System Shock, a true classic that's currently going through a reboot from Nightdive Studios has released a new preview trailer and it's weirdly chilled.
The chilled atmosphere comes from their choice of music. It's just thoroughly weird but also somewhat amusing. Show off a bunch of gameplay, Nightdive placed elevator music over the top and it makes for a thoroughly odd experience. Take a look below:
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We don't have an exact date for it and their recent Alpha demos have been Windows-only but it's due out proper sometime this year. This follows quite a few delays between switching game engine, a pause in development to refocus and more. Linux support is confirmed, and was actually a stretch goal during the original Kickstarter campaign back in 2016. Their campaign finished with a $1,350,700 total against the $900,000 initial goal with the Linux (and macOS) version being set at $1.1M.
At release it will be up on GOG and Steam.
On the subject of System Shock: it was getting a third entry from OtherSide Entertainment that was entirely unrelated to this reboot. System Shock 3 has since moved over to Tencent (source) so any Linux version from that is likely now not happening if System Shock 3 ever appears.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
nothing to see here...
...the elevator music, which scared me through my childhood :D
(unfortunately current demo seems to be "heavily un-optimized" on Linux :( )
Last edited by Shmerl on 14 June 2020 at 2:21 am UTC
a generic flashy shooter then. they've got it totally wrong judging by this vid.Perhaps the trailer only showed action scenes and failed to capture suspense. But this is just a guess.
nothing to see here...
ElectricPrism Jun 14, 2020
Meh, still waiting for the System Shock Enhanced Edition update. Its now 5 years since they promised that.
Forgive my ignorance, but with the source code released, is there something missing?
https://github.com/NightDive-Studio/shockmac
Maybe make a bug report asking for enhanced source code to be released?
Possible. But the essence of the original (which I think genre-wise was "just" a shooter after all) was the uneasy and nerve-tingling feeling of fear/dread/vulnerability and the big dark unknown staring at you from the pixelated darkness. The gung ho action in the trailer kinda strikes off most of that. Not to mention horrible bloom/neon/etc FX.a generic flashy shooter then. they've got it totally wrong judging by this vid.Perhaps the trailer only showed action scenes and failed to capture suspense. But this is just a guess.
nothing to see here...
No idea who thought this music was a good idea.
It is hilarious, sure, but what are they trying to sell here?
System Shock or Serious Sam?
Yeah, that trailer completely fails at delivering that tense System Shock atmosphere.Rest assured that when you play the demo, it definitely is *not* a SeriousSam-styled shooter :)
No idea who thought this music was a good idea.
It is hilarious, sure, but what are they trying to sell here?
System Shock or Serious Sam?
Luke_Nukem Jun 17, 2020
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