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Subject: Re: It's coming...System Shock 2 Remaster
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 22:40:03 -0000 (UTC)
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 15:42 this Sunday (GMT):
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 06:20:07 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
><candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>
>>Mike S <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote at 02:31 this Sunday (GMT):
>>> On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:19:14 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
>>><spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>This isn't going to be a full remaster along the lines of the 2023
>>>>"System Shock" game, with an entirely new engine, new levels,
>>>>textures, sounds. Rather, it will be more akin to the 2015 "Enhanced
>>>>Edition" releases of the first system shock game; a shiny new gloss
>>>>atop the 1999 sequel. E.g., the sort of thing you can create for
>>>>yourself if you download all those fan-made patches and apply them
>>>>yourself.
>
>
>>> Your post initially had me excited but what you describe here does not
>>> make this remaster sound all that interesting to me. To be clear, I do
>>> NOT want a full on reboot, but I want more then something that I can
>>> do myself with various mods.
>
>>Paying companies for re-releases that have mods packaged in seems to be
>>their new favorite past time.
>
> In fairness, it /might/ be more than just 'repackaging mods' but all
> the screenshots I've seen don't make it look like the end-result will
> be /much more/ than what you can make for yourself. Like I said, it's
> equally possible that Nightdive will port the entire thing to their
> Kexx engine, which is definitely more than just a mod-repack. I don't
> know if they're actually using modded assets or making their own
> either.
>
> But the screenshots they have on GOG don't look all that much improved
> over those of System Shock 2 Rebirth, and that makes the purchase of
> the game a lot more of a hard sell. Visually, it seems they're selling
> the convenience of not having to do all the work of finding /
> downloading / installing / configuring the mods yourself, which is
> cool (and, admittedly, I'll probably get the game just for that) but
> is it worth grabbing it for $30?  Especially since the changes are so
> minor.
>
> Here's an example of the changes, showing a zombie in the unmodded
> 1999 game, what it looks like in Rebirth, and what a pre-release
> screenshot from the 2025 remaster. https://imgur.com/a/cXR2YeJ


So, if someone were to make a modpack..
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