And SS1.

That baby is so full of innovation it can cause vomiting.

That said, it is a game that is wonderfully crafted and it shows.

The only games better are TDP and Torment.

stoibs: It’s quite odd and downright annoying that these “older” generation of games, (including the ones listed in the article which rank among my top favourite also) are simply better then alot of what is shovelled out these days..

Thats just because noone remembers the piles of mediocre and downright rubbish games that came out at the same time. We do seem to be missing the few standout gems nowdays, but the proportion of poop hasnt changed too much.

cyrinno:
This is the only game as a grown adult which terrified me enough to just find a closet and sit in(in game) and not come out until I got over my fear of monkeys.

Was waiting for someone to mention the monkeys :) A college friend would literally run out of his room to find anyone nearby, he’d get so scared by them

First of all, way to make yourself sound like an uneducated Neanderthal, try using some etiquette next time. It’s what regular, non-rude folk do, look into it. Where do I download this mod…. oh you meant “Mode”..?

Secondly one would imagine that “hard” is, well, hard. I bumped it up, still 1-2 shotting everything, only thing I noticed was my health decrease.

Can’t imagine why you would presume to label or know anything about some random person on the other side of the internet you know nothing about. Casual? How bizarre.

Way to de-rail the discussion with your arbitrary, weak, baseless attacks….for whatever reason.

harden the fuck up and play the impossible mod you casual lol

jonlee: Any recommended mods?Graphic mods etc?

I’m using everything listed on the Sticky thread’s OP:
http://www.gog.com/forum/system_shock_2/system_shock2_faq_patches_mods_recommendations/page1

And I still don’t get the fear factor. Monkeys are just something to swing my horribly OP laser rapier at, or shoot at with my nigh infinte ammo (thanks to power recharge nodes) laser pistol(s)/laser rifle, or use up the several hundred ammunition on which i’ve accumulated since the afforementioned weaponry is limitless.

Maybe I’ll replay as a psionic or something.

Simply a classic

cyrinno:
This is the only game as a grown adult which terrified me enough to just find a closet and sit in(in game) and not come out until I got over my fear of monkeys.

Those fucking monkeys.

arent our bodies cells replaced roughly every 7 years? well itd be a bunch of new cells and neurones that are going to cop this game, not my old ones. lets see how they respond.

oh and the first ship is the Von Braun not the Rickenbacker (the Rickenbacker comes later)

It wasn’t just the strong possibility of death, but the strong feeling that some things weren’t in your control. Ammunition was always hard to scrounge, at much of it was pretty ineffective against armoured targets. Every time I pulled the trigger I wasn’t sure whether I should feel relief at slaying my current foe, or dread that I might not have enough for the next encounter,

Weapons often failed. That fact alone, that I could lose due to an external constraint and not my direct input to my character always bothered me. It’s one thing to be an issue in a garish isometric RPG, quite another in first person in a flickering corridor with mutant begging you to flee from him. If you don’t think perspective makes a difference to fear, only play Day Z through first person, desperately alt looking for threats. You connect far more intensely to the situation.

Personally I think it had a much better story than half life, but maybe that’s just me.

It’s quite odd and downright annoying that these “older” generation of games, (including the ones listed in the article which rank among my top favourite also) are simply better then alot of what is shovelled out these days..

Playing with the 7 or so graphic mods listed in the GoG forum sticky thread, looks fine and not really that dated. One thing I am confused about though – all this time, all these years the hype train has been churning about how atmospheric and eery/scary the game is, including this article… I’m clearly missing something because I don’t get that impression at all. Instead I get subjected to Techno dance music numbers at certain points like in medical and Engineering Hallways… whats the deal?

Maybe I’m just desensitized from the Penumbra’s/Slenders/Amnesias/Project Zeros of this modern generation…but I just don’t see the fear factor here..even that iconic “Shodan” moment I’ve heard so much about was rather “meh” (though it did catch me off-guard at least)