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Posted April 02, 2023
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Patejl: Come on, guys. Get some life and forget about remake for few years
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Meanwile play System Shock Enhance Edition. Thats the best System Shock available and you dont need a power plant to play in full details which is cool in these days..
Good Advice.

Also you don't need a enchanted version of System Shock 2 when you just mod the original System Shock 2 that's already on GOG.
Posted April 04, 2023
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Patejl: Come on, guys. Get some life and forget about remake for few years
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Meanwile play System Shock Enhance Edition. Thats the best System Shock available and you dont need a power plant to play in full details which is cool in these days..
I have forgotten about remake for few years multiple times already. I also already beat the Enhanced Edition multiple times, even back when it was barely more than just a re-hashed SS Portable. Lastly the remake looks, plays and runs like a game from the middle of last decade so you don't exactly need advanced hardware to run it. I haven't updated my system since 2017 and I can run the demo at 4K/60 FPS.

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discountbuyer: Also you don't need a enchanted version of System Shock 2 when you just mod the original System Shock 2 that's already on GOG.
They were talking about the Enhanced Edition of System Shock 1 - the one that actually exists.
Post edited April 04, 2023 by Shoot Man
Posted April 11, 2023
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Shoot Man: Atari SA are a French corporation ("Société anonyme" being the French equivalent of the American limited liability corporation) that are mostly known for having gone bankrupt last decade, openly expressing their interest in casinos and hotel development, for having created the "Atari token" cryptocurrency and coining the term "GFT" (giftable non-fungible tokens, i.e. just lootboxes whose money transactions are stored in blockchain format). They are currently in possession of approximately 0 game IPs that anyone has ever heard of, other than Pong and soon System Shock.
I was also worried about that, since the Atari brand went through so many Hands and is very burned.
But here a Quote from an the actual Staff from Nightdive at Doomworld:

https://www.doomworld.com/forum/post/2619587

The usual disclaimers: Stuff below is either based on public knowledge (ie. even just read the Atari wikipedia article) or is based on my opinions/personal understandings of the situation.

The most important thing to note is that the Atari company has dramatically shifted direction since around this time last year. The crypto stuff is either already discontinued or is on the way out and was separated into a different division than any of the games stuff a while back. The guy who was previously CEO and was in charge of that stuff is no longer part of the organization at all. Controversial projects like the VCS and the speaker hats pre-dated the current leadership or originated before it was in full effect. The hotels were already shut down a while back.

The guy at Atari leading this acquisition was previously the main investor in Nightdive. So from his POV he's expecting the company to continue doing what it has been doing, just with more resources at hand. Part of the buyout deal is even predicated on this continuing. The main reason for this was that growing the company any further with only Stephen's resources was becoming too difficult and it turns out that you can't throw enough people at the number of games waiting to get remastered right now.

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Post edited April 11, 2023 by kakiss4
Posted April 12, 2023
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kakiss4: But here a Quote from an the actual Staff from Nightdive at Doomworld:
Uh, OK, that's good to know NDS' main method of communication is still third-party sites totally unrelated to any of their operating storefronts or social media. But at any rate, if Haley (that's "Quasar" for readers, lead developer on the KEX team) feels uncontested by the buyout that still doesn't really say anything about System Shock which, as the NDS crowd will continually tell anyone, has an entirely different team and scope than their usual KEX flippers. We can all feel confident that NDS will be capable of continuing to add font size sliders and text-to-speech to FPS games from the 1990s, but Rosen's initial investment of $1M + the $10M buyout is still hardly enough to make a game with the parameters of the System Shock remake.

Given the amount of the buyout and the fact that Atari basically haven't released any in-house games of note in an epoch, the best case scenario here is that they're hiring NDS to do what they do best, which is paying Doom modders to add accessibility and compatibility features to first person shooters from the 1990s. I don't imagine these guys would do a worse job than the System Shock team at supporting it, but it's not their job and probably won't be their job.
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