System Shock 3

[bigi]

Finally

Hope VR + SS3 will kill me.

 

[ControlD]

I'm glad to see the rumors were true. Now I just hope they do the first two titles justice.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Sweet.

 

[digiram]

Never playd the old System Shocks, but I really enjoyed the first Bioshock. Looking forward to this.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Well SS2 was so good Irrational just reskinned the game and sold it as BioShock!

Looks like SS1 is being remade as well. It hasn't aged quite as gracefully as SS2 has, so I am glad to hear it.

Hope this legendary series can be done justice all around.

 

[motsm]

Very glad this won't be handled by Irrational, or any AAA studio in general. Obviously doesn't guarantee a good game, but it at least leaves the possibility open.

If only Thief could have been given such an opportunity.

 

[BSim500]

Very glad this won't be handled by Irrational, or any AAA studio in general. Obviously doesn't guarantee a good game, but it at least leaves the possibility open.

If only Thief could have been given such an opportunity.

Agreed. I've long stopped getting sucked into the hype for cross-platform reboots / sequels of PC-exclusive 1990's games "streamlined for the modern casual audience". Hoping for the best, but after Thief 4's development hell (and the internal war between those who wanted it to remain a hardcore Thief game aimed at +25yo franchise fans vs those who tried to make it a "20% Male Tomb Raider / 80% tacky ripoff of Dishonored" aimed at 12yo male emo's) time will tell.

Still, if you wake up in a Citadel Station / Von Braun 2 cryo-station pod and you aren't wearing a corset, eye shadow, mascara and lame cape trying and failing to be "half-Italian Batman" and you don't walk around with constant "jazz hands" covering half the screen, and there aren't thousands of overly-cinematic micro-cutscenes that jarringly snatch player control back & forward on every... trivial... action, and the AI and audio modelling isn't 80% broken, and the ship / station isn't half the size and filled with "checkpoints of no return" that kill off the open feeling of earlier games, then it's certainly a step in the right direction vs a certain other recent Dark Engine franchise "reboot"...

 

[Sulaco]

Agreed. I've long stopped getting sucked into the hype for cross-platform reboots / sequels of PC-exclusive 1990's games "streamlined for the modern casual audience". Hoping for the best, but after Thief 4's development hell (and the internal war between those who wanted it to remain a hardcore Thief game aimed at +25yo franchise fans vs those who tried to make it a "20% Male Tomb Raider / 80% tacky ripoff of Dishonored" aimed at 12yo male emo's) time will tell.

Still, if you wake up in a Citadel Station / Von Braun 2 cryo-station pod and you aren't wearing a corset, eye shadow, mascara and lame cape trying and failing to be "half-Italian Batman" and you don't walk around with constant "jazz hands" covering half the screen, and there aren't thousands of overly-cinematic micro-cutscenes that jarringly snatch player control back & forward on every... trivial... action, and the AI and audio modelling isn't 80% broken, and the ship / station isn't half the size and filled with "checkpoints of no return" that kill off the open feeling of earlier games, then it's certainly a step in the right direction vs a certain other recent Dark Engine franchise "reboot"...

Don't forget lengthy, overbearing, non-skipable "tutorial segments" showing you how to play the game for the first 3 hours (including gems like, "Pushing left makes you turn left") all seamless and organically integrated into the gameplay experience! :thumbsup:

 

[TheVrolok]

Am excited... tempering hopefulness..

 

[bigi]

...

Looks like SS1 is being remade as well...

NVM

 

[Ventanni]

With most of the System Shock 2 team now working on System Shock 3, this should be good. Really good. Honestly after playing Bioshock, I didn't think it was *anything* like System Shock 2. Spiritual nods, maybe, but spiritual successor it was not. System Shock 2, despite being 10 years older, had so much more depth and complexity (without being completely overwhelming) that it made Bioshock, which admittedly was a good game, look like a joke.

Bring on the true successor to SS2! And if you haven't played SS2, it's the best $10 you'll ever spend over on Steam.

 

[Harabec]

And if you haven't played SS2, it's the best $10 you'll ever spend over on Steam.

Easily the scariest game I've ever played.

 

[werepossum]

Weird that I have such fond feelings toward these games and yet can remember hardly a single concrete thing about either. I remember a space station and the iconic speech from SHODAN; that's about it.

 

[Harabec]

*picking your training path.
*coming out of cryo (or whatever it is).
*the Von Braun and the Rickenbacker.
*the Many.
*goddamn breaking weapons.
*a hacking minigame I hated.
*psionic apes with exposed brains.
*creepy audio logs.
hopefully one of those stirs up a memory.

It has been so long but I remember everything.

 

[TheVrolok]

*picking your training path.
*coming out of cryo (or whatever it is).
*the Von Braun and the Rickenbacker.
*the Many.
*goddamn breaking weapons.
*a hacking minigame I hated.
*psionic apes with exposed brains.
*creepy audio logs.
hopefully one of those stirs up a memory.

It has been so long but I remember everything.

*warm bath of nostalgia*

 

[MeldarthX]

*picking your training path.
*coming out of cryo (or whatever it is).
*the Von Braun and the Rickenbacker.
*the Many.
*goddamn breaking weapons.
*a hacking minigame I hated.
*psionic apes with exposed brains.
*creepy audio logs.
hopefully one of those stirs up a memory.

It has been so long but I remember everything.

do you still rock in the corner saying its all over?? I so loved this game

 

[thejunglegod]

Here's hoping that it does justice to all that nostalgia.

 

[Hantadasor]

All the System Shocks and Bioshocks were nothing but repetitive tedious corridor shooters that you have to force yourself to finish.

 

[Sulaco]

All the System Shocks and Bioshocks were nothing but repetitive tedious corridor shooters that you have to force yourself to finish.

...said no one ever.

So, WWYBYWB, noob?

 

[Hantadasor]

...said no one ever.

So, WWYBYWB, noob?

None said it except people who aren't 10 year olds or adults with stunted mental development suffering from ADHD.
I also bet your favorite movies are marvel superheroes.

 

[BSim500]

All the System Shocks and Bioshocks were nothing but repetitive tedious corridor shooters that you have to force yourself to finish.

Well it is kinda hard to make a 162,000km2 "open world" game in an intentionally claustrophobic spaceship...

 

[Sulaco]

None said it except people who aren't 10 year olds or adults with stunted mental development suffering from ADHD.
I also bet your favorite movies are marvel superheroes.

Yes because 10 year olds love games that were made 10 years before they were born.

Run along now and enjoy the hours before your alt account is banned, bud.

 

[Igo69]

I hope it is going to be good as the 2nd, loved that game and it was damn scary the first time i played it.