System shocked: Development of System Shock Remaster put on hiatus

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This year, we expected to play again the cult System Shock, but in a modern release. So that was promised in year 2016 when for the development of this game was raised 1.35 million dollars through the crowdfunding campaign at Kickstarter. But, System Shock Remaster will not be finished in 2018. Actually, we will be happy if the project in the end even achieves that.

Namely, director of the team Night Dive Studios announced yesterday that the development of the game was paused because the developer lost the direction and vision for the project in question. How Stephen Kick says, at the moments they were not sure if they're making remaster or completely new game; they wanted to do more than just a remaster, and during that they've "drifted away" from the main idea. However, the game (still) has not been canceled and the team is planning to dedicate themselves to seeing the whole situation so that they can return to the right path of the development.

With the remaster of the first System Shock in development is also a third part, but on it works a separate team OtherSide Entertainment, while Nightdive Studios will serve as a publisher for this game.

Tagged with: Space Games, Games delays, Shooters, Aliens

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Here I am, ready to play. Gaming enthusiast without free time to actually play video games but eager to learn anything

This sounds like they have lots of ideas and do not commit to the script previously set., this is not a good signal, at the end of the day you have to decide the way to go and stick with it to the end, maybe adding small changes but not big overhauls. Hope they find their way to bring the project to a good end.


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The main thing is that then came out a good product, we'll wait.

 





They should split this thing into 2 games maybe? First priority in my opinion should be finishing the remaster that is close to the original, and then these whatever new ideas they have, they can focus on afterwards as an evolution of the remaster project to create a separate game.



I loved both SS and SS2 back in the day.  I was hoping they'd finish this soon so I can play it again.  Good idea, splitting it up; maybe the newer concepts could be either an expansion or total conversion type of thing.