Also, as single player I hated not being able to access some pieces of content gated behind coop.

I'm sure they did cool things with the coop but I didn't like EA turning an originally SP franchise into a cooperative one, especially one where feeling lonely in the middle of nowhere was a huge part of the experience.

Losing on tau volantis, but in turn realising what the end game is and that earth is next is a fine plot hook, if we didn't immediatley get there and there's moons hoovering up people. Like it should be that the weird consciousness needs a flesh vessel and then fires out the markers to other worlds so it can continue there, the moon as like a unicron idk i don' t quite like it, it's like marvel's rework of the phalanx where each world is like a neuron in a vast god mind,

Like mass effect made that mistake with the reapers, going from eldritch to a vacuum cleaner with it's wires crossed deflated them completley, as did making a bunch of small fight able ones. Keep the brethren moon lore though, the eldritch side of the necromorph's was great, but it should be more like an unknowable thing, throwing hands with it then having dozens of them show up in the dlc was weird. The human necros were a bit weird, wielding axes, but i did find them threatening, and the weird desiccated necros giving a return of the living dead feel as anything that can be puppeted is puppeted. Like scrap the co-op from 3, remove the love triangle, or if co-op is a thing have the other character be ds2 style ellie. Weapon crafting is dope but some of the options are just 'machine gun that works better than any of the creative stuff', and universal ammo was odd, i want random ammo and for isaac to use his smarts to cobble together something that can use it. Level design was a big problem due to being built for 2 people. Yeah it'd need a fair number of changes but i'm game As someone who didn't even hate 3 all that much,

Dead space 1 plot