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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
I've played System Shock 2, and while it's mostly deaf-friendly, the cinematic parts aren't (and the part where Shodan introduces herself).

I'm wondering if System Shock 1 is worse in aspect of deaf-friendliness? Are the logs audio only, or are there texts as well that I can read? Anything else that isn't deaf friendly?
Posted September 22, 2015
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synfresh: I may get downvoted for this, but GoG advertises (as they do every game) this by putting DRM-Free in the OP (premiering DRM-free on GOG.com) but did the original game actually have any DRM?
Even though the original game may not had any DRM (not really sure about that), in a time where the biggest online stores sell games that work only if you install their mandatory client (read Steam, Uplay, Origin etc.) which in fact is DRM even though many folks don't see it that way, GOG has to mention wherever they can that their products (well, not really theirs but you know what I mean) come with no clients, no DRM, no nothing - just pure .exe installers.

edit. sorry for the triple post, damn smartphones....
Post edited September 22, 2015 by Vythonaut
Posted September 22, 2015
Amazing release!
Posted September 22, 2015
edit: sorry for the triple post, damn smartphone to blame! Original post is the #302.
Post edited September 22, 2015 by Vythonaut
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.
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 sell it?
Explain!
Post edited September 22, 2015 by phaolo
Posted September 22, 2015
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JudasIscariot: The Enhanced Edition gets rid of some of the UI issues :) It's really well done :)
And where does this patch come from? Who did it? Is it just the System Shock Portable / Mouselook patch?
Posted September 22, 2015
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Firebrand9: And where does this patch come from? Who did it? Is it just the System Shock Portable / Mouselook patch?
No, System Shock Portable uses DOSBox to run, while the enhanced version runs natively. More details regarding the GOG version can be found here.
Post edited September 22, 2015 by Grargar
Posted September 22, 2015
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Zeraan: Are the logs audio only, or are there texts as well that I can read? Anything else that isn't deaf friendly?
I remember that everything in the original game had text: logs, descriptions, messages, etc..
The few cutscenes had some subtitles too, if you enabled them.
Post edited September 22, 2015 by phaolo
Posted September 22, 2015
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Zeraan: Are the logs audio only, or are there texts as well that I can read? Anything else that isn't deaf friendly?
The logs are text and audio...regarding anything else...I belive you don't have a visual warning, if you get attacked from behind? It's all audio? (not quite sure about that, so take it with a grain of salt)

EDIT: I just checked...if you are attacked from behind, it shows only on your "Health-bar"...and via sound, ofc.

Sorry! :(
Post edited September 22, 2015 by BreOl72
Posted September 22, 2015
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HiPhish: 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:
Technically even further, they asked him to take it down. They didn't shut it down as the Admin of SystemShock.org was (reluctantly) compliant.
Posted September 22, 2015
wow, excellent news - thanks GOG!
Posted September 22, 2015
Great game comes out, everyone complains. Nice to see nothing ever changes. :P
Posted September 22, 2015
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JudasIscariot: The Enhanced Edition gets rid of some of the UI issues :) It's really well done :)
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Firebrand9: And where does this patch come from? Who did it? Is it just the System Shock Portable / Mouselook patch?
What we have on offer is from Night Dive so you might want to ask them :)
Posted September 22, 2015
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Venser: I've beaten System Shock fairly recently so I'm not gonna buy it but I'm glad the game is finally on GOG. It feels like it belongs here. Now for that Blade Runner...
Or what about Heavy Metal: FAKK2? :)
Posted September 22, 2015
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darthspudius: Great game comes out, everyone complains. Nice to see nothing ever changes. :P
I don't.

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