Link to kickstarter page

Now here is something I can finally get behind

i certainly hope so!

Looks interesting

I'm just gonna leave this here, while trying to look innocent.

Wow. This is excellent considering Syndicate should probably be ranked competitively among the top 50 games ever created.

-Wired_SR_AEGIS

The subject line seems to imply that Syndicate wasn't done right the first time.

Satelllite Reigns looks pretty sweet, though. Interesting interview with one of the creators here: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/07/02...ulation-legacy/

I think it's more that it wasn't done right the most recent time; with the FPS. By all accounts it was a reasonably good game (the trailers certainly looked pretty slick, at least), it just wasn't what folks wanted from the franchise.

Unity Engine:
The best thing to happen to Nostalgia . .
Now somebody needs to take a look at Fallout that is not in 1st Person <.<

Oh yeah, had totally forgotten that reboot even existed.

From what I heard, it wasn't even that terrible...it just wasn't, well, Syndicate. No squad-based stuff, no tactical side of things, etc. Kind of like the Shadowrun X-Box game just wasn't what people wanted.

But anyways, Satellite Reign promises to be pretty cool, and I'm a fan of their fiction guy ( ) so I hope folks check it out.

I had a lot of fun with Syndicate when I was a kid. When I played it later, I realized it had very little challenge. Once you understood the base tactics, only a handful of missions (like the last one) would offer a challenge.

Syndicate Wars is generally less well appreciated, but it's actually the better tactical game of the two. It's very challenging and most missions require a different approach from the previous one.

FWIW the new xbox syndicate game had good gameplay, good story and very good atmosphere. It was just SHORT as all fuck. I blew through it in a week, in about 7 or 8 hours I think. Like, wtf? Definately worth the rental though. Well, its probably in your local store's discount bin for 5$ anyway.

nowadays something procedurally generated would offer more challenge.

but at the time as a Kid .. Syndicate blew my mind ! on my Amiga I would lose days playing it ... the atmosphere was jsut .. wow

and as X-com EU .. I hindered myself to add challenge .. full playthrough with only the original team .. or

frag me ... full playthrough with only persuad-a-tron ! .... that device .. man ... that device !!

I'm having a full on man cave nostalgia moment here just thinking about all the good stuff I loved in that game

mission completion via vehicular manslaughter .... now there was a challenge

TEN days left .. 100k left to target

they've released some stretch goals that include new maps and agencies as well as destructable terrain

I'm stoked, hoping this makes it all the way

wish i could contribute a bit, but i can't.
also hope it will make it to the finish line.

And also bringing a certain someone in a little more hands-on, tackling a bunch of in-game stuff instead of just a novella.

Did you attend the CanRay school of trumpet blowing ?

I played a little bit of Syndicate, and that's about the only thing I remember about it, the persuad-a-tron. So iconic...

Now we have a picture to go with the name...this crossing from the virtual to the meat world is a little disconcerting...

Shit, I'm not nearly consistent enough at it for that.

One week left and still 80,000 dollars away from the goal. That's going to be tough.

Added a gameplay video update due to popular demand

Looks AWESOME

Backed!

For a Dragon, you're actually a decent chap

only 3K Missing.
If only 30 people each gave about 100 bucks, it'd be done . .

Funded!

yay!
now to hope non backers will be able to get it without credit card as well . .

There's a plan for a Paypal slacker-backer option, last I heard.

And it's over the hump, btw.

Funded!

We've still got stretch goals to go, though, so here's hoping!

paypal does not like my bank account.
no backing for me here i am afraid <.<

plans for a steam release?

Well... not much hoping, though.

Nah, I think they've got decent odds of hitting two, maybe even three of 'em.

Dunno, raising $75,000 for the third stretchgoal in just 3 days... it's ambitious.

not very probable at all

Do you guys not recognize the ambivalence of words like "decent odds" and "maybe even?"

the first two are pretty much a given, if it continues like it is going right now i'd guess . .

And PayPal's open, for the last couple days of pledging: hit it!

Get to it! Spread the word! Bring the cyberpunk!

don't think they can make the price your purdy mouth is askin'
also, i don't believe they'll make it to destructable terrain sadly.

i'll have to see if i can get somebody to do kickstarter for me.

We negotiated a pretty industry-standard pennies-per-word gig, with a fairly conservative word count estimate, trust me. It's not like I'm asking for £500,000 to take the gig or something. There's been some talk of sort of "mini-tiers," especially at that level, breaking things down a bit so that if they don't quite hit that level, some of those stretch goals will still be reached. Truth is, having me shoulder a lot of writing means less work for the devs/coders, while new factions and districts means more work for them. So even if they don't quite hit 500k, we're hoping to be able to work something out.

so why's the goal with you in it so high? O.o

Seriously, dude, you just assumed "my purdy mouth" was demanding like fifty thousand pounds or something? Jesus.

And I imagine it's that high because they lumped a bunch of stretch goals together, instead of spreading them out every ten or fifteen thousand pounds that come in. More realistically, for instance, the tiers could be (and may yet be) set up like "440, destructible terrain, 455 cyberpunk writer, 465 Eternals as a Faction, 475 Red Mafia as a Faction, 490 The Grid district, 500k Industrial City district," or something like that. Instead they lumped 'em all together and made one mega-tier at 500k. Realistically, there's stuff they can afford at much lower prices, but that's just how some Kickstarters get set up.

But -- once again -- at this point I'm just a freelancer, so that sort of decision making's above my pay grade. I can't tell you exactly why the stretch goals are set up the way they are, because I'm not the one that set them up. We talked about how much work we thought things'd be, we pitched some ideas around, we settled on a ballpark figure that's pretty median-low per word for the industry...the marketing/stretch goal side of things is outta my hands.

they should have put you into one of the lower ones, i like reading your stuff . .
and yes, i had assumed that you would be getting that much, not that you demanded that much.

so far, wrong on both counts.. thankfully you are neither a weatherman nor a prophet of the lord...

Update #34 destructable terrain established and plenty of last minute cash arriving per second to be able to secure us some Zimmerman Luvvin'

they actually managed to do it? o.o
very impressive.

Plus there's PayPal cash comin' in that Kickstarter doesn't, if I understand correctly, automatically update with (and slacker backer cash comin' in elsewhere). Odds're good I'll have some extra writing to do over the next year or so.

damn it . . and none of my credit card or paypal buddies are available for me to conduct business through <.<

"Your" stretch goal didn't make it or is there any chance that enough paypal-money will come in the next days? Would be awesome.

So, Early Access is around the corner, who is going to wade in?

I had BETA access via the KS but decided I want the full experience so am waiting for it to mature.

been following it religiously every monthly update ... and I must say, I am salivating just a bit !!

ah, it has Steam Early Access.
THAT i can actually make use of, as soon as i manage to wire some money into my steam wallet <.<