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Steam: System Shock 2 for $1 US (90% off), and Other Older Titles on Sale

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I played and enjoyed this game many years ago. It is one of the wonderful franchises created by the EA murdered Origin (the game developers, not EA's client).

There are some mods to improve the graphics, such as SHTUP: http://www.moddb.com/mods/shtup-system-shock-2-texture-upgra…

More mods here: https://www.systemshock.org/index.php?board=2.0
I recommend anything by Vurt. he is responsible for several Flora enhancement mods for several Bethesda titles. I just install Flora Overhaul for Skyrim yesterday. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/141/

Other oldies on sale are the folllowing (I would prefer if they were this price on GOG though):
Darklands (an interesting DOS RPG set in the Holy Roman Empire) http://store.steampowered.com/app/327930/?snr=1_614_615_nigh…

Bad Mojo http://store.steampowered.com/app/255960/?snr=1_614_615_nigh…
Slave Zero http://store.steampowered.com/app/328470/?snr=1_614_615_nigh…
Eradicator http://store.steampowered.com/app/329640/?snr=1_614_615_nigh…
Shadowman http://store.steampowered.com/app/251770/?snr=1_614_615_nigh…
Classic Action pack (5 games including 2 deadlock titles) http://store.steampowered.com/sub/53355/?snr=1_5_9__403
Dragonsphere http://store.steampowered.com/app/327940/?snr=1_614_615_nigh…
Harvester http://store.steampowered.com/app/287020/?snr=1_614_615_nigh…
Colonization http://store.steampowered.com/app/327400/?snr=1_614_615_nigh…
Tex Murphy Complete http://store.steampowered.com/sub/45894/?snr=1_614_615_night…

None of the games are recommended for graphics whores though, though many indie games released today have pixellated, 8-bit type 1995 era graphics and people buy them and critics praise them. The first monitor I owned was only a 2bit, 4 colour CGA 320x240 display, so i have a certain tolerance for arachiac GFX.

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  • +4

    A fantastic game at a fantastic price. It's also hard as nails, but that's half the fun.

    Mods can make it easily look at least five years newer. When I played earlier this year, I found a great mod pack that included loads in one hit, but sadly the page it was on seems to have been taken down.

    Here's the original link (in case it decides to work again):
    http://neutralx2.com/2013/07/14/system-shock-2-mod-pack

    But here's the list of mods in it if you want to download them individually:
    SHTUP
    Four Hundred
    CyberBlutch Rebirth 3
    SHMUP
    Tacticool Weapon Replacements
    Eldron Psi Amp
    Vurt’s Organics
    Vurt’s Flora Overhaul
    Vurt’s Water
    Vurt’s Hires Space
    RocketMan Alternative Weapons Pack (minus the wrench. using tacticool pack wrench instead)
    Proper Cigarettes
    Cutscene Rebirth
    Hi-Resolution Player Models
    Earth New Sky
    Olfred’s fixed objects
    SS2 Simon Pennington HQ Droid – Edited by RocketMan/Grosnus

  • +1

    I played and enjoyed this game many years ago. It is one of the wonderful franchises created by the EA murdered Origin (the game developers, not EA's client).

    Rats.

  • +1

    +1 for sappy nostalgia indulgence and mod links.

  • +1

    Thanks for the heads up on this one, and also the many mod links. I'm no graphics whore, but I find it hard these days to look at or play a lot of the stuff I used to spend incredible amounts of time on back in the day.

  • +1

    Awesome. + for mod list, too.

  • +6

    I'D BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR! And just did…thanks OP.

  • +1

    Had always been interested in this since it has coop. Does coop still work though, especially with all the mods?

  • Honestly I went back to this game about 10 years ago and it was already way, way too old … graphics were just too ancient and that matters in horror/rpg style games for me.

    • +1

      Did you try it with mods (I'm guessing they wouldn't have been so good ten years ago)? Because they help a LOT.

    • Same. I felt likewise after I went back to Deus Ex a few years ago. It was a breath of fresh air when it first came out but nowadays it looks and plays pretty roughly compared to the Bioshocks et al…

  • what's the coop component about?

    • it's the single player game, except you play through it with someone else… simple as that really!

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