@i_noseworthy @Peazo I can see your point and it does raise tension, but for my tastes, I prefer to save it when I want. Happy to have the scare and dialogue once! :-)
@himoura32 Surprisingly no. I am the first to admit that I jump out my skin at many horror games, but for some reason this one didn't scare. Very tense, hiding in corners, but no real jump factor. Kinda glad on that front as don't have the same tolerance for the horror these days.
6 was a fair score for me. Huge areas of restarting engines and flicking switches. As for that horrible console mechanism of specific save locations. Completely drops the atmosphere if you die and have to repeat a section. More frustrating than enjoyable. I haven't found it scary in the slightest which is a shame. I found Amnesia to have better atmosphere. As for any comparison to System Shock 2 that I've read a few times, more like chalk and cheese. System Shock 2 was a far more interesting game and even after 15 years still delivers more than this. As a fan of the Alien films, still worth a play, but a steam sales job.
Rumour has it the 2nd DLC will have lots of extra bins. I think we can all agree that there were not enough of them to search in the game.
The 3rd DLC will introduce a bin man companion called Bob. He comes with a "bin search" skill. With all those extra bins introduced in DLC 2, you'll wish they had released DLC 3 sooner.
Looking forward to this. Although it took a bit of tweaking on pc to play with keyboard and mouse, I had a blast with it. Hopefully this time around it will utilise what the pc has to offer a little more.
I just hope it's not completely dumbed down. Thief 3 had it's roots firmly in the pc realms. The Bioshock franchise, especially infinite had none of the difficulty presented in System Shock 2. I just hope it has at least one foot in the stealth niche it deserves. A difficult game for a change would be nice.
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