Whew. This is gonna be a rougher one.
I know this game is beloved and I don't wanna piss on anybody's all time favs, but please count me out.
I played this game til about the halfway point and it just frustrated the living hell out of me with its confusing, unfair and flawed game design.
Okeee, now with that said, let's get started.
The degradation of the ranged weapons always pissed me off, the psy-abilities were unintuitive to me and I was shying away from investing any valuable skill points in these abilties when it was unclear to me if they would be useful to me in the long run. So I just kept sticking to close combat and hoarded all the other skill points I would've spend on combat abilities.
I get what people like about this game, it is very deep and while I think its story is confusing and convoluted, it's themes reign powerful even today.
But I was not having a good experience with System Shock 2 at all. I was constantly frustrated, battling the controls and the game mechanics, berating myself for sucking, being paranoid about the skill points and most of all I found that progressing further in the game had me feeling increasingly worried (and not in a way a horror game should), instead of rewarded.
On Top of that, I was constantly struggling with all the many stats, menus, shortcuts to items, weapons etc., the inventory and the constant managing of all of it. Even after figuring out a control setting that worked for me, I was constantly confused and took way too long for anything to get done.
Because of that, every suprise encounter felt like I was caught with my pants down.
Regarding the balance issues: To me there were far too many varied abilities you
were able to sink your skill points into and even trivial things needed very specific abilities to the point that the progression felt entirely unrewarding to me.
As for the approach to gameplay, I felt that close combat with a weapon (especially an energy weapon), was far superior to any other approach to encounters.
And I also feel like this game wastes my time.
If I sit down to play a classic, I don't wanna read a 50 page game manual to find
out what I am supposed to be doing (The Reason I could not get into the first XCom).
And with system shock 2, the first thing I needed to do was take 30 minutes to re-configurate the control schemes because the default was totally useless.
Just... no. Like I said in the beginning: Please count me out. I tried this, did not like it at all and will never play it again.
I know this game is beloved and I don't wanna piss on anybody's all time favs, but please count me out.
I played this game til about the halfway point and it just frustrated the living hell out of me with its confusing, unfair and flawed game design.
Okeee, now with that said, let's get started.
The degradation of the ranged weapons always pissed me off, the psy-abilities were unintuitive to me and I was shying away from investing any valuable skill points in these abilties when it was unclear to me if they would be useful to me in the long run. So I just kept sticking to close combat and hoarded all the other skill points I would've spend on combat abilities.
I get what people like about this game, it is very deep and while I think its story is confusing and convoluted, it's themes reign powerful even today.
But I was not having a good experience with System Shock 2 at all. I was constantly frustrated, battling the controls and the game mechanics, berating myself for sucking, being paranoid about the skill points and most of all I found that progressing further in the game had me feeling increasingly worried (and not in a way a horror game should), instead of rewarded.
On Top of that, I was constantly struggling with all the many stats, menus, shortcuts to items, weapons etc., the inventory and the constant managing of all of it. Even after figuring out a control setting that worked for me, I was constantly confused and took way too long for anything to get done.
Because of that, every suprise encounter felt like I was caught with my pants down.
Regarding the balance issues: To me there were far too many varied abilities you
were able to sink your skill points into and even trivial things needed very specific abilities to the point that the progression felt entirely unrewarding to me.
As for the approach to gameplay, I felt that close combat with a weapon (especially an energy weapon), was far superior to any other approach to encounters.
And I also feel like this game wastes my time.
If I sit down to play a classic, I don't wanna read a 50 page game manual to find
out what I am supposed to be doing (The Reason I could not get into the first XCom).
And with system shock 2, the first thing I needed to do was take 30 minutes to re-configurate the control schemes because the default was totally useless.
Just... no. Like I said in the beginning: Please count me out. I tried this, did not like it at all and will never play it again.
Nezznerd
1 year ago