Deep Silver announces reformation of Free Radical Design to develop next TimeSplitters game - It is once again Time to Split

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They're currently building up the studio and then development will begin proper. Between this and Rewind we may have a bit of a franchise revival on our hands.
 

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The Charles Dickens of Disco
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I want to believe in this project. I really really really REALLY do. However the game market has made me a bitter, paranoid asshole and all I can think of is how many ways they can fuck this up, like make this a mobile game, or instead of unlocking characters, you win them via loot boxes, or instead of carrying over the humor from Future Perfect, they bring in the watered-down "meme" humor, or they scrub the goofy art aesthetic from TS2 and TS:FP...

Deep Silver... Free Radical... please hear this humble shitposter's pleas. I'm not expectiong perfection, but please do NOT fuck this up.
 

Book Thief

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For the love of everything that is still sacred in this universe:

DON'T FUCK THIS UP.

I've long waited for another TimeSplitters game to drop, but have since come to terms with the finality of the franchise, between the constant promises of a new sequel that were never fulfilled, and all the horrible game design choices and monetization practices that have evolved over the years.

I just want to hang out with my favorite space man Cortez. I really do. Even if it's just one last time. Please, please, please, don't fuck this up.
 

Dom Cruise

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Ok, wow, this is some incredible news.

Now just for the return of Timesplitters but the return of Free Radical itself? I was just randomly thinking of Timesplitters earlier, funny how that works.

There is of course a lot of ways this could go wrong but there's also an insane amount of potential here.

For the love of everything that is still sacred in this universe:

DON'T FUCK THIS UP.

I've long waited for another TimeSplitters game to drop, but have since come to terms with the finality of the franchise, between the constant promises of a new sequel that were never fulfilled, and all the horrible game design choices and monetization practices that have evolved over the years.

I just want to hang out with my favorite space man Cortez. I really do. Even if it's just one last time. Please, please, please, don't fuck this up.
The one thing I was always thankful for is that we at least got story closure (not that the story mattered much) but the biggest missed opportunity was online multiplayer, not sure if Future Perfect had it or not but I never got to play it online either way.

I've never been a big multiplayer guy but I can see myself playing Timesplitters online very frequently.

Story wise I wonder if it will be a continuation or a reboot, would probably be wise to reboot it after so long but it will also be interesting to see them continue where they left off after so long, either way though the most exciting prospect is multiplayer.
 

Ly Erg

Independence for Nod
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A remake or reboot will no doubt cause Timesplitters Rewind devs and community to go batshit after nearly a decade of development due to having to switch engines all the time thanks to Crytek and only finally getting all the assets needed too.

Honestly though. Which part of free radical is that's coming back? Because lol if it turned out to be the team behind Haze.
 

Judge Dredd

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Are any of the original team back, or is this going to be like post Nintendo Rare or post Mass Effect Bioware where none of the original talent is left, and it's just a name to get people hyped?
 

RX-78NT-1 Alex Gundam

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implying deep silver cares, the didn't with metro, they didn't with shen mue III.
Epic weren't accidentally leaking dirty laundry from every major Publisher back then. This is shit that actually affects them. Not the consumer.
 

Marissa Moira

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Epic weren't accidentally leaking dirty laundry from every major Publisher back then. This is shit that actually affects them. Not the consumer.
Doesn't matter, especially when you have stuff like the playstation ports on PC that take the user's PC data so they can see what parts you're using and how your performance is during gameplay so Sony can calculate what upgrades it would need to make to Playstation to get people to buy it. Even pirated copies wind up checking in and telling them what systems Pirates are running. People willingly submit themselves to stuff like this, nobody on the consumer level is going to care about any of this months from now, it's all about convenience and surrendering everything to make everything more convenient.

I'm making none of this up,
 

Dom Cruise

I'll fucking Mega your ass, bitch!
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The biggest concern is controls, Timesplitters had that unique FPS control style where your gun would lead a bit before the cursor would move, as also seen in Goldeneye and Perfect Dark.

Changing that would change the feel of the gameplay greatly, but I don't think that style has been seen since the third Timesplitters game.
 
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RX-78NT-1 Alex Gundam

The Autist who unironically studied Klingon
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Doesn't matter, especially when you have stuff like the playstation ports on PC that take the user's PC data so they can see what parts you're using and how your performance is during gameplay so Sony can calculate what upgrades it would need to make to Playstation to get people to buy it. Even pirated copies wind up checking in and telling them what systems Pirates are running. People willingly submit themselves to stuff like this, nobody on the consumer level is going to care about any of this months from now, it's all about convenience and surrendering everything to make everything more convenient.

I'm making none of this up,
Read what I said. I'm not talking about consumers. I am talking about companies getting pissy with other companies for accidentally revealing the crap they don't want anyone to know. It has nothing to do with the consumer. And everything to do with the petty politics of the corporate world. No other company would want to work with a company that mishandles their data so badly.
 

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