twisty on 9/2/2020 at 11:22
It's kind of old news unfortunately. I can't find the thread where it was discussed recently, but it doesn't seem to have really upset (or perhaps surprised?) the local fanbase all that much. From my perspective, while I'm sad to hear of its likely demise, I'm happy enough leaving this series as a treasured memory rather than seeing them release another train wreck. Yes, I know it's technically another team with a different publisher and all that, but so were the two Ion Storm studios (well ok, not the publisher), and we all know how their games turned out.
Starker on 9/2/2020 at 11:29
Starbreeze pulling the rug out probably meant they couldn't afford to pay the team and without a team there's no game. So yeah, no SS3.
Quote Posted by twisty
Yes, I know it's technically another team with a different publisher and all that, but so were the two Ion Storm studios (well ok, not the publisher), and we all know how their games turned out.
Um... I quite liked Anachronox, actually. And Deus Ex was not bad either.
twisty on 9/2/2020 at 11:43
Oh yes, I just ignored their prior games :O, forgetting that they made them. For some reason I've remembered their final two games (invisible war and deadly shadows, which were both disappointments; for me at least) as their only effort, attributing Deus Ex and Anachronox to some other unnamed studio. Anyway, I'll leave my original post as is, taking some grim comfort in the fact that there aren't many people left who will read it anyway.
voodoo47 on 9/2/2020 at 17:02
funnily enough, I'd be quite happy with SS3 ending up like TDS in a way - not the pinnacle of the series by any stretch of the imagination, but a decent game nevertheless, and wraps the series up nicely.
hoping the current problems will lead to the awful concept of SS3 being an in-between-quel getting dropped. we need to tie everything up, not create more loose ends.
Thirith on 10/2/2020 at 10:16
Honestly, while I'm a big fan of both System Shock games, I've always hated the way the second game ended. I found that ending utterly cheesy. I'm happy to play a well-made, well-written System Shock-like game, but for me it doesn't have to be a sequel, prequel or otherwise. There isn't anything specifically System Shock I'd want out of a third game in the series that I didn't already get from Prey.
EvaUnit02 on 10/2/2020 at 21:49
Quote Posted by Thirith
Honestly, while I'm a big fan of both
System Shock games, I've always hated the way the second game ended. I found that ending utterly cheesy. I'm happy to play a well-made, well-written
System Shock-like game, but for me it doesn't have to be a sequel, prequel or otherwise. There isn't anything specifically
System Shock I'd want out of a third game in the series that I didn't already get from
Prey.
It's better that the game is cancelled then yet another gaming legacy be potentially shat upon. Given Current Year they may've hired some hack who'd do something utterly cringy like turn Shodan into an ham-fisted analogy of Trump or Boris Johnson.
(It's a very real possibility. We've already seen that with Shao Kahn in Mortal Kombat 11 and Kleon in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey.)
Pyrian on 10/2/2020 at 23:24
Make Citadel Station Great Again!
OT: "It's not a problem", they said. "It's a completely different team!" they said.
D'Arcy on 11/2/2020 at 15:33
Quote Posted by icemann
end them up stuck in a hell dimension :ebil:.
We already have Doom Eternal coming out soon ;)
heywood on 12/2/2020 at 02:09
Aw, drat! I guess the rumors are confirmed.
To be honest though, SS3 never received the hype or the grass roots support it deserved based on its pedigree and reputation of the development team. When the core fan base for your game is at best cautiously optimistic, but mostly reserving judgment and a bit cynical, it's easy for a publisher to decide it's not worth it.