With obviously no downside to this agreement, our hero readily complies and undergoes the surgery to get his new uber hax0r skills. We’re whisked away to a space station, where a mustache twirlingly evil man offers us freedom and even more leet hacking skills in exchange for disabling the station AI’s ethics protocols. Unfortunately, said hacking skills aren’t quite as good as we hoped, and as a result we get arrested for breaking into an important person’s stuff. It’s half past the future and we play as a standard silent protagonist with generic hacking skills. The initial plot of System Shock doesn’t take long to get started. It’s also a game I have fond memories of playing as a kid (albeit with a good chunk of help from some friends), and jumping into the remake now I was curious whether it would hold up today, or whether it would prove to be another game from my past buoyed by rose tinted glasses. The original System Shock is probably one of the most influential titles of the mid 1990s, and that’s saying quite a lot. On a completely unrelated note, here’s the System Shock remake. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug, causing us to remember movies, TV shows, and, yes, games much more fondly than we probably should have.

Getting older is a collective realization of two things: first off, that you definitely aren’t as good at a lot of things as you used to be (mostly athletic), and secondly that the things you used to enjoy definitely weren’t as good as they used to be. By Paul Broussard, posted on 30 June 2023 / 1,868 Views

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