Comments on: Horror Game Classics – System Shock

By: simoneer

simoneer — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:46:04 +0000

Ah, yes. Got this game for just about a dollar on a second-hand shop! The CD version, at least. Complete with box and manual. Felt extremely lucky.

By: Salenstormwing

Salenstormwing — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:38:12 +0000

Spoony played X-com? Nice. That's still one of my favorite strategy/tactical games of all time. The game was pretty scary too, especially when stuff like Crystlids showed up and started eating soldiers and civilians and they'd spawn more and more of them, till you're just fighting to survive to make it back to the ship alive. I hope he does a review of the game at some point.

By: capthavic

capthavic — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:59:59 +0000

IMO System Shock 2 is easily one of, if not the best game of all time. I was late to the PC gaming party (seriously only had a tandy comp till 2000) and almost missed it. So glad I didn't cuz it's simply amazing.

By: EvaUnit02

EvaUnit02 — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:43:00 +0000

SS1 was released as freeware on eve on SS2’s release back in 1999 or something like that.

Grab SS-Portable from here:-
http://www.strangebedfellows.de/index.php/topic,211.0.html
It’s a pre-packaged CD version (the version with the speech pack) with the high resolution mod, playable under Windows XP and at least Vista (dunno bout Win7, but highly likely will work).

If you have a dual core CPU, I’d run under DOSbox instead of using VDMSound. The latter is an ancient solution and was superseded by DOSbox long ago. VDMSound only works under XP anyway.

DOSbox is the only way to get a lot of DOS games playable on 64-bit OSes, since they removed 16-bit support from 64-bit Windows.

From Wikipedia:-
“As opposed to DOSBox, which emulates an entire x86 personal computer with DOS, VDMSound emulates only the sound hardware. All other aspects of DOS emulation are managed natively by the Windows operating system’s 16-bit subsystem (NTVDM) through virtualization. This results in reduced system load (and thus games will run faster than under DOSBox on the same hardware specifications), at the expense of reduced compatibility (see limitations below.)”

By: spoonchao

spoonchao — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:05:40 +0000

I also love the way it explains how everything works in a realistic way, the weapons, systems, everything.

I also love it’s explanation of soda, especially the part where it talks about Coke and pepsi destroying bottling plants

By: spoonchao

spoonchao — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:02:49 +0000

Wow spoony, lots of plot mistakes:

System shock 1:
You do not create shodan, you merely remove her ethical constraints as per Diego’s request.

SS2
They are not techno organisms, they are organic life that shodan created, that have built the cyber nurses their self and transform humans into human alien hybrids.

But nice that you recognize the series spoony.

By: Irrediate

Irrediate — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:23:44 +0000

Thanks a bundle for making this video!
The System Shock series were pretty unknown to me, but i gave it a look.
Managed to get my hands on System Shock 2, after getting it to work i was hooked after 10 minutes xD
I’m sure to have tons of fun with this game, ii didnt get very far playing it yesterday so i still have a whole game ahead of me.

Again thanks a bundle, love your work,
and i hope you review more games like this.

By: tootired

tootired — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:28:52 +0000

It’s funny how Spoony gets the plot wrong. The hacker is brought in secret to the space station to remove the ethical programming on Shodon so the exec in charge of the station could do illegal actions without his company being aware of it.

By: Brit John

Brit John — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:13:53 +0000

System Shock 2 was the dogs bollocks, the scariness is really well laced together and IMHO it stands up well to later games trying to do something in a similar vein. For example, Doom 3 tried to be scary by using light/darkness and monsters popping [cheaply] out of nowhere to bite your arse or mug you in some confusing pitch black corridor – this is all pretty superficial one-trick pony stuff. In SS2, the multilayered creepiness and tension is subtler but stronger.

I’m an arachnophobe but I kept them spiders in. I really *hate* them, but that’s the kind of reaction that’s too rare to get from a game to waste, hehe.

By: Cassave

Cassave — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:45:03 +0000

System Shock 2 is the scariest game I’ve ever played. I had actual nightmares about those cyber-nannies. And then the constant worry of inventorizing, conserving ammo, fixing your guns.