The Callisto Protocol (Survival Horror)

Dude from that show Las Vegas isn't cheap.

Twenty-two million (sixty-two million inflation adjusted) for ET on the Atari? Is that like 20 million for the license and 2 million on hookers and blow?

edit - shit, actually yeah. Looking at the Wikipedia entry for the game it's like 20+ million in licensing. Goddamn.

The combat Dying Light 2 should have had.

Utnayan said:

There is NO WAY that game cost $22 million to make. The single programmer did it in 6 fucking weeks. He was paid $200k or so - so the licensing portion took up all of that I am guessing and went right to Spielberg. I guess if they budgeted for copies, boxes, etc - but even then.... Margins were through the roof back then and don't forget most all games carried a launch day price tag of $49.99.

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The Wikipedia entry estimates the licensing cost to get ET was, in the dollars of the day, over twenty million dollars.

this is on PS+ or was added last October so i decided to give it a try since i'm focusing on games I missed in the last few years over buying every new game and regretting it immediately

only a few hours in and its not bad, but yeah i can see why it bombed. the combat... kinda sucks. Its different and sorta interesting but feels janky and unfun. just dodge, melee, dodge, melee and mostly is annoying when there is more than one enemy.

I don't like horror really but this is helping me with my phobia, i hate jump scares in movies but this has become so predictable with jump scares that its losing all impact. oh, there is a door i have to open? jee i wonder if a monster is going to jump out after i open it. yup!

oh well, not the worst game I've played and I'm gonna try to finish since its apparently only 15 or so hours but i also heard the "true" ending of the game is locked behind a paid DLC, so lol at that. i'll just watch that on youtube after i finish the game

the story is just ok, seems pretty typical so far but i'm hoping for some interesting reveals. wish we had more time in game in "normal world", its only like 5 mins. i love games that let you just wallow in "paradise" for 1-2 hours before shit hits the fan.

Kaige said:

That sounds crazy, especially compared to this chart: List of most expensive video games to develop - Wikipedia

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I though the FF7 number sounded crazy, especially since I'd never heard that before.



Also, no WoW on the list? wtf

its a solid 6/10, the combat is pretty lame and there isn't really much enemy variety and the bosses especially are boring as hell but the level design isn't too bad and the game is mercifully short, I think I 100%'d it in under 20 hours.

It still doesn't really hold a candle to Dead Space so i'd only play this if you finished playing the remaster of that game

one egregiously bad thing this game does is lock away the "true ending" behind a pay DLC which was released months after the game, I played it on PS+ recently which doesn't include the DLC so I just watched someone play it on youtube instead lol

spronk said:

its a solid 6/10, the combat is pretty lame and there isn't really much enemy variety and the bosses especially are boring as hell but the level design isn't too bad and the game is mercifully short, I think I 100%'d it in under 20 hours.

It still doesn't really hold a candle to Dead Space so i'd only play this if you finished playing the remaster of that game

one egregiously bad thing this game does is lock away the "true ending" behind a pay DLC which was released months after the game, I played it on PS+ recently which doesn't include the DLC so I just watched someone play it on youtube instead lol

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Which at the time highlighted how little combat Dying Light 2 actually launched with. Embarrassing really.

Tough to believe Techland took multiple years to patch the combat in to be somewhat better than Calisto Protocol, which had immediately followed up DL2's release further highlighting how bad DL2 sucks.

Analytics are worthless if you draw the wrong conclusion from them.

"Nobody ever played at night during the first Dying Light so we obviously need to make night time a watered down joke for the sequel"

Never tried this but apparently sales were not good?

The Callisto Protocol tried to be the new Dead Space and failed because it turns out the people who wanted a new Dead Space just played the new Dead Space that came out a month later.

One thing I'll say however, the DLC story was really pretty good and somewhat original, it should have been the base game's ending, it brings a real closure to the overarching story in a satisfying way. If you got this game cheap and find the DLC cheap as well, I recommend playing both to get an actual resolution.