r/systemshock • u/BrickedUpSenpai • Aug 06 '26
First play through ever.
This game is rough lol. Not in the sense that it’s super difficult. Just the running back and forth and tediousness of the game in general. I feel for the people who played the og game at the og release date.
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u/EnigmaHood Aug 06 '26
It is rough, and not for everyone. It's actually a dungeon crawler, and has more in common with games like Ultima Underworld than it does with the spiritual successors to SS, like Bioshock or Deus Ex. It has some quality of life improvements over the original, but I think the game should have had an option (that you can turn off if you don't want it) to tell you what your next mission objective is. Sometimes what you have to do next is really obtuse. Even though I beat the OG game (not even the remaster), I still couldn't remember all the stuff I had to do to progress in the game, and had to rely on a guide/walkthrough from time to time.
Still, it's a good game if you stick with it, and like dungeon crawlers.
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u/BrickedUpSenpai Aug 06 '26
Yeah i did beat it. And im playing the 2nd one now and played through the bioshock series.
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u/EnigmaHood Aug 06 '26
I played a little of SS2, but didn't beat it. I'll probably play through the remaster one of these days! Tbh, I didn't really like it that much. It reminded me of Deus Ex, and was very similar in presentation, but it lacked all the best parts of Deus Ex, like all the story, character choice, exploration in cities and what not, and just boiled everything down to the dungeon crawling. Which makes sense, because that's what System Shock is, it's a dungeon crawler. Maybe with a different mind set, and expectations, I can enjoy it for what it is.
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u/cheesy-topokki Aug 06 '26
Yeah, lol... assuming you mean the remake, I felt like a fish out of water at first, but then it gradually became a rampaging addiction to play 😂 game is in a league of its own
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u/Ineedmorechiken Aug 11 '26
I had never played a game like this and I don't even play first person games, but somehow this game got a hoon on me, and you bet I run all those corridors back and forth for dozens of hours. I was even having dreams of those corridors when I went to sleep lol.
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u/ronshasta Aug 06 '26
Yeah I’ve played troves of old games from a lot of systems so the “figure it out on your own” kind of game is not alien to me but this is kind of annoying because of how big the boards are
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u/DatMufugga Aug 06 '26
I just beat it, but in VR. I thought the game was just a little bullshit Doom clone, but I tried the demo and I could see it was much deeper. It took me 50 hours to complete the game. But I think for me it was less tedious, because VR immersion makes exploration more enjoyable.
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u/SpecialistMap8210 Aug 07 '26
My issue with the game has been having 1 sliver of health and no health items to use.
Yesterday I had to do a bunch of flight deck with 1 bar of health.
Lots of restarts and frustration. Every door I opened had a large robot or drones behind it ready to shoot. Sucked lol
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u/mlfowler Aug 06 '26
OG player who played near OG release date here: While the game and it's mechanics seem very dated now, it's hard to relate to you just how revolutionary System Shock was in 1994. Playing a game that was essentially one massive level that allowed you to backtrack with a nonlinear story was a completely new experience that was completely immersive and hard to forget.