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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
SS1 is another example why I love GOG and pefer it as a digital distributor. In most cases they try to bring classic games both for modern day players and for us purists. I'm always excited when a remake is delivred with unaltered version.
I'm still waiting for some games to have the same treatment ;) but thanks GOG for doing great job! Insta-buy!
Posted September 22, 2015
Hey. That was absolutely unexpected for me. Thanks gOg, thanks!
Games like this made from GOG what is GOG today:)
Post edited September 22, 2015 by truhlik
Posted September 22, 2015
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Smannesman: So GOG does f- all to get SS1 released and yet both the community and GOG themselves pretend like it was all thanks to them.
Great.
Maybe, maybe not. I recall there being co-operation between NDS and GOG in some earlier NDS releases, or then I misunderstood something.

If this was a fully independent NDS project, I presume the game appeared at the same time on Steam, right? At least I don't see this game on steampowered.com. So, if GOG had nothing to do with this release, why didn't NDS release it on Steam at the same time, or even earlier as they have done with many other releases?

Anyway, at least I was careful not to credit GOG for something where I don't know what their involvement is to make it happen. I just said a generic, "Nice!". Happy? :) Either way, I presume more credit for this should most probably go to NDS than GOG, so yeah, people remember to show your gratitude also to NDS for this case.
Post edited September 22, 2015 by timppu
Posted September 22, 2015
Well now I can finally uninstall System Shock Portable. And so far it appears we almost got every classic game inspired by Ultima Underworld, All we are missing is Dark Messiah of Might and Magic and Vampires the Masqurade Bloodlines

And another game off the list :D

Armies of Exigo
Bohemia Library
Blade of Darkness
Diablo 1 and 2
Starcraft 1
Warcraft Trilogy
Black and White 1 and 2
Full Throttle
Day fo the Tenticle series
Westwood's Command and Conquer series
Monkey Island 3 and 4
Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines
Age of Empires serires
Civilization series
Half-Life 1 and 2
Counter Strike
Doom 3
Wolfenstien 3D
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Quake 2 and 3 Arena
Dungeon Siege 1 and 2
Mechwarrior series
System Shock 1 (Confirmed)
SimCity 1 and 3000
The Sims 1 and 2
Battlefield 1942, Vietnam, 2, and 2142
Call of Duty 1+United Offensive
SWAT 4
Commander Keen
Hexen series
Heretic Games
Total War Rome 1, Shogun 1, Medieval 1 and 2
Marathon series
Myth seires
Wizardry 1 to 5
X-COM seires
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 2 and 3+Expansions
Tom Clacny's Splineter Cell Pandora Tomorrow and Chaos Theory
Brother's in Arms Road to Hill 30 and Earned in Blood
Tron 2.0
Grand Theft Auto 1, 2, 3, Vice City, San Andreas
Red Orchestra 1
Rise of Nations Gold
Crysis 1+Warhead
Throne of Darkness
Shadowcaster
Dune 1 and 2
Post edited September 22, 2015 by Elmofongo
Posted September 22, 2015
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Smannesman: So GOG does f- all to get SS1 released and yet both the community and GOG themselves pretend like it was all thanks to them.
Great.
I can see why Night Dive isn't exactly rushing to get Strife released here.
I would like to say thanks Night Dive for all your work.
Where are we pretending that this was entirely on us?
Posted September 22, 2015
Linux version would be nice of course but I might try it in Wine :)
Posted September 22, 2015
Insta-bought!

If GOG has not yet reached the 1 million wishes granted threshold and this one did not push them over I do not know what else to say.

Thanks GOG and congrats on getting this here!
Posted September 22, 2015
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jackster79: If GOG has not yet reached the 1 million wishes granted threshold and this one did not push them over I do not know what else to say.
Where have you been?
Posted September 22, 2015
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.
Posted September 22, 2015
That was unexpected. It's great to see this great game again and it's even more great that it comes with classic and enhanced edition and with a ton of extras.

Well done, Night Dive Studios and GOG!
Posted September 22, 2015
Thank you GOG, I just bought this classic that I played on it's original first release blindfolded! :-)
Posted September 22, 2015
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timppu: If this was a fully independent NDS project, I presume the game appeared at the same time on Steam, right? At least I don't see this game on steampowered.com. So, if GOG had nothing to do with this release, why didn't NDS release it on Steam at the same time, or even earlier as they have done with many other releases?
Steam releases at 10am Pacific Time.

How many of the "enhancements" are ND-contributions and how many are taken from community-projects?

Is it better to buy this game from Steam, seeing most recently released old games getting better support via Steam and via Gog?
Post edited September 22, 2015 by Elbart
Posted September 22, 2015
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Elbart: Steam releases at 10am Pacific Time.
That's not set in stone. SOMA was released there 4 hours ago (just like here).
Post edited September 22, 2015 by Grargar
Posted September 22, 2015
As for people saying the enhanced edition is just the fan patches from System Shock Portable slapped onto the game, it actually isn't for once. Here's voodoo47's post from Systemshock.org about the enhanced edition:

"This is the CD version of the game, now running through a custom windows loader that has been created by Malba Tahan - basically, enhancing and incorporating his already released mods like SHLINK and the mouselook/hires mod into one complete package, featuring;

- the game runs natively under windows, no (slow) dosbox emulation
- toggle able mouselook mode (smart, auto-disables itself when the player is interacting with objects)
- higher resolution support, up to 1024*768 (able to set custom ones as well, even widescreen)
- windowed mode
- scaling smoothing/filtering
- remappable keys
- no resolution changing when entering full map
- resolution and other settings now stored outside the savegames, eliminating the need to always set them anew once a game is started
- storing the settings externally also allows the log audio to be enabled by default
- can make screenshots by hitting printscreen (stored in \res\gen)
- couple of fixes to scaling, brightness and onscreen text"

https://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=8030.msg91320#msg91320
Post edited September 22, 2015 by Dev_Chand
Posted September 22, 2015
Kudos to Night Dive Studios for finally making this monumental release possible and thanks to GOG for checking off another most wanted classic from the community wishlist.

I have heard many great things about the original System Shock but having never played it before I am not sure how well it will hold up for me even with the enhanced edition so wishlisted for now. :)
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