Comments on: A Rumour Renewed: Syndicate Resyndicated?

By: Dark Father

Dark Father — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:17:37 +0000

You are so damn right. It’s coming closer.

By: terry

terry — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:10:13 +0000

JP: I think that’s been doing the rounds as a wallpaper for some time. I got it in 2006 but I’m buggered if I can remember where.

And woo! More Syndicate cannot be a bad thing – assuming persaudertron and gauss guns are intact, natch.

By: JP

JP — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:06:42 +0000

Just curious, where did you RPS guys get that image? I pieced together exactly that screenshot map a few years ago (in DOSBox) and was wondering if it had found its way out into the world somehow… or if someone else had done exactly the same.

Really tempted now to look at the FreeSynd source code and write a script to dump all the mission maps like that.

By: Paul Emil

Paul Emil — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:55:49 +0000

Hooray! I was fearing that Micro$oft would get Lionhead to churn out a 360-tarded version (Eye candy! No strategic depth! Stupid f*cking Molyhype!) of Syndicate. Given that EA is no longer evil and that Starbreeze has been proven to be a good studio, I’d say that this should turn out to be a good game.

By: J. Edgar Hoover

J. Edgar Hoover — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:57:29 +0000

Isn’t that screenshot from “Jungle Strike”?

By: OJ287

OJ287 — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:15:32 +0000

What bhlaab said.

As far as I can see all they are doing is using an existing IP to paste onto their product. It could have come from books, films, comics, wherever. It just happens that it came from another game. I’ll wait til Ive played it but I dont expect it to have anything in common with Syndicate beyond the superficial.

Its Just Another Game. Not a sequel.

By: D

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:15:25 +0000

@Nallen: You’re wrong in that you think other people consider their enjoyment of a series, as an average or mean.

The simple problem with continuations like Fallout 3 is that they take away something aswell – the potential for a better re-imagining. It’s the same as with the SW episodes 1 2 3, while they didn’t ruin the originals, they made sure we’ll never get anything better.

In the case of Synd and Deus Ex, I don’t really see the problem. We don’t know that much about either, so theres no cause to concern yet.

By: Sinnerman

Sinnerman — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:15:12 +0000

@bhlaab, if they have a market of people who are happy with the quality of their games and they enjoy making them then they are doing better than many people. As long as I don’t have to live with some game industry central committee diktat that I have to buy and cherish all games that are produced by approved games production facilities then it doesn’t really affect me. I would have been happier if EA gave Syndicate to Introversion but nothing is making me follow or buy a game that I don’t want.

By: bhlaab

bhlaab — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:24:47 +0000

I get the impression that a lot of these “retro” re-imaginings are being done for the morale of the game developers. Letting them work on well loved franchises is good for their souls or something but sadly us gamers who enjoy the gameplay of classic games can be left out in the cold as it isn’t about us at all. We just get hated on for having temerity enough to harsh everybody’s vibe.

That’s what annoys me, mostly. Things like ChaosSmurf’s comment at the top there as though fans of these old games have no right to complain.

Meanwhile, I’m thinking what right does Bethesda have to take a look at Fallout and say “Hmmm, you know what, Black Isle did it wrong.”

You’re absoloutely right, these remakes aren’t for the fans of the originals at all. But I don’t agree that it’s chicken soup for the developer’s soul either.
It’s for the publishers to make bank on the goodwill someone else cultivated ten years ago. And then dumb it down and simplify it because focus groups gave off the impression that every human being is an idiot.

By: yhancik

yhancik — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:23:00 +0000

Being pretty sure that the rumoured adaptation of a great game by a reliable studio will suck sounds pretty unreasonable to me.
And what the heck in a “Halo mode” ?

Oh I hope your comment was brilliant satire :p

By: Levictus

Levictus — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:08:24 +0000

I am pretty sure the new version will suck. It will be designed to appeal to casual players, it will have 50 Cent as a playable characters and a “Halo mode”. They are not going to make it good!

By: SuperNashwan

SuperNashwan — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:52:11 +0000

My discontent with Starbreeze’s lack of experience with online multiplayer appears to have been purged. Personally I consider it relevant to what a ‘next-gen’ Syndicate sequel would turn out like so here it is again without sweary disappointment.