Dead Space Game Idea

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So, ladies and gentlemen of /vg/, I think those of us who played the dead space trilogy can agree 3 was a massive deviation from the norm we had come to expect.

Mind, it wasn't bad, but when an option for the player is a sniper rifle/rocket launcher, and all ammo is interchangeable, the game becomes less "oh God, please don't let me die" and more "kill everything horribly".

I will get to the point: What if Dead Space was re-imagined as a "Humanity Fuck Yeah" game?

To that end, I would propose the next game be a tactics game. Permadeath, weapon crafting ala DS3 (sans the goddamned microtransactions), using scavanger bots in various locations to gather materials, and dealing with increasing worse situations in battle- i.e. the initial recon of the battlefield reveals so many necromorphs, then, partway through combat, disaster strikes, as it is wont to do in the dead space series: a horde more of necromorphs join. Unitologists attack and serve both as adversaries and potential new necromorphs. The environment becomes hostile via vacuum, poison gas, fire, etc.

The classes would include soldiers (use military themed weapons and have bonuses to using cover and leadership), medic (use health packs *better*, either spreading them among allies or waiting until the instant an ally is hurt to use one), engineer (use special tools to dismember necromorphs, stasis to slow them, and kinesis to impale), and heavy weapons (rockets, grenades, contact beams, etc.)

Ammo of course is diversified appropriately as was the case in 1 and 2. Each unit has their own RIG that must be upgraded individually. No mana besides stasis energy exists- all medic abilities rely on medpaks, and other classes need ammo of some sort to make most abilities work.

Example: Engineer's "Disarm and Impale" has an Engineer unit attempt to use a weapon to remove a bladed arm/claw and then impale the target in one stroke.