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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: (and butchering it into a standard Doomclone in the process)
I take it you don't like the mouselook mod?
Posted September 22, 2015
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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.
Uptight much?

It was just your average announcement email "we have a new game, and it's one of your favorite/most requested"

It's not that every single game they are releasing they are implying that it's all their doing, they run all the magic and so on... it's just a game hard to come by, never available on DD, that is now again offered; the mail just does a bit of self-promotion (as it should, since it's a store, God forbid)

You really think Night Dive would see that as an offence?! really?
Posted September 22, 2015
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JudasIscariot: "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?
And As Soon As Possible cannot possibly mean it's impossible.
Posted September 22, 2015
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JudasIscariot: "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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Smannesman: And As Soon As Possible cannot possibly mean it's impossible.
According to every English dictionary, no, it means just that "as soon as possible". :)
Posted September 22, 2015
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groundhog42: 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 ;)
I haven't voted and still got an e-mail. I do have SS2 though, so probably that's why.
Posted September 22, 2015
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apehater: 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
You are aware of the difference between dosbox, glide wrappers, patches and abandonware, right? Hint: Take a look at your first link, post #22 to be exact.
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blotunga: I haven't voted and still got an e-mail. I do have SS2 though, so probably that's why.
Did you get 1 email or 2? First email is the standard newsletter that SS was released, second email is that an item you voted for was released. I got the newsletter one, but not the wishlist one.
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Posted September 22, 2015
Well done and thanks to all parties involved. It's been a great year for classic releases on gog.
Posted September 22, 2015
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Smannesman: And As Soon As Possible cannot possibly mean it's impossible.
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JudasIscariot: According to every English dictionary, no, it means just that "as soon as possible". :)
Well, some people think we shouldn't worry about things like preserving the environment for the sake of future generations, because future generations may never exist. o_0 (Technically, it's possible, if another planet collided with Earth tomorrow, but still, c'mon).
[url=http://web.utk.edu/~nolt/courses/346/futurgen.htm]http://web.utk.edu/~nolt/courses/346/futurgen.htm[/url]
Posted September 22, 2015
Finally a series is complete! *clap*

Does anyone know if the Enhanced Edition runs on Wine?
Posted September 22, 2015
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BillyMaysFan59: Finally a series is complete! *clap*

Does anyone know if the Enhanced Edition runs on Wine?
Most reports indicate that it does. Music doesn't seem to work out of the box. You might have to fiddle with Wine's midi settings.
Posted September 22, 2015
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BillyMaysFan59: Finally a series is complete! *clap*

Does anyone know if the Enhanced Edition runs on Wine?
I remember some dweeb mentioning it worked on Wine, it's probably in one of the first pages of the topic.
Posted September 22, 2015
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BillyMaysFan59: Finally a series is complete! *clap*
Not really, since Bioshock is the successor of System Shock 2 if you consider who made it, etc...
I'm waiting for it here since it has been available DRM free on HumbleBundle a while ago.

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BillyMaysFan59: Does anyone know if the Enhanced Edition runs on Wine?
From what I've read it does not, only the old version via DosBox seems to work although with missing music for some people.
Posted September 22, 2015
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mk47at: snip
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Smannesman: snip
Thanks! Might pick this up then.
Posted September 22, 2015
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phaolo: Do you know what are the main differences between the original DOS version and the CD (win?) version?
Is the MIDI music still there?
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timppu: The CD version was also a DOS game, not a Windows game.

The music during the gameplay, menu etc. is MIDI in the CD version, just like in the floppy version. The intro movie music is digitized in the CD version, in the floppy version I think that was MIDI too.

Other differences:
- CD version had digitized audio logs and speech, floppy version had only text.
- CD version had a hires mode (up to 640x480)
- The intro movie was of higher quality, in high resolution and digitized music.

Hmm, so what kind of music is in the enhanced Windows version? Is it also using MIDI music?
Also! Somewhere between the floppy disk and CD releases, SHODAN got a sex change.

(SHODAN is referred to as 'he' in the floppy version, 'she' in the CD.)
Posted September 22, 2015
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apehater: 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
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JMich: You are aware of the difference between dosbox, glide wrappers, patches and abandonware, right? Hint: Take a look at your first link, post #22 to be exact.
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why should i? i'm aware that people who made possible to play old games and enchanced old games don't see a cent from the rightholders. not interested in law details in this case, its a question about sustainability, consistence, reason and fairness.
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