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MadMaxHellfire
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one good news. i needed it.
Finally I can play it!
Excidium
P. banal
So this widely available game will now be on GOG on Steam, whoa amazing.
Excidium
P. banal
Your steam friends will be able to see you playing System Shock 2 and know you're hardcore.
And the gog version is supposedly noob-friendly and runs out of the box, which is bullshit most of the time because you still have to install a bunch of fixes but WHOA.
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This might be bullshit. WTF is "Night Dive Studios".
Hey man, if we're lucky they could even throw in the community patches. That'd be awesum rite? I can't wait be a huge piece of shit and pay $9.99 for an 14 year old game.
Cassidy
Arcane
I already downloaded it from The Underdogs more than five years ago. I suspect this is EA desperate to milk every possible venue.
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Assuming this is legit, it is not in fact a certainty that EA will be the ones profiting from sales of this game.
80Maxwell08
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http://www.nightdivestudios.com/
http://www.facebook.com/NightDiveStudios
Not like this is substancial though unfortunately. That facebook was only made like 2-3 weeks ago and I got no idea about their own site though I wouldn't say it's been around much longer.
Captain Shrek
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ITT: Edgy, edgy edgy.
Modron
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It's an incline because GoG tends to release stable versions that need little work to function on modern operating systems. And for you people unwilling or unable to pay for it, GoG's releases do show up all over the web too, no real downside other than a few abandonware sites will remove it while the majority will still keep it up.
Edit: Also EA might not be getting money from the sale considering that they do not own the rights outright to System Shock and they have in the past allowed other companies to publish games on gog without taking a cut (eg inxile and their newer Bard's Tale game). Will have to wait and see to get the specifics of the release.
Edit: Also EA might not be getting money from the sale considering that they do not own the rights outright to System Shock and they have in the past allowed other companies to publish games on gog without taking a cut (eg inxile and their newer Bard's Tale game). Will have to wait and see to get the specifics of the release.
Multi-headed Cow
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Well if it's a dick slapping contest we're after I've got retail boxed copies of SS1 and 2. Doesn't mean I can't look forward to buying it on Steam so my friends can see me playing it and know I'm hardcore.
Excidium
P. banal
Yeah, with GOG you can have awesome stuff like bundled music patches that fuck up the sound effects and prevent you from using proper sound emulation.
Modron
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Yeah, with GOG you can have awesome stuff like bundled music patches that fuck up the sound effects and prevent you from using proper sound emulation.
Even if they do screw up the audio how does that affect you? It's not like they release some virus out there that will patch all the abandonware site's/torrent versions of the game. Furthermore, SS2 is not a dos era game doubt they will screw up the audio emulation that much because there have not really been that many advances in sound cards since then; besides, if you really cared about the audio you would not be emulating it.
Wizardry and the SSI DnD games are in a much bigger licensing Hell.
Personally I would like to find a working copy of Entomorph.
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Well if it's a dick slapping contest we're after I've got retail boxed copies of SS1 and 2. Doesn't mean I can't look forward to buying it on Steam so my friends can see me playing it and know I'm hardcore.
I bought SS1 on a budget re-release, later eBayed myself a proper boxed copy. I was given my copy of SS2 because a friend of mine thought it would be a shooter Half-Life style and was disgusted by what he got instead. He was going to throw it away with some other games. I took those games as well. Wing Commander 3 and Outcast, among others that I can't recall right now.
Excidium
P. banal
I don't care enough to spend the money of a new PC importing an old synthetizer, but I do care enough to have sound effects that aren't scrambled around.
Rpgsaurus Rex
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