FABIO wrote:

Damocles wrote:


(You know what's funny? If they had simply cribbed the hacking minigame from Shadowrun, modernized the graphics, and replaced the purchase of better decks and programs with stuff/buy/make along the way, it could have worked really well, in a way that System Shocks' system never pulled off. Pity.)

Had more than 2 enemies attack you at the same time. OH NO! IT WOULD BE LIEK QUAKE THEN! SS1 gave you plenty of weapons (all of which you could use) and plenty of baddies, and it was a better game for it. It would be one thing if the one or two enemies you ran into in SS2 were challenging, but they weren't. Most of the time the monster you faced halfway through the game was the same hybrid/midwife you faced near the beginning. It was like Arcanum's random encounters that never scaled up; what the fuck is the point?


Useful upgrades- Those O/S station upgrades were a joke. I also remember about 90% of the psi powers being useless. Heal, cryo-attack, shield, anti-entropy, and the recharge one were the only ones I ever used.


I think the respawning could have worked if they had the monsters respawn in areas you weren't in. Have them respawn on the other side of the deck. That way you wouldnt have the constant empty corridors once you cleared out a deck that SS1 had, and you wouldn't have the annoying factor of enemies popping through doors you just came through, or even worse teleporting in right before your eyes.

Deus Ex pulled off the RPG skill thing in a FPS much MUCH better than SS2. You could still do anything, you just wouldnt be very good at it. Instead of saying "a pistol? what's that????", you just wouldnt be very accurate with it and reload slowly. The only complaint I had was that they made weapons more innaccurate if you werent skilled in them, yet also made you do less damage when you did manage to hit. That seemed a bit arbitrary.