Mechanically, I think that SS1 was better than SS2 because of the depth of weapon control and the availability of ammunition. Being able to decide the power of your weapon's blast made the electric and laser weapons much more useful against a wider range of enemies than the ones in SS2. The supply of ammo let you actually use your guns as your main tool for the whole game, but made you want to conserve ammo, making the pipe a fallback weapon (By the end of SS2 you already have 200+ shotgun shells and 60+ grenades, regardless of difficulty. You also need the skill points to actually use the weapon, which makes lots of them useless if you don't have the points. Time for a new shock thread. What are your favorite:
Mechanically, I think that SS1 was better than SS2 because of the depth of weapon control and the availability of ammunition. Being able to decide the power of your weapon's blast made the electric and laser weapons much more useful against a wider range of enemies than the ones in SS2. The supply of ammo let you actually use your guns as your main tool for the whole game, but made you want to conserve ammo, making the pipe a fallback weapon (By the end of SS2 you already have 200+ shotgun shells and 60+ grenades, regardless of difficulty. You also need the skill points to actually use the weapon, which makes lots of them useless if you don't have the points.
Does the enhanced version of SS1 change anything drastic?
Aiden Butler
I have the Steam version of SS2, but I know there is also a cool unofficial patch that got released a while ago. Does the Steam version us it? If not, can it be applied to the Steam version?
Ryder Perry
I've never tried these. I enjoyed Ultima Underworld 1&2 and Bioshock 1 & Infinite, are System Shock on the same level? (Probably Infinite doesn't fit in here)
Eli Foster
SS1 was far better than 2 but its early 3D design likely makes it unapproachable for most cancer today.
Zachary Hall
It's basically just a pack of two mods: mouselook and higher resolution. Also runs natively in windows, so there's that if you can't run dosbox or whatever.
Adrian Foster
Also forgot to mention my biggest qualm with EE is they missed an opportunity to offer the amazing Mac OST in options.
Nicholas Martinez
No, it doesn't. And yes, use it. You could just read Steam guides or forum to understand that. Come on, m8.
System Shock is way better than Bioshock.
Grayson Moore
The laser rapier for the first. The grenade launcher from the second is pure sex. Anything to go fast. Executive from the first and recreation for the second. Either hacker that gets good at almost everything through extra exp or psyonic. The second.
If you want Ultima Underworld the first one should be your choice. Bioshock is more like the second, but in a really bare bones way. SS2 makes Bioshock look really lame. I'd always strongly recommend playing the first System Shock before the second.
