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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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Gnostic: I remember quite a number of GoGer are clamoring about System Shock.

So any good things I should know about it to overcome its age?
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JudasIscariot: The Enhanced Edition gets rid of a lot of the 90's clunkiness regarding the UI so it's like a brand new game now :)

In any case, the first System Shock has tons of secret doors so it would behoove you to look for them like you would in an old-school shooter, read the logs for clues, and check your mini-map :)

Also, watch out for berserk patches :)
Sold, see attached picture.

Now that you are here, I hope you can answer my question about fail gift purchase as I stated here and your PM

I sent a ticket to support since 30 August but have yet to receive a reply yet.

Currently I cannot buy a second copy of System Shock as Gift
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Posted September 22, 2015
Great job, GOG.com!
Not personally interested in this one (as I would rather just play SS2 over an over again), but I know tons of GOGers were waiting for this day. :)
Posted September 22, 2015
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Crosmando: Lol, did Night Dive really just repackage System Shock Portable as "System Shock Enhanced Edition", just after they shut down the SSP project?
Technically they just shut down the download link to the full game. It's the fault of SPP's author that he doesn't offer a patch, as he should have done in the first place. They would have been OK with that:

If you were to offer just a patch that installed those mods, I am sure that we could figure out a way to point back to you once System Shock is released.
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=145663

EDIT: If you're wondering why I posted this twice, the forum software ate my first post and then spit it back out after I made the second one.
Post edited September 22, 2015 by HiPhish
Posted September 22, 2015
Wow!
Posted September 22, 2015
can you please GOG and Night Dive tell us that probably very complicated story of obtaining rights?
Posted September 22, 2015
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JudasIscariot: Try vanilla for a bit but RTFM, please :)
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tinyE: It's 3 am here Judas, cut me some slack. :P
Youuuuu casual :P

But seriously, get some sleep, if you aren't busy with the hotel :)
Posted September 22, 2015
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tinyE: if I found #2 disappointing (which I did) then #1 should be amazing because it is all around a much better game.
Eh, you already know the story, however.
I went in blind, so I loved it.
Btw, what you didn't like in SS2?
Posted September 22, 2015
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tinyE: I was being silly people!!!! :P

On a serious note, as someone who has never played #1 should I go vanilla or dive into the Enhanced Version?

I just hope what the folks in here say is true: if I found #2 disappointing (which I did) then #1 should be amazing because it is all around a much better game.
Like I said on the other page, definitely play vanilla. The updated version is just awful IMO. It ruins the tone and pace of the game, and almost turns SS1 into some kind of bastardized shooter. The game's a slow-paced Ultima Underworld successor, half-RPG and half-action.
Posted September 22, 2015
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JudasIscariot: I had the CD version back in the day :P
I still have one :P
Posted September 22, 2015
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This is not the same as System Shock Portable, it's completely different :)
Posted September 22, 2015
INSTABUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted September 22, 2015
Night Dive.....
Posted September 22, 2015
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tinyE: I was being silly people!!!! :P

On a serious note, as someone who has never played #1 should I go vanilla or dive into the Enhanced Version?

I just hope what the folks in here say is true: if I found #2 disappointing (which I did) then #1 should be amazing because it is all around a much better game.
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thejimz: Like I said on the other page, definitely play vanilla. The updated version is just awful IMO. It ruins the tone and pace of the game, and almost turns SS1 into some kind of bastardized shooter. The game's a slow-paced Ultima Underworld successor, half-RPG and half-action.
To me, it still feels like SS1 as the mouselook still has this issue where you need to disable with the E button it in order to pick things up. Maybe it's bias or old age or whatever but the game still has the pacing of SS1 and doesn't feel like a shooter to me.

You still have to find logs, read clues, shut down the cameras and computer cores to decrease level security in the game. The only thing I noticed was that I didn't have to fight with the interface so much like I did back in the day :)

Perhaps the pacing was, more or less, determined by the interface limitations of the time?
Posted September 22, 2015
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JudasIscariot: Perhaps the pacing was, more or less, determined by the interface limitations of the time?
I'd agree with that, actually! But the version with the clunky interface is the one that Looking Glass played, balanced and released. They had to work around the interface and adjust the game accordingly (obstacles, spacing of monsters, combat, look-behind-you moments, etc.), which is why I'm skeptical of updated versions--once you start changing the UI, you change what the whole game was originally balanced/paced to accommodate. IMO you end up with a totally different experience.

That said, I'm a purist when it comes to old games, and I'd rather play an old clunker than a slick remake any day. (The version of Wasteland on GOG has been updated too much for me, LOL.) If there's anyone who can only enjoy SS1 in the Enhanced Edition, more power to them as long as they buy it and support GOG!! :) Thank you guys for getting this classic.
Post edited September 22, 2015 by thejimz
Posted September 22, 2015
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JudasIscariot: I had the CD version back in the day :P
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cyboff: I still have one :P
Lol, me too! I still have my original disc for System Shock here with me in the UK. But my box for it is in storage back stateside.

Oh, and this was definitely an instabuy for me too. Absolute classic of a game. Sure it's a little rough around the edges when compared to modern games and even SS2. But there are a lot of things they did better in SS1 compared to SS2 as well.


P.S. Hey GOG, you should work out a licensing deal with Night Dive to allow you to make SS3. If anyone could give the System Shock series the respect it deserves and not some dumbed down crap shooter money grab, I think you can.
Post edited September 22, 2015 by bignick277
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