Celebrate 20 amazing years of Arkane Studios with the 20th Anniversary Collection! With a catalogue that has racked up hundreds of awards, including numerous Game of the Year awards, Arkane Studios has spent the last two decades perfecting its unique style and truly immersive gameplay. From the decaying cobbled streets of Dunwall and the vibrant shores of Karnaca, all the way to the alien-infested, art deco halls of the Talos I space station, the collection spans Arkane Studios’ greatest hits.
Pick up the full collection and receive:
• Dishonored: Definitive Edition (contains the full game and all add-on content)
• Dishonored 2
• Dishonored: Death of the Outsider
• Prey
• Arx Fatalis (Steam only)
• Dark Messiah of Might & Magic (Steam only)
According to Tim Stellmach:The System Shock games were also commercially unsuccessful.
Shock 2's sales were pretty good, but I don't know for sure since its profitability was tied contractually to that of Flight Unlimited 3, per our contract with EA, and FU3 sales were very disappointing. So no, Thief and Shock didn't by any means put us further in the hole.
When we came out in 1999 [released System Shock 2], that was months after the high school shooting in Columbine. Larry Probst [EA CEO at the time] reached out and said "We may just want to walk away from doing shooters because there's talk of those shooters causing these kinds of events." We had our meeting where we made our case that System Shock does not reward you for going in there and shooting everything that moves. You will lose if you do that, it's a thinking person's game. I think we halfway convinced them.
I think the achievement stats speak a lot for how little people read the tech trees and engaged with the systems. Only 28% of the player base used combat focus to kill anything.
Was it not obvious from the description in the tree how overpowered that ability would be? I would have expected far more people giving this a go but I guess people don't want to waste time reading when they could continue just firing pew pew until they run out.