10 Video Game Plot-Holes You Can't Ignore

10. Dead Space 3 - Buckell Did Not Need To Freeze To Death

Horror convention dictates that minor characters should be killed off slowly, painfully, and the more gruesomely the better. Luckily, Dead Space 3 bucked the trend and had its first victim, Austin Buckell, go out as something of a hero.

Crashed on the frozen Tau Volantis and lacking enough snowsuits for him and his three companions, Buckell elected to sacrifice himself and remain behind, surviving just long enough to relay the story to Isaac.

But it didn’t need to happen.

Buckell dies only a few feet away from a generator that powers up a heating system - a generator that required nothing more than a Kinesis module to kick start. So why, despite there being two technicians among the group, and Kinesis seemingly being a ubiquitous piece of technology, could no one start that generator?

It can be argued that neither he nor his companions had a Kinesis module, but a technician on Titan Station in Dead Space 2 had one, and with Stasis recharge points liberally scattered around and Kinesis being a plug-in module for Stasis, that seems a little unlikely.

Still, at least he died peacefully and intact. In Dead Space, that’s a hell of a compliment.