System Shock is turning 20 this Monday, devs will make a live stream about it, wanna join?
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I would normally have posted about this in a System Shock thread, but since we apparently don't have a one I might as well make a separate thread about it
[QUOTE]Hello friends,
MAHK here, LG programmer from back in the day.
System Shock is turning 20 this month!
To celebrate, I'm going to be live streaming the game this Sunday, 9/21. I'll start at 1pm pacific. I'll be doing commentary and telling development stories and probably reloading my save game a lot. I've asked some other Shock devs to call in and help with the commentary, and it seems likely that some of them will be around.
The twitch channel will be here: [url]http://twitch.tv/algorithmancy[/url].
Hope to see you there.
Salt the Fries!
- MAHK
P.S. Tell your friends![/QUOTE]
[url]https://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=6963.0[/url]
You can see the date of this event in your timezone [URL="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=20+Years+of+System+Shock&iso=20140921T13&p1=137"]here,[/URL] if you're curious.
Before anyone asks, I'm talking about this game:
[img]http://tcrf.net/images/a/af/System_Shock-title.png[/img]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/SHOCK001.GIF[/img]
[img]http://tcrf.net/images/f/fc/Sshock-vcr.png[/img]
[img]http://tcrf.net/images/d/d6/Sshock-datastorm.png[/img]
Not this game:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/tgC92.png[/t]
So yeah, it's going to happen this sunday. The main reason why I'm making a thread here is because there doesn't seem to be enough people knowing/caring about on systemshock.org forums, and I guess it would be pretty sad if only like 3 people showed up on this stream.
I just finished it yesterday, its a great game.
Oh good, it'll be on Sunday. I was worried I wouldn't be able to watch it going off the thread title. I'm totally going to be watching, unless I somehow forget.
I never got far into the first system shock... all I can really say is that it's a mess to play nowadays but I respect the game because it paved the way to System Shock 2 (one of my favourite games)
might watch this
This is neat, I'll probably watch this.
I wonder if they'll manage to get to the end
Or better yet: how long it'll take for them to realize that the time you have before SHODAN kills you at the final boss is dependent on the CPU speed? :v:
[QUOTE=Tobba;46023982]I wonder if they'll manage to get to the end
Or better yet: how long it'll take for them to realize that the time you have before SHODAN kills you at the final boss is dependent on the CPU speed? :v:[/QUOTE]
So thats why I never managed to beat him/her after all
apparently my PC was just too good
I wonder if they'll talk about the SHODAN Announced pack for Dota. Because I'd never use another one if she got added.
A bit late, but one of the devs did an AMA here:
[url]https://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=6971.0[/url]
Most important thing IMO:
[QUOTE][QUOTE]are there any plans for a System Shock 3 (even if not in name?)[/QUOTE]A year or so ago I approached some contacts from EA about the possibility of licensing System Shock in order to kickstart a sequel. It turns out that the IP is pretty legally entangled; EA owns some, and other entities might have pieces of it from the LookingGlass closure. So getting all the IP in place would require a lot of legal research, even before the actual deal-making starts. So a System Shock in name is not likely to happen.
That said, I do think there's room in the space of possibility for a reboot or redux of some kind, but I don't know of any plans to do so. I'm pretty happy with my current gig doing R&D at Riot Games. [/QUOTE]
IMO, as groundbreaking SS is, the GUI is an awful clusterfuck. I wish a redux increasing functionality would be a thing.
I tried the first SystemShock aswell, and as much as I liked the second one, I couldn't get into it, 'twas too confusing. I believe a technical remake would benefit it a lot. But who will ever do that? :v:
I love System Shock, so i'll definitely stick around.
I wish I could be there, but I'm pretty busy.
The stream is starting in half an hour! Make sure to salt your fries or something
