posted by Ross
Member since Oct 2007
47824 posts
Posted on 2/1/11 at 9:33 pm to
Explain what? The story?

The game itself was pure awesomeness.
Posted by JAE20
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Member since Jul 2009
7176 posts
Posted on 2/1/11 at 10:31 pm to
Yea the story was retarded
Posted by Tiger Rag Oh Lawd
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Nov 2009
149 posts
Posted on 2/1/11 at 10:55 pm to
I played the multiplayer for about thirty minutes before getting bored with it. Couldn't get used to using necromorphs, and you don't get to be the best ones. They should stick with the campaign..

Can't wait for Severed to come out though
Posted by Acreboy
Member since Nov 2005
38568 posts
Posted on 2/2/11 at 12:31 am to
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Yea the story was retarded
gtfo
Posted by JAE20
In the cloudz
Member since Jul 2009
7176 posts
Posted on 2/2/11 at 1:12 am to
Seriously what did I miss?! I really don't understand. Does anyone have a link or something to explain it. I'm not knocking the game at all I enjoyed it, but once I destroyed the marker I was confused as hell
Posted by Tiger Rag Oh Lawd
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Nov 2009
149 posts
Posted on 2/2/11 at 2:54 am to
Did you play the first one?
Posted by Ross
Member since Oct 2007
47824 posts
Posted on 2/2/11 at 5:54 am to
If you played the first game, you'd understand most of the references.

What, specifically, are you confused about? Most questions you have can be answered online.
Posted by Acreboy
Member since Nov 2005
38568 posts
Posted on 2/2/11 at 8:04 am to
Dead Space

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Backstory: The in-game logs indicate that the original black marker was found on Earth hundreds of years ago. The discovery also led to the rise of the Unitarian church, which became the dominant religion on Earth since that time. Earth scientists discovered a genetic code written on the Marker which created the bacteria-like life form that subsides on dead organic tissue. The Black marker prevented the life form from working (by some type of frequency), so the Earth government created a secret laboratory in deep space on the in game planet (I can’t remember the planet’s name right now) in order to study the life form. A laboratory accident resulted in the death of all the scientists in the research colony and creation of the necromorphs. The government realized that the situation got out of hand, so they sent a mad-made smaller replica of the Marker, the red Marker, to the colony to contain the spread of the life-form and necromorphs. The government then classified the planets system and made it a forbidden zone.

The Unitarian church, being so widely followed, had its members who are high-ranking government officials find the location of the colony and the red Marker, and arrange for the USG Ishamura to go there, staffed with only church members. The church wanted to claim the Red marker to find what it believed was the secret to resurrection. When the ship arrived at the lab, it was a ghost town. They set up a colony to look for the Marker, found it, and took the Marker on board and proceeded to study it.

The chief scientist on board became obsessed with it and began killing crew members to use as test subjects to use in his experiments using the genetic code sequence on the Marker. This led to the infection of necromorphs on the ship. The scientist eventually created the regenerating necromorph, which he believed was the resurrection that the Marker promised.

Theories:

Markers(s): The Marker(s) are monolithic constructs designed by some alien intelligence that predates humans designed to contain the life-form that causes the necromorphs. They are not sentient, but rather are complex machines/computers that emit radiation in various frequencies that are designed to prevent any sentient life from disturbing them. It is my theory that the marker’s writings contain a warning that describes the deadly life form and what its purpose is. It is possible that the warning could not be translated at first, but the DNA sequence was. The Unitarian idea of resurrection is probably a mistranslation from the Marker’s warning.

The reason why there are no necromorphs on Earth is due to the presence of the original Marker, which is much larger than the one in the game. It was placed on Earth by some unknown alien force to prevent the spread of the necromorphic life form. It is possible, though nothing in game supports this, that there are numerous other Markers on other planets with the same purpose.

The hallucinations experienced by people near the Marker are a result of the emissions designed to prevent any sentient life from moving or tampering with it.

The Hive-Mind: The hive mind is likely the vastly mutated remains of the scientists that were working in the secret lab on the planet. It was dormant when Red marker was placed on the planet, but became active when it was removed and placed aboard the ship. Because it was mad made, it was designed to emit a frequency to prevent removal from the planet or compel returning it to the planet.

The hive mind psionically controls the lower necromorphs on the ship and in the colony. It does not want the Marker returned, so it compels the lower level necros to attack any human on sight.


Dead Space 2

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How to Explain Dead Space 2 Ending


Doubt 1--Why the necromorphs were converging around the marker --How to Explain Dead Space 2 Ending

Explanation 1-- --How to Explain Dead Space 2 Ending
the whole reason to the necromorphs were converging around the marker was that they were trying to recreate the hive mind, since you killed it in dead space 1 the hive mind was living inside the marker or something along the lines of that but when you battle Nichole and listen closely and she will say that HE wants to be recreated again/reborn meaning the hive mind being recreated again, hope this helped you out a little bit.

Explanation 2-- --How to Explain Dead Space 2 Ending
Theres an audio log with a researcher saying the marker WANTED to be built. Theres something sentient behind it, what it is we don't know yet. I've a feeling this universe is going to be expanded on a bit more before the end. Theres a novel out describing the events of the original marker being found, if i read that right. On a side note i just read the comic 'salvage' which is about.

Doubt 2--Why is the maker needed alive and intact --How to Explain Dead Space 2 Ending

Explanation 1--Why is the maker needed alive and intact --How to Explain Dead Space 2 Ending
Why is the maker needed alive and intact possible is because hat how the start a cycle, a marker gets built by someone who survived the previous one, he converges and creates a hive and bioforms a planet, then of course someone escapes to unleash it again on another world Who knows. But what i do know is that at least 3 artifacts have done the same thing in regards to telepathic manipulation of people, contradicting itself as if it has 2 opposing forces at work.

Explanation 2--Why is the maker needed alive and intact --How to Explain Dead Space 2 Ending
In the End Unitology is the glam pretty version of what the founders know, they didn't want to advertise dead flesh monsters, and this super oneness afterlife as a giant flesh worm so they gossed it up to get more people to believe, while it's founders truly still wanted to make another convergence happen as tye accept the necromorph as the next step even though it isn't.
Posted by JAE20
In the cloudz
Member since Jul 2009
7176 posts
Posted on 2/2/11 at 9:17 am to
That makes alot more sense. I did play the first but I had the game save on a flash drive which got destroyed and I damn sure was not going to restart from the beginning. I guess I'm disappointed because I do not fully understand the story and they leave so many questions unanswered. So I'm assuming there will be a dead space 3 that will be full of awesome lol.
Posted by ChroniX
Deep Web
Member since Nov 2010
918 posts
Posted on 2/2/11 at 12:16 pm to
The ending story probably would have made more sense to me if i played through the first dead space, but i never finished it. The controls for it on PC were horrible, so got tired of fighting with it.

quote:

dead space 3


Posted by Ross
Member since Oct 2007
47824 posts
Posted on 2/2/11 at 2:55 pm to
quote:

the whole reason to the necromorphs were converging around the marker was that they were trying to recreate the hive mind, since you killed it in dead space 1 the hive mind was living inside the marker or something along the lines of that but when you battle Nichole and listen closely and she will say that HE wants to be recreated again/reborn meaning the hive mind being recreated again, hope this helped you out a little bit.


This pretty much means the necromorphs are idiots, or the Marker asserts control over them much like it can over humans. The Marker wants to merge them into a Hive Mind in order to easily suppress one entity that is telepathically connected to all of the others.
This post was edited on 2/2/11 at 2:56 pm
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