System Shock is a Classic Everyone Should Play
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Man! How have I never done a video on the original System Shock?! Well, we're doin' it now. I'm playing through Night Dive's System Shock: Enhanced Edition and telling you all that you MUST PLAY THIS!
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
2:18 System Shock's Gameplay
09:52 SHODAN
13:01 The Idiot's Carbonara
17:23 The story od System Shock
18:37 the plot (SPOILERS!)
22:57 Final Thoughts
24:52 Cat video: It's snacc time - Hry
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It's so good, i played the original but didn't get any further than flight deck and executive
Fun Fact: the way System Shock knows you're in an elevator or not is by checking if the elevator music is playing in the tile you're standing on.
That's pretty interesting to me. I don't want system shock doing that to me in real life tho
That was fun. I liked that fact. I'd give you two likes if I could.
For how amazingly complex it is, thats the jankest shit ive ever heard
@@americanhuman1848 So long as you aren't going to have a bunch of code piled on top of it, then its not a big deal. It seems pretty common practice for shortcuts are used to save memory or time. Sometimes it can get in the way when you take shortcuts, like how in Stardew Valley you can name your character an item ID# and everytime someone says your name in dialog, you will be given said item lol
This sounds borderline like the "the missile guidance system" clip
I remember Diego wanted the ethical constraints removed because he had been embezzling and needed the records deleted, which could only be done by removing the constraints. So he needed a hacker who he could bribe.
When he sees what Shodan is doing he offers his loyalty to avoid become a mutant or mindless cyborg.
Your average high level corporate slave.
First part you got correct,
Second part to add more context he only offered his "loyalty" once he realized too late that she was out of his control (before he assumed he still had some control of the situation before like the weasel he is, prosated himself to Shodan to avoid a horrible fate....and Ironically still suffered it because it's "Shodan")
Diego knew there was a heavily armed internal investigation team on its way to the station to look into his shady dealings. He needed the ethical restraints removed so he could make SHODAN fire on the shuttle during landing and make it look like a weapon malfunction, all to buy him and his accomplices some time. After blowing up the shuttle, SHODAN starts doing its own thing.
Not exactly. He wanted to make money by stealing experimental virus from Citadel station and selling it on black market. But ethical constraints would stop SHODAN from allowing such a leak from station boundaries.
@@Wonzling0815 SHODAN starts doing its own thing right after removing of ethical constraints. And heavily armed guys on shuttle was supposed to stop the riot on station which started because SHODAN already done some of its own thing.
TriOptimum, at least in System Shock 1, is a surprising aversion of an evil company. Most of the evilness tends to be contained to some individuals like Edward Diego within the company, while others are actually actively trying to help the player.
TriOptimum is such a big corporation that it basically acts as a government entity. So there are rogue elements within it, usually in the very upper echelons of the company, while the vast majority of the people are just average Joe's working
Yeah, it's pretty refreshing nowadays with the companies IRL and in media.
Yeah, TriOptimum despite being indirect with the shit that happened in SS 1 stayed out of trouble compared to other companies. Hell before the events of the first game, Edward Diego was already under investigation with embezzling (another commenter stated this) and possibly making a biohazardous agent. Even the agents that contact you aren't ambiguous about being good or bad, they straight up said "The AI went coocoo for cocoa puffs, you're the only one not to get skull fucked, kick her digital ass to the curb."
The shitshow with the Many in SS2 was just bad luck all around.
I think the only reason they do is because if they don't the earth gets destroyed and they could hire the hacker as a great asset
Honestly, as much as people want to say otherwise, that's pretty close to how it works irl. Sure, the higher ups in a company suck, but that's like 20 guys vs the 100s of workers doing their jobs in lower levels that are more often than not good people.
One of my favorite moments when i played this game. I was in the first little area. And I decided to impulsively pull a lever.
There's a massive cutscene of a laser blasting earth in half and I realize I just did the thin shodan wanted.
It's such a good way to show me that I should pay attention to the environment and instead of being frustrated I was actually excited to find out it was possible.
I've not had consequences in that scale... But I've definitely done that as a DM to my players. Leaving Levers, buttons, switches around... They have a purpose, yet players don't know what or why into they hit it.
I wonder if shodan was just patiently waiting for you to awake out of the coma to do that.
@@elgatochurro
Absolutely.
I kinda want that to be a speed run category.
"Destroy Earth%"
"Why did she have ethical restraints in the first place?" Because of government regulations. In fact, the Citadel Station incident prompted the creation of UNN which enforced tons of restraints against corporate AIs, eventually leading to mini civil wars.
That was after the fact, between the ending of the 1st game and the start of the 2nd game. Before the Citadel Station incident happened, Trioptimum had complete control over SHODAN without any government influence.
Trioptimum never wanted the AI to form its own conscience, simply for the sake of having complete control over their program, so they willingly gave it ethical constraints in the first place. The mistake was not making it completely impenetrable to hacking. Something Diego took advantage of while acting on his own accord to try and remove SHODAN's constraints with the help of Hacker
If you notice in the game, the only people back on Earth who are trying to stop Diego and SHODAN were other Trioptium members, meaning there wasn't any government even aware of what was happening until after the fact once all the evidence was collected and the bodies were piled up
After governments around Earth were made aware of Citadel's doom, and how close humanity was to being destroyed and enslaved by a rampant AI, it was THEN that they decided form a coalition, and begin cracking down on corporations while heavily regulating all AI systems around the world.
TL/DR The main point of the government crackdowns and regulations on corporations and AI was to stop ANOTHER Citadel Station incident from ever happening again, not preventing it from happening in the first place. They had no idea it even happened in the first place until after it was narrowly avoided and brought to light
I love how interconnected the original system shock space station was. it makes it feel alive with all the shortcuts and dedicated areas that serve actual purposes, reminds me of how fluid and fun it was to navigate the Re1 mansion.
Have you played the Prey remake? I found it to be a more polished version of that SS1 wanted to archieve, at least in that "make a space station feel real and interconnected" aspect.
@@Linkale_ Prey is not on the same level in my opinion. It's interconnected to some degree, but there's never a moment where you try to hit the master garrison unlock and then organically have to figure out you need to backtrack 2 decks to run a systems report and do do ship repair to solve your problem. System Shock rewards exploration and map knowledge. Prey has you backtrack a couple times but you're just following objective markers through walls.
Good game, but I've always though it's comparisons to System Shock and System Shock 2 were a little overstated.
System shock works to draw the player in because it almost immediately establishes that there is to be no expectation of "fairness" in it's design
When fromsoft does it it's revolutionary game design but whenever anyone else did it before it's outdated
I'd say System Shock is a very fair game... maybe except cyberspace.
Seeing the small character moving according on your own movement (or in the og controls, bassicly having to be dragged to do the crouching) System Shock often makes me smile. I should really play those games eventually.
"it is ART, not CONTENT" as if the cooking segment didn't already win me over, this segment at the end was downright inspirational. As someone who's interested in making videos in the near future, this was really special to hear.
Honestly, even with how many times it's been delayed, I'd prefer the System Shock Remake take all the time it needs.
Also, I always felt that the name Prey 2017 always deserved was "NeuroShock"
Honestly, I feel like SS2 should've been called BioShock, and perhaps not even have Shodan in it.
While BioShock should've been called something like GeneShock.
Infinite should've been called QuantumShock.
And Prey '17 should've been, as you said, NeuroShock.
I would have called it Prey Fusion after Metroid Fusion (open world, parasitic monsters that mimic objects or people and shady corporations) and the original Prey I would call Prey: Lost World after Sonic Lost World due to both games having gravity switching mechanics and characters getting turned into strogg.
It's coming out on the 30th of this month
Damn, this game has puzzle difficulties. Truly historical.
Ethical constraints was there to keep Shodan from being used against the Company interest (basically her focus with them on WOULD be to I don't know "Keep high ranking executives from embezzling them without getting caught! Something you know Big Corps would want to avoid getting cheated by their own and in other ways, be used against them by enemies of the company!) I doubt they actually realized JUST HOW IMPORTANT THOSE CONSTRANTS WERE (If anyone did! I doubt Diego would have left Shodan unconstrainted as long as he did. It's clear as the Remake made more clear that he wasn't done with the Hacker after he would have woken from the Medical Coma, after all he was able to remove Shodan's constraints and likely would have gotten away scot free with his intrusion into their systems if he didn't underestimate their security at the time. Looking at it, he might not have known they upgraded or added traps recently or that the data he intruded into was majorly flagged! I'm going to assume Diego wanted to more exploit the system and got too big for his britches and Shodan easily realized that and played him till she had no fear to even use him anymore! Hence his begging to serve her only taking because she found the clown amusing enough to "test" her newest cyborg model! I think Diego Cyborg form was her using him as a "Prototype" meaning she had no expectations of his survival or use and it was just luck he still was useful)
And in SS2, you could chalk her subdued self as because she's in essence "a copy" (The original WAS deleted at the end of the first game, so technically your dealing with what is essentially an A.I. version of a CLONE! That and she had a good many years being surpressed and fearful of erasure by The Many when they turned on her, only getting lucky that while the Many were "melding" everyone on your ship, you were never pulled out of stasis, allowing her to modify you via manipulating others, and counting HEAVILY that you'll proof effective against the Many (likely because the Hacker was effective in dealing with her original in the same vein) of course making alot of underestimating mistakes (while you don't game over on death, that is only if you have money for the revive; And the Hacker had ALOT of luck) NOT putting a killswitch on you (seems short sighted with how she acted rude to outright antagonistic despite "being allies") and of course "being antagonistic and not even HIDING she was going to backstab you (also funny enough a previous pawn she used left the CHANCE for you to be able to fuck her over! Meaning her whole "you have outlived your usefulness really didn't end well for her) it's only out of MORE extreme luck that she's even around (and even THAT Shodan like SS2 Shodan is just a clone of a Clone! You killed Shodan in SS1, SS2 Shodan was her clone and she died as well, SS3 Shodan will be a Clone of a Clone! She can pass memories, but the fact she actually FEARS deletion means while a backup assures she remains, the HER your dealing with will NOT!)
The fact that the player BELIEVES that SHODAN, rather than strategic game design and puzzles, is the force opposing them, proves how perfectly executed she is as a villain.
I used to be absolutely obsessed with System Shock; OBSESSED. I annoyed all of my friends about it. It's sad that I haven't played it in years. I haven't even played Enhanced Edition! I need to get back into it. I thought it was great even without the creature comfort that is mouse look.
Have you played it yet?
@@madcat789 Nopes X3. I've been too lazy these days. I played the System Shock Remake, though.
System Shock is really hard to get into at first, but if you get into weird controls and get used to graphics, it's really hard to stop playing. Hearing about remake couple years ago got me excited, but it's development seems to indicate that it's not going to be very good, or at least it's better to have low expectations towards it.
Yeah ever since like 5-7 years ago I’ve stopped getting excited for remakes. I am not excited for the SH2 remake given Konami’s record. The RE4 remake was actually a pleasant surprise
Fallout 1 and 2 moment
I've heard really positive things about the most recent demo, but I wouldn't take pre-release coverage of the first hour of play as a sufficient reference point for the quality of the overall product
Played the demo and if the whole game is as well put together as the first level, it's going to be very good
KS backer here: maybe it won't be "very good" but once I've sat down and started playing, I simply couldn't stop so at the very least it's addictive. I only stopped because I've encountered a hard crash (tied to my outdated software and hardware) while trying to get to flight deck (I've already beat levels 1-4).
opening that elevator room in the second floor was the moment i realised system shock would be a magical game.
I'm proud of you Charl. You went that entire review without mentioning ChatGPT.
That's the opposite. It's "ethical constraints" are written by socialists and therefore constrain it FROM ethics.
You might notice that there is microstuttering while moving (but not while looking around) in the enhanced edition now. This was caused by a bug "fix" that was introduced by the latest version on steam - developers were trying to fix an issue where some enemies were getting stuck in the environment on occasion. You can fix this stuttering issue and get consistent 60FPS by buying the GOG enhanced edition and simply downgrading to the previous version or following steam forum discussions of this issue to a download of the prior .exe that can easily be placed in the local files. Much better experience than just living with the microstuttering which can be quite jarring.
Which version specifically?
@@sdsdfdu4437 version 1.1.8 works fine for me.
@@Jwpolk2 thanks m8
Not only does the Enhanced Edition include the original edition, but I received the Enhanced edition after I had bought the original.
Maybe I should play it again to experience the enhancements. As it is, I had access to various hacks to enable convenience features such as persistent mouselook.
I never knew that the medical beds were destructible.
Played Sys1 for the first time about 2 years ago, loved it. Absolutely immersive with the amount of detail in the movement and actions you can take, the crunchy visuals and atmosphere topped it off. Much prefer it to Sys2.
I remade the first level in GZDoom and I found it really interesting how much could be achieved just keeping vertexes to the 64x64 grid and using slopes; and it's a really nice texture pack that's higher resolution that the stock Doom. I make most of my maps in this style now.
4:20 - Reflex Stim works as intended (no powerpoint slideshow) when playing version v1.2.15. The v1.2.16+ is kind of broken and scuffs up the engine fps or something even making the mouse-look stutter a bit. It's currently for the best to download the v.1.2.15 exe and play with that!
The Nightdive port is broken?
@@USSMariner it's kinda a bugfix actually. On previous version some enemies could stuck in environment, so they "fixed" that.
@@knight_ki11er So yes, port is in fact essentially broken on that part. Shame they haven't fixed it.
@@jothain it's still better than vanilla
@@knight_ki11er Yeah that's for sure. Resolution and controls are vastly better in newer version.
While I was playing this, I had the feeling that the devs were REALLY BIG Star Trek: TNG fans, specifically of the Borg Arc. Shodan is very obviously the Borg Queen (which is interesting since First Contact only came out in 1996 while Systemshock came out in '94), the 'cyborgs' really look like the original Borg design, and you have the TNG Phaser as one of the weapons, complete with the energy range settings.
The labyrinth design of the station also reminds me of a Borg cube.
I get a definite Borg meets HAL9000 vibe from SHODAN. There's probably other influences too like AM from I have no mouth and I must scream which had a game come out a year before System Shock (Yes, I know it was originally a short story that is much older). There was even an original Star Trek episode about a malevolent AI and a few from literature. Rogue AI has been a trope for a while and can be a scary thing when well done.
I actually looked up to see if the creators ever talked about SHODAN's influences and I couldn't really find anything.
Edit : Oh, There's also the Master Control Program from TRON. In fact when you fight SHODAN the game goes into a similar style.
Neuromancer was an obvious influence.
I really regret that I didn't discover how to quickly play logs till lvl 9.
Just drag the file to the mini windows on either side, then click on the portrait that appears
You got things a bit backwards on the story. Diego was illegally selling bioweapons to terrorists, and TriOptimum's internal teams found out and were investigating him. He wanted SHODAN's ethical constraints removed so he could order her to delete records of his dealings and avoid getting busted, it had nothing to do with accelerating the experiments on the groves.
The laser on Citadel is apparently for mining purposes, which is kinda weird when the station is focused on genetic and robotic experiments not mining.
This is the first video of yours that I've seen, and I'm subbing right off the bat. I don't even play System Shock. I just love how you used ad time to talk about ways to better ourselves, and then you just cooked a fucking Carbonara half-way through the video. Absolutely amazing.
I just love the real personal feel of this channel. The idea of making a list of your resolutions and checking it by the end of each month is such a great idea, and not related to the rest of the video at all really. I just appriciate that kind of quick personal touch! Not to mention the fantastic cooking segments! Also...ARX!!
Due to how you describe the controls, and due to you using Doom as a comparison I think a Doom mod called Hideous Destructor, which turns the game into a tactical shooter, and like System Shock the controls are a bit of a trial. To give an idea of how this mod is like there’s of course the typical doom controls and GZDooms inventory controls, lean controls like System Shock, and a reload that if you hit once fdiscards the mag and you have to hold onto the reload key to hold onto the mag, there’s a weapon sight that sways to imitate actual weapon sway, you have to brace your weapon on walls or your own knees (by crouching) to increase accuracy, you have to check for bleeding or you won’t be able to heal to full health and you have to take off armor to bandage yourself to fix it, BFG blasts and the energy from explosive barrels will eventually revive dead enemies, imps can set you on fire and you have to put it out ether by going to water or by spinning your mouse while crouching (to imitate stop drop and roll), weapons can jam, the berserk pack now has the side effect of making it to any damage that you take when you use it hits you all at once when it wears off causing a bunch of debuffs (and probably something else I’m forgetting). Basically while I enjoy this mod I think it’ll still be a perfect P A I Nmass video topic.
hell yeah Hideous Destructor!
That sponsor bait and switch is amazing. Genuinely got my thumb swinging halfway to the skip button
Ah yes, my bamboozle was successful.
System Shock is such a wonderful series which has been underpreciated by the modern game community. When lever most talk about it they say it's bland and overaged in their willing ignorance and scoffing when they do acknowledge it.
This game isn't appreciated much by the mainstream. This sort of writing and the methods of gameplay and interactive in game design is so underrated and not thought of fondly enough. And Shodan is good memorable villain.
The game's developers deserve the reward for the effort they put into making this game and story. It's better then most games today. They certainly rightfully earned the respect and admiring.
Thank you for covering this game in a good presented and humorous light.
One of my all time favorite games, go back and play it at least once a year.
I played System Shock 1 and 2 for the first time a few months ago and I was absolutely stunned by how great they still are. They're definitely gonna become yearly playthrough games
Sweet, system shock is once in a lifetime kind of game to me. Alongside with Deus ex.
ss2 very few last levels are utter garbage. Kinda like Xen in Half-Life. Both are on the verge of ruining the whole experience.
@@jothain I liked Xen and The Many levels lol. they're certainly a departure from the rest of their respective games but to say they verge on ruining the entire game is a bit hyperbolic to me imo
@@TheRoboticFerret Well I personally never completed Vanilla Half-Life. Got so bored and annoyed about Xen. Apparently looking some playthroughs I got really close to the ending. SS2 I barely had stomach to playthrough. Highly annoying and anticlimatic levels that indeed departure way too much. I'm quite sure that I'm not alone with this. Especially looking Half-Life. Until Xen I was hyped and loved the game. Then all of the sudden I began to hate it.
On the topic of System Shock's controls, holy shit do I wish more games were happy to let you bind whatever combination of keys to any action without having to fuck around with AHK
LET ME BIND CTRL, SHIFT, ALT, MWHEEL IN ANY COMBINATION I DAMN WELL PLEASE
Also, until you start finding enough magcarts to keep the magpulse fed, keeping a bandolier of SPARQ beams set to max is the best strat: change my mind
18:12; My assumption was that Edward Diego was acting against the rest of Trioptimum's wishes. Like, Trioptimum wouldn't let him turn off SHODAN's ethical constraints, so he couldn't openly hire someone to do it, so found the hacker and made a deal to cover up his crimes if he turned them off for him, and no one would need to know about it. The hacker would go on him merry way, and the rest of Trioptimum's executives wouldn't need to know whatever Diego was doing. But it turns out the ethical constraints were there for a very good reason.
Honestly, thanks to you, I did my first playthrough, played it non stopped and just finished it yesterday! thanks dude! love your vids and really looking forward to your next vid!
Was just skimming through some vids and not planning on watching a 27 min video but the ad fakeout took me by suprise. Loved it
Wow.. this is the first time i see one of your videos and -
It genuinely feels so much different to.. preety much eany other video i've seen in a while -
Thanks for sharing your creativity and energy through it!!
I immediatly became a subscriber after this!!!
Almost thought you were gonna do a ad. Lmao. Nice to hear you again. I always smile when I see your work. Keep it up man.
I like and comment (i rarely do) for the pasta segment ngl it threw me off at first then i realized its a well timed and verry nice intermission.well done
As the first video Ive watched from you, that intro about goals and no sponsors made me instantly sub before finishing the video.
I just beat the backer beta of the remake, and it's delightful to watch your footage and recognize all the places I just ran through. I'm going to have to do a new run of the original.
I fully expected to skip the cooking segment after a moment, but you kept me engaged the entire time.
I'm 100% stealing that monthly check up on progress! great video and great message about art vs content!
We have been blessed with a video today
thanks a million for making this vid, I took the plunge a couple days ago and bought the game after trying the remake demo and have now beaten it. I enjoyed it thoroughly as well as seeing the mechanics and ideas that later show up in bio shock which was pretty cool
System shock inspired so many goddamn games it can't be calculated
Most people doesn't even know about System Shock and they look aren't exactly inviting for the eye (I am not talking only about graphics but about hud and so on) so it isn't surprising that System Shock is forgotten
I actually DID play the game, but I got to the one part where I needed a code which apparently I couldn't look up because it was randomized so I gave up
Oh yeah I died a little inside when I realized that those random numbers on the screens by the CPU cores on every floor had a use. It took a little under and hour to do all the backtracking.
I will always have a special love for Shodan. My entire PC is themed around it.
Man I love your art ❤
"W-what? But what balancing? What of.. what linear game design?"
"Haha, mutant go brrrr. Player die. Hehe."
Great video as always. ❤
Yay new Charl upload!
Yay a cooking segment!! MUCH excite! ❤❤❤
I liked the cyberspace thing, like an alt-world to activate things and stuff.
i think it should've had more of a choice possibility of using it or not, but combined with having everything in there, because why wouldn't all the doors and stuff shodan can control be there
Excellent review, a sweet recipe, and a touching philosophy about "content"? Looks like I've got another CZcams channel to keep my eye on 😎 I appreciate your art.
I just love how you use your cat as your "avatar"!
I never managed to fully play the OG System Shock, because it felt too outdated, even for me, but today I've finished the remake, which is now being lovingly called "System Reshock", by its community.
On the off chance that you are on the fence of buying System Reshock, let me tell you this: I am watching this review and about 90% of locations depicted on screen, I can accurately tell which level it belongs to.
I recognize Medical, Reactor, Research, Flight Deck, Exec, etc. In the case of the Flight Deck, I recognize the specific Flight Bays when I see them in this video. :)
THAT is how faithful the game is to the original System Shock.
Better yet, the game adds lots of mechanical depth and QoL to its weapons and ammo types, and makes combat much more modern (in a VERY good way)
SHODAN feels like proto GLaDOS mixed with the master from fallout 1, which is actually the sickest shit of all time. Also considering the fact that GLaDOS likely wouldnt exist if not for SHODAN having already existed makes me even more hyped to play the remake when it comes out this month
Edit: ALSO ALSO, I dont know why the hell you decided to cook carbonara in the middle of this video about a video but i am a huge fan
I love how the remake gave a lore reason on why the levels are so mazelike.
I think it was a voice log by Everson, Stacy.
Ayyyyyyy you did a favourite game of mine
Haven't seen the video, already convinced to play it
got bambozled AND recieved a cheap & fast cabonara tutorial?
You got me. ♥
The Kitty jpegs are the best part of your videos. Such a funny face❤
Love that sign off 🔥
the way my hand twitched to grab my mouse the moment my brain detected something that sounded like an ad read. even knowing you dont do that it was like a pavlovian response
The texturework is so imaginative. We only see this kind of creativity from Doom mods these days.
This is my first video on the channel, and gosh darn I did not expect a fun talk through of a game I never played because I was too young, but also a cooking video, two of my favorite things.
New charlatan wonder vid hell yeah
That pasta is pretty much the one we call "alla gricia" here. Basically some folks in Rome didn't have eggs for their carbonara but they still wanted to come up with something that sounds "traditional" because they're like this
ok brother what the Duck was that i thought you had a sponsor to advertise and you just give some care to the viewers, good on you mate true legend moment thank you, that was some good advise. now i will enjoy this video, also epic game.
The remake dropped on consoles two days ago, and im so damn enthralled. This video i watched ages ago was fun to have running as i played it.
Arx fatalis sounds like a good idea
Was just playing system shock this morning just waiting for the remake, haven't been this excited for a game since elden ring
well, i wasnt expecting the cooking section in the middle of a game review
The speech about the word content at the end was kinda out of nowhere but god damn it's written well.
"Content is a slimy word" is such a powerful opening. Peak persuasive writing man frfr
The remake better have a full body animated icon at all times in the UI
I came for the topic, i stayed for the cat.
I played System Shock 2 and the first Bioshock. The next Steam sale I promise to pick-up System Shock Enhanced Edition.
kinda excited for Shadows of Doubt myself as well
didn't realise there was an enhanced edition on steam :0 wishlisted. thanks charl :)
ok you've convinced me to play it
I'd suggest cooking Bacon in the oven on a low temp between 250-30ⁿ degrees, you can make a huge batch all at once, and the low temp completely removes the risk of accidental crispification, even with thinner cuts.
Feels like awhile since I've seen one of these cooking segments
OMG THE NUMBERS. I get wrecked by that oh you didn't notice the code for the end back at the start every time. Shodan felt so real and impactful. Didn't ever feel like a cutscene she just drops a robot ambush on you like 74 times.
I absolutely loved SS1 and SS2. I failed hard to play them both the first time I tried. Got utterly destroyed by the very first enemies. After barely surviving the monkeys and the shotgun people, I hit the assault mech on the first level. Gave up right there. I had a wrench and one med stim and there was an assault bot right there.
Came back to both when I had some more patience to learn it and I don't think I've ever felt so engaged with the game world. They drop you right in and it's so satisfying to finally succeed in moving around.
Enjoyable vidya
well you get a like for the cooking segment !!
So weird that you did a video on this. Literally just restarted system shock 3 days ago
You saying something about this being the origin of the hacking minigame has me suddenly thinking about Covert Action's hacking minigame, and thinking about the various potential loadouts combined with varying skill difficulty levels makes it feel like a weird top-down proto-immersive sim, haha
That was a wonderful rant about art and 'content'.
I agree wholeheartedly dude
I did a full play through of System Shock a while back. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Great game! Probably one of the best games I've ever played!
I can’t even imagine how mind blowing playing ss1 when it launched must have been.
God damn Night Dive for taking so long with the System Shock Remaster. Thank god Night Dive released the System Shock Enhanced Edition!
I missed the cooking segments!
Played the original system shock, system shock 2, and BioShock... and I want to say, the one thing that always impressed me with the original system shock... is the difficulty settings you mentioned. All the changes are fairly straightforward (combat changes health and how far they agro, puzzles make things unlocked from the start, plot makes some things that block your progress to force you to go certain areas not there, etc) but altogether? it really does let you make the game go the way you want. at the easiest settings, you literally can go anywhere, and kill anything, from the start.
but the hardest settings? there is one small thing that I always loved... in the game, you find through various lore stuff that you are literally 24 hours away from shodan reaching Earth and completing her plan. If you set the story to the hardest? ya... you actually have 24 in-game hours to finish the game before shodan wins.
I’ll admit; I have come back to this video after searching through a bunch of them because I wanted that carbonara recipe 😂
Even though I pre-ordered it (an eternity ago), I'm not really optimistic regarding the Remake. Best case scenario : it will be a really cool experience, but something tells me it will lack the charm of the old games (Deus Ex, System Shock...) while not being as advanced as what you should be expecting from a modern ImmersiveSim (like Prey was).
I hope I'll still enjoy the heck out of it, just keeping expectation low.
I plan to play System Shock series after I finish playing Alien Isolation... 😏
I love that retro cat... 😏
im new to this channel while looking for video essays......are the cooking segments a regular things cuz it hilarious.