Notably missing so far is the techno soundtrack, but hey, pre-alpha stuff.
Yeah about that
Changing up the classic chiptune soundtrack to something a bit more subtle is one way that Night Dive hopes to achieve that goal [of making it more of a "horror experience"].
Having not experienced the first system shock, hearing the pa system transition from feeding you canned greetings to calling you a "filthy bag of meat" is intensely spooky, even in the trailer.
edit: SS2 spoilers (does anyone care about that?):
I guess SS2 had something like that with Xerxes and his updates over the pa system, but SHODAN has that raw hatred thing going for her that works more for me. Xerxes was very passive and obviously just being used as a loudspeaker.
I figured it was worth bumping the proper thread up, now that there's some proper movement. It's listed on the kickstarter for the System Shock Reboot, but it bears pointing out that you can play the 'Pre-Alpha demo' on Steam, GOG and Humble right now: http://store.steampowered.com/app/482400/
edit: Looks great, plays great. Crashed on me a few times, so sent in the reports. Watching that polygon video with someone playing made it look clunky as hell, but I guess they got the same dimwit who made the Doom video for that as well.
System Shock remaster going on "hiatus" to "reassess their path" because somehow they managed to scope creep themselves into a corner with a game that should have just been a remaster.
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augustwhere you come from is goneRegistered Userregular
Welp. Guess I’m not getting that twenty bucks back.
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ShadowfireVermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered Userregular
Yeah I saw that too, first time I've been burned by a kickstarter backing. It's a bummer.
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TetraNitroCubaneThe DjinneratorAt the bottom of a bottleRegistered Userregular
Shit. I only just now saw this news in my inbox, and it's really disappointing. Particularly since I was foolish and went in for more than the minimum, thinking that Nightdive had delivered on other ports in the past.
This pretty much sounds like PR speak for "We're out of money and the project's dead". I wonder if that gets them into any trouble with Kickstarter. Probably not.
I guess switching engines and picking a brand new graphics style and completely changing the aim and scope of the project partway through turned out not to be a perfect idea. I'm hoping they decide to go back to the original idea because that was what I was the most excited for.
I guess switching engines and picking a brand new graphics style and completely changing the aim and scope of the project partway through turned out not to be a perfect idea. I'm hoping they decide to go back to the original idea because that was what I was the most excited for.
Have these people not even heard of Duke Nukem Forever?
I do appreciate their honesty in the matter, even if I didn't want to hear it.
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NEO|PhyteThey follow the stars, bound together.Strands in a braid till the end.Registered Userregular
I'd sorta been idly wondering why I hadn't really heard much of anything about this, guess that'd explain it.
It was that somehow, from within the derelict-horror, they had learned a way to see inside an ugly, broken thing... And take away its pain.
Warframe/Steam: NFyt
I never got a chance to play SS1. How does it hold up?
It's from that era of FPS where there was no established standard for control schemes. Or mouselook.
It was that somehow, from within the derelict-horror, they had learned a way to see inside an ugly, broken thing... And take away its pain.
Warframe/Steam: NFyt
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Casually HardcoreOnce an Asshole. Trying to be better.Registered Userregular
I never got a chance to play SS1. How does it hold up?
It's from that era of FPS where there was no established standard for control schemes. Or mouselook.
I guess I'll wait for the remake....
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Zxerolfor the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't doso i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered Userregular
The Enhanced Edition on GOG does provide a more modern control scheme (notably, mouselook). Been a long ass time since I actually played it though, so can't really editorialize about how well the actual game holds up.
I never got a chance to play SS1. How does it hold up?
It's from that era of FPS where there was no established standard for control schemes. Or mouselook.
I guess I'll wait for the remake....
There's an enhanced edition available that adds mouselook and rebindable controls. It's still clunky as hell but at least the controls are no longer the worst of it.
YongYea does a lot of good investigative journalism, and it looks like backer concerns were already bouncing off the same problem signs as far back as a year ago that ended up finally derailing the project today.
Some good news in the latest KickStarter update. Apparently they are going back to the original idea and are already reasonably far along enough that they expect playtesting by August/September of this year. So don't give up on getting your reward after all.
I'm vaguely curious as to how many people were complaining about all this, and how many never really read what they were doing in the first place. The kickstarter pretty plainly stated they were making changes.
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Yeah about that
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edit: SS2 spoilers (does anyone care about that?):
http://store.steampowered.com/app/482400/
https://www.gog.com/game/system_shock_demo
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/system-shock
edit: Looks great, plays great. Crashed on me a few times, so sent in the reports. Watching that polygon video with someone playing made it look clunky as hell, but I guess they got the same dimwit who made the Doom video for that as well.
System Shock remaster going on "hiatus" to "reassess their path" because somehow they managed to scope creep themselves into a corner with a game that should have just been a remaster.
The risk of Kickstarter. At least it was only $20?
This pretty much sounds like PR speak for "We're out of money and the project's dead". I wonder if that gets them into any trouble with Kickstarter. Probably not.
Warframe/Steam: NFyt
Nightdive (SS1 remake) and OtherSide (SS3) are two separate things.
It's from that era of FPS where there was no established standard for control schemes. Or mouselook.
Warframe/Steam: NFyt
I guess I'll wait for the remake....
There's an enhanced edition available that adds mouselook and rebindable controls. It's still clunky as hell but at least the controls are no longer the worst of it.
YongYea does a lot of good investigative journalism, and it looks like backer concerns were already bouncing off the same problem signs as far back as a year ago that ended up finally derailing the project today.
I'm vaguely curious as to how many people were complaining about all this, and how many never really read what they were doing in the first place. The kickstarter pretty plainly stated they were making changes.
https://github.com/NightDiveStudios/shockmac
(Yes, it's the Classic Mac version as that's apparently the only version they could dig up.)
Latest commit 21 hours ago
I guarantee you this source code is now already being ported to ten different platforms and an enhanced source launcher is at least 10% finished.
If it came with something that would let me produce Shodan's Voice however, I would go buy a mac just to be able to do that.