Studio founder Glen Schofield confirmed that development on DLC hasn’t even begun as the game’s release approaches, and is instead a reaction to player demand for gorier executions and gnarly violence. That’s a huge relief, but still hasn’t stopped a number of think pieces from crawling out of the woodwork that misunderstand how games are made and the production pipeline that comes with post-launch content.
It isn’t exactly a priority for the team, even if the idea of new animations for a single player experience that many will have finished before they even come out is a weird move in itself. It doesn’t cross an ethical line or screw anyone over, but is par for a course that for decades now has traded in optional content for extra pennies
Derek writes: "To celebrate the holidays, The Callisto Protocol is giving away previously exclusive skins to all current and future owners starting December 21 – and we wanted to debut the news with our Xbox community."
One of these days I will get around to playing the PS Plus version I got as a monthly game in October.
Soulslikes typically bank on action-RPG familiarity while offering a signature touch, which The Callisto Protocol attempted in survival-horror roots.
History will be kind to The Callisto Protocol, as an ambitious ultra-high-budget game that was flawed but ultimately fun.
The game wasn't as bad as the backlash would lead you to believe. It just wasn't great - it had great visuals, solid world building and sound design.
I feel it was let down by the story and the somewhat inconsistent melee combat. Also marketed as if it was the next Dead Space. At least DS had some scares - there were none in this game.
I played it, I enjoyed it, I immediately sold it whilst the trade price was still high. Glad its on PSPlus now so I can finish off the trophies.
Yea, game journalists went full r*tard with this game, but now that you didn’t pay for it, it’s a game you can appreciate.
Makes sense..,
I’ll have to play it eventually. I won’t buy games that less than 10-15 hours at generally. I’ll buy a physical copy really cheap someday
I really dislike dlc still. Just use those resources for another game. I do miss the days when games were just complete at release.
Holy crap this is coming out on Friday??? Let’s go! Why was I thinking next year?
Its fine when content is developed AFTER release of the game, but when content, in the case of Callisto Protocol, where death animations were made DURING the development of the game but were deliberately excluded to add as DLC later, is no excuses for that
There will always be a place for DLC, right after you playthrough and complete a truly masterful game and you just want more and don't want to wait 4-5yrs for the sequel, buy the DLC and keep the amazing journey going if even for a short while.
The issue is not that DLC exists, its that most companies don't do DLC right. Such is why just the mere mention of DLC triggers people.
This game having a season pass and being a SP game is the reason i am not rushing out to buy this game, plenty of other things to play atm and i dont like supporting that model, i know im the minority here, but ill get it on sale later.