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Splinter Cell director says Metal Gear Solid's "clear rules" showed the team "how stealth should be done" and "set the rules for any stealth game" (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] sp3tr4l 59 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (23 children)

And then the Splinter Cell franchise shortly went off the rails, crashed and burned as soon as they decided that some of the most fundamental of those rules should just be abandoned, for the sake of basically more broad appeal via making the game easier.

Its honestly kind of shocking that someone has not just made an indie, more graphically simple version of some kind of melding of Splinter Cell and MGS core game mechanics, perhaps without the relatively costly voice acting and grandiose, superbly animated cutscenes.

Im waiting to live somewhere with an actual internet connection, and I am convinced I could put together a proof of concept build in UE 5 in 6 months, a comprehensive level.

Stealth Action games seem to be highly regarded and in great demand, but for some reason no one really makes them in 3d anymore, unless there are some hidden gems I've somehow not heard of.

PS: Assassins Creed doesnt count, the AI is braindead when it comes to stealth, takes turns attacking you... using modern terminology its just a 3d ARPG.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There's a multiplayer stealth game called Intruder that I think uses some of those mechanics. I know it's all stealth-based and you have all kinds of gadgets and tools, like cameras and banana peels for people to slip on. You can crawl through vents, most of the guns are silenced, and you can communicate with your team via snaps.

[–] sp3tr4l 2 points 3 months ago

I have played Intruder off and on since its initial alpha, and while it does have some very interesting ideas, (i believe there is a whole mechanic that makes you less balanced and more liable to ragdoll and fallover based off of your movement speed, turning speed and narrowness of what you are standing on, ie a railing vs the floor) it is fundamentally a multiplayer, round based team deathmatch game, whereas SC and MGS are single player.

Does any one actually play it any more? Last time I checked there were maybe 50 players, max, online at any given time.

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