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System Shock remake in the works!
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Er, the first Dead Space was developed by Visceral when they were named EA Redwood Shores so that's not particularly accurate.Captain Chaos wrote: »That's when EA got involved with the IP too.
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I don't disagree in the slightest. The fact, however, is that the first game was designed from the ground up by an EA studio and published by EA themselves. To claim that they only became involved in the IP after the first game is simply untrue.But it did go down hill from the 2nd one, it became a lot more action oriented and completely ditched the horror by the 3rd one.
The changes, however, can generally be explained by the sales of the series. Despite the first game eventually going on to be a mild success sales wise, it sold extremely poorly at launch. By the end of the first month it had sold around 500K copies and it wasn't until around six months later that EA confirmed it had broken a million sales across the three platforms. Two years later it had broken 2 million units. When Dead Space 2 came out, however, it sold over 2 million copies within the first week of launch. That, unfortunately, is going to be read as "the direction we took was great, let's continue with it" as opposed to some of the other and, arguably, more sensible deductions one could make from a game within that launch window. I'd happily agree that the addition of co-op (and indeed micro-transactions) by the third game would have been solely down to influence from the publisher, Co-Op being "so hot right now" and like, who doesn't like money, right?
Therein lies the problem for games like SS3. They either go with the traditional publisher funding model and get the sizeable budget they more than likely require or they go the crowd funding route. In the former case, they'll need to not only cover their budget but also offer significant returns for the two year development cycle they require. Obviously this can come at the expense of needing to "broaden the fan base" if it fails to live up to expectations. In the latter case though they run the risk of simply not having the budget to make the game the studio wants or that the series deserves.
This is why I'm quite interested to see how the newer crowdfunding-to-show-interest model works out though. It potentially has the ability to show investors that there is support for the vision of the project from the beginning and at the very least reducing unwanted interference as development of the game and/or series continues. It's also why I have no problem with repeated returns to crowdfunding for subsequent titles, like with Larian for example, since it reduces the need to push for maximising revenues in earlier titles to justify the existence of future ones.0 -
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I'm excited for Battlezone. I missed out on it back in the 90's due to having a machine that ran Half Life in the sub 10 FPS and heard it was great. The setting really seemed interesting as well.
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Level architecture is extremely similar to the original games first level. Even the way the level is constructed seems to follow the rules of the original game engine (levels made out of square block like wolfenstein and slopes only at 45 degree angles). Seems like they are going for the same game with minimum changes and just an aesthetic ugprade. Fine by me. I played through the original a couple of months ago for the first time and it's still holds up as one of the best ever made.
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call me shallow but I tried again there lately with all the graphic mods on it but I just couldn't get past the aesthetics
early 3d games just don't do it for me now which is a shame as it is supposed to be a great game so I will most likely have a stab at this version
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I'm biased since the original still seriously creeps me out, but that looks flipping terrifying!0 -
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Wow this looks amazing. I adored SS2, but barely managed to overcome how horrendous it looked (I was late to the party) - there was not chance I'd manage SS1, so this is very exciting.Robert ninja wrote: »Looks cool.
Except for the fact that it seems to be being played with a gamepad and the keypad numbers are also being selected by slowly moving one's aim between the keys. What happened to using one's actual NUMPAD? Even Alien: Isolation had classic support for that.
It is pre-alpha, I certainly wouldn't worry about this sort of thing yet.0 -
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I'm beginning to really like Night Dive Studios. They're unsung heros of the PC scene and have acquired the rights and released games that should have been caught up in legal limbo. The ports they have released have been great, the recent Turok port is absolutely stellar.
To top it off this remake is looking really great. If they update the visuals without changing the gameplay too much it will be excellent. I played through the original only recently and it remains one of the best games ever made.
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Looks great, I wonder if that demo is reflective of the general deviation from the original's level designs. (edit: though I just realised it's a remaster of System Shock 1, not its more famous sequel
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My only quibble is that those 'real time' keypad and UI interactions look a bit too fiddly. But hey, Alpha demo. Ker-downloaded!0 -
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