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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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JudasIscariot: Where are we pretending that this was entirely on us?
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Smannesman: The "Your Wish is Our Command" e-mail.
What about it? I don't work on those emails myself.
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JudasIscariot: I tested an internal build with Wine on Mint 17.2. This is the stock WINE configuration that comes with the OS, nothing sourced or added on my own and it worked out of the box. Your results may vary with different Wine versions etc. etc.
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mk47at: Thank you, Judas.

And everyone else that wrote something about this, too.
I did experience the "no music" issue on my end so again, YMMV and all that :)
Post edited September 22, 2015 by JudasIscariot
Posted September 22, 2015
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JudasIscariot: What about it? I don't work on those emails myself.
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Smannesman: The entire tone of that e-mail is "Look what we did for you!".
First it starts out with "Your wish is our command" which heavily implies that GOG did the work.
And it ends with "You voted for it, now begins the horror" again implying that GOG checked the wishlist and did the work in bringing it to the store.
We check the wishlist all the time and it is one of the many criteria we when determining whether a game gets released here in the first place.

"Your wish is our command" is a common turn of phrase that doesn't imply that we supposedly did all the work in bringing System Shock here in the first place. We signed it, QA'd the build on our end, while Night Dive did the work on the game themselves so where's the implication that we somehow did everything ourselves?
Posted September 22, 2015
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JudasIscariot: "Your wish is our command" is a common turn of phrase that doesn't imply that we supposedly did all the work in bringing System Shock here in the first place. We signed it, QA'd the build on our end, while Night Dive did the work on the game themselves so where's the implication that we somehow did everything ourselves?
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Smannesman: And As Soon As Possible cannot possibly mean it's impossible.
According to every English dictionary, no, it means just that "as soon as possible". :)
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
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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
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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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Zeraan: Are the logs audio only, or are there texts as well that I can read? Anything else that isn't deaf friendly?
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BreOl72: 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! :(
In the English version you get an audible sound whenever you get attacked regardless of direction. Not sure how this works in the French & German versions since there is no speech when reading the audio logs :)
Posted September 22, 2015
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JudasIscariot: What we have on offer is from Night Dive so you might want to ask them :)
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darthspudius: God knows why they actually care. You'd think for this ridiculous price that they would not complain. By the way, it is too damn expensive!!! :P
Nobody's forcing you to buy it :P
Posted September 22, 2015
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timppu: Works great. Enhanced edition seems to be the version people should play (remember to use "E" to disable and enable mouselook ingame), the classic versions are there for curious minds how cumbersome the original controls were. Damn, I am almost tempted to replay the game a third time now, it felt so nice playing and examining the first level again...

About the floppy version though: how come it has speech on the intro? That wasn't the case with the original floppy version, was it?
The floppy version has a separate shortcut. Did you use that one?
Posted September 22, 2015
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shmerl: Great news, thanks! I wonder though why this release is Windows only. Isn't it simply a DosBox version? What exactly can be a blocker for you legally to get a license for all platforms?
The Enhanced Edition doesn't use DOSBox :)
Posted September 22, 2015
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CharlesGrey: Now the world just needs a proper System Shock 3. :D
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.
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