Chapter 180 Dead Space World View

  The world view of "Dead Space" is very grand, and the overall plot is also dark and desperate.

  The main content revolves around resources and the end of the world.

  In the interstellar era with advanced technology, human beings over-exploited resources, resulting in the depletion of the living planet.

   Over time, human resources are not enough, and they start to plunder each other, which leads to wars.

  It can be seen that the lack of resources has made all countries red-eyed.

  However, going on like this is not an option.

   The more wars there are, the faster resources will be consumed.

  Thus, under the mediation of the United Nations, countries around the world reached a consensus and formed an alliance, the 'Sovereign Colonial Alliance'.

  The result of this is that there are no longer countries in the world. Originally, the territories of various countries were also called districts, such as North America and so on.

  Subsequently, the Alliance established the 'New Horizon Colonial Base' on the moon to alleviate the growing shortage of resources.

  But people continue to explore the earth for resources.

  After exploring the land, go to the deep sea to explore.

  Thus, the deadly existence across multiple works of "Dead Space", the "God Seal" was discovered.

  The "Dead Space" series was given high hopes by developers in the original world.

  In addition to the trilogy with Isaac as the protagonist that players are familiar with, there are also mobile games, light gun shooting games, comics, animations, novels, etc. to complement the world view.

  The protagonist Isaac that players know only exists in the "Dead Space" trilogy.

  In other works, the protagonist is someone else.

  But as the protagonists, their fate was much worse than Isaac's.

   Either died or disappeared, or was pulled by the alliance government for experiments and executions.

   What's even worse is being accused of being a "terrorist" by the coalition government, and being pushed out as a backer to appease the people.

  In short, they survived the hands of monsters, but died at the hands of humans.

   But the development of IP is too extensive, which leads to a shortcoming.

   That is, a complete story appears fragmented, numerous and complicated.

  It would be fine if the other works of "Dead Space" are all animations, players can slowly fill in the plot.

   But there are comics, mobile games, and novels.

   Except for true fans and people who specialize in plot analysis, who would ordinary players calm down to understand? Everyone is very busy.

   Because of this, "Dead Space", which was released in 2008, left many players still confused after clearing the level.

  What is the seal of God?

  What happened to the Ishimura?

  What the **** is Shinrikyo?

  What did Altman, the soul of this religion, do to deserve the belief and worship of so many people?

   There are many more questions like the above.

  But soon, some players discovered a prequel animation called "Dead Space: Collapse".

  It explains in detail what happened to the entire Ishimura spacecraft before the first generation of "Dead Space".

   In addition, two years later, in 2010, a science fiction novel of "Dead Space: Martyr" was also released in the form of a prequel.

  Through these, the players learned about the origin of the 'God Seal' and the story of the 'Truth Cult'.

  This novel takes the university professor Altman as the protagonist, and describes that he resigned from his job to accompany his girlfriend and came to the Chicxulub Crater as a small researcher.

  Then the seal of the gods was discovered here, and it was discovered that the seal of the gods would control people's thinking, and fanatics appeared among the harmed crowd.

  These believers include not only scientists, but also high-level and security personnel of the research base, and even Altman's girlfriend.

  So, in order to save his girlfriend and himself, and also for these fanatical believers controlled by the seal of God. While studying the divine seal, he held a press conference as a geologist to expose it to the society in order to expand its influence.

   But the end of doing this is to be threatened and placed under house arrest by the powerful alliance government figures.

  Altman is immune to the control of the God Seal because of the influence of the protagonist's halo.

   And his performance was mistakenly regarded by the believers as the envoy chosen by the seal of God, the prophet who came to lead them.

   Thus, a group of believers centered on Altman was born.

  Altman also used this to continue to study the seal of God.

  Until one day, someone mutated into a necromorph, causing chaos in the base.

   After Altman escaped, he saw his girlfriend, but she was already a phantom.

   This means that his girlfriend is dead, and he is also affected by the seal of God.

  After that, Altman received the information of the God Seal all the time, and he seemed to understand what the God Seal was saying as he was affected, and drew the God Seal in the form of a blueprint.

  However, he soon came to his senses and realized that the seal of God wanted people to copy him.

   But one divine seal is already terrible, if more than one is copied, human civilization will be destroyed.

  Therefore, Altman deleted all the information of the God Seal, and started the self-destruct process of the base to blow up the God Seal.

  But he was knocked unconscious by a sudden stick, and when he woke up again, he was already in an interrogation room.

  The interrogator is a certain important person, and the information on the seal of God has been fully backed up.

  He laughed at Altman's overreach, and ignored Altman's warning of the horror of the seal of God and the end of human destruction. Instead, he released the monster samples on his own, devouring and assimilating Altman.

  The ending of the novel, because Altman once held a press conference to expose the divine seal, the outside media recognized him as a righteous person who dared to confront the alliance government.

  So, the big figures of the alliance government took this opportunity, in the name of Altman, to pass on the goodness of the divine seal to the world, explaining to the world that the divine seal can bring eternal life.

  Establish another truth religion with the purpose of eternal life to increase the belief and propaganda of Altman, making him a 'saint' who will last forever.

  As for Altman himself, he became a useless cold corpse and became the "martyr" in the title of the novel.

  This novel tells about the discovery of the God Seal and the establishment of Shinrikyo, as well as Altman's own sacrifice.

  Before the novel was published, many people thought that the Shinrikyo with the slogan of "eternal life" in the game was a cult, and Altman was the leader of the cult.

  As a result, after the novel was published, Altman was rectified. He was a person who opposed the seal of God, and Shinrikyo was just wishful thinking.

  However, the carrier of this supplementary plot is the novel, not the game.

  Many people don't even know the existence of this book, so how can they understand the plot?

  The same situation also happened in "Dead Space 2".

  Many players saw a man being devoured and mutated in front of the protagonist Isaac as soon as they entered the game.

  Who this man is, the players don't know until they clear the level.

  It was only later that I realized that the man who died at the beginning was the protagonist of "Dead Space: Burning".

He is an engineer like Isaac. In his work process, in order to complete the orders of his superiors, he avoided the necromorphs in the space station, shot his girlfriend, and finally rescued Isaac at the beginning of "Dead Space 2". .

   Then he was attacked by necromorphs in the next second.

   It makes many players who are new to "Dead Space 2" look confused.

   Therefore, the protagonists of these other works of Dead Space not only complete the entire world view, but also explain what happened in the blank period between the Isaac trilogy.

   It can also be seen from this that the developer of "Dead Space" has great ambitions and wants to create a huge IP.

   But in the end it was defeated by the high-level strategy until it disappeared.

   For these novels, comics, and animation works, Meng Shu will not do what he did in the original world.

  He doesn't understand these industries, so it is better to concentrate on production than to be too scattered.

   These novels, comics, and animation plots will all be changed into DLC and added to the main game.

  In this way, players can fully understand the setting of the entire world view, instead of scattered one in the east and one in the west.

   As for the plot issue, in fact, the main plot of the first generation of "Dead Space" is very simple.

   It was the main scene of the game, "Ishimura", which was suddenly unreachable, so a mining company in charge of the work on the Ishimura dispatched an emergency

  The maintenance team went to investigate.

  In the group, there is Isaac, the protagonist of the trilogy.

  The purpose of his coming to Ishimura is not only to provide technical support, but also to find his girlfriend.

  When a group of people came to the Stone Village, they found that there were corpses everywhere, and there were never-before-seen necromorphs everywhere.

  In order to survive, Isaac, a dumb tool man who can't speak, started his own road to God of War.

  During this period, I fought and killed, and went to point A to point B. During this period, I also dropped a regeneration monster into the universe, because it couldn't be killed.

   It wasn't until halfway through the process that Ishimura was discovered to be a ghost ship. So the protagonist Isaac ran to release the signal for help, which attracted the patrol battleship "Courage".

  However, the Courage found the regenerator escape pod dropped by the protagonist Isaac, thinking that there were people in need of help, so it received it.

   Then Spirit became the second Ishimura.

   At the end of the game, the protagonist Isaac kills the big boss, blows up the **** seal, and leaves the planet.

   But this is just the main plot.

  The background plot under the main line must be interpreted in conjunction with other works.

  In short, under the simple main plot, there is a story that connects the world view.

   That is to say, players want to understand the entire plot. In addition to playing games, you have to read novels, manga, and animation.

   Therefore, Meng Shucai decided to integrate it in the form of DLC.

  As for the plot, in order to be able to connect with "Control Failure", some changes will naturally be made.

   But how to change, Meng Shu has no specific ideas yet, only a general direction.

  However, the current plan of "Dead Space" is just a trial version, and it has not yet reached the time of official development.

  So there is no need to follow the form of the game development process, just arrange some employees to get the needed art resources out.

  After the E3 exhibition is over, and then the VR version of "Dark Forest" is finished, you can fully devote yourself to the development of "Dead Space".

  Meng Shu yawned and looked at the sky.

   It's past 10 o'clock in the evening.

   But he was not in a hurry to get off work, but looked at a PPT file on the computer desktop.

   No need to guess, Meng Shu knows that this is all the conceptual design of "Dead Space". There are waste drafts and final drafts in it, and it includes all the design collections.

  Meng Shu double-clicked to open it, and browsed it roughly.

  Inside, there are several versions of the design of the **** seal, and several versions of the design of the protagonist's engineering clothing.

   Even the name "DeadSpace" has two interpretations.

  One is that the seal itself will generate a safe space, so it is called dead space.

  The other is that after the God Seal absorbs all life, it turns the universe into a lifeless space, so it is called the dead space.

   But when it comes to life absorption, "Dead Space" does have an impressive and very eye-catching highlight, and that is the shape design of the necromorph.

   This thing, which appeared from the DNA of a human corpse changed by the seal of God, is an out-and-out bloodthirsty monster.

   And unlike zombies, which are rotten and walking dead, necromorphs are more like a brand new species, terrifying and vicious.

  In the game, the most common Necromorph is the 'Cutter'.

  According to the setting, this type of necromorph is combined with human DNA.

  They are stooped, there is not an inch of complete skin on their bodies, and they are all bare flesh and muscles.

  The ribs are clearly visible, the chest is disembowelled, and the internal organs are missing.

  But because of the cover of the clothes in his lifetime, these unappetizing **** scenes will not be seen.

  In addition, the Cutter's arms were sluggish and inactive, and merged with the body, leaving only the forearm dangling weakly around the waist.

  At the same time, the lower leg is bent behind the leg and replaced by a regrowth.

  The face of the head will be damaged to varying degrees, some are split in half, some have no face, and some have missing jaws and so on.

  But the most obvious feature is the two fleshy and sinewy bone scythes growing out of the back of the neck.

  The blood dripping looks extremely scary.

  Actually, in the game, this pair of curved scythes is indeed terrifying.

  The fragile human body can't resist at all, and it's almost cut to pieces.

  Even some metal buildings can be easily cut by cutters.

  In addition, they also know how to hide in the ventilation duct to give a fatal blow, and they will lie in the pile of corpses and pretend to be dead to sneak attack players and so on.

   Only a small number will attack frontally.

  This proves that they are fundamentally different from the wandering zombies.

   And this kind of monster is only the most common type in the game.

  Because there are many other kinds of necromorphs besides the Cleaver, and the threats are different.

   At the same time, they don't get headshots like zombies do.

   Instead, it is necessary to cut off the limbs and make them completely incapacitated before it can be considered a solution.

   This is a great test of the player's shooting ability.

  Although the game has made compromises for entertainment, players don't have to really break off limbs on easy difficulty. But the actual setting is really fierce and terrifying.

  Therefore, Meng Shu decided to restore this point.

   Not for anything else, mainly for players to have fun.

  Let them see how terrifying this unprecedented horror monster is!

  (end of this chapter)