Comment on Dead Space creator Glen Schofield is retiring after 35 years
Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
He had two good dead space games under his arm but i always felt that what this team’s legacy to gaming was more about seamless ui and diagetic interface design.
Back in the day the dead space games had the common criticism of mistaking being loud and in your face with being horror, and over reliying on “shooting galleries” of respawning enemies. The callisto protocol ran with these flaws and made them worse to the point where in late levels progression felt choppy and repetitive because you just knew there was another closed space with monsters spawning from vents around the corner that ruined the atmosphere.
I always wanted to like their games, hell i remember enjoying dead space 2 even if the overall game was very forgettable as a horror fan. It kind of makes sense that this guy sees promise in generstive AI because a lot of the creative decisions and writing of his games feel lacking substance.
Cyanogenmon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I did like Blood Omen 2, but it’s vastly different from the rest of the series so it may be a bit of a shock to LoK fans.
Amy Hennig wasn’t part if the project, so some of the writing and lines feel out of place, particularly so by characters like ::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Janos Audron and Vorador :::.
IMO the other games in the series performed so well BECAUSE of Amy’s storytelling ability.
The final level has some glitches and the in-engine cutscenes audio isn’t synced with characters mouth animations. I always thought this was a problem with my disc growing up, but recently replayed on emulator and the exact same issue happened.
All that said, as usual with any LoK project, expect absolutely stellar voice acting by Simon Templeman (Kain).