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Posted May 30, 2012
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spindown: System Shock? Is that a video game?
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SimonG: Never heard of it. Looks like a shooter like CoD. But with much shittier graphics. Pass for me.
Can't be worse than that piece of turd Thief. FPS with ugly graphics. Pass.

-edit- I just realized they're from the same developer too. No wonder.
Posted May 30, 2012
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spindown: System Shock? Is that a video game?
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SimonG: Never heard of it. Looks like a shooter like CoD. But with much shittier graphics. Pass for me.
We don't need System Shock on GOG, as I still have a working retail copy I can run on one of the oldtimer PCs in my personal geek lab. GOG should concentrate on getting the real classics like World of Warcraft and make them DRM-free!
Posted May 30, 2012
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mrtophat101: You mention System Shock on GOG?

The CIA is now monitoring you!
BREAKING NEWS: If your computer runs at 5.0 Gigahertz or more with 40 GB of ram or more with a 4TB HDD, NASA called, they want their computers back.
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mrtophat101: This is GOG trying to get SS.

http://imgur.com/WnoR8
Hee hee. That made my day, my class has a REALLY MEAN sub today and yesterday.
Post edited May 30, 2012 by somegamer786
Posted May 30, 2012
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Psyringe: GOG would love to sell System Shock, but the legal situation is a mess. The rights are split between several holders (one of them being an insurance company that doesn't concern itself with gaming at all), and GOG needs permission from all of them. It's not impossible to achieve that (GOG has managed a similarly complex situation for the D&D titles), but so far no solution has been achieved.
No it's only 2 parties that had the rights not several.
EA had the exclusive publishing rights and LGS had the rights to the game themselves as well as the exclusive developmental rights, LGS shut down and their rights went to said insurance company, while EA let their publishers rights lapse.

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/713030/the-lost-history-of-system-shock/
Posted May 30, 2012
Shadowrun is a Sega mega drive/genesis game
Posted May 30, 2012
Every time someone asks about System Shock - GoG moves the release date back one more month ;)
Posted May 30, 2012
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Psyringe: GOG would love to sell System Shock, but the legal situation is a mess. The rights are split between several holders (one of them being an insurance company that doesn't concern itself with gaming at all), and GOG needs permission from all of them. It's not impossible to achieve that (GOG has managed a similarly complex situation for the D&D titles), but so far no solution has been achieved.
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DCT: No it's only 2 parties that had the rights not several.
EA had the exclusive publishing rights and LGS had the rights to the game themselves as well as the exclusive developmental rights, LGS shut down and their rights went to said insurance company, while EA let their publishers rights lapse.

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/713030/the-lost-history-of-system-shock/
Yeah, that's what I thought as well. Then I read some forum posts here mentioning up to six parties, though without citing sources, so their reliability is somewhat questionable. Nevertheless I tried to weasel around that problem by using the term "several", which I thought included the number 2, but it doesn't seem to. Well, I learned something. :)
Posted May 30, 2012
pour some water over your computer system, that will shock it.
Posted May 30, 2012
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DCT: No it's only 2 parties that had the rights not several.
EA had the exclusive publishing rights and LGS had the rights to the game themselves as well as the exclusive developmental rights, LGS shut down and their rights went to said insurance company, while EA let their publishers rights lapse.

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/713030/the-lost-history-of-system-shock/
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Psyringe: Yeah, that's what I thought as well. Then I read some forum posts here mentioning up to six parties, though without citing sources, so their reliability is somewhat questionable. Nevertheless I tried to weasel around that problem by using the term "several", which I thought included the number 2, but it doesn't seem to. Well, I learned something. :)
Yeah I had a feeling that was the case, sadly when it comes to System Shock people sadly know more about the myths and rumors rather then the actual facts, but then again isn't that the case with most things on the net? Anyway but yeah I was in the same boat myself till someone pointed that article out in a older thread.
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