[Vidmaster]

Damn, check that new teaser out!
the company had some serious problems during the last months but it seems it's actually going forward again! 


Oh I am a Spearhead Member of course.

[SpardaSon21]

For someone who has no idea what Interstellar Marines is about, would you please explain?  It looks cool and all, but I know nothing about it.

[Vidmaster]

Alright...
Interstellar Marines is an Indie Game trying to do the impossible, making a TripleA title without any publisher. Funds come from the families of the devs themselves and from the community.
The goal is to essentially make the ultimate FPS game, to go back to the golden area of gaming where video games were something intelligent and smart, not full of concessions for the mainstream crowd. Think the classic LookingGlass Games for example (Thief, DeusEx, SystemShoch). A real, believable Sci-Fi Military Shooter telling a complex, almost philosophical story, portraying humanity's first contact with an alien species in a realistic way. No Halo peypey-Laserguns, no corridor shooter gameplay, actual environments and dynamic AI.
Plus it's designed to feature full 4 player coop and those devs have developed a special technology for voice chats. I am under an NDA (as is everybody who has seen the footage) so I can't talk about it but it is probably the most innovative sound technology since the SoundBlaster.

Does that sound interesting to you? 

[General Battuta]

I'm pretty sure 'actual environments and dynamic AI' were what Halo was about.

Sounds ambitious. Promising, perhaps.

[Stormkeeper]

Grooovy. I've been keeping a close eye on it, and was kinda upset by their financial state recently.

But it looks like their back in action.

[Vidmaster]

I'm pretty sure 'actual environments and dynamic AI' were what Halo was about.

Before Microsoft bought Bungie, yes! In the first game, you could actually see a bit of these leftovers in the level design of Level 3 Silent Cartographer, which was the best level in the game. The whole second half of the game was horrible and I don't even want to start to talk about the sequels. BUT THIS WON'T TURN INTO A HALO DISCUSSION, we have plenty of topics for that.

Actual enviroments goes much further than that. Remember SystemShock1 or Thief 2? Levels were actual places, not levels or a series of corridors with one open door each. Interstellar Marines wants to go to the next level by adding all furniture, water tubes, electrical systems and so on to these places. You can damage the power supply for example which will do much more than just turn off the lights.

I am really curious who this new investor is. They dropped some hints that it's actually sb from the community.
Hell, I would have done it myself if I had the economic power, a game like this could reinvent the genre on it's own and sell huge numbers if you promote it right and choose the right release date (summer )

[stuart133]

This looks truly awesome!!!!
If it is going to revert back to the good old days then I don't even care what the graphics look like, though this looks beautiful 
I'll keep a close eye on it from now on

[General Battuta]

Hrm! Sounds a bit like Natural Selection 2, but with a single-player plot.

[Locutus of Borg]

Unfortunately reminds me of that....'game'....SPACE TRADER: Merchant Marine

hopefully it will actually be a game.

[NGTM-1R]

What I'm getting from this topic is that this game is an impossiblity.

[mxlm]

Landsharks in spaaaaace?

Well, hell, if they release it, I'll play it. Uh. After I upgrade my system.

[MR_T3D]

Actual enviroments goes much further than that. Remember SystemShock1 or Thief 2? Levels were actual places, not levels or a series of corridors with one open door each. Interstellar Marines wants to go to the next level by adding all furniture, water tubes, electrical systems and so on to these places. You can damage the power supply for example which will do much more than just turn off the lights.

I am really curious who this new investor is. They dropped some hints that it's actually sb from the community.
Hell, I would have done it myself if I had the economic power, a game like this could reinvent the genre on it's own and sell huge numbers if you promote it right and choose the right release date (summer )

this sounds like exactly what i'd like to see in a game's level design.
I might just buy this game*
*depending on how well it runs on the compiuter i have at the time of its release.

[Vidmaster]

that this game is an impossiblity.

exactly. That's what it is at the moment and that is what these people and their fans and supporters (including me) trying to do anyway. We will NEVER get a game like that unless we do it ourselves, quoting from the lead designer.

[Thaeris]

I for one support independent developers. Heck, even with FS we've probably done much more than any typical developer ever would.

...Most of my favorite games... which I find are also very cool/well done... come from independent/close-knit publishers. Good stuff. 

[Akalabeth Angel]

Space Marines.

very original

[carbine7]

I found that the character models desperately needed updating[Read Halo 1 graphics], but consider the relative lack of funding, ZPS has gone a very long way. If they can put out more information and such that increases the probability of a release, then I'll buy.

[Polpolion]

Space Marines.

very original

I actually don't think that Space Marines are cliched yet because every attempt at making them has been generally done wrong. You could convince me otherwise by directing me to any excellent and enthralling game where you are a space marine that I haven't played yet.

[Scotty]

It's been done a lot because no one wants to play Space Missile Tech 3rd Class.  It's the most interesting thing that can be played as (that would make a simple enough game for good sales.  That or Space Ship Captain, and that is a whole different ship boat, and also been done to death) IN SPACE.

[Polpolion]

Just out of curiosity, what games are of the "space marine" genre? Am I just not playing them? The only thing that would lead me to believe that it's over-done is the fact that people tell me it's over-done.

EDIT: Maybe I'm just not thinking it's cliched because every game that focuses around "space marines" that I've played, you can't actually differentiate yourself from normal marines aside from the fact that they always refer to you as "space" marines.

[Tyrian]

This looks interesting.  I'll have to check it out in more detail later. 

If they're as focused on realism as they say, I hope they implement an energy management system into the power armor.  It seems like something that should be there.