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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s director confirms he’s helming the Dead Space remake | VGC

Ubisoft veteran Eric Baptizat confirms game director role for the sci-fi horror revamp…

www.videogameschronicle.com

Eric Baptizat joined EA’s Motive Studio earlier this year to work on an unannounced project. However, the Ubisoft veteran has now confirmed on social media that he’s acting as the game director for the newly-announced Dead Space remake.

Baptizat had worked at Ubisoft for 16 years, most notably as the director of Valhalla, and the lead designer for other Assassin’s Creed entries including Origins, and Black Flag.

 

[Aion002]

That's scary... But...

 

[TrueLegend]

Even he got bored of Valhalla.

 

[Sleepwalker]

Valhalla was a slog so idk how to feel about this

 

[kiphalfton]

Watch Dead Space remake shoehorn in leveling, forcing you to grind in order to actually be able to kill anything with the plasma cutter/etc. and rendering the stomp/melee attacks [to dismember enemies] useless unless leveled up to the max.

 

[Hayabusabruh]

I can't wait to see how manly they make her.

 

[SJRB]

Red flag more than anything, Valhalla is awful.

 

[nomis]

at least working in frostbite his game will hopefully have sound files with higher than 32kbps quality

 

[M1chl]

Oh no

 

[kittoo]

I loved Valhalla. It's the only Assassins creed I really liked. The first 2 were fine, then everything went downhill.

 

[SinDelta]

Assassins Creed Valhalla director is not so bad if a bit of a leap across genres.

• Jo Berry, writer (Mass Effect Andromeda)

This is on the other hand is. "Improving" the story, and incorporating lore and elements from 2 and 3 has now taken on new meaning.

 

[JLB]

Its a complete different company, so probably -and hopefully- DS has nothing to do with Valhalla, the most boring game I played thing gen so far.

 

[Roufianos]

Jesus Christ. That bloated mess of a game is a perfect example of how not to direct.

'Let's allocate our resources to adding yet another region inshead of doing anything to address our awful combat.'

 

[Concern]

Dead Space should stay in the past. I rather remember how good it was than have EA sabotage a remake with microtransactions and woke culture.

More interested in the spiritual successor by the original devs.

 

[mortal]

 

[Zambatoh]

This guy has worked at Ubisoft for 16 years and EA thinks he's the man for the job in directing a horror game?
That's like putting mayo with peanut butter.

 

[Kenpachii]

Hope they make death space more then just a corridor shooter bore fest.

Make it open world with a planet in a horror environment.

 

[matty3092]

Black Flag and Origins for me are 2 of the best AC games in the series so fingers crossed he does a good job (haven't played Valhalla yet)

 

[Valt7786]

Why people think that just 'cause he worked on 1 game type for a while at a different company he's gonna come over and make Dead Space Valhalla I'll never know. OF COURSE he's not going to do that.

 

[Hugare]

Calm your tits

From the looks of it, it will be an almost 1/1 remake of the game

It will be really hard to fuck it up

 

[CitizenZ]

Good, I thought maybe they would go with someone who actually had a new idea or vision.

 

[eyesabitdull]

Dead Space with Parkour.

Let's fucking goooooooooo.

 

[Fbh]

To be fair, big Ubisoft games feel so factory made I seriously wonder how much of an influence their directors have.

It's like being a branch manager at McDonald's. You can influence some stuff, but at the end of the day you are still serving the same Big Mac.

 

[BadBurger]

They're completely different genres and I have no reason to believe this person is bad at their job, so hope levels remain unchanged. Wish them the best, I'm hoping for an excellent remake.

 

[HotPocket69]

Between this and the Twitch streamer input this remake can go fuck itself.

 

[Spukc]

 

[zeorhymer]

I wonder if they're going to add the real money transactions for crafting stuff like they did in DS3.

 

[SJRB]

To be fair, big Ubisoft games feel so factory made I seriously wonder how much of an influence their directors have.

It's like being a branch manager at McDonald's. You can influence some stuff, but at the end of the day you are still serving the same Big Mac.

Except every Assassin's Creed game is so fundamentally different from its predecessors that at this point nobody even knows what an "Assassin's Creed" game is supposed to be.

 

[HotPocket69]

I wonder if they're going to add the real money transactions for crafting stuff like they did in DS3.

There’s been several articles stating the game will not have them

Dead Space Remake Won't Have Microtransactions - IGN

Dead Space's remake follows in the footsteps of EA's Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and won't have microtransactions for players to worry about.

www.ign.com

Dead Space Remake Won't Have Controversial Dead Space 3 Feature

Developers at EA Motive confirm that the upcoming Dead Space remake game will not have a controversial feature from Dead Space 3.

gamerant.com

Dead Space Remake Won't Feature Microtransactions & Never Will

According to Senior Producer Phil Ducharme, EA Motive is learning from Dead Space's past mistakes; thus, the remake won't feature microtransactions.

screenrant.com

Etc

 

[Beer Baelly]

 

[zeorhymer]

There’s been several articles stating the game will not have them

Etc

That's one relief.

It sounds like they're putting in god mode, no gore, no crawlies, or other "accessibility options" to attract folks to the game. The cynic in me interprets this as dumbing down the game so more people buy.

"The team is also keeping in mind the potential for the remake to open a whole new generation of fans to the original Dead Space, but they’re also using the remake as an opportunity to widen the player base via accessibility options not previously present." -- IGN

 

[HotPocket69]

 

[lh032]

I can't wait to see how manly they make her.

women of color., based on the trend we are going right now.

 

[retsof624]

I wonder how much talent Ubisoft has that is held back by the higher ups wanting the games to be a certain way

 

[Bernd Lauert]

Assassins Creed Valhalla director is not so bad if a bit of a leap across genres.

This is on the other hand is. "Improving" the story, and incorporating lore and elements from 2 and 3 has now taken on new meaning.

Ambiguous first name, check.
Cartoon avatar on Twitter, check.
Pronouns on Twitter, check.

 

[HotPocket69]

Frankly I’m ecstatic that Jo Berry, the writer of Mass Effect Andromeda, will be behind the pen on this one as well.

 

[Spukc]

Frankly I’m ecstatic that Jo Berry, the writer of Mass Effect Andromeda, will be behind the pen on this one as well.

 

[Imtjnotu]

I can't wait to see how manly they make her.

My guess