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I feel like the near end of the game, the enemies should of shown greater mutations than at the beginning. In Dead Space, the charred Necromorphs become more common since the Marker is having great influence on them. In Colistoll Protocall, you're still fighting the same enemies even though things infestation is getting more complicated.
yeah, and the gimmick with the tentacles mutating enemies was underutilized. They could've mutated into new enemy types with entirely different functions and attacks, but instead they just explode into these raw chickens with the only difference being more health.
They even had that set up. When you get the creepy shit straight from Siren Blood Curse, the longer their infection the more violent and extreme the 'evolution'. Atleast until you get a very old infected which stabilizes into a reasonable-ish specialized form... Yet after those first few creepy shinobu things there's nothing new in the general infected.
@@jordangarcia465 To add a near irrelevant detail in a bout of nitpicking, they also do more damage I think. Not like its actually remotely relevant but hey.
Yeah, another thing he got wrong I think is about Captain Ferris coming back at the end of the game. I'm pretty sure that was another hallucination for Jacob, since he was experiencing those throughout the game.
@@vega8050I agree and that is what I first thought as a nod to Nicole’s jump scare in DS. There is a chance that Ferris can return and change form as showing that Cole’s and his group whole point to advance/ adapt. That depends on second game to explain/ explore that.
I highly disagree, I’m playing my ng+ right now and boy does the fully upgraded baton demolish these blistered fools. I used to be going three full combos on grunts with it half upgraded and four with none, now I just need two. Ultimately it seems I have to hit them 4-5 times less than half and close to half as much with no upgrades to get a full melee kill
I feel like the main problem is that Callisto tried to be a third-person shooter game but the whole emphasis on melee combat via the stun baton kind of puts it in a stalemate. Dead Space had you fight multiple enemies at the same time. In Callisto, they are placed in such a way that it is possible to take out the majority of them using the stun baton. Also, the story kind of has some issues. Jacob never questions Elias for the majority of the time they spent working except near the end when he dies. Plus the whole thing about evolving to colonize space doesn't make sense because they colonized Europa and are even terraforming Callisto.
To be quite frank with you, I upgraded my weapons to get explosive shots. Moreover, you can unlock a certain heavy attack that allows you to hit multiple targets with the stun baton. There is this one boss fight by where you’re fighting the brute inside of a computer server room after you get locked in your cell again. That to me was kind of annoying because I felt like you had to buy ammo in order to take him out. I also didn’t like the loot boxes that had a fucking leech in there. I upgraded my grip, and I was able to take out a brute by literally just throwing shit at him. I used the grip to throw shit at the biophages, I also threw them into their hazards. Honestly the game is fun I’d give it a nine out of 10. My only complaint is that I couldn’t upgrade everything. The game is good. It isn’t dead space. But it’s good.
@@redcenturion88 That's like how the flood in Halo could have reached levels that the precursors did if they weren't just always trying to be a metamind parasite.
@@datsimplenope that's because the issue was on PC. It was even recommended to only buy the game on console because of that...which should never be the case.
@@datsimplenope It's a problem with PC because the devs didn't bother optimizing the engine for PC's. The engine in question is Unreal 4, and it's notorious for having problems on PC due to PC's having a variety of hardware differences between each model, as apposed to consoles, so much so that devs have to change the certain aspects of the engine just to circumvent those problems.
Im so glad you brought up that issue with Elias’ death, being an EMT that part really pissed me off, especially seeing as how people have been revived with minimal to no brain damage after hours of being dead in freezing cold water. Elias was dead less than a minute and likely still had a pulse, it was bad writing just to make Dani become your new ally
They infect via the tentacles which was shown 2 times. Jacob never got these tentacles shoved into his mouth therefore he wasnt infected. Also keep in mind that Jacob just arrived and was probably one of the few people who didnt got infected by the scientists staff
The infection is through the tentacles and grubs entering the host. The only time that happens to Jacob is if he gets game ended by those enemy variants.
The warden straight up says Jacob is immune. CO Ferris says directly, " Are you different? Are you *special* Jacob? Is that why the Warden wants you alive?"; nevermind he gets bitten by leapers and draggers like 90 times and gets tentacles literally in his mouth by double mouths.
When I watched a lets play of this game I was also weirded out by how much blame everyone put on him. They reacted as if our protagonist was much more involved than just some random delivery guy for the virus.
It was really only Dani because she believes everyone who is associated or even works with BRP and the UJC are involved with the conspiracy (which, considering the vast resources and scope of The Circle; the secret cult hidden in the game; I don’t blame her for her paranoia.). But that being said, the game raises a very difficult but very human question about responsibility and blame when it reveals that Jacob DID in fact know about the Biophage capsules he was transporting and simply turned a blind eye to it. It’s that age old question of; if you see evil being committed and you do nothing about it, are you just as complicit because you could have prevented the evil by just doing the right thing when the opportunity arose?
This video needs to be seen by everyone. Including the creator. This could be considered a breakdown that doesn't shit on the game. A great knowledge nugget to any development team. Looking on what to improve. I love this.
As a trucker, I can confirm: I cannot be bothered with what I'm moving as long as the paperwork is in order. Throw it on, then let me throw straps and hit the road.
To answer your question on New Game +, it's coming out February 7th. Also with the force glove, other gripe I had was I would aim at an enemy to grab, and the character would instead just grab random items around the enemy and waste the charge for the glove. Needs to be a little more precise.
@@RoanokeGaming Well, to be fair, you are talking a lot on these videos and writing a script, so it’s easy to get carried away and miss place your words sometimes. It happens me all the time too, and it really annoys and it makes me laugh sometimes. 😂🤦♂️
Speaking of death animations, what broke it for me was how you'd sever an arm, and yet the death animation would have you being beaten to death/torn apart by the now missing limb as if it were invisible.
I love games that show your gear progression as you upgrade like bioshock and bioshock 2 I loved how you could see your weapon becoming more badass and just making you wanna find all the upgrades or re-run the game to see how the other weapons are gonna look
It also makes the weapon feel more personal too you. You can see your growth (or even the character’s growth) in the game reflected in your gear. A great example of this would be Deacon’s motorcycle in Days Gone. Even if we take away the cosmetic paint jobs each upgrade comes with a physical change in the bike that eventually turns your shitty rice cycle into the rugged machine that could withstand the rigors of a drifter trying to survive in a dangerous world.
Exactly I can't tell you how many times in fnv I'd mod a weapon and it'd become my personal favorite or in dragon age inquisition where your armor can be upgraded and you can see the color change and how more armor is added it just makes games better for everyone
Ever thought about analyzing the rat plague from dishonored? Or describing how the blood fly wasps in dishonored 2 turn corpses into wasp nests or how blood amber is made? I'd like to hear your thoughts.
Yes, I’ve been waiting for this! I hope there’s more Callisto Protocol videos coming, I’m really interested in your analysis of the Biophage and it’s various forms. On another note, I really agree with your review. Especially the part about being torn to pieces several times and wanting to leave to go scream. I think a lot of us really relate to that. Still, like you said, a great story
I'm really glad I'm not the only one to feel a huge disconnect between everyone saying how self serving Jacob, is and the actions that he actually takes in relation to the people around him. It's such a weird issue.
I think it really just comes down to him being both new, and- ironically- _because of_ him not being self serving. Not being selfish means he has a sense of empathy, and a connection with his emotions- meaning he can be manipulated, _even when there isn't any evidence that he is realistically the one at fault._ Hell, it's nearly spelled out as such during the section where he starts blaming himself for shit going wrong that he had no way of stopping. In otherwords, the fact he isn't a complete piece of crap means that everyone else- who have been in Survival Mode for longer due to having been in the middle of the cluster fluff from the beginning, and thus have had their emotions suppressed by the extended stress response- is willing to basically gaslight him into complying with their demands. Hell, Elias _not_ being like everyone else on the moon and NOT just planning on using and losing Jacob is more of a surprise.
When I woke up today, I didn't expect to hear the words "raw dogged into his spinal cord." Also, it's my first time seeing you, you're an absolute unit.
@@RoanokeGaming I do believe that was the only cosmetic change though. But totally agree we need more changes with it if it’s going to be the main weapon.
15:40-15:55 I think I can answer that one. That probably was just a hallucination of Ferris that Jacob was seeing like he was saw with his co pilot, Max. The device on the back of his neck does have the side effect to make you hallucinate a bit.
Hold analog stick to left, creature attacks, hold to right. "Hold" not tap. I kept tapping and dying. I went to the tutorials and saw Hold, lol was like " ooooh well shit"...then the rest of the game was magical. Can't wait for the dlc and hopefully a sequel 🤞
@@RoanokeGaming Oyff uploaded a montage where he barely ever dodged. Instead, he was comboing between melee and ranged weapons like crazy. Dude straight up played the game like a beat 'em up. lol
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 playing it like it was god hand made me enjoy the game, it's weird the game does not feel like it's a survival horror, it's like the game forces you to play it like an action game.
When you brought up being attached to Issac Clark in DS1, I immediately thought about DS2 when you return to the Ishimura. Issac is visible on edge and is having major bad PTSD, and I was equally in the same boat as him. Gets me every time i play that game. Can go through vents in Alien Isolation and wonder through a dark forest in Alan Wake all day long. Going back to the Ishimura.. I am shivering in my space boots and prefiring vents because nope!
Speaking of the saving problem. It reminds me of the time me and my cousins were taking turns playing Alien Isolation, we some how got into a near endless loop of being fatalited by the Sheldon (I named the xeno) literally everytime I walked away from the save point. Took us two days to leave the area and run to a different save point.
I really appreciate you putting a pause between sections and thoughts. The long pause between your final thought of the video topic and the outro are a nice touch. Some videos barrel straight from the final thought to an outro and I don’t always realize the video has ended. I know it’s a small thing honestly it’s helps me so much haha
I definitely had my eye on this but I’ve been skeptical with getting new games lately. Seems the trend of them releasing extremely unpolished is the norm now but I’ll definitely try to snag this on a sale in the future. Also, it sucks that you didn’t like prototype. I’ve always adored that series and love games where you consume enemies to get stronger. Both prototypes were just a massive power trip of an experience and I’m sad we never got to see a continuation.
@@RoanokeGaming At a guess, because it's easy and a factor of consumer indifference. We're way past the age of games having to be polished on release because they came in a cartridge. We're in the age of problems being solved through online patches. That kind of mentality can breed indifference, as people just assume the game will be fixed. So companies can start to rely on that to bump their games out the door with the promise - even if its never fulfilled - that it'll get patched.
I got super bored of Prototype midway, barely gave the second a try. The story and missions weren't super inspiring and I basically just felt like a shitty Venom with memory loss
15:52 Yes, it's very Nicole-esque. I'd bet exactly Nicole-esque, Ferris back in human form is going just be a hallucination because of trauma or his brain chip malfunctioning. Which will then be a theme in next game.
I thought Ferris was wayyyyyy underutilized which is a shame because the actor who plays him played star killer from the force awakens games so I was interested to see what they’d do with him here but unfortunately he’s only in like five scenes What they should’v done with him was make him like the hunter from the first dead space or Mr X from resident evil in that he continuously tracks you down throughout the game and your forced to either fight or hide from him and every time you seemingly “kill” him he just keeps on coming back and mutating into a new form
The Callisto Protocol is a game designed from the original idea for Dead Space known as rancid moon, in which you would be escaping from a prison on a moon. Dead Space & the Callisto Protocol were both designed by Glenn Schofield, and I guess it was a way of putting his old ideas into something new.
Agreed 100% on everything. I don't think it was a skill issue at any point because the combat is fairly simple and straight forward. I think there were some bad choices made for sure. There were a few points you referenced should not have made it through testing into the final game. My biggest issue is the lack of Callisto credits all throughout the game. Only being able to max out two things at most is just ridiculous. I was really disappointed there was no difference on my max security playthrough. I still like the game and can't wait for what's next. Thanks for the vid 👍
I am pretty sure that the jump scare at the end was actually just a hallucination, like the co-pilot was throughout the game. I had a theory that maybe the brain stem monitor thing was prompting traumatic memories as a form of punishment to the prisoners. Jacob is presumed to be a sane person but suddenly can't stop seeing the things he feels guilty over he even complains about the implant hurting right after an episode. Its like a way to make you never forget what you did and maybe even cause some people to empathize with their victims. Black iron was a max security prison for murders after all. FYI to conserve charges use the force grip to bring them to you then drop them and immediately melee them in the face. You home run their face causing them to fly back 15 feet. This can buy you some room but also works almost as a throw to chuck them into environmental hazards. The game doesn't advertise this ability I only found out when I was trying to achievement hunt. They updated the game again on the 15th and id say at this point they addressed a lot of the balance issues (i.e. weapon switching). Not necessarily all fixed, but in a better state and I recommend people give this another try.
Generally the doors have labels on them like “supply” or “utilities” that provide route context those loops are literally just to get weapons or supplies if you’re willing to damage your psyche going through the optional areas for some nice stuff. My favorite and most disturbing was going down a path and winding up wading through like 3 feet of blood and flesh walls
Regarding the train ride you were stuck at for a long time, each of the four boxes give you a bunch of gravity glove charges that you can use to get through the entire ride without firing a single bullet. I’m pretty sure that’s how you’re meant to play it there. Just have like 2 or 3 charges and be quick with tossing them off, they only spawn in one area at a time so as long as you’re paying attention to where they’ll come from next you should be good. Great video though, I had a lot of fun with callisto, I’m excited for the harder difficulty that they’re adding.
I really do hope this game gets a sequel, I liked the story and where its going, plus, I want to know more about the giant aliens that apparently lived in our solar system.
Same i feel like everyone was hoping for a deadspace copy instead of taking it as a separate game but that was possibly due to the hype of the fact sum of the dead space creators was working on it and the references
You didn't need to pay attention to the story in PROTOTYPE to enjoy it, granted it does get slow at times. I'd recommend replaying it again (you can get it to work on pc but you need to do a little behind the scenes magic to get it running smoothly)
Personal opinion but I was actually pretty sad when Elias died. It wasn’t really shown properly but by the way Elias worked with Jacob you could tell he was a bro. Got a reaction out of me
Played the game last week, was kinda bummed at how short it was. There were some good and bad things about it. Pros 1. Engaging storyline. The more I played it, the more I wanted to see what happened next. I'm not a horror fan in general, so stuff like this has to happen to get me committed. 2. Weaponry. The modular system for the ranged weapons was pretty ingenious; the Hand Cannon, Skunk Gun, and Tactical Pistol sharing the same one handed stock and the Riot Gun and Assault Rifle sharing the two handed stock. 3. Locations. Always nice to see new areas to cause mayhem in. Cons 1. Grouped combat. Taking on a whole horde when ranged weaponry isn't that effective sucks, especially once they mutate. 2. Glitches. Aside from crashing a few times, there was one time when I thought I had turned on High Contrast mode. The whole area appearing to show the boundary and object planes. 3. Two-Heads. The explosive shots on the Hand Cannon (available only once it's fully upgraded) are a must. At least two Boom! shots puts them down for the whacking. 4. Lack of balance in upgrades. The ranged weapons have much simpler skill tree branches than the Stun Baton and GRP. And getting all the creds without stocking up your Inventory with valuable contraband and having to sacrifice ammo is a grind. All in all, I'm waiting to see how New Game Plus mode changes things up.
I genuinely loved this game sure it had a few issues but the way i see it its like a new IP after everyone was expecting it to be like its predecessor dead space, but im looking forward to what comes next
Captain Ferris shows up a couple of times and i got to say, Star Killer is a gem when he is on. First with him being kind of a bro but then has to do his job and feels kind of bad for you. But, what can you do? Then you meet him and he gets to use the force and throw you around a bit. He's under a LOT of stress and because you are the new guy and all hell breaks loose it makes since to think you had something to do with it, saying this is his kingdom only to get swarmed and fall out a window like a bad ass. Then he comes back to wave you out the airlock. How nice. Meet up for a smack down. Meet up again for another smack down. Then give his impression of the dead space 1 ending.
Just clicked this after finishing my work in class ,thanks the anxiety relieving video :) - btw your vids inspired me to study micro-biology & genetics as a whole
@Roanoke Gaming A lot of Jacob's character is given to you up front and is "fleshed out" (honestly, very minimally) through some data recordings. Basically it's shown from the get go that he and Max have been doing this "cargo route" for a long while now and they both have their suspicions about it. Jacob even goes out of his way to brush Max off multiple times and to ignore the signs that what they were doing was more than transporting "medical supplies" as he told himself. The "reveal" later in the game shows that he had his suspicions and even knew that they were purposefully trying to hide contraband in the supplies; he may not have realized what the sample itself was, but he knew that they were doing shady shite. Basically the main theme surrounding Callisto Protocol is that of atonement and redemption. Jacob & Max knew that they were involved in much more than "transporting medical supplies," Jacob even confirmed prior to the events on Europa; he actively pushed that information into the back of his mind and lied to himself to create essentially a repressed/fragmented memory (can we talk about how before his memory is "fixed" the toy box looks like a purple/black checkered "missing asset" cube you'd find in a game/3D rendering program? lol). I do get your point about it being a bit clunky, but ultimately it's the same "twist" Dead Space had; Issac already knew what happened to Nicole and that some seriously wrong stuff was happening; Kendra even made the comment foreshadowing the "reveal" that the full video (which he had watched multiple times) showed her death. Issac was a the "lover going to save his damsel in distress" trope from the beginning, but the twist was that he knew he already failed and blamed himself (which towards the end of the first game and throughout the second game he has to learn to accept his guilt and to move on from it). Much in the same fashion, Jacob already knows that he's to some extent culpable for what happened on Europa and tries to absolve himself of that guilt/sin by saying "it was just another job"; but he had been doing that job long enough and taking the cash to not ask questions to know it was "wrong." As for character development, it's a bit hit and miss and I do agree with that; mainly I give it a begrudging pass because the game isn't designed to stand on it's own and that's clear from the get go (setting aside that the main story ending beats you upside the head with "we'll finish it properly with the DLC like DS3 & Awakening") and this is meant to be looked as part of a whole not a standalone game. This is one of my pet peeves with media these days... but then again, I love Dead Space, Mass Effect, and a couple other big IPs that basically did exactly that; write them as a fairly large over-arching story (though out of them, Dead Space and to some extent ME1 do actually stand on their own as sort of closed stories). I personally don't think we were supposed to feel all that attached to Elias to be honest with you; I don't think he wasn't supposed to be our companion or friend with how he's presented in the game. In fact I would argue that he's not meant to be a character in so much as a mirror for Jacob. The narrative goes out of it's way to pair the two up and to show a lot of similarities, then asks the question a lot of people might have had on their mind about "are we helping a bad guy break free?" Jacob tries to justify Elias' actions the same way he justified his greed ignoring something that was clearly wrong and that ended up killing a lot of people; Elias goes out of his way to squash Jacob's justifying and to admit that he was like him at one point, eventually realizing that he needed to take responsibility for what choices he made. Elias wasn't meant to be our friend, he was meant to give Jacob a reality check and to spur the character's "self-realization" and eventual redemption arc. This is made even more clear when Dani cuts out Elias' CORE despite Jacob's protests, Dani's response was basically "you've been doing this all game long to survive, NOW it's a problem because you got to know one of their names?" That moment is meant to have Jacob (and by extension the player) reflect that this game mechanic/violently grotesque act we've become complacent with is our choice, (granted it's done in the name of survival and I would still do it myself in that situation myself) this is the part where Jacob is supposed to stop lying to himself and start accepting that his actions put him where he is. Ferris just seemed like the typical "I love my job a bit too much" prison guard, I do wish there was some more development on him given that they seemed to hype him up as a sort of Nemesis type character (somehow I feel like we're gonna see him again despite it not making too much sense...). I don't know if they're going to make Dani into "Ellie" to be honest with you, I do feel like they are trying to nudge her towards the love interest route, that I don't disagree with. If it wasn't for the DLC cliff-hanger ending, I would have said they were going to make her the main character for the sequel (I suppose they still could?) but I think she's being more developed to be a Carver/Ellie hybrid in terms of the character. Someone who will ultimately have to face her own guilt and rage, but will likely end up forgiving Jacob and probably falling for him. I wouldn't be shocked if they set up the sequel to have a Dead Space 3 style co-op system using the two of them. Anyways, I think I rambled on enough... there's plenty more to say about the game. It was a good love letter to it's parent (Dead Space) and that it would be less Dead Space 4 or "Dead Space we have at home" and more "a concurrent evolution/variant of Dead Space." It's got protentional and I'll have to wait for the DLC/Sequel to really see if they grow this IP properly... Well keep up the great videos! Been binging a ton of them this past few weeks, enjoying them a lot! PS- Does anyone else miss the lack of ancillary stories/media that Dead Space had when it launched? the anime/comics/websites/etc.? I felt it made that universe so much cooler.
It's funny in hindsight, though level by level I was like "ok I've dealt with the fodder, can we get some details and the deus ex scientist showed up."
As for the transport comment. I work in manufacturing. We make metal boxes. What's inside the box changes as does the size and shape. Our boxes are made in multiple countries and are shipped all around the world. There is no way in hell unless they do a lot of googling, read our product pages, or ask questions that a truck driver knows what the hell they are transporting every time. For the game. It was cool, but the melee combat with your main weapon got so boring and repetitive. The cost wasn't worth it due to how short it was. For the death scenes it was very Newer Tomb Raideresque. They murdered croft in such brutal ways, but there was 0 emotional attachment so it was kind of meh.
As a tip for the train part since it might not have been well explained: Enemies with tentacles (aka everyone on the train) shoot them in the chest for a 1 tap. I made it through the train first try because you can tap them as they climb aboard with the pistol with all that ammo and you'll literally have 0 issues. Captain stompy at the end messed me up bad though a few times. 😅
Even if Prototype wasn't your jam, is it possible we could get a video on the blacklight virus itself? The biology behind it still seems like it would be fascinating.
in regards to the transporting of the biophage; it kinda makes sense that jacob sort of blocked it out of his mind we didnt see him open the actual canister that contains the parasite, he only held the canister and said "we dont need to know, its just another job" he only realizes that its the parasite after he sees all the things he sees and finds the same container near the dead creature only THEN does he realize that the SAME damn crate he was transporting is here, only THEN does he open it, realize its exactly the same and checks the secret compartment and THEN he pulls it out and actually opens it and realizes "holy shit, the canisters hidden under the medicine actually hold some kinda parasite, and after everything i have seen, i realize, this little parasite i have been transporting must have been the cause of it all" but i also agree, jacob is essentially innocent in all this he KNOWS he's transporting some strange canisters that are hidden underneath medicine and must be secreitive for a reason, but its JUST a canister - it could be, as you said, native creatures or some other type of tissue samples if we are given a job that pays well and are told NOT to open the cargo we are transporting: chances are we are not going to open the cargo, ESPECIALLY if its just a small canister. if its a canister we cant really say our humanity made us question if we where transporting humans or human organs or somthing, its just a canister that could maybe hold a small rat. we get paid to do a job and we do it jacob was doing that, he saw, maybe from accident or maybe he was curious, he checked the cargo and saw, medicine, seems legit, and hey a secret compartment....but it could be just a rat or tissue samples. my pay isent worth opening it and risking breaking it
I give it an 8/10 performed well 99%percent of the time, just wished the final boss had a bit more attacks that are hard to deal with and bigger enemy variety
As a delivery driver I can tell you the only time we know what we are delivering is if it’s exposed OR the people you are delivering to wants to show you
I took him not remembering that he was transporting the biophage as someone blocked the memory via the brain thing. That or he didn’t know at the time what it was and didn’t care as long as he got paid but once he realized what it was and what him transporting it led to he felt guilty.
I love how everyone complains about the train ride when all I did the entire time was just pick up grunts with the GRP and throw them off the side the instant they appeared. The only difficult part of that ride was the boss at the end, but everything else was a cakewalk.
I’ve noticed that areas with orange light are where you are supposed to go, the areas with white light are optional and contain materials and credits etc
I don't know if you do or do not know the story of prototype, but the first one has a twist near the end that could make a very interesting video idea.
You hit EXACTLY the same notes as my problems with the story. Honestly, it is very damn cool to hear about the Dani and Duncan dunking. cheers. Really good work on this vid.
The latest patch is definitely a step in the right direction, heal injectors are used faster and bosses don't 1 shot anymore. Although you could block a bosses one shot before you could only do it once anyway.
I dont get it. How do you need it to be easier ? You literally hold left/a dodge and the hold right/d until the enemy attacks and then repeat. A single enemy can literally not hit you if you do this even a boss. just dodge the chain of attacks shoot once or twice and dodge again its not hard at all. Arguably the encounters with multiple enemies were tough sometimes and even then dodging made sure that you cant get hit (except for the spitting guys, however you can literally walk sideways and they miss). I dont understand this point at all, maybe its just the performance because I played on ps5 or maybe you tried to time the dodge instead of just holding but if not then thats a huge skill issue man
@@caZed3100 It's not that bosses having insta kills is harder or easier it's just kinda lame in general. The healing needed to be faster so it can actually be a decision to make in combat not afterwards. Plus now instead of selling all your heals because you just did the section flawlessly instead of taking any hits you might be more willing to take a hit and use the healing system. And a lot more gameplay changes need to be made to bring it up to snuff with modern games. The difficulty you felt might have just been jank brother. If they smooth it out then it's a better game for it, might actually be the next Evil Within if they do. And besides, just shoot the leg out and stomp is a better combat loop than dodge, dodge, dodge and dodge and then attack now shoot.
Bruhhh I love this game but hate the fact that health injectors are used faster I mean them being slow was intentional cause you had to make it through the encounter with the health you currently had but now you can just heal mid combat
@@paperclip6377 I'd argue you really can't because enemies are still so on top of you. And you can't run or they'll catch you for another free hit. All it's really changed is you can kill the dudes currently aggro on you and then possibly heal before the third guy hits you. And you can run from bosses so being able to heal in them is fine.
You said it at the beginning, but it’s a perfect way of describing the “problem.” The expectations were too high. We were looking for a Dead Space but we should’ve been expecting something more akin to “Resident Evil in Space.” Does the game have issues? Absolutely. Is it terrible? No. I think it was a good first attempt at something new, that the internet said was “bad.” The story was a bit weak, and then they did the Dead Space thing at the end which made me go “really? Seriously?!” But it wasn’t terrible.
I haven't played the game yet, but I want to. I think the story is great and I hoping for sequels with more horrifying looking Biophages!!! Great video as always Roanoke!!!😊😁👍🏽
Dude I love your channel man I honestly never would have thought about it. Like your the only dude I kno who does these awesome kinda videos broanoke!!! Your legit a scientist and kno your shit and I love it man!!!
May I ask you to check out "Command & Conquer" franchise (Specifically the tiberium one) I think there's scope for you to discuss about the harmful health effects of Tiberium & the various Tiberium based lifeforms like Visceroids & floaters
Would love to see more game analysis like this from you! And I agree about the train section, I played on medium security and died a dozen times due to running out of ammo and getting one shot by the boss I eventually just turned the difficulty down; I was even more frustrated finding out I had to fight the same exact boss MULTIPLE times and fully quit the game the third time it showed up due to how drained I felt.
I discovered this game last week and saw a friend playing and liked how it looks and I’m getting closer to the end and I’m liking it and I was surprised when saw the amount of bad reviews that it has
I would have been a little bit more satisfied with having multiple melee weapons that are good at taking out certain kinds of monsters depending on the form they take. Have a monster that has multiple tentacle-like limbs? Have a chainsaw or plasma saw weapon that can sever the limbs before reverting to the stun baton to take them out. Have an enemy that evolved to have hardened armor like sections on their body? Have a kinetic assisted power mining pick used to clear mines to crumple that armor. All I'm saying is that the stun baton would be your main way of dealing damage, but you can also focus on weapons that can help you overcome certain enemy types that will get in your way. The enemies are also a character in this game, but the way the game presents them to us is very minimal that it pales compared to the number of enemies you see in Dead Space.
Callisto Protocol was a catastrophe and should have been Proto-called off, and delayed, so they could patch the performance bugs, and fix the melee combat.
@@RoanokeGaming I also feel like a sequel is probably gonna happen. Oh boy, cant wait for Catastrophic Proto-called, we want our money back 2: The quest for more money, Concrete fridge boogaloo. And the obligatory "delux" edition, which would be better off called the "buggered and broken edition.", which will need 5 day 1 patches; and have most of its content behind a paywall; or a busted battle pass system. Ima stop before this devolves into me fully roasting this game like chestnuts over an open file.
I am in no way shape or form against Papa Roanoke Voicing his thoughts through reviews and such I would love to hear more, as I always did as I always have
Actually from what I understand, Ellie saw that Jacob had made multiple deliveries to the place of the outbreak (even though other ships did too). So I guess she just decided his specifically was suspicious. When she saw that he hadn’t actually been guilty of delivering the virus or whatever, her anger subsided and she visually became kinder….even though he actual had delivered it…just didn’t remember or know. She just didn’t find it.
Still her actions for basically the whole game are kinda reckless. She knew what she could be up against and still wanted to be difficult till she had no other choice. Her written character arch was terrible and why most people didn’t care for her as a character. Her name was Dani and not Ellie and she reminds me a lot of Abby from the TLOU part II.
Can we talk about the mini cutscene where he wipes the dew off the window? He uses his hands but it immediately looks like a squiggy was used. This is a animated cut scene! How do you screw up that simple texture?!
its not overhype thats the problem when the game is 50% amogus simulator, 40% repetitive, mundane combat against the same enemy type reskinned over the course of the game with the worst and most brain dead dodging/combat system in existence + cheap jumpscare/QTE enemies being spammed in chests and places you have no control over.. the other 10%? Halo 5 Guardians tier terrible boss spam and 1 cheap OHKO/difficulty simulator final boss...thats another big muscular humanoid...
The game does tell you where to go but you still have to figure out the key yourself. Nearly every ladder, vent, or door marked "maintenance", ""storage", or "utility" is 9/10 a side loop area. Main paths are usually lit up and present a bit of dialogue.
I think many forget that the peeps that made DS lost the rights to it so they needed to do this to give us more of the DS action we wanted.. Give it time, not that many youngsters understand that concept...
@@RoanokeGaming *hides half written script behind my back* Welp, there goes all my plans. Might as well attempt to skim a few viewers off your back by covering the same stuff xD cheers for making me actually think of using my degree btw
it's just not dead space though dude. have you played the game anytime recently? this game is closer to last of us and the more modern cinematic action adventure games than anything even remotely close to dead space or the games that inspired it like re4 or ss2... say whatever you want, but all you're doing is settling for a mediocre game trying to ride the coattails of a beloved abandoned ip.
God damn, there's so much potential here I hope they can improve on it in the future. I agree that the expectations were far too high for this game to achieve. For what it is, it's pretty good.
I think I can narrow down the games problems in terms of gameplay 1. The prison doesn’t feel open at all, there’s no backtracking and you always feel like your being forced down one path, Mabye they could’ve added alternate pathways to achieve objectives which could’ve resulted in different outcomes or endings which perhaps could’ve added to the fear element since you don’t know if your choices could lead you to your salvation or doom and maybe added some replay value 2. Not enough enemy variety in terms of boss battles, they re-used the same mini boss like four times, also there’s no variation in terms of regular enemies unlike in dead space where even necromorphs like the slasher have variations, sure there’s the tentacles that cause the bio phage to evolve but it feels severely underdeveloped which is a shame cause it has such great potential 3. The combat feels too action based and gets repetitive fast, you just keep shooting and hitting your enemies until they die, in dead space you specifically had to be strategic with how you fight every type of necromorph and how you dismember their limbs, perhaps in the case of the bio phage the only way to kill them is if their tentacles come out and depending on what type of bio phage your fighting they only come out when you attack a certain part of their body meaning you can’t use the same strategy for every single one 4. As stated before there should have been less action and more quiet moments and stealth, in deadspace you could sometimes go six minutes without facing a necromorph which adds to fear cause you never know when one’s gonna show up so there should have been more of that here, also the bio phage don’t seem that smart unlike the necromorphs who will sometimes runaway to try and ambush you later so your always on edge, but Mabye in this game the bio phage didn’t have to be the only type of enemy, maybe you could’ve encountered hostile prison guards or other prisoners who are trying to survive and you can choose whether to fight or hide from them or the bio phage by crafting other items besides weapons like bombs or smoke bombs or noise making gadgets or maybe you can get some kind of hacking tool to remotely mess with the power or doors or maybe you can just shoot the lights to blind them or distract them by grabbing random projectiles which allows you to use your environment to your advantage to decide whether or not you actually want to fight, it’s a shame there wasn’t more creative gameplay like this here since other games that have come out before have done stuff like this 4. I feel like there’s too many cutscenes and their too long, in the original dead space there were very few moments that took control away from the player so you actually felt more immersed, this also applies to the death screens that have this weird cut in between you getting hit and then you dying so you don’t actually feel like it’s part of the same scene, plus their too repetitive and a lot of the combat and enemy attack animations are repetitive too, especially the stationary enemies and those tiny infectors 5. This last one might sound stupid but I feel like there should have been some mini games like in the first dead space, maybe somewhere you could’ve found a shooting range meant for the prison guards so you can practice your aim and a Rec room or basketball court for the prisoners where you can practice with the force grip all of this would’ve fleshed out the prison more, I imagine it would’ve been both terrifying or funny even if a bio phage suddenly attacks you while your doing these activities Overall I feel like this game should have gotten a year or two longer in development
I think that Captain ferris could have been an ally and helped the player find out what was happening. Because the warrant wanted ferris to be in the dark so he won't stop the spread. Then they find out the warrant order him to kill the player. Can go like. Player: You don't have to do this. Ferris: Just doing my job.
I wonder if the disconnect of what you are being told about Jacob, and what we see might be part of the the bio-phage affecting him. Like how the canister he grabbed flashed as looking like a vail for a moment, and so there is the possibility that he is acting an events are actually happening vary much differently than we think.
I still can’t dodge in this game for anything and I’m stuck on the two head mini boss on the colony, but I’m still playing through it because I’m sucked into this universe.
Whoa Whoa Whoa DSII multiplayer was actually a lot of fun. 5 different types of necros with varying spawn times after death vs a team of humans who had to complete objectives that vary from map to map. 5 or 6 maps which all different layouts: wide open, tunnels, corridors, marker chamber, a mine, one was something like a shuttle launch etc. As the necro you could see the human outline through walls, there was proxy chat to trash talk, go through the vents, lurkers climbed walls, pukeres sprayed puke, the toddlers (Pack, I think). 250+ hours ranked 620ish overall.🎉😳 Didn’t have any problems playing on PS5
I've been playin a lot of elden ring lately, and it occurred to me: have you considered dissecting things like the Scarlet rot, the dung Eaters curse, and the albanerics?
Maybe even the affect of mutation from environmental factors that lead to the T-rex dogs, the red albinaurics, the transformation into magma wyrms or dragonkin soldiers, and perhaps the omen curse.
@icycrusader1947 yeah and the demihumans and how rykard became the snek. There's so much to unpack and discover in elden ring its so cool!. Oh yeah and godwyns affliction and those who live know death as well as the effects of deathroot.
I agree. I never went into this game, expecting it to be the next Dead Space, Glen wasn’t trying to make a new Dead Space, he was making something that’s it’s own thing
But they did constantly have to tell us all how they are the people who made dead space, meaning they seem to wanna draw a line between this game and dead space leaving it as the first thought in peoples mind "Hey they keep talking about dead space all the time so this is gonna be like that right?" I don't blame anyone for thinking it would have been more like dead space. The studio should not have been talking about that at all.
@@TrixyTrixter to be fair, Callisto Protocol’s story was actually what dead space’s story was supposed to be and it was actually supposed to be called “Rancid Moon.” But over time, the story became what we got
Having manual save that don't actually work was one of my biggest grievances with this game, why even give me the option to manually save if it doesn't work
sad to say it doesnt look like this game is getting a sequel at this point because the idea of the biophage is an intriguing one that could spawn an endless number of horrifying enemies much like the necromorphs, sad to see interesting ideas end up being cast aside because the game they were attached too just didnt hit the mark
Every time you start going on a tangent my mind just immediately brings up you slowly putting down a soap box getting ready to stand on it just for you to quickly put it away realizing that your about to start something that will take a while.
It is not a bad game for sure but I feel like many improvement could be made to this game. The obvious two being: 1. The game punish you for making guns because 1)you have limited amount of money so you can't upgrade everything and 2) each gun has its own ammunition so with the limited inventory space it just doesn't work 2. The switching between guns is just too slow, especially in the middle of a boss fight it felt tedious Other issues such as not enough boss fight, enemies feel repetitive etc, not a fan of the glove concept either
most, if not all of the time, you can tell what is the progression and what is the exploration path by the colour of light they use to highlight the way.
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The final boss handles like a concrete fridge, fuck the exploders.
@@bitters879 Yeah; wtf happened to it?
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I feel like the near end of the game, the enemies should of shown greater mutations than at the beginning. In Dead Space, the charred Necromorphs become more common since the Marker is having great influence on them. In Colistoll Protocall, you're still fighting the same enemies even though things infestation is getting more complicated.
yeah, and the gimmick with the tentacles mutating enemies was underutilized. They could've mutated into new enemy types with entirely different functions and attacks, but instead they just explode into these raw chickens with the only difference being more health.
They even had that set up. When you get the creepy shit straight from Siren Blood Curse, the longer their infection the more violent and extreme the 'evolution'. Atleast until you get a very old infected which stabilizes into a reasonable-ish specialized form... Yet after those first few creepy shinobu things there's nothing new in the general infected.
I know it is nit-picking but the later necros are not charred but hyper-necrosis (I think, haven't read DS lore for over 8 years
I think they just dont have enough manpower to spice things up.
@@jordangarcia465 To add a near irrelevant detail in a bout of nitpicking, they also do more damage I think. Not like its actually remotely relevant but hey.
The shock baton actually changes color from blue to red and gets more prongs on it as you upgrade it but its not very noticeable
Yeah I actually just posted a comment about that as well. You already pointed that out before me though.
Yeah, another thing he got wrong I think is about Captain Ferris coming back at the end of the game. I'm pretty sure that was another hallucination for Jacob, since he was experiencing those throughout the game.
@@vega8050thats what i was thinking that also because you hallucinate multiple times throughout the game because of the neck chip
@@vega8050I agree and that is what I first thought as a nod to Nicole’s jump scare in DS. There is a chance that Ferris can return and change form as showing that Cole’s and his group whole point to advance/ adapt. That depends on second game to explain/ explore that.
I highly disagree, I’m playing my ng+ right now and boy does the fully upgraded baton demolish these blistered fools. I used to be going three full combos on grunts with it half upgraded and four with none, now I just need two. Ultimately it seems I have to hit them 4-5 times less than half and close to half as much with no upgrades to get a full melee kill
I feel like the main problem is that Callisto tried to be a third-person shooter game but the whole emphasis on melee combat via the stun baton kind of puts it in a stalemate. Dead Space had you fight multiple enemies at the same time. In Callisto, they are placed in such a way that it is possible to take out the majority of them using the stun baton. Also, the story kind of has some issues. Jacob never questions Elias for the majority of the time they spent working except near the end when he dies. Plus the whole thing about evolving to colonize space doesn't make sense because they colonized Europa and are even terraforming Callisto.
No need to waste time and resources terraforming if you can evolve to withstand the unforgiving conditions of space
@@redcenturion88exactly
But that is the whole point of the wardens plan.
To be quite frank with you, I upgraded my weapons to get explosive shots. Moreover, you can unlock a certain heavy attack that allows you to hit multiple targets with the stun baton.
There is this one boss fight by where you’re fighting the brute inside of a computer server room after you get locked in your cell again. That to me was kind of annoying because I felt like you had to buy ammo in order to take him out. I also didn’t like the loot boxes that had a fucking leech in there.
I upgraded my grip, and I was able to take out a brute by literally just throwing shit at him.
I used the grip to throw shit at the biophages, I also threw them into their hazards. Honestly the game is fun I’d give it a nine out of 10.
My only complaint is that I couldn’t upgrade everything.
The game is good. It isn’t dead space. But it’s good.
@@redcenturion88 That's like how the flood in Halo could have reached levels that the precursors did if they weren't just always trying to be a metamind parasite.
“So let’s check out what make Callisto so AW-Nevermind it Crashed.”
should have been how that went down.
Damn that would have been a better one lol
That’s weird because the game never crashed on my PS4 Pro
@@datsimplenope that's because the issue was on PC. It was even recommended to only buy the game on console because of that...which should never be the case.
@@datsimplenope It's a problem with PC because the devs didn't bother optimizing the engine for PC's. The engine in question is Unreal 4, and it's notorious for having problems on PC due to PC's having a variety of hardware differences between each model, as apposed to consoles, so much so that devs have to change the certain aspects of the engine just to circumvent those problems.
hurr durr pc master race keeps complaining about this game while console players having zero issues
Im so glad you brought up that issue with Elias’ death, being an EMT that part really pissed me off, especially seeing as how people have been revived with minimal to no brain damage after hours of being dead in freezing cold water. Elias was dead less than a minute and likely still had a pulse, it was bad writing just to make Dani become your new ally
Agreed, it was lazy
I find it very odd that Jacob doesn't ever get infected despite being bit by the neck Grabber things or the little creatures that jump out of boxes
True, maybe Jacob really is a sigma male and is immune.
They infect via the tentacles which was shown 2 times. Jacob never got these tentacles shoved into his mouth therefore he wasnt infected. Also keep in mind that Jacob just arrived and was probably one of the few people who didnt got infected by the scientists staff
The infection is through the tentacles and grubs entering the host. The only time that happens to Jacob is if he gets game ended by those enemy variants.
Maybe he is immune and that has to do with the alien council.
The warden straight up says Jacob is immune. CO Ferris says directly, " Are you different? Are you *special* Jacob? Is that why the Warden wants you alive?"; nevermind he gets bitten by leapers and draggers like 90 times and gets tentacles literally in his mouth by double mouths.
When I watched a lets play of this game I was also weirded out by how much blame everyone put on him. They reacted as if our protagonist was much more involved than just some random delivery guy for the virus.
He was carrying the virus and when the girl crashed their ship it released it on the planet I believe ?
It was really only Dani because she believes everyone who is associated or even works with BRP and the UJC are involved with the conspiracy (which, considering the vast resources and scope of The Circle; the secret cult hidden in the game; I don’t blame her for her paranoia.). But that being said, the game raises a very difficult but very human question about responsibility and blame when it reveals that Jacob DID in fact know about the Biophage capsules he was transporting and simply turned a blind eye to it. It’s that age old question of; if you see evil being committed and you do nothing about it, are you just as complicit because you could have prevented the evil by just doing the right thing when the opportunity arose?
This video needs to be seen by everyone. Including the creator. This could be considered a breakdown that doesn't shit on the game. A great knowledge nugget to any development team. Looking on what to improve. I love this.
As a trucker, I can confirm: I cannot be bothered with what I'm moving as long as the paperwork is in order. Throw it on, then let me throw straps and hit the road.
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To answer your question on New Game +, it's coming out February 7th. Also with the force glove, other gripe I had was I would aim at an enemy to grab, and the character would instead just grab random items around the enemy and waste the charge for the glove. Needs to be a little more precise.
agreed, maybe like an indicator on it, like literally a laser site lol
@@RoanokeGaming *sight
how is it possible I keep writing site instead of sight
@@RoanokeGaming Well, to be fair, you are talking a lot on these videos and writing a script, so it’s easy to get carried away and miss place your words sometimes. It happens me all the time too, and it really annoys and it makes me laugh sometimes. 😂🤦♂️
@@RoanokeGaming everybody does it. Was just in a marine's page and the same issue (site - sight) came up regularly in comments
Speaking of death animations, what broke it for me was how you'd sever an arm, and yet the death animation would have you being beaten to death/torn apart by the now missing limb as if it were invisible.
I’m not touching you, I’m not touching you!
@@invaderHUNK 🤣 yeah that's pretty much it
@@invaderHUNK I'm black 🙂
I love games that show your gear progression as you upgrade like bioshock and bioshock 2 I loved how you could see your weapon becoming more badass and just making you wanna find all the upgrades or re-run the game to see how the other weapons are gonna look
dude 100%, its a complete necessity at this point in gaming
It also makes the weapon feel more personal too you. You can see your growth (or even the character’s growth) in the game reflected in your gear. A great example of this would be Deacon’s motorcycle in Days Gone. Even if we take away the cosmetic paint jobs each upgrade comes with a physical change in the bike that eventually turns your shitty rice cycle into the rugged machine that could withstand the rigors of a drifter trying to survive in a dangerous world.
Exactly I can't tell you how many times in fnv I'd mod a weapon and it'd become my personal favorite or in dragon age inquisition where your armor can be upgraded and you can see the color change and how more armor is added it just makes games better for everyone
Ever thought about analyzing the rat plague from dishonored? Or describing how the blood fly wasps in dishonored 2 turn corpses into wasp nests or how blood amber is made?
I'd like to hear your thoughts.
Yes, I’ve been waiting for this! I hope there’s more Callisto Protocol videos coming, I’m really interested in your analysis of the Biophage and it’s various forms.
On another note, I really agree with your review. Especially the part about being torn to pieces several times and wanting to leave to go scream. I think a lot of us really relate to that. Still, like you said, a great story
absolutely there are! The biophage itself will be discussed in the next video!
@@RoanokeGaming Awesome! Really looking forward to that, love your videos man!
broanoke uploads and I'm all for it, let get this classroom filled
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Broanoke? Lol made me laugh man.
I'm really glad I'm not the only one to feel a huge disconnect between everyone saying how self serving Jacob, is and the actions that he actually takes in relation to the people around him. It's such a weird issue.
I think it really just comes down to him being both new, and- ironically- _because of_ him not being self serving.
Not being selfish means he has a sense of empathy, and a connection with his emotions- meaning he can be manipulated, _even when there isn't any evidence that he is realistically the one at fault._
Hell, it's nearly spelled out as such during the section where he starts blaming himself for shit going wrong that he had no way of stopping.
In otherwords, the fact he isn't a complete piece of crap means that everyone else- who have been in Survival Mode for longer due to having been in the middle of the cluster fluff from the beginning, and thus have had their emotions suppressed by the extended stress response- is willing to basically gaslight him into complying with their demands.
Hell, Elias _not_ being like everyone else on the moon and NOT just planning on using and losing Jacob is more of a surprise.
When I woke up today, I didn't expect to hear the words "raw dogged into his spinal cord."
Also, it's my first time seeing you, you're an absolute unit.
They didnt even warm him up or anything XD and ayyyyy gotta keep the meatsuit kept up along with the brain!
@@RoanokeGaming they went RAW no lube
The baton upgrade does change colors as you upgrade it, red being the highest damage.
The damage that is*
Was about to comment this. Kept saying this out loud hahah
you know, as I played through I couldnt tell if the electricity was changing colors or not but that makes sense
@@RoanokeGaming I do believe that was the only cosmetic change though. But totally agree we need more changes with it if it’s going to be the main weapon.
15:40-15:55 I think I can answer that one. That probably was just a hallucination of Ferris that Jacob was seeing like he was saw with his co pilot, Max. The device on the back of his neck does have the side effect to make you hallucinate a bit.
Yea I think that is just a toast to DS1 ending.
Hold analog stick to left, creature attacks, hold to right. "Hold" not tap. I kept tapping and dying. I went to the tutorials and saw Hold, lol was like " ooooh well shit"...then the rest of the game was magical. Can't wait for the dlc and hopefully a sequel 🤞
Also the auto dodge is easy mode lol
@@RoanokeGaming Oyff uploaded a montage where he barely ever dodged. Instead, he was comboing between melee and ranged weapons like crazy. Dude straight up played the game like a beat 'em up. lol
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 playing it like it was god hand made me enjoy the game, it's weird the game does not feel like it's a survival horror, it's like the game forces you to play it like an action game.
Game ist garbage
@@checkmate9978 That's cause your trash in it 💀
When you brought up being attached to Issac Clark in DS1, I immediately thought about DS2 when you return to the Ishimura. Issac is visible on edge and is having major bad PTSD, and I was equally in the same boat as him. Gets me every time i play that game. Can go through vents in Alien Isolation and wonder through a dark forest in Alan Wake all day long. Going back to the Ishimura.. I am shivering in my space boots and prefiring vents because nope!
For some reason mentioning a difficult train section unlocked a deep memory of reading a review of Lost Planet 3 in a magazine.
Speaking of the saving problem. It reminds me of the time me and my cousins were taking turns playing Alien Isolation, we some how got into a near endless loop of being fatalited by the Sheldon (I named the xeno) literally everytime I walked away from the save point. Took us two days to leave the area and run to a different save point.
I really appreciate you putting a pause between sections and thoughts. The long pause between your final thought of the video topic and the outro are a nice touch. Some videos barrel straight from the final thought to an outro and I don’t always realize the video has ended. I know it’s a small thing honestly it’s helps me so much haha
I definitely had my eye on this but I’ve been skeptical with getting new games lately. Seems the trend of them releasing extremely unpolished is the norm now but I’ll definitely try to snag this on a sale in the future. Also, it sucks that you didn’t like prototype. I’ve always adored that series and love games where you consume enemies to get stronger. Both prototypes were just a massive power trip of an experience and I’m sad we never got to see a continuation.
almost every game ive bought recently has this exact flaw
@@RoanokeGaming At a guess, because it's easy and a factor of consumer indifference. We're way past the age of games having to be polished on release because they came in a cartridge. We're in the age of problems being solved through online patches. That kind of mentality can breed indifference, as people just assume the game will be fixed. So companies can start to rely on that to bump their games out the door with the promise - even if its never fulfilled - that it'll get patched.
I got super bored of Prototype midway, barely gave the second a try. The story and missions weren't super inspiring and I basically just felt like a shitty Venom with memory loss
15:52 Yes, it's very Nicole-esque. I'd bet exactly Nicole-esque, Ferris back in human form is going just be a hallucination because of trauma or his brain chip malfunctioning. Which will then be a theme in next game.
I thought Ferris was wayyyyyy underutilized which is a shame because the actor who plays him played star killer from the force awakens games so I was interested to see what they’d do with him here but unfortunately he’s only in like five scenes
What they should’v done with him was make him like the hunter from the first dead space or Mr X from resident evil in that he continuously tracks you down throughout the game and your forced to either fight or hide from him and every time you seemingly “kill” him he just keeps on coming back and mutating into a new form
@@gamemacatron7512 force unleashed
I'm still chuckling at that ending where after that final jump scare the first thing you see is an L in the middle of the screen
The Callisto Protocol is a game designed from the original idea for Dead Space known as rancid moon, in which you would be escaping from a prison on a moon. Dead Space & the Callisto Protocol were both designed by Glenn Schofield, and I guess it was a way of putting his old ideas into something new.
Agreed 100% on everything. I don't think it was a skill issue at any point because the combat is fairly simple and straight forward. I think there were some bad choices made for sure. There were a few points you referenced should not have made it through testing into the final game. My biggest issue is the lack of Callisto credits all throughout the game. Only being able to max out two things at most is just ridiculous. I was really disappointed there was no difference on my max security playthrough. I still like the game and can't wait for what's next. Thanks for the vid 👍
I am pretty sure that the jump scare at the end was actually just a hallucination, like the co-pilot was throughout the game. I had a theory that maybe the brain stem monitor thing was prompting traumatic memories as a form of punishment to the prisoners. Jacob is presumed to be a sane person but suddenly can't stop seeing the things he feels guilty over he even complains about the implant hurting right after an episode. Its like a way to make you never forget what you did and maybe even cause some people to empathize with their victims. Black iron was a max security prison for murders after all.
FYI to conserve charges use the force grip to bring them to you then drop them and immediately melee them in the face. You home run their face causing them to fly back 15 feet. This can buy you some room but also works almost as a throw to chuck them into environmental hazards. The game doesn't advertise this ability I only found out when I was trying to achievement hunt.
They updated the game again on the 15th and id say at this point they addressed a lot of the balance issues (i.e. weapon switching). Not necessarily all fixed, but in a better state and I recommend people give this another try.
Damn, it's a shame to hear about Prototype. I was hoping you'd eventually cover the Black Light Virus
Maaan when I heard tht I rewind the video like whhaat? This over prototype1&2 story n gameplay is insane it was a gem for its time
@@darealmephilesgameplay definitely. I do recall the story being real edge lord lol
my heart dropped when he said that.
I was waiting for this episode!
When we seeing Gizmo (Gremlins) get the Roanoke treatment? It's a Christmas movie that needs science.
I may have to do that next week!
Definitely up for that!
The lightning on the stun baton changes colors as you upgrade it.
Generally the doors have labels on them like “supply” or “utilities” that provide route context those loops are literally just to get weapons or supplies if you’re willing to damage your psyche going through the optional areas for some nice stuff. My favorite and most disturbing was going down a path and winding up wading through like 3 feet of blood and flesh walls
Yeh I just got to the blood flesh walls area and I must admit I don't play any horror games but it was pretty scary, definitely memorable.
Regarding the train ride you were stuck at for a long time, each of the four boxes give you a bunch of gravity glove charges that you can use to get through the entire ride without firing a single bullet. I’m pretty sure that’s how you’re meant to play it there. Just have like 2 or 3 charges and be quick with tossing them off, they only spawn in one area at a time so as long as you’re paying attention to where they’ll come from next you should be good.
Great video though, I had a lot of fun with callisto, I’m excited for the harder difficulty that they’re adding.
I really do hope this game gets a sequel, I liked the story and where its going, plus, I want to know more about the giant aliens that apparently lived in our solar system.
I don't, unless they redesign the entire combat.
Same i feel like everyone was hoping for a deadspace copy instead of taking it as a separate game but that was possibly due to the hype of the fact sum of the dead space creators was working on it and the references
It has potential but it would need a big redesign. The core gameplay loop has a lot of problems.
You didn't need to pay attention to the story in PROTOTYPE to enjoy it, granted it does get slow at times. I'd recommend replaying it again (you can get it to work on pc but you need to do a little behind the scenes magic to get it running smoothly)
Tbf Jacob didn't even see the contents of the vials. "I belong here" for what opening someone else's mail?!
Personal opinion but I was actually pretty sad when Elias died. It wasn’t really shown properly but by the way Elias worked with Jacob you could tell he was a bro. Got a reaction out of me
Played the game last week, was kinda bummed at how short it was. There were some good and bad things about it.
Pros
1. Engaging storyline. The more I played it, the more I wanted to see what happened next. I'm not a horror fan in general, so stuff like this has to happen to get me committed.
2. Weaponry. The modular system for the ranged weapons was pretty ingenious; the Hand Cannon, Skunk Gun, and Tactical Pistol sharing the same one handed stock and the Riot Gun and Assault Rifle sharing the two handed stock.
3. Locations. Always nice to see new areas to cause mayhem in.
Cons
1. Grouped combat. Taking on a whole horde when ranged weaponry isn't that effective sucks, especially once they mutate.
2. Glitches. Aside from crashing a few times, there was one time when I thought I had turned on High Contrast mode. The whole area appearing to show the boundary and object planes.
3. Two-Heads. The explosive shots on the Hand Cannon (available only once it's fully upgraded) are a must. At least two Boom! shots puts them down for the whacking.
4. Lack of balance in upgrades. The ranged weapons have much simpler skill tree branches than the Stun Baton and GRP. And getting all the creds without stocking up your Inventory with valuable contraband and having to sacrifice ammo is a grind.
All in all, I'm waiting to see how New Game Plus mode changes things up.
I genuinely loved this game sure it had a few issues but the way i see it its like a new IP after everyone was expecting it to be like its predecessor dead space, but im looking forward to what comes next
I think they will fix alot of issues in Callisto 2 tbh
@@RoanokeGaming some in the DLC coming later next year
@@RoanokeGaming you have more hope than me. I do not see them fixing anything. Just more of the same boring melee.
Captain Ferris shows up a couple of times and i got to say, Star Killer is a gem when he is on.
First with him being kind of a bro but then has to do his job and feels kind of bad for you. But, what can you do?
Then you meet him and he gets to use the force and throw you around a bit. He's under a LOT of stress and because you are the new guy and all hell breaks loose it makes since to think you had something to do with it, saying this is his kingdom only to get swarmed and fall out a window like a bad ass.
Then he comes back to wave you out the airlock. How nice.
Meet up for a smack down.
Meet up again for another smack down.
Then give his impression of the dead space 1 ending.
Just clicked this after finishing my work in class ,thanks the anxiety relieving video :) - btw your vids inspired me to study micro-biology & genetics as a whole
Excellent! we need more people in the field!
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A lot of Jacob's character is given to you up front and is "fleshed out" (honestly, very minimally) through some data recordings. Basically it's shown from the get go that he and Max have been doing this "cargo route" for a long while now and they both have their suspicions about it. Jacob even goes out of his way to brush Max off multiple times and to ignore the signs that what they were doing was more than transporting "medical supplies" as he told himself. The "reveal" later in the game shows that he had his suspicions and even knew that they were purposefully trying to hide contraband in the supplies; he may not have realized what the sample itself was, but he knew that they were doing shady shite. Basically the main theme surrounding Callisto Protocol is that of atonement and redemption. Jacob & Max knew that they were involved in much more than "transporting medical supplies," Jacob even confirmed prior to the events on Europa; he actively pushed that information into the back of his mind and lied to himself to create essentially a repressed/fragmented memory (can we talk about how before his memory is "fixed" the toy box looks like a purple/black checkered "missing asset" cube you'd find in a game/3D rendering program? lol). I do get your point about it being a bit clunky, but ultimately it's the same "twist" Dead Space had; Issac already knew what happened to Nicole and that some seriously wrong stuff was happening; Kendra even made the comment foreshadowing the "reveal" that the full video (which he had watched multiple times) showed her death. Issac was a the "lover going to save his damsel in distress" trope from the beginning, but the twist was that he knew he already failed and blamed himself (which towards the end of the first game and throughout the second game he has to learn to accept his guilt and to move on from it). Much in the same fashion, Jacob already knows that he's to some extent culpable for what happened on Europa and tries to absolve himself of that guilt/sin by saying "it was just another job"; but he had been doing that job long enough and taking the cash to not ask questions to know it was "wrong."
As for character development, it's a bit hit and miss and I do agree with that; mainly I give it a begrudging pass because the game isn't designed to stand on it's own and that's clear from the get go (setting aside that the main story ending beats you upside the head with "we'll finish it properly with the DLC like DS3 & Awakening") and this is meant to be looked as part of a whole not a standalone game. This is one of my pet peeves with media these days... but then again, I love Dead Space, Mass Effect, and a couple other big IPs that basically did exactly that; write them as a fairly large over-arching story (though out of them, Dead Space and to some extent ME1 do actually stand on their own as sort of closed stories). I personally don't think we were supposed to feel all that attached to Elias to be honest with you; I don't think he wasn't supposed to be our companion or friend with how he's presented in the game. In fact I would argue that he's not meant to be a character in so much as a mirror for Jacob. The narrative goes out of it's way to pair the two up and to show a lot of similarities, then asks the question a lot of people might have had on their mind about "are we helping a bad guy break free?" Jacob tries to justify Elias' actions the same way he justified his greed ignoring something that was clearly wrong and that ended up killing a lot of people; Elias goes out of his way to squash Jacob's justifying and to admit that he was like him at one point, eventually realizing that he needed to take responsibility for what choices he made. Elias wasn't meant to be our friend, he was meant to give Jacob a reality check and to spur the character's "self-realization" and eventual redemption arc. This is made even more clear when Dani cuts out Elias' CORE despite Jacob's protests, Dani's response was basically "you've been doing this all game long to survive, NOW it's a problem because you got to know one of their names?" That moment is meant to have Jacob (and by extension the player) reflect that this game mechanic/violently grotesque act we've become complacent with is our choice, (granted it's done in the name of survival and I would still do it myself in that situation myself) this is the part where Jacob is supposed to stop lying to himself and start accepting that his actions put him where he is.
Ferris just seemed like the typical "I love my job a bit too much" prison guard, I do wish there was some more development on him given that they seemed to hype him up as a sort of Nemesis type character (somehow I feel like we're gonna see him again despite it not making too much sense...). I don't know if they're going to make Dani into "Ellie" to be honest with you, I do feel like they are trying to nudge her towards the love interest route, that I don't disagree with. If it wasn't for the DLC cliff-hanger ending, I would have said they were going to make her the main character for the sequel (I suppose they still could?) but I think she's being more developed to be a Carver/Ellie hybrid in terms of the character. Someone who will ultimately have to face her own guilt and rage, but will likely end up forgiving Jacob and probably falling for him. I wouldn't be shocked if they set up the sequel to have a Dead Space 3 style co-op system using the two of them.
Anyways, I think I rambled on enough... there's plenty more to say about the game. It was a good love letter to it's parent (Dead Space) and that it would be less Dead Space 4 or "Dead Space we have at home" and more "a concurrent evolution/variant of Dead Space." It's got protentional and I'll have to wait for the DLC/Sequel to really see if they grow this IP properly... Well keep up the great videos! Been binging a ton of them this past few weeks, enjoying them a lot!
PS- Does anyone else miss the lack of ancillary stories/media that Dead Space had when it launched? the anime/comics/websites/etc.? I felt it made that universe so much cooler.
"The Omega Male." LOL the protocol has now become the Sigma process
As soon as he said "Humanity or my alphas" I about lost my shit lmao
It's funny in hindsight, though level by level I was like "ok I've dealt with the fodder, can we get some details and the deus ex scientist showed up."
As for the transport comment. I work in manufacturing. We make metal boxes. What's inside the box changes as does the size and shape. Our boxes are made in multiple countries and are shipped all around the world. There is no way in hell unless they do a lot of googling, read our product pages, or ask questions that a truck driver knows what the hell they are transporting every time. For the game. It was cool, but the melee combat with your main weapon got so boring and repetitive. The cost wasn't worth it due to how short it was. For the death scenes it was very Newer Tomb Raideresque. They murdered croft in such brutal ways, but there was 0 emotional attachment so it was kind of meh.
Man this game really makes me think that developers do need a wrangler to make sure they deliver a working product on release.
As a tip for the train part since it might not have been well explained: Enemies with tentacles (aka everyone on the train) shoot them in the chest for a 1 tap. I made it through the train first try because you can tap them as they climb aboard with the pistol with all that ammo and you'll literally have 0 issues. Captain stompy at the end messed me up bad though a few times. 😅
Even if Prototype wasn't your jam, is it possible we could get a video on the blacklight virus itself? The biology behind it still seems like it would be fascinating.
Only visual change I saw in the stun baton is when you upgrade the damage the electricity changes color.
The pain,Agony of going through the Buzzsaw corridor was the most difficult for me
in regards to the transporting of the biophage; it kinda makes sense that jacob sort of blocked it out of his mind
we didnt see him open the actual canister that contains the parasite, he only held the canister and said "we dont need to know, its just another job"
he only realizes that its the parasite after he sees all the things he sees and finds the same container near the dead creature
only THEN does he realize that the SAME damn crate he was transporting is here, only THEN does he open it, realize its exactly the same and checks the secret compartment and THEN he pulls it out and actually opens it and realizes "holy shit, the canisters hidden under the medicine actually hold some kinda parasite, and after everything i have seen, i realize, this little parasite i have been transporting must have been the cause of it all"
but i also agree, jacob is essentially innocent in all this
he KNOWS he's transporting some strange canisters that are hidden underneath medicine and must be secreitive for a reason, but its JUST a canister - it could be, as you said, native creatures or some other type of tissue samples
if we are given a job that pays well and are told NOT to open the cargo we are transporting: chances are we are not going to open the cargo, ESPECIALLY if its just a small canister.
if its a canister we cant really say our humanity made us question if we where transporting humans or human organs or somthing, its just a canister that could maybe hold a small rat.
we get paid to do a job and we do it
jacob was doing that, he saw, maybe from accident or maybe he was curious, he checked the cargo and saw, medicine, seems legit, and hey a secret compartment....but it could be just a rat or tissue samples. my pay isent worth opening it and risking breaking it
I give it an 8/10 performed well 99%percent of the time, just wished the final boss had a bit more attacks that are hard to deal with and bigger enemy variety
As a delivery driver I can tell you the only time we know what we are delivering is if it’s exposed OR the people you are delivering to wants to show you
I took him not remembering that he was transporting the biophage as someone blocked the memory via the brain thing. That or he didn’t know at the time what it was and didn’t care as long as he got paid but once he realized what it was and what him transporting it led to he felt guilty.
That and possibly just a really bad case of denial
I love how everyone complains about the train ride when all I did the entire time was just pick up grunts with the GRP and throw them off the side the instant they appeared. The only difficult part of that ride was the boss at the end, but everything else was a cakewalk.
You know Danny DeVito would have followed the prompts and beaten this game without dying
Well hes an ultra chad
@@RoanokeGaming
You’re an Ultra Chad ❤
I’ve noticed that areas with orange light are where you are supposed to go, the areas with white light are optional and contain materials and credits etc
I am deeply saddened that you didn't like prototype, as I loved it and would love to hear you explain the blacklight virus that gives Alex his powers
I don't know if you do or do not know the story of prototype, but the first one has a twist near the end that could make a very interesting video idea.
I will have to check this out later. I actually want to avoid spoilers for this one.
Understandable!
You hit EXACTLY the same notes as my problems with the story. Honestly, it is very damn cool to hear about the Dani and Duncan dunking. cheers. Really good work on this vid.
The latest patch is definitely a step in the right direction, heal injectors are used faster and bosses don't 1 shot anymore. Although you could block a bosses one shot before you could only do it once anyway.
I dont get it. How do you need it to be easier ? You literally hold left/a dodge and the hold right/d until the enemy attacks and then repeat. A single enemy can literally not hit you if you do this even a boss. just dodge the chain of attacks shoot once or twice and dodge again its not hard at all. Arguably the encounters with multiple enemies were tough sometimes and even then dodging made sure that you cant get hit (except for the spitting guys, however you can literally walk sideways and they miss). I dont understand this point at all, maybe its just the performance because I played on ps5 or maybe you tried to time the dodge instead of just holding but if not then thats a huge skill issue man
@@caZed3100 It's not that bosses having insta kills is harder or easier it's just kinda lame in general. The healing needed to be faster so it can actually be a decision to make in combat not afterwards. Plus now instead of selling all your heals because you just did the section flawlessly instead of taking any hits you might be more willing to take a hit and use the healing system. And a lot more gameplay changes need to be made to bring it up to snuff with modern games. The difficulty you felt might have just been jank brother. If they smooth it out then it's a better game for it, might actually be the next Evil Within if they do. And besides, just shoot the leg out and stomp is a better combat loop than dodge, dodge, dodge and dodge and then attack now shoot.
@@caZed3100 Also I'm looking at the game objectively because I also played on PS5 and recognize it is a good game. But does still need work.
Bruhhh I love this game but hate the fact that health injectors are used faster I mean them being slow was intentional cause you had to make it through the encounter with the health you currently had but now you can just heal mid combat
@@paperclip6377 I'd argue you really can't because enemies are still so on top of you. And you can't run or they'll catch you for another free hit. All it's really changed is you can kill the dudes currently aggro on you and then possibly heal before the third guy hits you. And you can run from bosses so being able to heal in them is fine.
You said it at the beginning, but it’s a perfect way of describing the “problem.” The expectations were too high. We were looking for a Dead Space but we should’ve been expecting something more akin to “Resident Evil in Space.” Does the game have issues? Absolutely. Is it terrible? No. I think it was a good first attempt at something new, that the internet said was “bad.” The story was a bit weak, and then they did the Dead Space thing at the end which made me go “really? Seriously?!” But it wasn’t terrible.
I havent been notified by this upload despite the fact I ring the bell. TH-cam doing its bug and glitches thing again
the shimmying and interactive door opening is there to slow you down so the rest of the level can load instead of introducing loading screens.
I haven't played the game yet, but I want to. I think the story is great and I hoping for sequels with more horrifying looking Biophages!!! Great video as always Roanoke!!!😊😁👍🏽
Dude I love your channel man I honestly never would have thought about it. Like your the only dude I kno who does these awesome kinda videos broanoke!!! Your legit a scientist and kno your shit and I love it man!!!
May I ask you to check out "Command & Conquer" franchise
(Specifically the tiberium one)
I think there's scope for you to discuss about the harmful health effects of Tiberium & the various Tiberium based lifeforms like Visceroids & floaters
C&C?
@@RoanokeGaming command and conquer
Would love to see more game analysis like this from you! And I agree about the train section, I played on medium security and died a dozen times due to running out of ammo and getting one shot by the boss I eventually just turned the difficulty down; I was even more frustrated finding out I had to fight the same exact boss MULTIPLE times and fully quit the game the third time it showed up due to how drained I felt.
I discovered this game last week and saw a friend playing and liked how it looks and I’m getting closer to the end and I’m liking it and I was surprised when saw the amount of bad reviews that it has
I would have been a little bit more satisfied with having multiple melee weapons that are good at taking out certain kinds of monsters depending on the form they take. Have a monster that has multiple tentacle-like limbs? Have a chainsaw or plasma saw weapon that can sever the limbs before reverting to the stun baton to take them out. Have an enemy that evolved to have hardened armor like sections on their body? Have a kinetic assisted power mining pick used to clear mines to crumple that armor. All I'm saying is that the stun baton would be your main way of dealing damage, but you can also focus on weapons that can help you overcome certain enemy types that will get in your way. The enemies are also a character in this game, but the way the game presents them to us is very minimal that it pales compared to the number of enemies you see in Dead Space.
Callisto Protocol was a catastrophe and should have been Proto-called off, and delayed, so they could patch the performance bugs, and fix the melee combat.
LMAO "Protocalled" off got me, they do need a patch baaaaaaaaad, I think one dropped yesterday though
@@RoanokeGaming I also feel like a sequel is probably gonna happen.
Oh boy, cant wait for Catastrophic Proto-called, we want our money back 2: The quest for more money, Concrete fridge boogaloo.
And the obligatory "delux" edition, which would be better off called the "buggered and broken edition.", which will need 5 day 1 patches; and have most of its content behind a paywall; or a busted battle pass system.
Ima stop before this devolves into me fully roasting this game like chestnuts over an open file.
also the 2-headed monster. I think it was used 3 times throughout the game as Boss. THREE FREAKIN' TIMES!
I am in no way shape or form against Papa Roanoke Voicing his thoughts through reviews and such
I would love to hear more, as I always did
as I always have
32:32 I like how you just stand there and wait for it.
Actually from what I understand, Ellie saw that Jacob had made multiple deliveries to the place of the outbreak (even though other ships did too). So I guess she just decided his specifically was suspicious. When she saw that he hadn’t actually been guilty of delivering the virus or whatever, her anger subsided and she visually became kinder….even though he actual had delivered it…just didn’t remember or know. She just didn’t find it.
Still her actions for basically the whole game are kinda reckless. She knew what she could be up against and still wanted to be difficult till she had no other choice. Her written character arch was terrible and why most people didn’t care for her as a character. Her name was Dani and not Ellie and she reminds me a lot of Abby from the TLOU part II.
Can we talk about the mini cutscene where he wipes the dew off the window? He uses his hands but it immediately looks like a squiggy was used. This is a animated cut scene! How do you screw up that simple texture?!
its not overhype thats the problem when the game is 50% amogus simulator, 40% repetitive, mundane combat against the same enemy type reskinned over the course of the game with the worst and most brain dead dodging/combat system in existence + cheap jumpscare/QTE enemies being spammed in chests and places you have no control over..
the other 10%? Halo 5 Guardians tier terrible boss spam and 1 cheap OHKO/difficulty simulator final boss...thats another big muscular humanoid...
Thats actually a pretty accurate summary, I feel like those thing scan be fixed but its going to take callisto protocol 2 to actually do that
The game does tell you where to go but you still have to figure out the key yourself. Nearly every ladder, vent, or door marked "maintenance", ""storage", or "utility" is 9/10 a side loop area. Main paths are usually lit up and present a bit of dialogue.
I think many forget that the peeps that made DS lost the rights to it so they needed to do this to give us more of the DS action we wanted.. Give it time, not that many youngsters understand that concept...
oh believe me, I see what they are doing, thats why I am hopeful for this franchise
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@@RoanokeGaming *hides half written script behind my back* Welp, there goes all my plans. Might as well attempt to skim a few viewers off your back by covering the same stuff xD
cheers for making me actually think of using my degree btw
it's just not dead space though dude. have you played the game anytime recently? this game is closer to last of us and the more modern cinematic action adventure games than anything even remotely close to dead space or the games that inspired it like re4 or ss2... say whatever you want, but all you're doing is settling for a mediocre game trying to ride the coattails of a beloved abandoned ip.
@@ahzidaljun Maybe and I defo don't think it's DS but a step in the right direction to give us more :)
Dude, that insane train ride is probably WHY the auto-dodge was in the game in the first place.
God damn, there's so much potential here I hope they can improve on it in the future. I agree that the expectations were far too high for this game to achieve. For what it is, it's pretty good.
I am certain, maybe not in this game but in the second, we will see a really good game
I think I can narrow down the games problems in terms of gameplay
1. The prison doesn’t feel open at all, there’s no backtracking and you always feel like your being forced down one path, Mabye they could’ve added alternate pathways to achieve objectives which could’ve resulted in different outcomes or endings which perhaps could’ve added to the fear element since you don’t know if your choices could lead you to your salvation or doom and maybe added some replay value
2. Not enough enemy variety in terms of boss battles, they re-used the same mini boss like four times, also there’s no variation in terms of regular enemies unlike in dead space where even necromorphs like the slasher have variations, sure there’s the tentacles that cause the bio phage to evolve but it feels severely underdeveloped which is a shame cause it has such great potential
3. The combat feels too action based and gets repetitive fast, you just keep shooting and hitting your enemies until they die, in dead space you specifically had to be strategic with how you fight every type of necromorph and how you dismember their limbs, perhaps in the case of the bio phage the only way to kill them is if their tentacles come out and depending on what type of bio phage your fighting they only come out when you attack a certain part of their body meaning you can’t use the same strategy for every single one
4. As stated before there should have been less action and more quiet moments and stealth, in deadspace you could sometimes go six minutes without facing a necromorph which adds to fear cause you never know when one’s gonna show up so there should have been more of that here, also the bio phage don’t seem that smart unlike the necromorphs who will sometimes runaway to try and ambush you later so your always on edge, but Mabye in this game the bio phage didn’t have to be the only type of enemy, maybe you could’ve encountered hostile prison guards or other prisoners who are trying to survive and you can choose whether to fight or hide from them or the bio phage by crafting other items besides weapons like bombs or smoke bombs or noise making gadgets or maybe you can get some kind of hacking tool to remotely mess with the power or doors or maybe you can just shoot the lights to blind them or distract them by grabbing random projectiles which allows you to use your environment to your advantage to decide whether or not you actually want to fight, it’s a shame there wasn’t more creative gameplay like this here since other games that have come out before have done stuff like this
4. I feel like there’s too many cutscenes and their too long, in the original dead space there were very few moments that took control away from the player so you actually felt more immersed, this also applies to the death screens that have this weird cut in between you getting hit and then you dying so you don’t actually feel like it’s part of the same scene, plus their too repetitive and a lot of the combat and enemy attack animations are repetitive too, especially the stationary enemies and those tiny infectors
5. This last one might sound stupid but I feel like there should have been some mini games like in the first dead space, maybe somewhere you could’ve found a shooting range meant for the prison guards so you can practice your aim and a Rec room or basketball court for the prisoners where you can practice with the force grip all of this would’ve fleshed out the prison more, I imagine it would’ve been both terrifying or funny even if a bio phage suddenly attacks you while your doing these activities
Overall I feel like this game should have gotten a year or two longer in development
In most modern day games the shimmying is meant to hide loading screens leading to a "Seamless" experience
I think that Captain ferris could have been an ally and helped the player find out what was happening. Because the warrant wanted ferris to be in the dark so he won't stop the spread. Then they find out the warrant order him to kill the player. Can go like. Player: You don't have to do this. Ferris: Just doing my job.
I wonder if the disconnect of what you are being told about Jacob, and what we see might be part of the the bio-phage affecting him. Like how the canister he grabbed flashed as looking like a vail for a moment, and so there is the possibility that he is acting an events are actually happening vary much differently than we think.
I still can’t dodge in this game for anything and I’m stuck on the two head mini boss on the colony, but I’m still playing through it because I’m sucked into this universe.
Keep your distance, fire shots and always hold the stick to the left or right when he gets close
Whoa Whoa Whoa DSII multiplayer was actually a lot of fun. 5 different types of necros with varying spawn times after death vs a team of humans who had to complete objectives that vary from map to map. 5 or 6 maps which all different layouts: wide open, tunnels, corridors, marker chamber, a mine, one was something like a shuttle launch etc. As the necro you could see the human outline through walls, there was proxy chat to trash talk, go through the vents, lurkers climbed walls, pukeres sprayed puke, the toddlers (Pack, I think). 250+ hours ranked 620ish overall.🎉😳
Didn’t have any problems playing on PS5
I've been playin a lot of elden ring lately, and it occurred to me: have you considered dissecting things like the Scarlet rot, the dung Eaters curse, and the albanerics?
Maybe even the affect of mutation from environmental factors that lead to the T-rex dogs, the red albinaurics, the transformation into magma wyrms or dragonkin soldiers, and perhaps the omen curse.
@icycrusader1947 yeah and the demihumans and how rykard became the snek. There's so much to unpack and discover in elden ring its so cool!. Oh yeah and godwyns affliction and those who live know death as well as the effects of deathroot.
All that shimmying and crawling through narrow places isn't an actual game mechanic. That's s hidden loading screen.
I agree. I never went into this game, expecting it to be the next Dead Space, Glen wasn’t trying to make a new Dead Space, he was making something that’s it’s own thing
But they did constantly have to tell us all how they are the people who made dead space, meaning they seem to wanna draw a line between this game and dead space leaving it as the first thought in peoples mind "Hey they keep talking about dead space all the time so this is gonna be like that right?" I don't blame anyone for thinking it would have been more like dead space. The studio should not have been talking about that at all.
@@TrixyTrixter to be fair, Callisto Protocol’s story was actually what dead space’s story was supposed to be and it was actually supposed to be called “Rancid Moon.” But over time, the story became what we got
Having manual save that don't actually work was one of my biggest grievances with this game, why even give me the option to manually save if it doesn't work
I just really miss deadspace
Same
We *NEEDED* Dead space 4 to wrap up the story :(
sad to say it doesnt look like this game is getting a sequel at this point because the idea of the biophage is an intriguing one that could spawn an endless number of horrifying enemies much like the necromorphs, sad to see interesting ideas end up being cast aside because the game they were attached too just didnt hit the mark
Every time you start going on a tangent my mind just immediately brings up you slowly putting down a soap box getting ready to stand on it just for you to quickly put it away realizing that your about to start something that will take a while.
It is not a bad game for sure but I feel like many improvement could be made to this game. The obvious two being:
1. The game punish you for making guns because 1)you have limited amount of money so you can't upgrade everything and 2) each gun has its own ammunition so with the limited inventory space it just doesn't work
2. The switching between guns is just too slow, especially in the middle of a boss fight it felt tedious
Other issues such as not enough boss fight, enemies feel repetitive etc, not a fan of the glove concept either
most, if not all of the time, you can tell what is the progression and what is the exploration path by the colour of light they use to highlight the way.
Callisto Protocol Two - they got 'em workin' in shifts! 😂😂😂