Post by azzajones on Feb 16, 2018 22:42:31 GMT
From ign.com
Damn, this was probably the game I was most excited for this year.
The System Shock remaster is on hiatus, and the team is reassessing the best path forward in development.
Nightdive Studios' CEO and founder Stephen Kick made the announcement on the game's Kickstarter page, assuring fans the game has not been cancelled, merely postponed, to give the team time to "return to [the original] vision" of the game.
In the hiatus announcement, Kick said during development, due in part to changing game engines from Unity to Unreal, and the team's subsequent ability and desire to "[do] more," the team strayed "from the core concepts of the original title." The team went through changes, and the scope, concept, and budget for the game changed as well.
"As the budget grew, we began a long series of conversations with potential publishing partners," Kick wrote, "The more we worked on the game, the more we wanted to do, and the further we got from the original concepts that made System Shock so great."
As a result, Kick has decided the team should take a step back, stating that although the developer has been "totally committed to making a great game," the changes and increased scope of the game took the studio down "the wrong path."
"I have put the team on a hiatus while we reassess our path so that we can return to our vision," Kick explained, "Please accept my personal assurance that we will be back and stronger than ever. System Shock is going to be completed and all of our promises fulfilled."
Nightdive Studios' CEO and founder Stephen Kick made the announcement on the game's Kickstarter page, assuring fans the game has not been cancelled, merely postponed, to give the team time to "return to [the original] vision" of the game.
In the hiatus announcement, Kick said during development, due in part to changing game engines from Unity to Unreal, and the team's subsequent ability and desire to "[do] more," the team strayed "from the core concepts of the original title." The team went through changes, and the scope, concept, and budget for the game changed as well.
"As the budget grew, we began a long series of conversations with potential publishing partners," Kick wrote, "The more we worked on the game, the more we wanted to do, and the further we got from the original concepts that made System Shock so great."
As a result, Kick has decided the team should take a step back, stating that although the developer has been "totally committed to making a great game," the changes and increased scope of the game took the studio down "the wrong path."
"I have put the team on a hiatus while we reassess our path so that we can return to our vision," Kick explained, "Please accept my personal assurance that we will be back and stronger than ever. System Shock is going to be completed and all of our promises fulfilled."
Damn, this was probably the game I was most excited for this year.