Red Dwarf models in System Shock 2

[67ec16eaa8cdfunn_atropos]

Red Dwarf models in System Shock 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ycchh9JENE

[67ec16eaa8ea9fox]

I would have enjoyed an actual Red Dwarf ImSim so much!

[67ec16eaa9004icemann]

Thats pretty cool.

[67ec16eaa9211JDoran]

That was interesting! Watching that video, I could almost hear the character's voices, such as the Cat saying "Hey man, watch the threads", if you got too close to him. You shouldn't have killed them, though (and how can you kill Rimmer if he's a hologram?). Could you not have put a Holly screen in there too?

Has there ever been a Red Dwarf game? I'm 99.999% certain that there was never a commercial game, but there likely have been fan-made games, but probably quickly made and rubbish. I am a huge fan of Red Dwarf series 1 to 6, and three of the four novels (Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, Better than Life, and Backwards), but not the novel Last Human. And I have watched every episode from season seven onwards, but to me they aren't much good at all, with Return to Earth, the excruciatingly bad three part story, being the absolute nadir of the series.

[67ec16eaa9331fox]

Yeah, it was clear at some point that this show had run its course. Many great episodes though. Personally, I really like Brittas Empire too. It's like Rimmer running the Fawlty Towers.

[67ec16eaa96b5icemann]

Has there ever been a Red Dwarf game? I'm 99.999% certain that there was never a commercial game, but there likely have been fan-made games, but probably quickly made and rubbish.

Only 1 to my knowledge. I only know about that thanks to Retro Gamer Magazine (which has a strong focus on UK games dev of the 80s - 90s).

Game was on the Spectrum. We didn't have those over here in Australia, so I'd never heard of it. A google search brought up nothing on it. Though it did show something about a 2016 mobile game. So that'd be another.

[67ec16eaa9819ZylonBane]

This needs the voices. At the very least a Kryten protocol droid conversion mod.

[67ec16eaa9c18JDoran]

If someone made a Red Dwarf mod for System Shock 2, then at the beginning of the game, all four characters (Lister, Rimmer, Kryten and the Cat) could get captured by an army of rogue simulants, assisted by lots of human hating gelfs of various sub-Gelf species, all led by an evil A.I. construct that somehow manages to evict Holly from his screens and onto the one screen that's in the prison cell where Lister and co. are.

Luckily, one of Red Dwarf's crew manages to escape from the cell, which one is decided by the style of play the player wants:


If it's Lister, then the game is largely a first person shooter with standard body attribute and weapon upgrades.

If it's the Cat, then you can't hack or do anything else that requires real intelligence, but you move much faster, can jump and climb better, can use all sorts of alternate routes to get from A to B (under things, through smaller holes, climb over ceiling mounted pipes, etc) and can use basic weapons. Your upgrade options are more limited to speed/health/natural senses (the cat can see in the dark and smell nearby enemies, and you can upgrade these senses), etc.

If you choose to play as Kryten then you can hack anything, control any of the ship's hardware, even rewire some enemies (some of the androids, etc) so you can directly control them in first person view. But Kryten cannot kill anything, his programming won't allow it, so he can only use weapons against non-living enemies, and even then destroying other peoples' property (such as the androids who are owned by the evil A.I., or by the Jupiter Mining Core, even though the androids have been reprogrammed for evil) will cause Kryten's guilt count to go up, and if it reaches a certain point then Kryten's firmware will shut him down for good, ending the game. Kyten cannot get tired or fatigued, and does not need oxygen or an atmosphere, whereas the Cat and Lister do.

If you choose to play as Rimmer, then you can't directly touch anything, since he's a hologram, but you can take advantage of the new (to the ship Red Dwarf, at least) Psi technology that the invaders have brought with them, so that Rimmer can use Psi Powers (when he upgrades to them). Rimmer can't use weapons, because he can't touch them, but mental powers are now within his grasp. Rimmer cannot get tired or fatigued, and does not need oxygen or an atmosphere.

Whoever you play as, the ultimate object is to get to Holly's main A. I. chamber, to purge the ship's A. I. hardware of the rogue A. I., and to block-move Holly back into his old circuits again, and destroy/clear out all of the invaders from Red Dwarf.



And yes, I am bored and trying to force myself to type up a report for work, how did you guess?

[67ec16eaa9d14ZylonBane]

It's just Cat, not "the Cat".

[67ec16eaa9f09JDoran]

Yes, but in the program they do tend to say "the Cat", rather than "Cat", when discussing something that the Cat has done, though it's not a hard and fast rule. Even in the novels and audio books*, it's usually "The Cat [did something]"




* The audio books for Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, and Better than Life, are read by Chris Barrie, and he does a *fantastic* job of it. Backwards is read by it's author Rob Grant, and Last Human is read by Craig Charles, and whilst they both do a good job, Chris Barrie does a much better version than either of them, because he's naturally good at putting on different voices.

And for some strange reason, in the audio book of Backwards, they leave out the part of the story that appears in the novel and is based around the TV episode Gunmen of the Apocalypse. Maybe it was cut because of time constraints, I don't know, but it does harm the overall quality of the audio books since it's such a good part of the story.

[67ec16eaaa01cfox]

Didn't know there are Audiobooks - bought "Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers" right away!

[67ec16eaaa3c3ZylonBane]

Yes, but in the program they do tend to say "the Cat", rather than "Cat", when discussing something that the Cat has done, though it's not a hard and fast rule.

Because there's literally only one cat on the ship.

Lister, the human.
Rimmer, the hologram.
Kryten, the android.
Holly, the computer.
Cat, the cat.

Referring to Cat as the cat is fine, but "the Cat" is where things go orthographically off the rails. That's like referring to you as "the JDoran".

[67ec16eaaa4bdicemann]

Does that give you a headache when people make grammar errors?

[67ec16eaaad5bKolya]

"the JDoran" it is.

[67ec16eaaae50ZylonBane]

Evil.

[67ec16eaab106JDoran]

"the JDoran" it is.

Aw, I'd have preferred to be Ace JDoran, instead of just bog-standard "the jdoran", who never made anything of my life, and never got promoted from second technician.

[67ec16eaab222Kolya]

You can always change it yourself in your profile. 

[67ec16eaab356JDoran]

Nice one, Kolya!