They've made some very odd decisions with those graphics. The cryobeds are the strangest thing of all. The originals were flat textures that were clearly trying to represent some sort of tube/tunnel that you would lie down in, but it seems like the artist in the remake thought it was just supposed to be some sort of flat circular mesh/window thing? 

I'll stick to the original thank you!

Now I might be interested if someone remade System Shock 2 if maybe it vaguely looked like this fan made short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEQReLZJXJQ 

Like 2004 graphical quality with 1994 design quality??

Not a strong look in this day and age. 

They've made some very odd decisions with those graphics. The cryobeds are the strangest thing of all. The originals were flat textures that were clearly trying to represent some sort of tube/tunnel that you would lie down in, but it seems like the artist in the remake thought it was just supposed to be some sort of flat circular mesh/window thing?

Wow. To try to remake the textures so accurately and then misinterpreting them so fundamentally is both hilarious and quite sad :/ 

It looks like a stained glass window in the original shots. 

I was looking for a video of the first level to show OTP that in context the idea that it's a stained glass window is ridiculous. I couldn't find a video that didn't also have the intro cutscene so I settle down to watch it, and it turns out it is some sort of stained-glassy-window-terminal thing afterall:

https://youtu.be/Jffl4PNT8JY?t=99

And then I broke the internet by admitting that I was wrong all along.

I still don't like the new graphics though. :P 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaG5SAw1n0c 

A HD texture pack with neon lighting!

I hope they also reduce the amount of reading you have to do and add microtransactions so that you can pay a bit extra to skip the boring walking around and jump ahead to the action. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gw9fJGKvcc

It's like the worst thing ever, but worse. 3rd person rocket arena with classes - I'd rather play a paint-drying sim. 

kinda reminds me of Gigantic. 

Paragon looks ok... but then again I said that about Doom 4 originally and look how thats turned out. 

The third person aspect really puts me off.
The visuals look pretty clean though, as usual.

Of all these new multiplayer MOBA games, Overwatch still seems like the best of the lot. 

Yes do look very nice. A good engine wasted, yet again.

The current MOBA / team-DM trend can suck my balls. Who is actually going to play all these things (OW, GG, BB etc)?? 

Considering I spent a couple hundred hours playing Team Fortress 2, I could definitely see myself getting into one of these if they are any good. Definitely want to take Overwatch for a spin for now, as it's FPS. 

Yeah, who is going to be playing more than one tho?? There seems to be a real glut of games that I'd expect players to be dedicated to just one of them.... 

It's the usual follow the leader thing ... Remember how for about 5 years, everyone was working on an MMO? 

players would one day have to do a Zerstoerer with one of Tronyn's maps and sacrifice themselves. 

Yeah. Which is kinda understandable with games that people might buy more than one of, i.e. SP games that you'll play for 20 hours and then move on, or simple DM games that you'll dick around in for 20 hours and then move on. But for timesink / skill-developing games, it seems a weird thing to saturate the market with. It happened with MMOs, were any of them at all successful apart from WOW and Guild Wars?? It happened with semi-real war shooters, did anyone play anything apart from Battlefield and COD??

People will play Overwatch because it's been the most spammed, maybe dabble in one more of the others as well, and the rest will sink without trace. Probably. 

Every developer believes that THEIR timesink skill developing game is gonna be the one that develops an unshakeable following that they can turn into a hat store six years down the road. 

Someone made the great point once that Blizzard has never been an innovator, just a great executor. Warcraft didn't invent RTS games, Everquest had been out long before WoW, and Diablo wasn't the first dungeon crawler. They just polished the shit out of their versions of existing genres. Something great can still emerge from all these "follow the leader" games. 

Unfortunately, in this case, it would be the emergence of a great MOBA / Team DM game :( 

Now that it's getting closer to xmas hopefully I can play some more games. Starting with Assassin's Creed 3. Yay another Ass Creed game, more of the same. The story is probably the best yet though. It had more direction... you have your 5 bad guys from the beginning. More emotion. Despite Connor being an ugly tool. Whereas previous games you sort of just went aimlessly from one bad dude to the next, with the plot going it random directions with random characters, till shit wraps up.

Well the last game involving both Altair and Ezio was pretty good, I suppose.

Gameplay was more of the same. Not enough combat, too many cutscenes. I feel like the series gets easier with each game (which is good because the first game was far too hard). This one is a bit dumbed down. Not much to do other than the main linear storyline. I didn't do any levelling, no assassin training, no purchasing zones or take overs. No rooftop climbing at all, there's no point since you get raped straight away whereas walking the streets is fine. It was just the main plot really. So probably weaker gameplay and less to do, but I didn't mind because I'm really only playing it for the story and visuals, certainly not it's crappy gameplay.

Speaking of visuals, they're starting to look a bit dated in this game. Not the best for 2012, but not bad either. Kind of cool setting, although I really don't give a flying fuck about American civil wars watching dickheads all standing in a line getting shot.

Right so that's 5 Ass Creed games down... 5 to go. I don't see how they can possibly drag this story out for another 5 games+. Juno's out... time to save the world... why would we return to the animus? More pointless random artifacts to find I suppose. 

System Shock 3 has been revealed as well as a System Shock remake by a separate developer.

There are people from the long defunct Looking Glass Studios working on SS3. That would be amazing if Ken Levine was working on it too. After the surprisingly disappointing Bioshock Infinite, I would love to see Ken return to his roots and revisit the System Shock universe.

Please, PLEASE don't suck. You can have Doom 4, just give me System Shock! 

Ken already said on Facebook that he's not involved in any way. So ... there's that. 

Kind of a bummer, but maybe it's a good thing he's not involved... who knows.