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Article #694947Re: System Shock Enhanced - respawning monsters?
From: Spalls Hurgenson
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 14:04
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 14:04
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On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 14:08:38 -0500, Ross Ridge <rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: >Mike S. <Mik...@nowhere.com> wrote: >I never finished it though. By the time you got to the final level, >the other space ship, it become a real slog, and really difficult. I minded the second half less because of the "slog" and more because the levels either weren't that interesting (in the case of the levels on the /Rickenbacker/) or downright silly (the levels inside The Many). The former was just "more of the same"; the latter had giant teeth descending from the ceiling. Both were also increasingly dependent on jumping puzzles as a way to ramp up the difficulty. But I can still close my eyes and feel the frission of terror as I crept through darkened halls of the /Von Braun/, never knowing what was around the next corner. That System Shock 2 was able to maintain that level of suspense for as long as it did is a wonder; that it started to break down only once I reached the /Rickenbacker/ was inevitable.
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