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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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ricki42: Agreed. I'm glad it's available at all, but I'll likely wait for a Linux version.
Judas earlier stated that it runs fine in Wine. So even if there is no "official" Linux version, it's still good enough imho.
Posted September 22, 2015
Two another fantastic releases. First Morrowind, now System Shock.

Thank you dear gog.com team!
Posted September 22, 2015
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blotunga: I got the newsletter only but it says that I have 40% off, so it still contains a little "personal touch"
Yes. It's this newsletter that does contain the _owners part in the url. Not sure if non-owners got a different one, since my attempts at guessing the url failed.
Posted September 22, 2015
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blotunga: I got the newsletter only but it says that I have 40% off, so it still contains a little "personal touch"
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JMich: Yes. It's this newsletter that does contain the _owners part in the url. Not sure if non-owners got a different one, since my attempts at guessing the url failed.
I didn't get either mail, but I'm sure that I've voted for System Shock 1. I assume that only System Shock 2 owners got that mail and that the non owner version doesn't exist.
Posted September 22, 2015
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Clearsong: 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.)
Well, that is certainly new information to me! :-o

Does the story tell why this sex change took place? Because they couldn't find a man to do the voice acting?

I guess women baddies are just cooler overall, you never know if you should kill it or kiss it. With men it is easier, you just kill it and kill it. Unless you are gal or gay of course, then pretend I didn't write that, or replace "women" with "men" and vice versa.
Post edited September 22, 2015 by timppu
Posted September 22, 2015
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shadow29: This is not fair. A game made in the old days is not playable for Windows XP. I see GOG is dropping XP support too. I'll just play the old fashion way.
How long can a company keep supporting an operating system? Windows XP was released in 2001, the last release was in 2008, official support ended in 2014 and we have had four major releases of Windows since. There is just a point where you have to eventually cut the cords or your maintenance work will keep dragging you down.

Being an old game does not mean that is necessarily easier to make it run, System Shock is still a DOS game. Your best bet is play the DOS version or hope that Slick works on XP and take the risk.
Posted September 22, 2015
Aaand...bought!
Posted September 22, 2015
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shadow29: This is not fair. A game made in the old days is not playable for Windows XP. I see GOG is dropping XP support too. I'll just play the old fashion way.
GOG's objective (in terms of services), among others, is to allow to run old games on modern operating systems and not the opposite. The enhanced edition can be considered as a "modern game" since it's a recent executable which allows the listed enhancements

The classic edition running on XP can even be considered a bonus since the original game was not running on XP (unless I'm wrong on that matter).
Posted September 22, 2015
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Strijkbout: Go to Vogons and ask any Dosbox developer where they copied MS-DOS code, I think I can safely say that the answer to this is none since it's based on Unix and isn't really an emulator (hence it doesn't need a BIOS) but creates a virtual environment not unlike many other virtualization programs, only Dosbox is specifically created to play MS-DOS games.
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jamyskis: DOSBox doesn't virtualise anything - it emulates a full x86 processor and the surrounding hardware, whereas virtualisation solutions create a "processor sandbox" as if it were running semi-natively on the host CPU. It has its own implementation of the IBM DOS standard (DOS isn't "owned" by Microsoft, and there are free variants available such as FreeDOS).
That entirely depends on your defenition of virtualization and how many layers of emulation you apply before calling it that.
Posted September 22, 2015
Two and a half years later, thanks guys!
Posted September 22, 2015
♪ヾ(´ρ｀)〃 ♪♪

Woo-Hoo-Hoo!! What a great day! What a juicy release!

The release discount is pretty sweet too, especially for us owning System Shock 2, too bad I most likely won't make it as I can't make any online purchases at the moment. Oh well, there's always later.


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JMich: Yes. It's this newsletter that does contain the _owners part in the url. Not sure if non-owners got a different one, since my attempts at guessing the url failed.
I haven't gotten the newsletter yet, but perhaps that's due to the fact that I've cut down on the emails I receive from GOG.


Anyway, great day!
Posted September 22, 2015
I'm probably looking right at it, but is there a way to remap keys for either version?
Posted September 22, 2015
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Strijkbout: That entirely depends on your defenition of virtualization and how many layers of emulation you apply before calling it that.
Well, it can be safely assumed that virtualisation does not include being able to run an x86 PC emulator on a non-x86 platform. For one thing, DOSBox doesn't use a hypervisor - at all. It doesn't access any of the hardware directly - it relies entirely on the hardware abstraction of the underlying OS.

The bare fact that DOSBox *can* (not must) employ dynamic recompilation doesn't make it a virtualisation solution by any stretch.
Posted September 22, 2015
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Clearsong: 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.)
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timppu: Well, that is certainly new information to me! :-o

Does the story tell why this sex change took place? Because they couldn't find a man to do the voice acting?

I guess women baddies are just cooler overall, you never know if you should kill it or kiss it. With men it is easier, you just kill it and kill it. Unless you are gal or gay of course, then pretend I didn't write that, or replace "women" with "men" and vice versa.
I don't think I've ever seen a reason given anywhere. Although at the time you worked with the people you had, you didn't call Big Bob's House of Voice Actors, and the voice for SHODAN was the keyboard player from the band one of the Looking Glass guys was in. (They later married, but I don't think they were at the time System Shock was made.)
Posted September 22, 2015
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apehater: 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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HiPhish: The SSP guy had no right to distribute the game whatsoever, he was just lucky it got ignored for so long. All he had to do was make SSP into a patch for people who own the game and he could have kept it up. The Night Dive guys even offered to link to him if he did that. It's entirely his fault.

And yes, you should be very aware of the difference: all those other examples achieved getting old games to run without breaking laws. Patches don't distribute games, DOSBox doesn't use Microsoft code and the Glide source code was released to the public. System Shock has never been free.
sorry, but law fetishism is not my thing. i'm here for games and for me sustainability, consistence, reason and fairness are more important than law at this situation.
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