These are the toy guns you would have wanted for Christmas, and I wanted to know more about them.Ī game filled with as much tech and grimy atmosphere as the System Shock remake is a dream come true if you’re the sort of person who is really into practical, industrial sci-fi design. NERF guns that've been painted by a 12-year-old and covered in spaceship parts. Heavy, industrial things covered in thumb-print smeared LCD screens and superfluous greeblies. Here, the weapons are very much the star of the show. There wasn’t much to see in the original - nothing beyond the tip of a barrel. If there’s one area where all of the remake’s ideas truly come together and shine, it’s in the weapons. Whether or not Doom 3’s shotgun is one of the good ones (it is). What separates a good one from a bad one. Specifically the big, daft chunky guns that she worked on, but also about videogame guns in general - what makes them tick.

The part about the funding issues is a concern, but at the very least, it's nice to see they seem to have acknowledged it's gone too far from the original intent and isn't really what they promised.It’s been about an hour since Evelyn Mansell - one of the lead art directors on the System Shock remake - and I started talking about guns. If it was just a case of 'We'll just change these few things and it'll be sorted' then stopping progress to review things like this wouldn't really be needed, so i think this'll end up being beneficial in the long run if it brings it back to what it originally was meant to be. If they've briefly stopped because they've fully realized this isn't just a simple problem that can be fixed with a few changes along the way, hopefully that means they'd be willing to make significant changes to get it back to what the original vision was. If they carried on as-is and then decided to change it all then they'd likely have to scrap even more work, it's better to stop for a short while and determine what to do about it first. The hiatus makes sense considering that, they can't just carry on going in what may still be the wrong direction until they figure out what they're going to do to solve the problem.

They're finally acknowledging the change in direction isn't what people wanted out of it and they've gone too far away from what it was supposed to be, that's a good thing. Accountability seems to be exactly why there's briefly stopping to sort the problem out, though.

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