Maybe Greenlight would be an option?... I'm sure SS2 would collect all the votes needed within the first week.
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..................I don't hate it to be released anywhere else but Steam. And I don't believe I mentioned anything regarding where other people buy it :P
My preference is Steam, but I will gladly buy it from another digital distributor as a last resort.
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At first I thought this was the Dev's, silly me. It's good at least that this patch happened.
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Weird. Did you follow the instructions on the comment thread on RPS?
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That is very awesome! I still concider System Shock 2 as one of the best (and in itself close to perfection) games ever made. Bioshock is a great successor and is superior in terms of art style and setting, but it lacks much of the atmosphere and the gameplay seems like dumbed-down version of SS2.
I hope this will be a sign for something new in this franchise. EA had announced a SysShock3 some years ago but never mentioned it again and I honestly believe that this project had been driven into another direction and reenamed to "Dead Space" later ;) The games are quite different, but if you read between the lines, there are also so many similaritys in Gameplay, Setting and Storytelling. Most DS Gameplay-Mechanics feel like they took the same core-idea as SS2 and just executed it in totaly different way.
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Lol the guy has a SHODAN profile pic, I'm fairly sure he's being sarcastic...
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Awesome. I will have to try this later, wanted to play this game again for years now.
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I have something to counter. Don't play it in coop!
This game is designed for single player and they were forced to include coop. The coop is fun for a second playthrough, but the story doesn't make sense and it loses all of its scariness. For the first time, play single player.
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Play Thief 2 or die...
...Knowing you missed the greatest stealth game ever.
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This is pretty badass! I'm sure I still have my SS2 cd around someplace and I would love to play it again. The game was pure genius. For me it ranks up there with the original Deus Ex and holds a special place in my heart. Thief 2 was pretty fricken awesome too.
From all the improvements I am seeing in the changelogs, whoever made these patches seems to have access to the original source for both games. No way did he hack the binaries to accomplish all this. This was most certainly a labor of love.
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The source was leaked to the public 2 years ago. However, the level of documentation and professionalism here suggest that it might be one of the devs. No SS2 modder has ever included much documentation. I'm not sure any of them have ever even written English this fluidly.
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Fuck yeah! Never got to run my copy on Windows 7, and now it works flawlessly!
Anybody can recommend some mods?
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Take a look at my original post; I just added some recommendations. If you want more than that, you could also get vurt's mods (such as his flora overhaul, better water mod, and hi-res space mod.) There are no good mods that work with the update other than re-textures at the moment.
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I didn't find that post because the topic is about SS2 and T2, which are not things I expect anyone to recognize. System Shock 2 and Thief 2 are terms with meaning, which is why this topic's subject includes it, as well as why a lot of people are hearing about it for the first time in this topic.
(Otherwise, you have quite a well-written post.) =)
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I'm fairly excited about this. System Shock 2, one of the best survival horror games ever made, and Thief 2 have both been updated in some pretty major ways. They work natively on Windows 7, even in 64 bit now. They've been changed to allow much easier modification of the games (particularly texture replacement.) System Shock 2 is the game that led to games like Deus Ex, Bioshock, and Dishonored.
Thief 2 is also great for stealth fun.
Here's an announcement.
I edited the following directions for how to run System Shock 2 properly from someone's comment on RPS:
If you want to use mods, you can do so as you normally would, using SS2 Mod Manager. There are several good mods, but I highly recommend SHTUP (faithfully retextures environments) and SHMUP (unofficial music enhancement by one of the devs.) I also strongly recommend against remodeling any NPCs. Those mods are all horrible.
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