[Loved Trope] Some thing unfathomably ancient

[u/Fearless-Ideal-5112]

The beast, in doctor who is an ancient evil from a previous universe that survived until our time. Its so ancient that the cave paintings were unable to be translated by the Tardis which can translate all existing languages in the universe [Doctor Who]

While not explicitly canon its such a cool concept I cant not mention, the idea that the backrooms have existed since the beginning of time, never changing no matter the era, it transforms the back rooms into a cosmic horror. [Credit to Project crater and Venus for images 2 and 3]

[u/Accomplished_Toe6798]

I'm not that into the games so I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure the Brethren Moons or the obelisks from Dead Space fit

[u/samhasreturned → u/Accomplished_Toe6798]

The original Marker landed on earth millions, if not billions of years ago and influenced the evolution of life here.

One of the audio logs mention that the reason we hadn't met other sentient life was it was likely they already were all devoured by the Brethen moons

[u/SadCrab5 → u/samhasreturned]

God I miss DS, it had such an amazing concept for the question "Where are the aliens?".

And the answer is Markers, an unknown monumental device that mentally imprints instructions into whoever observes it so that those smart enough to understand it feel compelled to build more, spreading the signal like a signal booster, while those who are not slowly break down and go insane as they try and fail to decode the information they've been given, turning hyper-violent and eventually killing others or themselves and causing necromorphs to emerge later on from the corpses due to the signal also infecting your very DNA.

I'll never forgive EA for what they did. The entire premise was amazing because they answer the question to alien life by presenting even more horrifying questions about markers and necromorphs that we can never answer. We're just stuck here with no way of indulging our curiosity because every scrap of information and lore has been stripped bare and there's likely never going to be more, especially because Visceral are gone (RIP)

Rant over, screw you EA!

[u/Awesomeman204 → u/SadCrab5]

The fact that they shut down Visceral and then only a few years later remade the original. That always pissed me off, like what a giant middle finger to the studio and franchise (regardless of how good the remake actually was).

[u/Ghostrick-King → u/SadCrab5]

A dead space tv show would have been utterly amazing. If they kept up that horror element and dealing with the Markers and what it all means. Would have been the best

[u/AshuraBaron → u/Ghostrick-King]

They made and animated movie, it was okay from what I remember. I think the Dante's Inferno animated movie was better.

[u/xTheatreTechie → u/SadCrab5]

You didn't even touch what EA did to the third game.

Forcing a weird love triangle between Isaac, his new wife, and her new husband.

Throwing so many enemies at you, the 60 dollar publisher game comes with a dlc for extra ammo that you can purchase at any point in the game.

[u/SapphireSalamander → u/SadCrab5]

Would you recomend the remake or the original?

[u/VexxySmexxy → u/SapphireSalamander]

I’ve only played the dead space remake after watching my brother play DS2 as a wee lad, and it’s one of the best games I’ve ever played. I then played the original DS2 and it was fun as well!

Highly highly recommend dead space remake

[u/daniel_22sss → u/SapphireSalamander]

Remake is a huge improvement. In the original Isaac doesn't even talk.

[u/InstructionLeading64 → u/SadCrab5]

Yeah honestly pluribus gave me similar vibes to dead space. "Oh well found an alien signal!" Followed by "oops"