![]() Even being spoiled years ago by GameFAQs and Ars writers, I still couldn't believe that a game like this aged as well as it did, keeping me freshly surprised and on my toes. ![]() Alas, I never had a chance to purchase the full game, so I never advanced beyond the golden elevator of the 1st level.I got hooked on System Shock 2 - a worthy successor, now that I've played the original through - but I never did fully understand all the niceties and inside jokes shared in the logs that SS1 players got.Fast forward to this past week - feeling a yearning for the old days, on my 25th birthday, I snagged a copy, configured it to play on XP, and steamed through it, enjoying the complete story for the first time, being scared and surprised in ways that I haven't felt in a video game for a long time. The interface was so different, so unwieldly, but oh so addictive - I used the pipe, the sparq, the dart gun, the magpulse, the magnum, with much difficulty.I gave it up, but continued to come back to sate my need for a thriller game. I had to creep and crawl so slowly to keep my blood pressure down. ![]() I got my PC Gamer magazine and played the heck out of the demo 1st level.It was so scary, I kept setting the battle difficulty to 0 so that no enemies would attack me. After almost 10 LONG YEARS, I have finally beaten Shodan on the original System Shock.I first played the game after my mother purchased a spankin' brand new Packard Bell Pentium 90 with 16 megabytes of RAM. ![]()
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