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Not really. The melee combat IMO is much more satisfying than in Dead Space. Obviously Dead Space excels at dismemberment from a distance. If Callisto would have focused on dismemberment then everyone would have ripped on it for being too derivative of Dead Space.
We know that about Schofield. It differentiated itself enough but you all never gave it a chance. We agreed on 7/10 and then several people rated the Dead Space remake the same thing due to its faults lol.
First off, I appreciate the respect with which you bring your perspective. That seems to be a dying thing these days. We're all gamers to the core (hence our presence here), but we don't always appreciate games to the same degree. And that's OK. There are PLENTY of titles that other people have spent hundreds of hours in that I find mindless, addicting and borderline annoying.
I agree, and I LOVE the atmospheric setting in these games. I have a soft spot for horror titles and space horror just ups the ante for me. I grew up loving Alien, Event Horizon, etc.
Graphics are honestly not that impressive, but the design and presentation make it work really well. I don't think I've ever seen a game that has made baked lighting and ambient occlusion work so well. A lot of care was also taken in the character models and digitizing of the human actors, and Josh Duhamel kills it in the role of Jacob.
Same here. No FSR needed. FSR makes the game run worse on my machine, though.
I watched that video. It seems like the load balancing on the 13900KF is messed up. Only 4 of the 8 P cores are being utilized. The load is distributed evenly across all 8 cores on my 7800X3D.
With the last DLC I think it's safe to say this game was always going to be a "one and done." It's not unusual, though, for a studio to go through a shuffling of the staff after a project has been completed. The studio had more than 150 employees, so laying off 32 of them isn't a big deal.
I did too. It had a bit of a rough start, but once fixed it had a lot going for it IMHO. The "recent reviews" category on Steam has changed from mixed to mostly positive as well.
What I find amusing is that Bret Robbins who founded Ascendant Studios, the dev behind Immortals of Aveum, also happened to be the Creative Director at Sledgehammer Games that worked on the OG Dead Space, along with a few other devs that came from EA that worked in Telltale Games.
Yeah their just riding on the coat tails of the success from previous games, but reality slapped the shit out of them and gave them a wake up call.
The Callisto Protocol received plenty of support and marketing from their publisher. Immortals of Aveum did not. Not saying the latter is a better game, but it's an interesting case study.
It isn't melee-focused, but I can understand why people would think that. I think that Schofield wanted to innovate in the way close encounters were handled in the genre instead of having the player constantly backpedal. One of the more annoying things in the Dead Space series is being locked into a QTE when a necromorph grabs you where you're guaranteed to take damage. It may not have been fleshed out the best, but it works.
See, I actually loved the focus on melee. It was thick and heavy and murdery and sooo much more satisfying than the "melee" from DS1. There were obvious influences from Dead Space, but the game tried to bring some new ideas as well. That timing, though...just can't get around it. Remakes of older, well-loved games do not happen often...so when they do, you'd be well advised to not release a similar new IP that's trying to take chances.