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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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DCT: don't know about the enhanced version but the classic version which is included should work fine since that is just the CD and floppy versions running under dosbox. The enhanced version is a tweaked version(adding mouse aim and such) running under a windows loader.
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Mobeeuz: Playing the enhanced version on Win10 x64, no problems.
Whoa, instant buy then. I always wanted to play this game. Thank you guys for the quick info.
Posted September 22, 2015
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WesleyB: Thank you so much, GOG and Night Dive! The windows-native version (that works perfect on x64 Win10) is just plain awesome! Now I can get rid of SS Portable.
You did mention you are wondering what will happen to portable (before edited it out :) )... and I have seen some people not happy about the "put it down" action.

But as far as I understand it (from their "letter" to the fan sites, which I quick-read in 3seconds), the devs are OK with further unofficial mods (including .exe), as long as they don't contain the game data. So I think the portable version can be re-release again as pure mod for already installed game (for example from gog :) )? Then again, if the enhanced version is "portable++" (again I didn't study it yet, so I'm just guessing), what's the point.

Summary: I don't have time to figure out things properly and in detail, so I may be completely wrong, but I don't see serious reason for any negative backfire here. Move on, citizens...
Posted September 23, 2015
Dear GOG, would it be possible to include the new artwork Cyborg Head as a downloadable wallpaper? - the very same you use as a background (or the one in the updated controls scheme).
Posted September 23, 2015
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CharlesGrey: Now the world just needs a proper System Shock 3. :D
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JudasIscariot: Well...it would have to have something to do with the event that took place at the end of SS2 which, knowing the end, would have way too much potential for being campy and just not done well, imho.
For all I care it could have a completely different story, or one only loosely connected to the first two games. Mostly I'd just like to see more of SS2's gameplay and setting/atmosphere, brought up to date with modern visuals and so on. Bioshock is a great game, but didn't quite have the same depth and complexity as System Shock.

Oh, and thanks for the replies everyone. I'll give the game a closer look, but even if I don't buy a copy now, I'm sure I'll pick it up sooner or later during one of GOG's many promos.
Post edited September 23, 2015 by CharlesGrey
Posted September 23, 2015
You know, if the horrifying A.I. that is taking over GOG fixes the issues with the forum and Chat I might actually welcome the new regime with open arms.
Posted September 23, 2015
GoG you never cease to amaze me. First Redguard and Battlespire, now Sysem Shock. Making the classics available to the masses that's what I love to see :)
Posted September 23, 2015
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Grargar: Hey, the first review is by G-Doc! Long time no see!
I noticed it this morning.
Posted September 23, 2015
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JLH: What kind of guitar? I play too! :)
This one (first image) :D Epiphone Futura Custom Prophecy

It will be here Friday... need more space for guitars...
This will be my third. My other two are a generic strat, and an Epiphone SG Special. Along with my brothers two basses and his SG G400, we are running out of room (second image) :P
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Post edited September 23, 2015 by coryrj1995
Posted September 23, 2015
You know I've always wanted to be a personal fitness trainer. ‘Look at you, slacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone – panting and sweating as you run on my treadmill.’
Posted September 23, 2015
Thank you GOG! Finally I can replay this friggen cyberpunk classic.
Posted September 23, 2015
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phaolo: Now people, if you're not scared by old UIs, play this before SS2 please.
I bought SS2 as soon as it came here, never played it back in the day, and have resisted playing it ~ promised myself I wouldn't play it ~ until System Shock was re-released. It was beginning to feel like I'd never play SS2, but today gOg has allowed me to keep that promise to myself.


Well done, gOg, and a hearty Thank You to all involved - including Looking Glass and Night Dive - for getting this game to the catalog.
Posted September 23, 2015
Now, for GOG to become the perfect Old Games store it only needs Mechwarrior 2 and the original Xcom trilogy.
Posted September 23, 2015
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Elmofongo: Well I never seen the film so I would not know. And that was someone from the Jewish Community that called it Kitschy.
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yyahoo: You're criticizing a heavily lauded movie that you've never seen by quoting someone else via one adjective. There's not much more to say about it than that. It does not matter the race or religion of who you are quoting.
Besides Schindler's List is one of those movies I want to see. (Like Lawrance of Arabia and 2001: A Space Odyssey)

I already saw Speilberg's Munich awhile ago so this is one of those Speilberg movies I have not seen yet.
Post edited September 23, 2015 by Elmofongo
Posted September 23, 2015
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phaolo: 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 sold it?
Explain!
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apehater: night dive demand money for actually just buying a piece of paper, which confirms that they have the rights. thats not consistent, reasonable or fair, its just law. if you pay that money, it won't be used to create something like a successor, thats not sustainable.

and yes they sholdn't force kolya to remove that free download.

i'm not intending to discuss further, why night dive's shady attempt to force us to pay for something they had no hand in creating, fixing or enchancing and dare to demand 10 bucks for it, while it uses community made fixes.
Apehater, can you do me a personal favour and stop posting with words you do not understand. Just say "I want free game for free and the owner of said rights should go to hell"

We get it. The rest of us adults live in the normal world. That one with the whole capitalism thing.....

Oh never mind. Just noticed where you're posting from... I guess it's different being from Cuba- honest question for you then - Is there such a thing as intellectual property rights in Cuba? If not how would one have a quality guarantee? Like if I can call my homemade computer peripherals 'Razer' brand and charge the same is there no legal recourse for online purchases where I have intentionally misled purchasers?
Posted September 23, 2015
awesome game instant wishlist
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