The Callisto Protocol

I'm quite enjoying it, but I can see how it could get repetitive later on.

Unlike Dead Space, it seems like a proper linear game with only a few branching paths for secrets. If there were any actual backtracking elements, they'd have given us a map.

Yeah, the inventory size is daft. Takes ages to upgrade it, but by that point you've probably got a couple more guns so need to upgrade again (which never happens) to accommodate the different ammo types.

I read a tip to just avoid buying extra guns due to this, but still struggled with just the basic pistol + riot gun.

I think it was about 8-10 hrs. Depending on repeating sections due to death. You really should have faced a miniboss in that time. The big ones with 2 heads.

I’m probably going to do the same. I recall focusing on one weapon in Dead Space.

I've hopefully only got a few more hours of this, as I've been tempted to bin it. It's just tedious. The same pattern of killing enemies. The same walking through a narrow corridor for far too long... the characters are so forgettable.

It's a bad game.

Shhhhhh

Nah fuck this. Uninstalled it. Boring shite.

Tbf I just used melee pretty much the entire game, and used up my ammo for boss fights. That way, I still had tons leftover, and bosses were even easier than regular enemies.

Anyway you are not missing anything by dropping it. The story is predictable as they come anyway (if you have played Dead Space, you have played this too, basically) and the rest of the game after that boss is just more of the same until the end.

Zisssou went through a host of emotions across this page 😂

Proper raging haha. I haven’t felt this annoyed with a game in forever.

You would have loved the OG pre patched version where the fight had barely any ammo drops from enemies during the waves nor health and using a medkit took about 6 seconds to apply and when you take into account having to kneel down to apply one it is maddening gameplay design when you really think about it.

Currently 3h 30m in and still going against the common opinion.
Very much enjoying it. Great visuals, great audio, creepy, some jump scares, some set pieces, nice brutal melee combat. Lots of eerie bits like stuff moving in the water and a bit where most of the area had fog and these large creepy things were stalking me through the area.

Only real negative so far is there was one pretty long hit with no check point. Died 3 times and each time I had to go back and open the chest, collect the items, opens the doors, fight a robot, evade and fight a few things before working out where I had to actually go. Very positive otherwise.

I think I’m at this section people hate. Agreed it’s total bs and I don’t get how so many games have such awful checkpoints but I will get through it as I’ve really enjoyed everything else. Like when the game is play tested people don’t bring up the terrible check points?

I'm guessing the platform section I gave up on.