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Starbreeze to publish System Shock 3, investing $12 million
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Rexatality
Member
Both games can co-exist despite the lineage in terms of gameplay
Yes and now System Shock 3 does too
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
What has otherside entertainment worked on already?
Rexatality
Member
Well, I'll admit, it went over my head.
Regardless, given what Warren Spector said about the story in the Polygon article, I'm staying wary of SS3 until we get to see the gameplay
Holy crap, that's a pretty huge get for Starbreeze!
Honestly they're one of the more compelling publishers in the industry right now. Psychonauts 2, Dead by Daylight, the inevitable Payday 3 and now System Shock 3. Really coming into their own as a publisher.
I'm cautiously optimistic about this game. Between Spector heading the project and now a ton of extra funding, it has some serious potential.
Honestly they're one of the more compelling publishers in the industry right now. Psychonauts 2, Dead by Daylight, the inevitable Payday 3 and now System Shock 3. Really coming into their own as a publisher.
I'm cautiously optimistic about this game. Between Spector heading the project and now a ton of extra funding, it has some serious potential.
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
Yikes.
JimmyRustler
Gold Member
The System Shock franchise sure is going through a weird development currently. Remake of the first financed of Kickstarter and recently has changed the engine, System Shock 3 published by Starbreeze now. That's kinda weird. What's with System Shock 2? That being remade as well?
For some reason I expect this all to end in some kind of a desaster and that both the Remake and SS3, if ever released, will suck.
For some reason I expect this all to end in some kind of a desaster and that both the Remake and SS3, if ever released, will suck.
No, but I'd imagine that will be on the cards should the Shock 1 remake be well-received. I mean, 2 still holds up fairly well, even visually, however it'll be old enough to buy a drink at the pub later this year and could use a modern coat of paint.
Why?
System Shock 1 is being made by a pretty big team and they changed engines right in the beggining of the project. Thank god, too, cause UE4 is much better fit for a game like SS.
System Shock 3 just got more funding and has one of the creators of the genre heading it.
So, again, why? Baseless cynicism?
I'm pretty sure he's the creative director on it.
Interesting, sounds like a similar relationship as they have with Double Fine for Psychonauts 2. Is this a new kind of business model for mid-sized publishers? Financing games that are too big for Kickstarter but too small for AAA publishers, and they let the developers (or in this case Night Dive I believe) keep the IP?
Seems that way. Techland has been operating in a similar fashion.
Warren Spectre joined OE to be Studio Director and lead for System Shock 3. They're gradually picking up folks from the previous games. Sheldon Pacotti is on board for writing as well, also working with him on previous System Shock and OG Deus Ex
JimmyRustler
Gold Member
More or less. It's just a feeling.
No one would be happier than me with the series coming back big time (SS2 being one of my all time favorites and all) but I'd really rather have these games being made with solid funding. With this sketchy stuff I cannot imagine something coming out at the end that is more than mediocre.
I wonder if this would (or has?) ever happened for a new or unknown IP though. Torment, Psychonauts, and System Shock names all have a lot of cachet (albeit niche) so that gives the IP holders leverage in negotiation with publishers.
I think the closest example is Starbreeze publishing Dead by Daylight on PC (and soon console). Pretty sure the devs still own it though.
Most of Starbreeze's published games are new IPs: https://www.starbreeze.com/games-release-schedule/
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But anyway; Starbreeze has a pretty interesting publishing slate. This might end up being pretty cool.
Atom Heart Mother
Banned
Is Doug Church on the team for SS3?
He's a "Outside Creative Consultant" for the game. Still works at Valve though iirc
D4rth Man7iz
Member
Pretty good investment. It's going to be really interesting to see how this turns out.
Spiral Insanity
Banned
Eh. Prey 2 does nothing for me, I hope SS3 will be closer to SS2 than Dishonored/Bioshock.
ForkNetwork
Banned
If either SS3, SS1 Remake, or Prey is good, then I can be happy, just let of those be the Bioshock game we need please.
Rexatality
Member
It's Prey. Not Prey 2.
If you don't wanna confuse it with original Prey, just call it Prey 2017
TheRedSnifit
Member
AgentOtaku
Member
DA FUQ!?