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System Shock 2 Draft

🕑 Added 2024-05-01 05:21:50 +0000 UTC

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Brendan Hinman

BOY time has only thrown the weakness of Levine’s writing into starker contrast hasn’t it ?

Brendan Hinman

Oh hey a defining game of my life! Multiplayer mod with JP is one of my fondest memories I’m super excited to hear your take on it! I once spent days of prep and god knows how much hardware setup to replicate the Polito reveal in the context of a wrestling show

Peter S

I enjoyed the video. Brought back the nostalgia of playing it. I wouldn't have been so hard on the SS2 plot twist though. The "person you thought was a good guy is actually a bad guy" became a trope for Looking Glass games but was this the first time it was done? Your suggestions on how the story could have been improved continued to rattle around in my head for hours after the video ended. Changing the voices of the crew members from a groan of "Help me" to a pleasant "Are you lonely? Join us" would have made the voice of the Many to be more alluring. Still not convincing though; the brain worms still give me the creeps decades later.

The Packbats

Having never played either System Shock, this is really interesting! I was struck at the evolution of the graphical style of the 3D rendering, but I couldn't articulate why - it's just, like ... creamier, or something. Small note: SHODAN is decidedly self-aggrandizing, so as a reference to mythology it would make sense ... but in the past few years it has become very trendy to equate narsissistic personality disorder and abusiveness in a way which makes life *very* hard for NPD folks. The game's not about NPD and, in 2024, saying "narcissistic" makes people *think* NPD, so it's probably better to pick a synonym or something and avoid that whole can of worms.