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on: September 10, 2011, 07:39:53 PM

Another game follow's X-Com's lead - Syndicate gets rebooted as a "Visceral First Person Shooter Experience".

http://kotaku.com/5839046/the-syndicate-reboot-is-real-first-details-leak-out-of-ea?popular=true

Because the best thing to do with a somewhat unique and fondly-looked-upon IP is to remake it as one of the roughly 327 "visceral first-person shooters" that each year churns out, (with only a few remembered a few years later.)
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Reply #1 on: September 10, 2011, 07:44:32 PM

Fuck

This sounds like the bastard child of a watered down Deus Ex and Call of Duty.

Fuck

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Reply #2 on: September 10, 2011, 08:14:41 PM

I feel like game devs both share my love of some old IPs.. and at the same time completely don't understand why they're beloved old IPs.
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Reply #3 on: September 10, 2011, 08:30:41 PM

 0.0 DPS

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Reply #4 on: September 10, 2011, 08:54:06 PM

:sigh:

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Reply #5 on: September 10, 2011, 09:15:38 PM

What's next, Alpha Centauri the third-person cover-based shooter?

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Reply #6 on: September 10, 2011, 09:17:49 PM

Civilization as a console-based FPS.

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Reply #7 on: September 10, 2011, 10:28:21 PM

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Reply #8 on: September 11, 2011, 12:58:43 AM

Don't give them ideas. Some retarded game company might use those. I'm sure Syndicate: The Shooter started as a joke as well...
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Reply #9 on: September 11, 2011, 02:00:22 AM

What System Shock needs is a reboot as a browser based social game!

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Reply #10 on: September 11, 2011, 03:31:08 AM

It'll be just like with X-Com remakes. The best thing that made the game will be left out. None of the successors had the blaster cannon. This Syndicate FPS won't have the gauss gun, and thus not be worthy.

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Reply #11 on: September 11, 2011, 04:34:00 AM

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Reply #12 on: September 11, 2011, 04:50:46 AM

I bitched about Deus Ex 3 being a prequel, but apparently I was wrong then.

If you can do some interesting things - like flip to spy cams that show you a bigger view - plus have multiple ways of finishing missions, it could work.

We'll see.

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Reply #13 on: September 11, 2011, 05:14:43 AM

Call me when they make Gazillionaire the FPS.   awesome, for real
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Reply #14 on: September 11, 2011, 06:03:18 AM

Ooh ooh ooh I know! Sim Ant must be awesome as an FPS!

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Reply #15 on: September 11, 2011, 06:04:44 AM

Would now be a bad time to say that they already made Evil Genius into a poor Facebook game?

I wouldn't put anything past them nowadays...although a FPS that lets me fight mindworms and The Human Hive's police state does sounds kinda fun.

Kinda...

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Reply #16 on: September 11, 2011, 06:37:06 AM

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"These Syndicates have revolutionized how the consumer interacts with the digital world," reads the game description. "No longer does the consumer require a device to access the world's data and control their technology, they can do this at the blink of an eye via neural chip implant."

I like how paint the setting of syndicate as something positive, worth looking forward too.  why so serious?

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Reply #17 on: September 11, 2011, 06:59:36 AM

This makes me think they really believe it's the proper way to do a remake.   It's not like Syndicate is popular enough to have cash in potential.
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Reply #18 on: September 11, 2011, 07:34:53 AM

Ooh ooh ooh I know! Sim Ant must be awesome as an FPS!

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Sim Ant Online: Become an Ant! Do exciting quests and help build your hive! Interact with a world of other players, level up and take on exciting and dynamic raid content such as THE SPIDER, and THE LAWN MOWER. Remember, don't stand in the Coca-Cola! A persistent world based in a suburban garden, featuring novel skills such as LEAF CARRYING, GRUB CARRYING, DIGGING and DEATH.

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To be fair, I would probably play this.

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Reply #19 on: September 11, 2011, 12:58:47 PM

What's next, Alpha Centauri the third-person cover-based shooter?

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Reply #20 on: September 11, 2011, 02:31:59 PM

Syndicate was pretty shooty any how.  Long as you can brainwash a horde of civilians into following you, pile them all into a space car then crash it in a horrible fireball it's all good.
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Reply #21 on: September 11, 2011, 02:33:51 PM

To be fair, I would probably play this.

Would be worth a look just for the first person vomit feeding
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Reply #22 on: September 11, 2011, 03:20:50 PM

I kinda wish there was a way to actually play a "Modern Gaming" drinking game.

1 Drink:
-Classic game series or IP "re-imagined" as a shooter
-Nintendo announces new Gameboy variation at exactly the moment you'll be most annoyed you bought the previous one.
-Any game company describes their release date as "When it's done", then releases at crucial time in the market.
-Every time you open a game review website where anything under 8.5/10 means "Complete dogshit".

etc etc

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Reply #23 on: September 11, 2011, 03:28:09 PM

Well, it's either be grumpy or accept it and roll with the times.

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Reply #24 on: September 11, 2011, 04:10:24 PM

Well, it's either be grumpy or accept it and roll with the times.

I eaglery await Leisure Suit Larry as visceral first person experience!  Oh ho ho ho. Reallllly?

Third person cover based shooter, imo.
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Reply #25 on: September 11, 2011, 05:13:24 PM

I kinda wish there was a way to actually play a "Modern Gaming" drinking game.
Sure there is.  Any time one of these conditions is fulfilled, down a bottle of your favorite liquor.

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Reply #26 on: September 11, 2011, 05:16:41 PM

I kinda wish there was a way to actually play a "Modern Gaming" drinking game.
Sure there is.  Any time one of these conditions is fulfilled, down a bottle of your favorite liquor.

That's not a drinking game, that's a suicide pact.
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Reply #27 on: September 11, 2011, 08:58:43 PM

Up next, EA announces the return of our favorite crimson crusader:
Crusader: No Return

 why so serious?

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Reply #28 on: September 12, 2011, 03:51:11 AM

Another game follow's X-Com's lead - Syndicate gets rebooted as a "Visceral First Person Shooter Experience".

http://kotaku.com/5839046/the-syndicate-reboot-is-real-first-details-leak-out-of-ea?popular=true

Because the best thing to do with a somewhat unique and fondly-looked-upon IP is to remake it as one of the roughly 327 "visceral first-person shooters" that each year churns out, (with only a few remembered a few years later.)
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Yeah, what's gonna happen next?  Is somebody going to turn Fallout into an FPS-style game or something?

In all seriousness though, it's not like anybody was ever going to make proper X-Com or Syndicate sequels with the same kinda gameplay they had 10-20 years ago.  For all intents and purposes, these franchises were dead.  Syndicate being re-imagined by the guys who made the Riddick game (although not much since then), as a Cyberpunk FPS with a 4 player co-op mode doesn't sound like anything to get up in arms over.
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Reply #29 on: September 12, 2011, 03:56:32 AM

In all seriousness though, it's not like anybody was ever going to make proper X-Com or Syndicate sequels with the same kinda gameplay they had 10-20 years ago.
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Reply #30 on: September 12, 2011, 04:15:20 AM

Maybe I should rephrase that to "anybody hoping to make money".  But hey, those guys are making another one so at least you've got that going for you.
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Reply #31 on: September 12, 2011, 08:58:26 AM

I guess this also proves that "future" is the new trappings for FPSs in 2011/2012.

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Reply #32 on: September 12, 2011, 09:08:41 AM

Yeah, I was mostly bummed by this. Making it a FPS kind of defeats the whole concept of "corporate exec controlling four psychopaths with implants and guns" feel. It's likely to be just another goddamn shooter.

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Reply #33 on: September 12, 2011, 03:01:02 PM

ITT: Twatty assumptions about announcement of reboot of beloved game no one here has played in at least 15 years. I fucking love f13. IT'S SHIT BEFORE IT EXISTS!

How about 'oh wow! Someone's remembered Syndicate! I loved that game, it's really nice they want to bring it back in some way that's likely to guarantee sales instead of dying in isometric obscurity. Perhaps the new generation of gamers will learn where things like Deus Ex etc originated from." Any takers? Didn't think so...

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Reply #34 on: September 12, 2011, 03:01:47 PM

I don't want SyndiQuake, I want Syndicate with modern graphics.

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