Excited for the System Shock remake? I certainly am! Nightdive Studios recently sent a special demo to backers but to keep the hype going for everyone else they've also doing a long new video.
This is not the same as the demo recently released to the public, this is a bigger version that Nightdive will continue to update and backers keep hold of it until the game releases. You might want a coffee ready and the video is over an hour long but it's a good look into what to expect from this hotly anticipated System Shock reboot.
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Following a successful Kickstarter campaign back in 2016, it's suffered delays while they switched from Unity to Unreal and also Nightdive took a break to reconsider what they were building back in 2018. Since then, regular updates have shown great progress and it's hopefully going to be out this year.
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System Shock is, like Half-Life 1 & 2, an important game I've missed back then. I still wonder if I should visit them in their enhanced versions. I'm somewhat allergic to outdated 3D graphics.
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System Shock is, like Half-Life 1 & 2, an important game I've missed back then. I still wonder if I should visit them in their enhanced versions. I'm somewhat allergic to outdated 3D graphics.This is why I'm excited for it. I like retro-styled stuff, but not when it's an an actual old game where even the interface and controls and bad. Games have come a long way :)
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This is why I'm excited for it. I like retro-styled stuff, but not when it's an an actual old game where even the interface and controls and bad. Games have come a long way :)
Absolutely. At least for my 80ies youth, it's best for most games to remember them dearly instead of revisiting them.
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walther von stolzing Jan 30, 2020
System Shock is, like Half-Life 1 & 2, an important game I've missed back then. I still wonder if I should visit them in their enhanced versions. I'm somewhat allergic to outdated 3D graphics.
The original SS is older than the first generation of real 3d engines though; so the graphics don't really suffer from nausea inducing texture blurriness (which makes the original HL difficult to look at), they're more like Doom & Duke Nukem 3d. The huge drawback *used to be* the utterly quaint control scheme (no mouse look, hotkeys all over the place, requiring more finger dexterity than emacs for simple movement) but the 'enhanced editions' fixed that, so the game is very 'playable' nowadays.
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System Shock is, like Half-Life 1 & 2, an important game I've missed back then. I still wonder if I should visit them in their enhanced versions. I'm somewhat allergic to outdated 3D graphics.I'm entertaining this idea myself, currently I have installed Retroarch and looking through my older games that I enjoyed or never finished.
I must say, is better than expected. All these new available enhancements like higher res, shaders save-states and whatnot combined with the ability to tweak the controls to modern standards, are really, well...game changers.
And after a game or two, your tolerance to old graphics is increased, so yeah, you might enjoy even System Shock, old style.
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I'm not sure why they went to that saturated palette look and feel that resembles the old game. I.e. note very strong blues. I get the need to reproduce the feel of the old game, but what's the point to do it literally in color schemes? The old game was doing it due to limitations of the technology. I kind of liked where Nightdive were going with it in their previous plans, before they suddenly reversed course and went with this.
Last edited by Shmerl on 30 January 2020 at 5:48 pm UTC
Last edited by Shmerl on 30 January 2020 at 5:48 pm UTC
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Luke_Nukem Jan 30, 2020
Arrrgh. They need to fix that damned pipe attack animation. Nobody swings anything with a two-handed grip spaced so far apart like that.
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Do you think this game still coming on Linux?I hope, but how it is now, it is playable under proton.
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ElectricPrism Jan 31, 2020
Wow that was a really awesome watch. From the stream it seems like a lot of their technical decisions have been paying off at producing a really immersive and fun world. I don't want to get my hype too crazy but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't smirking at the prospect of playing this on Linux on release. SystemShock helped inspire Portal and I love the universe, I hope that the universe doesn't merge with fan-fare too much and become self-aware of us like StarWars 6-9.
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System Shock is, like Half-Life 1 & 2, an important game I've missed back then. I still wonder if I should visit them in their enhanced versions. I'm somewhat allergic to outdated 3D graphics.
While Black Mesa is not the 100% purist approved original Half Life 1 experience, it's the closest thing and 1.0 is supposedly around the corner.
Half-Life 2 aged really well IMO and its environmental lighting its still impressive even if the textures are a bit blurry. There's a bunch of upscale mods for that.
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There's also the Cinematic Mod, but we're entering cursed territory and I will speak no further of evil.
The gameplay is still very solid, but unfortunately, none of these will replicate the jaw drop of me and my cousins booting up HL2 circa 2004-2005 and then spending 30 minutes at the starting train station just throwing mundane objects around and drooling at graphics. Then the second thing you've really missed out is the few years after each release which saw a plethora of some great multiplayer mods, most of which are dead now, though Neotokyo and Zombie Panic Source still have people playing and the latter got updated recently.
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The gameplay is still very solid, but unfortunately, none of these will replicate the jaw drop of me and my cousins booting up HL2 circa 2004-2005 and then spending 30 minutes at the starting train station just throwing mundane objects around and drooling at graphics.
Sure, that's lost.
I did play the very first version of Half-Life back then, read that it's got incredible realistic physics, and managed to have the first box I met stuck in the wall. Quit this game, "What sh*t is this!?!" :D Well, not one of my best decisions.
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The gameplay is still very solid, but unfortunately, none of these will replicate the jaw drop of me and my cousins booting up HL2 circa 2004-2005 and then spending 30 minutes at the starting train station just throwing mundane objects around and drooling at graphics.
Sure, that's lost.
I did play the very first version of Half-Life back then, read that it's got incredible realistic physics, and managed to have the first box I met stuck in the wall. Quit this game, "What sh*t is this!?!" :D Well, not one of my best decisions.
You're talking HL2 right?
HL1 had nothing that could be called physics engine that I'm aware of. :)
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I did play the very first version of Half-Life back then, read that it's got incredible realistic physics, and managed to have the first box I met stuck in the wall. Quit this game, "What sh*t is this!?!" :D Well, not one of my best decisions.
You're talking HL2 right?
HL1 had nothing that could be called physics engine that I'm aware of. :)
I need to take a look...
(Could make a funny blog entry, me being dumb. Again. :D )
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