System Shock is now for Sale on GoG

[Goggles2114]

The original 90's game is for sale complete with voices, cutscenes, and all. NightDive, unlike last time with Shock2, actually worked with the community rather than simply swiping the hard work of community members and claiming their 'expert tech ninjas' did the job.

 

http://www.gog.com/game/system_shock_enhanced_edition

 

NightDive sent a takedown notice to SystemShock.org to get rid of System Shock Portable since that was the full game plus dosbox. In that notice they basically explained they own the franchise rights to System Shock. All of it. Not just digital distribution. This means we will not ever have a shitty EA backed mobile game that's microtransaction hell.

 

Version Features:

- the game runs natively under windows, no (slow) dosbox emulation

- toggle able mouselook mode (smart, auto-disables itself when the player is interacting with objects)

- higher resolution support, up to 1024*768 (able to set custom ones as well, even widescreen)

- windowed mode

- scaling smoothing/filtering

- remappable keys

- no resolution changing when entering full map

- resolution and other settings now stored outside the savegames, eliminating the need to always set them anew once a game is started

- storing the settings externally also allows the log audio to be enabled by default

- can make screenshots by hitting printscreen (stored in \res\gen)

- couple of fixes to scaling, brightness and onscreen text

 

They offer mp3 and FLAC versions of the soundtrack, but both use really poor soundfonts so I wouldn't bother. Better to grab the MIDI and find a good soundfont to make your own.

 

Discuss, please!

[Icebox]

Nice

[Alyxx Thorne]

Coming to Steam as well afaik

[Goggles2114]

Something I'd discovered. Til it gets patched the last fight against SHODAN is unwinnable. It'll get fixed, but if you can't win don't feel bad.

 

And if you CAN win... YOUTUBE IT! You are freaking awesome.

[Alyxx Thorne]

Something I'd discovered. Til it gets patched the last fight against SHODAN is unwinnable. It'll get fixed, but if you can't win don't feel bad.

 

And if you CAN win... YOUTUBE IT! You are freaking awesome.

Hah

[Icebox]

Something I'd discovered. Til it gets patched the last fight against SHODAN is unwinnable. It'll get fixed, but if you can't win don't feel bad.

 

And if you CAN win... YOUTUBE IT! You are freaking awesome.

 

Another reason to not buy anything day one.

[Goggles2114]

Does come with the 'classic' version you can play under dosbox or even an actual dos system if you have a retrobox set up.

 

So you're not ultra-screwed. It's just the windows wrapper doesn't have the fact SHOAN's behavior is tied to cpu cycles taken into account.