Never played it before, but I thoroughly enjoyed Deus Ex. Are there any mods I should download before I start the game?
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Never played it before, but I thoroughly enjoyed Deus Ex. Are there any mods I should download before I start the game?
No. On your first playthrough don't install any mods. Be sure to install the official patch though!
also, the forums at www.ttlg.com will help you get the game running if you encounter any problems.
Thanks.
Just finished it. Great game, but I still think Deus Ex beats it (of course, I played Deus Ex when it first came out, so I guess I'm somewhat biased..). The enviroments and sound effects are fricking awesome though. Even thought it's 8 years old it's still very much believable.
Deus Ex is fantastic, but I prefer SS2. The horror theme and complete isolation just clicks more in my mind, and I just prefer the story and characters. Glad you finished it though and glad you liked it :D
What class did you pick?
Navy. I've never been TOO big on games that take place in space... Which I guess is the reason it took me so long to play it, and why I like Deus Ex better. Deus Ex also felt a lot more open ended... Everytime I play Deus Ex I find something new. I don't think it'll be the case with this game... but we will see the next time I get the urge to replay it.
I prefer the whole being in space, alone, being hunted by everything. And I really love the way the storyline is presented in SS2. You're right about Deus Ex being more open, though you can definitely play through SS2 a few times and have a new experience each time, its still not as major as Deus Ex' offerings... and there's only one ending in SS2. imo the three majorly different things you can do with SS2 is be a hacker, be an all-out weapons person, or learn psi powers and don't use any weapons at all.
Warren Specter is awesome, he needs to hurry up and make his new game.
I've played System Shock 2 through a few times and, ignoring trying out new abilities, I have found things I missed the first time around, like new log entries or hidden stashes.
I always get too freaked out to continue. The first time, I couldn't get past some automated turrets in some hangar, and when I went back some monkeys started shooting beams at me from their exposed brains and hitting me with a pipe. Then, the second time around, I got freaked out trying to destroy all these alien eggs on the hydroponics level. Stupid horror games.
lol at carter
Probaly the freakiest area for me was the recreational floor. It was put together well... I almost pooped in my pants when I walked into the garden area... something about it just made me scared. Another thing I liked about that floor was going into all the rooms, this one room had a guy who hung himself... looked really cool. Also, the ghost that shot himself in the head.. really really nice there... It wasn't that scary, just cool how they did it...
The atmosphere is freaky as hell... just hearing the cyborg midwives used to give me chills.
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Originally Posted by LiquidCrash
Was this the game where you walk past some humans who are inside alienized cocoons, and when you walk past them they say "Kill me," really eery-like? I had to go through so many boxers while playing this game.
I think that was Duke Nukem 3d... you never have direct contact with any human in SS2.Quote:
Originally Posted by GetCarter
Yeah, the hybrids do say "kill me", and something else that I forget... But none of them are in cacoons.
At any rate, awesome game, but too eerie for me. Kudos to anyone with the cohones to finish it through. Hell, even the one part where you have to get chemicals from a storeroom to activate something scared the crap out of me. The whole place was empty and look like it had been ransacked by zombies or something. I tried to fill up my inventory with all the containers I could so I wouldn't have to go down again. Then I got an inventory full because I was already carrying a pipe, a pistol, and an assault rifle WHICH THERE WAS NEVER ANY AMMUNITION FOR. And the damn guns always break. You could sneeze in another room and be sure that you've broken a gun on the other side of the level.
lol, that assault rifle uses the same ammo as the pistol.
Yeah, the maintenance and inventory thing was a pain in the ***. I got 6 Str pretty quick cause I got tired of running out of damn space. And about the ammo, learn to use the wrench! It'll get you far once you do. Thing with the AI though is it became pretty predictable, which is why the game was not OMG SCARY to me (I played it on Normal). I was more scared in FarCry than I was in this game... all that flora!.. so hard to see ****.
I'm not sure what was worse, the cyborg midwifes or those bloody monkeys. I still get chills down my spine whenever I here a monkey screech no thanks to System Shock 2.
The biggest scare I got was on the operations deck (Level 4 of sorts), but I won't ruin it for new players :p .
Well I did play Deus Ex before playing SS2 and I was trying to use my DX tactics in SS2. In DX, Master Hacker/Sniper was EZ Mode. So I went the hacker route (OSI right?) in SS2 and tried to hack all the turrets and stuff. Except in DX, you can usually sneak into some secret room where the control terminal is for the turrets, etc. In SS2 though, for some reason you have to bull charge each turret and hack them point blank while they are shooting you for the most part.Quote:
Originally Posted by LiquidCrash
Oh and we should probably mention somewhere in this thread that SS2 is abandonware now right? You can get it from certain places (I wont specify where in case SF has some kind of policy against that stuff).
It's cool as long as you don't paste the link. Other wise just say underdog.Quote:
Originally Posted by GetCarter
Yeah that was great cartoon...perhaps the new movie will lead to a game?
Speaking of DX, you guys remember the phrase "Laputan Machine?'
This will jog your memory if you don't:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOr8dln2c5k&NR=1
I hate horror but I love this game. It's all in the atmosphere, the logs are masterpieces. Now they almost only rely on gross details and pseudo surprise to scare you, that's the easy boring way.
Navy is the hacker route. To hack the turrets and not need to charge them and hope not to die you need to hack the floor security first and get it turned off temporarily, then you can approach in safety.Quote:
Originally Posted by GetCarter
Technically SS2 isn't abandonware, EA holds the rights to the series.
Yeah, I was about to say, you have to hack the security first to hack the turrets safely! lol... There's this one log though on the engineering deck that showed this lady tried hacking the turrets while they were active. Needless to say, her body was right next to it... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Kamakazie