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The Callisto Protocol 2 Plans Discussed by Former Director; Mentions Cut Bosses & Enemies, How They Wanted More Time
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Heimdall_Xtreme
Hermen Hulst Fanclub's #1 Member
Honestly friends.
I liked The Callisto Protocol more than the remake of Dead Space.
I liked The Callisto Protocol more than the remake of Dead Space.
Yerd
Member
Samey to what? Are you saying DS remake is samey to DS2? Dead Space (OG) reinvented the wheel on a lot of areas. Anything you think is "samey" was probably created in the first game. They are such good ideas that Schofield keeps rehashing a lot of it in Callisto, that's the biggest problem with it, for me. Of course DS remake is samey to DS2, it's what started it. Because you experienced it completely out of order you come out with the incorrect conclusion that Callisto is better than DS1. Or are you saying DS is samey to Callisto? Because that is absolutely the case, but it's the other way around.
Me = triggered, (insert joke about cutting self or something else equally bat shit crazy)
I guess it's fine for younger kids that weren't around for the original Dead Space, because they didn't experience these ideas in one place for the first time. But you have the experience ruined by other games that have taken various DS methods for their own games and get spoiled on that.
TerribleAtThisGame
Member
Heimdall_Xtreme
Hermen Hulst Fanclub's #1 Member
I have both games, and I finished them, it's a matter of taste.This is why we can't have nice things!
The Cockatrice
I'm retarded?
Nice excuses. The game was bad and clearly not a rush job. It's mechanically flawed from its core and they relied heavily on Dead Space fans to carry it but failed miserably.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Samey to DS2. If you are remaking a 16 year old game then you have to do more than just copy paste. You have to bring new ideas. be it from other games or invent new ones. They didnt. Its a fairly competent remake but doesnt exactly do anything new. Especially with the combat. I was bored with the limb cutting combat within an hour. The new weapons they unlocked after that simply dont feel as interesting or fun.
Played the RE4 remake soon after the DS1 remake and fell in love immediately. Beat if over 7 times in a row. They didnt just do a simple copy paste but incorporated two decades of improvements in the RE formula while expanding upon the ideas of the original.
Calisto felt like a true spiritual successor to DS1. It's not a particularly great game, but it kept my attention because it didnt feel samey. I beat it three times whereas im still stuck on my first playthrough of DS1.
YeulEmeralda
Linux User
Dead Space had a pretty underrated story and the Ishimura was a cool setting.
Badlucktroll
Member
why would anyone want to go to callisto that place looks fucked
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Muffdraul
Member
I was fooled into thinking it would be very very Dead Space-ish, basically Glenn Scofield's original idea for "Rancid Moon" that was gradually polished into Dead Space 2008 by the rest of his team at EA Redwood Shores aka Visceral.
But as a video game, CP barely seemed like a vertical slice internal demo. It felt more like a bare kernel of something that might one day become an actual game.
But as a video game, CP barely seemed like a vertical slice internal demo. It felt more like a bare kernel of something that might one day become an actual game.
Werewolf Jones
Member
DLC was trash but I had a good time with it. Got the Plat, bought it day 1, got the pre order bonus badge.
newtypepilot
Member
a good looking turd is still a turd.
repetitive, shallow gameplay.
also ran like ass.
repetitive, shallow gameplay.
also ran like ass.
Danjin44
The nicest person on this forum
The game had its good point and but its low was really low.
The level design was bad, the amount of crawling you do through out the game just got ridiculous and it was shame because the prison was great setting for horror game.
Enemy/boss variety wasn't great. Enemy changing form was great idea but its execution was severely lacking, even they do change form it doesn't change their behaviour, they even still have same animation.
I like the combat was much melee focus instead of just shooting but because how dodging works, once combat starts it becomes turn based, you wait until enemy finish attacking then you start attacking, in my opinion the dodging should have been much more free flow like in RE3Remake.
The level design was bad, the amount of crawling you do through out the game just got ridiculous and it was shame because the prison was great setting for horror game.
Enemy/boss variety wasn't great. Enemy changing form was great idea but its execution was severely lacking, even they do change form it doesn't change their behaviour, they even still have same animation.
I like the combat was much melee focus instead of just shooting but because how dodging works, once combat starts it becomes turn based, you wait until enemy finish attacking then you start attacking, in my opinion the dodging should have been much more free flow like in RE3Remake.
semiconscious
Member
if nothing else, this thread has gotten me to re-download it & give it another shot. i think i made it most of halfway through last time before getting tired of it...
R6Rider
Gold Member
The final weapon abilities/upgrades you can get are crazy good.
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Danteyke223
Member
Im going to sound a bit of an arse here but Schofield completely bungled up the project and his scope seems all over the place. Not to mention how he just up and bailed from the company so … yeah not a fan of the guy and the way he acted.
Fbh
Member
I got bored of the game and dropped it way before the enemy and boss variety became an issue.
Just found the gameplay loop really boring with bland level design and an awful combat system.
Didn't even find the graphics particularly impressive. I guess maybe on PC? On PS5 it looked good but nothing crazy outside of the main character model (Not even in quality mode)
Just found the gameplay loop really boring with bland level design and an awful combat system.
Didn't even find the graphics particularly impressive. I guess maybe on PC? On PS5 it looked good but nothing crazy outside of the main character model (Not even in quality mode)
Mattdaddy
Gold Member
This game did a lot right but for me personally the combat was so bad it took down the whole ship. Super weird design choice to go with it like that. 3rd person survival horror combat has already been done well so many times... just do it like that.
Feel like they tried to reinvent the wheel and made it square.
Feel like they tried to reinvent the wheel and made it square.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
As Krafton called it.... AAAA
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
They probably dropped the game before getting to the late portions, but melee will get you through the majority of the game.
Eiknarf
Banned
When you do smash someone with the baton, you actually FEEL it in this game.
StueyDuck
Member
It's a shame but also probably for the best, it'll remain a little hidden gem people will grab on cheap and be surprised by.
If it carried on as a franchise it would of battled to really get better. It already had a huge budget and plenty of dev time behind it and they only really got a 7/10 out the door.
Pumping more of that wouldn't have worked out
If it carried on as a franchise it would of battled to really get better. It already had a huge budget and plenty of dev time behind it and they only really got a 7/10 out the door.
Pumping more of that wouldn't have worked out
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semiconscious
Member
as david byrne would say, 'srop making sense'...
ps: well, having re-downloaded it wednesday, i played it thursday & yesterday - & then bailed again. just about right where i did the first time, right after you free whatsername. this game is just a big, tiresome, drawn-out slog...
TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
Wasn't a fan of the DLC but the main game was rather enjoyable.
Obviously playing the PS5 version I didn't have all the problems people bitch about with performance etc, plus I'm a rocket scientist so the dodging system didn't hinder me and felt more like second nature, I felt like Mohammad Ali.
It's biggest crime was how linear it was, which I think would have been fix in a sequel.
But the Telekinesis pull & baton swing
Also, good look fucking game.
Obviously playing the PS5 version I didn't have all the problems people bitch about with performance etc, plus I'm a rocket scientist so the dodging system didn't hinder me and felt more like second nature, I felt like Mohammad Ali.
It's biggest crime was how linear it was, which I think would have been fix in a sequel.
But the Telekinesis pull & baton swing
Also, good look fucking game.
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Chuck Berry
Gold Member
Dunno if this is the interview or what but it’s good insight into how Schofield works /thinks etc
Super cool dude it seems. Sucks what happened. Would love to discuss shit like Alien and The Thing with him
Super cool dude it seems. Sucks what happened. Would love to discuss shit like Alien and The Thing with him
