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System Shock has gone Gold
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Neon Xenon
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Big fan of System Shock, so I played the most recent demo for this and I'm still cautiously excited. The one (relatively small) thing that stood out negatively to me was that there was very little sound feedback with the two melee weapons (Pipe and Wrench) when hitting enemies. Weapons like that should sound like they hurt when smacking a Mutant.
Granted, I might to switch to exclusively using the Laser Rapier if it's anything like the original game. But still.
That aside, I'm hoping for the best with the System Shock Remake. It's been a long wait.
Granted, I might to switch to exclusively using the Laser Rapier if it's anything like the original game. But still.
That aside, I'm hoping for the best with the System Shock Remake. It's been a long wait.
FeastYoEyes
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Amped to get this on a console sometime soon. Hearing how the Kickstarter went I might be waiting a while though.
Fools idol
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was watching this video... visuals looks impressive to say the least.
I haven't played System shock since 94, going to be wild to revisit in high def.
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MasterCornholio
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nightmare-slain
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I bought the original years ago but never stuck with it. Looking forward to trying this!
Are those PC specs for real?? Recommended CPU i7-3770/FX-8350 and GPU GTX 970/R9 290 and 8GB RAM? lol. Is it 2013? I mean yeah it's good literally anyone will be able to play this but that seems a bit weak for recommended specs.
Will the game come with RTX or do we know if it'll get an update with it?
Are those PC specs for real?? Recommended CPU i7-3770/FX-8350 and GPU GTX 970/R9 290 and 8GB RAM? lol. Is it 2013? I mean yeah it's good literally anyone will be able to play this but that seems a bit weak for recommended specs.
Will the game come with RTX or do we know if it'll get an update with it?
SJRB
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Looks amazing.
Visual style is a remarkable blend between oldschool sprites and 3D models.
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Switching engines, devs leaving. Still have to wait on console releases...
SF Kosmo
Al Jazeera Special Reporter
It was never officially cancelled, but it had one really big derailment where it got rebooted.
Basically, they launched a really polished Kickstarter campaign with a playable demo and everyone loved it and they raised way more money than expected. Then they let that success go to their head and shifted the goal from this retro-flavored room-for-room remake to a more modern, looser reimagining, with the assumption that investors were just going to line up to give them the $15 million this would have costed. But they never did. And they ran out of the original Kickstarter money really early doing this over-ambitious thing, and then no one invested.
So at that point they tossed out all that work and scoped it back down to the original vision (you know, the one that people loved and backed in the first place), and managed to secure some additional funding for much more reasonable enahncements, and it's been relatively smooth sailing since then, albeit with some poor messaging on release dates leading to a lot of delays.
It's great. It walks the line between modern and retro beautifully. You still feel like you're playing the same game, but it's way more fun thanks to better controls and interface and subtle improvements to the level design. It's what this project always should have been, and I'm glad it got back on track with the original pitch, because System Shock is still so, so good.
This game is very much going for retro. Even though it's all remade in Unreal 4, they have used intentionally low-res, unfiltered textures for a block, pixelated look, and kept a lot of the 90s aesthetic in the design. It isn't trying to look like a game from the 90s exactly, but it's trying to give you some retro nostalgic feels.
It's not as linear. If I had to compare it to anything, I'd say Ultima Underworld.
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Saiyan-Rox
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Did they ever update the demo on the steam deck? I seem to remember the old build demo downloading when they released the new one on the deck
Drizzlehell
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I'm really hyped about it but I think I'm gonna wait until I get some time off work at the start of July in order to properly sink my teeth into this one.
Can't wait to play it, though!
Can't wait to play it, though!
GymWolf
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Never played ultima.
SF Kosmo
Al Jazeera Special Reporter
Ultima Underworld (not much like mainline Ultima) is kind of the ancestor of all these games.
It doesn't really have linear level progression. The map is divided into floors, but you can travel freely, and there are often multiple ways to progress and you don't have to do everything in a straight linear way.
John Bilbo
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I remember them from my childhood but never played them neither.
I just happened to watch this retrospective yesterday. You might find it interesting aswell.
Game has a "fair" on OPENCRITIC, but when reading the reviews, it feels more like a "Game is too faithful to original and lacking justification for its existence" level of criticism.
. . .as someone who has never played the original, I'm guessing this is reviewing 10 or more points higher for newbies.
. . .as someone who has never played the original, I'm guessing this is reviewing 10 or more points higher for newbies.
SF Kosmo
Al Jazeera Special Reporter
Yeah, and I actually think there's some fuzzy memory there, because the remake is WAY more playable than the original. System Shock is a VERY early 3D game that was meant to be played with a keyboard, and it's super clunky.
It's the whole thing about good remakes being what you remember the game being rather than what they were.
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