Thread 724500243

How exactly was some balding, middle aged, blue-collar worker able to overcome the physical struggle and mental traumas of being stuck on a ship with alien corpses attacking him all the time?

>>724500243 (OP)
Autism

Isaac is an engineer, nothing on that ship is scarier than the physics 2, thermodynamics, and real analysis courses he took in college

>>724500717
Why did they make her uglier in 2 and the demake? They’re both consenting adults so its not like some sperg dev needed to take the moral highground on some cultural issue here.

>>724500972
They based her on her voice actor. Same reason Isaac got redesigned in 2 and the demake with mixed results.
There's just a reason they're voice actors and not regular actors, I suppose.

>>724500243 (OP)
IT'S THE POWER OF LOOOOOOOVE

>>724500243 (OP)
>going through hell and back for THIS
you can even tell she had tons of dicks and settled for Isaac

>>724500717
>>724500972
I always thought the OG nicole looked way too young for the position she is in and that the remake nicole looks more fitting for her position

>>724500243 (OP)
He once had to deal with a woman.

>>724501279
DON'T TAKE MONEY
DON'T TAKE FAME
DON'T TAKE NO CREDIT CARD TO RIDE THIS TRAIN

>>724500972
things kept getting worse and worse in the industry

I love how you can tell the state of the industry by how the Nicole looks

>>724501525
its a video game, chud. Plus wymin can be competent at any age, incel.

>>724501525
Not everyone ages like milk. Our diets have only gotten worse in 20 years since DS1.

>>724501525
It never crossed my mind that she was supposed to be an important high ranked person in the first game. I assume it was hidden in some text file or maybe a fucking cartoon, but in actually playing the game everyone thought she was some junior medical worker of some kind. You also don't see low res dork Isaac until the last second of the game and he looks plausibly 30s . They didn't make him silver haired until DS2.

>>724501440
Looks 60.

How old was Isaac?

>>724500243 (OP)
Since we're created in God's image and you were guiding him to success, therefore God was with him.

>>724500243 (OP)
another day in the office

>>724502778
doesnt matter. No man should ever be forced to settle for that. Especially an engineer like Isaac

>>724502778
remake isaac is face modeled on his 50 year old VA, but he's had plastic surgery and hair plugs and they gave him thick completely red-brown hair so he looks mid-30s. Nicole's VA is also ~50, looks it, and they didn't touch up the face scan at all.

Obviously 15 years ago they'd have at least de-aged the VA's face scan to look 30ish. But there are too many touchy women in corporate jobs now for the old "make her tits bigger" kind of corporate managers that used to try to make money off the easy choices to still be around.

>>724503342
Everyone looked terrible in the demake.

>>724503820
Left looks like an actual, respectable operator. Right looks like an extra from the Eric Andre show.

>>724501525
You're too used to seeing Boomers in positions of authority. Believe it or not, before the current dark times, people used to be in positions of authority and prestige before they hit their 30s.

>>724503960
It also helps Peter Mensah is actually a dignified, accomplished actor.

>>724500717
>>724501440
Why is every vidya character just copypasting the VA look now? Is making original characters another lost technology?

>>724504312
same reason why they are replacing carefully placed lighting with ray tracing, why every game has no art style and just looks realistic and same as any other. They have no vision. They dont care about games. They do it solely for the paycheck. The only game developers left are fags, trannies, women, jews, jeets and hollywood rejects.

>>724500243 (OP)
isaac is a giga chad in that game lol
i actually like him i honestly think dead space 1 and 2 are too violent and satanic but man does it have some of the best gameplay lol
cool lore too desu
wish we would have gotten more sequels that were not shit
i just want like
the games i used to play from 1980 ( i wasnt born yet) to like 2013 with no woke or mtx
idk why they even do mtx shit like the witcher 3 made more money with expansions lol
cuz think about it
30 dollars x millions
is alot of fucking money lol
you could theoretically entirely ethically print money as long as you give the consumer their moneys worth

>>724504981
>i honestly think dead space 1 and 2 are too violent and satanic
>The grandmas from the EA commercials actually post here.

>I trusted you, fuck you ! and fuck your marker !
he was too pissed to be mentally broken by it.
reminds me of the dwarves in lotr not falling under sauron control.

>>724500243 (OP)
How? With the magical guide of the game's writers of course. Stop asking silly questions.

>>724503820
left has unique recognizable face, right looks like generic red shirt.
ffs

>>724503820
>left looks like the buddy of the hero in 1980s action movies
>right is the zesty friend of the heroine of 2010s romcoms

>>724504312
I don't know, maybe they're so far up their own ass about "realistic women" they think they can force it in and suffer no consequences.

>>724504312
Mocapping the actor is easier than actually designing a character yourself.

Is it just me or does Hammond speak with a weird English accent in OG DS1?

>>724507156
disgusting tranny

>>724500972
To match her job title and Isaac's age/title. Her OG design and characterization just makes her seem out of her depth. The problem is Isaac's new face really doesn't match him, unlike the old design which was perfect.

>>724508189
That makes sense.
I played some of the remake before dropping it and he sounded American there, I remember playing this game only up to like chapter 3 years ago and I just assumed he was American. But the more I hear him in OG DS1 I realize he's definitely not an American.

>>724507156
Jay Leno's daughter?

>>724504312
Clair Obscur did copypaste the motion capture actors but they were separate from the VA both French and English. I don't know why games with 20x the budget are so cheap they insist on mocapping the VA.

Been replaying and man the ripper is so much worse than I remembered, it's kind of disappointing. At least the contact beam is still as wonderful as I expected.

>>724500243 (OP)
The marker was partially controlling him
aslo
>>724500717

>>724509074
deleting the final with a no upgrades contact beam was extremely cathartic

>>724509074
Ripper took until Remake to actually become good at all. It's terrible in the other games because the alt fire does basically no damage and the primary fire requires you to keep the Necromorph in melee range while taking way longer than literally any other gun to remove a limb without stunlocking enemies.
It's why I don't get people who try to defend it, it's DS1 flamethrower-tier for me.

>>724509447
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgHNtzxO0y8

>>724500243 (OP)
He was one hell of an engineer.

>>724500243 (OP)
Do you chuds just want all video game characters to be bald white guys again?

>>724509910
Better than everything we've been getting recently. And Isaac did have hair, actually.

>>724503820
I was watching a Dead Space stream today and I kept wondering why Hammond was such a retard to still think he could save Chen, but then it finally hit me that he asked Isaac to help him take Chen back to the Kellion, the ship that blew up at the start of the game, and I realized that when he got to the Valor, all that time he had been hallucinating that Chen was still alive.

>>724509447
That said I feel like the remake's flamethrower is the single best flamethrower in any video game ever
>Can reach everything you need it to
>Makes everything dead very fast
It's very fun
Oh and
>Sounds like a fucking jet engine on takeoff thrust

>>724500243 (OP)
>mental trauma
It's only at the very end that there is "I'm going insane save me niggerman" waves involved, and they go in the direction of supporting Isaac. Until then it's fight or die.
He's also an engineer for illegal shady mining operations in deep space in a dystopian world controlled by doomsday cults. Even without the monolith he's living in a liveleak industrial accident feed. I don't think he would freeze into place until eaten by monsters just because he saw a dead body.

>>724510348
They learned their lesson with DS1's being so bad.
>Extraction's is incredible and makes very quick work of basically anything.
>DS2's is incredible and basically gained the Force Gun alt fire.
>Don't remember if it was even in DS3.
>DS1R's is incredible it just needs upgrades.

Wearing armor designed to withstand industrial accidents helps.

>>724509910
Yes

>>724509447
>>724510348
The one thing the remake did better than the og was the weapons. In the 2008 game there is barely any reason to not do a full plasma cutter walkthrough.

>>724500243 (OP)
He had a person sitting in a comfy chair that could see things in 3rd person controlling his every move and he didn't die when killed

>>724511181
>he didn't die when killed

>>724500243 (OP)
>implying it wasn't all in his head because he was insane

isaac being old and shitty was what made him likeable

>>724503820
This nigga zesty

>>724509910
Uh yeah most of those guys were cool>>724509520

>>724512339
Dafaq? Sorry about that random reply

>>724500243 (OP)
Agreed. The game should have just ended after 5 minutes in an anticlimax. They would have saved a lot on development.

>>724500243 (OP)
Any time he dies he just reloads

>>724509910
I honestly would much rather prefer we return to random white middle aged men protags yeah

>>724500243 (OP)
He was the only white man on the scene(except for a few science nerds who dumped all stats except INT and Charisma, those don't count as real men), and white men are basically superhuman demigods compared to any other race, so survival was a piece of cake for him.

>>724513740
can you stop worshiping us so much it's getting embarrassing

>>724510707
Iconic as FUCK.

>>724500243 (OP)
Like all the other marker crazed individuals that are consciously or unwittingly furthering the markers plans. He gets played by markers in every game

force gun rules

>>724500243 (OP)
Because he was coincidentally the right guy to survive in many ways
>training as an engineer helps him get around the ship and repair it, opening up options a random civvie wouldnt have
>education actually helps him resist marker influence
>engineer background gives him experience with tools that inadvertently are very good at dealing necromorphs because dismemberment is likely common in the workplace.
He was just the right guy.

>>724500243 (OP)
It is what it is.

He's canonically high IQ and got accepted into an elite engineering program. Markers don't drive high IQ people into violent psychopaths, and instead puppet them for other reasons. As a result he wasn't succumbing tothe violent form of dementia. For whatever reason the markers really seem to like him; they were buffing him up and using him as their avatar for most of the runtime in Dead Space 1 and 2 (putting the hivemind to sleep and smashing through earthgov's quarantine respectively). Him being able to kill legions of necromorphs in 3 along with an infant brethren moon makes less sense if the markers are just puppets of the brethren moons, but they can always just adjust canon and have it that the moons are just puppets of the markers as well.

TLDR; Eldritch horrors are using him as their golem and are doing 90% of the heavy lifting.

>>724504246
I was going to make a joke about how dignified an actor can be if they were in the fucking Paul WS Anderson Resident Evil movies, but then I realized that was Colin Salmon and not Peter Mensah.

>>724516761
2 feels like a satisfying conclusion with him literally being inside the damn thing and telling it to go fuck itself and fucking EarthGovs. Kinda like how Aliens ends with Ripley telling a corporate mook and his shareholders to eat shit while she blows up an entire colony and kills the Alien Queen.

Both were coincidentally ruined by the third entry.

>>724522350
The idea of Issac being over it and mentoring another person through Marker influence is a neat story to tell. Carver being a meat head "We want Call of Duty's audience" kind of fucked that up.

>>724501440
>demake
Not canon
This is who he was really fighting for

>>724500243 (OP)
The thing is, he kind of only overcame the physical struggle, he did not get over the mental trauma. In 2 we see him wake up in a fucking loony bin. Yeah sure that's where the unitologists tried to force him to be to use him as a pawn, but he spends the whole game hallucinating nicole, and by 3 he's not only become something of a recluse to the point that unitologists literally have to kidnap him to get him to do shit, but an honest to fuck cuckold after his new ex GF likely couldn't deal with the stress of dealing with a heavily PTSD ridden person.
This man has probably suffered more than most video game protagonists have. Dude seems to have never caught a break even once since losing his GF and ESPECIALLY after boarding the USG Ishimura. If I was in his position, I wouldn't really care if Nicole was a marker hallucination or not either in the first game.

>>724509910
They don't have to be white at least in my opinion, they just need to be as well written as any character in dead space, which is something I think the polar opposite of the "chuds" you so despise are not capable of doing.

>>724500243 (OP)
>blue-collar worker
You answered this yourself.

>>724500243 (OP)
White men are warriors and built different.

>>724500972
>its not like some sperg dev needed to take the moral highground on some cultural issue here.
that's not how they feel anon

>>724524313
your cyclops gf leaving you isn't being a cuckhold your brain is diseased

>>724500243 (OP)
Dead space remake was good

>>724522745
I like Isaccs line during this scene:
>Stick around I’m full of bad ideas
And then he reenters the same ship that caused so much PTSD.

>>724500243 (OP)
>engineer
>blue collar

>>724504312
The retarded thing is, they stop doing that when the mocap actress is too beautiful. Then they make the character uglier and call their fabricated ugly version the "realistic" version.