Ahh, what a beautiful day. And here I am trapped in a prison of high cholesterol. Song plays with squidward eating burgers and pictures of creepy Ronald McDonald
I only played this game for the first time, a year ago, but I have to say this is one of the best game soundtracks ever made. It's ambient, creepy and just pulls you right into the tense atmosphere of the Von Braun. This soundtrack is right up there with Ocarina Of Time, Deus Ex, and KOTOR.
In the game they had the music broken up into little chunks that would play dynamically so it's not possible exactly to have it just as it was in the game, but I do have a CD sent to me which was burned by Eric Brosius the music guy himself, so that's the most official arrangement you can get. However, I don't think his version is what I uploaded on this video haha, ironically a fan made arrangement is maybe a little bit tighter, but they're very similar. I took months off the game from fear too
It's not only atmospheric but it fits this part of the game very well, after revisiting and beating it for the fourth time on impossible it seems to have gotten even better.
The entire piece is kig-ass but @ 1:42 how it mellows off into that wavy chord is touching. I remember the first time this song swelled into that, ingame, I kept hoping it would come back. Nice upload.
Im hungry, Im gonna go to McDonald's *that song palying when I enter in* Ronald: Would U like FRIES wi4h that?!?! Me: NOW IM TRAPPED INTO THIS PRISON OF HIGH CHOLESTEROL!!!!!!
@Katalmach In fact, i noticed i, myself made a horrible mistake while correcting you. I used to l's in "unsuccessful" instead of just the one that was required. However, in light of your youtube linkage, i find the video to be exceedingly well past the "hilarious" category, as this has now made my day. Thankyou kind sir
@Spartan117A1 A very good thought there. I recently played this miracle and was about to ask for a sequel, but seeing the game industry today, I have to say that you are absolutely right.
@SirKuja This game was a goddamn miracle. It defies genre. There is no game like it. (not even Bioshock) Has another game pulled off the Epistolary story-telling device before? Like, it's got to be the oddest and most brilliant design decision of all time. Years before HL2 we had a first person game that told a robust story (predominately) without dropping the first person perspective and without interrupting gameplay. this game is 12 years old now and STILL ahead of the curve.
@SiliconBong - Exactly my friend, them trusty old README files came in handy if i do say so. Figuring out what to do was all part of the fun and this is what made these game so memorable. Ultima Underworld is another example. You create your character, choose your skills and start the game with no indication on what to do next. The rest is all up to you, the player. This is how gaming should be!
I used to have this track in my (now dead) cd player, along with all the other tracks from SS2... this one was the last one on the cd, and was mostly played when i was about to sleep... Damn awesome game... never found anything so capturing and interesting since...
Man, the first time I heard this in SS2 I fell in love.. thanks to you I now know who's responsible for this masterpiece along with the whole Thief soundtrack.. Eric Brosius..
Yeah, that's what gaming, even PC gaming has become: shooters with pretty graphics, short campaigns, and repetitive multi-player. Today's big games are mostly just forgettable generic shooters that are interchangable with each other. But a game like System Shock 2 stays with you... even if you haven't played it in months, you really can't stop thinking about it. It's such a powerful game, that it's so memorable. The imagery, the music, the atmosphere... everything about it.
@SiliconBong - Course, Pacman very was addictive. Wolf3D, when it came out, was just plain rediculous and fun at the same time. R-Type for me was unbelievably addictive as well as Wing Commander, remember playing those for hours on end. Other FPS' like Heretic, Hexen and even Strife (remember that one?) were great to play and Shadow Warrior, as you mentioned. Firing up the old Modem or a classic LAN game on any we have mentioned here were just plain awesome mate. Good to reminisce about these.
Damn that game was fun....especially when i faced shodan and just shot her a couple of times with the fusion cannon. I saved ammo for that weapon in almost the entire game...wtf i still had barrels left when she died. And coolest response to a ''do you wanna join me?'' question i ever heard after the fight.
Damn right! Those 2 are my favourites too, Thief as well, and I also enjoyed Half Life. The last game that did anything for me was Mafia, but even then it was clear the direction things were moving in. There is nothing as imaginative (in an intelligent way) as the three aforementioned games anymore :(
SoDaR2007 "The rest is all up to you, the player" Isn't that the truth !! Every game that has revolutionised gaming, has put the onus on the player to figure out what works and doesn't work. Quake comes to mind immediately, unearthly music and unimaginable monsters and you-the player-have to figure out that using a grenade launcher, underwater, surrounded by barrels of explosive&toxic waste is not a good idea :)
Im playing this game nowdays for first time, i impressed, last month i beat SS1 it was a great experience, this two games are the greatest. much better than ultimate generation games.
I miss the 'dark ages' of FirstPersonShooters, SoDaR2007. Necessity is the mother of invention: Programmers lacked the sophisticated code to render picture-perfect gameplay, so they used a free and abundant resource to complete the picture > the player him/her self. By engaging the player in a [semi]realistic story, ID made a name for themselves. With the addition of a few patches;GLQuake. . , compared to wolf3D, Quake was more addictive* than smoking weed :)
System Shock 2, what a game it was when it came out! Same with the original System Shock. These days games hold your hand too much! We want games like this back for god's sake, we are not all noobs! Modern gaming is going down the tubes and fast.
reminds me of the 90s and how time passes by. a warm and in the same moment sad feeling comes around. oh boy are we really in 2010 now? what the fuck it is like i was preparing my computer for the millenium 2 months ago...do we waste our lifes on the internet? ... :x
I don't ignore the horror aspects. I loved that element. I posted this song because it was my favorite... I'm not a techno guy. This reminds me more of stuff like Boards of Canada, Electronic rather than techno. An important distinction.
@carfoz I do understand. I think most of people like BOTH games. I think System Shock 2 was a great classic, Bioshock was also a good game. I think people are dissapointed with it (Bioshock), because it had a great potential to be much more. System Shock 2 and even the first System Shock were revolutionary titles. System Shocks "roleplaying-elements" in 3d-game were nowhere to be found before title...
@PObserver ;P S'all good dude. Just givin' ya a hard time for shelling in the console gaming bit. Often times I get like that too but sometimes it's just aggravatin'. Haha. We're all here for the God of cyberpunk games anyways. PC FTW. Also? Thanks for the info.
God this game is amazing in every way, there's nothing more you could ask for (okay maybe graphics but i find them cool the old school way) Bioshock was great but system shock was perfect!
@SiliconBong - Dark Ages ha, now your just making me feel old damnit! Yeah i admit i miss the dark ages but there was just so much great stuff on many platforms to enjoy. Indeed, ID's games were very addictive like you said. Lost a lot of time playing Keen, Wolf, Doom, Quake etc, but well worth it. It was very hard to get off them once you started but more addictive than weed? Well ... i think on that one we will have to agree to disagree ;)
I don't know where you're getting your facts, the likes of Half-Life 2, Bioshock and even Fallout 3 come to mind thinking of games that are more than killathons.
..finaly System Shock 2 had ideas that no other game had that time.. hint of antigravity, radiation (vs hazmat suits), more interactive environment (those light switches!). This ideas haven't taken place in Bioshock. (Those should have been in "System Shock 3"!) Now Shattered horizon will be remembered as first game with real antigravity effects. I think System Shock 2 had ingredients for much more than Bioshock. Bioshock is still a good game.
SoDaR2007 Twenty fifth thumbs up !!! YaY What happened to the good old days? When you were plunged into another dimension, without even an instruction guide. You had to figure out the buttons by trial and error, until you realised the instruction manual was in an obscure file called README.
@SiliconBong - Quake, haha now that is something i haven't played in a while. Great game as well as Unreal, another classic shooter. I feel like today games tend to be all about the visuals and less about depth. It doesn't have to be perfect to be a hit. Deus Ex is one of these games. Graphically, in 2000, it was not up to par with the games out then neither was the voice acting (hilarious though). However it is one of my favourite games of all time, a masterpiece. I miss games like these.
system shock 2 has an incredible invirnment that I have never seen in any other game that Ive played.Sadly I dont think the curcumstances will ever be given to create a game with this sort of mood and atmosphere I meen who knew a inexpexpireanced staff of voice actors could do so good?Who knew a composer from a band most poeple I know never heard of could make such atmospheric score for a game most poeple never heard of? btw its funy how manny so called bioshock fanboys dont know why it was made
@Spartan117A1 Well with a mentality like that you make it sound like you don't WANT new games to be good. The devs that made this game are still around. They can do brilliant work again.
@Szederp Same with movies, but good films still come out. There will always be those with passion. I, for one, am developing a game for the soul purpose of having a shooter that controls how I want it to. Will I sell it? Yeah, but just to fund it's growth. If you're going to call all game developers monsters, just think for a sec that every living thing on this planet is just that. Everyone has a different mind and different motives. There are still people in the industry that care.
*I didn't mean addictive, as much as 'habit forming' :) SoDaR2007 I found pacman more 'habit forming' than Keen or Wolf3d, but Doom eclipsed them all and I lost sleep playing Quake. Not to mention Rise of the Triad,ShadowWarrior,Blood, Duke3d,DarkForces1,Terminator:FutureShock,System Shock1 . . .Diablo, Starcraft,Settlers . . . & LeisureSuitLarry !!! :D
wtf, is this the original version that was heard on System Shock II ??? daaang, I never played that far!! =p too hard (and scary) good song this tho! just like Deus Ex soundtrack, really adds to the atmosphere and tension
heard so much about this game,want to try it out one of these days...although people charging 60+ bucks for it on amazon is a turn off >__> .There was talk of it going up cheap on GOG
@YoMomma868958 It is the same with Fallout... People do not like that time goes forward but rather stay in that era *when everything was still good*... I don't understand it... I admire BOTH titles. They both are made with heart and soul and define the word videogame!
you can always try the torrents , but if your running on vista you might need the ss2tools patch to run on multi thread core processor , also it will patch up the texture pool fix and the directx fix ,
Ahh, what a beautiful day. And here I am trapped in a prison of high cholesterol. Song plays with squidward eating burgers and pictures of creepy Ronald McDonald
Would ya like fries with that?
Let me guess it’s from that spingebill ytp
@@WindowJugFilmsspingebill nde
this was in a ytp? damn that brings me back
@@TheDoomMaster Then gets a heart attack after eating too many burgers.
*sigh* what a beautiful day. And here i am; trapped in a prison of high cholesterol
would ya like fries with that?
I was already blown away by the game itself- when this track appeared, it blown away what was left of me.
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Few games from the past left a mark as much as System Shock 2. This game was FUCKING terrifying.
I played it for 40 minutes. At 2am. In a dark room. Then I was just like "FUCK THIS SHIT I'M OUT OF HERE"
That's how you know the game did its job.
For some reason, this song makes me feel... sad. Like there's some sort of emptiness in me that can never be replaced...
edgy
+coolcat001100 I fully agree!
+coolcat001100 yeah i agree, this song is kind of somber, like a final farewell, or some kind of fading happiness.
+coolcat001100
Cause it talks to the heart not to the brain..think about it.
xNight Wing over 9000
BarneyisPervert brought me here ._.
eh...close enough
Rich Halley
he did too
Same
#trappedinaprisonofhighcholesterol
I only played this game for the first time, a year ago, but I have to say this is one of the best game soundtracks ever made. It's ambient, creepy and just pulls you right into the tense atmosphere of the Von Braun.
This soundtrack is right up there with Ocarina Of Time, Deus Ex, and KOTOR.
Have you gone back and replayed it since?
In the game they had the music broken up into little chunks that would play dynamically so it's not possible exactly to have it just as it was in the game, but I do have a CD sent to me which was burned by Eric Brosius the music guy himself, so that's the most official arrangement you can get. However, I don't think his version is what I uploaded on this video haha, ironically a fan made arrangement is maybe a little bit tighter, but they're very similar. I took months off the game from fear too
It's not only atmospheric but it fits this part of the game very well, after revisiting and beating it for the fourth time on impossible it seems to have gotten even better.
Such a wondefull song from a great game...
The entire piece is kig-ass but @ 1:42 how it mellows off into that wavy chord is touching. I remember the first time this song swelled into that, ingame, I kept hoping it would come back. Nice upload.
I've only come here from hearing this song in YTP videos :p
Im hungry, Im gonna go to McDonald's
*that song palying when I enter in*
Ronald: Would U like FRIES wi4h that?!?!
Me: NOW IM TRAPPED INTO THIS PRISON OF HIGH CHOLESTEROL!!!!!!
some all BiP
i still like McDonalds, there cheeseburgers are are good, chicken mcnuggets, even there mcflurry!
Barny is Perverted
..what?
@@sdFreerey it’s a legendary ytp
@Katalmach In fact, i noticed i, myself made a horrible mistake while correcting you. I used to l's in "unsuccessful" instead of just the one that was required.
However, in light of your youtube linkage, i find the video to be exceedingly well past the "hilarious" category, as this has now made my day.
Thankyou kind sir
Guys, nobody gives a shit why you're here. Just enjoy the damn music.
Woah man. You took the words righjt out my mouth. This song, this picture. Makes me experience how it would have been to play the song back then :D
The beginning is so good. I actually prefer the song without the drums and beats in the bg tbh. Just that creepy synth in the beginning is amazing! :D
@Spartan117A1 A very good thought there. I recently played this miracle and was about to ask for a sequel, but seeing the game industry today, I have to say that you are absolutely right.
@SirKuja This game was a goddamn miracle. It defies genre. There is no game like it. (not even Bioshock)
Has another game pulled off the Epistolary story-telling device before? Like, it's got to be the oddest and most brilliant design decision of all time. Years before HL2 we had a first person game that told a robust story (predominately) without dropping the first person perspective and without interrupting gameplay. this game is 12 years old now and STILL ahead of the curve.
@SiliconBong - Exactly my friend, them trusty old README files came in handy if i do say so. Figuring out what to do was all part of the fun and this is what made these game so memorable. Ultima Underworld is another example. You create your character, choose your skills and start the game with no indication on what to do next. The rest is all up to you, the player. This is how gaming should be!
I used to have this track in my (now dead) cd player, along with all the other tracks from SS2... this one was the last one on the cd, and was mostly played when i was about to sleep... Damn awesome game... never found anything so capturing and interesting since...
0:00 - 0:11 nostalgia sounds😮
Beautiful. Scarily beautiful.
One of the greatest, scariest, and replayable games of all time!
Couldn't agree more, Angloth: "the atmosphere, and story?"
Shodan
BarneyIsPerverted brought me here.
Man, the first time I heard this in SS2 I fell in love.. thanks to you I now know who's responsible for this masterpiece along with the whole Thief soundtrack.. Eric Brosius..
one of my favorite pieces of video game music.up there with phendrana drifts from metroid and chrono trigger music
Yeah, that's what gaming, even PC gaming has become: shooters with pretty graphics, short campaigns, and repetitive multi-player.
Today's big games are mostly just forgettable generic shooters that are interchangable with each other. But a game like System Shock 2 stays with you... even if you haven't played it in months, you really can't stop thinking about it. It's such a powerful game, that it's so memorable. The imagery, the music, the atmosphere... everything about it.
@SiliconBong - Course, Pacman very was addictive. Wolf3D, when it came out, was just plain rediculous and fun at the same time. R-Type for me was unbelievably addictive as well as Wing Commander, remember playing those for hours on end. Other FPS' like Heretic, Hexen and even Strife (remember that one?) were great to play and Shadow Warrior, as you mentioned. Firing up the old Modem or a classic LAN game on any we have mentioned here were just plain awesome mate. Good to reminisce about these.
THIS SONG IS BY FAR THE BEST IN THE GAME. It sounds like a mix of Deus Ex & Metroid Prime. I'm so glad that not every song is all "gloom & doom"
Its one of the few that is a form of art. something most games dont achieve
Damn that game was fun....especially when i faced shodan and just shot her a couple of times with the fusion cannon. I saved ammo for that weapon in almost the entire game...wtf i still had barrels left when she died. And coolest response to a ''do you wanna join me?'' question i ever heard after the fight.
This is music that the aliens like to listen to!👽
This game is an escape
A masterpiece
Its more then a game
imagine a dim lighted room with a dark sapphire pool. light coming from the pool.
yeah your right but still, who knows. I guess we will find out if someday they decide to do it ^_^. Let's hope so :D
Damn right! Those 2 are my favourites too, Thief as well, and I also enjoyed Half Life. The last game that did anything for me was Mafia, but even then it was clear the direction things were moving in. There is nothing as imaginative (in an intelligent way) as the three aforementioned games anymore :(
SoDaR2007 "The rest is all up to you, the player"
Isn't that the truth !! Every game that has revolutionised gaming, has put the onus on the player to figure out what works and doesn't work.
Quake comes to mind immediately, unearthly music and unimaginable monsters and you-the player-have to figure out that using a grenade launcher, underwater, surrounded by barrels of explosive&toxic waste is not a good idea :)
@Spartan117A1 My god what a fluent truth speaker.
Im playing this game nowdays for first time, i impressed, last month i beat SS1 it was a great experience, this two games are the greatest. much better than ultimate generation games.
awesome soundtrack
I miss the 'dark ages' of FirstPersonShooters, SoDaR2007.
Necessity is the mother of invention: Programmers lacked the sophisticated code to render picture-perfect gameplay, so they used a free and abundant resource to complete the picture > the player him/her self. By engaging the player in a [semi]realistic story, ID made a name for themselves. With the addition of a few patches;GLQuake. . , compared to wolf3D, Quake was more addictive* than smoking weed :)
Would ya like fries with that?
BarneyIsPerverted brought me here!
I really liked this song. It reminds me of a slowed down remix of the coolant tubes. Or inspired from that anyway.
do you want some fries
System Shock 2, what a game it was when it came out! Same with the original System Shock. These days games hold your hand too much! We want games like this back for god's sake, we are not all noobs! Modern gaming is going down the tubes and fast.
reminds me of the 90s and how time passes by. a warm and in the same moment sad feeling comes around. oh boy are we really in 2010 now? what the fuck it is like i was preparing my computer for the millenium 2 months ago...do we waste our lifes on the internet? ... :x
I agree 100%
The game rereleased with updated graphics would be ultimate. The new generation of gamers need to experience playing the game.
I don't ignore the horror aspects. I loved that element. I posted this song because it was my favorite... I'm not a techno guy. This reminds me more of stuff like Boards of Canada, Electronic rather than techno. An important distinction.
@carfoz I do understand. I think most of people like BOTH games. I think System Shock 2 was a great classic, Bioshock was also a good game. I think people are dissapointed with it (Bioshock), because it had a great potential to be much more. System Shock 2 and even the first System Shock were revolutionary titles. System Shocks "roleplaying-elements" in 3d-game were nowhere to be found before title...
Awesome Song!
Never played this Game, but if the Game is such good as this Song is then...^^
@PObserver ;P S'all good dude. Just givin' ya a hard time for shelling in the console gaming bit. Often times I get like that too but sometimes it's just aggravatin'. Haha. We're all here for the God of cyberpunk games anyways. PC FTW. Also? Thanks for the info.
Best song of the game, hands down.
God this game is amazing in every way, there's nothing more you could ask for (okay maybe graphics but i find them cool the old school way)
Bioshock was great but system shock was perfect!
@SiliconBong - Dark Ages ha, now your just making me feel old damnit! Yeah i admit i miss the dark ages but there was just so much great stuff on many platforms to enjoy. Indeed, ID's games were very addictive like you said. Lost a lot of time playing Keen, Wolf, Doom, Quake etc, but well worth it. It was very hard to get off them once you started but more addictive than weed? Well ... i think on that one we will have to agree to disagree ;)
This song reminds me a little of the music from LSD Dream Emulator. Is that just me?
This is my favorite soundtrack of tis game :)
Deus Ex comes to mind.
But then again, DE and System Shock 2 are both amazing games.
Here I am, trapped in a prison of high cholesterol!
Yeah, it reminds me of the UNATCO song in Deus Ex 1. Very electronic and synthy, late-90's steam punk hacker techno New World Order conspiracy music
System shock is a best cyberpunk horror game forever
I don't know where you're getting your facts, the likes of Half-Life 2, Bioshock and even Fallout 3 come to mind thinking of games that are more than killathons.
..finaly System Shock 2 had ideas that no other game had that time.. hint of antigravity, radiation (vs hazmat suits), more interactive environment (those light switches!). This ideas haven't taken place in Bioshock. (Those should have been in "System Shock 3"!) Now Shattered horizon will be remembered as first game with real antigravity effects. I think System Shock 2 had ingredients for much more than Bioshock. Bioshock is still a good game.
Is that a faint smile on Shodan's face..??
@101HipHop101
You hit the nail on the head hiphop. It's dumbed down for the fucking consoles. That's why there won't be a SS3.
SoDaR2007 Twenty fifth thumbs up !!! YaY
What happened to the good old days? When you were plunged into another dimension, without even an instruction guide. You had to figure out the buttons by trial and error, until you realised the instruction manual was in an obscure file called README.
Through the wires!
@SiliconBong - Quake, haha now that is something i haven't played in a while. Great game as well as Unreal, another classic shooter. I feel like today games tend to be all about the visuals and less about depth. It doesn't have to be perfect to be a hit. Deus Ex is one of these games. Graphically, in 2000, it was not up to par with the games out then neither was the voice acting (hilarious though). However it is one of my favourite games of all time, a masterpiece. I miss games like these.
ahhhhh I bought it as soon as it let me ;) . I'm only in the beginning but it does seem very dark/grim
Here from BIP
i like it more with the bell in the background
@bodo635 The Many is a parasidic alien race in System Shock 2, they're kinda' like the Flood from Halo.
I got that too, it hasn't updated. Still freaky
Believe me, SHODAN's face is visually interesting as it is.
system shock 2 has an incredible invirnment that I have never seen in any other game that Ive played.Sadly I dont think the curcumstances will ever be given to create a game with this sort of mood and atmosphere I meen who knew a inexpexpireanced staff of voice actors could do so good?Who knew a composer from a band most poeple I know never heard of could make such atmospheric score for a game most poeple never heard of? btw its funy how manny so called bioshock fanboys dont know why it was made
That part gets me every time....xD
This makes me think I'm skydiving into enemy territory. *GAVARTH!*
@Spartan117A1
Well with a mentality like that you make it sound like you don't WANT new games to be good. The devs that made this game are still around. They can do brilliant work again.
Fantastic game, I would kill for it :D
system shock and unreal have the best soundtracks!
@Szederp
Same with movies, but good films still come out.
There will always be those with passion. I, for one, am developing a game for the soul purpose of having a shooter that controls how I want it to. Will I sell it? Yeah, but just to fund it's growth. If you're going to call all game developers monsters, just think for a sec that every living thing on this planet is just that. Everyone has a different mind and different motives. There are still people in the industry that care.
*I didn't mean addictive, as much as 'habit forming' :)
SoDaR2007
I found pacman more 'habit forming' than Keen or Wolf3d,
but Doom eclipsed them all and I lost sleep playing Quake.
Not to mention Rise of the Triad,ShadowWarrior,Blood,
Duke3d,DarkForces1,Terminator:FutureShock,System Shock1
. . .Diablo, Starcraft,Settlers . . . & LeisureSuitLarry !!! :D
and here i am, trapped in a prison of high cholesterol
wtf, is this the original version that was heard on System Shock II ??? daaang, I never played that far!! =p too hard (and scary) good song this tho! just like Deus Ex soundtrack, really adds to the atmosphere and tension
I've played it on XP as well as on Vista; it runs fine.
it's not the same without the death bell sounds
this song makes me think of running in a cyberworld. i wish they included cyberspace in system shock 2. maybe ss3?
I always keep an old Windows 95 clunker in the basement just for that reason, lol.
Cool Song
oh and BTW. Eric Brosius was a composer of this music :>
As much of a masterpiece this game may be, I'll be immediately disappointed once I advance past this song.
you are godamn right.
heard so much about this game,want to try it out one of these days...although people charging 60+ bucks for it on amazon is a turn off >__> .There was talk of it going up cheap on GOG
@YoMomma868958
It is the same with Fallout...
People do not like that time goes forward but rather stay in that era *when everything was still good*... I don't understand it... I admire BOTH titles. They both are made with heart and soul and define the word videogame!
you can always try the torrents , but if your running on vista you might need the ss2tools patch to run on multi thread core processor , also it will patch up the texture pool fix and the directx fix ,