Pyrian on 15/4/2020 at 14:02
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...Stilt Shock 3...
It's Kickstarter time, bay bee!
theabyss on 15/4/2020 at 16:10
I was kind of hoping they would continue the story where we left off in SS2. The escape pod was heading back, if I remember right? The screenshots on their site gave me a Doom vibe for some reason. I was looking forward to something similar to SS2, with well lit areas as well as dark ones. But then again, who knows how the rest looks like.
Pyrian on 15/4/2020 at 18:09
Quote Posted by theabyss
I was kind of hoping they would continue the story where we left off in SS2.
I don't think it ended in a good place for a sequel. What, it's going to take place with the same characters in the same setting? Or Shodan uses reality-warping powers to create a new setting (and protagonist? and victims?) out of her imagination? (Didn't seem very imaginative at the end of SS2, lol.)
New Horizon on 15/4/2020 at 18:16
It would be really interesting to see a studio take New Dark, modestly update it and make a new System Shock or Thief game with it. They don't have to be AAA games, or low budget titles using Unity. If they truly want to dip back into that style of gaming, just embrace what made them work. I think a huge part of the charm of those games was the art style, which was partly influenced by the limitations.
Ion Fury is a fun example
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EWy6gTry6g)
Renault on 16/4/2020 at 05:45
Wrath as well, which uses the Quake1 engine (originally released two years before Thief/Old Dark), and it looks great:
[video=youtube;oGChpis6QL8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGChpis6QL8[/video]
New Horizon on 16/4/2020 at 17:27
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Wrath as well, which uses the Quake1 engine (originally released two years before Thief/Old Dark), and it looks great:
[video=youtube;oGChpis6QL8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGChpis6QL8[/video]
That looks really cool too. You can't make a faithful Thief game as a AAA property, there is just too much money involved and you have to lose so much of what made Thief the game it was, that you might as well just make a completely new game.
The time would be perfect to assemble a retro styled Thief game using New Dark with some slight updates.
theabyss on 16/4/2020 at 18:55
Quote Posted by Pyrian
I don't think it ended in a good place for a sequel. What, it's going to take place with the same characters in the same setting? Or Shodan uses reality-warping powers to create a new setting (and protagonist? and victims?) out of her imagination? (Didn't seem very imaginative at the end of SS2, lol.)
Yeah, you might be right now that I think about it. And her being in human form might not be as intriguing. Still, would have been interesting to extend the battlefield to earth somehow with a resurrected Many infecting a whole city.
Pyrian on 16/4/2020 at 20:33
I like it. Maybe Shodan hides away, and tries to create a new and "better" Many using leftover annelid worms
Starker on 16/4/2020 at 21:28
You could easily continue where SS2 left off with the final cutscene. For example... Tommy wakes up and Rebecca is okay and it was just a bad dream he was having. TriOp recovers Von Braun and SHODAN and tries to experiment with SHODAN in a black site somewhere in the Solar System. SS3 ensues.
Pyrian on 17/4/2020 at 01:36
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You could easily continue where SS2 left off with the final cutscene. For example... Tommy wakes up and Rebecca is okay and it was just a bad dream he was having.
Poe's Law: Was that
supposed to be sarcasm?