Shevers on 6/9/2006 at 16:19
Quote Posted by Bomb Bloke
Well, except for those few times you actually see the hybrid warp in out of thin air. But those aren't exactly common, and tend to make people laugh more then snort in disgust. ;)
The developers did a fair enough job of coming up with an excuse for this anyway. iirc, the respawning hybrids look the same as the player does when using teleport. And considering that the Many have those psi powers themselves, well, it's easy enough to explain away the respawns that way.
Bluegrime on 8/9/2006 at 07:14
Well, at least you know how to make a decent, fairly well consructed post that didnt spam capitals or use "!!1"..
And I disagree whole heartedly what what you said. :p
HamburgerBoy on 9/9/2006 at 01:43
Quote Posted by Vigil
The constant respawning in the engineering cargo bays wasn't overwhelming? The constant respawning of assassins on ops wasn't overwhelming? It's not the odd pipe hybrid on medsci that's the problem here, there's areas of the game that get fucked to the point of unsurvivability
on normal difficulty because of the respawn rate. There's plenty wrong with the respawn as it stands... which isn't to say having it at all was a bad idea, but there's a happy medium that several key areas didn't hit.
That is the main reason it took me a year to get into System Shock 2. The first time I played it a few minor things bugged me (ladder clunkiness being one of them) but overall it was a pretty fun game. You get to explore, do missions, upgrade your character, and bash zombie heads. Then all of the sudden I get to the cargo bays and the kamikaze drones spawning every two seconds turned me off to the point of quitting.
Eventually I try again and manage to beat the cargo bays, but just barely. Hydroponics was a blast the whole way through and suddenly the game goes to crap again. Insanely fast ninja cyborgs attack me from all directions and my AP ammo supply has been depleted. Then combine that with ultra-strong spiders and a lack of anti-toxin hypos and you have another pissed of gaming moment.
Months later I give the game one last attempt to improve and to help my noobiness at it, I cheat with infinite skill points. Even with the cheats I struggled slightly in the Body of the Many at the part where you go up the giant staircase of flesh with the deadly rumbler/psi projection combination. Now I can beat the game pretty easily without cheats (and I love it), but it is simply on of the most unfriendly games ever towards newcomers.
june gloom on 9/9/2006 at 04:03
and that's just the way i like it.
Ultraviolet on 9/9/2006 at 06:28
Quote Posted by Bomb Bloke
Nothing gets your pulse going like a mutant moaning right in your ear.
I uh... know just what you mean... ;-)
kidmystik101 on 9/9/2006 at 08:39
Quote Posted by Ultraviolet
I uh... know just what you mean... ;-)
:eww: eeeeew.....
ok, violet, you get the freakiest denzien of TTLG shockgen award, and thats nothing to be proud of....
fetgalningen on 9/9/2006 at 16:46
If EA makes games based on asking questions to gamers, then the people they ask must be fucking clueless, and so is your post, and so are you.
System Shock 2 was the third or fourth game i played since i got my computer, when i were really young, like 12 - 13. But i didn´t have any problem with it, only getting a bit paranoid / heart attacks now and then (the usual symptoms xD)
Bjossi on 9/9/2006 at 17:16
Quote Posted by HamburgerBoy
That is the main reason it took me a year to get into System Shock 2. The first time I played it a few minor things bugged me (ladder clunkiness being one of them) but overall it was a pretty fun game. You get to explore, do missions, upgrade your character, and bash zombie heads. Then all of the sudden I get to the cargo bays and the kamikaze drones spawning every two seconds turned me off to the point of quitting.
Eventually I try again and manage to beat the cargo bays, but just barely. Hydroponics was a blast the whole way through and suddenly the game goes to crap again. Insanely fast ninja cyborgs attack me from all directions and my AP ammo supply has been depleted. Then combine that with ultra-strong spiders and a lack of anti-toxin hypos and you have another pissed of gaming moment.
Months later I give the game one last attempt to improve and to help my noobiness at it, I cheat with infinite skill points. Even with the cheats I struggled slightly in the Body of the Many at the part where you go up the giant staircase of flesh with the deadly rumbler/psi projection combination. Now I can beat the game pretty easily without cheats (and I love it), but it is simply on of the most unfriendly games ever towards newcomers.
I thought the game wasn't very challenging on my first runthrough, but I did have serious problems on Ops though. :p
ZylonBane on 9/9/2006 at 17:40
Quote Posted by HamburgerBoy
That is the main reason it took me a year to get into System Shock 2. The first time I played it a few minor things bugged me (ladder clunkiness being one of them)
You still haven't explained how the ladders are "clunky". They're impossible to fall off of accidentally, and they couldn't be easier to navigate-- you just look in the direction you want to go and push forward. You can even climb
around them without falling off!
Chuck on 9/9/2006 at 18:58
So this guy registers on a forum where we all worship everything shock only to tell us how much he hates it?
WTF?
