Retro Review: System Shock 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
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I'd argue that System Shock 1 absolutely IS an RPG, but not in the typical sense: SHODAN never stopped feeling like a sadistic DM to me.
Hey George, listened to an interview with Greg LoPiccolo, and he's seen your review. He confirms the similarity between reactor music and NIN wasn't a coincedence.
He didnt have to confirm it, its the most obvious thing ever.
Playing System Shock without mouselook made me have to plan out things and take the game much more slowly, because in a bad situation, I would die instantly. So, as a result, if I saw an enemy, I immediately double-backed and reconsidered the situation before continuing. It's a fantastic horror game without mouselook, and a great Metroid Prime-esque game with mouselook. It's pretty much whatever you want it to be.
I played it without mouselook not long after it came out, and it was great. But still. nowadays, I really, really would struggle with not using mouselook.
Fully agreed. I've finally picked up the game after wanting to play for over a decade and decided for the absolute purist approach to get a feel of what they got right and wrong about the design back in the day.
This greater horror POV in the sim-style control scheme is a definite feeling I've had experiencing the game. It absolute would not be the way I would design a game nowadays, but I feel it does fit the fact that you're controlling a average-build hacker instead of a soldier.
It’s like the clunky movement for Silent Hill it keeps combat scary for the duration of the game.
While what you said may be true, consider this: if you cut one of your arms off and play it one-arm only it will make the game even more tense and strategical! But that would be f*ckin stupid
the soundtrack is far too consistently groovin for it to be a horror game most of the time.
"Until GOG or someone picks this up [...]"; Super Bunnyhop is a confirmed psychic.
Blade Runner has aged in a way totally different than the other clips you selected. Yeah, it didn't accurately predict the future, but it was a compelling vision that is still powerful today.
+monolith94 It really is.
+monolith94 Blade Runner one of the greatest films ever produced.
+John Shepard blade runner is only survived by its visuals and Rutger hauer's performance. It's story is meh and harrison Ford was bland
Gino Diggserino That's your opinion. I enjoyed the story and the weirdness of Ford's acting.
i totally agree !!, and also i dont get this wannabe cynical way of laughing at old scifi, yes it is "the future of the past" but it also want to entertain you first of all, and laughing at it just because it does it in a way that is "illogical" or "stupid" well you better stop consuming any form of fiction then
Ah, looking glass. They came, created history with a handful of games and disappeared.
I know.... So sad
+diegofloor they didnt really disappear, they just spread out to Ion Storm, Irrational Games, Valve and so on
Diamond Games True.
That's what happens when you ask artists and coders to run a business. );
Pretty sure that Origin were the ones running the business, and I doubt they were artists.
the level design of this game is impressive.
A note for anyone browsing old SBH vids: the Enhanced Edition of SS1 is now a full source port with mouselook and other fine features built in so if you want to give it a try, now's your chance. Just, uh, feel free to stop playing once you reach the bridge, like all Shock games it falls apart right at the end.
true haha, for some reason all shock games sucks at the end ! and exactly the same way !
God, thank you for doing this game justice (and not just stopping at "uh, guys, it has, like, bad controls and stuff"), probably the most underrated video game in video game history.
Gog has picked this game up. NightDive is making a remake.
System Shock 3 is being made by Otherside with Warren Specter consulting.
2016. THE YEAR OF SHODAN'S REBIRTH.
Not absolute without a shadow of a doubt unfortunately.
+Andrew Singleton He went to my school a couple of years ago, it seems he isn't very busy, I'd say it's possible.
+Andrew Singleton Specter is becoming one of Otherside's studio heads.
He's currently working part-time for them, but will be working full time come June.
+Andrew Singleton HAVE YOU SEEN THE ALPHA GAMEPLAY VIDEO YET?!?!?!
Everything in it looks like it got sprayed down with water... and a few other things that annoy me but it's like 'between prototype and actual alpha' level mockup. It can be forgiven its bgs. It is happening.
You're one of my favorite guys and it never fails to put a smile on my face whenever you show up on my subscriptions
This was wonderful. Not only is this 10 minutes of fawning praise from one of the toughest reviewers on TH-cam, but you add the insight that this is an FPS Metroidvania. I love this game, it's the gift that keeps on giving.
If you haven't watched Max Headroom; you should.
It's a surprisingly good series and has aged relatively okay.
I have played and completed this game so many times.... That got me a win the System Shock 2 competition, that's why I'm a dead guy down one of the cargo bays. System Shock 1 was a superior game to System Shock 2 in nearly every way. Better story, better music, better and more grandeur level design - the first time I made it to the security level blew my mind...
One of the best things about it is the way one can travel between the levels using different elevators. With a little imagination, you can do some really sweet things here. In addition, unlike System Shock 2, there are no visible loading screens. These were all hidden behind the lift travel mechanic.
The computer hacking always got flak for it's weirdness, but you can do some really cool things from within the computer, many of which affect the outside world...
In comparison, I always found System Shock 2 to be a disjointed experience thanks to its thousands of loading screens....
For me System Shock was the best game ever made - that is until very recently..... Yes, Horizon Zero Dawn I'm looking at you...
Haven't played system shock 2 yet as I just finished 1 but what do you mean cool things in cyberspace? When you boil it down its a race track with the goal to collect all the software and hit the end, the only one thats really not like that is the final one but that's for obvious reasons.
@@maverick9275 It's the additional information you can gain and how that helps you in the real world. You can even directly affect things in the real world, by unlocking doors in cyberspace or by killing some of the real world Cyborgs in cyber space as they have a presence in both worlds.
I don’t know what you played System Shock 2 on but the loading screens were so fast it almost felt satisfying to watch the bar instantly go up compared to newer games. It usually wasn’t even a second of loading and I could go from my desktop to a save game in under 30 seconds. Besides there aren’t that many loading screens, maybe 3-4 sections per level.
The thing I absdolutely love about the first System Shock is that you do *everything* from the first person perspective. I don't like the cyberspace environment and the interface certainly had issues, but the overall experience made it feel extremely cyberpunk to me. While it certainly is clumsy at times, it's also seamless - and that, to me, feels like a fusion of human and machine more than any other game I've ever played.
@@VilleHalonen I agree, System Shock is probably the most cyberpunk piece of published media I've ever taken part of. It feels like the last chapters of Neuromancer, except streamlined and presented in the kind of immersive way only a game can do.
System shock is a masterpiece, even with those overcomplicated slow controls. I finished the game when I was 15, running it on Pentium 100 machine, without audio and with limited English vocabulary. Still one of my biggest gaming achievements until today.
9:23 - The music (as you mention) was written by Greg LoPiccolo, the bass player of seminal Boston alternative band Tribe. The guy knew what he was doing. The Executive level music is my favourite - the bassline alone is a genuine work of art.
I found System Shock 1 when I first discovered abandonware and the plethora of great games that existed on DOS and it blew my mind. It's just so ahead of it's time. I'm glad you made this video because now I don't have to, and you did a great job! Subscribed.
The vent transition from System Shock to Half-Life was a nice cinematic touch. Your videos are getting better in general, not just the writing but the production too!
Head like a hole,
Black as your soul,
I'd rather die,
Than give SHODAN control!
Ah yes.. Pretty Hate Machine and System Shock.. Funny how this game was released the same year the masterpiece that is The Downward Spiral was released.
After getting this on Steam today as something to do before LoZ Breath of the Wild comes out all I can say is I felt so triumphant when I finally destroyed the mainframe on LV1 only for my fear to come rushing back as a small army of cyborgs attacked me and finally felt realeved to reach the elevator and that calming music made me let my guard down as I was then attacked by a swarm of mutants basically you are never safe in this game I have learned by the time I reached the 2nd floor
Yeah the only moments of safety in System Shock are the brief seconds in the elevator but once those doors open back up you're in danger again.
Part of me is still in love with SHODAN. I worry it will never stop this madness... and yet, another part of me hopes it doesn't.
Soooo...shouldn't the correct definition be MetroidShockVania?
***** Yes! It's brilliant!
+Girolamo Esposito "Vania" should be eliminated from the term. It didn't pioneer anything: it aped and popularized the formula.
DrearierSpider1 Yup, but that's how it works, there' a reason early first person shooters are called Doom-like and not Wolfenstein-like or Catacombs-like or something along the lines.
Girolamo Esposito At least Doom made significant improvements over FPS that came before it. SotN didn't exactly improve on SS1 and Super Metroid, it just had a different take on the genre. Oh well, too late to change things now.
DrearierSpider1 Never thought about it that way, I guess the key word here is "popular", not necessarily "better".
Man, you're commentary is a joy to listen to regardless of what game or genre you talk about. You're one of the best video game reviewers/analysts/whatevers on TH-cam.
I just finished this game for the first time last night, and it's absolutely stellar. I agree with everything in this review, and I feel like the new control scheme in the enhanced edition tremendously help the game. Mouselook and WASD movement is definitely a huge improvement, but I also appreciate that the rest is mostly unchanged. Frantically clicking around in the UI to toggle your shield and tab over to the weapon screen on your MFD to switch your ammo feels really suitable in this type of cyberpunk story, because I can imagine the hacker feeling the same stress trying to interact with his brand new neural interface system while being stalked by murderous cyborgs. It's just one of the many immersive aspects the game gets so right, both in terms of gameplay and how it adds to the story/setting. Another example would be the berserk patch, which is both a great video game power-up (making you pretty much unstoppable when combined with the laser rapier) that fits with the whole "thinking man's shooter" gameplay, and at the same time a great piece of lore+immersion enhancer the way it messes with the viewport of your neural interface. I could go on, but TLDR; I'm really glad this game is now more accessible than ever, because more people need to experience this masterpiece.
I for one love the original control scheme.
ya it just doesn't feel right without it
There are situations where the "cursor look" works better than mouse look: for example sneaking around corners to shoot enemies from a tight angle. I would say having both options is the best SS1 experience.
Man I remember back when this came out, most people I know didn't even have Windows at the time, including me. We all had DOS based machines back then, and we were pretty used to playing WOLF3D and DOOM just fine with keyboard controls.
Which could possibly explain why the devs chose not to go with mouse controls. I think.
George, please come back and do a video on the remake. I think you would like it and I would love to hear your opinion on it. We miss you man
Night Dive Studios released the enhanced version in 2015. Now , they are making another enhanced version in 2020.
The 2015 release;
System Shock: Enhanced Edition features:
Higher resolution support up to 4K widescreen mode
Mouselook support
Rebindable keyboard/mouse/joystick commands
Adapted to Nightdive's KEX engine
Support for both Direct3D and OpenGL
Option to switch between hi-resolution Mac assets and the original DOS assets
Official support for fan missions and fan mods
New unified options menu that allows changing preferences before gameplay
Adjustable FOV (Field of View)
Smoother camera rotation and translation
Improved control scheme which allows faster and streamlined experience
Brand new achievements
Remappable keys with three profiles to choose from: original controls, custom controls, and lefthanded controls.
Many original game bugs fixed.
I've been doing two things this week - listening to a bunch of Nine Inch Nails, and binging your channel. Then this episode started playing Head Like A Hole. Life is strange sometimes man.
Hope that third EP drops soon...
I've had to like this video three times... I have no complaints about that fact!
Bloody brilliant review
This is one of the happy rare occasions where I can say a video aged like fine wine, specially that last part bout GOG and whatnot :-)
Still consider this the first rainbow six game... even if the book hadn't been written yet.
Hey George, I know this video is about 6 years old, but there is something I think you might find interesting. There was a dude talking on youtube about the history of immersive sims in gaming, and there is actually an interconnected web of the devs on Deus Ex, Theif, SS1, Ultima Underworld, and the dude (Strat-Edgy Productions) also talks about how SS1 itself is an immersive sim. Just something I thought you might find interesting, especially after your remark on more than half of the keyboard being used for controls was "sim length"/style controls.
anyway, that's it. hope you are staying well during the pandemic, and i hope you are staying safe at any events/protests you might be attending
(god why am I writing this like an email?)
System Shock 1 is now available on GOG.com! www.gog.com/game/system_shock_enhanced_edition
+FlawedIntellect how is it any different from the abandon ware version
Dazooe J It has a version that doesn't run in DOSBox, and it comes with the soundtrack and instruction manual, and the strategy guide.
So they added stuff but my guess is that they took the abandoned ware one with the mouse look and updated it
Dazooe J
Except, it's not the abandonware version that had mouselook. That was the fan-made "System Shock Portable." And again, that ran in DOSBox. This version doesn't.
It's basically the same thing running somewhat smoother since it doesn't go through the dosbox emulation
Hey George, I know it's not an RPG-esque game like both System Shocks, but I would advise trying Marathon (if you haven't already). Marathon 2 is a lot better than the original, but both stack up sort-of well. It also follows in the tradition of rogue ai's, it's a Bungie game what do you expect, but with a different twist. Instead of being your antagonists, the AI's in Marathon pretty much become gods, but benevolent gods. The story itself is well written, especially for its time. The lighting for the time period is also pretty impressive.
Just look up "Aleph One", which is a free release of all the Marathon games by Bungie, and have fun!
"In my talons, I shape clay, crafting life forms as I please. If I wish, I can smash it all." - Shodan
Hey! Just found you channel after watching a Rainbow Six Siege videos and wanted to say your commentary style is one I truly enjoy.
"Until GOG or someone picks this game up, it's probably safe to assume it's abandonware right now"
Funnily enough, in the intervening time, GOG released a digital download System Shock: Enhanced Edition with mouse look natively included.
Bought System Shock: EE off of GOG because of this review. Am not disappointed. Thanks for the pointing me towards a classic. :)
You really should do one of these for STALKER.
Now that is a fanbase... :D
Holy shit, I used to play this game retroactively after dad bought 2, and just now realised the hacker ia wearing a watchman T-shirt... That's an AWESOME small detail
Bunnyhop, do you have any plans to do another critical close-up in the future? I love your large-format videos where you really flesh out all of your points. I think this video was great and enjoyed watching it but it would have been a great introduction to a critical close-up of all the shock titles.
Or the 0451 games in general.
Great video, thanks. Especially appreciate the length - many people try to condense under 10 mins and it leaves less room for content.
I DO remember the floppy version of System Shock (I didn't play the CD version till years later). I did get frustrated with it and put it down for a few weeks. Fortunately I gave it another try and slowly mastered the cumbersome controls. There have only been 1 or 2 other games in my life that left such an impression on me. Exploring Citadel Station, finding out everything that happened, completing the various goals, being hunted by SHODAN and eventually beating it, was almost like a real life experience. The emotions this game was able to evoke back then with the story, the music, the level design, an actual rudimentary physics engine and the other groundbreaking features in this game (some of which were not seen together in other games until 10 years later) were without equal.
Even though this is a Cyberpunk Sci-Fi game (unlike SS2 which had more horror elements), there were times when I could only play this game 30 minutes a time, before I had to walk away and be among people because I felt so tense.
Eventually you become stronger, more capable, better informed, more experienced. You become a force to be reckoned with. You make parts of Citadel Station your own and find certain areas are actually nice to relax in or to stage raids from. Your character grows and you feel like you're growing with it.
Btw, the Intro music on the Floppy version was actually better than on the CD Version. For some reason the CD Intro Music was a lot softer.
George's recent reveal that TOTAL RECALL is his favourite movie makes that opening statement ring all the more true.
Looking Glass Studios may not last long as developers but left us some pc gems such as SShocks, Ultima Underworlds & Thieves.
Another solid review. I really look forward to every new video on this channel. Keep up the great work
System Shock Remake is now completely funded on Kickstarter!!!!
So I tried the music you put in the credits, but I still can't find the track you used in the intro. I've spent one year trying to find the song. Please, Super Bunnyhop, what is the song from the intro called?
+Minnan1 I'm pretty sure the track in the intro is gonetomorow by his friend Tyler Theus. You can see tyler in the LTTP super mario bros x video. I don't think it's available on the internet. I guess you would have to get it directly from him if you really want it.
The theme song to this game is so fucking good. Even the floppy disk DOS version has a certain charm to it. And oh boy does it make you wanna headbang.
I installed it just because I stumbled across the song.
About the music: SS2 continued the tradition of mixing intense, "dancey" electronic tunes and creeping dark ambient but I see so many people bitching about the music in that game, saying it ruins the atmosphere and even turning the music off! To those people: YOU SUCK. SS2's soundtrack is amazing, the dead silence until Med/Sci comes on and the Hybrids come out is one of the best sequences in gaming I've played.
This game does have some pretty good music though I do say. I like the 6th Floor (the floor with the garden pods, right?) and its "foresty" sounding theme. As for creepier music, there wasn't much of it compared to the second game, but I like the third floor's music, though mostly due to it being the third floor in general, with the lack of light sources and those goddamn invisible mutants that take forever to kill but can take you down in a few hits (I seriously could not find the lantern and rapier that were on that floor even after reading guides - I had to get lantern v.2 on another floor and then fumble around/look at other guides to find that ladder that was so well-hidden in the dark leading to the rapier). And then there's this weird music that's like some malfunctioning machinery, that's how I'd best describe it, it's at a couple points in the game, but most noteworthy is the second floor. It's the area with all the robots and cyborgs clumped together. I don't know what it is, something about that music made me really nervous in that particular area, and when I ended up there I was trying my damnedest to get the hell out (somehow it was worse long after it was cleared of all the robots)
This was all in all a very well written and well rounded review. For that, I say, congratulations.
But you forgot to mention a few, that are to me, very important aspects of the game. First, this game had customizable difficulty settings, in which you could choose a easier or more challenging combat, easier or harder mission objectives and even easier or harder hacking segments. Hacking has always been a significant part of the Shock series, it was always a fairly challenging, yet feeling a bit like chores sometimes, activity throughout the whole series.
You also forgot to mention the energy management system, which was very innovative for its time, introducing multiple augmentations (like in Deus Ex) for the character in a FPS in 1994! The game allowed to player to set the character's enhancements energy consumptions, for example, you had to be very careful to not let you flashlights on for very long (and some parts you can't see a damn thing without your flashlights on), otherwise you would run out of energy that could be used to active your shileds (which greatily reduce the damage taken), or the rocket boots (which allowed you to reach higher positions), or the hazard suit (which protected you against radiation), speed modules, etc. All those enhancements are vital for both surviving and advancing in the game.
NIN was the first thing that came to mind when I heard the music!
It hit me last month that that shirt was relevant around the time of the game's release. I never really thought about when Watchmen was first published.
Great review, thanks. SS2 was, at the time (probably still) my favorite FPS.
Nice to see what part of it was present in SS1 too. Thanks!
I've watched this review 2x already, but why the fuck is this the only worthwhile review of System Shock, the game is an absolute classic and in many places genre defining.
The first game with mouselook was released 3 months after System Shock 1.
Damn you, George! Damn you to hell... You just made me want to revisit S.Shock1 again. Maybe I'll even finish it this time (I always get lost at some point and I'm too proud to look at walkthroughs)
Augggh, the video System Shock 1 deserves! Great job ser!
What was the soundtrack in the beginning?
Cyborg Elite Guard background is the best profile background on steam. Its fun how its price changes from 40$ to 2$ (ofc because of steam sales)
I thought I knew it all about this game, AND Super Metroid. And my GOSH, my brain is about to explode just about right now, because I realized thanks to the genius author that BOTH GAMES ACTUALLY RELEASED THE SAME YEAR. My perception of time just collapsed, and my childhood consistency with it, space-time vortex will swallow me. Bye, world.
Seriously though, a big thanks to the formidable initiative, tenacity and efforts of Stephen Kick and Nightdive studio for the extraordinary revival they're about to offer us this year. An avid fan of the series,I ever only beat SS2 , quite paradoxically. As great as SS1 might have looked in its time in terms of settings, atmosphere and lore, the interface indeed felt too overwhelming to me as a younger player to ever be able to get past a couple sections of MedSci. System Shock 2 came around exactly at the time I might have been contemplating finally giving the first one a longer run when I turned 15, so the bar was reset and I never looked back. That was, until now :-D
System Shock Remastered by a lot of the OG team baby coming soon baby!
The Enhanced edition of this game is on Steam in a bundle with it's sequel
i never got to play this because of the bad reputation of the control system but now I will defiently go for it. So nice you are doing reto reviews George, and hopefully you can get around doing Divinity OS or some more retro gems
Mouselook actually WAS an uncommon feature at the time System Shock was released. Quake is generally credited with inventing what we consider proper "mouselook", and it wasn't released until 1996. Of course, you could play Doom with a mouse, but its mouse controls were actually different from what modern FPS games use, and I never knew anyone who played it that way as it defaulted to keyboard only.
It's now on Gog.com with mouse look! www.gog.com/game/system_shock_enhanced_edition
+Richard Wentford I don't think I'll need it, still got the abandon ware one
That's a shame. I like to give some money to people who keep great games alive. It's not a lot of money.
then you should thank the modders that brought it into the modern world to begin with 9 years ago with that mouse look. they knew that they weren't getting paid but they still do it.
Now available on Steam as well, with an Enhanced version that brings the graphics a few years forward.
Just finished this game. I am pretty sure you influenced the enhanced edition. Best 5$ spent. Now looking forward to SS2.
System Shock 1 is available on both Steam and Good Old Games.com.
It's a self-described Enhanced Edition that runs natively in modern OS, with mouse-look/cursor-look toggling, as well as support for a larger and better 1024x768 resolution that the original version of the game would crash on. Brought to us by Night Dive Studios, the same guys that got System Shock 2 out of legal ownership hell, and are promising to both fully remake the original System Shock, as well as help the original Looking Glass team (who now run the studio Otherside Entertainment) make a System Shock 3.
I watched this when it released and im so grateful i did. Bought system shock right after watching.
The dynamic soundtrack rrally astounds me.
The exploration and level design in this game is God tier 😇
I think Dead Space deserves a mention. It does share similarities with System Shock in it's designs(particularly the presence of a weird, fleshly moss-like substance that covers floors and walls)how you're given objectives and information, the sheer feeling of loneliness and paranoia knowing that something could be lurking just around the corner, and both series are pretty damn bleak. For a while, Dead Space and Bioshock satisfied the needs of System Shock fans and have fanbases of their own, so with both of those series being halted and a System Shock remake slated for this year, it's safe to say that the remake will have a bigger audience to satisfy.
Great review. Next maybe Jagged Alliance 1? Everybody drool over the sequel but very few have ever tried the original one - it deserves more recognition! :)
I've NEVER heard of this before. HOW?!?!?!?
because sadly it came out almost the same time as doom and by the time system shock fixed its problems, the hype with doom was too strong, and then came quake, and then unreal, and then half life, etc... and people weren't interested in system shock anymore by that time.
Still got the original cd that i bought when it came out. What i liked about this game was the settings the mood and the atmosphere and most of all those audiologs were really interesting and fun to listen and i could listen them while playing and not be locked to some cutscene like every single game forces itself today.
System Shock is one of my earliest computer game memories. I still remember the creepy feeling I got running around the space station and listening to the messages of dead crewmen. And Shodan is one of my favorite villains to date.
the cyberspace theme always reminded me of Sin by NIN
Amazing how unsettling SHODAN could be, even decades later.
Nice review! My favorite game of all time for over 20 years and counting. The controls were never annoying for me or tough to master, you just had to get used to them. The music & sound, perfect. The voice acting, immersive. The level design and lighting, atmospheric. The music for this game was best experienced on the SoundBlaster 16, the most common high end sound card when this game arrived, and the one devs obviously used the most during development.
I just to say that System Shock is no longer abandonware.
The IP for the franchise (as in SS1 along with SS2) got bought up by Night Dive Studios fairly recently and System Shock Portable has been taken down since.
The company seems to specialise in obtaining rights to old games and re-releasing them. Take that as you will, there are people out there that are glad of this as it brings the IP out of the legal fuddle it's been in for 13 or so years, making a sequel possible (although I'd say unlikely).
I just hope the company releases it on GOG and/or steam, with or without Portable (it can simply be a mod).
"Shodan didn’t forget about you, HACKER. She took that revenge all the way to the Space West Coast."
System Shock. What an exceptional game.
I played it for the first time only last year, with the mouselook mod mentioned here. I've never been able to get that much into SS2 (maybe because of the unbalanced RPG mechanics) but by SS1, I was positively blown away.
the gone home warning screen made me lol
This was the first video game I ever finished back in the day. I got it after Ultima Underworld 2 which i didn't finish because missed the "jump in the mud then the lava" thing to survive the end game, but SS1 grabbed me even more than UU2 did and I just persisted with it 'till I beat it. For it's day it was totally groundbreaking and awesome. For anyone into a worthwhile retro experience this title is a definite contender.
Great video, I was going to play System Shock 2 as soon as I can, but I'll play the prequel first, that graphics made me fall in love
Between the Enhanced Edition being brought to Steam and GOG, and the recent announcement of a third installment, it is a damn good time to be a System Shock fan right now.
Shooting cameras with the AR ? That must be a new high in (western) decadence !
But seriously: great video. Insightful and well made. Also, nice to see I'm not the only person who likes the music in SS.
I first played this game in 2013 and I made the Metroidvania comparison very quickly just like you. It instantly became one of my favorite games. 2013 was a great year of gaming for me. Also fell in love with Morrowind and DotA.
Dude, I love the format of your reviews. Fucking Subbed!
Oh wow, this is an old one. I actually played System Shock 1 (the enhanced edition) because I wanted to play System Shock 2, and know all of the story and whatnot, and even though the controls were a bit unwieldy, really the biggest issue I had was switching from mouselook to UI interaction. I was blown away by the fact that this game had a dynamic soundtrack. I also for some reason felt that the Alt + Backspace hotkey for reloading felt more satisfying than just pressing R.
But after beating the game, I was kind of let down by the sequel. I think the UI just became way more cluttered in System Shock 2.
hearing this shodan reminded me of how much i enjoyed system shock 2... i guess i'll have to play the first one now!
I loved this around '97 when I caught up with it. Equally i loved the more traditional haunted house exploration game 'Realms of the Haunting' which had a similar, but RPG-less, claustrophobia.
Thank fuck we now have the excellent reworking from NightDive. Mouse look makes such a difference.
They're making a remake! I really hope it's good...
when?
Daniel Hernandez Next year I think! It got funded :)
holy shit
Daniel Hernandez I helped to fund it and I'll hopefully get my deluxe edition in the middle of the year. I had to get the tier with the nanite replica XD
nice
finished this one few years back. Think is as good as 2, enjoyed it almost as much.
you madman made me listen to head like a hole for 4 hours on loop
Oooh! You should talk about System Shock 2...and maybe all 3 bioshocks? If you did that, you'd be super-cool!
Looking forward to the reboot SO damn much.
I'm still in love with SHODANs voice. And the soundtrack. ^^
It still amazes me that this was less than a year after Doom 1. Same year as Doom 2