/vr/ - Retro Games

No respawning enemies and weapon degradation would make this game so much better

System Shock 2. Only sold 50k copies. Most people know of System Shock 2 and its spiritual successor Bioshock but they don't know it was a commercial failure and I'm sure 90% people that played the game pirated it years after the fact.

>>7095812
>Didn't help that Nintendo wouldn't promote it.
I saw craploads of commercials for it

>>7095674
System Shock 2 only sold like 50,000 copies when it came out. Vampire the Masquerade only sold about 70,000.

this game is scary as fuck.

SS2 was never good.

Bad level design that only has the pretension of being non-linear and misleads the player into thinking it's such, but it's actually nothing but locked door after another and you'd just be wasting time straying from the obvious path.

RPG mechanics that are completely unbalanced that end up just being busywork and also making the player have to suffer clunkier melee and shooting every time he starts a new game.

The worst hacking/lockpicking minigame ever made. Based only on stats and RNG yet it still makes the player jump through hoops with a braindead puzzle. Dumb busywork just like the whole RPG system.

Awful self-defeating story that discredits the credibility of the threat of the antagonist and the autonomy and struggle of the protagonist. Weak attempts at making the antagonist threatening by having shallow mimicry of her dialogue in SS1 end up just making her look even more of a joke in the context of her situation. The bafflingly cheesy ending cutscene is actually oddly fitting given how ineffective the story is.

It's goddamned trash, but it's attractive trash because of all its pretension of complexity and depth (muh stats and upgrades, muh plot twist) and that's why it has remained popular for so long. It's rightfully being shat on now that releases such as SSP and Enhanced Edition eased the barrier of entry into SS1 and allowed people to experience a game that is mechanically and conceptually simpler but far better designed.

I want to play this but I'm overwhelmed by how many different mods there are. Can anyone recommend a good mod list or ideally an all-in-one download?