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**Soladrin**

Welp, EA dun goofed.

Deadspace series has now been canceled due to low sales, well EA that's what happens when you try to make a niche game for everyone.

**Alfndrate**

According to VGchartz, it's only sold 870,000 copies worldwide (account for all 3 systems it was released on).

To put this in perspective... Aliens: Colonial Marines sold 730,000 copies worldwide... that piece of gak shouldn't have sold more than a quarter of a million.

**LordofHats**

Soladrin wrote:
Welp, EA dun goofed.

Deadspace series has now been canceled due to low sales, well EA that's what happens when you try to make a niche game for everyone.

What? EA just did what they always do. Acquire a fresh new IP some people like and want to see more of. Mainstream the

out of it to the point it might as well just be a generic CoD FPS game. And rake in the money. Are you suggesting there's something wrong with this business model

**kenshin620**

Iz funny because Issac just got into Playstation All Stars

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LordofHats wrote:

What? EA just did what they always do. Acquire a fresh new IP some people like and want to see more of. Mainstream the out of it to the point it might as well just be a generic CoD FPS game. And rake in the money. Are you suggesting there's something wrong with this business model

TBH I would love a next gen Command and Conquer FPS.

And then they killed it before anything could be really developed

**Soladrin**

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-03-05-ea-cans-dead-space-series-following-poor-sales-of-dead-space-3-report

Here, have an article. So itns an odd situation this.

**Palindrome**

DS3 sold 25% or so less than DS2 so it is obviously a financial failure, according to EA logic anyway.

**Alfndrate**

Well... when you consider this article:
http://www.cinemablend.com/games/EA-Says-Dead-Space-3-Has-Sell-5-Million-Survive-43629.html

And seeing that it sold less than 1/5th of what EA said it needed to sell, then yes it is a failure...

**CthuluIsSpy**

Ah damn. I actually liked what they did to DS3.

It was always more of a action game than a horror game anyway.

**Velour_Fog**

What would another sequel have been about anyway?

Spoiler:

As far as I'm concerned, everything's been wrapped up. And I don't think I could stand another game being as shooter-y as DS3. I'd be lying if I didn't say it wasn't fun at times but it seems to gone off the rails in terms of gameplay.

**CthuluIsSpy**

True. Another sequel would have been dumb. The plot has boiled down to a mass effect clone anyway.

**Sigvatr**

inb4 DA3 getting cancelled!

**Corpsesarefun**

Good.

As much as I love the games, the series was milked dry with DS3.

**Amaya**

CthuluIsSpy wrote:
True. Another sequel would have been dumb. The plot has boiled down to a mass effect clone anyway.

The first game looked like a knock off of ME/Firefly. I don't know why it was such a hit to begin with.

**kenshin620**

Amaya wrote:
CthuluIsSpy wrote:
True. Another sequel would have been dumb. The plot has boiled down to a mass effect clone anyway.

The first game looked like a knock off of ME/Firefly. I don't know why it was such a hit to begin with.

Imo once you get enough guns in DS1 (like the Flame Thrower and the Circular Saw Blade Shooter) I'd consider it as much of a horror game as Half Life was.

Which isnt too much aside from Jump Scares

**CthuluIsSpy**

kenshin620 wrote:
Amaya wrote:
CthuluIsSpy wrote:
True. Another sequel would have been dumb. The plot has boiled down to a mass effect clone anyway.

The first game looked like a knock off of ME/Firefly. I don't know why it was such a hit to begin with.

Imo once you get enough guns in DS1 (like the Flame Thrower and the Circular Saw Blade Shooter) I'd consider it as much of a horror game as Half Life was.

Which isnt too much aside from Jump Scares

Yep, and that's why I'm amused at all the complaints that DS3 is not a horror game.

Dead Space was never a horror game; it was as scary as Duke Nukem 3d.

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Amaya wrote:
CthuluIsSpy wrote:
True. Another sequel would have been dumb. The plot has boiled down to a mass effect clone anyway.

The first game looked like a knock off of ME/Firefly. I don't know why it was such a hit to begin with.

Because marketing and gratuitous dismemberment.
Also, babies.

**Cave_Dweller**

Soo, mediocre game then? Terrible? Worth picking up for 5 bucks on a Steam sale? I don't know much about the series

**djphranq**

I've played like 45 minutes of part one of the series and thought it was wicked awesome. STOMP FTW!

**Melissia**

Let's be fair. Dead Space was never really that much of a horror series to begin with. It was an action game with a horror pretense. Perfectly enjoyable (I played through DS1 and 2 once each, enjoyed them both like the summer blockbusters they were, then uninstalled them and haven't touched them since), but it began as pretty mainstream and didn't have that much further to go.

**djphranq**

Cave_Dweller wrote:
Soo, mediocre game then? Terrible? Worth picking up for 5 bucks on a Steam sale? I don't know much about the series

Personally I think 5 bucks is well worth it.

**Melissia**

I'd say ten bucks is worth it as well. You'd spend more for two hours of enjoyment at a movie theatre (compared to the six or so hours for this game) and you'd not be able to redo THAT without paying for it again.

**kenshin620**

And the Coop in DS3 does provide some interesting things not available in single player

Dat Carver side mission.....

**djphranq**

Melissia wrote:
I'd say ten bucks is worth it as well. You'd spend more for two hours of enjoyment at a movie theatre (compared to the six or so hours for this game) and you'd not be able to redo THAT without paying for it again.

THIS

haha

**Shrike325**

http://www.gamespot.com/news/ea-denies-dead-space-series-cancellation-6404823

Not getting canceled

**kenshin620**

Shrike325 wrote:
http://www.gamespot.com/news/ea-denies-dead-space-series-cancellation-6404823

Not getting canceled

Pff cancellation is such a harsh term

I think they might use "Retirement"

Or "Hibernation"

**Necroshea**

It's good to see others here echoing my feelings of DS3. I'm TRYING to make myself play through it, it's just not the same.

DS1 was a great introduction to the series.
DS2 made isaac a bad ass with more character.
DS3...kind of sucks. It's the same thing, only I know what to expect. Also microtransactions. Are you fo srs.

**Kanluwen**

The whining about microtransactions was old before the game even came out.

DS3 is a great coop game.
If you're playing it solo, it is boring.

**kenshin620**

Kanluwen wrote:

DS3 is a great coop game.
If you're playing it solo, it is boring.

Not to mention I guess one problem is the game isnt built with an AI bot companion in mind so they just cut off your partner completely

It'll be like if Halo 3 completely removed Arbiter if Player 2 was absent. Entire cutscenes are altered (or at least from my recollections from the differences in the demos)

**Galdos**

Alfndrate wrote:
According to VGchartz, it's only sold 870,000 copies worldwide (account for all 3 systems it was released on).

To put this in perspective... Aliens: Colonial Marines sold 730,000 copies worldwide... that piece of gak shouldn't have sold more than a quarter of a million.

Actually this makes perfect sense. A lot of people were upset at the change of focus from horror to pure action. This meant a lot of fans lost interest in the series and simply being more action like isnt enough to get new people to pick it up when its on the 3rd game that is not a standalone

Counter-wise Colonial Marines had a huge following with people that were always excited for it until the reviews came out (after the release)

**H.B.M.C.**

I recently saw* a dev diary for Dead Space 3 where the developer explained a meeting at the EA head offices. The camera cuts were pretty quick, but there was a section that had a white board on it, and I managed to transcribe it:

Step 1: Take well-regarded 3rd person survival horror game.
Step 2: Look at sales of Gears of War.
Step 3: Look at sales of Call of Duty.
Step 4: Decide that the market doesn't have enough games like Gears or COD.
Step 5: Change 3rd person survival horror game into 3rd person cover shooter.
Step 7: Put in loads of micro-transaction elements for weapon crafting. People love those!!!
Step 7: Roll around in money, just like we did after we made C&C4.
Step 8: Hookers and hash! w00t!

I may have got a word or two wrong, but that was pretty much the gist.

*NB: Dev diary may not actually exist.

**CthuluIsSpy**

Cave_Dweller wrote:
Soo, mediocre game then? Terrible? Worth picking up for 5 bucks on a Steam sale? I don't know much about the series

I wouldn't say mediocre. Overrated and as much as a horror game as Cooking Mama, but not mediocre.

Also, one of the things I liked about DS3 was weapon crafting. I mean, you can make a minigun with an underslung rocket-launcher! Just like in painkiller