it's weird how we live in a world of better graphics, more powerful and polished game engines, convenient ways to access and sell video games, and bigger workforces, yet somehow games are releasing with less polish and less features... and still charging full price.
Increase in quality demand & standard But yeah, considering industry trend on graphic performance, its a really wonder why developer keep insisting on unique "graphic fidelity" instead of stability & stable performance, which japanese dev usually aimed for
@@thegreatpoo2electricboogal318 god of war has many different enemy types and last of us uses its minimal infected types much better than this game does. Hard cope.
I've lost so much faith in this industry that anytime I hear people getting excited about a big game I feel sorry about their eventual disappointment when it does come out
Same, although god of war Ragnarok is one of the few who didn't disappoint. The same story with elden ring. There is hope, but atleast 90% will be disappointments
@@viewera I had those two in mind while writing as the exceptions, still tho 2 big games being phenomenal while 100 are mediocre or just bad ain't the best
The only real disappoints this entire year were this and saints row. Though this games launch is the worst thing since cyberpunk. But at least that game is actually good underneath the bugs. And it actually has shit to do, this game is like 8 hours for $60? lmao
Gotta love it when the game devs put like 50% of their budget into animating the game over scenes and the other 50% animating your dead friend grabbing you and screaming in your face
This story is somehow the most straightforward and predictable game story I've seen in ages, and it is full of "twists". We got: - Secret society that has been "around for centuries, controlling everything" - "Next phase of Human Evolution" - Shadow warfare "Europa wasn't a terrorist attack..." - You (the player and/or player character) are responsible for the horrible things happening in the game. - The sci-fi prison you were on was actually a secret unethical experiment for a new weapon/technology. - The final boss of the horror game has as second phase that turns into a vaguely human flesh monster. - "There's only room for one person in the escape pod. I'm sorry" self-sacrifice - "It's not over yet" sequel-baiting It's almost impressive how listing the trope twists tells you almost everything that happens in the story.
What I hate the most is that a lot of those points were in dead space, and they didn't even want to hide it..or put a twist into it And in dead space, it wasn't until 2 / 3 that a they gave you straight answers as to what the hell was going on
@@fabriziocossio3336 well, this was a project that Glen wanted to make instead of dead space, so ofc it'll have similarities, both sci-fi horrors on a closed atmosphere
I think one of the things that the first 2 dead space games I enjoyed is that they don't try to give you cutscenes that remove your immersion of the horrors of what is happening.
They also, in particular the first game, had permanence to the locations. In DS1 you went back and forth between areas and often revisited areas as you moved through the Ishimura. This gave a sense of it being a real place, of really moving through the ship. Callisto Protocol is just different flavors of hallways with cutscenes here and there.
And also making the combat "skill based" and kind of its own mini game was a terrible decision for a horror game. If I feel like I WANT to engage enemies to get better at playing the combat then that's not a survival horror game. I should be dreading every enemy, fighting should be a last resort. Dead Space 1 was actually praised for making the player character feel like a civilian engineer with no combat experience, you were not a killing machine but rather forced to use whatever tools you can to survive. Here you're god damn marine man skillfully dodging enemy attacks like it's Punch Out.
@@steel5897 I haven't played Callisto so I cant really compare like for like, but I wouldn't say Dead Space was great in that regard either. Dead Space was an RE4 style action game first and a survival horror game second. Once you learned each enemy's combat "gimmick" you could quickly dispatch most of them even with just the basic plasma cutter. And often they'd drop more ammo/currency than you used to kill them, so you'd even profit from going out of your way to engage them. Compare that to something like Resident Evil or Silent Hill, where there was never any skill element to killing enemies. In Resident Evil you'd fire your gun at a zombie and, unless you scored a 1 in 20 critical hit, it would take the same amount of handgun bullets to kill every single time. And you'd gain no resources for killing it, you'd only benefit by making the area safer to navigate by removing an enemy. So it basically becomes a game of deciding whether you want to spend resources now, and make your path through the mansion safer, or hold onto those resources in case you need them later. That dynamic is the main defining characteristic of a survival horror game, and it barely existed at all in Dead Space.
It's so sad to see people break away from EA's unreasonable deadlines and creative clutches just to make a game that's worse than what they would've made anyway.
Honestly im sure EA will do better with their Remaster of Dead Space, they made some good Singleplayer stuff before I really really wanted to support this game, I even preordered it and all but it was such a dissapointment when the bad performance kicked in and now from different people and reviews I heard that most of the game is just meele and simply not scary...ugh. Glad I got my refund
@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi of course they'll do better with dead space remake because it's still dead space, just way better looking. Dead space is still great either way. Easy money for EA.
I don't know, imagine how bad callisto would be if it was made under EA. Performance on launch might be better, but everything else would probably be worse. True horror.
@@loubloom1941 If you would've seen some preview material and scenes certain parts are entirely different like with the dead captain. Question remains how much of it has been entirely remade from scratch like that and will decide if its just a cashgrab or not. Either way I dont think 60€ is justified unless they truly remade alot.
@@loubloom1941 What makes you think that? EA has done good singleplayer games in the past and it cant be worse than whats already in lol. People expected a Dead Space and instead we got some average beat-em-up with monsters xD The design of Callisto is already doomed to fail. In Dead Space your meele was really bad so you were on the edge if you weren't in a corridor cause you know they could come from anywhere and just get you while in Callisto enemies will wait for you to engage in honorable 1v1 and you can just QTE it all...
One of the big problems this game has is that all the scares and story elements are just thrown at you with no prior build up or context, it’s like they just threw a bunch of ingredients at you instead of giving you a cake. The beginning of the game is literally you crash on a planet, get imprisoned and next day there is a prison riot. You might as wel just had a text scroll saying “you are in prison, you must escape, the warden is bad” and it would do the trick as well if not better than the actual beginning
I dont care, because this is the first ever real next gen experience! Do you see the graphics! I have heard some pc fanboys cry over performence issues because they cant even play this game while have wasted 5 thousand dollars on a 4090trashCard. Im here CHILLIN with my series x and haven't noticed a single performence issue. Every story has already been told, THERE IS NOTHING TO TELL ANYMORE! So just give me the fucking graphics and ill be happy.
@@seniorAlfredo i do appreciate the imput. Personally i disagree with the fact that all stories have been told. i think there are still many stories to be told, wether it's the same story told in a different light or a complete new story, i think there are still many stories to be told. Even in the case that there were no more stories to be told, i still believe that the way a story is delivered can still make it a worthwile experience to indulge in. the grafics are amazing and i do love myself a nice view in a game. i really like games like Journey and Little Nightmares for these nice views with their more stylised artstyles, but even games like Metro: Exodus and Red Dead Redemption 2, i love the beautiful grafics. it really makes it so immersive, however for me personally it needs to have something more than graphics in the mix, since for me, a game gets old real quick if the main focus is graphics. with this game, the only thing i personally appreciate, is the graphics, which makes this game really boring in my opinion. graphics to me are like spices; it enhances the meal, but you can't just have spices and call it a dish i can't lie though the idiots buying a 4 figure piece of hardware and justifying it by showing they get 3 extra frames is beyond ridiculous to me. there is literally barely any difference between the newest and the last generation lol. good take playing on the series X.
@@citizenvulpes4562 he meant it as a joke there are no 4080s hes saying how the companys a fucking joke come on mate its 2022 you shouldnt have to be explained this shit
It's an issue with a lot of unreal engine pc games, they do shader compilation for your gpu while running the game which blocks the next frame to be drawn, so it doesn't matter how powerful your gpu is or what settings you use. The most comedic part is that the freezes wont occur the 2nd time playing it, since they are already compiled, and for a game like this where the first playthrough is important its the worst thing you can do
Real talk (no pun intended), Unreal is REALLY not that amazing of an engine and I have no idea why studios keep using it other than technical familiarity and brand recognition. Unreal only blew up in the 7th gen because studios were looking for an easy means of transitioning to HD game design, but nowadays basically every major AAA dev is using proprietary tech because (outside of Frostbite) it's cheaper and usually preforms better.
Fun fact is that I unironically fall asleep to most of pyro's lives. They are fantastic and help me sleep despite my insomnia because he is so relaxing to listen to.
At the very least Glenn Schofield was able to break away from EA and make his own studio, where he had the freedom to do all those *non* EA things, such as: >Use Invasive DRM >Carved out content put into overpriced season passes >Focus on shiny graphics instead of good gameplay >Sell a game as a horror title only for it to play like an action game >Crunch, abuse, and even traumatize employees in the name of gratuitous self-indulgence and a fiscal quarter And presumably many other "creative freedom" things that Ken Levine and Yuji Naka and the rest of these hackjob "mind behind [popular franchise] who is going independent" directors keep doing.
Yeah to be frank....a lot of the hate on publishers is overblown. Obviously you're only going to get one side ever and what else do you expect from nerds? accountability? like naa that was our call guys....when you can just blame the pub. Obviously EA sucks and a lot of pubs are an issue but that doesn't mean the only issue nor does it mean they are literally sitting there micromanaging all the dumb decisions. When you look at movies too they blame the studio when in reality its often the actor and or directors who fuck up and the studio steps in for good reason quite frankly. The studio didn't step in and stop the new Wonder WOman from being a rapist....they should have lol that director is trash
God you people are such fucking 🤡. "Traumatize" their employees. So dramatic. God forbid they had to work overtime for a couple of weeks boo who. Welcome to the real world and once you get your first job you'll understand one day. So cringe.
32:15 This part alone, specifically the enemy, showed us that this game took more inspiration to The Last Of Us than Dead Space. Those enemies are just the Clickers. The only Dead Space thing about this game is the GRP and it's sci-fi setting. Dead Space's Necromorph are eldritch monsters whereas the Biophage of this game came from a generic alien virus thing that has been done millions of times before.
Too bad it didn't take the story part from the last of us because the story is shit and the characters are worse. The Last of Us minus its good characters and story is just a shit game.
Even the setting feels completely half-baked to me; they just have a bunch of hallways, vents, and elevators with glowing decals stuck on them. There doesn't feel like there's been much thought put into "what would a space prison actually entail? what kind of infrastructure would you need to have in a prison on a frozen moon?" Like the room that's full of meat-grinder stuff because that's where they decided to tutorialize environmental kills: what could this room POSSIBLY be used for, realistically? Is it a grinding apparatus to make slop for prisoners? Shouldn't there be some kind of cooking or preservation or packaging equipment in there, then? Just a little extra thought could have made it a more interesting room and led into an interesting area, like one for cooking or food serving, or a massive fridge or freezer, or food transport chutes--something. But since it stands alone, it makes no sense and appears to have no thought put into it beyond "Well, we're making a videogame."
I remember reading the store page for this on Steam, seeing the line "Using a unique blend of shooting and close-quarters combat" in the description and instantly having this gut feeling of "This game gon' be mid as fuck _at best_ ". Never a good sign when a game's PR team describes something that's been done by shitloads of other games as "unique" or "revolutionary". Like when they mention a "unique gravity weapon" as if Half-Life 2, Dead Space, Singularity, etc. were never a thing.
The worst part is that the weaponry just looks so fucking generic. 1 melee weapon, an arsenal of the most basic, shitty guns in the universe and a gravity mechanic that looks like it'd just kinda there, instead of actually integral to the gameplay.
I'm like 90% convinced they originally wanted a longer opening cause they treat the warden and the copilot like you knew em for hours already when they both appear for 5 minutes
The insane amount of vents is probably there as a counterpart to Dead Space's elevators with how they wanted those to be "loading screens" Thing is Dead Space's elevators acted as a breather in between combat and they let you access your inventory and such while CP's vents just seem like padding and play tediously.
@@danyaljamil1677 Hollows are pretty varied. They have fast single swing, they have charge swing, they can block, thry have the rapid swinging move. Pretty solid
I think the most atrocious thing about this game is the fact that they tried to advertise it as a spritual successor to dead space. As far as elements of survival horror go, you would get better results from dead space 3.
100%. There is NOTHING survival horror about this game at all, there is zero DNA from the genre outside a superficial inventory that doesn't matter because the game lacks resource management. There are no environmental puzzles, no backtracking, no permanence to any location or threat, nothing survival horror about it. It's just a sequence of linear corridors, vents, and cutscenes.
@@darassylmoniakam callisto is worse in all the aspects a survival horror is supposed to have. Im not saying its a bad game, im saying it shouldnt be called survival horror.
"Why do they always make blacks head doctors and scientists in everything in games and movies?" Because they sure as hell won't be head doctors or scientists How come you didn't pick up on that one. Cos its ok to pick on whitey. Puss y
My favorite part of all of this is the multiple interviews of Glen Schofield saying "The game has been finished for months" 😂 Should've known better when they wouldn't stop showing off their one two headed boss guy design just as often.
@@swissidol8403 finish my ass they basically said o w8 six month were giving u what happen after that cluffhanger ending yeah sure most greedy devs ever seen
Funniest part is at 31:50, they straight up didn't even bother texturing any gore in his face, it looks like they just sank the mesh inside his head, so its just skin all the way
I like how in the beginning cutscene the animators/environment designers establish that it takes place on Europa by having one of the buildings be a café called "Europa Café". It's not as stupid as the Halo TV show renaming New Alexandria "Reach City" but still imagine if you were at a mall or a shopping district and you saw a place called "Earth Restaurant" or "Earth Clothing". Wouldn't that be so weird?
To be fair there are a crap ton of rivers in England names the River Avalon, which translates to River River. Or a Montenegro translating to black rock, because they have a black rock in their country. Humans are pretty shit at naming things.
I just find it funny with the amount of director and bts interviews they did with video titles such as "How Callisto Protocols Gameplay Was Perfected Months Before Release"
I don't know why, but the biophages (the zombies in this game) aren't even remotely as scary as the necromorphs in Dead Space. I can't put my finger on it, but maybe because they look too humanoid in their stature and movement, but also too deformed in faces that you cannot really see the person that the zombie was before? With necromorphs, on the other hand, you could see their faces torn apart by the rebirth, which was terrifying, since you could basically see the person that the necromorph was before death. But their stature (with the high hanging limbs and bones out) and movement seemed so off, that you could tell they were controlled by something alien. Anyway, those are my two cents.
Biophages are just zombies. While necros are humans turned into horrors that tries to be efficient as possible. Just compare a slasher to a normal biophage. Also the infectors and stalkers were once human to but are more graphic than any biophage in callisto
It's mostly because of the gameplay. Beating up the zombies to a pulp like you're playing punchout and the combat being the same loop every single time is just boring and not threatening at all.
They aren't alien in how they fight and how they act. Necromorphs WHERE. They aren't as much scary as they're pitiful and disgusting. There's no variety. They don't hit hard, and they go down easy, and that's on the background of your weapons being EXTREMELY anemic (i mean most of your fighting is done with a frigging STICK! and the guns hit like a wet noodle, what's Calisto's shotgun vs dead space's brutal exposives, chainsaws, plasma cutters, etc?)... Lastly your dude dances around them like Mike fucking Tyson unlike Issac who's constantly scared shitless and is semi useless in close quarters.
I mean I just genuinely think necromorphs look significantly more Cronenbergian and inhuman than these things is the main reason + the melee gameplay makes them just overall seem like less of a threat. If you got close enough to punch a necromorph, you're already screwed. Here you literally have to get close to them. Melee can work in survival horror. Most combat in Silent Hill is melee, but SH also isn't trying to be actiony.
the thumbnail looks like if someone told an AI to generate an 80s dark fantasy movie about King Arthur, like you wouldn't convince me that it's supposed to be a sci-fi horror videogame
When I saw all those stories coming out about how unbelievably realistic the character faces were… I knew the priorities were in the wrong place. Nobody cares how realistic your game is if it runs at 15 frames and plays like dogshit. Nothing is timeless about realism, especially when something much better at being real comes along. Just ends up making the game look even worse in five years.
Especially when the characters act like moronic cartoons and you can't even hop over a 2ft barrier or fence unless its "the way to go". Yay realizm except I can't climb this pipe or that box or do that or that or that either. DRRRPPPP
It really doesn't help the "realism" aspect when they were so proud of the death animations that they made an entire DLC for 14 new ones and nothing else, only for them to still be buggy messes where half the time the gore attachments don't appear and its just like you took a hammer to the greasy ass face sculpt of the character, like you can still see his eyes pressed into his face even though that entire part of his skull should be gone.
If you look closely at the exploding ship at 29:03 you'll notice the model of one of the parts flying away does this awful looking stretch as if part of it is still attached and the game doesn't know what to do.
The Callisto Protocol was one of the games to ever release this season. It deserves the title of "A Game" with it's story, gameplay, and graphics. The story was in fact, written. The models were modeled and the textures were textured. The gameplay made me feel like i was playing a video game. Truly, one of the video games i know of.
This is what an objective review actually looks like people. Next time you say someone wasn't being objective in their critique, this is what it looks like.
I watched a streamer play this (he got a key thank god) an the most fun was had with the dyslexic subtitles. As a dyslexic person I can say they work amazing, even with the font being piss yellow an the background being neon pink I still managed to read it. Sad thing is, there's no actual story to be found an being a pilot doesn't mean anything when you're running from body horror creatures. I'd also like to say that WHY THE FUCK WAS HE SO SWEATY. Poor guy was for sure dehydrated.
Well, when you are in his shoes. Not knowing wtf is going on, you will be sweaty from adrenaline plus I don’t think he has the luxury of drinking water knowing that a monster could appear in the vent
@@owyemen9367The point is that your game has to *have* something, or at least feel like an apology that warrants people coming back and playing your game. Most of the time, corporations forget this, and think “We release bad game, and maybe fix it and add more content later.”
The Warden: seen twice, ooh bad guy Hans Tiedemann: stops Issac in his path multiple times and inadvertently starts the best chapter of Dead Space 2 Edit: Tiedemanns character is even better in Dead Space iOS
Tiedemann wasn't even really an amazing protagonist but Jesus he didn't go "I do hope you enjoyed your stay at The Sprawl!" Before locking you in that one room
First Cyberpunk 2077 and now the Callisto Protocol. I will never pre-order a game again, I don't care if the developer is a multi-million company or an indie one, they do not deserve my trust or money anymore.
@@BigLebowski2000 I'm not saying it did not. I'm saying that the launch was full of bugs making my first experience of the game feel bad. The same thing goes with the Callisto Protocol, first impressions matter, and I refuse to believe that we deserve to spend money on games that are released half-baked.
Cyberpunk was worse on Release, if 2077 had released in its Patch 1.6 State it would've been an outside contender for Game of The Year IMO. The Issue with Callisto isn't the massive gap between parts that are good and parts that are bad. Its just MID, Cyberpunks had a decent story, OST, World Design, it ran shittily and was riddled with bugs. Callisto has none of that but it runs shittily. Same fuck you to anyone that bought it expecting the next CDPR Masterpiece or Dead Space Homage.
The moment I heard Warden Cole I thought it would be a generic plot about some prothetic-sounding villain making pretentious philosophical monologues about the progress of human evolution but thought that it'd be too obvious to be true
@@onepunchman4444 Just because your standards are rock bottom doesn't mean everyone else's is. You're free to like what you want, but this game is ass and you gotta admit that it's just not worth people's money, not at the price they're selling it at.
the only thing that could have saved this was if as the lady doctor was doing her exposition she started rambling about the templars and then you got pulled out of the vr device and it turned into surprise assassin's creed
Bro this game isn’t even bad he’s bullshitting everyone. I literally ran the whole thing on ps4 with no bugs so idk how tf he’s having troubles on a pc
Except he purposely lowered his graphics setting and the fact that people are buying into it is crazy. The game runs great for me and I don’t have a series x
Not surprised it didn't end up meeting expectations. EA, despite as awful the company is known to be, undeniably had as much to do with the success (and eventual downfall) of Dead Space. Cutting out those EA employees who helped make Dead Space is like making bread with no yeast.
same thing that happened with turtlerock and b4b, the devs who left had little or nothing to do with the actual good parts and they end up making generic, bland shit that misses the mark by a whole-ass parsec
It actually speaks volumes the fact that NFS Unbound of all games, is doing better on Steam and Metacritic user reviews alike than Lagllisto Stuttercol
EA was, at the beggining, really about "Electronic ARTS", many games from back in the day across different genres were spearheaded by EA (may it be in house or with another studio in hand). Really talented (if not the most talented) developers, artists, and just people involved in the making of videogames from that "golden era" were under EA's wing. We can shit all we want on EA now, but they got to the point they are now, because of many feats they undertook and succeeded at. I still play C & C, Dead Space, LOTR, and others, I still love them to death. Were did all this people go? I doubt they are still working there, seeing how much of a corrupted giant this publisher has become, but it is a fact that all those original teams are no longer working together, the same teams were all kinds of coincidences, ideas, and work got done in, haven't really translated to the modern game development scene (where everything is rushed, which is ironic since games have gotten way more expensive and harder to make).
@@diegosaez4885 Moral of the story is that reputation =/= innate talent. Hell, Dikatana and shit from WAY before the 2010s is proof of that. In the case of MN9 and Balan there's a bit more to given inafune and Naka weren't really even that involved with the franchise they were associated with. In YL's case... I mean, I don't actually like Banjo as much as everyone else seems to, and most of the shit people complain about with YL are also problems in Banjo, but I guess I lack the rose tinted glasses of a millennial. At the very least Playtonic seems to have learned from it's mixed reception unlike the former 2 asshats. This is an industry that involves huge amounts of collaboration, and publisher oversight is a part of that for better or for worse. Sometimes you need someone to remind you you need to make sure you can cross the finish line before you focus on trying to come in first. Turtle Rock and these devs clearly need that because oof.
I can't believe Pyro had a back-end into The Callisto Protocol's development and tanked the game's graphics _specifically_ so he could make a stream about how bad the game is. Pyro's truly hit a new low.
The fact that Henry Stickman had more love, care and effort put into it than a game of this scale, and a game that... I *think* it was passion project? Eh, maybe I'm mixing this up with something else but still.
Going back and reading comments saying Callisto would destroy the Dead Space Remake when it showed no gameplay is probably one of the biggest indicators that hype is probably the strongest thing in the gaming industry.
Personally, I go in with a neutral perspective when it comes to games. I don't go in expecting it to fail, but I don’t put blind faith into it either. I usually wait for either gameplay or reviews before deciding to buy a game (with the exception of Resident Evil games. I pre-order those).
why does every mediocre story have the female co protagonist who is annoying or outright antagonises the protagonist for the whole story but by the end is loved to the point of self sacrifice because she was shown being nice in the most forced way like once. Oh and the *points at horribly disfigured corpse* ''SEE? THATS THE NEXT PHASE OF HUMAN EVOLUTION'' bad guy, i swear it could be a nice plot but they NEVER give any good explainations
This game was focused around melee combat, right? I'd like to remind you that Dark Messiah of Might and Magic came out in 2006, Dishonored came out in 2010s. Batman Arkham games came out before it, Vermintide 2 came out before it. There are more ways to do melee combat satisfying than just "dodge every 3 whacks".
Addendum: them Calypso developers really decided "hmmm, you know what was a good game? Blood 2: The Chosen", and then they copied the idea of throwing the same bullet sponge boss at you seventy times in a row. At least they didn't steal the idea of RNG-based weapon damage and the explosions going through walls.
The security robots were such a let down, they had such a intimidating aura but they go down in like two shots to their head. They had so much potential. I still liked the game a lot but had so many missed opportunities.
play on max security and see if they go down in 2 shots lmao just beat the game on that difficulty and let me tell you that shit isn't for the faint of heart, as far as bugs and stuff i haven't really had any of what everyone else is complaining about fr, maybe a stutter here or their but nothing that makes the game unplayable. Only thing I'm disappointed about is having to wait like 3 months for the hardcore mode and riot mode
I hate the fact that in this game every enemy that does the grab/leap attack, always ends up on the right shoulder, and not face/leg or any other limb.
ive seen no one mention this but one of the enemies in the game (the two headed spitter enemy) is shown in a ingame cutscene to transform a human into another zombie zenophage thing and its only done this once and that mechanic is never seen again. was hoping for some dynamic gameplay besides throwing enemies into traps, off the map or abusing the knockback mechanic.
So I beat the game yesterday and when he did that, my sleep deprived ass simply said “521, It’s protocol time” and then proceeded to die from laughter at the kingpin running of captain Ferris. To sum it up, Callisto is a good comedy game dressed up as a beat ‘em up zombie game.
I was overly hyped for this game, I remember watching the trailers and thinking how great it'd be when it released and its disappointing how bad it ended up being
Here's the problem: You got hyped from cutscenes and scripted shit and not the actual game. If a dev is koi about showing gameplay, it's an IMMEDIATE sign to be skeptical. Cyberpunk, Colonial Marines, and NMS are perhaps the crowning examples, but this goes on the shitlist along with them.
Moral of the story, wait until you see the final product and the general reception. This is the world we live in today, you shouldn't get hyped over anything anymore. You just get disappointed over and over again
@@Fenrize Ah yes , the "We live in a society" approach. Just because you got burned once doesn't mean you should just go in the entirely polar opposite direction for all time thereafter m8. You can be skeptical and still be interested in things. Just don't bet the farm on X Game being the messiah because the devs told you so and showed you a cool cutscene or two. Be like me: Excited yet skeptical about everything. If it succeeds you can get more excited, if it fails you have something to laugh at. You can be invested, but never get too invested.
@@warbossgegguz679 Honestly, his approach is fine. It's justifiable to not expect anything from games anymore due to how much disappointments that has been released, atleast it helps tempering your own expectations and not get too disappointed when it turns out bad, but a great surprise if it's aftually good. Even I was skeptical over Elden Ring (still had some problems on their 1st day release, but it's patched now).
I think Warboss is right with his point about being skeptical when games dont show actual gameplay. The only games I only get excited for are indie games because they usually do show their gameplay.
They really should have waited to release until they had fixed the stuttering issues. First impressions are so important and they totally shat the bed with this one.
If a game doesn't run perfectly smoothly it's a show stopper for me. I mean that's one of the most basic things they have to get right first and foremost. This never happened in Dead Space and that game is what - 13 years old.
9:07 the moment he started climbing, I whispered to myself "what a thrill....." only for the video to play the same line at the exact same time XD Good to know everyone is in sync with vintage memes
It's funny that this originally was going to be a PUBG spinoff, according to the Wiki. I wish I was joking. Source: The origins of The Callisto Protocol began with the formation of Striking Distance as a studio within PUBG Corporation (now PUBG Studios) in June 2019, helmed by Glen Schofield, who had previously co-created the Dead Space series at Visceral Games. The studio was created to expand the PUBG : Battlegrounds universe by creating a narrative driven game.Schofield said that when he met with PUBG Corporation where they explained their goal to expand the PUBG narrative, he already had the concept for The Callisto Protocol in mind and presented that to them and worked with them to fit his idea into their universe. However, by May 2022, Schofield stated that the game had grown to be its own story and is no longer connected to PUBG, though there remain small nods to the latter.
Just a heads up to anyone deadset on running this with Raytracing-- *TURN OFF RT SHADOWS* to fix (in my case and others) tons of UE4/DXGI crashes to lockups, hickups and excessive VRAM/GPU spikes. With how glitchy the benchmark looks and how grainy some of those shadows are, I'd say it even looks better with just the reflections. Hope it helps anyone!
The true terror of The Calisto Protocol is the constant dread and fear that your computer might spontaneously combust while trying to play it
Can your cam-pu-tor run Crisis?
Dead meme
The biggest jumpscare this game offers, burning your house down, you literally have to do a QTE to call the fire department
Maybe next time you won’t be PC scum and buy a ps5 instead
@@harrydubois6619 maybe games should work on launch in all platforms, period.
it's weird how we live in a world of better graphics, more powerful and polished game engines, convenient ways to access and sell video games, and bigger workforces, yet somehow games are releasing with less polish and less features... and still charging full price.
Increase in quality demand & standard
But yeah, considering industry trend on graphic performance, its a really wonder why developer keep insisting on unique "graphic fidelity" instead of stability & stable performance, which japanese dev usually aimed for
More then full price if you paid next gen.
I'd rather have a good art style and interesting game mechanics than it looking photorealistic
Technically with all these advancements theres even more things that can go wrong and cause bugs and stuff.
@somechinese dude dude just said "increase in quality demand & standard" like that meant anything. Bro is just saying buzzwords.
The true terror of The Calisto Protocol is the constant dread and fear that the next enemy might just look exactly the same as the prior one.
true horror is the fear of the unknown
So never knowing if the framerate will go below 2 is truly genius
God of war and last of us where you fight mostly samey enemies the whole time: 👀
@@thegreatpoo2electricboogal318 god of war has many different enemy types and last of us uses its minimal infected types much better than this game does. Hard cope.
@@Tyler-pi1qm cope with deez nuts
@@Smob64😮j😅
pyro is just a zoomer that doesn't appreciate the old art of stop motion animation
Pretty sure stop motion runs at higher FPS
@@jacobnorris8256 It actually does. Which makes it funnier.
Imagine his reaction watching season one of Moral Orel
@@spelareNR14 i forgot about moral orel
clearly he is not a sonic stop motion adventures fan
I've lost so much faith in this industry that anytime I hear people getting excited about a big game I feel sorry about their eventual disappointment when it does come out
even after being a big saints row fan AND a big halo fan, i'm for some reason still sorta hyped for dead space (2023)
literally me
Same, although god of war Ragnarok is one of the few who didn't disappoint. The same story with elden ring. There is hope, but atleast 90% will be disappointments
@@viewera I had those two in mind while writing as the exceptions, still tho 2 big games being phenomenal while 100 are mediocre or just bad ain't the best
The only real disappoints this entire year were this and saints row. Though this games launch is the worst thing since cyberpunk. But at least that game is actually good underneath the bugs. And it actually has shit to do, this game is like 8 hours for $60? lmao
Gotta love it when the game devs put like 50% of their budget into animating the game over scenes and the other 50% animating your dead friend grabbing you and screaming in your face
I feel like it was 90% facial animations/texturing and 10% putting little ads on gaming sites.
This story is somehow the most straightforward and predictable game story I've seen in ages, and it is full of "twists".
We got:
- Secret society that has been "around for centuries, controlling everything"
- "Next phase of Human Evolution"
- Shadow warfare "Europa wasn't a terrorist attack..."
- You (the player and/or player character) are responsible for the horrible things happening in the game.
- The sci-fi prison you were on was actually a secret unethical experiment for a new weapon/technology.
- The final boss of the horror game has as second phase that turns into a vaguely human flesh monster.
- "There's only room for one person in the escape pod. I'm sorry" self-sacrifice
- "It's not over yet" sequel-baiting
It's almost impressive how listing the trope twists tells you almost everything that happens in the story.
What I hate the most is that a lot of those points were in dead space, and they didn't even want to hide it..or put a twist into it
And in dead space, it wasn't until 2 / 3 that a they gave you straight answers as to what the hell was going on
@@fabriziocossio3336 well, this was a project that Glen wanted to make instead of dead space, so ofc it'll have similarities, both sci-fi horrors on a closed atmosphere
Call-Listed-tropes protocol
@Dman (Formerly Roman Bellic) and you want them to repeat the same thing again? Then say the game is just a copy paste from dead space?
I mean, at least sending her in the pod made sense. Didn't waste all that time curing your dumbass to leave you behind
It feels like they spent 90% of the budget on animators and artists and forgot to hire any good developers
Somewhere there is a room of playtesters that starved to death around 2008.
Seeing as how they used the same miniboss every second corridor, I don't think any of the budget went to the artists either
Animators are developers.
Animation is just one of the many jobs in the field of Computer Game *Development.*
@@Inconvenient_NPC okay, then they forgot to hire any good programmers. You know what I meant.
Shout out to the collectors addition which comes with a life sized vent for you to crawl through
Very crawly, I recommend
Amogus
More like collectus edition
I think one of the things that the first 2 dead space games I enjoyed is that they don't try to give you cutscenes that remove your immersion of the horrors of what is happening.
Yeah and the actual cutscenes were veiled behind cool QuickTime events. The gunship fight in Dead Space 2 stands out as being cool as fuck.
They also, in particular the first game, had permanence to the locations. In DS1 you went back and forth between areas and often revisited areas as you moved through the Ishimura. This gave a sense of it being a real place, of really moving through the ship. Callisto Protocol is just different flavors of hallways with cutscenes here and there.
And also making the combat "skill based" and kind of its own mini game was a terrible decision for a horror game. If I feel like I WANT to engage enemies to get better at playing the combat then that's not a survival horror game. I should be dreading every enemy, fighting should be a last resort. Dead Space 1 was actually praised for making the player character feel like a civilian engineer with no combat experience, you were not a killing machine but rather forced to use whatever tools you can to survive.
Here you're god damn marine man skillfully dodging enemy attacks like it's Punch Out.
@@steel5897 I haven't played Callisto so I cant really compare like for like, but I wouldn't say Dead Space was great in that regard either. Dead Space was an RE4 style action game first and a survival horror game second. Once you learned each enemy's combat "gimmick" you could quickly dispatch most of them even with just the basic plasma cutter. And often they'd drop more ammo/currency than you used to kill them, so you'd even profit from going out of your way to engage them.
Compare that to something like Resident Evil or Silent Hill, where there was never any skill element to killing enemies. In Resident Evil you'd fire your gun at a zombie and, unless you scored a 1 in 20 critical hit, it would take the same amount of handgun bullets to kill every single time. And you'd gain no resources for killing it, you'd only benefit by making the area safer to navigate by removing an enemy. So it basically becomes a game of deciding whether you want to spend resources now, and make your path through the mansion safer, or hold onto those resources in case you need them later. That dynamic is the main defining characteristic of a survival horror game, and it barely existed at all in Dead Space.
Dead space 3 have alot cutscene in early game
If there is any clue why we have alot now
It's so sad to see people break away from EA's unreasonable deadlines and creative clutches just to make a game that's worse than what they would've made anyway.
Honestly im sure EA will do better with their Remaster of Dead Space, they made some good Singleplayer stuff before
I really really wanted to support this game, I even preordered it and all but it was such a dissapointment when the bad performance kicked in and now from different people and reviews I heard that most of the game is just meele and simply not scary...ugh. Glad I got my refund
@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi of course they'll do better with dead space remake because it's still dead space, just way better looking. Dead space is still great either way. Easy money for EA.
I don't know, imagine how bad callisto would be if it was made under EA. Performance on launch might be better, but everything else would probably be worse. True horror.
@@loubloom1941
If you would've seen some preview material and scenes certain parts are entirely different like with the dead captain.
Question remains how much of it has been entirely remade from scratch like that and will decide if its just a cashgrab or not.
Either way I dont think 60€ is justified unless they truly remade alot.
@@loubloom1941
What makes you think that? EA has done good singleplayer games in the past and it cant be worse than whats already in lol.
People expected a Dead Space and instead we got some average beat-em-up with monsters xD
The design of Callisto is already doomed to fail. In Dead Space your meele was really bad so you were on the edge if you weren't in a corridor cause you know they could come from anywhere and just get you while in Callisto enemies will wait for you to engage in honorable 1v1 and you can just QTE it all...
One of the big problems this game has is that all the scares and story elements are just thrown at you with no prior build up or context, it’s like they just threw a bunch of ingredients at you instead of giving you a cake. The beginning of the game is literally you crash on a planet, get imprisoned and next day there is a prison riot. You might as wel just had a text scroll saying “you are in prison, you must escape, the warden is bad” and it would do the trick as well if not better than the actual beginning
I dont care, because this is the first ever real next gen experience! Do you see the graphics! I have heard some pc fanboys cry over performence issues because they cant even play this game while have wasted 5 thousand dollars on a 4090trashCard. Im here CHILLIN with my series x and haven't noticed a single performence issue. Every story has already been told, THERE IS NOTHING TO TELL ANYMORE! So just give me the fucking graphics and ill be happy.
@@seniorAlfredo i do appreciate the imput. Personally i disagree with the fact that all stories have been told. i think there are still many stories to be told, wether it's the same story told in a different light or a complete new story, i think there are still many stories to be told. Even in the case that there were no more stories to be told, i still believe that the way a story is delivered can still make it a worthwile experience to indulge in.
the grafics are amazing and i do love myself a nice view in a game. i really like games like Journey and Little Nightmares for these nice views with their more stylised artstyles, but even games like Metro: Exodus and Red Dead Redemption 2, i love the beautiful grafics. it really makes it so immersive, however for me personally it needs to have something more than graphics in the mix, since for me, a game gets old real quick if the main focus is graphics. with this game, the only thing i personally appreciate, is the graphics,
which makes this game really boring in my opinion. graphics to me are like spices; it enhances the meal, but you can't just have spices and call it a dish
i can't lie though the idiots buying a 4 figure piece of hardware and justifying it by showing they get 3 extra frames is beyond ridiculous to me. there is literally barely any difference between the newest and the last generation lol. good take playing on the series X.
@@seniorAlfredo Please tell me this coment is a joke. Cause if so it's a pretty decent one. But if youre being serious...
@@seniorAlfredo Masterbaiter.
Or just baiter. Not very masterful at all, good sir.
To be fair dead space 2 did this to an amazing effect
Devs: "Worked fine on my development rig, which only has 64gb of ram, pcie4 ssd raid, etc."
Also Devs: "Why is everyone refunding??"
I refuse to believe they even tested it on pc...Sony paid them to only use PS5's for development lmao
@@eye776 RTX 4080* 🤓
@@Mrskeleeqwe you can't call someone else a nerd when you're correcting them for a typo.
You're the 🤓
@@citizenvulpes4562 he meant it as a joke there are no 4080s hes saying how the companys a fucking joke come on mate its 2022 you shouldnt have to be explained this shit
@@funtourhawk damn. the devs really shafted PC players.
It's an issue with a lot of unreal engine pc games, they do shader compilation for your gpu while running the game which blocks the next frame to be drawn, so it doesn't matter how powerful your gpu is or what settings you use. The most comedic part is that the freezes wont occur the 2nd time playing it, since they are already compiled, and for a game like this where the first playthrough is important its the worst thing you can do
“unreal engine” that explains it 😂
So they really used an unmodified version of ue4? Most game studios modify ue4 to avoid shit like this no?
@@thegiantratthatmakesalloft9415unreal engine isn’t a bad start to build your game off but it isn’t perfect
@@egggge4752 they did modify it to get some extra effects and more lights per scene in the game, but idk if they did anything about the performance
Real talk (no pun intended), Unreal is REALLY not that amazing of an engine and I have no idea why studios keep using it other than technical familiarity and brand recognition.
Unreal only blew up in the 7th gen because studios were looking for an easy means of transitioning to HD game design, but nowadays basically every major AAA dev is using proprietary tech because (outside of Frostbite) it's cheaper and usually preforms better.
Fun fact is that I unironically fall asleep to most of pyro's lives. They are fantastic and help me sleep despite my insomnia because he is so relaxing to listen to.
They don't help me sleep trough insomnia but they do help me pass the time
@@CallMeVidd This one helped me sleeping well after a hard week of study
nah you right
pyro is quite relaxing and I would KISS HIM
100% homo
True
At the very least Glenn Schofield was able to break away from EA and make his own studio, where he had the freedom to do all those *non* EA things, such as:
>Use Invasive DRM
>Carved out content put into overpriced season passes
>Focus on shiny graphics instead of good gameplay
>Sell a game as a horror title only for it to play like an action game
>Crunch, abuse, and even traumatize employees in the name of gratuitous self-indulgence and a fiscal quarter
And presumably many other "creative freedom" things that Ken Levine and Yuji Naka and the rest of these hackjob "mind behind [popular franchise] who is going independent" directors keep doing.
Yeah to be frank....a lot of the hate on publishers is overblown. Obviously you're only going to get one side ever and what else do you expect from nerds? accountability? like naa that was our call guys....when you can just blame the pub. Obviously EA sucks and a lot of pubs are an issue but that doesn't mean the only issue nor does it mean they are literally sitting there micromanaging all the dumb decisions.
When you look at movies too they blame the studio when in reality its often the actor and or directors who fuck up and the studio steps in for good reason quite frankly. The studio didn't step in and stop the new Wonder WOman from being a rapist....they should have lol that director is trash
Sources? Or you just love to spit nonsense like "employee abuse" for the sake of it?
Oh, and the guy that made mighty no.9, who also made mega man. Put him in there, but I forgot his name
@@Sharp47 youtube doesnt like it when you include links in a comment but thankfully there's this wonderful thing called a search engine
God you people are such fucking 🤡. "Traumatize" their employees. So dramatic. God forbid they had to work overtime for a couple of weeks boo who. Welcome to the real world and once you get your first job you'll understand one day. So cringe.
I like how the first letter to show up on the "Callisto" ending screen is L 49:17
32:15 This part alone, specifically the enemy, showed us that this game took more inspiration to The Last Of Us than Dead Space. Those enemies are just the Clickers. The only Dead Space thing about this game is the GRP and it's sci-fi setting. Dead Space's Necromorph are eldritch monsters whereas the Biophage of this game came from a generic alien virus thing that has been done millions of times before.
Too bad it didn't take the story part from the last of us because the story is shit and the characters are worse. The Last of Us minus its good characters and story is just a shit game.
Even the setting feels completely half-baked to me; they just have a bunch of hallways, vents, and elevators with glowing decals stuck on them. There doesn't feel like there's been much thought put into "what would a space prison actually entail? what kind of infrastructure would you need to have in a prison on a frozen moon?"
Like the room that's full of meat-grinder stuff because that's where they decided to tutorialize environmental kills: what could this room POSSIBLY be used for, realistically? Is it a grinding apparatus to make slop for prisoners? Shouldn't there be some kind of cooking or preservation or packaging equipment in there, then? Just a little extra thought could have made it a more interesting room and led into an interesting area, like one for cooking or food serving, or a massive fridge or freezer, or food transport chutes--something. But since it stands alone, it makes no sense and appears to have no thought put into it beyond "Well, we're making a videogame."
I remember reading the store page for this on Steam, seeing the line "Using a unique blend of shooting and close-quarters combat" in the description and instantly having this gut feeling of "This game gon' be mid as fuck _at best_ ". Never a good sign when a game's PR team describes something that's been done by shitloads of other games as "unique" or "revolutionary". Like when they mention a "unique gravity weapon" as if Half-Life 2, Dead Space, Singularity, etc. were never a thing.
The worst part is that the weaponry just looks so fucking generic. 1 melee weapon, an arsenal of the most basic, shitty guns in the universe and a gravity mechanic that looks like it'd just kinda there, instead of actually integral to the gameplay.
@@titanofyoutube4834 To be fair, The GRPis used by Security guards to restrain an image and knock them out by pushing them into a wall
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Doom 3 expansion 'Resurrection of Evil' as well.
I'm like 90% convinced they originally wanted a longer opening cause they treat the warden and the copilot like you knew em for hours already when they both appear for 5 minutes
it’s honestly almost refreshing to see pyro’s chat actually talking to him like a respectable human being for once
Because the punching bag was the game
My guy thinks pyro is a respectable human being💀
@@dex3625 As respectable as a furry degenerate can be.
It is. Most of the time the chat is just annoying.
@@ne0space yeah chat ends up so buried in the irony that they just come off as unironic bullying pyro which I think is unfair
They really put the "AAA" in Absolutely Asinine Abomination, well done.
Should deserve more likes than it already has. You’ve perfectly summed up AAA gaming.
That's ridiculous. This game is not that bad! It's not perfect but it's definitely not a bad game.
@@thegreatpoo2electricboogal318 I feel the same way about Jump Force. It might not’ve been great, but it was okay.
(An) Absolute Asinine Abomination. very accurate assessment. the game still looks very good tho and does play well considering all the criticisms.
@@LuLingqi101 dude there's some things that Callisto does better than dead space besides the graphics. Just falls short in some areas.
This game is basically if dead space and aliens fireteam had a kid but the kid became a drug addict
The insane amount of vents is probably there as a counterpart to Dead Space's elevators with how they wanted those to be "loading screens"
Thing is Dead Space's elevators acted as a breather in between combat and they let you access your inventory and such while CP's vents just seem like padding and play tediously.
That one boss was so good!! i'm really glad they reused it 4 times
PATTERRZ? WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? I was not expecting this
Blood 2 textbook rules: gotta reuse the bullet sponge boss several times in rapid succession
The asylum hollows from darksouls have a more varied moveset than that boss🥲
@@danyaljamil1677 Hollows are pretty varied. They have fast single swing, they have charge swing, they can block, thry have the rapid swinging move. Pretty solid
I think the most atrocious thing about this game is the fact that they tried to advertise it as a spritual successor to dead space. As far as elements of survival horror go, you would get better results from dead space 3.
100%. There is NOTHING survival horror about this game at all, there is zero DNA from the genre outside a superficial inventory that doesn't matter because the game lacks resource management. There are no environmental puzzles, no backtracking, no permanence to any location or threat, nothing survival horror about it. It's just a sequence of linear corridors, vents, and cutscenes.
@@steel5897 4 hrs in and i agree lol
Callisto> DS3
@@darassylmoniakam callisto is worse in all the aspects a survival horror is supposed to have. Im not saying its a bad game, im saying it shouldnt be called survival horror.
@@darassylmoniakam I agree somewhat
"Why do they always make doctors British in video games?"
Because they sure as hell won't be dentist.
"Why do they always make blacks head doctors and scientists in everything in games and movies?"
Because they sure as hell won't be head doctors or scientists
How come you didn't pick up on that one. Cos its ok to pick on whitey. Puss y
L😂L
funny how after the game ends, the first letter to pop up from the logo is L (49:16)
My favorite part of all of this is the multiple interviews of Glen Schofield saying "The game has been finished for months" 😂
Should've known better when they wouldn't stop showing off their one two headed boss guy design just as often.
Technically every game is finished at least a few months before release, but the time spent polishing it clearly was not enough for this one.
i mean, he wasnt wrong?? but unreal engine can be quite a mess
@@sebastiansuazo2734 Sure it's not because it uses Denuvo?
@@swissidol8403 finish my ass they basically said o w8 six month were giving u what happen after that cluffhanger ending yeah sure most greedy devs ever seen
from what i have seen and heard it's mainly the pc port that is trash while the ps5 and xbox run fine. They really fucked up the pc port.
Calling the ending a fanfiction is an insult to many fanfiction
Funniest part is at 31:50, they straight up didn't even bother texturing any gore in his face, it looks like they just sank the mesh inside his head, so its just skin all the way
that's probably what they did, bet you that if someone got their hands on that model, they can do that in a matter of seconds
I imagine it probably has proper textures, just nobody can see them because we all have to run the game on Low graphics
remember pyro is running at low graphics, so that isn't what it would look like normally
@@AnOceanOnFire Pyro knew what he was doing when he played the game like this 💀
@@anthonyfernandez82 knew he'd be probably getting two more frames above 10 with how trash the pc port is?
I like how in the beginning cutscene the animators/environment designers establish that it takes place on Europa by having one of the buildings be a café called "Europa Café". It's not as stupid as the Halo TV show renaming New Alexandria "Reach City" but still imagine if you were at a mall or a shopping district and you saw a place called "Earth Restaurant" or "Earth Clothing". Wouldn't that be so weird?
While that would be weird, I'd totally shop at Earth Clothing
Probably a tourist trap.
It's a brand name.
Human music level of creativity
To be fair there are a crap ton of rivers in England names the River Avalon, which translates to River River. Or a Montenegro translating to black rock, because they have a black rock in their country. Humans are pretty shit at naming things.
I am still thankful to Pyro for showing this clip of a Manchester kid saying "it is fooking minging". Part of my everyday lexicon now.
I'm glad for that one time a few months back when he showed the BOII clip of the guy going, "HE DISCONNECTED."
@@Jasimfaz shut
Manchester 🤢
@@Jasimfaz i killed your wife
Same, I just say it without explaining it to anyone haha
I just find it funny with the amount of director and bts interviews they did with video titles such as "How Callisto Protocols Gameplay Was Perfected Months Before Release"
they really did the PS2 Ratatuille game section where you get thrown around by water and have to avoid shit in your path, no way.
I don't know why, but the biophages (the zombies in this game) aren't even remotely as scary as the necromorphs in Dead Space. I can't put my finger on it, but maybe because they look too humanoid in their stature and movement, but also too deformed in faces that you cannot really see the person that the zombie was before?
With necromorphs, on the other hand, you could see their faces torn apart by the rebirth, which was terrifying, since you could basically see the person that the necromorph was before death. But their stature (with the high hanging limbs and bones out) and movement seemed so off, that you could tell they were controlled by something alien. Anyway, those are my two cents.
Biophages are just zombies. While necros are humans turned into horrors that tries to be efficient as possible. Just compare a slasher to a normal biophage. Also the infectors and stalkers were once human to but are more graphic than any biophage in callisto
two cents? buddy you've earned over a Million $ for the spot on necromorph comparison.
It's mostly because of the gameplay. Beating up the zombies to a pulp like you're playing punchout and the combat being the same loop every single time is just boring and not threatening at all.
They aren't alien in how they fight and how they act. Necromorphs WHERE. They aren't as much scary as they're pitiful and disgusting. There's no variety. They don't hit hard, and they go down easy, and that's on the background of your weapons being EXTREMELY anemic (i mean most of your fighting is done with a frigging STICK! and the guns hit like a wet noodle, what's Calisto's shotgun vs dead space's brutal exposives, chainsaws, plasma cutters, etc?)... Lastly your dude dances around them like Mike fucking Tyson unlike Issac who's constantly scared shitless and is semi useless in close quarters.
I mean I just genuinely think necromorphs look significantly more Cronenbergian and inhuman than these things is the main reason + the melee gameplay makes them just overall seem like less of a threat. If you got close enough to punch a necromorph, you're already screwed. Here you literally have to get close to them.
Melee can work in survival horror. Most combat in Silent Hill is melee, but SH also isn't trying to be actiony.
I loved the part where Callisto said it sleeping time and went to sleep.
And then sleept alle over the place
Truely sleeper of the year
a sleeper hit if you will
Callisto Protocol more like clicheisto protocol haha gottem
John Callisto
the thumbnail looks like if someone told an AI to generate an 80s dark fantasy movie about King Arthur, like you wouldn't convince me that it's supposed to be a sci-fi horror videogame
When I saw all those stories coming out about how unbelievably realistic the character faces were… I knew the priorities were in the wrong place. Nobody cares how realistic your game is if it runs at 15 frames and plays like dogshit. Nothing is timeless about realism, especially when something much better at being real comes along. Just ends up making the game look even worse in five years.
It screams "we have nothing to offer but face graphics"
Especially when the characters act like moronic cartoons and you can't even hop over a 2ft barrier or fence unless its "the way to go". Yay realizm except I can't climb this pipe or that box or do that or that or that either. DRRRPPPP
Believability is what people really want, it's just that nobody really knows that. Not even the people asking for it
It really doesn't help the "realism" aspect when they were so proud of the death animations that they made an entire DLC for 14 new ones and nothing else, only for them to still be buggy messes where half the time the gore attachments don't appear and its just like you took a hammer to the greasy ass face sculpt of the character, like you can still see his eyes pressed into his face even though that entire part of his skull should be gone.
It’s kind of a shame. In terms of graphics, the game truly feels next gen. It just sucks that other aspects of the game are lacking.
it wouldve been funny if they were self aware and added another head for each encounter with the mini boss they kept bringing back
Imagine playing the final boss same as usual but this time he transforms in the generic two headed monster from before
Calypso Protocol but every enemy is the two headed boss from that one part
Misspelling is intentional
This game is basically The Order: 1886 even the repeated bosses of the werewolf being the same as the 2 headed zombie.
This is literally just Black Ops 3 Nightmares Campaign.
If you look closely at the exploding ship at 29:03 you'll notice the model of one of the parts flying away does this awful looking stretch as if part of it is still attached and the game doesn't know what to do.
lmao the space ship was made from rubber.
It's rubberized
The Callisto Protocol was one of the games to ever release this season. It deserves the title of "A Game" with it's story, gameplay, and graphics. The story was in fact, written. The models were modeled and the textures were textured. The gameplay made me feel like i was playing a video game. Truly, one of the video games i know of.
This put my sides in orbit. Never laughed so hard at a comment.
This is truly one of the used copypastas of all time.
I'm going to copy paste this for upcoming games
This is one of the memes of all time.
This is what an objective review actually looks like people. Next time you say someone wasn't being objective in their critique, this is what it looks like.
I watched a streamer play this (he got a key thank god) an the most fun was had with the dyslexic subtitles. As a dyslexic person I can say they work amazing, even with the font being piss yellow an the background being neon pink I still managed to read it. Sad thing is, there's no actual story to be found an being a pilot doesn't mean anything when you're running from body horror creatures.
I'd also like to say that WHY THE FUCK WAS HE SO SWEATY. Poor guy was for sure dehydrated.
Well, when you are in his shoes. Not knowing wtf is going on, you will be sweaty from adrenaline plus I don’t think he has the luxury of drinking water knowing that a monster could appear in the vent
But outside in the cold . Yeah, no excuse
it’s bonkers how people now just release half polished games for 70 dollars and think nothing of it ☠️
There are so many defenders of this game. I think most people have intelligence not much higher than a dog.
No mans sky and sea of thieves really fooled people into believing that you can release a game unfinished and still have a long lasting fan base
@@owyemen9367The point is that your game has to *have* something, or at least feel like an apology that warrants people coming back and playing your game.
Most of the time, corporations forget this, and think “We release bad game, and maybe fix it and add more content later.”
The frame rate in this game is about as stable as the protagonist in a main channel video
Lmfao that’s really good I think this is the most original pyro live comment in history
All in le head
it ran well on ps5 60fps just wait for patch or sum
The Warden: seen twice, ooh bad guy
Hans Tiedemann: stops Issac in his path multiple times and inadvertently starts the best chapter of Dead Space 2
Edit: Tiedemanns character is even better in Dead Space iOS
This comment right here
@@Aristocrat1cs thank you sir
Tiedemann wasn't even really an amazing protagonist but Jesus he didn't go "I do hope you enjoyed your stay at The Sprawl!" Before locking you in that one room
oh goddamn I loved letting them into the compound in dead space 2 XD
Seeing Tiedemann losing his shit after doing the most irrational thing ever.
Yeah, I thought it might just have bad gameplay and performance, but no, the writing is also dogwater. Fucking hell, this game is unredeemable
I swear to god they should have just renamed it to, "The Protocol Among Us" at this point because of how many vent sections there are
Your comment makes no sense. Please do better. 🤡
This game has achieved something special
It made me re-download every Dead Space game and replay them
Definitely more worthy of your precious time than this game.
First Cyberpunk 2077 and now the Callisto Protocol. I will never pre-order a game again, I don't care if the developer is a multi-million company or an indie one, they do not deserve my trust or money anymore.
Agree however, I wouldn't call it on Cyberpunk lvl.
@@Emtiskay yea tru cyberpunk is worse
@@viva8258 no cyberpunk had interesting characters and storyline. ;-)
@@BigLebowski2000 I'm not saying it did not. I'm saying that the launch was full of bugs making my first experience of the game feel bad. The same thing goes with the Callisto Protocol, first impressions matter, and I refuse to believe that we deserve to spend money on games that are released half-baked.
Cyberpunk was worse on Release, if 2077 had released in its Patch 1.6 State it would've been an outside contender for Game of The Year IMO. The Issue with Callisto isn't the massive gap between parts that are good and parts that are bad. Its just MID, Cyberpunks had a decent story, OST, World Design, it ran shittily and was riddled with bugs. Callisto has none of that but it runs shittily. Same fuck you to anyone that bought it expecting the next CDPR Masterpiece or Dead Space Homage.
The moment I heard Warden Cole I thought it would be a generic plot about some prothetic-sounding villain making pretentious philosophical monologues about the progress of human evolution but thought that it'd be too obvious to be true
you know its bad when pyro can literally predict every single jumpscare without even thinking it
The robots sound like what happened with Omega's voice in Sonic 06 where they forgot to filter it so it would sound like a robots voice
What scares me is that people are actually liking this, to have such low standards for a $70 game is depressing for me.
is cope mate, they cant move on from games, gaming is dead and people should look for something else
@Weißwolfe Agree , gaming is mostly dead thx to money hungry companies rushing games or monetising them.
We get only a few good games nowadays.
Something about Pyro fake scared while semi rapid-firing a shotgun into a monster on the ground tickled me greatly.
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First I was annoyed that I couldn´t get it while in Japan but now I feel like this was a great stroke of luck
Yeah tbh it’s awful but living in Japan sounds way scarier
It was. Don't waste your money.
Ashame. You missed out on a good game. I've made the mistake before of listening to the Internet. Won't do that again.
@@onepunchman4444 Just because your standards are rock bottom doesn't mean everyone else's is. You're free to like what you want, but this game is ass and you gotta admit that it's just not worth people's money, not at the price they're selling it at.
@@onepunchman4444bad bait.
the only thing that could have saved this was if as the lady doctor was doing her exposition she started rambling about the templars and then you got pulled out of the vr device and it turned into surprise assassin's creed
The part where he gets pushed down the sewage and it becomes a water slide was like seeing someone play temple run 💀
Cant believe they made an entire game about pyro's dad escaping prison
Never expected this game's performance to be worse than Pyro's hairline
Bro this game isn’t even bad he’s bullshitting everyone. I literally ran the whole thing on ps4 with no bugs so idk how tf he’s having troubles on a pc
yoo thats a low blow
@@Apple_Beshy unlike his hairline
Except he purposely lowered his graphics setting and the fact that people are buying into it is crazy. The game runs great for me and I don’t have a series x
@@m3gad4n67 then how can you speak for everyone else
maybe the real horror was the frames we lost along the way
This game makes Pokémon Scarlet and Violet look like it's constantly running in 60 FPS
I watched like 2 hours of the vod and couldn’t make it all the way to the end, I’m amazed you played it as long as you did
I watched the entire stream, start to finish. It was the most excruciating horror one could imagine and not in a good way.
Pyro is a true gamer, he finishes even the most shitty boring ass games
I watched Charlies gameplay and didn't last 10 minutes before involuntary yawning
Idk why people are saying its bad, guess people will bitch over anything now
@@joemama-bu5ue literally not a shit game lmao
Not surprised it didn't end up meeting expectations. EA, despite as awful the company is known to be, undeniably had as much to do with the success (and eventual downfall) of Dead Space.
Cutting out those EA employees who helped make Dead Space is like making bread with no yeast.
same thing that happened with turtlerock and b4b, the devs who left had little or nothing to do with the actual good parts and they end up making generic, bland shit that misses the mark by a whole-ass parsec
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Ikr.
Everytime I see "From the dev of _______game", I know it's a red flag.
Except the games main problem is the performance, which has nothing to do with the kinds of people working there
It actually speaks volumes the fact that NFS Unbound of all games, is doing better on Steam and Metacritic user reviews alike than Lagllisto Stuttercol
EA was, at the beggining, really about "Electronic ARTS", many games from back in the day across different genres were spearheaded by EA (may it be in house or with another studio in hand). Really talented (if not the most talented) developers, artists, and just people involved in the making of videogames from that "golden era" were under EA's wing. We can shit all we want on EA now, but they got to the point they are now, because of many feats they undertook and succeeded at. I still play C & C, Dead Space, LOTR, and others, I still love them to death. Were did all this people go? I doubt they are still working there, seeing how much of a corrupted giant this publisher has become, but it is a fact that all those original teams are no longer working together, the same teams were all kinds of coincidences, ideas, and work got done in, haven't really translated to the modern game development scene (where everything is rushed, which is ironic since games have gotten way more expensive and harder to make).
My favorite part of the stream was when Jacob said "It's Callisto time" and protocoled himself out of the prison.
This meme is getting old. It’s dead. Create your own memes.
@@senatorstevenarmstrong6703 says the one with an overused name and overused pfp
@@senatorstevenarmstrong6703 I mean after a month any meme is dead…
@@amsyarzero There are worse pfp’s to choose from. Such as furries, or hentai
@@senatorstevenarmstrong6703 senator armstrong is one the deadest memes out there
The funniest part about this game is that I got an advertisement right after a jumpscare that was an advertisement about the Callisto protocol.
This game reminds me of Back 4 Blood. Both of them are made by previous developers with similar game, but failed to exceed their predecessors
Or Mighty Number 9 to Megaman, or Oooka-Laylee to Banjoo-Kazooie, or Balan's Wonderworld and NiGHTs
@@WSendam Rocksteady has nothing to do with Gotham Knights though.
@@diegosaez4885 Moral of the story is that reputation =/= innate talent. Hell, Dikatana and shit from WAY before the 2010s is proof of that.
In the case of MN9 and Balan there's a bit more to given inafune and Naka weren't really even that involved with the franchise they were associated with. In YL's case... I mean, I don't actually like Banjo as much as everyone else seems to, and most of the shit people complain about with YL are also problems in Banjo, but I guess I lack the rose tinted glasses of a millennial. At the very least Playtonic seems to have learned from it's mixed reception unlike the former 2 asshats.
This is an industry that involves huge amounts of collaboration, and publisher oversight is a part of that for better or for worse. Sometimes you need someone to remind you you need to make sure you can cross the finish line before you focus on trying to come in first. Turtle Rock and these devs clearly need that because oof.
Played back 4 blood once or twice when it came out. Haven't checked it out since. Shame
I wonder if Crowbcat will do a video on this like he did for Back 4 Blood. That video was _brutal_ lol.
I can't believe Pyro had a back-end into The Callisto Protocol's development and tanked the game's graphics _specifically_ so he could make a stream about how bad the game is.
Pyro's truly hit a new low.
He never thought to even look at settings, notice how every other UA-camr playing this rn has had no issue
@@realmeth0dz668 am i not getting the sarcasm or you're actually serious
@@realmeth0dz668 He's on low settings u good?
well other youtuber indeed have no issue except the sound setting which set in default
I have heard that it runs well on ps5. Devs don't care about pc optimisation.
henry sickmin has more depth and captivating gameplay than the calypso protogen
The fact that Henry Stickman had more love, care and effort put into it than a game of this scale, and a game that... I *think* it was passion project? Eh, maybe I'm mixing this up with something else but still.
Going back and reading comments saying Callisto would destroy the Dead Space Remake when it showed no gameplay is probably one of the biggest indicators that hype is probably the strongest thing in the gaming industry.
Personally, I go in with a neutral perspective when it comes to games. I don't go in expecting it to fail, but I don’t put blind faith into it either. I usually wait for either gameplay or reviews before deciding to buy a game (with the exception of Resident Evil games. I pre-order those).
why does every mediocre story have the female co protagonist who is annoying or outright antagonises the protagonist for the whole story but by the end is loved to the point of self sacrifice because she was shown being nice in the most forced way like once.
Oh and the *points at horribly disfigured corpse* ''SEE? THATS THE NEXT PHASE OF HUMAN EVOLUTION'' bad guy, i swear it could be a nice plot but they NEVER give any good explainations
of course its evolution, i mean do you not want to look like burnt kebab and cheese stumbling around in eternal agony ?
It feels like resident evil
Honestly she wasn't terrible but they executed introducing her and how they want in the story of her was God awful
that reminds me dead rising 4
eughh
@@jesterbeats2898 She legit threatened to kill him multiple times, it wasn't a buddy type of vibe nor was it believable
This game was focused around melee combat, right?
I'd like to remind you that Dark Messiah of Might and Magic came out in 2006, Dishonored came out in 2010s. Batman Arkham games came out before it, Vermintide 2 came out before it. There are more ways to do melee combat satisfying than just "dodge every 3 whacks".
Addendum: them Calypso developers really decided "hmmm, you know what was a good game? Blood 2: The Chosen", and then they copied the idea of throwing the same bullet sponge boss at you seventy times in a row. At least they didn't steal the idea of RNG-based weapon damage and the explosions going through walls.
37:50 Is actually really funny since I play Pro's VODS to sleep lmao
38:30 The Chinese beggar after I give him the nuggets I dropped on the floor
The security robots were such a let down, they had such a intimidating aura but they go down in like two shots to their head. They had so much potential. I still liked the game a lot but had so many missed opportunities.
Go listen to The Callisto Protocol Helix Station. It’s actually really great and better than the whole game
wow who would have thought that bashing the CPU with a weapon will destroy it!
@@eye776 I blame Krafton. I see the passion in what we got it’s just missing something vital
play on max security and see if they go down in 2 shots lmao just beat the game on that difficulty and let me tell you that shit isn't for the faint of heart, as far as bugs and stuff i haven't really had any of what everyone else is complaining about fr, maybe a stutter here or their but nothing that makes the game unplayable. Only thing I'm disappointed about is having to wait like 3 months for the hardcore mode and riot mode
@@damienhedger2941 are you on PlayStation 5? that’s why lol
I hate the fact that in this game every enemy that does the grab/leap attack, always ends up on the right shoulder, and not face/leg or any other limb.
ive seen no one mention this but one of the enemies in the game (the two headed spitter enemy) is shown in a ingame cutscene to transform a human into another zombie zenophage thing and its only done this once and that mechanic is never seen again. was hoping for some dynamic gameplay besides throwing enemies into traps, off the map or abusing the knockback mechanic.
ferris literally just turned into a resident evil tyrant
So I beat the game yesterday and when he did that, my sleep deprived ass simply said “521, It’s protocol time” and then proceeded to die from laughter at the kingpin running of captain Ferris.
To sum it up, Callisto is a good comedy game dressed up as a beat ‘em up zombie game.
I was overly hyped for this game, I remember watching the trailers and thinking how great it'd be when it released and its disappointing how bad it ended up being
Here's the problem: You got hyped from cutscenes and scripted shit and not the actual game. If a dev is koi about showing gameplay, it's an IMMEDIATE sign to be skeptical. Cyberpunk, Colonial Marines, and NMS are perhaps the crowning examples, but this goes on the shitlist along with them.
Moral of the story, wait until you see the final product and the general reception. This is the world we live in today, you shouldn't get hyped over anything anymore. You just get disappointed over and over again
@@Fenrize Ah yes , the "We live in a society" approach.
Just because you got burned once doesn't mean you should just go in the entirely polar opposite direction for all time thereafter m8. You can be skeptical and still be interested in things. Just don't bet the farm on X Game being the messiah because the devs told you so and showed you a cool cutscene or two.
Be like me: Excited yet skeptical about everything. If it succeeds you can get more excited, if it fails you have something to laugh at. You can be invested, but never get too invested.
@@warbossgegguz679 Honestly, his approach is fine. It's justifiable to not expect anything from games anymore due to how much disappointments that has been released, atleast it helps tempering your own expectations and not get too disappointed when it turns out bad, but a great surprise if it's aftually good. Even I was skeptical over Elden Ring (still had some problems on their 1st day release, but it's patched now).
I think Warboss is right with his point about being skeptical when games dont show actual gameplay. The only games I only get excited for are indie games because they usually do show their gameplay.
They really should have waited to release until they had fixed the stuttering issues. First impressions are so important and they totally shat the bed with this one.
"Its impossible to expect a smooth day one"
I expected it 20 years ago. Hell the industry demanded it.
but muh holiday sales
@@archersterling6726 they wanted to get it put before the dead space remake
If a game doesn't run perfectly smoothly it's a show stopper for me. I mean that's one of the most basic things they have to get right first and foremost. This never happened in Dead Space and that game is what - 13 years old.
9:07 the moment he started climbing, I whispered to myself "what a thrill....." only for the video to play the same line at the exact same time XD
Good to know everyone is in sync with vintage memes
I can’t believe that Dead Space copied Callisto Protocol
It's funny that this originally was going to be a PUBG spinoff, according to the Wiki.
I wish I was joking.
Source:
The origins of The Callisto Protocol began with the formation of Striking Distance as a studio within PUBG Corporation (now PUBG Studios) in June 2019, helmed by Glen Schofield, who had previously co-created the Dead Space series at Visceral Games. The studio was created to expand the PUBG : Battlegrounds universe by creating a narrative driven game.Schofield said that when he met with PUBG Corporation where they explained their goal to expand the PUBG narrative, he already had the concept for The Callisto Protocol in mind and presented that to them and worked with them to fit his idea into their universe. However, by May 2022, Schofield stated that the game had grown to be its own story and is no longer connected to PUBG, though there remain small nods to the latter.
There's nothing wrong with it wanting to be a PUBG spinoff *as long as the story's good*
@@amsyarzero which it isn't
No wonder why the combat's trash
This game is about pyros dad trying to escape from jail in Birmingham
“They had good budget for facial animations”
10 seconds earlier the guy who was talking didn’t even open his mouth
13:14 I'm making this my ringtone.
i cant believe Pyro made another 8 minute and 1 second video for mid rolls
The only time chat hated the game instead of pyro
"If you're like a huge Dead Space fan and you've got money"
Well, it's a good thing I'm neither of those.
i like that after the sequel bait jumpscare the first thing you see is just a massive L
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Genuine Blood 2 Behemoth school graduate moment
Just a heads up to anyone deadset on running this with Raytracing-- *TURN OFF RT SHADOWS* to fix (in my case and others) tons of UE4/DXGI crashes to lockups, hickups and excessive VRAM/GPU spikes.
With how glitchy the benchmark looks and how grainy some of those shadows are, I'd say it even looks better with just the reflections. Hope it helps anyone!
the true terror of the callisto protocol is if you can run the game or the game runs from you
cute little orphan boy eating bread on stream 💀
"Itt ess Mingin, It ess Mingin, Soekyer' Daad!" - reconstruction of proto-germanic language
I don't think i've ever heard pyro laugh harder than when he saw the word "midtown" on that wall lmao.
The Fact That Pyro Sang Snake Eater Makes This Even Better
“It is ff-minging, it is ff-minging”
Gotta love the anti-youtube demonization edits