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That's the absolute worst implemented Skyrim opening gag I've seen yet.

Just adding a few stock asset sounds for melee impacts would solve 90% of the combat issues.

Somewhat ironically, a laser rapier SHOULD lack weight and have no feedback from contact.

My guess regarding the drawn out animations is that they're going for the immersive part of immersive sim. The literal defnition, not necessarily what it means for the genre. I, for one, appreciate those little touches. It'd be nice if they add an option to disable these repetitive animations, though.

With the music in the first game, my take on it is that it's great music but seems like an odd fit tonally. The best example is probably the medical theme song. The music's vibe is actually very welcoming, and it draws imagery of "shopping at a store you like" or "arriving at your workplace when you have a job you like". This is an odd choice for a level where you wake up in an abandoned hospital onboard a space station controlled by a creepy-as-hell AI.

As someone who’s 0/2 on their kickstarter backings, it’s nice that this actually released

I kickstarted this game, and I personally don't mind the delays and waits tbh. I dealt with far worse projects. I should know, because I backed Mighty No. 9.

The recycler concept kinda reminds of Prey from Arkcane being able to take your junk items and swap them out for something more useful ie neuromods, ammunition, weapons and etc. The limited inventory is also, in my opinion, a nice touch. Especially for those who played SystemShock 2 are already familiar with it; it does add a level of urgency and critical thinking. Kinda like the classic Resident evil games, which you had to strategize on what items you should be collecting plus having an "item box" available does solve the limited inventory. Yes back tracking will be something that people might have to adjust, but you already had to do that in the original.

Bro going by your polls you can actually interpret is as all the people that have played 1 prefer it lol. Should include a third option for preference surveys to indicate an answer of lack of familiarity with all the options. People when surveyed will usually just answer with what their familiar with if they haven’t tried all the options, rather than abstaining from answering entirely.

I think the remake went for a scarier, sinister vibe. Thus relying more on silence and ambient sounds, I also find the soundtrack and audio logs to be a great improvement despite the soundtrack being a little low; the original audio has not aged well at all. Overall pretty happy with how it turned out, could have been worse, could have been better, but a solid installment nonetheless.

07:21 - that comment is pretty amusing to me. I've read an old "plan" file from John Carmack, where, up to the Quake 3 engine, the longest running visual complaint he got from players, were the "looney tunes effect". Where interact-able objects and map entities within the world could be easily discerned due to the difference in lighting. That happens because pre-baking shadow and lighting passes between the world itself and brush entities(part of maps that are turned into active objects, like a door, a lever, a moving platform, or a breakable window), are done differently as a means of simplifying/optimizing lighting calculations(remember the hardware of the era). The common visual telltales are; Brush entities have more simplified shading. Brush entities does not have, nor casts a shadow at all. General entities(like player and enemy characters, weapon and item pickups, world models) are lighted differently, most common real-time lighting system at the time was the technique called "goraud shading". In short; incredibly crude, very simple, but hey, it's the best way to light objects in game that doesn't melt your 8mb graphics card. It's why he's incredibly proud of being able to finally implement, unified, per-pixel lighting on the Doom 3 engine. The idea that the world itself, and the various interact-able things within that world, are now both lighted correctly, and in real-time.

I hope they remake 2 with the same ethos. This is one of the best remakes ever.

I'm actually alright with the length to the ressurection in the remake. It gives the player time to 'cool off' and think about how (and why) they snuffed it, rather than simply barrel out of the respawn and back into the fight. I appreciate it can be frustrating though, I had a few moments where I was a bit too slow with purging radiation or a biohazard damage tick and was just waiting to respawn. The audiolog animation started to get annoying towards the end as well. The audio logs fell off a cliff late game though, so... eh.

4:30 The pacing might seem off, but if you look at the laptop the hacker is working from, you can see a program already running trying to brute-force a password into the Trioptimum network. With the hover drone intro sequence, it's likely that when it pans into the hacker's apartment that they already backtracked the source of the infiltration and had already sent cyborg assassins.

IT CAME OUT?

I prefer this over the original as at least I dont feel like I am setting up a OS BIOS playing the remake.

"... Spoony releases a new video ..." Man, Boulder Punch, what did I ever do to you to warrant you wounding me so grievously?

whats the point of releasing a demo, then not fixing some of the basic things like impact/sound of meele?

I liked the intro a lot Especially the middle finger the hacker gives lol

I feel the combat fits the tone alright. Peaking around a corner taking shots across the room feels desperate. I've wasted rounds shooting after they're dead but my plasma pistol shoots people in half. It feels scary and I shouldn't be hitting too hard anyways. I'm just an insect after all.

Combat felt okay on my end... Besides melee, obviously. Serviceable, but not great. I felt like I could see the enemies recoil, robots sparked like CRAZY. The spark blaster is also awesome, especially at full power. I don't really get the music criticisms either.

Game dev here, and I can assure you that the "respawning" screens and text crawl is DEFINITELY for loading. Classic Unreal trick to cover how it streams in sublevels.

i played the enhanced edition with my left thumb on a laptop touchpad(for precision mouse use) and my right hand holding half an xbox controller (for movement and a couple buttons) it was immersive as heck

I fuckin LOOOOVE the stylized pixelated look. I also loved it in black mesa hl1 remake. It's the best way to make remakes feel retro while having better lighting. (the oblivion glance is a shame though).

about to think this game gonna ended up as vaporwave, turns out they release it lmao

Of course the laser rapier lacks weight. It's a laser---or hot plasma! But yeah, so far, it's been a phenomenal experience. Just wish I could have more feedback from my weapons other than my minipistol making them flinch or my spark gun on High/Overcharge blasting a head off

I like the looks and feels of Cyberspace in the remake. In the original one is so frustrating and makes me motion sick.

Night Dive Studios did an excellent job remaking System Shock. It looks well made, and the graphics are fluent and big free. All of these AAA devs should really take lesson from Night Dive, of how to make a game like System Shock.

Thanks for the shout out! :) Love the review!

i feel like they should have just ripped the music from the original (and maybe spruce them up a bit? or not) and have it as an optional addition in the sound menu

When changing a setting in-game, you need to press T to apply them or they don't take or save. It's an 'interesting' design choice. Also found that if you make the ambience sound slightly louder than the sound effects, it helps with the enemy cues. There isn't much that can be done about the other issues the game suffers from though - still a leg up from the original and really scratches that nostalgia itch for someone that played the original ^^

0:50: "Spoony releases new video" OW very much ow!

Uses LAZER katna: "It lacks weight."

Surprised I noticed the donuts being a subtle nod to the original opening.

Is the Hackers employee number a reference to Jean Val Jean's prisoner number from Les Miserables?

I can’t stop hearing him say “originell”

There was a different official song remixing the intro called “ethical constraints removed” and it went so fucking hard, I was hoping to hear it in game

"your donation to my cause is a surprise to be sure, hacker, but a welcome one..."

Your review is perfect, thank you.

Can we talk about that "Spoony releases a new video" joke, because that was S-Tier humor. 😂

Spoony shootout! I too would have hoped for a new video...does his interview with the actor who played Curtis Craig in Phantasmagoria count?

It’s finally here! I can’t believe it! It’s like we’re living in the best timeline

What's the Unreal Engine 4 version? EDIT: 4.27, nice. Game can run in DX12 and with TSR. Dunno if DLSS/FSR2 is supported

Man your voice is so calming.

I like the pickup, healing pod, and cloning vat anims for muh IMMERSION. They're well done too.

0:52 LMAO i didn't expect to see a DSP WWE champions reference in a system shock video

"Spoony releases a new video" Oof. That hurt me right in the nostalgia.

17:00 That's cuz some members of the band Tribes worked on the game IIRC and that particular song is up there with Bobby Prince ripping off metal riffs on Doom lol, you listen to NIN's "Head Like a Hole" and Reactor and go "Wait... hmmmmmmm..."

It's too bad Terry Brosius is such a Twitter weirdo

Lol that healing bed animation used to be SO BROKEN. That's well beyond fixed now, much nicer to look at. Still a chore though.

Thanks for the vids bro

I think the hacker WAS already in the process of hacking before you even take control. Before you use the computer screen it mentions brute forcing passwords.

@22:07 There are in fact some audio-logs that are written by kick-starters, they're labelled all as some variant of KS-'Titel', and some definitely felt out of place. They're spread out of the entire station and not just security.

Man Joseph Anderson is never going to release his review of the witcher 3 right?

I wish Bloodlines came out! Ive only been waiting 5 years since the announcement

Okay so im not the only one who liked System Shock 1 over 2 lol. SS1 is still really great today. The gunplay is just great. Yes the level designs and explanation of missions are vague, but it was made at a time where text on screen was extremely hard to program. It hold up pretty well. Its why im so hyped for this game.

24:07 love the Dark Souls reference lmao.

I'm a fan of the saga since I was a kid, a month ago I finished the remake. 40 hours of gameplay. Highly recommended.

Okay, we all know the Witcher 3 video is not even real!

0:51 ACKACKACKACK!

Looks pretty good to me. Although I hope the "find the security cameras" thing isn't as ridiculous as the original.

What an amazing way of start the week. Great review!

DSP will never quit WWE Champions 🎉😂

Thank you for your review

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there’s too much red in the shadowed parts of the game, everywhere.

I was just thinking as you said it that the vast majority of people that prefer SS2 will not have touched SS1, which imho is a masterpiece.

0:50 I feel like we should let spoony retire in peace...unless he wants to do more with Linkara, which would be a hell of a way to dip his toes back into the community and video making.

As someone who did not play the original, I really enjoyed the more ambient music. I remember playing the demo and really enjoying the dark and creepy atmosphere, then comparing it to gameplay of the original and being completely jarred. I guess it's just preference, but I think I prefer the darker approach of the remake. It makes exploring the station a lot more unsettling.

Sad to see the floaty melee combat. No real reason for less impactful visual and sound design after 30 years. Still gonna eat it up but damn, if they knocked it out the park we would have a definitive masterpiece

Thanks for the shout out. Amazing review. Can't wait to try it out myself.

everyone send positive energy to spoony

The best example of visual clarity its Dishonored. In first game everything is clear, you see what you can grab or what is useful. In second game... its a mess. I dont need this kind of realism in videogames.

I don't know I felt combat was fine. Limbs falling off, robots short-circuiting. Yes laser rapier was having lack of feedback which was noticeable

Oh, yeah. The Descent games were my childhood. So good.

I'm glad that this is one of the very few remakes that still have the original easily available. Granted, the original isnt packed in like some, but at least you can still buy it. Shame that the original isnt on consoles, but that's fine in this case. The original is designed for pc, and it's too archaic for it to translate at all to a controller

lol @ the part about DSP quitting WWE champions

Man those soundtracks for the originals. Absolute gold. Your review reminds me of the ports of DOOM where you had some ports without music or they changed it completely, and it just feels deeply wrong. At the very least, if they had to change the soundtrack, include the original as an option.

Love the les miserabels reference

Ambient soundtracks are a blight on modern gaming.

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Hmm... I'll have to check those cons of yours when the full thing is out tomorrow... I forgot this was even coming out tomorrow. I played the demo quite a bit, even streaming it live on the channel to show how it runs on various hardware... runs great while looking better than a lot of other new games, of which typically themselves run pretty iffy. Or so to say, lots of lesser looking games come out these days playing far worse. I don't recall any complaints with combat or audio of my own, and looking at the videos, I still don't... so, I guess I'll see how the fully cooked version seems come tomorrow, when I'm back to work again... so, ehhh... maybe I'll download and install tomorrow. But probably won't get a chance to play it until the next weekend at best. Why oh why they couldn't just release it on a FRIDAY, giving the weekend for players to actually enjoy it, I have no idea. Instead actually waiting until most folk's long holiday weekend is over, and releasing on the first working Tuesday after. Nice... tactical... lol. But, I'm excited for sure, can't wait to play the whole game in this new, beautiful, user friendly, FAR UPDATED coat of paint and mechanics. I've been awaiting this title for a long freaking time at this point. Something that stood out to me in regard to your critique's though... you take issue with environmental items you can interact / need to interact with not being super obvious. Well... I dunno man... I'm of two minds on this one myself... I absolutely HATE when games outline interactable items, or make them glow. That just looks so freaking stupid, takes you entirely out of the world, and reminds you the whole time that this is just a game you're playing. Not a world you're in... I always turn those things off when the game lets me... I suppose though, if you have no idea what you're looking for, it could be an issue. But, that's likely only due to our being coddled for so long. Back in the 16bit days and immediately onward, games were cryptic af, yet we still figured things out all the time, every time. Even without internet and communication with other players no less... So, I'm pretty sure if you keep your mission goals in mind, you'd be able to find the items required to interact with, even if they aren't glowing as if they sustained a Chernobyl splosion point blank. But, maybe they should have a game option where you could turn that on... toddler mode perhaps.

Your notes on the music reminds me of when Diablo 3 came out. Similar reactions.

Did anyone get the laptop they paid for or were they all ripped off?

Looks like we had a lot of the same vibes about the remake :D EDIT: I didn't find the inventory upgrade, womp-wah.

So they got shodan back in the studio to rerecord lines.. did they change them at all or are they the exact same lines? Cuz in the demo they were the exact same.. and just kind of seems like a waste if they were going to get her back to record everything.. like why not expand it in some way or another?

What happened to mic

Glad the game came out decent. Sadly I was a backer for Mighty No. 9, and the end product was mediocre at best.

yea i feel bad about paying $150 for the kickstarter when i should have just done $40. real shame she sound team and the collision effects could not live up to the kickstarter hype

So cool thanks

Ohhhhh you wake up and destroy ayayaye! Poor zordon

Has anyone figured out what the fuck hacking enemies accomplishes? You can hack enemies by locking onto them with the target identifier (maybe only the V2?) and holding alt

I hated the music in SS1, I always turned it off. The music was loud and insanely annoying. 😅

"Spoony releases a New Video" Oof

My dream comeback video for Spoony is that he makes a second part to Dirty Harry and just starts on the same word he left off.

I'm so glad the Shotgun in this game has ammo that's actually useful in a fight because Shotguns are among my favorite gun types in games and them being basically useless in combat in the original system Shock was annoying. For anyone who hasn't played it the only Shotgun ammo in the original were rubber slugs. Great if you want to disable someone without severely injuring them but not so helpful IMO when fighting killer cyborgs controlled by a genocidal AI.

I met you on a Thursday...

Any chance System Shock 3 is ever coming out?

Was anybody else incredibly disappointed when they opened up the game today and find that the menu system, customization key binds etc.. graphical menu all the things basically we're essentially a stock standard version of what was a completely unfunctional menu that had really cool sounding options.. key bindings that has achieved the minimum standard of being able to bind them now... but not to some buttons... like mouse four and five your thumb buttons... You know fancy graphic design and productivity kind of attack like that obviously, clearly not worth bothering with.. like thumb buttons... I will say that it seems that... the the way it would fight you seems to be less fighty... Like for instance when I asked it politely to use full screen it seemed like it wanted to do that and it was okay with that.. and it seemed to be okay with any of my custom super resolutions.. not at first of course.. but at the very least it didn't have Rube Goldberg workarounds like re4 does to make sure that you can never run the screen size bigger than it thinks you could run the screen size by the desktop standard.. except it just didn't have anything else like the unfunctional menu it had in the original unreal demo.. A menu I assume it's designed for ultra gas lighting? Because it would tell you that you changed the option it just wouldn't change any option LOL although sometimes it would delete the option from the registry.. so it doesn't do that now from what I can tell.. we've achieved stock unreal basic competency now... Which... Like you can't even rebind your inventory.. so it's it's not even that so much as it's.. I don't know maybe design for hybrid one half keyboards that don't have a number key row? Is it it's either so far ahead of its time or it's.. completely unacceptably something that they've known that they needed to do and have not been able to do successfully every single release that they've put out since the unity release.. which from what I understand didn't suffer from some of these problems at least.. but every unreal version certainly has... LOLespite the despite the track record of not doing this at all and not seeming to care.. despite how absurd that is especially for this particular studio given their day job has been to go through and add these things into older games like literally that's that's been like their primary focus and that's that's like the big thing they did to bring out the remaster of the original.. rebindable controls go figure! Like never mind that all the cool stuff you could do in the original is is largely missing for the most part, replace with some really bare Bones but at least acceptably bare Bones LOL.. would still puts it ahead of most games.. Except I'm still sad that I can't roller blade down a hallway, while diving into prone then leaning out throwing a grenade and moving the filing cabinet.. although maybe I can move the filing cabinet? But if they didn't even fix the menu.. and for what I understand it doesn't even have surround sound support.. I could be wrong on that but I have a suspicious feeling it's stereo in 2023 on unreal 4.. I'll test that further but.. seems as if the mixing hadn't been mixed again.. which makes it a mixed bag of sound, which seemed to follow a really good design.. except by mix they thought that meant throw in blender.. I'm really curious to see what the the hyper fixation has been on.. to a point where they've had a demo that was basically unplayable if you had a custom resolution, and you couldn't even adjust resolution LOL initially.. you couldn't remind your controls you basically couldn't use any of the menu functions.. and that's been the case since the original unreal demo when they switched.. and they've had so many different releases of it where they've not fixed any of this.. including the final demo! Where they hadn't fixed any of it at all.. fortunately they released the final final demo where they fixed some of it and then just got rid of most of it.. and that's what we're seeing today... It's like this is this is night dive.. this is this is a studio that their job is literally to make titles that did not have proper interface and functionality on modern systems have all that.. it's like you need a night dive studio remaster of the night dive studio game.. I'm hoping they actually do the mod support thing because that could fix a lot of this.. you don't usually see it with unreal titles.. but it can be done and they did mention it at one point.. but night dive has been a textbook example of gaslighting.. and that switch to a discord server that's private so essentially anybody with issues is screaming into a void to know you know response especially on the steam forms for years.. like it looked like the scamiest of scams like they didn't even update the website until just recently.. and this was after a promise that they were doing this open development thing you know which is yeah okay that's a nightmare I get that.. but you know what.. do y'all not have thumb buttons up in Vancouver or something like that? Is it like a company philosophy where the thumb is like ableist or something? Clearly you have number keys because you have an entire function row bound to them, that can't be bound to anything else.. which is why I have an f night dive ahk that I have to run every time I've had run the demo.. requiring me to come up with a custom bind that keys to the number.. and then I have to to invent a thumb then it correlates to if I wanted to do that which I usually do.. Seriously even like Japanese exports that furiously disdain using scary keys like the cap locks, or other very normal keys used in gaming LOL or on keyboards.. even they have extremely basic.. but still there at all.. thumb button support now... congratulations you have achieved consoleport status on a game that doesn't even have a console Port yet.