Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
Review Embargo lifts on release day 
The Official Callisto Protocol thread. PS/XB/PC - Dec 2.
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Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
That’s bad right
There have been games that had day of or previous day embargos end up good, but….it’s not a sign of confidence
I already said im not preordering until reviews/impressions drop, so no preorder bonus for me
Not exactly.. Review Embargo is usually a publisher's call. There is a lot of risk for a 1st time studio and publisher to get a new IP off the ground and the fear of sabotage by media outlets outweighs the rewards for critical acclaim success.That’s bad right
I wouldn't call it a lack of confidence. Just a conservative play, because they need Callisto to be a success in an already niche genre. I watched a stream of it last night and it looked fantastic.
Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
I hope Rob Bottin and John Carpenter end up playing this when it drops. Most of the creature designs are damn near love letters to The Thing.
John Carpenter plays every big game lol
its over. may as well put the dead space remake back on the wishlist
I gotta admit, the podcast series is doing an amazing job selling me on the lore so far. If it wasn’t for that and the fact that the OG Dead Space team is working on it, I’d be doing the same thing as you.
Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
Did yall watch any of the leaked gameplay? The production levels look pretty good. I don’t like that theres no body or limb damage from gunfire though. Thats somethign I absolutely hate about these kind of games.
Resident evil 2 remake had really good body damage and Vilalge went back to not showing it
Animal House
Superstar
Less than 7 days
From God of War to this
From God of War to this
Bought a new amd gpu that came with two free games, and this game is one of them. Dec 2nd can't come faster. 
Watching all the developer videos got me little hype for it.
Watching all the developer videos got me little hype for it.
I'm nervousReview Embargo lifts on release day
CoolinInTheCut
Superstar
Same. This is usually a bad sign.
Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
a lot of publishers do internal mock reviews, they usually set the embargo depending on how they go. Which is why Sony always tends to have their review embargos set earlier (like a week before release) because the high metacritic scores act as additional marketing.
Setting your review embargo close to or on launch means you’re not confident the critical reception and word of mouth will benefit the game. Sometimes its bad management and you can’t get review codes out on time, but thats not really the case here since they went gold last month
Setting your review embargo close to or on launch means you’re not confident the critical reception and word of mouth will benefit the game. Sometimes its bad management and you can’t get review codes out on time, but thats not really the case here since they went gold last month
This isn't Sony... This is Krafton. Krafton 1st real game as a publisher.
Sony does that because they know that they are getting 95+.... What's Callisto ceiling as a 12 hour horror game? 90... Maybe 88?
Krafton don't know shyt. Horror games is insanely subjective and you never know how these games shake out. Evil Within 2 was a fantastic horror game...76/80 metacritic.