SiN: Episodes Announced

$20 for 6 hours of gameplay?!?!?! unless it comes with kickass multiplayer, piss off

I've seen some screenshots from this project...just terrible.

Steam ~ Europe = EEH...

These screens from the original demo looked about 1000x better.
http://www.gamekult.com/tout/jeux/fiche_screenshots.html?cjeu=J000004431

I think that demo was created using DOOM3 Engine. And that girl from the official website, wallpapers etc...is she like 13-15? As I said earlier, characters from the early demo were much better.

The stealth part of the SiN really sucked. I tend to hate stealth parts of all games that aren't designed for it.

SiN was a lot of fun and everything, but whoever writes these games is most likely retarded. Why Ritual would decide that SiN was worth another go is beyond me.

I like blowing up guys as much as the next guy, but John Blade? Elexis SINclaire? Even the character designs are exercises in cliche.
http://www.sinepisodes.com/index.php?news

To make it even worse, the bare midriff hasn't been in style for at least 5 years. I guess they ran out of fabric in the future. And I think her underwear is showing.

That said, cant wait to play this.

Couple problems with releasing a half-finished game.

A. Shorter game reviews, not much to write home about. It'll always feel... incomplete. Biggest drawback, imho.

B. When you're trying to reintroduce everyone back to Sin universe, showing only 1/3 maybe 1/2 the game is not the brightest way to do it. The best way is to release a full version game THEN the episodes. Even if the overall game is a little short. That should be like a normal and sane way of doing it.

C. This game will never go on sale. Never. Never. Never. Always $20 and if you don't want to pay it, tough luck. Half-Life 2 on Steam has proven once and for all there will NEVER ever ever be a 1 week $10 off sale. Never. And that's sad to see. Price DOES have a factor in my decision to buy a game or not. No sale? Fuck you. Period. That's why us folk with lower wages than the average have to 'put up' with getting HL2 for only $30 at Best Buy or whereever. I wouldn't be surprised if HL2 doesn't drop in price the next two years. I mean, not even one week? How dumb are you people. Hello Valve. I'm STILL waiting for it to go on sale. Game has only been out since October and you still haven't dropped your game packages by one cent? That's pathetic.


D. I don't like the marketing behind Sin Episodes. Too formal of an announcement. I mean, http://www.shacknews.com/docs/press/070705_sinepisodes.x Does THAT look like a 'fun' game to you? Screenshots & clips should have been availble from day 1 and none of the 'comming soon' bs. You teased us for 3 weeks for this???? "Combining the incredible power of the Source engine with episodic content delivery via Steam has empowered us to raise the bar on key features of the SiN universe, interactivity, character driven gameplay, and emergent AI," By golly that sure sounds 'fun', Tom. /rolls eyes.


I just hope this game doesn't suck. Better have that geeky Blade/J.C. humor at least. :/

If they were smart they'd give the first epiosode away for free. At the very least, they should give an option to pre-pay for the remaining episodes if you like the first at a discount, say $20 off?

Im getting mad with all those opposed to what Ritual is doing. No one wanted to publish SiN 2 when Ritual first shopped it around to developers. With Steam they can do what they want, how they want and get the most revenue direct to the developers. Not to mention actually be able to make the game. Lets not worry how were getting the game, just worry if it will be good.

Good stuff. I can't wait for more quality games over steam. Bring it on.

So let me get this straight. The game stars the characters J.B., J.C. and... J.C.?

I'm very excited about this. I just hope it isn't a year between episodes. They better crank these things out once every few months, or it isn't going to hold most peoples interest.

Seems to me Steam is the only way this game got made. It's episodic so they can finance it. The game has been wanting to be done for some time, but they couldn't get a publisher (if I remember correctly). With Steam, they can release the beginning of the game and get profits to finance the rest of the game.

I think episodic also means lower risk. If the first episode is not well recieved, I doubt they would release more. They can probably get the first episode done with less people, which is cheaper.

Approximate release date? The traditional September 30th?

PLZ POST SCREENSHOTS PLZTHX

damnit I want to see some of this game.

I'm actually quite glad that it will be both episodic AND offered over steam. I'm soooo tired of people complaining about steam. I've never had a single problem with it. It's worked right the first time, every time... even when it's network was stretched to the max with users.

Compare that to (my new love) BF2... I had to wait 2 more days than everyone else for my copy to come in the mail, then it took me 3 reformats before I realized the game won't play on my machine as long as XP Service Pack 2 is installed. It seems to me that something on steam would probably avoid both those problems.

This is a great idea and one that I will happily participate in. I love the idea of the players determining the eventual course of the story in small ways, and I also love the idea of episodic gaming, especially if they keep the price reasonable for each episode, and each episode contains a decent amount of gameplay for your money.

Go Ritual/Valve!

firefox problems
just got internet back, opened firefox for the first time in a long time and it looks like this
http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/6355/firefox4fe.jpg
it will not display a site, but it does respond to hotkeys (although the only thing that changes is the title bar)

i have uninstalled and rteinstalled with no luck

any help would be appreciated

Is nobody here capable of doing math? Are you the same folks who paid $50 for Max Payne, HL2, or any other FPS that's finishable in ten hours? Am I just not seeing the ripoff here?

i hope they give you the option to burn it on a disk (or dvd for that matter) and give you the dowloadable covers, cuz i rather have a hard copy when it comes to games

Is it strange that I now get aroused when \m/RITUAL\m/ makes game announcements?

God I love this, I cant wait to see what they do with this, and hopefully these episodes will drum up some excitement over SiN2!!! (And finally convince a publisher that it is MONEY in thier pocket)!

VIVA LA \m/RITUAL\m/!

lets make something clear, the story in the original wasnt anything spectacular, the gameplay and the "duke nukem" attitude/atmosphere was what made it what it was

now ritual please don't put too too much emphasis on that whole pre-pubescent adolescent B-movie pseudo-plot and concentrate on making good gameplay, k thx

I see this as win for everyone, both the developers and the gamers.
Online distribution like this allows the developers more freedom as they can roll the profits of the first episode into financing the future episodes. This allows them to have less initial investment to start the project and thus they can try novel ideas that they might otherwise shy away from if they had to commit to the whole cost.

Furthermore it since the game is being released in episodes it gives the developers much more incentive to create compelling interesting content without adding fluff to extend the game play length. Think about it, if they release an episode that isn't high quality they run the risk of losing out on profit for the next episodes.

Thus for gamers it is a win, if the developers don't provide quality gaming you're only out $20 (in this case) and for the developers it allows creative freedom.

This isn't even touching on the fact in this case gamers can have a direct influence on the direction of a game and it's content.

I would take 6 hours of quality gameplay vs 15hrs of repetive FPS action.

Sounds good to me. Bummer it's only over steam though.

Only over Steam. Thanks, but no thanks.

kick. fucking. ass.