I've recently played System Shock for the first time in my life. I've played enhanced edition and completed it twice back to back. I've tried playing remake and couldn't make it past medical, because it looks and feels like absolute shit to play. How do people recommend it is beyond me.
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>>743382006This is the same area in the original game. The lack of visual clarity in remake is just staggering. The 5 - 10 seconds long unskippable "cutscenes" whenever you pick up a new item or an audio log, unlock a door, use med or recharge station etc are infuriating. What were they thinking?
>>743382006Oldfag here.I recently started playing the remake. It's honestly damn good! I seldom get outright hooked to vidya no more, but last night I realized that the sun was rising after I beat the Storage area.I did beat the OG 1-2 decades ago, btw.
I really liked the remake, but I'm a sucker for anything immersive sim like and there's such a drought for those kind of games these days that I'll pretty much take anything.
>>743382006i did not like the forcefully pixellated textures in the remake
>>743383313SS1 is barely an imsim. It's closer to just Doom than anything that later defined the genre. You don't have much for builds, customization, story choices or different ways to approach a problem. It's very much on par with Bioshock in terms of how much of an imsim it is. SS2 is through and through an immersive sim thoughbait.
>>743383529Even if the mechanics aren't the same across every single game, it's still the design of the levels, the open-ended way you can approach things, the lack of hand holding, etc. that I enjoyed about it and I just want more games like this. It just sucks there's such a lack of them since most people just don't care about these kind of games anymore and there's no money to be made making them.
>>743382958I feel like the remake was made by and for the people who thought that System Shock 2 is what System Shock was originally intended to be, even though they are two vastly different games. System Shock is an action game, the second one is survival horror.
>>743383638I don't know, I love the shit out of SS2, and I didn't enjoy remake at all. I have no nostalgia for 2 either, I played it in the 2010s for the first time because back then, I had no PC, just consoles. Like many modern big games, the remake is way too overdesigned and tries to copy the worst aspects of triple A games.
>im a poorfag and cant run it fellasWhy did you feel the need to share this
>>743382006The original feels like shit to play. Sounds like an accurate remake, how's that a problem?
>>743382006Yes the remake is dogshit that completely misses any of the appeal of the original game.
>>743383638SS2 is NOT a survival horror game, it's an action game with horror elements.
>>743382006Pretty sure I had the same reaction OP. The remake just made me feel like I might as well just play the original version instead. The idea probably would've been more alluring if it hadn't been in development for 3 years longer than I cared to wait on it.
>>743383638>I feel like the remake was made by and for the people who thought that System Shock 2 is what System Shock was originally intended to beI don't know where you got that idea,but I do prefer SS2, so maybe that's why I like the Shock 1 remake.I was honestly expecting way more straight-forward shooty-tootin' and mission objective markers this day and age. Instead, I found myself reading through the emails to get some kind of gist for where to go next more than once, on top of making lots of map markers.The fact that you can still waltz through half the game with your Level 0-1 upgrades and the pipe, ignoring most of teh plot, is very commendable.One more praise:I didn't expect actual dismemberment and gibbing in a modern Unreal Engine game!
I'm playing it in VR so I don't get all those long animations for picking stuff up. My main issues with the game is map clutter and running without the sensor mod makes it too easy to miss critical items.Just got to engineering and I'm hoping to finish the game this week.
>>743387837>I don't know where you got that idea,UI, vending machines, darker evironment with bigger emphasis on horror, slower movement, weapon upgrades, even one of their kickstarter goals was RPG systems similar to what was present in SS2.
>>743387837>>743388560Forgot to mention what they did with the music, changing it from lively action tracks to generic sounding ambience. If the remake was made by people who played and preferred the original System Shock, it would've resembled something like Doom on modern source ports.
>>743382006zased
My only complaints with the remake is the music change and the AI can be kinda retarded.
>>743389065I literally spent most of the last part skidding around with the laser rapier and like 40 zerker packs in the remake.
>>743389065I like spamming flechette loaded with splinters in the second half of the game. Not the most efficient thing, but feels fun to me.
>>743382006System shock 2 is better innit?
>>743389462SS1's weapons are surprisingly fun to use given the combat of all other LGS games.
>>743389065wtf this is such bullshit no one plays it like that. Near the end of the game I was running around with the laser sword hitting everything to death
