Turns out, besides some of the side-stuff, that's not really the case. That's not to say I'm disliking the game or anything, but after the reception of Carver from a single-player point of view, I had expected that that was purely because he had a much larger focus in coop. There's a lot of set-pieces moments in particular where the focus is pretty much purely on Isaac, and once he picks himself up after the scuffle, the camera will then pan out to let you know that ''Oh, right, there's totally another guy here with me!'' The only time Carver ever really speaks it seems it just to occasionally reinforce his single characteristic of being ''angry soldier guy who doesn't give a shit about Isaac'', even after all of the chaos the two routinely go through. There's times where, despite being there with Isaac (which is never even really explained as to why he is there tagging along for the long haul) pretty much at all times, Isaac is nearly always the one who gets all of the credit when the supporting cast of nobodies thanks you for saving their lives over and over. Seriously, it's kinda funny how Carver comes across as the ''other guy'' in this story. It's ironic how Brad thought that Carver just showing up in single-player was peculiar, because having him with you is just as weird, including such situations like when he'll sometimes quite literally just walk out of frame for Isaac to then lead the show in the cutscenes!
But that's what makes this all the more weird, because Carver barely has much of a presence across like 90% of the game thus far. Especially after hearing how blatant it is about how ''There's totally supposed to be another guy here'' in some situations. I figured that this is a game that would be best approached from a cooperative perspective in any case. It basically recycles an awful lot of the 'scares' from the prior games to an alarming degree, and the only aspects of DS3 that are new are of course all of the actioned-up additions, such as the coop, the crafting, human enemies, and the increase in large-scale set-pieces.
And while I was playing in coop anyway, it still shows. I went in this with coop in mind, since after all of the reception and trailers, I think it's safe to say that Dead Space 3 isn't even really trying to be a horror game anymore.
Hey! I ended up buying Dead Space 3 (for £30 with shopto credit) because I'm a weak-willed putz! And after playing like, I dunno, about 8 or so hours yesterday nonstop in cooperative play with it got me to thinking how strangely out-of-place the coop actually feels.
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