The Callisto Protocol - new survival horror from Dead Space creator

[karoliner]

 

[Zarniwoop]

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.

So, shoot in the leg and bash it over the head with the stick.

As I said, it always comes down to the bashing eventually.

 

[Fedora Master]

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Lol If you don't play all your games in English

Hard to think of a bigger waste of money than localization.
Nearly everyone who is interested in playing video games can understand English.

 

[Fedora Master]

Lol If you don't play all your games in English

Hard to think of a bigger waste of money than localization.
Nearly everyone who is interested in playing video games can understand English.

You can maaaaybe make a case for big markets like the Chinks or Nips but if you're hiring people to translate your game into Slovenian, you're just laundering money or something.

 

[Justicar]

NIGGERISTO BROTOCOL.

 

[Child of Malkav]

Chinkisto Xitocol.

 

[Mazisky]

The game took 6\10 on major outlets, but if they replaced the main character with a black woman the game would 've scored 8\10 and 9\10.

A main white male character is 2 points less on final score nowadays.

Take note naive devs

 

[good fucking shit happen]

After you ladyboys have played that fucking retarded Dead Space remake you will come back to the Glen and apologize, mark my fucking words.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Ok, bros. Technical issues is one thing, but this...

It's good when a developer outright ask you to pirate their piece of shit game. What are they thinking? it's a single-player game.

Chink publisher. Copy-pasted guidelines. Probably thought to themselves that nobody reads this shit anyway.

Yeah, it's copypasted from the battle royale PUBG, also by Krafton. The game was even supposed to be set in PUBG's universe, but they gave up and rewrote the story. Not that it would changed much, other than maybe some names...

 

[Fargus]

This is why i dislike games made\published by asians. They are fucking drones.

Are you not entertained ?

They had amusing psychopath (and Sam Witwer is pretty cool actor imo) villain and instead of making him memorable and more prominent they just gave him a hulk treatment and potato face lol. And his final "tyrant" form looks like retarded mmorpg mob slightly above trash tier.

Creatively bankrupt game and the devs.

 

[Child of Malkav]

After you ladyboys have played that fucking retarded Dead Space remake you will come back to the Glen and apologize, mark my fucking words.

I aint't touching that remake. EA killed Visceral and the IP. But compared to DS1, CP has:

- less bosses

- less weapons

- less armors/suits

- less upgrades

- no unlockables

- no NG+

- one power

- less enemy variety

- less difficulty modes

Why would I come back to CP? It's objectively inferior.

 

[Zarniwoop]

Just encountered those The Last Of Us fungus zombie type things - LOL.

They're supposed to be sound sensitive. So apparently, taking one step while not crouched is enough to get zerg rushed, but brutally (and LOUDLY) stabbing its companion 1 meter away and then stomping on the corpse is not noisy at all

 

[Ezekiel]

Haven't played this game, but I hate crouch makes quiet with a passion. Crouching in games should be for cover, avoiding line of sight and exploration, not sound. If you must have quiet movement until discovered, implement a tip toe animation or something, with only slight bending of the knees and hips, but don't lower the character to half their height. It's uncool, tedious and slow, crouching around everywhere.

 

[Zarniwoop]

Haven't played this game, but I hate crouch makes quiet with a passion. Crouching in games should be for cover, avoiding line of sight and exploration, not sound. If you must have quiet movement until discovered, implement a tip toe animation or something, with only slight bending of the knees and hips, but don't lower the character to half their height. It's uncool, tedious and slow, crouching around everywhere.

Plus, actually far louder things don't attract them at all. Stabbing, corpse stomping, grabbing them with the GRIP and impaling them on the omni-present wall spikes causing a screaming death, nothing.

Also the pacing in this game sucks beyond anything I have ever seen, including Final Fantasy 13.

I took about 14 hours to complete the game. The vast, vast majority of the content in the game is in the last 2 hours. You spend more than 80% of the game with a single gun, the "hand cannon", then get all 4 the others very quickly in succession near the end. And the stick is still the best one. There are 4 boss fights in the game. 1 early on, then 3 almost immediately following each other immediately thereafter.

Almost zero backstory is revealed until the last hour when you find out everything at once from a video log.

Most of the game you face about 3 different enemies, plus those long-necked jack in the box things. From the first time seeing the last-of-us types, plus many others, to the end of the game is about 2 hours.

 

[Zarniwoop]

The game took 6\10 on major outlets, but if they replaced the main character with a black woman the game would 've scored 8\10 and 9\10.

A main white male character is 2 points less on final score nowadays.

Take note naive devs

But then you'd have to have all those scenes with a stronk Black lesbian girlboss getting gruesomely killed. I can already hear the "yikes"-ing.

 

[Baron Dupek]

SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Yonhap) - Krafton [259960]'s new "Callisto Protocol," which was released last month at a cost of about 200 billion won ($160 million) over three years, is observed to badly influence its future performance due to sales shortage.

Daishin Securities, Samsung Securities, Shinhan Securities, KIWOOM Securities, Korea Investment & Securities, and Hyundai Motor Securities have lowered their target stock prices of Krafton from last month to early this month, according to securities industry on Friday.

As the main reason, securities companies have stated the failure of the Callisto Protocol, which was launched on December 2 last year.

Samsung Securities [016360] predicted in a stock report earlier this month, "The company expected cumulative sales of 5 million copies, but considering the current sales ranking, cumulative sales of 2 million copies will not be easy until this year.

Korea Investment & Securities also lowered its cumulative sales estimate of the Callisto Protocol from 4 million to 2.1 million on the previous day, and lowered its operating profit estimate for this year from 813 billion won to 629.3 billion won

Gamers' reviews are also negative. Although graphics and sound technology are excellent, the length of the game is too short to be cleared in about seven to eight hours, and the stage formation is also simple.

Callisto Protocol is receiving a “Mixed” (61% positive evaluation) evaluation from users on the global PC game platform “Steam,” as of the previous day.

For comparison - GTA IV was 100mil. Good graphics, physics, tons of celebrity voice actors, huge campaign, multiplayer.

The Callisto Protocol developer, Striking Distance Studios, considered adding its upcoming horror game to Xbox Game Pass, but "as a single-player linear game, it's really hard to be successful in those types of services."​

 

[Wunderbar]

Krafton's new "Callisto Protocol," which was released last month at a cost of about 200 billion won ($160 million)

what a bunch of absolute morons holy shit. Really makes you think EA was right when they booted that Scofield guy.

 

[Alienman]

Damn, that expensive. Makes the fall even worse. I thought it operated within AA indiebudget. Now the graphics don't seem so impressive.

 

[lycanwarrior]

Damn, that expensive. Makes the fall even worse. I thought it operated within AA indiebudget. Now the graphics don't seem so impressive.

This won't be the only AAA game to have underperformed this Christmas season, along with Mario+Rabbids 2.

Marvel's Midnight Suns and NFS:Unbound seem like shoe-ins at this point as well, even though both reviewed decently/good.

 

[Latelistener]

Only the dev team will suffer. Schofield is probably set for life. Btw, Dead Space was also a money sink (it's what killed it), but at least it was good.

 

[DemonKing]

Well based on the current level of success this game is enjoying I'll give it a spin when it's on Gamepass in the next couple of months or when Epic give it away for free by the end of the year.

 

[JDR13]

Well based on the current level of success this game is enjoying I'll give it a spin when it's on Gamepass in the next couple of months or when Epic give it away for free by the end of the year.

I'll give it a spin when it hits Pirate Bay.

 

[fork]

Why give it any further attention at all? It's shit.
Life is short.

 

[Ezekiel]

Playing the free copy I got with my AMD card a few months ago.

The colors are fucked. Why do they never get the colors right? All the darks look raised, as usual. Almost like a lot of modern cinematography. I can't get anything close to blacks, meaning there is also not much range.