Latest about System Shock
The System Shock remake is getting a massive patch with a revised ending, choice of female player character '8 years in the making', and a significant quality of life improvement
news I'm glad I put off my replay of 2023's best remake.
Preserving old games was seen as a non-commercial 'art project' until recently, says Nightdive director: 'They were great then and they're great now, and companies have begun to realize that'
news Nightdive's Stephen Kick and Larry Kuperman shared their thoughts on the importance of videogame history in an interview with PC Gamer at GDC.
Nightdive thought it was 'going to get grilled' about the lack of hand-holding in System Shock remake, but players loved it
news "People described it as an atrophied part of their brain starting to wake up again."
Warren Spector says his major contribution to System Shock was to stop 'it many times from getting killed'
news "I don’t think it’s an overstatement to say that System Shock introduced the idea of environmental storytelling to the world."
System Shock's first patch fixed every glitch I ran into, including a few things I didn't even realize were bugs
news I remember interacting with the ATMs at first and thinking, "Wait, is that it?"
Nightdive's kicking around the idea of an 'XCOM-like' System Shock that casts you as the Citadel's doomed resistance fighters against Shodan
News At least getting your entire squad killed would be in-keeping with canon.
System Shock was originally pitched as Sonic the Hedgehog in space
News Though Warren Spector doesn't remember it.
