So I just beat System Shock 2, 6 times in 2 weeks
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<div class="IPBDescription">I'm cybernetically possessed</div>Even though System Shock 2 is over 7 years old, I never bothered to check it out until mid November. Then I wanted to <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/asrifle.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::asrifle::" border="0" alt="asrifle.gif" /> myself. This game is every bit as addictive as Deus Ex was. And I've owned Deus Ex for almost 6 years, and still play it from time to time. My biggest problem was swallowing my pride and paying 40 bucks for such an old game. I guess its rare now. It arrived the day before Thanksgiving, and its just about all I've played since then. Not bad at all when I stop and think about all the 40-50 dollar newer games that I've bought, played for a few days, and then ditched.
But I might have played it a little too fast. I already beat it on Impossible with an effective and efficient Marine build that made the game not very hard at all, and with no real weaknesses. I would go as far as to say that the game looks as if it was built from the ground up around said character build. Just about every other build has serious weaknesses or just flat out pales in comparison
But I might have played it a little too fast. I already beat it on Impossible with an effective and efficient Marine build that made the game not very hard at all, and with no real weaknesses. I would go as far as to say that the game looks as if it was built from the ground up around said character build. Just about every other build has serious weaknesses or just flat out pales in comparison
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Try co-op sometime. The only problem I had with co-op was that I play at such a slow pace compared to all of my friends, and thus none have had the patience to go deck by deck with me for more than the 1st of 4 OS upgrades.
Glad you enjoyed your $40 investment so much <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
I really want to play this, but without sound, it seems pointless. I tried the shkpatch.exe method, but it says it can't determine the installation directory.
If you thought that was good then you should try System Shock. The original.
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I've never managed to get that to run unfortunately, which is a real shame <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
I tried running SS2 on my XP machine, and it loads up, but I have no sound. Videos don't play, either.
I really want to play this, but without sound, it seems pointless. I tried the shkpatch.exe method, but it says it can't determine the installation directory.
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Their threads helped me fix all of my technical issues.
Then, do it using only a wrench.
Then, do it only using the wrench and no psi powers.
Then, try completing the game without attacking anything except the enemies and objects you must kill to complete the game.
Now doing the game without hacking and with just the wrench - there is a challenge for you.
Kinda sucks though that I've never managed to get System Shock to work though. Check out the underdogs page though, there was a recent post about a System Shock Portable version, which doesn't require DosBOX or anything like that to run.
If you're looking for something new to do in SS2:
-Find and use the basketball <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
-Try to beat Overworld Zero
-Beat it on impossible with a psi-exclusive (+ wrench) character.
-Beat it on impossible with a psi-exclusive (+ wrench) character.
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I'm doing something close to that right now. Except I have Exotic weaponry as one of my skills (mainly for the crystal shard). Its getting on my nerves. The robots I mean. The only way to deal with those things with a Psi character is to use the Tier-4 psi that freezes robotic targets, then bash it up quickly, and finish it with Cryo. I had to save up 110 cyber modules so that I could get this Psionic as early as Deck 3, because I couldn't think of any other way to get past the robots in Sector A.
If you're a fan of Deus Ex and System Shock 2, you'll go ballistic for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines.
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I owned that game for a short while. I wasn't very impressed. I finally threw the CD in the trash when I got through the burning hotel and faced that necromancer in his wolf form. I couldn't beat him with my Brujah nomatter what. That made me think "well how the heck is, for example, a stealth character supposed to get past him?" Pardon me, but most games don't require you to start over to correct mistakes and make certain obstacles passable on the first run through, unless you do something incredibly stupid. That's why Fallout and Planescape: Torment also went into the garbage bin. And why Baldurs Gate is currently sitting at the bottom of the pile.
Haha, I was getting ready to answer you and then saw that you abandoned Fallout, Planescape: Torment, and Baldur's Gate in additon to Vampire. Sorry man but you've got problems with games that I won't be able to solve. I suggest just reading a FAQ at the beginning and choosing some uber character build, because otherwise you're somehow drawn to the only character build that doesn't work or something.
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Well see, one of the things I liked about Deus Ex, System Shock 2, Morrowind, and some other RPGs is that even if you started out bad, or wasn't purely efficient all throughout, there are always other ways to get past things, redeem yourself, etc. With the games that I listed, I run into brick walls all the time. And I have to start over. This has happened in Baldur's Gate 4 or 5 times, each time with a different character class. It happened twice already in Bloodlines. I'm not fixated on any one particular class, and I do stop to think about what did and didn't work before I start over.
Conclusion? The games I said I didn't like must be geared towards perfectionists.
I'm doing something close to that right now. Except I have Exotic weaponry as one of my skills (mainly for the crystal shard). Its getting on my nerves. The robots I mean. The only way to deal with those things with a Psi character is to use the Tier-4 psi that freezes robotic targets, then bash it up quickly, and finish it with Cryo. I had to save up 110 cyber modules so that I could get this Psionic as early as Deck 3, because I couldn't think of any other way to get past the robots in Sector A.
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If you mean the maintenance bots, you can wrench rush them quite easily. They move try to move backwards if you're too close instead of firing. The only problem is when they blow up. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
If you mean the protocol droids, then yeah you can't stop them. Just run past them, or make them move somewhere more open for you to get past.
As for protocol droids, if you have a gun shoot it with 1 AP round. If you don't have a gun shoot it with cryokesis. If you are in the cargo bay you can drop a lift on it's head. Otherwise it's possible to trigger it's detonation and then back away just in time to avoid it, but this is a dangerous process.
those 2 games you said you trashed are 2 of my favorite games and among like the 10% of games I played that I actually finished. ironically, the other games you mentioned - Deus Ex, System Shock 2, Morrowind - I got bored with and didn't manage to finish <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /> deus ex, I got bogged down trying to do everything perfectly (not kill anyone ever, etc) and made myself bored. system shock - well, I think I got to almost the very end and then I forgot what happened. tbh maybe I got too scared lol, I was younger at the time. Morrowind, I got bogged down trying to make my char perfect (always getting a full 5 stat points every level with no waste, etc) and got bored in the process.
where did you get stuck in Planescape? it's such a non-combat RPG that I didn't think your char build mattered too much in the long run. the game is almost all conversation. and what did you do wrong in fallout? to be honest I never tried a non-combat char so I don't know how hard it is. I always pumped my perception and agility and stuff way up for optimal shooting.
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Planescape was boring as hell. And too much dialogue. I got to the catacombs where Pharod sends you to and got electrocuted and killed in a few hits by these rats. WTH?
And Fallout, I got badly lost in it. I figured out to buy the rope from that guy standing outside somewhere and searching through that abandoned vault, found no water chip, and from that point on there was nothing to lead me in the right direction, except all these characters in places here and there giving me miscellaneous quests that were obviously too tough for my character as of yet. Or quests that were too vague. Not to mention a lack of a notepad/PDA equivilent, so if you forget an objective, or an NPCs exact words, too bad. Not to mention the fact that Fallout did TERRIBLE at Turn-based combat. Absolutely horrible. Don't even get me started on how flawed that was.