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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
Works great. Enhanced edition seems to be the version people should play (remember to use "E" to disable and enable mouselook ingame), the classic versions are there for curious minds how cumbersome the original controls were. Damn, I am almost tempted to replay the game a third time now, it felt so nice playing and examining the first level again...

About the floppy version though: how come it has speech on the intro? That wasn't the case with the original floppy version, was it?
Posted September 22, 2015
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timppu: Works great. Enhanced edition seems to be the version people should play (remember to use "E" to disable and enable mouselook ingame), the classic versions are there for curious minds how cumbersome the original controls were. Damn, I am almost tempted to replay the game a third time now, it felt so nice playing and examining the first level again...

About the floppy version though: how come it has speech on the intro? That wasn't the case with the original floppy version, was it?
The floppy version has a separate shortcut. Did you use that one?
Posted September 22, 2015
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darthspudius: what is wrong with it?
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budejovice: Just that it came early, before the release. I knew about today's release before leaving work last night. Surprises are nice, GOG surprises are even better. Again, a pretty minor complaint. The game is on my shelf. :)
ah ok
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darthspudius: So who's that behind me with the gun to my head! You dirty liar!!! >_<
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markrichardb: He can’t fool us, he's about as trustworthy as David Cameron in a butcher shop.
Piggate baby, oh yeah!!!
Post edited September 22, 2015 by darthspudius
Posted September 22, 2015
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Post edited September 22, 2015 by Fairfox
Posted September 22, 2015
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apehater: posted it already: not interested in law details in this case, its a question about sustainability, consistence, reason and fairness.
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phaolo: But I don't understand what you mean! (lol stop writing the same thing).
"question about sustainability, consistence, reason and fairness" = ????

For you ND should have left the game offered for free?
Or they shouldn't have even tried to sold it?
Explain!
night dive demand money for actually just buying a piece of paper, which confirms that they have the rights. thats not consistent, reasonable or fair, its just law. if you pay that money, it won't be used to create something like a successor, thats not sustainable.

and yes they sholdn't force kolya to remove that free download.

i'm not intending to discuss further, why night dive's shady attempt to force us to pay for something they had no hand in creating, fixing or enchancing and dare to demand 10 bucks for it, while it uses community made fixes.
Posted September 22, 2015
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Strijkbout: Enhanced Edition?

Thank god I still have an original copy.
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Grargar: It does include the original as well.
Very good, Enhanced Editions screams like colorrestoring silent era movies.
Posted September 22, 2015
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timppu: Works great. Enhanced edition seems to be the version people should play (remember to use "E" to disable and enable mouselook ingame), the classic versions are there for curious minds how cumbersome the original controls were. Damn, I am almost tempted to replay the game a third time now, it felt so nice playing and examining the first level again...
Sadly does not (yet) work on my machine. But "E" should be "lean right", where did they put that?
Posted September 22, 2015
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Grargar: It does include the original as well.
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Strijkbout: Very good, Enhanced Editions screams like colorrestoring silent era movies.
What can Black and White add to old movies other then nostalgia/history lesson?

I wonder what Citizen Kane would look like in color.
Posted September 22, 2015
WOW.

And soundtrack is in MIDI, FLAC and mp3.

:)

WOW.
Posted September 22, 2015
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Strijkbout:
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Elmofongo: What can Black and White add to old movies other then nostalgia/history lesson?

I wonder what Citizen Kane would look like in color.
2nd question first: Shit. :P

1st question: without giving specific answers all I can say is try watching Night of the Living Dead in color (and there is a colorized version of the original). It totally destroys the movie.

Also just try to imagine Schindler's List in color. It just wouldn't work, especially given the famous 'little girl' scene.
Posted September 22, 2015
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Strijkbout: Very good, Enhanced Editions screams like colorrestoring silent era movies.
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Elmofongo: What can Black and White add to old movies other then nostalgia/history lesson?

I wonder what Citizen Kane would look like in color.
You don't see a whole lot of color film noirs. There's a reason. The use of light and shadow in film is much more effective when using black and white over color. Trust me, there's a lot more than just "nostalgia/history lesson" to black and white photography/film...
Posted September 22, 2015
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Elmofongo: What can Black and White add to old movies other then nostalgia/history lesson?

I wonder what Citizen Kane would look like in color.
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tinyE: 2nd question first: Shit. :P

1st question: without giving specific answers all I can say is try watching Night of the Living Dead in color (and there is a colorized version of the original). It totally destroys the movie.

Also just try to imagine Schindler's List in color. It just wouldn't work, especially given the famous 'little girl' scene.
All I can think of proper use of black and white is only for Film Noir movies. And speaking of Schindler's List didn't someone from the Jewish Community refer to that movie as "Kitsch?"


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Elmofongo: What can Black and White add to old movies other then nostalgia/history lesson?

I wonder what Citizen Kane would look like in color.
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yyahoo: You don't see a whole lot of color film noirs. There's a reason. The use of light and shadow in film is much more effective when using black and white over color. Trust me, there's a lot more than just "nostalgia/history lesson" to black and white photography/film...
Yes I mentioned that already here. Film Noir is nothing without black and white.
Post edited September 22, 2015 by Elmofongo
Posted September 22, 2015
Awesome news! I thought it would never happen... The last months on GOG have been fantastic. Keep them coming!
Posted September 22, 2015
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Strijkbout: Very good, Enhanced Editions screams like colorrestoring silent era movies.
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Elmofongo: What can Black and White add to old movies other then nostalgia/history lesson?

I wonder what Citizen Kane would look like in color.
I'm not against restoring movies in general as celluloid is too fragile te be lasting medium, but I rather watch Laurel and Hardy in B&W than someones interpretation of what color was used. Also B&W movies had their lighting adapted for it and any colorized picture I've seen looks unnatural.

As for Citizen Kane, before his death Orson Welles apparently was against colorizing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_colorization#Colorization_examples.2C_criticism.2C_and_controversies
Posted September 22, 2015
Great, I love it when a series gets completed!
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