I seriously canNOT believe they actually went with the god awful 'it was all just a dream' cliche for this game's actual ending. How did the developers of this game make literally every possible terrible design decision? It's actually impressive. Edit: Like why even do the whole 'it was all just a dream' thing to begin with? Why couldn't they just have Jacob actually attempt to escape, then fail at the very end? Then, realizing that there's no hope for escape, the doctor still does the whole C.O.R.E transfer thing before they both die.
apparently the entire base game was real, it was the dlc that was "all just a dream" because the doctor needed his memories recorded so she could send the proof, so she kept him alive until it was all downloaded with all the stuff he went through in the dlc. still didn't like the ending
I don't know what's worse: a DLC that sets up a sequel that's never going to happen, or one that undermines the original cliffhanger ending, making the entire thing pointless...
It amazes me how after like 5 months after the dead space remake completely destroyed and obliterated the Callisto protocol in all aspects They have the balls to charge even 10 dollars to get an ending that should’ve been in the base game to begin with.
@@DrundeFPSyou’re most likely right, the devs of the remake probably looked at the negative reception and problems of that game to better fine tune and polish the remake. So there is one good thing about the Callisto protocol, it helped the dead space remake.
About the combat: They actually changed it in a patch to where the monsters line up one by one to be clobbered. On release the monsters would all mob you at once, actually making you have to block instead of just dodging, and players complaints on this had them completely retool the enemy AI to where its just dodge until you win.
The best games usually don't even try to be big, they just ARE. I remember the marketing team pushing this game hard, all over the place, like it was the second coming of survival horror... Only for it to land with a resounding "thud", and being swiftly overshadowed by a remake of its predecessor.
@@Turbulentdesk3967 It will always be hilarious to me that the game that was hailed as the spiritual successor of Dead Space ended up being massively overshadowed by the OG's remake, like a month after it came out. Oh the irony.
@@johndodo2062 I mean every game tries to be _successful_ and the metric for what is and isn't success is going fluctuate a lot. The Callisto Protocol, in addition to having a name you can't abbreviate, was marketing itself as an actual event, something _big_ that'll be talked about for years to come like a Skyrim or Minecraft as opposed to just a Call of Duty Infinite Warfare.
Wow, who would've guessed that the mediocre Callisto Protocol would have not only a true ending behind a paywall, but said true ending was a mediocre "oOoO it was in his head" ending. Truly spectacular
I wouldn't even say Callisto Protocol is mediocre, I'd say it's a downright bad game. The only thing it has going for it are its visuals, every other aspect of the game is pretty terrible.
@@SquashyButton I think that the setting is actually pretty dope and truly could've been something great in the right hands. Too bad the writing is so bad, the gameplay so meh and even the sound design's lacking.
@@theokayishgamer I mean, the setting seemed cool at first, but eventually just devolved into generic sci-fi to me. And yeah, the story is terrible, but combat was fucking atrocious for me, went WAY past meh.
Bionicle was pretty big man. Toys, comics, movies and games. Bionicle had it all, until they replaced it with Hero factory. God damn sons of bitches butchered my childhood.
@@Gizzor Your opinion is not common, lots of people hated the DS3 DLC ending. It's why the comparisons between Dead Space and this series speedrunning the former's downfall in one game include the DLC and its ending.
@@56bturn I mean, I think it makes sense. I wish there was a bit more to it but in the end, what can really be done? The Brethren Moons are unstoppable nigh, they've killed numerous other species before humanity and likely have an unending army at their disposal. There really isn't any winning against the necromorphs.
@@56bturn the ending of everything being screwed fit in with the tone, there NEVER was winning in dead space, but charging for it was stupid, i didnt play it until last year so i wasnt as bitter. that said i didnt even beat the real game i got to the point where you had to assemble that one necro and thought it was dragging BAD
Writer 1: "We ended on a cliffhanger expecting a sequel, but our game simply wasn't good enough. We need to tie up this plot!" Writer 2: "I'd say we just let our main character die. That sure won't feel like a total waste of time that undermines the ending of the base game." Writer 1: "I know, but we need to somehow add another hour or two to the length... What should we do?" Writer 2: ... Writer 1: ... *Togerther* : "It was all a dream plot twist!"
@@andersonisowo9603Which is funny, because I remember Dead Space 3 did pretty much the opposite: ended the main story by killing Isaac, but then in the dlc he came back to life, and then it tagged on a cliffhanger ending
@@mattd5240 correct. and this was basically his original pitch for deadspace. it was the development team that took his idea, and reformed and crafted it into the deadspace we know.
Impact hammers which use blanc cartridges to accelerate it's striker probably count as potential hammers, because their energy is stored as potential energy of chemicals in the cartridge.
Not gonna lie. Kinetic Hammer just sounds Sci-fi as fuck and just sounds outerspace like. I have NO idea what kinetic means in the Scientific context... But i know that if you would ask me if i want a "kinetic Hammer" You bet i would say Yes because i think of some fancy sci-fi alien hammer lmao.
I still feel like Forspoken was just some kind of a joke like there is no way anyone would have intentionally made that game. It's too ridiculous to exist and it appeals to absolutely no one.
@@Your_MInd_is_A_weapon I wanted to say that it couldn't be a joke if so much money went into it, but after giving it some thought, I'm not so sure. Who the fuck knows what goes through the mind of the producers these days... BTW I've just found out that Forspoken protag just goes and dies in it's DLC too. I find it extremely hilarious 🤣
Cyberpunk is leagues better and has way more content than either of those games. Cyberpunk is only bad if you were one of the clowns to get it on last gen hardware.
@Andriej69 I actually went into it prepared to hate it because I knew it was going to be a looter shooter instead of a proper RPG, and knew they weren't going to live up to half their promises. Some of us are actually informed consumers. Ironically enough, the game is just as buggy to this day but people say it's "fixed" the moment that trashy anime came out.
Crazy how the devs behind dead space looked at thier final outing with the 3rd game's dlc and was like ya know what let's make another ending that's even worse than that
So they had a chance to revive the deadspace-like genre and decided "let's just butcher this shit and then repeat the exact same top-tier mistake that happened in ds3."
I said it in another video about this DLC already, but: I really feel like they chose this ending specifically to drive a final stake through the game and be done with it
Imagine living in current times, where people universally agree that a “it was a dream/hallucination” ending is the worst possible thing that can happen to a story, and still making this decision.
The problem with the combat for people is that they over complicated stuff for themselves thinking it had more to it when in reality it was a simple rhythm mechanic where you go side to side with the joystick or two buttons.
Besides the confusingly simple dodging, it's just fundamentally broken. It's unfun, it's the exact same animations and spamming one button over and over again with little variation and almost every enemy is fought the exact same way.
@@OrionDawn15 exactly. Like it looks like some have differing abilities but their roles are never defined by their abilities instead they occasionally spit at you or turn invisible. But they all constantly run and swing their arms at you. It also doesn’t help that the tentacles thing is with every single enemy type and not just 1 type making that whole thing mundane real quick.
I paid $10 to rent it thinking it can't be that bad. I usually play games on hard but after just one big fight, I gave up and put it to easy. The combat has to be one of the worst I have seen and the story was so predictable that I was rolling my eyes every time something happened. At least Forspoken was trying to do something different, this is bad all around.
If Callisto gets added to gamepass, it still has to compete with every other game on the service to be worthy of your time. Considering all the Yakuza games are on there, I think that's a long shot.
Wow, that ending. I still can't believe what a dud this game turned out to be. I remember when the game came out and people were saying it was amazing and it honestly just astonishes me how low some people's bars are.
Callisto is sort of like Hellblade, decent graphics, janky combat, obtuse puzzles. Hellblade was priced correctly and had no game breaking bugs at launch, Callisto is overpriced and still has game breaking bugs.
Hot take, Hero Factory made better use of the CCBS than G2, and I'm not talking about the aesthetic of the parts being a better match. The entire conception of CCBS is that armor attach point and limb attach points are the same, and that means that smaller sets get to be fully posable with a basic skeleton, whereas bigger sets can make a complex lattices of flexible joints, like say building up realistic shoulder blades. Because even the smallest links still had a free ball joint, armor could still be layered on these larger woven structures, and with technic pins still accessible you could still tie in older Bionicle parts or make certain parts still rigid with classic technic lift arms and bars. Compare the Larger and non-humanoid Hero Factory sets to anything from G2 and you will see that this is exactly what they do, creating interesting non-standard skeletons and layering the existing armor pieces in interesting ways. But lets be honest here, the G2 Toa weren't badly designed, in fact they were great, the gear function was well integrated and the posability and stature of the models was good. No, the real issue is that they made next to no new armor or accent/texture pieces for the series. And that's like the whole point of that third layer, to give different series unique textures, but I guess after the mask and weapons they didn't have the budget. But if thats the case, why even bother trying? Presumably a big reason Lego dropped Bionicle is because they were shying away from series that heavily relied on new and unique molds for every season, why try again if you know that the greebly, kitbashy, texture is what made the series iconic? Regardless, I wanted to mention what CCBS SHOULD have been able to do, because while I can seriously praise the Toa, the bad guys sucked, there were barely any Rahi, and no vehicles, but Hero Factory had all of that, meaning it was not an inherent limitation of CCBS, just a total lack of confidence or ingenuity.
Honestly, Bionicle dead space sounds really good! Maybe someone could make up some sort of plot about the makuta talking over the red star or something!
For the price of one diablo 4 horse armor bundle, you too can play a 90 minute adventure of the exact same sifi hallways and non-gameplay from the main game!
Are you telling me that after paying 80 bucks for the "deluxe edition" You get a couple of ugly costumes and an awful DLC that is the actual ending of the game but cut off and sold separately for 16 bucks where I can dodge dodge hit hit dodge dodge over and over in the same looking dark corridors again 7 months after the release the game? It's what I breathe for!!
I wonder what's worse: this unnecessary DLC or Forspoken's DLC which tried to set up a sequel? Also, you should try Slayers X, Oboeshoes. For some reason, I think you'd like it.
I feel that Callisto protocol is like Asura's wrath: both games ended with a cliffhanger but neither was a commercial success so they basically decided to end everything with a DLC. The difference is that Asura's DLC ending is really fucking good while this....meh
@@leviticusprime4904 On one hand the gameplay was really dull but on the other hand i was enjoying the madness and the story so much that i didn't care. Could have been an anime and i would have still loved it.
I enjoyed the line about autocomplete QTEs. The accessibility push in the industry is genuinely making games better, regardless of if you have disabilities or not. I'm fully able to do this shit, but who am I trying to prove myself to by doing QTEs, taking fall damage or playing on hard mode?
I remember in certain cases, they would make me feel more invested in action scenes because I was involved in them. The indirect control of watching a glorified movie and tapping a button here and there to avoid nasty things happening could be fun, but... they're hard to get right, I suspect. Too often they become either too obvious/trivial, or too sudden and complex. I'd say Quantic Dream do them best, mostly because their whole games tend to revolve around them, which means they can set patterns like "this button usually performs a jump", "this one will be a grab/climb", etc. Instead of "Wait, why would it be B to block in this event, and X to dodge? That's the opposite of the game's usual controls!" Even worse is when the button input is random. The only skill being checked is lightning fast eye-to-finger response time... which not everyone has, and some of those of us who can mange it are like "I can do this, but it's not particularly fun, and it makes me miss the actual scene while I'm staring angrily at where the button prompt pops up".
@@hazukichanx408 The Quantic Dream stuff works sometimes and some of the controller gimmicks in the Supermassive Games games occasionally. They do those things to immerse you, though. It's the exact opposite of most games that take you out of the experience. Mashing a button to lift a door doesn't make you feel like you're actually doing it and in some instances, you can't watch the glorified movie because you're looking around for button prompts like in God Of War. I'd argue that QTEs are detrimental in 99/100 games.
@@56bturn A lot of dumb, but vocal, gamers out there. I went for trophies quite hard on the PS3 and I've beaten a lot of hellishly hard games, but I'm 28 now; why would I put myself through an objectively worse time for no reason. Get me an easy mode in Dark Souls From Software.
my favorite part about callisto protocol is that it was supposed to originally take place in the PUBG universe until the devs found out that PUBG sucks
The snow is probably the one thing in this game that looks good in this game. Sure the graphical fidelity is exceptional, but it feels wasted when half of the game is grey sci-fi hallways
This game proved to be one of the most overhyped, overpromised and underdelivered games in a long time, they seriously cut off the ending of the base game leaving it in a lazy and lame cliffhanger to then sell the actual ending as a separated DLC 7 months later that barely lasts 2 hours and all of it to somehow achieve a worse ending than the vanilla game haha not to mention that there's literally a single new enemy type which are re-used robots from the main campaign but now they're infected cause why not
This game is definitely a good example of good visuals trying to hide every other issue the game has. Truly a pinnacle of mid games. At least it's not as broken as Cyperpunk lmao
I find it pretty funny that this mediocre ass spiritual successor to Dead Space ended up being beaten and outclassed by a remake of Dead Space 1. It's like poetry, it rhymes.
I hated this DLC so much. I thought the devs were going to explore Cole’s cult and maybe even have you fight him as a mutant for the final boss. There’s a low chance there’s going to be a sequel so making Cole the final boss could have given some finality to the title. But instead, they double down on Jacob’s guilt and have Waller constantly chant at him to keep fighting. Such a lame send off.
This is essentially the game repackaged as DLC expect our protagonist wakes up . 😂 To think I almost wasted another cent on any additional content they had to offer. They should've kept with the original ending. Whichever that maybe because I'm still stuck at one of the boss fights. You spend ten minutes running and dodging then the fucker gets smart and takes a chunk right out of him. 😭
Thanks for this mate. Just got the platinum trophy thanks to playstation plus putting this up for "free" Wasn't spunking 23 quid to see this half baked ending 😂
Oboe and other roast videos should be mandatory watch for devs after they put out their garbage. This will filter out those without the mental resilience to continue working in the industry and do better. Yes, I am aware that it's mostly publishers to blame for the current state of affairs. Devs, however, have demanded and gained a lot of benefits in the past. They, however, care nothing for consumers, just like their bosses, and have never demanded to be allowed to make good games. Well, it's time to change that.
