It's pretty refreshing to see a plot heavy character who knows that they're complicit in the happenings and doesn't run away from their own share of responsibilities.
@@DekkarJr Better than whatever the jank Capcom's been trying with their "twist villains". Dante, Chris, etc... smh Capcom writers really don't know how to make a twist.
@@flamelover1746 Yep, Capcom tried to pull a narrative twist with him offing one of the plot characters at the start of DMC4. Needless to say, nobody brought it. Same shit with Chris in RE8.
@@benakinnusi2518 whilst I will admit I do think it was LITTLE bit of a copout, it does set it up perfectly for future instalments. I think the ending will go straight into the dlc, and we also have Dani managing to get away, so who knows. But also, remember what Dr Mahler said in the underground lab about patient Zero?
The plot is like a space resident evil. Though I have a strong feeling that the alien they discovered is just part of a bigger problem. Maybe that big alien is just another victim of that larvae infection and that larvae is some type of parasite with similar agenda like the flood on halo or the moon brethren in dead space.
I thought the same. The giant sea creature is the tip of the iceberg. I wonder if it will take loose inspiration from Prometheus. It essentially could be a bio-weapon that was created by some acient alien civilisation. The cult that the prison warden is working for wants to speed up human evolution but doesn't fully grasp the nature of how it all works. Humans are trying to play God with something they have no control over etc, etc. It's basically the unitologist cult and the markers from Deadspace.
Am I the only one who doesn't seem to find this game bad? Like I get it misses the mark a little and obviously Dead Space will always be superior, but for what it does it does it right. The Graphics are insane, The Biophage are scary, the story is interesting enough to make you wanna see what happens next and the combat while a little shallow is still fun. At the end of the day that's what a game should be-fun. And I had a great time. So I am really confused by all the comments saying that it's disappointing and over hyped . Really at the end of the day I'm just happy for Glen Schofield to get some closure on the series that EA ruined, and will gladly play the dlc when it comes out.
@@corvo.youroneandonly I don't know. It was pretty obvious the guy who said, "this is my kingdom and you're a dead man" and the other who did nothing but ramble on about change and evolution and is a part of pretty much the illuminati were gonna be Evil
I dont think it's bad at all. Held up against Deadspace 1 or 2 it falls short but many survival horror games do. I much prefer a touch of cosmic horror like in DS vs virus forced evolution aspect but that's personal taste.
I wouldn't say the Biophage are scary. Unnerving or disturbing sure but I didn't really feel they invoked fear, if that makes sense? Idk, maybe I'm just too desensitized to be scared by much at this point
After beating the game I think the story is at best decent the explanation of the alien life form on where they found larvae in it is pretty reasonable so when they build a prison they already have a breeding ground of test subjects so it's an all right plot what I don't get is why they didn't expand upon these cult groups like The Circle where in one of the chapters there is a audio log called the mole and this guy is talking about contacting the circle which is weird cuz we've only known about the United Jupiter company this entire time so could that mean if we ever get a sequel or DLC we could be seeing this group maybe be involved with the warden was in? But I like the the story its alright But dead spaces lore is better
They did confirm there is gonna be a story DLC sometime next year so who knows we might get a actual epilouge and possibly some leftover for a sequel.. but we'll have to wait and see
Dead space lore wasn’t that large when the first game dropped, they’re building a new world with Callisto, we just have to wait for the books, animations, podcasts that are yet to come. They’re teasing this Illuminati group as the big bad, just be patient, they’re gonna get to it in future instalments
I don't know it feels like it could be in the same universe just further into the future, where perhaps another pathogen infection was discovered instead of the pillars, after all she did hint at an organization that has always been applying to the idea of control over the human evolution which is right out of Dead space lore.
This game is basically a version of the works of Dead Space. It was GOTY, had tons of awards and the story was just as lacking details or depth as this story. So clearly that is enough for players.
@@anthonyhero9605 that part was so corny to me, this game has some cool mature moments but all the sequel-bait and plot developments are nauseatingly generic
Honestly the amount of encounter and being bitten on the neck at random spot in the game, heck even the saliva from the monster.. i truly wonder why didn't Jacob turn?
@@MrDosonhai or perhaps you don't know what a vibe is, did I say that this was the game no, I said "IT GIVES ME DEATH STRANDING VIBES" learn to fuckin read y'all
@@ParadoxicalSerenity Why Max Payne of all games? We're not mad, just confused why you very, very, very specifically choose a 2000s game. Why don't just say "From pixelated graphics back in the 1980s to this".
That imagery of a body splayed to strands but still living is close to the specific image I had formed in my head to represent true suffering , since I was like seven or eight years old. Albeit the imagery is not close to as splayed and broken as I had envisioned. A completely lack of control, you don’t have the ability to think of loved ones or “where did I go wrong” or “what did I do to deserve this”. You are in an agony that bores into every fiber of your being , pushing you far beyond the breaking point. Your brain experiencing what is equivalent to white noise. Unintelligible signals and cries , flashing from every corner of your nervous system , fighting to draw attention to the pain it feels. If whatever holds you , allowed you to regain any motor function, you would tear the strands asunder , if you could even pull enough sanity together to attempt to move. Yet it could still be worse. Salt , or any chemical that is harmful to cells , being applied to you would far surpass the hell you’d have been in until that point. The thing that scares me most is the amount of effort and constant monitoring it would take to inflict that level of sadistic abuse without granting them the mercy of death would need an almost limitless capacity for thought. Yet this paragon of intelligence would have determined that there is no need for any regard for even the concept of a biological existence.
@@biganimetiddies1287 I’d say it is because I have spent so much of my life pondering and fearing this level of cruelty , that my humanity is far more solid than someone that would see or read that and say, “that is cool”. Edit : I will also say that I am getting a good laugh out of the fact that I’m typing this in response to someone with the username BigAnimeTiddies.
@@lucre113 this was an articulation of concepts I was forced to think about , of what it means to say “death is mercy”. Thank the animatrix, and those horror stories of things like anesthesia not working for that.
The basic concept is pretty much identical, it's about the megalomaniac dream of transcending themselves with their power through their secret society,
@@RenegadeJames resident evil 1, 2,3 and 4 are incredibly well written. The downfall of raccoon city, the corruption of Birkin, the madness of umbrella and the spencer mansion, lisa trevor, the backstory of saddler acting as a religious priest to control the people and turn them into ganados are all fenomenally written and there is NO question about that. Re5 to 8 are whatever but you CANNOT deny how great the writing on the og trilogy and 4 is.
@@juliogomesdesouza9035 No R:E ever was well-written, they're slightly darker anime-style stories with *meh* acting. Great environments, some of them great gameplay, but you need to watch a couple of horror movies if you really think R:E is "good writing". Go watch Alien or Blade Runner by Ridley Scott, go watch Moon by Duncan Jones, or Outland by Peter Hyams. Space Horror sci-fi stories have existed for a looooong time, Callisto (or R:E) have only barely scratched the surface of what truly good writing in those genres could be. The acting in Callisto in top-notch, that I cannot deny, thanks to an amazing Mo-cap department, but to qualify any of those games with "good writing" is just a testimony of the lack of references one could have. Seriously, go read Orwell, Huxley, Zelazny, or even Stephen King if you want "good writing". Videogames in general are sorely lacking it.
I wish the time skip where he ended up in the cell had meant something. Would've been so much cooler if he'd actually lost months or even years instead of somewhere between a few hours to a couple days.
THANK YOU! That beginning sequence in retrospect showed me everything that would end up disappointing about the game: rushed pacing, cheap predictable scares, and very little time given to making you care about anyone
@@VeritabIlIti I don’t know man, I don’t think it seems to rushed. The beginning sequence on its own yeah was a little rushed, however the rest of the game as long as you aren’t trying to speed through it is definitely not rushed. The scares to me and everyone I know were scary, of course if you watch horror movies all the time and play only this genre of game I could see how they would be predictable, but I’ve never not jumped playing this game, and I’m not that easy of a person to scare. And of course you’re not going to get to REALLY know the characters you’re in a zombie infested prison and don’t get a break from being attacked, and if that’s not what you expected you clearly didn’t read up on the game.
@@Zayzanater I read up a ton on the game. I watched the video series where they talked about mastering the four aspects of horror they were targeting, one of which was pacing. Effective horror pacing relies on taking down-time, time for tension to build. Jump-scares are only effective when you're not expecting it, when you've had time to relax your guard just enough for it to be effective, but not so much that all tension just leaves the scene. With the exception of the surface walk with all the frozen enemies, Callisto spent almost no time building that tension, content to show you enemies almost immediately and continue jumping you (those stupid tentacle chests can go die, they aren't scary after the first two because you just expect it every time). Now survival horror typically balances the action with a scarcity of resources making the chance of running out and dying ever-present, at least until late game. The melee combat already alleviates that risk somewhat, but once the GRP is introduced the game becomes almost trivial whenever there's a trap nearby. But with all of that, the aspect of writing is the need for characters to feel like people instead of just channels for the plot to move along, and Callisto again fails there. Compare to Dead Space: the first few minutes establish relationships between the crew, Isaac has a job and a character beyond "I'm working here," and most importantly stakes: there's a reason he's there. Meanwhile our PC in Callisto (who is set up in the intro as having nothing to lose, compared to his family man friend) has some sort of job messed up by people he doesn't know, then his entire arc through the game consists of getting out of the prison. Understandable motive, but not enough to make us care about him making it out. Whats there to do when he gets out? What's his backstory anyway? Why is his first instinct when confronted with a riot scenario to cave a man's head in with a pipe without hesitation? It's those details that build a world and story, and Callisto half-assed them. But I will concede that I have consumed a lot of horror, and so if you don't care about all that stuff then the game is fine. I'm glad you were able to get more enjoyment out of it than I was!
I have not seen ANYTHING on this game - it didn't interest me - but I clicked on this video out of curiosity and the first thing that crossed my mind: *"Is that the Transformers guy?"* It's the Transformers guy.
i did like the game ...wanted more but its what its ...no ng+ is killing me to wait till next year for that ....specially with games like red fall, starfield, arc riders, the first decendant...etc coming out
@Green Grugach lol is not as bad as people are saying on UA-cam ... Is a good game it does have some bugs and it need a little be of work but that is it
Play Dead Space Remake instead. The story is probably one of the weakest parts of this game, this scene is towards the end and one of the first times we get any sort of answers about ANYTHING
basically idea is that they find an invidiual who can endure the infection and synrochnize with the parasite into some kinda symbiotic relationship, and then study and replicate him in order to further 'evolve humanity'. course we don't know the true nature of these parasites and far as we know there is a chtulu in europa.
first patient mutated that could still control his thoughts while being in the evolutioned form. that was their goal and that's why the warden was project alpha cause he was mutated but still had a conscious
I didn't even know there was a game out. There is a really good podcast/audio drama called the callisto protocall that was pretty good. I though that was it, going to have to get this game now
I haven't played this game, but based only on this video, the game's dialogue is top-notch. No "stupid" misunderstandings (misunderstandings can happen but it has to be *not* stupid), no filler words, no clichéd reactions, only necessary informations and expressions. Dry but slick. Bethesda can never achieve this.
Buddy, every bit of this is cliché. This is the peak example of "saying a lot of words that don't mean much at all." Half of it is jargon or half-answers (such as saying I'll give you her memories and then explaining anyway), Jacob initiates by running up to the person trying to save his friend with a knife (who he despised for most of the game and has no reason to like, they just decided to get over their differences but then switched to buddy cop), and that's ignoring how completely cliché the entire premise is with its "next stage of human evolution because a madman but also a secret cult but nevermind" bull. The dialogue for most of the game is either to give meandering exposition or to tell you to go somewhere.
Reason being that Dead Space is under EA's legal copyright and these guys no longer have access to the IP so they made a new game title with the old devs
@@VeritabIlIti I know right?! It's such a lame twist. From the very beginning Jacob outright said he knew he was doing a lot of "no questions asked" deliveries, so the reveal only shows... he knew what the biophages looked like before the outbreak, not what they could do. This reveal may have worked better if, before the final boss, Cole thanked Jacob for smuggling the biophages. No selective amnesia necessary of Jacob looking through his classified cargo.
@@chrisdaughen5257 selective amnesia is usually a surefire way to make sure all stakes feel cheated. In this case, we didn't know anything about Jacob to have any prediction beyond the usual cliches, which makes this one feel somehow worse to me
Either she’s the same height, or sometimes (actually a lot of times) filmmakers will make the actors seem as tho they’re the same height so that blocking and shot compositing doesn’t look goofy when one character is taller than the other and mess up shot composition.
not really at it current price, maybe with a good discount, gameplay is boring and tedious, story is very meh, the characters are also meh, the game is a solid meh, well if you like dead space if not then is a solid pass
I'll add on to the last guy: if you like Dead Space, just get the new remake instead. At a discount this game might be fun, but at full price you're getting a mediocre story with full characters, a tedious plot, and gameplay mechanics that don't mesh with the overall design of the game.
It has a great merit 15 years after the first dead space to make an autocopy, worse in all aspects, combat, variety of enemies, story line duration, etc etc
After playing the entire game, it seems weirdly, hollow.. Decent gameplay and story at the start, then what felt like a LOT of fluff, hours and hours of dodging punches, then this ending which was nice, but felt like it should have been way earlier in the story and lead to more.. It also seemed really weird that they couldn’t just take a second sample from the ‘alpha’. Also, this man clearly seems to be immune. It ended with so many weird loose strings I feel, weird. I’m not mad! I’m really not mad, but it feels like they had something good and didn’t deliver as well as they could have. The environments were nice, sound was good, enemy designs were a bit, repetitive, main enemy was, unexpectedly unintimidating, but what really annoyed me was simply that the protagonist said non-stop that he was innocent, but had a ‘revelation’ at the last minute that he was culpable, even though he obviously was!! Also, if all these people died just so this ancient society would get a mega-human, why would they be so excited after their most precious experiment lost to (as they’d consider him) a normal human? Also, I realizing turning humans into a form capable of exploring space is adventitious, but that won’t be possible if you turn the humans into near-mindless, super aggressive monsters!! They might have had potential, but that potential was never realized, and yet they pat themselves on the back non-stop.
I’m pretty sure the point their trying to make in this game is that the cults plan had flaws and wasn’t perfect on its own, and really was just a bunch of evil people that wanted to kill a lot of people while also thinking their advancing humanity. And don’t forget that there’s a story dlc coming around eventually, it probably will fill in some of the holes.
@@Zayzanater Unfortunately that sounds like an over-simplification to me. Perhaps it’s the type of dumb-evil that Resident Evil does over and over, sure, but I consider that bad writing too.
It's pretty refreshing to see a plot heavy character who knows that they're complicit in the happenings and doesn't run away from their own share of responsibilities.
haha yeah i love a guy thats just like "oh sup you made it this far? Me. Yeah its me, i did this shit :D "
@@DekkarJr Better than whatever the jank Capcom's been trying with their "twist villains".
Dante, Chris, etc... smh Capcom writers really don't know how to make a twist.
@@淡い炎 Isn't Dante a good guy?
@@flamelover1746 Yep, Capcom tried to pull a narrative twist with him offing one of the plot characters at the start of DMC4.
Needless to say, nobody brought it.
Same shit with Chris in RE8.
@@淡い炎 oh my some Capcom anti , lol
“Sometimes evolution requires a push or a sacrifice.” -Valkorion
This quote sums it up quite well.
More like Basedkorion
Bad father L
I refuse to believe that Jacob isn’t immune. He’s gonna be the alpha
How did u feel about the ending?
@@benakinnusi2518 whilst I will admit I do think it was LITTLE bit of a copout, it does set it up perfectly for future instalments. I think the ending will go straight into the dlc, and we also have Dani managing to get away, so who knows. But also, remember what Dr Mahler said in the underground lab about patient Zero?
@@TheWrightChoice_ What did she say?
@@TheWrightChoice_ The alpha was Cpt. Ferris. He was what the Warden and the Circle were looking for.
@@ColtonT13 I think he was Warden Cole’s “Alpha” but he lost his humanity. Jacob didn’t. Jacob was stronger. Kept his intellect, his humanity.
I could swear the doctor's played by Tilda Swinton! The face, the voice, the mannerisms, everything!
It's the lady from the leftovers HBO series who loses all her family
Dr Halsey energy
Damn you right , even looks like her
Yes, she seems to be lesbian too
Actually her name is Louise Barnes, she plays Miranda Barlow in Black Sails
Jacob still use the elias shiv from begining until the end😅
Hes looking down at her the entire time
Elias Shiv completely BTFO those blind zombies totally OP
The plot is like a space resident evil. Though I have a strong feeling that the alien they discovered is just part of a bigger problem. Maybe that big alien is just another victim of that larvae infection and that larvae is some type of parasite with similar agenda like the flood on halo or the moon brethren in dead space.
Callisto protocol was supposed to be part of the PUBG universe(which was later canceled) so a lot of the lore from this game is related to PUBG lore
@@리정우-w3g did pubg have a lore
@@officialsleepyhead yes there are Easter eggs hidden around the maps and the pubg website and youtube account has lore related articles and videos
The Dr herself reminds me of Dr Halsey. The confidence/arrogance, mannerisms.
I thought the same. The giant sea creature is the tip of the iceberg. I wonder if it will take loose inspiration from Prometheus. It essentially could be a bio-weapon that was created by some acient alien civilisation. The cult that the prison warden is working for wants to speed up human evolution but doesn't fully grasp the nature of how it all works. Humans are trying to play God with something they have no control over etc, etc. It's basically the unitologist cult and the markers from Deadspace.
Am I the only one who doesn't seem to find this game bad? Like I get it misses the mark a little and obviously Dead Space will always be superior, but for what it does it does it right. The Graphics are insane, The Biophage are scary, the story is interesting enough to make you wanna see what happens next and the combat while a little shallow is still fun.
At the end of the day that's what a game should be-fun. And I had a great time. So I am really confused by all the comments saying that it's disappointing and over hyped .
Really at the end of the day I'm just happy for Glen Schofield to get some closure on the series that EA ruined, and will gladly play the dlc when it comes out.
No, the story is Disney twist villain-level kind of story. Just really generic. It literally had the same boss 4 times.
The game is kinda fun ngl
@@corvo.youroneandonly I don't know. It was pretty obvious the guy who said, "this is my kingdom and you're a dead man" and the other who did nothing but ramble on about change and evolution and is a part of pretty much the illuminati were gonna be Evil
I dont think it's bad at all. Held up against Deadspace 1 or 2 it falls short but many survival horror games do. I much prefer a touch of cosmic horror like in DS vs virus forced evolution aspect but that's personal taste.
I wouldn't say the Biophage are scary. Unnerving or disturbing sure but I didn't really feel they invoked fear, if that makes sense? Idk, maybe I'm just too desensitized to be scared by much at this point
After beating the game I think the story is at best decent the explanation of the alien life form on where they found larvae in it is pretty reasonable so when they build a prison they already have a breeding ground of test subjects so it's an all right plot what I don't get is why they didn't expand upon these cult groups like The Circle where in one of the chapters there is a audio log called the mole and this guy is talking about contacting the circle which is weird cuz we've only known about the United Jupiter company this entire time so could that mean if we ever get a sequel or DLC we could be seeing this group maybe be involved with the warden was in? But I like the the story its alright But dead spaces lore is better
They did confirm there is gonna be a story DLC sometime next year so who knows we might get a actual epilouge and possibly some leftover for a sequel.. but we'll have to wait and see
Dead space lore wasn’t that large when the first game dropped, they’re building a new world with Callisto, we just have to wait for the books, animations, podcasts that are yet to come. They’re teasing this Illuminati group as the big bad, just be patient, they’re gonna get to it in future instalments
I don't know it feels like it could be in the same universe just further into the future, where perhaps another pathogen infection was discovered instead of the pillars, after all she did hint at an organization that has always been applying to the idea of control over the human evolution which is right out of Dead space lore.
This game is basically a version of the works of Dead Space. It was GOTY, had tons of awards and the story was just as lacking details or depth as this story. So clearly that is enough for players.
@@anthonyhero9605 that part was so corny to me, this game has some cool mature moments but all the sequel-bait and plot developments are nauseatingly generic
Honestly the amount of encounter and being bitten on the neck at random spot in the game, heck even the saliva from the monster.. i truly wonder why didn't Jacob turn?
He’s got skill.
The graphics and atmosphere look a solid 10/10
Performance is a 0/10.
Only on pc
@@PoalOpal Runs as smooth as silk on PS5
@@1995krampe only with ray tracing on, I got it to run without frame rate drops on the lower settings. Sucks but, yeah.
@@PoalOpal it ran fine for me on ps5 buddy so stop repeating garbage from sellout content creators kid.
That armor is giving me death stranding vibes
Reminds me of mass effect.
Thinking Dead Space.
My friend said that he looks like that one operator with the gravity spikes from Black Ops 3
Dead Space man, how can anyone pick up any other vibes is beyond me. Perhaps you're gen Z and don't know the legendary Dead Space?
@@MrDosonhai or perhaps you don't know what a vibe is, did I say that this was the game no, I said "IT GIVES ME DEATH STRANDING VIBES" learn to fuckin read y'all
From Max Payne to Callisto Protocol, we've come a long way and I'm all in for it 😌
What does remedy's masterpiece of noir storytelling and action gaming have to do with a slightly disappointing RE4 riff?
Wow you're dense
@@Camdavis11 bruh, I'm not talking about the genre of games but the games as a whole and how freaking advanced they have become
@@ParadoxicalSerenity why compare Max Payne to this?
@@ParadoxicalSerenity Why Max Payne of all games? We're not mad, just confused why you very, very, very specifically choose a 2000s game. Why don't just say "From pixelated graphics back in the 1980s to this".
That imagery of a body splayed to strands but still living is close to the specific image I had formed in my head to represent true suffering , since I was like seven or eight years old. Albeit the imagery is not close to as splayed and broken as I had envisioned. A completely lack of control, you don’t have the ability to think of loved ones or “where did I go wrong” or “what did I do to deserve this”. You are in an agony that bores into every fiber of your being , pushing you far beyond the breaking point. Your brain experiencing what is equivalent to white noise. Unintelligible signals and cries , flashing from every corner of your nervous system , fighting to draw attention to the pain it feels. If whatever holds you , allowed you to regain any motor function, you would tear the strands asunder , if you could even pull enough sanity together to attempt to move. Yet it could still be worse. Salt , or any chemical that is harmful to cells , being applied to you would far surpass the hell you’d have been in until that point. The thing that scares me most is the amount of effort and constant monitoring it would take to inflict that level of sadistic abuse without granting them the mercy of death would need an almost limitless capacity for thought. Yet this paragon of intelligence would have determined that there is no need for any regard for even the concept of a biological existence.
If my FBI agent is watching, this guy right here
@@biganimetiddies1287 I’d say it is because I have spent so much of my life pondering and fearing this level of cruelty , that my humanity is far more solid than someone that would see or read that and say, “that is cool”.
Edit : I will also say that I am getting a good laugh out of the fact that I’m typing this in response to someone with the username BigAnimeTiddies.
Dude go see a therapist. Not joking
@@biganimetiddies1287 ong lol. watchlist
@@lucre113 this was an articulation of concepts I was forced to think about , of what it means to say “death is mercy”. Thank the animatrix, and those horror stories of things like anesthesia not working for that.
Josh Duhamel is a powerful actor!
Loved him in transformers
If only they gave him more to do than grunt and say "I didn't ask for this"
@@VeritabIlIti Did you even pay attention when there was cut scenes? There’s quite a few of them to.
Seeing the live action trailer. They can easily make a series with this.
That would require a story with a semblance of depth and characters with more than paper-thin motivations
"the next phase of human evolution"
wow never ever heard that before, how innovative
Wesker moment
Dead Space 3 momento
Dr. Connors from Amazing Spider Man😆.
This is shit since Evolution is just adaptation due to the enviroment, not "BETTER" or "STRONGER" as the game protaits it. XD
@@mondnacht-op.3926 It's not the game necessarily per say. More like the warden's out of his mind.
So it's the same plot as resident evil but in space
The difference being resident evil is certainly way better written. This is still cool though.
The basic concept is pretty much identical, it's about the megalomaniac dream of transcending themselves with their power through their secret society,
Yes
@@RenegadeJames resident evil 1, 2,3 and 4 are incredibly well written. The downfall of raccoon city, the corruption of Birkin, the madness of umbrella and the spencer mansion, lisa trevor, the backstory of saddler acting as a religious priest to control the people and turn them into ganados are all fenomenally written and there is NO question about that. Re5 to 8 are whatever but you CANNOT deny how great the writing on the og trilogy and 4 is.
@@juliogomesdesouza9035 No R:E ever was well-written, they're slightly darker anime-style stories with *meh* acting. Great environments, some of them great gameplay, but you need to watch a couple of horror movies if you really think R:E is "good writing". Go watch Alien or Blade Runner by Ridley Scott, go watch Moon by Duncan Jones, or Outland by Peter Hyams. Space Horror sci-fi stories have existed for a looooong time, Callisto (or R:E) have only barely scratched the surface of what truly good writing in those genres could be. The acting in Callisto in top-notch, that I cannot deny, thanks to an amazing Mo-cap department, but to qualify any of those games with "good writing" is just a testimony of the lack of references one could have. Seriously, go read Orwell, Huxley, Zelazny, or even Stephen King if you want "good writing". Videogames in general are sorely lacking it.
I wish the time skip where he ended up in the cell had meant something. Would've been so much cooler if he'd actually lost months or even years instead of somewhere between a few hours to a couple days.
THANK YOU! That beginning sequence in retrospect showed me everything that would end up disappointing about the game: rushed pacing, cheap predictable scares, and very little time given to making you care about anyone
@@VeritabIlIti I don’t know man, I don’t think it seems to rushed. The beginning sequence on its own yeah was a little rushed, however the rest of the game as long as you aren’t trying to speed through it is definitely not rushed. The scares to me and everyone I know were scary, of course if you watch horror movies all the time and play only this genre of game I could see how they would be predictable, but I’ve never not jumped playing this game, and I’m not that easy of a person to scare. And of course you’re not going to get to REALLY know the characters you’re in a zombie infested prison and don’t get a break from being attacked, and if that’s not what you expected you clearly didn’t read up on the game.
@@Zayzanater I read up a ton on the game. I watched the video series where they talked about mastering the four aspects of horror they were targeting, one of which was pacing. Effective horror pacing relies on taking down-time, time for tension to build. Jump-scares are only effective when you're not expecting it, when you've had time to relax your guard just enough for it to be effective, but not so much that all tension just leaves the scene. With the exception of the surface walk with all the frozen enemies, Callisto spent almost no time building that tension, content to show you enemies almost immediately and continue jumping you (those stupid tentacle chests can go die, they aren't scary after the first two because you just expect it every time). Now survival horror typically balances the action with a scarcity of resources making the chance of running out and dying ever-present, at least until late game. The melee combat already alleviates that risk somewhat, but once the GRP is introduced the game becomes almost trivial whenever there's a trap nearby. But with all of that, the aspect of writing is the need for characters to feel like people instead of just channels for the plot to move along, and Callisto again fails there. Compare to Dead Space: the first few minutes establish relationships between the crew, Isaac has a job and a character beyond "I'm working here," and most importantly stakes: there's a reason he's there. Meanwhile our PC in Callisto (who is set up in the intro as having nothing to lose, compared to his family man friend) has some sort of job messed up by people he doesn't know, then his entire arc through the game consists of getting out of the prison. Understandable motive, but not enough to make us care about him making it out. Whats there to do when he gets out? What's his backstory anyway? Why is his first instinct when confronted with a riot scenario to cave a man's head in with a pipe without hesitation? It's those details that build a world and story, and Callisto half-assed them. But I will concede that I have consumed a lot of horror, and so if you don't care about all that stuff then the game is fine. I'm glad you were able to get more enjoyment out of it than I was!
so glad cole is working again after infamous
Louise Barnes is a spectacular voice actor here.
Isaac: I Don't Remember The Outbreak All I See Is The Marks On My Damn Head!
That device he's in looks like my gaming setup
Calisto Protocol: Call me Dead Space
wait wait wait. You’re telling me it’s… ALIENS?!? FROM SPACE?!?
Wow. What an interesting twist.
1:29 Daniel Kaluuya Get Out HE SAID IT!
Just imagine if we could put the graphics settings up on this video so the fps wasn't poop.
I have not seen ANYTHING on this game - it didn't interest me - but I clicked on this video out of curiosity and the first thing that crossed my mind:
*"Is that the Transformers guy?"*
It's the Transformers guy.
i did like the game ...wanted more but its what its ...no ng+ is killing me to wait till next year for that ....specially with games like red fall, starfield, arc riders, the first decendant...etc coming out
@Green Grugach lol is not as bad as people are saying on UA-cam ... Is a good game it does have some bugs and it need a little be of work but that is it
She said it! She said the word!
Dame this video game is dark as ball's
Then turn up the brightness
Why did the Warden just blow up Alpha corpse and not just comeback to collect blood sample later?
8
Because the story!!
UA-cam: hey, look at this.
My fears: why, you do this.
She is like Dr Halsey.
I'm gonna play this just for the story seems decent
Play Dead Space Remake instead. The story is probably one of the weakest parts of this game, this scene is towards the end and one of the first times we get any sort of answers about ANYTHING
@@VeritabIlIti I played dead space back in the day and the remake
the mad scientist,cult lunatic
"the highest evolution for humanity is space zombie!"
me: NO THANK YOU!! I RATHER HAVE THIS LOWLY FORM OF HUMANITY!!!
basically idea is that they find an invidiual who can endure the infection and synrochnize with the parasite into some kinda symbiotic relationship, and then study and replicate him in order to further 'evolve humanity'.
course we don't know the true nature of these parasites and far as we know there is a chtulu in europa.
Yeah these trope in stories are so freaking stupid.
THE NEXT STEP IN HUMAN EVOLUTION IS MINDLESS FERAL SPACE THE THING-LIKE ZOMBIES FROM HELL!!!!
The plot is a joke
@@jorgeacosta6698well the ability to survive in low oxygen high temps low temp environment does sound really tempting
@@Safarichromosomeslol its the same plot like in Dead space except the matkers are missing
Is it me or does the suit their wearing reminds of Black Ops 3
Ok, i got Josh Duhamel mixed up with Timothy Olyphant again
I took a quick look at the thumbnail and thought it was a new Arca clip
i believe those machine are those reference to "the poor girl and the 03 machine" .
Video games exposing faucet and the system right in front of people noses and no one even noticed.
Isn't that girl who woke up just Kimiko from The Boys
is that josh duhamel and karen fukuhara?
yes!
It’s really Dead Spacey with the “organization trying to advance human evolution through evil means”
Without any of the intrigue or connection that makes you give much of a shit
Josh Duhamels the main character of this game?
Ah shit, gotta get this game then. He's one of my all time favorite actors.
It sounds like whatever group she's referring to are alot like the Templars.
Do they have a Full all-cinematics video somewhere?
I could watch this like a movie
Rate me this game out of 10, I need to know it it's worth my time playing.
7.5/10. Worth playing for sure.
it’s a 6 out of 10 realistically. Certainly not $60 or 70$
4 , its more of a action , thriller game rather than a horror , sci fi thriller
8/10.
a solid meh, could be far better
That dude looks so familiar but I can't see it because of graphics I know it's like the actual dude acting though
Sure, remove all mystery... because that works out great in horror....
It's okay though, none of what they said was in any way interesting since we've seen it three billion times before
idk what this is but the guy in the round portal looking thingy is beautiful. id have it framed and placed next to my bed.
YO YO that's Colonel Lennox! from Transformers movie....Josh Duhamel!
the games these days look like movies now
I’d the doc played by the woman that was in Godzilla: King of Monsters and The Shape of Water?
They just aren't necromorphs
It's kimiko? 😍
Who or what is the creature hanging at the center?
human being
first patient mutated that could still control his thoughts while being in the evolutioned form. that was their goal and that's why the warden was project alpha cause he was mutated but still had a conscious
@@juiceboxgame Thanks, so is that human still alive? He looks like pretty much dead to me with that dissected appearance.
@@SilverMoonCrystalPower nope hes dead, thats why theyre looking for alpha instead of 0 now
@@juiceboxgame Thanks this is helpful!😊
I didn't even know there was a game out. There is a really good podcast/audio drama called the callisto protocall that was pretty good. I though that was it, going to have to get this game now
That was made to hype up this game. And frankly it's better than the game
@@VeritabIlIti damn really? Got my hopes up after seeing there was a game.
@@MrCaptainNObeard yeah, they really did a good job building hype. But the higher they climb, the further they have to fall
@@VeritabIlIti A problem with a lot of games.
I haven't played this game, but based only on this video, the game's dialogue is top-notch. No "stupid" misunderstandings (misunderstandings can happen but it has to be *not* stupid), no filler words, no clichéd reactions, only necessary informations and expressions. Dry but slick. Bethesda can never achieve this.
This game is trash outside of this cutscene. It's the most predictable plot I've ever seen- and Idk why you mentioned Bethesda.
Buddy, every bit of this is cliché. This is the peak example of "saying a lot of words that don't mean much at all." Half of it is jargon or half-answers (such as saying I'll give you her memories and then explaining anyway), Jacob initiates by running up to the person trying to save his friend with a knife (who he despised for most of the game and has no reason to like, they just decided to get over their differences but then switched to buddy cop), and that's ignoring how completely cliché the entire premise is with its "next stage of human evolution because a madman but also a secret cult but nevermind" bull. The dialogue for most of the game is either to give meandering exposition or to tell you to go somewhere.
This plot is literally like the movie Doom. Infection and the dude releases it hoping someone will evolve and be able to control it.
The warden sounds like from a cult...
which one you wanna bet? illuminati or some shit?
@@quangnhat5345 probably unitology
@@Ron.Swanson. dollar store unitology
Wouldn't be better to keep adding dead space content or a new dead space altogether?
Reason being that Dead Space is under EA's legal copyright and these guys no longer have access to the IP so they made a new game title with the old devs
They did, Dead Space Remake just came out and it's fucking brilliant
So looks so much like kimiko from the boys
LOL, even cutscene stuttered
Prequel bait? Yeah sure. Good luck.
In times when you can inject knowledge into brain like that, you dont need dedicated scientists
Right? Total Matrix moment. Why couldn't they do that with literally anything else?
Is this a DOOM game? That looks like it sais UAC on his chest plate but it also looks like it sais UDC.
No
The curse of knowledge
Man If only that game works properly
Do you think the sequel will take place on mars?
Considering how far the stocks of Krafton plummeted after this game failed to make sales goals, I highly doubt it
0:56 Wait how did she know Jacob had memory loss? And why did she think Dani's memories would fill in the blanks?
Because bad writing
@@VeritabIlIti I know right?! It's such a lame twist. From the very beginning Jacob outright said he knew he was doing a lot of "no questions asked" deliveries, so the reveal only shows... he knew what the biophages looked like before the outbreak, not what they could do.
This reveal may have worked better if, before the final boss, Cole thanked Jacob for smuggling the biophages. No selective amnesia necessary of Jacob looking through his classified cargo.
@@chrisdaughen5257 selective amnesia is usually a surefire way to make sure all stakes feel cheated. In this case, we didn't know anything about Jacob to have any prediction beyond the usual cliches, which makes this one feel somehow worse to me
Jacob is 6"3, how is the dr same height as him??
Clearly the doctor must be 6”3.
Most characters in game are born on different moons of Jupiter, gravity probably altered their height.
Hear me out, they’re the same height.
Ok, this might sound crazy but maybe she might be the same height.
Either she’s the same height, or sometimes (actually a lot of times) filmmakers will make the actors seem as tho they’re the same height so that blocking and shot compositing doesn’t look goofy when one character is taller than the other and mess up shot composition.
Loved this game👌👌🔥🔥
“Tell me what’s happening”
Doc: here are her memories you can put it together, but ima tell u a whole story also
Like wtf why send over the memories
THANK YOU!!!
I've never played this game, is it worth buying?
not really at it current price, maybe with a good discount, gameplay is boring and tedious, story is very meh, the characters are also meh, the game is a solid meh, well if you like dead space if not then is a solid pass
@@pablo1006pr Thanks for letting me know. wasn't sure since I heard some of the reviews.
I'll add on to the last guy: if you like Dead Space, just get the new remake instead. At a discount this game might be fun, but at full price you're getting a mediocre story with full characters, a tedious plot, and gameplay mechanics that don't mesh with the overall design of the game.
Epps?
Is that you?
Why ain't you fighting with Optimus!
nah bruh, that's Lennox
Inhibitor? Same exactly like Dying Light 2
Yo its the dude from cod WW2
@0:43 kratos saying yes to Thor in the end 😂
Entertaining
It has a great merit 15 years after the first dead space to make an autocopy, worse in all aspects, combat, variety of enemies, story line duration, etc etc
How come the graphics in this video look terrible compared to everything that's been shown? Like there's tons of detail missing from their faces
ayo this girl is kimiko from the boys
The warden is a Unitologist, isn't he?
This isn’t connected to dead space, so no
@@basketballbeast755 I know, I'm just being facetious.
Man, that would have made this game so much better. At least we have Dead Space Remake now
Game Is pretty but honestly coulda been a lot better
After playing the entire game, it seems weirdly, hollow.. Decent gameplay and story at the start, then what felt like a LOT of fluff, hours and hours of dodging punches, then this ending which was nice, but felt like it should have been way earlier in the story and lead to more.. It also seemed really weird that they couldn’t just take a second sample from the ‘alpha’. Also, this man clearly seems to be immune.
It ended with so many weird loose strings I feel, weird. I’m not mad! I’m really not mad, but it feels like they had something good and didn’t deliver as well as they could have. The environments were nice, sound was good, enemy designs were a bit, repetitive, main enemy was, unexpectedly unintimidating, but what really annoyed me was simply that the protagonist said non-stop that he was innocent, but had a ‘revelation’ at the last minute that he was culpable, even though he obviously was!! Also, if all these people died just so this ancient society would get a mega-human, why would they be so excited after their most precious experiment lost to (as they’d consider him) a normal human? Also, I realizing turning humans into a form capable of exploring space is adventitious, but that won’t be possible if you turn the humans into near-mindless, super aggressive monsters!! They might have had potential, but that potential was never realized, and yet they pat themselves on the back non-stop.
I’m pretty sure the point their trying to make in this game is that the cults plan had flaws and wasn’t perfect on its own, and really was just a bunch of evil people that wanted to kill a lot of people while also thinking their advancing humanity. And don’t forget that there’s a story dlc coming around eventually, it probably will fill in some of the holes.
@@Zayzanater Unfortunately that sounds like an over-simplification to me. Perhaps it’s the type of dumb-evil that Resident Evil does over and over, sure, but I consider that bad writing too.
@@FurryEskimo Depends on your opinion I guess.
What happened to the super realistic face rendering? Everyone looks like playdo in this video
Why does she look like the Viking Dane brida from last kingdom??
When someone actually put their mind into the game, we get this.
Otherwise we get mindless fortnite
What game is this?
I recognise this voice, house of the dragon!!
0:46
John Marston?
Damn block buster
Value brand dead space.
Wait hold up what Dead Space game is this again?
i hate the camera shake in this game, my head hurts looking at cutscenes
Sounds like Soldier 76
This game was good just enough for me to keep playing it 🤣 nothing more
This will become reality soon ✌️in maybe next 50 years ,if you all lucky then you will see this in 2023 december
Is just me or the video stuttering af ?
The probably recorded it on pc. I heard alot of issues with stuttering on pc copy.
I think ppl were disappointed because they kept comparing it to dead space,
So did the devs