This is the most bafflingly overrated game of all time. It does nothing well.

>>11851583 (OP)
I'll feed a (You) to this starving OP, but I ask that nobody else bump this lazy bait thread.

>>11851586
I never played it back in the day myself and always thought it was overrated looking at it with modern eyes.
But I'll polite sage anyway.

>>11851583 (OP)

>>11851583 (OP)
>It does nothing well
this is just blatantly wrong, the atmosphere is still top notch and that's literally the single most important thing for a game like this.

>>11851741
>samey grey hallways the entire game
>enemies that look just retarded instead of scary
>monke.mp3
>out of place techno music
truly kino

>>11851751
>truly kino
Glad you realize.

>>11851751
>truly kino
this but unironically

>>11851583 (OP)
System Shock 2 is what Deus Ex wishes it could be.

>>11851751
I always got hype running through the radiation tunnels in engineering all berserk and without caution because the music took me over

>>11851583 (OP)
The main thing I really dislike about it is just how fucking spooky it is, it's the scariest game of all time for me

>>11852420
The garden ambience is NOPE incarnate

>>11852420
This. The game scared the shit out of me.

>>11851583 (OP)
OF YOU TIME BEFORE ALL DIE !! !

>>11851781
yeah i never really felt like the music was out of place. people who say this must think it's meant to be a slow crawling horror game but it's not.

>>11851583 (OP)
respawning enemies really kill SS1, SS2, Bioshock 1 and 2
they managed to more or less fix it in Bioshock Infinite but the remastered SS games learned jack shit

>>11851770
Deus Ex is System Shock 2 for heterosexuals

>>11851583 (OP)

It's OK OP, cyborg midwives aren't real, they can't hurt you.

Going back to it after Deus Ex, it is very noticibly just not as good as Deus Ex.

>>11852885
deus ex is a surprisingly good FPS
SS2 is clunky as heck

>>11852902
Exact opposite for me. The combat in Deus Ex fucking blows. When you level up in System Shock 2 it becomes crazy satisfying.

You feel awkward and weak as shit in Deus Ex even when you fully max out a weapon class.

>>11852920

With Deus Ex - the weapon mods are as important as the levelling up.

A master level in rifle skills may not feel that powerful, but a master level while wielding a sniper rifle with accuracy, recoil and range mods feels pretty powerful (particularly if you also silence it).

>>11852902
It depends what you mean. I thought the gunplay in SS2 was generally a lot more frantic - and also it does the general survival horror thing of scarcity of resources that bring an extra layer of tension.

With Deus Ex - particularly at later levels, you can feel a bit like a walking tank. Deus Ex can therefore be more fun as a more traditional shooter, whereas SS2 has more of a frantic thrill to it of genuinely being unsure how you're going to survive the next encounter.

>>11852810
>respawning enemies really kill SS1, SS2
It’s one of the only game series where it works for me.

>>11852958
got almost to the end of SS1, they didn't bother me too much, but by that time I just got fed up
so I never tried SS2

>>11851583 (OP)
It's floaty and the weapons lack oomph but you can't deny its awesomeness

The shotgun is a literal sniper rifle. Are there any other games with such high accuracy long range shotguns?

>>11853000
a bit of a joke but Quake 3 shotgun comes to mine
fires 11 pellets of 10 damage each... if you shoot in the approximate direction of somebody with less than 10 points of health, you could kill them across the map
it's a different kind of "accuracy" for sure

>nothing
'cept it does many things well.
Neeeeext.

>>11853098
like what? playing back audio clips?

>>11853247
Sound design, skill progression, enemy design, atmosphere, scariness, combat, music. Anything you can name the game does a remarkable job at it.

>>11851720
Careful bro, /vr/ jannies don't play around.

>>11853270
>names 7 things
>four are just "playing back audio clips"
>the rest are debatable
sigh

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA The age-old story... Every single fucking time.
Zoomers and retards see "System Shock 2" in "Best horror games of all-time" list:
"Here I go!"
"What there's systems!"
"What it's techno-cool and it's N64 graphics!"
"What it's hard!"
"What! Idk what I'm doing I died again!"
"Whaaaaaaat this is not like my Silent Hill walking siiiims"
"I'm going on 4chan to say how overrated it is!"

Things never change

>point out how shit the shooting is
>SS2fags: erm actually it's not a FPS
>Also SS2fags: it's so satisfying when you level up and get to play the game like a shitty FPS

>>11853483
People should just play Ultimate Doom if they want to play a shitty FPS.

>>11853000
>The shotgun is a literal sniper rifle.
Mostly due to those slugs, though they're not as effective against the fleshy targets than those less accurate pellets and they're not anti-armor against the robots. Still decent overall range which is funny with how much of the fighting takes place in close quarters.

>>11851583 (OP)
If you want to discuss this game do it without baitposting otherwise you can fuck off

Its a great horror game, nothing else to say
Im out of this thread

>>11852804
I usually turn game music off after I hear it a few times but I leave it on in SS2 just because it massively changes the vibe and I wouldn't have reinstalled SS2 if I didn't want that vibe

>>11853482
I loved it when I first played it though. It really is a thing where you play better games (Deus Ex, Thief), and then you go back, and it's not quite so good as you thought it was.

>>11851770
>apples are what oranges wish they could be

>>11853509
10 gauge slugs would hurt quite a bit, realistically, though

>>11853509
Such a disgusting nerf to have the annelid shotgun pellets spread to literal Doom 3 levels. They really want the spiders to be a total pain in the dick no matter what.

>>11852797
Criminally underrated schizo

>>11853901
They nerfed the spread in the remaster or something?

>floaty
>clunky
>janky
opinion discarded

>>11854596
>flunky
>clanky
>junky
is that better

>>11854582
Never played the remaster just the original. They make the annelid slugs spread like crazy while regular ones might as well be sniper rounds.