Clockface on 3/3/2018 at 22:22
Quote Posted by N'Al
System Shock is complicated enough to control with a keyboard and mouse, I'm sure an N64 controller would've exploded at the mere sight of the game.
Not at all. A good control setup could be used to make the game fully playable with the joypad (all the more so if they redesigned the on screen UI around the joypad, as for example was done with Deus Ex on the PS2 - I remember when the PS2 port was announced people said the controls could never translate to a console, but they did a great job). The only thing I've never been able to do with a joypad is comfortably lasso items (as in a RTS game), but first person games play fine with a joypad.
N'Al on 3/3/2018 at 23:06
A) Good FPS controls on consoles only really started with Halo, everything before that was incredibly clunky.
B) System Shock is more complex than your average FPS.
It could be done, sure. I highly doubt it would’ve been much fun to play, though.
icemann on 4/3/2018 at 03:07
Quote Posted by Sulphur
Police Academy game to Rockstar
Now see, that could actually be a pretty good game. The Simpson's - Hit and Run did quite well in the sandbox setting. Police Academy could do similar.
Sulphur on 4/3/2018 at 19:26
I'm not sure why I spent 5 minutes trying to make a chic goth policewoman with that link, but you're right, I'm reappropriating the paper doll interface for fame, profit, and
great justice.
Clockface on 5/3/2018 at 15:31
Quote Posted by N'Al
A) Good FPS controls on consoles only really started with Halo, everything before that was incredibly clunky.
FPS games played fine on the N64, using the analogue stick to aim, and the C buttons to move. Since the C buttons are digital, you can't move at different speeds by pressing them down to different degrees (the same limitations apply to a keyboard, of course). I still play Perfect Dark, Goldeneye, Duke Nukem: Zero Hour, etc, to this day, and the controls are great.
Though it would be better with two analogue sticks, of course.
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B) System Shock is more complex than your average FPS.
It could be done, sure. I highly doubt it would've been much fun to play, though.
I don't see why. And System Shock 2, Thief 1, and Thief 2 could have been great on the next generation consoles, I think. I also think that a Thief collection, a package putting Thief 1 and 2 onto the XBox 360 and PS3 (and later the XBox One and PS4), would have been much more popular than the Thief 4 we eventually received. I doubt many people would disagree.
Come to think of it, who does own the rights to Thief 1 and 2 now?
Jason Moyer on 6/3/2018 at 07:37
Square Enix.
