Well, that's what difficulty modes, completion stats and build variations are for. But yeah if a game doesn't have those or you already beat it on the hardest setting there's nothing else to do.
Dead Space at least gave you a bunch of different weapons and upgrade paths to test out. Still not much replay value but it's something.
Apparently there's like 4 weapons in Callisto, which doesn't seem good. Are there upgrade paths at least?
Yes they have some upgrades (muh RPG elements) but the improvements at each level are minor. You have more ammo lying around than makes sense in a "survival horror" but the enemies are bullet sponges even on medium difficulty.
Thus you end up beating the enemies upside the head with a stick the majority of the time and QTE'ing away from their attacks.
With all respect, they're not. I played on hard. If you shoot enemies into their legs or arms that is. E.g., a helmed zombie takes about 6-8 hits with an upgraded baton, which takes a considerable time. Whereas 3 shots from an upgraded pistol to one of the legs results in the zombie losing the leg, starting to crawl towards the player, and at that time it can be either finished with one overhead chop without fuss, or GRPed towards anything to certain death. The time taken depends mostly only on the player's skill to aim and to compensate with the recoil. I don't know why people say the opposite all the time. I think that most players are able to soon know better than to shoot the torso or the heads, because yeah, that usually doesn't work much, bullet sponge time.
