Shock dev here, Narrative Designer, thank you for the kind words about how the world was built up and the narrative around it. We did our best and I am proud of our game. Thank you!

@kieranda3718

Жыл бұрын

You did bloody well, it's been a brilliant and standout experience in a year packed full of incredible games.

@selemanecu

Жыл бұрын

thank you for sticking with what you set out to do and bringing shodan and citadel station back best wishes from a certain 7 year old mutant! ❤😉

@hugonordstrom8126

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your masterful work on the game, I'm absolutely in love with it. This is my first system shock game and it made me a die-hard fan over night. Thank you for helping create one of the greatest remakes of all time

@Webhead123

Жыл бұрын

To you and to everyone else involved in the development of this game, THANK YOU! It is the fulfillment of a dream to see this classic title brought back to life with such passion and reverence for the original vision. What you have accomplished here is pure magic.

@michaelspianochannel

Жыл бұрын

You guys are awesome!!! Game of the year for sure in my book!

I unapologetically got lost for like 2 hours trying to find my way. I ended up skipping a floor, missing a key item, jumping 2 steps, missing a key on the first floor, and more. And you know what? I loved every fucking second of it. Matter of fact, I'm gonna go keep playing. Gotta wrap up the flight deck.

Glad the PR team reached out to you. I knew this game would be right up your alley.

I am waiting on the console version, but I am pumped for this game. The graphics are hypnotic and I love Shodan

@davidunderwood9728

Жыл бұрын

Same.

I’m very glad you mentioned the stark contrast between SHODAN’s infinite ramblings about how inferior humanity is while gameplay wise you’re tony hawk skating around with a laser sword tearing apart her forces. It’s a huge charm point of the original game and one of the more important tones to keep in this game. It could’ve been very easy to just lean more into survival horror as the direction but it keeps the fun part of mastering the systems intact.

@abbe9641

Жыл бұрын

Could just be shodan attempting to cope with how op the player is.

This was the best game I played all year, and this is racked up against my first playthrough of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. I LOVED System Shock. I was never a System Shock fan until 10 days from this game's release. I had heard of the game and their legacy and played Bioshock, Dead Space, and Prey but when I saw the trialer for this game I fell in love with the setting, the art style, the villain. This game is PERFECT to me. It feels almost like it was made just for me due to how much I loved this game. I was never a System Shock fan before this game, but I'm glad to have become one. Thank you, Night Dive for this incredible reinvisioning of a classic I never gave the time of day until now.

Made me want to play ................DOOM 3, and appreciate it for what I was trying to do

I played this game without much expectations, but was curious due to positive reviews. Well, one weekend later and all I can say is: I love this game! It is scary good and am baffled just how well this almost 3 decades old game holds up, released the year I was born. I can see the connection to Bioshock and Half life or the modern Prey. That, but the game is also just fun to play, controls nicely, good gun handling and character movement. It was both terrifying but also exciting to get the impression that the game makes it MY responsibility to be able to complete it. You can save scum as much as you want, but you can definitely end up softlocking yourself and if you miss some important clue or run out of resources at an important story beat you might just have to start a new playthrough. On the flip side it made progressing just soo incredibly rewarding - victory was not guaranteed. You really just win because you plan ahead and observe your surroundings. Both the original developers as well as the team of people who put in years of hard work to bring this remake to life have done an amazing job. Most fun I've had with a game in a long time.

Never played the originals. Might start with this. I need more immersive sims in my life.

Its a big year for space zombie remakes

Current issue: The controller support is pretty terrible and while on SteamDeck it’s not a massive issue - they need to rework this BIG TIME for consoles release - currently navigating inventory is atrocious. Esp when trying to manage junk to sell or even use items. Esp as you noticed - the game doesn’t pause when using the inventory - they def need take the controller supports seriously before the console release. Small annoyance: Melee feedback is bad, not that they needed to make the melee better - but it lacks any substantial feedback when hitting enemies. There’s times I thought it didn’t connect. Really feels like a bad tech demo - better hit animation and more sound feedbacks would help a lot. There’s a demo - def recommended it as it’s very substantial.

Looks amazing. Great video, thanks!

Great video Hamish! I am convinced I will bounce off this game super hard, but it looks so intriguing. And the art style also look awesome.

Another great video as always!!!

Great review as always. Thank you.

aiight, fair play

Laughed at the "System Shlock" quote. Also nice video.

really nice video, made me want to try the new system shock

I haven't seen this many sponsored advertisement videos for a game in years. A quarter of that kickstarter money must have went to it.

I'm so excited to give this a go!

Fantastic script here, as always!

I got back into the original System Shock (enhanced edition actually) like a week before I saw that this version was coming out. Wild.

I’ve discussed this elsewhere with friends and other folks, but if you do decide to try out the original SS1, I highly suggest taking a cursory look at the Ultima Underworlds, as well. People often discuss the original under the perspective of an FPS or an immersive sim (like its sequel), but it really has waaay more in common with the two dungeon crawlers that came before it. It’s one of those strange clashes-of-genre that stems from how the industry’s changed over the years.

I've been a fan of immersive Sims for a long time, but I never played either of the original system shocks. Seeing the roots from which one of my favorite genres sprung has completely reframed my perception of the genre. These games have so much respect for themselves and their players and after years of being locked into a repetitive and constrained gameplay loop by modern games I played immersive Sims in the same manner I would play other games. But this game made me realize that a good immersive sim frees players from the confines of modern gaming and inspires creativity and intentional action by consistently rewarding it. I'm going to replay every game inspired by system shock from bioshock to prey with new eyes. I pray this game does well so we can see these incredibly talented devs remake system shock 2 which is mind-blowingly universally considered better than the original. This could singlehandedly spark the rebirth of the immersive Sim genre in the same way it sparked it into existence. Amazing game.

You missed the opportunity to thank Shodan for sponsoring you (let you live), just so you could do the video😂

Thanks for the vid

Small clarification for the intro, as you've said "the Trioptimum guys bust you immediately as you hack into their system". That's not true. You start out with the PC literally saying "bruteforcing password", which means that you are already hacking into their servers for some time, since we don't know when that started. Could've been hours or just the minute that we follow the Triop drone in the intro thats surveying your apartment. Overall great game, I'm having a blast.

Incredible game. A love letter to old school design. No hand holding, intricate level design, high player agency and respect. It's the antithesis of modern mainstream open world third person generic gaming, and I'm so grateful that it exists. Bravo, Night Dive. (But please fix the melee weapons and add mod support!!)

I’m really digging the remake, but it isn’t leaving the same impression the original did on me. That isn’t from a place of nostalgia, either, as I only played the original for the first time in 2016. I just loved the cold feeling of it and the awesome soundtrack. This remake feels more in line with System Shock 2, which is a better game than the original, but that had a totally different vibe.

Hopefully it gets ported tp ps4/5. I'd love to check it out

It sucks that Tencent has the rights to System Shock 3.

@PlebNC

Жыл бұрын

So call it "System Shock: Third Edition" or System Shock 4?

A game that I must play. As a big immsim fan and a Prey fan this is right up my alley. I've seen a lot n the series.

Nice ad /s Unironically though this is good advertising on the developers part, give Hamish more money!

I did play the demo they published on Steam, haven't played the original SS1, played SS2 and quite liked it. I really like the aesthetics of the remake and they seemed to have stayed faithful to the original. The thing that makes it borderline unplayable for me is the... clunkiness? Attacking feels unresponsive and the movement is a bit off. When I think about old first person games like Doom or Blood (and the remaster by Nightdive Studios) I think about how good the controls feel, which seems to be missing here. Anybody else had this issue?

@KingSigy

Жыл бұрын

I think that’s more how you’re approaching System Shock. It’s not meant to be a fast paced shooter. It’s more of an RPG.

@ludisnemo887

Жыл бұрын

@@KingSigy Sure, I don't expect it to be an FPS. But there's this thing called "game feel" and if I press a button but the game sometimes doesn't react or the reaction is delayed too much, it feels bad. As I mentioned previously, I played SS2 and didn't have this issue.

@KingSigy

Жыл бұрын

@@ludisnemo887 That sounds more like a hardware issue, though. I haven't encountered anything in the game where my inputs aren't getting picked up. I understand that the lead pipe and wrench have some wind-up that wasn't in the original System Shock, but it's consistent with every swing. I'm not saying this to insult you, either. I genuinely don't know what the issue might be. I assumed you were expecting this to be a fast-paced action title, but I suppose something else is going on.

@Artersa

Жыл бұрын

@@KingSigy They’re saying there’s not enough feedback (visual, audible) in combat to communicate the impact of attacks.

Tried it. Mousebutton clicks dont always register. Apparently its been an issue since launch. Kinda makes the game unplayable for me.

I'm a bummed at this reviewvertisement, but I do appreciate that the disclosure was upfront. A lot of folks will bury that disclosure at the end and it erodes a lot more trust than putting it at the top.

The graphic is strange I feel like it's from the 80s but at the same time it's from the new generation. I didn't play this game nor the original but glad they made the fans of the game happy.

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Ngl, as opposed to Remakes like Resident Evil 4, or Dead Space, which are amazing whether you played their original or not, this looks like it's only a "must play" if you played the original back in the day.

@zeinmoussa6829

Жыл бұрын

Completely disagree with you. This game holds up super well in is design since the 1994 classic was way ahead of its time. Now it's just way more accessible for a newer audience, whereas the other remakes you mentioned have originals which are completely accessible today. This is the best, and arguably the most important and justified remake we've had in recent times

@TheOrian34

Жыл бұрын

@@zeinmoussa6829 After so many remakes we wished were as good, we got one, and now people complain it's too good at being a remake. Oh the irony.

@KentuckyFriedJohansson

Жыл бұрын

After being put off by the controls of the OG game, the remake the first time I play System Shock 1 fully , and I can confidently say SS Remake is one of the best games this year so far. It's crazy good. So good that it's actually made me pick up the OG once again to finish it in it's original form. SS Remake really is a "Must Play", imo at least.

@zeinmoussa6829

Жыл бұрын

@@TheOrian34 not to mention this SS remake is completely a labor of love. The original SS was nowhere near as financially successful as the original Deadspace or the 60 versions of RE4, so Nightdive probably dont expect this game to be as big of a financial success but they made it anyway. Dont get me wrong, I loved the other remakes too, but this remake is just so important for the industry