God damn it.

[sabrage]

Futuristic sci-fi noir was one of my favorite things. Between Hard Reset, Prey 2, DX:HR, and now the new Syndicate, it's just gonna become the new WW2.

[soldant]

So basically, today's current plans for making games is:

1) Take a beloved old game, like X-COM or Syndicate
2) Completely ignore everything that made it awesome
3) Make a crappy FPS
4) TROLL ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK!

I am not happy. You've ruined my day. Thank you.

[TillEulenspiegel]

Non-FPS/TPS games just aren't contemporary. Don't you know anything?

They'll never ruin cyberpunk as a setting, though. Nuh-uh. They like using the aesthetics, oh yes. But rarely the interesting details, and never the themes. There's also a disturbing lack of Space Rastas.

[soldant]

Non-FPS/TPS games just aren't contemporary.

Does... does this make me a hipster? And if so, will you kill me? Please make it quick, I don't want to suffer.

[Walsh]

LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR! This latest outrage must not stand! Burn em all!

[Rii]

Don't forget ADRIFT.

[QuantaCat]

This is a double post: there is someone complaining about syndicate already over here.

[soldant]

This is a double post: there is someone complaining about syndicate already over here.

Actually, this thread came before the other one.

[QuantaCat]

Oh well. Im for merging anyhow, not deleting.

[coldvvvave]

Futuristic sci-fi noir was one of my favorite things. Between Hard Reset, Prey 2, DX:HR, and now the new Syndicate, it's just gonna become the new WW2.

It's popular thus it sucks, right?

[cowthief skank]

It's popular thus it sucks, right?

And we already KNOW that a game that hasn't even been properly announced will be rubbish.

[Whitmore]

Planescape Torment remade into Hack and Slash cyberpunk type game next?

[Drake Sigar]

So basically, today's current plans for making games is:

1) Take a beloved old game, like X-COM or Syndicate
2) Completely ignore everything that made it awesome
3) Make a crappy FPS
4) TROLL ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK!

I am not happy. You've ruined my day. Thank you.

Well someone is buying them. I don’t feel compelled to bend over at all.

[Flint]

I'm all for more futuristic sci-fi stuff.

[Mihkel]

Considering that it's from the devs of Riddick I'm liking it.

[hamster]

Devs of Riddick? Sold.

Btw has anyone played the original? What was the original Syndicate like?

[coldvvvave]

I'm so angry at you, people. It's like I'm on NMA again. At least they had a point about Fallout being a RPG( Wizardry will disagree but I don't care), but Syndicate wasn't even a strategy game. It could have been first/third person and gameplay won't change at all. Yes, I'm posting this everywhere until this drama ends. Play it. Watch it on Youtube. I'm so angry.

[burningpet]

i dont get what about this real time tactics gameplay movie has you saying its natural to be remade into an FPS.

[coldvvvave]

i dont get what about this real time tactics gameplay movie has you saying its natural to be remade into an FPS.

Where do you see tactics? It had direct control ffs. You are clicking enemies to death with minigun fire in this game.

[Drake Sigar]

Syndicate was a a classic strategy game? For real? I thought it was pretty much a top down shooter with some upgrades and simple tactics. I played it parallel with Red Alert back then and thought that latter was a strategy, not former. I'm pretty sure that a winning formula was "Equip all agents with miniguns and machinegun everyone on the screen". Or burn everyone. Or disintegrate with lasers.

Seriously, did you even play it?

Ok, bu-

I really like to punch my LCD reading this crap about Syndicate being some sort of sophisticated strategy game. It wasn't. It was a top-down shooter with short missions set in sandbox-ish yet pretty much empty environment. Like Deus Ex, it was made by throwing random ideas in a blender in hoping that it works, games are not made like that anymore. IIRC Moulinex didn't even like the game, for what it's worth. For petes sake, go play it before posting this drama, it will probably run fine with dos-box. Goddamnit, you people.

Hang on a se-

I'm so angry at you, people. It's like I'm on NMA again. At least they had a point about Fallout being a RPG( Wizardry will disagree but I don't care), but Syndicate wasn't even a strategy game. It could have been first/third person and gameplay won't change at all. Yes, I'm posting this everywhere until this drama ends. Play it. Watch it on Youtube. I'm so angry.

Jesus tap dancing Christ, shut up! Nobody cares what Syndicate was, what matters is it’s yet another franchise that has been commandeered by those who are convinced all the money is in the FPS genre. If this keeps up we’ll have less choice than a Welsh fish and chip shop.