>decide to play System Shock 2 because everyone says it's an amazing horror game
>loud techno music starts playing
WTF?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bL7I_eWryI
Well, I can't say the music was bad on its own, but it definitely didn't really fit the game's mood very well.
>>320375913
There's a healthy mix of fast paced and darker ambient pieces.
I fucking love them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtdQ5roMuEA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-E9G29K4oU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gzEP-WrxzA
>>320375913
It's not really a horror game. Anyone who told you that is an idiot.
It's not horror. It does get tense at times though.
And it's not techno, it's dnb.
>>320377267
you can't say shit like the monkeys and the cyborg midwives wasn't pretty fucking horrifying
Shock 1 wasn't horror, but 2 sure was
>>320375913
SS2 is too scary for me.
>Limited ammo
>Enemies respawn
Terrible game.
i always thought the hard techno and drum and bass stuff didn't quite fit
i like ss1 soundtrack more it's just groovier
>>320375913
play the game and post yfw you see the final cutscene
>>320378062
you fucking mong the ammo is limited because the entire fun of the gameplay is about resource management and finding the most efficient way to play with the limited tools and resources you have access to
if the ammo wasn't limited you'd just fucking shoot at everything and it would kill the game
why don't people understand game design, fucking hell
>>320378290
But enemies respawn which makes limited ammo an issue.
>>320378384
ammo isn't limited because respawning enemies drop ammo, you mong
>>320378384
enemies drop credits and ammo
you can also buy ammo though you can get through the game easily without ever buying anything...
>>320378384
it's only an issue if you're not navigating around the environments effectively and you're shit at managing your resources
not only that but basically the only enemies that respawn are the weaker ones which don't require resources for you to kill
>>320375913
Personally I find this much preferable to how every AAA game these days needs to have a Hans Zimmer movie soundtrack.
The soundtrack is cohesive throughout which, to me, really drives the sci-fi setting home.
>>320378808
I like the soundtrack too anon, I think it fits just fine
but then again I think the music in the thieves guild is fine too so maybe I'm a fag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w-d0UJD3o8
>>320378808
Loud ass fucking techno is bullshit anyway. It does not fit the game at all.
Do people actually defend this soundtrack? It doesn't fit at all, and it ruins the atmosphere.
I like it, you come back there a lot for the chem storage/skilling up so it's always refreshing to hear, really perks you up.
>>320375913
Not techno.
Also get taste you disgusting pleb, pic related
>>320378972
The music was the best part about the Thieves' Guild.
>>320379021
turn it off dumdum
here's my fav
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc6UQxuwqvY
>>320379280
>techno
>taste
What the fuck
I bet you thought the soundtrack for DMC4 was good, too
>>320379363
My nigger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDUZlZMhbC8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkFgV4SY6x0
>>320375913
>he didn't like the soundtrack of SS2
Can /v/ fall down even lower?
>>320378972
legitimately one of the best, longest, most complex level/mission ive ever played in any game
>>320378504
>>320378507
How am I meant to know that? I haven't even played the game.
>damn this game is actually pretty spooky, has a good atmosphere and everything
>UNZ UNZ UNZ UNZ
>>320379523
> that assassin borg voice in the background
im all like "WHERE IT AT?!"
>>320379543
seriously, like 80% of /v/ users are redditors now. Reddit has taken over literally every /v/ project for years as well.
>>320379715
why are you posting then? how do you know if something is an issue or not if you haven't played it? feel free to stop anytime
>>320375913
>implying that shit isn't phunky phresh
>implying you don't like killing cyborgs to the 00tz
impossible difficult is the best one,,
but after the Deck 5 game loses the challenge
![1386514395718[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/q6Sg5Lu.png "1386514395718[1].png")
https://soundcloud.com/robotkid/institute-of-technology-d-tox
if you havent already heard it, the Mac version of system shock 1's music is waaaay better than the pc version's
i wish night dive fucking ripped the mac's superior assets into their release
>>320379479
Do you know what techno is?
It's a RPG that's scary at times, not a full blown horror game.
Honestly, the music fits because you're on a space station with a crazy AI.
>>320377974
All the -Shocks were too scary for me, except infinite, but that was just pure shit.
>>320380015
forgot link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17FAFpmNIWA
>>320375913
It's just as much of a horror game as Half-Life, it's eerie at times but it's not really a horror game, most older games get mistaken with horror games just because of empty corridors and lack of sound effects, it's just because of technical reasons it felt like that.
>>320380059
was it, scary bad...?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIMDilzrFjc
>>320380136
Its success was magnitudes scarier than anything I've known.
>>320379543
Please understand, that you eventually have to "grow up" so the college kids that came here when this site started are no in their 30's like me.
So new college kids come in to take their place, except these college kids grew up in the 00's, having nothing but shit taste. Don't hate them for this, it isn't their fault they have shitty taste, it is a product of their environment.
I'm saving for my house right now and planning to get married, so that will be another old fag gone by summer's end. I'm sorry, I wanted to stay here forever, but we're slowly being phased out.
I replayed the game as a PSI/wrench only user a while ago. Very difficult at first but very fun, I recommend it. Getting through the cargo areas on the engineering deck was a real challenge.
>>320379021
As many have stated, it's not techno, also, if your issue with it is that it's loud, go into the sound options and turn it down.
You're entitled to your opinion as always but I don't see why it's unfitting in the game, it fits far better than for example, taking the typical way out and torturing string instruments the entire way through the game.
>>320380121
>implying I didn't quit HL2 the first time I got sucked to the ceiling
THE HORROR
>>320380295
Oops, wrong pic. Here is just before the last boss.
>>320379203
it depends where you hang your hat I suppose
you can either find shit empowering because you're a fucking cyborg or disempowering because you're the shittiest cyborg possible and there are mutants running about going mental
I found it empowering and I was happily diving to corners and peeking out to quickly shoot cameras like a cyberpunk deity so the music suited me just fine
>>320380243
It scared me when people posted webms showing enemy behavior vs FEAR behavior
It's a sci-fi cyberpunk horror game you dolt. And it's not "techno", the majority of the soundtrack is dark ambient with a couple of drum and bass tracks thrown in when things get intense. It fits perfectly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKa46RxoxAw
>>320380265
>implying people have shit taste for calling SS2 out for being overrated tripe
I'm 30, played this game about four months after it released, hated it then and still do now.
1999 had an amazing lineup of games. This wasn't one of them.
>>320380513
I was legit terrified whenWait...that card
>>320380887
back to reddit pls
in fact how about 4chan detects Reddit login credentials, and bans redditors?
>>320380265
Already married guy with house etc here. Why do you have to leave or end all your hobbies because you get married? No one but a real cück does that.
>>320379715
/v/ ladies and gentlemen
>>320381129
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_u18_BKczg
>>320381147
I have never been on Reddit because I disagree with their backwards political ideology.
Perhaps you're the one with shit taste friend.
>>320381147
Always got reddit on the brain, huh anon?
>>320375913
Playing System Shock 2 really puts into perspective just how fucking boring most horror games are.
>>320381147
How about 4chan detect contrarian shitters who can't accept that not all people must have the same tastes and likes andmakes them moderators so they can circlejerk even more
>>320380887
I'm 28 and I liked this game when it came out. I missed dude sex though, but played it when I got my own PC for college. 1999 was better for gaming, and this game is on the list of good games from then. Have you ever considered that you're a faggot?
Am I the only one who preferred SS1?
>>320381271
I'm like a jew with nazis on the brain. sure it's mostly a fantasy, but still, muh 6million
I'm 25, i couldn't play this game as a kid because it was too scary, i played it last year and fucking loved it!
>>320381351
>>320380887
I'm 27 and I didn't give a shit about this game even existing because I was busy being better than you guys in UT
I haven't played since one of those robots sneaked up behind me in MedSci.
>>320381359
You're one of the only people here that played it.
Anything that predates mouselook is too antiquated for me.
>>320381359
No.
>>320381582
The Enhanced Edition has mouselook. Its a great game still.
>>320375913
What's the problem?
It sounds cool.
>>320381351
Deus Ex came out in 2000.
SS2 was only became popular because it rode the shooter game wave that was happening at the time. Now it runs on pure nostalgia.
>>320381359
i did
SS2 was way too casualized and held your hand all the way to the end.
>>320381487
Quake 3 was better
>>320381774
I am aware when it came out. For whatever reason, ss2 worked on my parents PC at the time but dude sex didn't. I also played the shit out of Diablo 2 around that timeframe as well.
>>320381860
I was just about to post this.
>>320381582
There's a mouselook mod that works really well. I couldn't play it either until I got the mod. Glad I did, because it's the most innovative FPS I've ever played. Crouching and going prone, leaning, alternate ammo types, MANUAL RELOADING with the cursor. All back in '94, when Doom was still hot shit.
>>320380887
so you had shit taste then and you have shit taste now.
>>320378062
if you run out of ammo in SP SS2 you are doing something horribly wrong
running out of ammo in multi is to be expected though
I bet there are less than 3 people ITT who actually did the co-op, you missed out on an amazing ride
>>320379715
false flagger please go
>>320381860
Different strokes bro
I played Q3 too, in fact it was one of the first games I bought, but I preferred UT and stuck to it, more funmodes and funmaps kept it varied longer.
>>320381359
Better game, Ken Levine has never made a good videogame.
![bioshock[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/4NuGfAi.jpg "bioshock[1].jpg")
It is my humble opinion that the games music is awesome. This comes from a blues/metal enthusiast.
That aside, SS2 has a respawning system in place. I do believe it is meant to be played with melee in mind, and gives ample warning for that. That said, you can hoard ammo till you can hold no more.
Not sure if the game was supposed to be scary but it was can get tense and keep you on the edge of your seat.
It has also been the inspiration for some of the best games that ever came out.
It is a solid 9/10 and still holds up to this day.
I am 35 years old and I love this game.
>>320378504
>>320378507
Doesn't this shit all over
>>320378290
>understand game design
Comment?
Its not really that difficult to manage / have more than enough ammo
Audiologs are the best thing about it and a definite improvement over SS1's audiologs.
Melee is simply better, the repair and maintenance shit was truly horrible game design.
>>320376832
Bullshit, it kicks perfectly.
>>320382129
You pretty much need melee for those last two fucking levels.
Ended up having to bumrush red ninjas with the wrench. No ammo. Shit sucked.
>>320382074
Didn't it have impossible level or some other ridiculous AI that were actually really good at the game too?i had ut goty edition too and my dad played it with me
>>320375913
holy shit this part of the game, intense
>>320382276 was intended to be a reply to >>320382129
>>320382276
OSA here. We are better than both of you. Don't mind me, I'll just be invisible, resistant to toxins and rads, teleporting around, and killing even the toughest of baddies with 1 or 2 shots.
>>320382129
>I do believe it is meant to be played with melee in mind
melee is a big factor in early to mid game
the hybrids have a really slow windup that is easy to avoid until they get gun arms and then you can still knock them the fuck out by hugging corners
you can also melee service bots and some turrets until they're at 15% hp and finish them off with a single bullet to save loadsa ammo (just don't try that on protocol droids for obvious reasons)
everything else is just researching weaknesses ASAP to start doing increased damage and conserving ammo by only taking shots when absolutely necessary
>>320382431
OSA melee builds are the best.
Also, tfw creating walls.
>>320379021
It did in the year it came out.
>>320382307
I'm not sure how those bots in UT fared against the competition but considering there were like 7 levels of skill from retard to shitstomping godlike I guess they must've been impressive at the time.
I got introduced to the game in a netcafe, people playing it and shittalking endlessly
That was some dope ass way to play it, I won tourneys there later.
>>320382518
They're plenty of ammo early-mid game and you'll steamroll with a decently high firearms skill. Or whatever it was called.
>>320375913
But the soundtrack was fucking great you gigantic faggot.
>>320375913
if you dont groove in SS2 you're pleb
>>320381359Unfortunately,no.
>>320382521
Yeah I started wrench and occasional cryoblast early and made it so I can use the wrench and hit like a Mack truck w that skill from tier 2 and also got the high tier ranged spells. Best of both worlds. It makes the body of the many a joke too when you can cloak and teleport.
>>320382587
not everyone is rolling the same build though but you are correct and assault rifle is easymodo
I thought the music fit the mood surprisingly well.
You have this loud ass music playing all the time, getting you hype as fuck, while mutants and cyborgs are creeping up on your ass.
All that crazy adrenaline really made the game more tense/scary
>go in expecting awkward low poly survival horror
>it's the most immersive and terrifying thing I've ever played
Definitely the most memorable experience I've had with videogames.
Thanks OP for the link. Missed my daily viewing.
Probably the best video game soundtrack of all time.
If you've played and beaten the game, try doing co-op with a friend.
Just save often. Full warning. My friend and I have done co-op like 4-5 times now not including the odd-dozen times we had to restart the playthrough completely, sometimes even as far as the SHODAN bit.
did yall find the macarena bot?
Can someone explain the difficulties to me?
I just beat it on hard today and it felt no different from normal mode.
Also is it just me or is SS2 too easy?
>>320383657
mostly affects cybermodules and nanites i think
>>320377524
>straight beat
>dnb
>>320381359
no it's the better game
>>320382129
i remember playing the demo didn't play the whole game till years later
Who /ops2/ here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MHavPjRQ5E
>>320382129
Everyone told me to hoard ammo prior to playing. By the end of the game I had so much fucking ammo despite shooting everything that moved. Do people just rush the game without exploring it?
>>320385689
fucking everyone is ops2 in this thread
cept me im credits
>>320386275
People are bad at games.
>>320386275
is ss 1 that's exactly what i did - after i found the laser rapiest i just ran around slapping shit with it
for that super borg guy i used a berserker patch because he was super deadly
>Console gams since 4 years old, 1992 to 2008.
>Late to the party for the classics, Deus Ex, SS2 and Morrowind.
>Massive cyberpunk fan.
>Clear SS2 a year ago.
>So good I go in for another two runs back to back.
>Realize how lucky I was to experience this a first time when I'm old so I can really appreciate it all.
I did get that glitch the first time after the shuttle/monorail thing where you have to restart the game, though. That sucked.
This game has god tier music, just like Thief 1+2. it's no surprise that the people responsible went on to found harmonix and make billions with guitar hero/rock band.
>>320384378
It's the closest thing. You're not calling that breakbeat, aren't you?
>>320387167
play SS1 familia
>>320382039
>co-op
last time I tried it it was unstable as shit and crashed on every other loading screen
granted, this was before GOG and Steam re-releases, but I doubt they've done much to fix the ancient netcode
>>320383427
tfw no one itt found it
>>320378290
I had like 2000 modules and shit ton of items before I went to 7th floor, used pistol to "kill" shodan
>>320383427
It was in the training, right?
>>320388362
I had like 700 regular pistol/AR bullets, about 200 armour-piercing and anti-personnel, something like 500 slugs. Yeah.
>>320388496
yea
one of the last years, you have to look through the window and you see it dancing
>>320381774
>play it a few months ago
>love it
Nah, fuck off.
>>320383141
How do you co-op the game?
>>320387376
it's tecnho with breakbeat in between
this one is dnb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtdQ5roMuEA
>>320386517
>>320385689
I'm an Engineering guy myself.
>>320378384
>>320379479
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131813/postmortem_irrational_games_.php
>>320379715
>>320378290
>mfw i just used a lazer rapier and raped literally everything
That thing was just too good.
>>320379768
samefag, pls go.
>>320380887
>tfw that bit where the many are just trying to load their children into ships to escape you
Did anyone else feel kinda bad for them?
>>320375913
Best workout music desu senpaitachi
>>320392081goooooooood... you've murdered their youngmurderedtheiryoungmurderedtheiryoung aaaaand preveeenteeeed their escape
>tfw SS3 will have shitty generic orchestral music like every other modern game
>>320380015
The Mac version's music wasn't dynamic, therefore inherently inferior
>>320381359
I used to tout around its greatness in SS2 threads all the time but pretty much always got shouted down by people complaining that it was bad because they couldn't figure out how to play it.
Now that there's a gog release far more people share the correct opinion
>father wanted to eradicate all human beings and sided with the rogue AI
>let's place his son in charge of military for this incredibly important expedition
BbB-bUM-uM-mP
>>320376832
It fits well
>>320375913
This garbage is what people class as noise? Rhythmless trash that just sounds like a load of noises crammed together?
Sums up western developers quite well I suppose.
>>320397165
>born in le wrong generation
>>320397165
>i type words randomly together
Thief OST a best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xhLYmklbZo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr7sW6vbfM4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVK85rWhLDI
>>320394441
Well, his son wasn't really a fuckup.
He actually did really well.
The soundtrack was cool and all, but I still preferred it to be turned off. Sneaking around in creepy hallways and leaning round the corners to check for hostiles with all the ambient noises was more to my liking. I felt more immersed in the game environment that way.
>>320375913
Do you not remember the late 90s anon?
Oh yeah thats right you were too busy being born.
>>320379715
/V/ IN A FUCKING NUTSHELL
>>320379715
new meme
>>320381298
>playing for the first time
>reach Cargo Bay
>barely any health left, and no ammo
>be standing on a second level platform with these fuckers walking around below
>guess correctly by thinking that enemies react to the noise caused by dropped items, like in Deus Ex
>drop useless item on elevator platform
>they gather to the noise source
>send the elevator down on them
>mfw
Man I love this glorious fucking game.
>>320400201
That's one of the benefits with SS2 being developed in a stealth game engine.
>>320382078
How did Ken Levine ruin SS2?
>>320377267
It's scary than a lot of games that claim to be a horror game.
>>320382039
I remember playing through on multiplayer with a friend back in the day, that shit was hilarious.
