[ SECRET POST #2960 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2960 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Better early than late!

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 034 secrets from Secret Submission Post #423.
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Comments

Re: How was your day?

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, System Shock <3 System Shock 2 is my jam, that's one of my favorite games of all time.

Re: How was your day?

[dethtoll]

I've fallen out of love with it, personally; it's a good game but there's a lot of stuff in it that irritates me now. (Oddly enough, System Shock 1 still doesn't...) I find Bioshock to be the much better game.

Re: How was your day?

[(Anonymous)]

Hm, if you don't mind my asking, what irritates you about it? Bioshock's awesome too, but I really missed the feeling of absolute tension and dread that it just couldn't quite get going.

Re: How was your day?

[dethtoll]

Certain gameplay elements like inventory Tetris (which I hate, it's one of the hugest sins a game can commit IMO) and flow-destroying stuff like the chemical room/research thing. It doesn't really hold up as well as it used to. Bioshock is more slick and polished but it does away with a lot of the stuff I simply don't have time for anymore.

Re: How was your day?

[(Anonymous)]

Fair enough, and I actually totally agree on the inventory issue. I suppose I got used to it, so it's not too big a detriment to me...I think just, overall, the atmosphere of System Shock 2 appeals to me a lot more than Bioshock's. Which, again, isn't to say by any means that it's bad, I just feel like it was striving for some things that it couldn't quite achieve.

Re: How was your day?

[dethtoll]

Yeah my issue with SS2's atmosphere is it's kind of bog-standard 90s sci-fi innit? It doesn't even have the Aggressive Retro 70s charm of Alien: Isolation (aka System Shock 3) nor the adorable dogged insistence on being as 80s cyberpunk as possible like System Shock 1. (Fun fact: SS1 and to a lesser extent Deus Ex filled in a lot of the visual blanks for me when I first read Neuromancer.)

At least Bioshock was doing something somewhat original with its exclectic mix of art deco orgy and isolated, gloomy undersea location.