PC Gaming System Shock Remastered for Pathetic Creatures of Meat and Bone

[Husky_Khan]

NightDive Studios is remastering reimagining System Shock (and later System Shock 2 Enhanced) using the Unreal 4 engine. They've been working on this since 2016, soonafter they had released the System Shock: Enhanced Edition back in 2015. After securing funds, including a successful Kickstarter campaign which generated 1.35 million dollars from over twenty thousand backers. After being in Alpha since March of 2020, they just released a trailer and available for pre-order (and with a demo) on Steam, GOG and China's Epic Games.

Here's a trailer...

 

[ParadiseLost]

Customers who pre-order this version of System Shock will receive System Shock 2: Enhanced Edition for free when SS2:EE is released.

Wow, so apparently preordering this game entitles you to a free copy of their remake of System Shock 2.

I'm going to be waiting a while for the demos of Outriders and System Shock to download on my pigeon-run internet connection...

As a rule, though, I don't preorder until there's an official release date and its within ~6 months.

 

[ParadiseLost]

I played System Shock's demo today for about 15 minutes.

Not really my type of game. Reminds me of Prey, which I wasn't very much into.

The graphics are all right. The combat is kinda weird, but that's normal for an older game like this.

I'm not too keen on the old school level design, though, or the very little emphasis on story.

 

[Battlegrinder]

I'm not too keen on the old school level design, though, or the very little emphasis on story.

I'm a bit more enthused about it, though mostly because remaking and revitalizing faithful versions of old school games is a useful reminder of why we all stopped going to that school in favor of the new, better school. Like a set of anti-nostalgia googles.

 

[ParadiseLost]

I'm a bit more enthused about it, though mostly because remaking and revitalizing faithful versions of old school games is a useful reminder of why we all stopped going to that school in favor of the new, better school. Like a set of anti-nostalgia googles.

Well, yes, but I wish NuSystem Shock was less like Classic System Shock and more like a game I would actually enjoy.

 

[Laskar]

*Makes note to try the demo*

System Shock, I'm told, is like an old-school version of Bioshock. Which means that it probably plays like an RPG from the days when nerds who had been playing tabletop games for decades made the transition to computers. Computers made possible all of these intricate systems that they had been designing in their heads, but never implemented because there's no way you could implement that many table-lookups and dice rolls into a tabletop game. They were pretty excited about the possibilities, and it took those nerds several years to get it out of their systems and learn about concepts like 'playability' and 'balance'.

Not sure if I'll enjoy it, but I want to try.