Nightdive Studios has announced that the development of its System Shock Remake has been halted. According to its CEO, the development has been halted because the team took the wrong path and turned its back to its Kickstarter backers.
As Stephen Kick, CEO of Nightdive Studios, wrote:
“Maybe we were too successful. Maybe we lost our focus. The vision began to change. We moved from a Remaster to a completely new game. We shifted engines from Unity to Unreal, a choice that we don’t regret and one that has worked out for us. With the switch we began envisioning doing more, but straying from the core concepts of the original title.
As our concept grew and as our team changed, so did the scope of what we were doing and with that the budget for the game. As the budget grew, we began a long series of conversations with potential publishing partners. The more that we worked on the game, the more that we wanted to do, and the further we got from the original concepts that made System Shock so great.”
Stephen concluded that he considers himself responsible for this mess and that he let things get out of control, despite his good intentions. Good intentions… this reminds me that quote from Jurassic Park 3.
“Ultimately the responsibility for the decisions rests with me. As the CEO and founder of Nightdive Studios, a company that was built on the restoration of the System Shock franchise, I let things get out of control. I can tell you that I did it for all the right reasons, that I was totally committed to making a great game, but it has become clear to me that we took the wrong path, that we turned our backs on the very people who made this possible, our Kickstarter backers.”
Stephen claims that although the remake is now on hiatus, it is not canceled. This could mean that Nightdive Studios does not face any financial issues with its development. Because if it does then we can already kiss this remake goodbye.
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System Crock
Probably they will suck some publisher d*ck to make it to release…
Kingdom Come: Deliverance got money to finish their game and to port it to consoles
You smell a call for more $$$
LOL, maybe they want to put Microtransbullshit and some kind of Lootcrap and they lost touch with core game and what they promess to give, and now they are going to ask for more money to finish the mess… Another Mighty No. 9 fiasco.
God, I hope not :(. I thought the original KS demo was awesome, they should of just completed the content and worked off that solid base.
Unity is a much better engine now so they would of ended up fine in the end and there was no need to switch engines post KS.
I was already quite annoyed when they mentioned “bringing it upto modern level design standard” considering ever since System Shock, level designs only reduced in quality. They should stuck to the core, anyway at this point I don’t care. The original system shock still looks great.
Level design is frigin perfect in first System Shock! Played it for a first time this year and loved it.
Yes, that was the red flag. I knew it was doomed when I read that. Modern level design: Smaller, more linear, more cutscenes and other nuissances.
I was already quite annoyed when they mentioned “bringing it upto modern level design standard” considering ever since System Shock, level designs only reduced in quality. They should stuck to the core, anyway at this point I don’t care. The original system shock still looks great.
What is this?
Copy/paste bot..
Can we kill them?
Yes, they’ll vanish if everyone completely ignores as well as blocks them.
I flag them as spam. Arrow on the top right -> flag as inappropriate -> spam. Just be careful you get the actual spam bots and not the original user who posted the comment.
Nope, don’t think so. New users will keep on spawning, even if you block/ban a select few.
This COPY/paste trend has been very common these days on DISQUS. Not sure why these spam bots do this, but it’s really annoying at times.
I’ve had my entire text/sentence being copied over and over gain, on multiple occasions as well, here on disqus.
You have one job, make it and dont mess with it.
yes make it available for you for free via torrent client
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d14ac2def52937e599febe54907ce1136671a31054a431f8afa544f541899b58.jpg
No need the first was available for free due to the fact that it wouldnt run for the longest time, someone madea portable version of it in order to run, Called system shock portable, then they took that and put it on gog. This is the reason a remake is needed and it doesnt seem they are making it.
This is why you don’t throw money at Kickstarter unless you’re okay with
that money vanishing into thin air. I’ll be pissed if this never sees
the light of day (or sucks), but the $30 I gave them is hardly life
changing. Can’t imagine being someone who donates $100’s or $1000’s of
dollars.
Vidya games.
I thought a remake was meant to stay true to the original? Instead these asshats developed feeble little egos, wasted backers money and turned what should’ve been a straight forward project into another f*cking Star Citizen. Well done.
I wonder if they all bought themselves new cars as their “golden parachute”.
Good ol kickstarter. Cha ching! Im outta here!
Well, Star Citizen didn’t really have a reason to restrict themselves like System Shock did, because they’re not developing a remake.
That said, they did expand scope like crazy, and as a result pissed off a lot of backers, especially early backers who just wanted a smaller, more feasible game. Those people have a right to be pissed.
scamcitizen
oh you mean the game that has always online so you cant pirate it and it wont be released on consoles so its not tainted by filthy pesantry like yourself?
Shocking. This has never happened with a kickstarter project before…… Oh wait……..
Probably they will suck some publisher d*ck to make it to release…Kingdom Come: Deliverance got money to finish their game and to port it to consoles
KCD never changed the vision of their project and tbh I seem to remember that they mentioned console versions in the original kickstarter, they just couldn’t confirm them because the KS money itself would not have been enough to make console versions. IIRC.
Seriously, you had one job… Remaking the original. Not adding a bunch of stuff, not changing the layout, not changing things to live up to some imagined “modern standard”.
You were supposed to take the original game and make it look awesome using today’s technology.
Edit: typo
Yes, they’ll vanish if everyone completely ignores as well as blocks them.
Somebody still bakes Kickstarter projects in 2017-2018. LOL
Yes, they’ll vanish if everyone completely ignores as well as blocks them.
Except most Kickstarter games wouldn’t be made in the first place if it weren’t for Kickstarter. You just have to keep in mind that you might never get anything for your money when backing something.
Feature creep, one of the top 3 reasons almost all mods are vaporware and most kickstarter projects don’t turn out the way they were advertised. The other two reasons are trying to use a popular IP without legal permission and committing to oversized projects right from the get-go.