http://www.gog.com/gamecard/system_shock_2

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/02/13/many-questions-system-shock-2-comes-to-gog/

After many years, the most requested game has finally made it to GOG.

I saw that on the PC Gamer Twitter feed earlier. Good news. It's one of my favorite games ever. I still have my boxed copy on CD, though.

I think that stupid insurance company should realize by now that they aren't going to get anything with the demands that they are making for it.

Words cannot describe my excitement!

I certainly hope so! That's one of those games I've wanted to play for years, while also not wanting to pay an exorbitant price off Amazon for for years.

What about the first game?

Very cool news though, the two System Shock games are among my absolute favorites

I still have my SS2 CD, too. I had no idea it was caught up in some legal battle and not for sale anywhere. So that's cool news.

Never quite actually finished the game (the tension stress of playing it was really high for me at the time, lol), but I liked and admired it a lot. A GoG version might inspire me to actually finish it.

Ha! I do have to admit that game creeped me out more than any of the recent crop of games billed as "survival/horror."

Also a fantastic game. The last time I tried to re-play it (maybe 7 years ago or so) the controls really frustrated me, though.

Why exactly does an insurance company have the rights to a... You know what? Forget I asked.

Heh, I stopped to play the original Silent Hill for the same reason.

Hopefully it gets put on gog and more people can experience such a brilliant title. Hopefully to be followed by the first in the series.

No way am I getting rid of my boxed copy though

if true, this is good. Yet another game to be removed from the "everybody keeps talking about it but I haven't even seen it" list.

It's about time, maybe I can see why it get's so much praise now without spending a ridiculously large amount for a physical copy.

No kidding. The one new copy on Amazon is $300.

I have yet to play SS2 but have been hoping to for awhile, so I'm certainly looking forward to this.

It's that uncanny mix of character development and atmosphere, only topped by Deus Ex for exploration and mood. It's creepy in all the right ways, never giving you the breathing room to feel that you're entirely safe, the events around you unfold their macabre details in subtle ways, and the villain, inhuman and seemingly all around you, echoes in your mind long after the game is over (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iZMD_eCpEo) There's a reason Warren Spector (and many imitators) have been mining its example for years. Yet this masterpiece still stands strong through the test of time - I played it last a couple years ago (with a few graphical update mods) and it freaked the hell out of me!

System Shock 2 was epic. Makes me wonder who this industry changed so much during these last 10 year.

This is great news, if it comes true. Take my damn money!

Pretty much http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ZtBCpo0eU happened to it.

Despite being a cult game, the System Shock series never really sold particulary well. Being part of a small vocal crowd who thinks it's a best game ever doesn't really cut it.

And then gaming mainstream happened, a lot more people play games today which means that games are very often designed to be more "accessible", which changed games in various ways.

Then again, its design has lived on in spiritual sequels like Bioshock. Which, if anything, is more or less a remake along the blueprint of System Shock 2: psi powers, hacking, voice logs, respawn chambers, even the central villain.

True. But there are differences, like how Bioshock is a more linear experience and more focus on the action. You don't really have any need to go back and forth the Bioshock floors, even if you can if you want. And with Bioshock 2 they removed that altogether and made it a fully linear experience. Although, the System Shock games are fairly linear too, but they are better at giving the player the illusion that they are not and then offer some puzzles, like the need to use a severed head to get thru a retina locked door.

Personally, I'd like to see the first game on Steam more than the second one.

The first game is pretty difficult to find, especially since a lot of retailers confuse the CD version with the floppy disc version...

Well, Bioshock 2 was a quick cash-in and made by a separate developer from the original - so we should leave that aside.

The original Bioshock did have some aspects of free roaming, though - nothing so complete as System Shock 2, naturally, but the environments were clearly designed with the same concepts in mind: hubs leading to specific story elements, with constantly-respawning enemies and paths opening up as your character developed. Though yes, overall it was fairly more linear and directed along scripted events.

However, from what I've been gathering of Bioshock: Infinite it will be more open, and we may see a more complete return to System Shock's style.

My point is that the game used to be alot "cooler" in the 90s than they're today. Today's game are grey [censored]. Everyone know what they did to Syndicate. The list goes forever.

I really hope this is true. I've been desperate to play System Shock 2 ever since I played Bioshock.