Ah, well I'm glad you were able to enjoy it. I'm still hoping for an old school Syndicate one day but for now that Kickstarter game will have to suffice. (Perhaps if it does well...?)
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Is the Syndicate franchise dead?
- Thread starter Dram
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Ah, well I'm glad you were able to enjoy it. I'm still hoping for an old school Syndicate one day but for now that Kickstarter game will have to suffice. (Perhaps if it does well...?)
Man, how did they manage to kill Burnout? There should be a new next-gen Burnout on both consoles.
Paradise sold great, strong reviews...and then they made some kind of Facebook game, and then nothing. Unbelievable.
War Raichu
Member
to comment solely on that quote, bullshit. They didn't take a risk because they didn't market it for shit. I remember being interested in the game, and indeed, I enjoyed it, but I almost forgot it was coming out because they put no effort into marketing it.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
They just should have focused on the co-op bits since it kicked the shit out of the not so good SP campaign.
The co-op was pretty well done I thought and a damned shame it did not get expansion DLC.
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The massive amounts of bloom was cockpunch worthy for the SP part of the game...
I'd rather see it dead than witness EA ruining it even further. The Starbreeze shooter was mediocre at best, definitely way below their earlier efforts in the genre. It just goes to show that Starbreeze is merely a name now after many key people have left the studio.
That said, how's Cartel doing?
That said, how's Cartel doing?
Ozzykamikaze
Member
I don't think that's true at all. The only part of Syndicate that was lacking was the story. It was a super solid FPS, with tight controls/mechanics and pretty graphics. I don't think a mediocre studio could have made that game so well. It really felt quality most of the time.
AgentOtaku
Member
FPS had an okay SP with a fantastic MP. Some of the best gunplay this gen.
...Oh and it had Michael Wincott and an awesome remix of the main theme.
...Oh and it had Michael Wincott and an awesome remix of the main theme.
Apparently nobody reads threads before posting now? Goes for Derrick too. Cartel is dead
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
What makes it stand out against the other dozens of super solid FPS games released that year? The sad thing is, Syndicate had a gameplay structure that would have made the game unique and they chose not to use it.
old manatee
Banned
I went into it just hoping for a good Starbreeze fps and I don't think it even hit that mark. I mostly remember running down a corridor for a few hours and wanting to quit every time I reached a boss.
Wow duck, everywhere I see you, you bring sadness, sakuga, gaf, everywhere, sadness and despair.
I got into a few heated online debates about that one, insead of evoking fond memories of an awesome game they had to do this.
There's enough turn based stuff out there.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
The FPS was offensive, but the strategy game has a pretty solid design. So you can expect someone to dust off or reboot the top down icon control version of it. People just jumped on the FPS bandwagon and thought they could make easy money, but you can't just take any brand with a fanbase, slap it on any project and expect it to take off. I don't know what they were doing, but I have to wonder if that game was born a Syndicate game.
They were hired to make the FPS, and did quite well IMO, but I'd bet the whole shooter reboot idea came from EA, not Starbreeze.
The FPS reboot wasn't too bad from the time I gave the demo. But the console version was EXTREMELY clunky with the cover system and stuff having to have you jump through three or four different key hoops to "stay in the flow." Dunno if the PC version controls would help alleviate that feeling, but having to fumble with a cover system to survive is just a FPS "no-no" for me.
As far as the series is concerned: It's dead. I think the only way it could come back is if it did an X-com style reboot where it has a RTS over the FPS--didn't the FPS for X-com also bomb?--to where the old-school fans try it out to see if it sucks, and a newer generation of people become fans of the old-school genre.
As far as the series is concerned: It's dead. I think the only way it could come back is if it did an X-com style reboot where it has a RTS over the FPS--didn't the FPS for X-com also bomb?--to where the old-school fans try it out to see if it sucks, and a newer generation of people become fans of the old-school genre.
fvng
Member
I never felt that way, the co-op was worth the price of admission alone. The single player campaign was serviceable and fun (and yes not revolutionary) but that's only half of the game's experience.
Uhhh, you are obviously unfamilar with the Fallout series and it's evolution. Weak argument. It was a successful transition into the FPS genre and was faithful to the universe of the original games.
In a Gaming World where everyone complains about shooters being always the same and not having new ideas, Syndicate actually feels fresh and different than most shooters on the market and it still was criticized from that.
Just like Bulletstorm, the game actually gets better with time because you end up playing other hyped shooters that actually are worse than both Syndicate and Bulletstorm.
Unfortunately both games suffered from the same problems:
- Bad marketing (dicktits ad-driven campaign and the other was announced 3 months before launch without any ad campaigns)
- No PvP multiplayer (Bullestorm Horde mode was awful but the Syndicate co-op missions were great when the lobbies had people playing)
- EA Partners
Just like Bulletstorm, the game actually gets better with time because you end up playing other hyped shooters that actually are worse than both Syndicate and Bulletstorm.
Unfortunately both games suffered from the same problems:
- Bad marketing (dicktits ad-driven campaign and the other was announced 3 months before launch without any ad campaigns)
- No PvP multiplayer (Bullestorm Horde mode was awful but the Syndicate co-op missions were great when the lobbies had people playing)
- EA Partners
plasmawave
Banned
Is the old syndicate games still good? Have they aged well? I'm thinking of checking it out.
Willy Wanka
my god this avatar owns
The single player in the reboot wasn't great but I thought the co-op was excellent so I wouldn't mind more of the same really. That's not to say I wouldn't prefer a proper sequel to the strategy games but I think another FPS is more realistic.