Playing the original System Shock is a pretty rough experience at this point. Those controls are really weird compared to today's FPS games... I could never get very far either.
That's an interesting article. Too bad they couldn't work out No One Lives Forever because I really do love the first two in the series!
I played through the Enhanced Edition a little while ago, and loved every minute of it. The thing you need to keep in mind is that it's not an FPS, but a sci-fi dungeon crawler. Imagine Ultima Underworld but with cyborgs and lasers and that's basically it. I'm looking forward to the remake and I hope they keep the dungeon crawling roots, rather than making an FPS out of it.
In all seriousness, some streamlining would make this classic more palatable to the modern attention span challenged player. And that's a good thing too, because System Shock is freaking awesome and deserves to be loved by as many gamers as possible.
Maybe I'm weird, but I think it'd be cool enough just to have it "ported" over to the Dark Engine that System Shock 2 and Thief 1-2 used, albeit with some official updates and patches to have it easily run on modern systems. I know those games run really well on just about anything nowadays, but they do take a bit of work, mods, and tweaking. Once it all runs smoothly, it's a damn good engine. On a side note I've always wished someone would demake Thief Deadly Shadows into the Dark Engine as well... those tiny maps and combo breaker loading screens are awful and really brings it down (same with Invisible War).
Anyways, is this an official and legit full blown remake? Hard to tell based off a random tweet and article. Looking over the wiki for Night Dive Studios, I guess they officially own the license/IP now or whatever? I kind of figured 2K owned the rights, but maybe not?
From what I've read, Night Dive bought the IP, so the franchise is their baby now. Whether or not that's a good thing remains to be seen. But I for one appreciate them actually bringing the series back to life at all.
Pre-alpha footage. I recognized several of the areas and it does look like how they would have made the environments look on a modern engine. Night Dive is really doing a great job so far.
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