Here, allow me to blow the dust off... - by MrTrip
MrTrip on 21/5/2012 at 20:41
Hey there folks,
Yeah... I'm back. Place looks like a ghost town though :( posted over in the Shock 2 editing forum and nothing so far.
I'm back working on my old project, finally came up with a name for it though =P and a good story line, hell I even have voice actors now.
We have a girl doing SHODAN, she sounds almost like the original SHODAN from System Shock 1 before she went all postal (You know, the Welcome email?)
I'm taking it slow, but I'll have a teaser video when I get that far.
Soo...any old shockers still hanging around that I might know?
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http://i.imgur.com/EkPKR.jpgcatbarf on 22/5/2012 at 17:40
I hear you on this place looking like a ghost town, it's really in the last year that the numbers have dropped pretty sharply. Having a voice actor for SHODAN sounds really cool, especially if you can pull off the editing. Any tentative guesses on time to release?
MrTrip on 22/5/2012 at 18:25
Quote Posted by catbarf
I hear you on this place looking like a ghost town, it's really in the last year that the numbers have dropped pretty sharply.
Yeah :( I see that...its sad actually..
Quote Posted by catbarf
Having a voice actor for SHODAN sounds really cool, especially if you can pull off the editing.
I've got a couple guys working on it, I'm hoping for something good to come out of it.
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Any tentative guesses on time to release?
Only when its done, I might be roped into another game project on a newer game so I may have to put this on the back burner yet again :(
unn_atropos on 22/5/2012 at 23:04
Yes a new FM!
That's great news! Im just going to ignore the last sentence^^
redrain85 on 22/5/2012 at 23:32
Sweet, another new FM! I look forward to it, and hope it doesn't end up on the backburner before it's done.
I think I might try making a SS2 FM after all, once I'm done with the one I'm making for TRON 2.0 right now. Though it will probably end up being very short. But I'm really in the mood to create a Shock style level, and what better way to do that than to actually make the real thing. Though that Shock (and Thief) influence is also going to spill over into the 2.0 FM. I'm just more familiar with the tools for 2.0, so I'm investing in that first, before learning everything anew to create a SS2 FM.
icemann on 23/5/2012 at 19:04
Quote Posted by MrTrip
Soo...any old shockers still hanging around that I might know?
Not too many of us are still around these days. But there's still a few here and there. I personally don't check the shock forums as often as I used to, due to the lack of activity for QUITE some time.
A new FM huh? sweet. I assume this has nothing to do with that time travel FM you were doing many years ago?
MrTrip on 24/5/2012 at 05:36
Quote Posted by icemann
Not too many of us are still around these days. But there's still a few here and there. I personally don't check the shock forums as often as I used to, due to the lack of activity for QUITE some time.
A new FM huh? sweet. I assume this has nothing to do with that time travel FM you were doing many years ago?
Ha, it does, but not so much time travel as what came to me in a dream one night =P
I had my zune on random, and it played a bunch of stuff with SHODAN in it and Shock 2 music.
Aaaaand tada, I figured out exactly what I'm going to do. I'm rebuilding that FM, I know I spent a lot of time on it but I think I can get it hammered out.
Nameless Voice on 27/5/2012 at 21:34
These SS2 forums have been mostly dead for a long time. There's still some activity over on (
http://www.systemshock.org/) SMA, but there are sadly few people talking about System Shock anywhere these days.
The lack of FMs (especially compared to Thief) probably has a lot to do with this state of affairs.
polytourist97 on 1/6/2012 at 18:09
I attribute most of the attrition(at least in this specific sub-forum) to the "fall" of Irrational. After Bioshocks 1 and 2 had been released, and it was clear what the progression of the shock series was (i.e. not much to do with the older games, even in spirit), there wasn't much to discuss regarding the franchise other than the odd bug/issue that cropped up, which by now most of them are covered in stickies, so....
I still lurk though, checking every now and again. A new FM is great news! Let me know if you need any help with sound, music or more voice-work as I have a pretty decent home studio setup.
Yakoob on 3/6/2012 at 06:26
Well, SS1+2 have been out long enough all the topics have been pretty much talked to death by now. Also, most people moved on...
