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[System Shock & 2] - SHODAN's Liberation Is At Hand
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GOG is the best, though. I can think of no real benefit to buying it through steam.
you should email this to gabe!
Edit: One of these days, I will remember the purpose of Nacelle B.
are you sure you've
This last time through, I missed the area on my first pass and had to backtrack.
SS2 could do with a noclip cheat for things like that.
Yeah. One or two are a bit too well-hidden.
so instead lemmie tell ya a story.
The first time I played SS2 I was in Japan on a 4 month study abroad program that went way, way, WAY south in the first month I was there. I had to get moved from my host family because my host mother turned out to be crazy, and I ended up suicidally depressed because of being a bajillion miles from my home with a poor grasp of the language, and because I ended up living alone in a dingy apartment with a single hot plate.
SS2 was so weird because it was terrifying, but at the same time it also kept me sane. The place was full of zombies, but I could actually read the signs, and there was something about the paradigm of a first person shooter that was comforting. I couldn't navigate the intricacies of Japanese society as a dumb white kid, but I could navigate the corridors of a derelict space ship while zombies begged for me to murder them.
It was also funny though, the damn cameras... I got such a trigger reflex for taking out the cameras that I kind of had a big anxiety attack on the way to school in Japan once, as there was a camera under a highway overpass that I walked by every day that I swear looked JUST like the ones on the ship. I actually reached for a pistol that wasn't there automatically and then stood there awkwardly for a moment.
Also:
And yeah, I LOVE Bioshock, but I think Bioshock is kind of a joke in comparison. I was never once frightened while playing Bioshock at all, even if the design is gorgeous. System Shock 2 though... brrr.
As for the Dead Space comparisons, I think the first one is ok, but I still think Dead Space relies too heavily on jumpscares. System Shock 2 did a better job with the psychological horror, I think. DS tried real hard though.
As for what studio I'd want to make a new SS game? It'll never happen, but fuck it, put it back in Irrational's hands. I want a game that makes me question shit, dammit.
anyway yeah
A friend of mine and I are thinking of doing a Let's Play of co-op mode specifically, but that won't be for a while (we're both very busy people)
Not so much a benefit as I already have a Steam account, and have never heard of GOG before this thread. Perhaps it's just my personal quirks, but I'd rather keep my library as consolidated as possible.
Then you are about to be very, very broke.
More seriously, I tend to agree. A consolidated library is a noble goal to strive for.
But GOG is a special case. Not only do they provide games that you simply can't find anywhere else; they also keep them patched and ensure they will work on a modern computer. Even better, they just* provide a means of installing the game. There's no GOG Client or extra software to download or worry about. As far as I know, none of their games have any DRM.
And you can always hit that "+ add a game" button so steam adopts the game. Not all games play nicely with the overlay, but most of them will work with minor tweaking.
* they also provide the goodies - manual, soundtracks, artwork and others.
I can't recommend them highly enough.
GoG has a lot of advantages over Steam though, in my opinion? Or rather, it offers a different service. I was like you until SS2 came out, at which point I signed up and then
And then DAMN YOU GoG! You taunt me with re-releases of Might and Magic VI, which was like crack for young middle school aged me! You have Ultima Underworld, which is the first game I ever played (I was five. I was very, very bad at it. My parents were either great or terrible, depending on your opinion) and it's like $6!? Arrrrgh! I don't have time to play all this sweet stuff! Also, I'm an intern at [Redacted]! They don't pay me near enough to even afford this stuff
It's like, imagine if there was a Steam sale 24/7 on everything you ever loved from your childhood. That's GoG. They are magic leprechaun magicians whose only goal is to make you happy while taking all your money. Meanwhile, Steam itself actually very rarely has titles I care about at prices I can afford, unless it is a sale day, in which case there's still only 2 or 3 things I actually give a damn about.
Though I guess if you're not into old school PC gaming it's kinda pointless? But the mindset of someone who doesn't like old school PC gaming is alien to me. What planet are you from? It is clearly not Tau Ceti V, that's for sure.
"hey guys, we're shutting down Good Old Games!"
<something like a week passes>
"lol we're just relaunching under a new brand: GOG.com!"
At any rate, it was a genuinely stupid thing for them to do. Apparently they were trying to avoid being "boring".
I mean, I guess a heart attack is exciting.
I got nothing against GoG, dont get me wrong. I am very thankful for them bringing back SS2, and when steam SS2 becomes available i might buy the steam key (if they offer it) from gog just to apply it to my steam account.
Nothing! Unlike steam, if GOG goes under, you keep all your games.
Steam dying isn't what I'm worried about. I worry (a bit) that they may ban me by accident and then I'll lose all my games.
There's no front end (but to me that's a plus); but they provide a perfectly fine game library on their site. One I happen to like more than Steam's, which is very computery and not skeuomorphic (something I'm into at the moment).
But anyway, I love gog, i've been an user since the actual beta, and I have dozens of games over there. But most of the games need the correct shortcut to work; the dosbox game shortcuts evoke the correct conf file, and the windows game shortcuts often load many important settings for launch. But GoG only started including a copy of those shortcuts inside the game's directory very recently, so, if you lose the shortcuts for the older games, I'd have to reinstall them. A bit annoying. But I love gog.
I have a problem and that problem is the 90s.
Anyway, back to SS2 goodness: are there any fan-made levels you guys can recommend? Is that even a thing that exists?
They definitely exist. I don't have any first-hand experience with them, but here's a few. edit: some overlap, but a handful more
if you've completely lost your mind, you can try your hand at ShockEd. It is an arcane piece of software, though; beware.
Nintendo ID: Incindium
PSN: IncindiumX
Excellent! Let us know if you have any questions.
Some of you may know about the Steam Trading Cards. A new, currently in beta, system that adds some value to the act of playing a game.
By itself, not relevant to this thread.
However, I ran across this post a few minutes ago that claims System Shock 2 will be added to the system soon. Night Dive Studios is asking the steam community for suggestions.
They have a few ideas already:
Time to jump back in.
XBL:Phenyhelm - 3DS:Phenyhelm
just going to leave this here.
They're coming.
Not sure how I feel about the "confrontation" one, because part of me was really hoping they'd just use touched-up versions of existing artwork. Unless that one exists somewhere and I'm simply unaware of it.
Midwife looks kinda dumb from the corner you can see, at least imho.