System Shock 2

[KagePrototype]

I've bee playing this loads recently, and I forgot how damned good it (still) is. It does the whole RPG/Survival Horror thing really, really well, and is scary as all hell, especially some of the PDA messages you get (which you can read as well as listen to, take that id ya thieving monkeys!). If ANYONE can get ahold of it, I demand that you install it and play it! Right now!

It's also challenging and suprisingly lengthy, something that's missing from games nowadays. Bring on BIoshock!

 

[JimmyPage]

I downloaded it about a month ago having never played it before and I was kinda disappointed tbh.

Although it was missing all the cut-scenes so admittedly I hadn't a clue what was going on!

Alot of ppl talk about it though so I might pick it up if I ever see it some bargain bin.

 

[Asknoone]

I've bee playing this loads recently, and I forgot how damned good it (still) is. It does the whole RPG/Survival Horror thing really, really well, and is scary as all hell, especially some of the PDA messages you get (which you can read as well as listen to, take that id ya thieving monkeys!). If ANYONE can get ahold of it, I demand that you install it and play it! Right now!

It's also challenging and suprisingly lengthy, something that's missing from games nowadays. Bring on BIoshock!

Word.

System shock 2 is suprisingly fresh, it's got a great story, and the gameplay works really well. A favourite of mine, is the Hybrid's, there disturbing chants are just so - well disturbing.

Yes, id did sort of steal the whole PDA thing. They completley ripped it off. But thats not to say they have made it better, mind .

Bioshock looks promising, i would have rather they went on and did System shock 3, there is room for a third, but, i guess it's better this way. We have to many sequels these days - something original - bioshock!

My scariest part - The cargo bay

 

[Asuka]

Ya im looking forward to BioShock.

 

[Asknoone]

Concept art looks good, and the premise sounds promising, was there any word on a possible release date?

 

[Lucid]

...Did you really have to ask?
We barely know anything about the game.
And only saw a couple screenshots...
And you're asking about a release date?
Oh well...I can safely say though, Definitely not this year.
Probably early Q4 2006-ish.

 

[Dasparov]

Any pictures?

 

[Loke]

Any pictures?

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/bioshock/screenindex.html

Only concept art though.

 

[Asknoone]

...Did you really have to ask?
We barely know anything about the game.
And only saw a couple screenshots...
And you're asking about a release date?
Oh well...I can safely say though, Definitely not this year.
Probably early Q4 2006-ish.

I really did, yes


Concept: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/bioshock/screenindex.html

 

[AcousticToad]

I Love SS2, the Hybrids are cool, retaining the humanity to tell you to run...then caving your skull in with a wrench. Feel sorry for the poor buggers.

If you can get a good DL, get the Rebirth mod, it updates all the models to high poly versions, theres also better textures and weapon models. You can find it here http://perso.wanadoo.fr/etienne.aubert/sshock/sshock_rebirth.htm

Definitely worth it once you have completed the game at least once.

The MP coop patch is also pretty cool if you can get someone who isn't an ass.

The biggest tension builder I found in SS2 is seeing 2 hybrids run at you, you have a shotgun....*click*Bugger...the guns broke....ARGH! Now my heads broke.

The mini game cartridges too, they're great. Especially the one at the start of the game with swinehunter.

Im hoping Bioshock to be a great game, but I cant get that nagging feeling that its gonna be a load of crap.

 

[Edcrab]

The sub-six-megabyte co-operative patch for SS2 should go down in history for all the right reasons- it's tiny, and adds surprisingly stable and network-light multiplayer. SS2=win.

Hybrids are more sinister for their sounds than anything else... *shudders*

And go, stompy robots! Even though they're evil...

 

[Psychanalysis05%]

One of the best games of all time.
That ending amused me to no end too.

 

[mortiz]

Yeah, great game. S.H.O.D.A.N. was a cool nemesis as well.

 

[KagePrototype]

The only real problem I had with the game was the music; it's one of the only games I play with the music off, because it just ruins the atmosphere entirely for me.

 

[kupocake]

The only real problem I had with the game was the music; it's one of the only games I play with the music off, because it just ruins the atmosphere entirely for me.

Really? I mean... there isn't really any music there at all. Most of it is ambient and perfectly suited to the atmosphere IMO. Though I could appreciate how the sounds of Shock can stand on their own to make an equally good experience.... SILENCE THE DISCORD!!!!

The only game that i'd rate over System Shock 2 is Half-Life 2, and that's by the narrowest of narrow margins. Shock 2 has flaws - the later levels in particular - but what doesn't. Plus, SHODAN... Just brilliant...

Oh, and everyone should give System Shock 1 a try. I spent ages trying to get it work under Windows 2000, but I pulled it off and had some of the best gaming fun I've ever had (I'm proud to say that I completed it, and in full 320x240 sex-o-vision. That Radeon 9800 Pro was a great investment!).

 

[KagePrototype]

Really? I mean... there isn't really any music there at all. Most of it is ambient and perfectly suited to the atmosphere IMO. Though I could appreciate how the sounds of Shock can stand on their own to make an equally good experience.... SILENCE THE DISCORD!!!!

Exactly. I thought the music was entirely too distracting; which is why I loved the sound in Doom 3; it was purely ambience. Very atmospheric IMO. Music simply can't stand up to the musings of the many.

The only game that i'd rate over System Shock 2 is Half-Life 2, and that's by the narrowest of narrow margins. Shock 2 has flaws - the later levels in particular - but what doesn't. Plus, SHODAN... Just brilliant...

I loved the PDA messages she sent you; she truely sounded like "the machine mother". and some of the levels lost the earlier levels charm, I agree; less emphasis on exploration and more linear. even though The Body of the Many, at the time, freaked the hell out of me.

Oh, and everyone should give System Shock 1 a try. I spent ages trying to get it work under Windows 2000, but I pulled it off and had some of the best gaming fun I've ever had (I'm proud to say that I completed it, and in full 320x240 sex-o-vision. That Radeon 9800 Pro was a great investment!).

I would, but it refuses to work in any shape or form on my PC.

 

[kupocake]

I would, but it refuses to work in any shape or form on my PC.

You probably have, but have you seen ttlg's FAQ on getting it to run? Worked for me... after a fair bit of effort admitedly (and I think I even discarded some of their recommendations to get it to work for me). One thing I'll say for System Shock... it's even scarier than System Shock 2.

As stupid as it sounds, severly dated graphics can be somehow even scarier than more realistic ones... I think the Shock 1 experience is all about getting sucked into a computer game world... In more recent games, there is just worldly terror. In an ancient game that is executed so well, you have all the horrors of the real world plus the feeling that you're inside something far more mechanical, machine like and terrible.

I sound like someone who needs rehab don't I? Regardless, System Shock 1 was so far ahead of its time. It's tough to get into (the mouse works in System Shock, but not in the way that we're all used to now) and it looks damned ugly until you've been charmed by it. I think everyone should have a go, even if that means buying a 486 and playing it on that...

 

[Asknoone]

I've alot of good things about system shock 1, especially from my friend, whos's a major fan of it, but despite such acclaim, it jkust sticks two fingers up at me and throws errors at me.