Not a worthy successor, definitely not better, but it´s a good game on itself.
Speaking of System Shock, hopefully the New SS3 and SS1 remaster wouldn´t flop though.

I have a high hopes for these games, many of the original people are working on them, though Ascendant was a disaster (forced to release it too soon) and hopefully not a merit of a things to expect from their future releases.

That's a matter of taste. In my opinion the entire Biosock series is far, far, far better than any System Shock game. Rapture and Columbia are a lot more fascinating than the boring grey corridors of Shodan's space stations.

Congrats to all the people who've been waiting for this.
Skyrim must be next, for that one guy.

That would be a real worthy christmas present. ;-)

(I mean the release itself - of course I would with pleasure pay for it.)

The Bioshock games are great. Not sure what a few people mean with "not a worthy successor to System Shock". Reminds me of some early complaints of "I haven't played them but Icewind Dale & Neverwinter Nights must be bad purely because they aren't Baldur's Gate 3". Well, no they aren't, hence the new franchise which itself means they don't have (or pretend to) be an official sequel. "Spiritual Successor" means it's heavily influenced on the same style of play, not a sequel, eg, Serious Sam FE & SE have been called the "spiritual successor" to Doom 1-2, (more than Doom 3 was).

Bioshock is a "spiritual successor" on the line of :"A highly atmospheric 15-20hr long game in a lonely abandoned isolated hostile setting cut off from the world whose backstory is gradually unfolded by a combination of audio logs & ghostly visions, whose gameplay is a mix of guns, "psi" powers (plasmids) and hacking, and you are steered towards objectives by a voice whose identity may possibly turn out to be someone / something other than it initially sounds..." That description literally perfectly fits both SS & Bioshock alike without changing a single word, ie, the perfect definition of a "spiritual successor" in gameplay.

Something you could've looked up on your own, but
https://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/BioShock%3A_The_Collection#Changes_and_Additions has a list of things that were different between them.

Nice. Especially nice, that the classic version will be included. Not my favorite game but a classic worth to be published DRM free. Took 2K a while to do it, but how they say: better late than never.

Ah, that's why everything (okay: something) takes so long here: The employees are busy with really delicate investigations... :D

If you're tired from staring to blue / green / grey corridors, I have some ideas for a couple of eagerly awaited updates... :-)

Btw. I'm fine with all people who prefer System Shock over BioShock. I just wanted to clarify that it is a personal opinion, not a given fact.

Personally i liked infinite better than these two
but i guess i will grab these two as well when i can afford them.

Slightly unrelated but since you still seem to be getting the original versions of games with remasters, if/when you release Skyrim, please make sure the original is included with the remaster/special edition.

Also, while you're working with Bethesda, maybe you can get the original Doom 3 while you're at it? Is that ever coming to GOG? I already have the BFG edition here but tbh i'd prefer the original.

You're truly a master of dialectic, so I give up. For me it's just good to have both games here on GOG without DRM but with their German versions included. I hope we will see the fantastic Bioshock Infiite here soon as well. Or Skyrim. Or Batman. Or Amalur. Or some missing German language packs. Or ...

...Axiom Verge maybe?

Not true. What Crossmando and I have in mind is not the graphical fidelity of those games - which is what you based your argument at - but level design (Bioshock borrowed it from SS), story complexity (I am surprised almost nobody mentions that Bioshock 1 is pure ripoff of SS2 story, cleaved to a bare bones, including the pivotal plot twist) and the whole philosophy of design (SS2 is immersive sim, Bioshock simplified this school of design and made it an intelligent shooter - much less broad, but still fun and effective in its execution).

By the way did you knowt they formerly made much more complex game, but their pilot testing group was puzzled by it (I don´t know what dumb asses they got there, since they couldn´t understand the freedom of approach), so they simplified the whole gameplay - and that´s what we have today?

They actually planned to do System Shock 3 in all but name - couldn´t get the rights from the IP hell they were back then, only NightDive succeeded some years later.