{"id":30275,"date":"2016-01-18T12:24:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T17:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=30275"},"modified":"2016-01-18T12:24:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T17:24:39","slug":"experienced-points-why-im-cynical-about-system-shock-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=30275","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Why I&#8217;m Cynical About System Shock 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My column this week is why I suspect that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/video-games\/columns\/experienced-points\/15289-System-Shock-3-Already-Has-Precedent-Going-Against-It\">System Shock 3 isn&#8217;t going to have the stuff I loved about System Shock 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, if this industry was capable of making System Shock 3, it would have. Last time somebody tried we got BioShock, which was profitable, popular, critically acclaimed, and <em>not at all what I wanted<\/em>. It was a fine game on its own merits, but it was missing most of the major features that made System Shock special to me. It was just &#8220;pretty smart, for a shooter&#8221;. Replacing Andrew Ryan with Shodan isn&#8217;t going to magically transform BioShock back into System Shock.<\/p>\n<p>This is not to say that System Shock 2 was a perfect game. This goes double for System Shock 1. It&#8217;s just that they represent a kind of game that nobody wants to fund, develop, or market in today&#8217;s AAA world. <\/p>\n<p>I really hope that in a year or so I&#8217;ll get to write a column about how wrong I was about this, but this is how things look to me right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My column this week is why I suspect that System Shock 3 isn&#8217;t going to have the stuff I loved about System Shock 2. Honestly, if this industry was capable of making System Shock 3, it would have. Last time somebody tried we got BioShock, which was profitable, popular, critically acclaimed, and not at all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}