System Shock 2 GOG and Steam Release

[evdk]

Fix'd

Oh look a Cleve reference: http://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=4627.msg53352#msg53352

"If I was stranded on a lonely island/Siberia/a nuclear fallout shelter with a laptop and no internet for a few years, that's the game I'd like to have with me."

I think Cleve has a new marketing blurb.

 

[Exar Kun]

Still waiting for the steam release so I can play this then run through the bioshock series.

 

[DalekFlay]

It's not hard to understand the modding community is so focused on getting credit because they get literally nothing else from their work. GOG continue to fuck that up, which is a shame.

 

[felipepepe]

So, it was just released on Steam... ~$5 for me.

 

[Lilura]

Still waiting for the steam release so I can play this then run through the bioshock series.

Always funny when someone won't play a game until its on Steam...

 

[Sodafish]

Still waiting for the steam release so I can play this then run through the bioshock series.

Always funny when someone won't play a game until its on Steam...

"25 monkey headshots achievement unlocked!"

 

[evdk]

"25 monkey headshots achievement unlocked!"

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED - SPANK THAT MONKEY!

 

[cvv]

Still waiting for the steam release so I can play this then run through the bioshock series.

Always funny when someone won't play a game until its on Steam...

"25 monkey headshots achievement unlocked!"

It's not the achievements. It's the library. People want to have all games in one place.
Sort of a collector's urge. Hard so shake off.

 

[oldmanpaco]

Still waiting for the steam release so I can play this then run through the bioshock series.

Always funny when someone won't play a game until its on Steam...

"25 monkey headshots achievement unlocked!"

It's not the achievements. It's the library. People want to have all games in one place.
Sort of a collector's urge. Hard so shake off.

This is the reason I bought all the IE from gog despite still having the originals. Steam and gog make things to easy.

 

[MessiahMan]

It's not the achievements. It's the library. People want to have all games in one place.
Sort of a collector's urge. Hard so shake off.

I can certainly understand collecting, but non-transferable/intangible digital goods? Give me a damn box. I can make my own digital copy, thanks.

 

[Exar Kun]

Still waiting for the steam release so I can play this then run through the bioshock series.

Always funny when someone won't play a game until its on Steam...

I have MANY other games to play until then. Just offering my input to the topic. fuck off.

 

[Lilura]

Other funny Steam users are the ones that have a 300 game backlog from teh saylz and complain about it. First World problems, ftw.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Still waiting for the steam release so I can play this then run through the bioshock series.

Always funny when someone won't play a game until its on Steam...

"25 monkey headshots achievement unlocked!"

It's not the achievements. It's the library. People want to have all games in one place.
Sort of a collector's urge. Hard so shake off.

If they were physical copies, I could understand that. But they aren't, so let's just say I don't think too highly of people who hoard games on Steam.

 

[cvv]

It's not the achievements. It's the library. People want to have all games in one place.
Sort of a collector's urge. Hard so shake off.

I can certainly understand collecting, but non-transferable/intangible digital goods? Give me a damn box. I can make my own digital copy, thanks.

Can't stand boxes. Damn things just clutter up the place.
Anyway it's the same thing, physical or digital, collectors gonna collect.
I was a Steam addict, always waiting for that Steam release, but then GOG happened and broke that.
Now I have games all over internet, GOG, Steam, GG, Getgamesgo, Greenmagaming, hell even some bits and piece on the ol' Direct2Drive although god only knows what happened to those.

 

[Jasede]

There is a big advantage to having a digital copy: when you move or buy a new computer you can just put it on that without having to mess with a physical medium. This is attractive to me because I have nowhere to upload my games and no space to store boxes.

 

[Exar Kun]

I want it on steam because ALL my other games are there. All my friends are on steam. Its a bit of a social network as well, but you turds wouldn't know much of that.

Edit - Jasede, no need to make excuses for these retards. They are either trolling or have severe handicaps.

 

[mikaelis]

There is a big advantage to having a digital copy: when you move or buy a new computer you can just put it on that without having to mess with a physical medium. This is attractive to me because I have nowhere to upload my games and no space to store boxes.

Still, GoG is better alternative, if only for the fact that you can download the game to your hdd/sdd and it WILL install with no strings attached, and there you go, you can play without internet connection ...and so on... yeah, goodbye (going to sleep).

 

[Lilura]

Then go play it, Steam has it and on-sale.

 

[mikaelis]

ALL my other games are there. All my friends are on steam. Its a bit of a social network as well

ALL mY GAEMS!!1! SOCIAL NETWORKS!!11. MY FREINDS!!! I LOV THEM ^^.

cvheers,

 

[evdk]

There is a big advantage to having a digital copy: when you move or buy a new computer you can just put it on that without having to mess with a physical medium. This is attractive to me because I have nowhere to upload my games and no space to store boxes.

Still, GoG is better alternative, if only for the fact that you can download the game to your hdd/sdd and it WILL install with no strings attached, and there you go, you can play without internet connection ...and so on... yeah, goodbye (going to sleep).

GoG's biggest advantage is that there is essentially no initial hurdle to overcome - you have to have an internet connection, a browser and a valid method of paying online and you can buy and download games as you like. With Steam you have to overcome the reluctance to download and install a new piece of software to infest your computer. After that initial step it becomes much easier and Steam have all these nifty social features, if you are into that.

(typing drunk on a absolutely shitty lenovo laptop keyboard is a purgatory)

 

[mikaelis]

ibm/lenovo joystick red clitoris is good. Have it, know it. keyboard size is debatable (ok, I am very drunkl. Going to sleep nau.)

 

[AstroZombie]

Still waiting for the steam release so I can play this then run through the bioshock series.

Steel yourself for a struggle, human: http://store.steampowered.com/app/238210/

 

[Metro]

There is a big advantage to having a digital copy: when you move or buy a new computer you can just put it on that without having to mess with a physical medium. This is attractive to me because I have nowhere to upload my games and no space to store boxes.

Still, GoG is better alternative, if only for the fact that you can download the game to your hdd/sdd and it WILL install with no strings attached, and there you go, you can play without internet connection ...and so on... yeah, goodbye (going to sleep).

You can play pretty much any (non-multiplayer) Steam game offline/without an internet connection in Steam's 'offline' mode. Moreover, a lot of these older titles can be launched outside of the Steam client altogether (the early Gothic titles, for example).

 

[Daemongar]

Haven't seen this addressed, but does the Steam version have anything to enhance multiplayer, or is it pretty much the same as the GoG version?

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

It's not the achievements. It's the library. People want to have all games in one place.
Sort of a collector's urge. Hard so shake off.

I can certainly understand collecting, but non-transferable/intangible digital goods? Give me a damn box. I can make my own digital copy, thanks.

I've actually got a physical boxed (Well, not boxed any more. Threw the box away last fall in a great purge of videogame boxes that were taking up a ton of space) of System Shock 2 but I'd still like this Steam copy for ease of use (Downloading the whole patched thing at once and not possibly losing the disc. Or ideally not even having an optical drive in your computer at all and ascending beyond corporeal form) and general Steamwhoring/collecting.

Other funny Steam users are the ones that have a 300 game backlog from teh saylz and complain about it. First World problems, ftw.

Only 300 game backlogs, heh. HEH. help

Haven't seen this addressed, but does the Steam version have anything to enhance multiplayer, or is it pretty much the same as the GoG version?

I believe it's functionally identical to the GoG version. I heard it doesn't even need Steam running to play, so it's DRM free like the GoG version. So no Steamworks-using multiplayer.