SystemShock2 Demo

In the demo, has anyone hacked the keypad that opens the maintenance room with the rapair droid in it? You can look through the windows and see it, and a stairwell leading down to another area.

I wonder what\'s down there (besides certain death).

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I would highly recommend you get the \"CD- Enhanced\" version of SS1. It supports higher resolutions (I think up to 10 x7, which would bring 486s and even early Pentiums to their knees)and adds voice acting. It is a truly great game. It\'s not really a RPG per se, but defies categorization.The demo of SS2 is very faithful to the original, but adds more depth and RPG elements. Can\'t wait \'til the 12th!

#35...

1) SS1 is pretty old... maybe 4 or 5 years?

2) Yes, it\'s DOS based...

3) I believe Origin/EA re-released it as one of their \"classics\" a year or 2 ago, but I\'m not sure if it\'s still around...

I have a few questions:

1. How old is System Shock 1?

2. Is it dos based?

3. Can I still get it?

I\'m a succer for a good RPG, and I\'d love to play this one if it is as good as everyone says it is. Plus it will tide me over until the 12th. I\'ve tried to find the game at some of the online software vendors, but I\'m not haveing any luck.

skile

Holy shit, this is a great game. I\'d heard about System Shock and how it was supposed to be the greatest thing since sliced bread, heck--I even bought it. But I\'ve never played it--too outdated right now. Well, after playing the demo for SS2, I will be loading up the original immediately--so that when I buy ss2 the minute it hits the shelves, I\'ll have some background in the story. This demo rocks--even though it took me a helluva long time on my 56k AOL account [stop laughing :( ] it was more than worth the download. I\'ll be saving up the pennies and dimes to buy this game immediately after its release. Wow.

From the demo System Shock II seems to me to be more cerebrel than Half Life. This game will require a lot more thinking and will play very differently depending on the approach you take.

I\'m there, I\'m buying it.

About the monsters spawning: That only happens when you set off an alarm. Makes sense plot-wise. Shodan senses the alarm, knows what section you are in, and just starts teleporting guys in from all over the ship (the rest of the game theoretically, but not really). Also, it makes you alot more cautious of setting of alarms. If you knew only 3 guys would show up everytime you set one off, you\'d just burn through the levels, and smack out the 3 guys each time. This way, you go \"OH SHIT!!\" and have to run for the security comp to turn off the alarms (or do it beforehand).

Tram car thing was kind of odd. Wasn\'t expecting such a direct rip from HL, but i understand what they are trying to say -- SS2 is going to own in the same way HL did, so bohica.

-yurik

Comments:

- mouse control is seriously very sluggish.. same problem Shogo had when it came out.
- flickering lights on truck in starting area sucked.
- monsters do randomly spawn from nowhere.. shouldn\'t that be incorporated into the story if the user is going to notice it?
- nice hacking system, very unique..
- the ambient sound is a bit too much in the area where you upgrade stats/skills/etc.
- weapons so far are good, but that psi pull in the training area is mislabeled (from kinetic propulsion) and doesn\'t work.
- starting inside a train car: a bit similar to another highly interactive sci-fi game that won top honors recently?

So far, looks good. I didn\'t think I\'d play through it, but came back and finished it. Took me only 15 minutes the second time around.

Aphelion

I was going to try it out but it\'s D3D. NT won\'t do D3D. Too bad for them!

SS1 was an INCREDIBLE game... it creeped the HELL out of me... I think it was the first game that allowed you to peek around corners and stuff... that game was incredibly awesome... I can\'t wait to get SS2! I\'ll have to get the demo when I get back to my cable modem :)

This demo is abso-friggin-lutely
worth the download. I loved the
first one (I think I\'m going to pull
that out and run through it before
Aug. 12th) and this just continues
the series. An interface you don\'t
have to fight w/, expected co-op
multi (drool!), and story to make
it the first true competitor to half
life, if not better. We\'ll see about
the last, but just have *something*
that brings up that argument makes
me joyous.
Heh, maybe its the best combination
of western kung-fu and eastern
kung-fu, follow me here. Japanese
console RPGs always take you
along a guided path, fleshing out
characters that (thoeretically) make
you care about them and the
story. US RPGs go the route of
dropping you somewhere and
letting you play with the equivalent
of a big lego set, make you own
afventure. This looks like fighting
shodan be great story, but having
3 routes of doing it...
I know *someone* will hunt me
down for this, but I look forward
to this game more than Quake 3
after playing both the demos.
SS2 may not have the graphics,
but the only other game to make
me jump (and subsequently
scream like a girl) was the facehugger
in AvP. Those mutants made me
jump. They\'re wacked little buggers.

Damn I can\'t wait.

Just downloaded and played the demo. Took a fair while to get it with my 56K modem and the demo itself is pretty short. *sigh* gone are the days when you could get a whole episode of Quake at about 7megs :)
The game seems quite interesting with a lot of abilities to develop and tantalising glimpses of what\'s to come - but the demo itself just introduces you to the interface, really.
btw #6 I don\'t agree that it compares with half-life graphically
I\'m a fps or rts man meself so i dunno whether i\'d buy it. It would have been nice to see more ...

#10 must have been bumped in the melon, I remeber very clearly the praise SS1 received by gamers and mags alike, its been rated by those who have played it and magazines reviewing as one of the top game of ALL time, no fan fair? no hype? no following? #10... NO BRAIN.

Just a follow up... Don\'t let this little problem (#4, #5, etc.) doesn\'t discourage anyone from trying the demo...
If you like first person games with a LOT of depth and interaction, you will really like System Shock 2. If you\'re just looking for the next bang-bang shoot \'em up, you might find it a bit complex.
Anyone who like System Shock 1 will be very impressed.

-JCK

#7 - I just cut and pasted it to another directory... I didn\'t need to restart Windows for the changes to take effect.
Remember, I did re-install Windows Media player before trying this out... so it could have been a combination of the two that made the difference. Not sure though, you\'ll have to try this out yourself I guess.

-JCK

Okay, I found the solution to the mpeg problem myself after rooting around the Windows registry.
Yes.. the System Shock 2 demo IS the problem with not being able to play mpeg files through your media player...
the good news is that it isn\'t a permanent problem. If you uninstall the System Shock 2 demo all will return to normal.
If you want to keep the demo on you system and still watch mpegs in the meantime, you just need to move the LGVID.AX file (found in the System Shock 2 Demo directory) to somewhere else on your hard drive while accessing mpeg files through Windows Media player... then move it back when you\'re ready to play the demo again.
Heh.. you just gotta love these little things that pop up everytime you install a new piece of software. :)

Okay, back to my porn mpegs. Take care.

-JCK