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Posted September 22, 2015
L-look at you, hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone. Panting and sweating as you search for your wallet. How fast can you purchase a perfect, immortal game?




<span class="bold">System Shock</span>, the breakthrough FPS/RPG hybrid - one of the most influential video games ever produced - is back and enhanced, premiering DRM-free on GOG.com. Get 20% off the title, or 40% off if you already own System Shock 2.


On release, System Shock forever changed the face of action gaming - it ushered an era of storytelling, choices, and RPG elements unlike ever before - directly influencing all-time classics like Deus Ex and Bioshock.
Today, the legend returns in better shape than ever.
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System Shock: Enhanced Edition now comes with official support for resolutions up to 1024x768 (compared to the original 640x480), and a native 854x480 widescreen mode. Gameplay is streamlined with a toggleable mouselook mode, including more intuitive inventory and item management. Combined with assorted bug-fixes and remappable controls, System Shock is now truly enhanced. Still, some gaming experiences are truly worth preserving, so you can also return to the authentic 90's gameplay with System Shock: Classic - ready for modern systems, completely unaltered in all other aspects, and available in both the CD and Floppy editions!



See the System Shock Enhanced Edition trailer:

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Reset the system in <span class="bold">System Shock</span> - Enhanced Edition and Classic available in a single package, with a 40% discount for all System Shock 2 owners on GOG.com - and 20% off for everyone else. The discounted offer will last until Tuesday, September 29, 6:59 AM GMT.





Stream watch:
Join Stephen Kick (founder and CEO of Night Dive Studios), Daniel Grayshon (Lead Technician in charge of QA at Night Dive Studios) and Paul Neurath (creative Director at Looking Glass Studios, and industry veteran credited on System Shock 2, Thief, Neverwinter Nights and more) for an in-depth, roundtable discussion on the System Shock phenomenon and its many influences in game design to date - on Twitch.tv/GOGcom - September 23, 6:00 PM CET, 4:00 PM GMT, 9:00 AM PDT, 12:00 PM EDT.
Posted September 22, 2015
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Strijkbout: Enhanced Edition?

Thank god I still have an original copy.
It does include the original as well.
Posted September 22, 2015
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Blakes7: Does anyone know who owns the rights to system shock 1 and 2?
It seems Night Dive acquired all the rights, see the e-mail in this link:
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=145663&amp;p=2294455&amp;viewfull=1#post2294455
Posted September 22, 2015
YES! Cool! I'll have to get this later. Unfortunately I can't get it now... just got a new guitar last night, so already spent too much money already :P
Posted September 22, 2015
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Blakes7: Does anyone know who owns the rights to system shock 1 and 2?
Night Dive Studios has acquire all rights to the System Shock franchise from what I recall.
Posted September 22, 2015
THE best computer game ever made. That is all.

(Other than "Congratulations, GOG!" :)
Posted September 22, 2015
Wow what a release
Posted September 22, 2015
GOG proving yet again, that dreams come true.

Excellent job work to all those involved.
Posted September 22, 2015
Very nice
Post edited September 22, 2015 by Densetsu
Posted September 22, 2015
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Karfein: Now I can play in peace :D I'm strongly against playing the series not in the release or at least chronological order. System Shock 2, I'm coming after SS1.
Good idea IMHO, even if not necessarily needed (then again, what is?). There are references to the first game, so it is nice to have experienced that already.

Similarly it would seem odd to me to play Baldur's Gate 2 before the original Baldur's Gate, or watch Terminator 2 before the original Terminator.
Posted September 22, 2015
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JudasIscariot: What about it? I don't work on those emails myself.
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Smannesman: The entire tone of that e-mail is "Look what we did for you!".
First it starts out with "Your wish is our command" which heavily implies that GOG did the work.
And it ends with "You voted for it, now begins the horror" again implying that GOG checked the wishlist and did the work in bringing it to the store.
I know. What the hell were GOG thinking, sending an email to people who had voted for a game, telling them that it was now available! How dare they make a song and dance about releasing a game that only 34,000 people voted for. They should have kept quiet and released the game with simply a post apologizing for it being for sale, but stating that it was absolutely nothing to do with them ;)
Posted September 22, 2015
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apehater: yeah, thats really great ... for night dive ... i'm sure its worth 10 bucks

here is a little quote from kolya and no money from me night dive:

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Hello Larry,

I have removed the download of System Shock Portable, into which a whole community including myself have invested years of work.
This game was once created by a bunch of extremely smart people in Boston who favoured individual thinking and personal skills over capitalism and following the rules. Have you played it?

The laws that you are using now to make money from their and our work were once put in place to protect creative workers and those who invested in their endeavours to ensure that they get paid.
But your company never created anything. "Night Dive" is just a device to misuse the legal system and fill Stephen Kick's pockets.

Go get a real job, Larry. Do something that isn't just enough to pay the rent. Write. Draw. Create something. Be more than a leech.
And play System Shock.

Sincerely,
Nicolai "Kolya" Sandow
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I'm sensing a little hypochrisy here, seeing this guy was apparently responsible for having no rights to distribute it (and butchering it into a standard Doomclone in the process) I think he needs to do a reality check.
Everyone can be generous with giving away things that aren't theirs.
Posted September 22, 2015
I'm... Not very excited about this, for some reason. Maybe it's because I played it before . Still gonna buy though .
Posted September 22, 2015
So will Night Dive license System Shock out to a developer like Disney with Star Wars? As long as its not EA...
Posted September 22, 2015
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apehater: yeah, thats really great ... for night dive ... i'm sure its worth 10 bucks

here is a little quote from kolya and no money from me night dive:

"""
Hello Larry,

I have removed the download of System Shock Portable, into which a whole community including myself have invested years of work.
This game was once created by a bunch of extremely smart people in Boston who favoured individual thinking and personal skills over capitalism and following the rules. Have you played it?

The laws that you are using now to make money from their and our work were once put in place to protect creative workers and those who invested in their endeavours to ensure that they get paid.
But your company never created anything. "Night Dive" is just a device to misuse the legal system and fill Stephen Kick's pockets.

Go get a real job, Larry. Do something that isn't just enough to pay the rent. Write. Draw. Create something. Be more than a leech.
And play System Shock.

Sincerely,
Nicolai "Kolya" Sandow
"""
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link 2
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Strijkbout: I'm sensing a little hypochrisy here, seeing this guy was apparently responsible for having no rights to distribute it (and butchering it into a standard Doomclone in the process) I think he needs to do a reality check.
Everyone can be generous with giving away things that aren't theirs.
gog wouldn't exist without such "hypocritic" people, who created dosbox, glide wrappers, patches. without a thought about money. greedy rightholders ho can shove their rights up their ass
Posted September 22, 2015
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JudasIscariot: What about it? I don't work on those emails myself.
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Smannesman: The entire tone of that e-mail is "Look what we did for you!".
First it starts out with "Your wish is our command" which heavily implies that GOG did the work.
And it ends with "You voted for it, now begins the horror" again implying that GOG checked the wishlist and did the work in bringing it to the store.
We check the wishlist all the time and it is one of the many criteria we when determining whether a game gets released here in the first place.

"Your wish is our command" is a common turn of phrase that doesn't imply that we supposedly did all the work in bringing System Shock here in the first place. We signed it, QA'd the build on our end, while Night Dive did the work on the game themselves so where's the implication that we somehow did everything ourselves?
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