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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
Just because GOG isn't listing XP, that doesn't mean the game won't work on XP. People should not expect GOG to test every release on a defunct operating system. XP should not be used as an everyday computer anymore. I really liked XP, and I still even have one running to perform very specific duties. Continue using XP if you want or need to, but don't hold it against GOG for not supporting it. I would rather GOG put more effort into supporting Linux. If more distributors, sellers and developers supported Linux, then it could become a better alternative for those that don't want to or can't afford to upgrade to Windows 7/8/10.
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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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.

To be honest I'm not sure about glidewrappers as glidewrappers only convert the glidecode the game feeds into Direct3D/OpenGL instructions. I really don't see how this damages anyones rights.

As for individual community patches GOG needs permission from the creators, which it has for Tomb Raider for example but it doesn't have in case of Revolt or rather the distribution company that sold Revolt here, hence the game was pulled.

What I don't like about your post or the guy who wrote it was that it was blatant piracy and they could have been fined for every copy downloaded from them, which I think they aren't which is mighty fine from Nightdive that they didn't do that. All the time that has been passed the people behind SS Portable had the time to secure the rights for the game themselves which would have put them into an entirely different position, but they hadn't and left it for Nightdive to do the 'impossible' legal crunchwork, so his claim that they haven't done anything is selective judgement.
and i'd say thats your selective viewpoint.

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.
Posted September 22, 2015
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JudasIscariot: I had the CD version back in the day :P
Is the "classic" edition the CD version or floppy?
Posted September 22, 2015
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JudasIscariot: I had the CD version back in the day :P
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zorach: Is the "classic" edition the CD version or floppy?
Both. There are two separate shortcuts in your Start menu for the game :)
Posted September 22, 2015
Odd system requirements. You may have problems if your i3 processor PC doesn't have at least 128MB of RAM...
Post edited September 22, 2015 by yyahoo
Posted September 22, 2015
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS DAY!!!!

Really. I still have my boxed version of this game and absolutely treasure it. GOG, I can't praise you enough for bringing it here. :D
Posted September 22, 2015
Hey, the first review is by G-Doc! Long time no see!
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Post edited September 22, 2015 by Grargar
Posted September 22, 2015
Waiting for Black & White 1 and 2 :3
Posted September 22, 2015
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zorach: Is the "classic" edition the CD version or floppy?
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JudasIscariot: Both. There are two separate shortcuts in your Start menu for the game :)
Two, or three? (Enhanced, CD classic, floppy classic?)
Posted September 22, 2015
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NightDiveStudios: This is not the same as System Shock Portable, it's completely different :)
Well done you and GOG! :) Please keep working on bringing "Strife" and "Noctropolis" here!
Post edited September 22, 2015 by tfishell
Posted September 22, 2015
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JudasIscariot: Both. There are two separate shortcuts in your Start menu for the game :)
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zorach: Two, or three? (Enhanced, CD classic, floppy classic?)
Classic Edition has two shortcuts in Start menu - one for CD and one for floppy version.
Enhanced Edition has a separate installer and one shortcut in your Start menu. :)
Posted September 22, 2015
This is so awesome, thank you, GOG! Wasn't this the single most anticipated game to come? :-)
Posted September 22, 2015
This is huge! I've been waiting years for this. Thanks GOG and also to Night Dive Studios for making the Enhanced version happen!
Posted September 22, 2015
I might just grab it. My CD copy was tough to figure out how to get working.
Posted September 22, 2015
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apehater: 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.
You should consider a career in politics, because you just wrote an entire sentence without actually saying anything. What does "sustainability, consistence, reason and fairness" actually mean?

Suppose the following: you are a plumber, you see an abandoned house and you settle in, fix the plumbing and stuff and start living in there. Then one day the new owner of the house comes by and tells you "I have purchased this house and I want to start renting it out, so I'll have to ask you to leave. But I like what you have done with the place, I will recommend you as a plumber to all the people who move in here". I think that's a pretty good offer, much better than charging him for all the time he was living in there without permission.

It's the same here, the SSP author was distributing the game for years without permission, then the new copyright owners come in, tell him to stop doing what he never was allowed to do in the first place, and they offer to advertise him if he makes SSP a patch.

This has nothing to do with law fetishism, Night Dive purchased the rights to System Shock, something no one was able to pull of for two decades. I think they deserve not to have their business undermined.
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