Game News Warren Spector reveals new details about System Shock 3, Sheldon Pacotti and Doug Church onboard

[Viata]

 

[Fenix]

Preferred the Deus Ex style anyway, and (plummet in difficulty aside) it felt like the natural evolution of that design philosophy.

Disagree.
SS snd DX are different games, it's not evolution, it is different branches.

 

[Ash]

And the two games are just as good as the other. SS2 is a tight, consistent immersive experience, and DX just has exceptional scope. Both are made up of outstanding design.

 

[JDR13]

 

[hpstg]

Well made nostalgia sells like hot cakes. He simply doesn't want to do it this way. This makes me more hopeful actually. He could have taken the easy way out and not give two shits about creative honesty. We'll get our Warren Spector game, just remember that not all of his games have been good.

I don't believe he fits the mood of System Shock.

 

[Zep Zepo]

Name me one...JUST ONE...remade old good game (or sequel)...Where your nostalgia glasses were right.

Go on.

I'll be right here waiting...and waiting...and waiting.

Old man is old and doesn't know anything about games or fun anymore.

Enjoy your "Deeply simulated musical comedy". Whatever the fuck that means is his feeble old brain.

Zep--

 

[Viata]

The only good remake is Resident Evil 1.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Name me one...JUST ONE...remade old good game (or sequel)...Where your nostalgia glasses were right.

Go on.

I'll be right here waiting...and waiting...and waiting.

Old man is old and doesn't know anything about games or fun anymore.

Zep--

This, perhaps?

 

[Ash]

The only good remake is Resident Evil 1.

I've not played it, but I've listened to the "remastered" soundtrack and it put me off. RE's soundtrack was exceptional and shouldn't have been touched.

 

[Tacgnol]

The only good remake is Resident Evil 1.

I've not played it, but I've listened to the "remastered" soundtrack and it put me off. RE's soundtrack was exceptional and shouldn't have been touched.

Remake has a pretty decent soundtrack. Most of the pieces are based heavily on the originals.

 

[Ash]

Most. Some are butchered and turned into ambient droning, like the mansion basement/kitchen. Others are relatively faithful, but I don't like the new style regardless. To me the soundtrack was one of the strongest aspects of the original game and I don't see the need to fuck with it. Of course there's a shitload of nostalgia AND subjectivity involved but it just sounds inferior to me.

 

[Burning Bridges]

I think we've been there before, and the end result was Bioshock.

 

[Archibald]

When people say cyberpunk is dated I think they mean stuff like "Japan as the biggest economic power around" and "video payphones."

But with such reasoning pretty much everything that attempts to guess the future is outdated?

 

[commie]

When people say cyberpunk is dated I think they mean stuff like "Japan as the biggest economic power around" and "video payphones."

But with such reasoning pretty much everything that attempts to guess the future is outdated?

Well I think the idea is that Cyberpunk tended to be set in the 90's to the early 21st century based on the trends in the 1970's. So in a way it is 'outdated' since the predicted 'future' has become a quite different 'past' or even 'present'. I actually see Cyberpunk now as 'alternate future' much as Fallout is set in a future based on a different 'past'.


All 'predictions' that get overtaken by real events become 'outdated' unless they try to predict something in the very far future that may still have time to materialise. Therefore 'colonisation of other star systems in the 'future'' could still theoretically happen, but 'moon base by 1996' is most definitely outdated.

 

[thesheeep]

In some aspects, cyberpunk was certainly "beaten" by reality, while in (probably most) others it wasn't.
I see little problem in making a few "corrections" and just advancing the thing by 50-100 years and be done with it.
Nor is the "alternate reality/future" a problem.