I love the voicework but my initial complaints on the actual lines spoken still stand. Compare and contrast the original where Rebecca knows exactly who you are, your part in all this, and 'help us fix this and you MIGHT get a pardon' vs 'hello? Some rando! Yay get a weapon yur gunna need it.'

Again, love the voice actress. I'm assuming this is mostly reusing the pre-alpha asset rather than reflection of end prodoct? Either way minor quibble but it is a fairly major shift in tone in the working relationship Hacker and Rebecca has through the game and the Hacker's motives for going through with things.

Edit: MOAR FEEDBACK!

The inventory have any way for you to double click and the thing is in your inventory as opposed to manually dragging items?

I like the charging station effect compared to the pre-alpha being more 'this is routine equipment' as opposed to the old 'you are getting electrocuted this is fine.' Maybe have the Hacker place a hand on the pillar? I dunno how that would break flow.

I like the picture as the logs play.

Mutants looking solid at a glance. Will want to rewatch to critique the fall animation.

The music is... nice. Soothing background ambient you'd perhaps find at a doctor's office (this is medical after all.)

Wire puzzle even to my rather poor eyesight looks easy to comprehend, which is great.

Are you using the old logs or are these new assets? Either way I like that the logs are in place.

I like the removal of the vaguely melancholy orchestral from the observation area overlooking saturn.  Ilike how saturn itself looks.

Am I the only one that thinks every surface looks too glossy? The textures themselves look good but everything looks either high polished or soaking wet.

I enjoy the visual effects, though I keep expecting to hear the sounds of computers wirring away, coolant pipes hissing, and the like maybe? I dunno.

Overal though I'm liking the direction the game's going and want to give money.

That music that kicks in around the 4 minute mark... no. Just no. It sounds straight out of Minecraft.

Actually my only complaint would be the music. It doesn't fit. Hadn't thought about Minecraft though, but now that you say it, it really does sound like something from Minecraft

To me the music there felt in line with 'welcome to the medical level.' Soothing ambient inoffensive doctor's office music.

Except it's tonally completely wrong. Soothing music shouldn't be playing over fog, death, darkness, and monsters.

Except it's tonally completely wrong. Soothing music shouldn't be playing over fog, death, darkness, and monsters.

Well Hikari does have a point. Its not like the place is supposed to be fog, death and darkness in the first place. If its supposed to be played as a part of the game it self, and not as a soundtrack in the background, it should be made more localized from some speakers or something. But i still think its a little too Minecrafty.

Well Hikari does have a point. Its not like the place is supposed to be fog, death and darkness in the first place. If its supposed to be played as a part of the game it self, and not as a soundtrack in the background, it should be made more localized from some speakers or something.

Yeah, it's clearly not diegetic music. If it was, it wouldn't even sound like video game ambient music. It would be more like muzak.

It's a shame they aren't just remixing the original Medical deck music.

Welcome back to disco station.

The audio log by Rebecca Lansing was terribly voiced in the original, but this is somehow worse. Mentioning a mining laser taking aim at earth like some secondary nuisance. Bad. Very bad.

The medbots seem rather comical, the way they let their head hang after being beaten. But mainly those strikes with a leadpipe don't seem to have any connection with the world. That bot should tumble but instead it gives off little puffs of smoke as the only visual indicator that your hit connected. Exactly as the cameras. 

I liked the zombies. And most of the environment and textures, save for the stark disco lighting. But I guess that is a possible interpretation of the original and they are going for that retro look.

One thing to keep in mind is that a lot of this is WIP: combat, enemy destruction effects, AI, etc. aren't all 100% implemented yet, nor is level design fully finalized, but things are definitely coming along!  This is a great preview, but not necessarily representative of how everything will be done in more mature builds. 

You guys are right of course. The problem comes from not knowing what is a placeholder (or unpolished version of the final thing) and what is not. We all just want the best for this game.

One more thing I wanted to mention, doesn't mutant faces (especially the eyes) look a bit goofy to anyone else? I know it was in a similar way in the original (though it is hard to tell) but because their eyes are overly bright, perfectly round and symmetrical, it looks more like they are wearing googles than anything else. It could be just me, but they fail to look scary in any possible way for me.

Maybe just keep it as SS1 remake and don't include anything from SS2.

In fairness Shodan/Polito does mention that being experimental. Maybe have a log or two of shodan noting tinkering with brain chemistry combined with specific crystaline structures built into grafted mplants allowing for curious manifestations that she would like to study further?

I finished both games (though its been a while since the last time I played them) and I don't remember anything about it being experimental. I vaguely recall "some" PSI powers being experimental, but not the PSI itself. With Psionic Amplifier being a relatively widely used thing in SS2, I think it should already exist in SS1. (Shouldn't be something thats available to Hacker however)

Maybe just keep it as SS1 remake and don't include anything from SS2.

By that logic, maybe don't remake it in the first place and keep replaying the original one, since you are against improving it.

I didn't say "this game should have PSI powers", it just needs at least a mention of it. I don't want this game to be anything but System Shock 1, but being a purist only goes so far.

As far as I can see it, the only thing that keeps two games together is Shodan, which is not a good thing. It could have been taking place in a different universe and it would have made no difference. There should be a few dots that connects the two games together, however small they might be. (In fact, smaller the better) There are many story elements that concern the setting they didn't even think about until the second game. First game needs more of it, because it has so little of it in the first place.

You are talking nonsense. You really have no idea what you are talking about.

Earlier incarnation you are talking about had absolutely no resemblance to SS2 in any shape or form. People hated it because it didn't even look like a System Shock game anymore. They were basically creating a different game with the same name.

And there is nothing wrong with game being a bit more like SS2 where it makes more sense. This is why I didn't say "yeah, lets add the weapons from SS2 to SS1" or "lets add PSI powers to the game". I just want some established game lore to be in SS1, because it makes sense being there.

Only other thing I said that would make the game just a bit more like SS2, is adding some NPC's getting killed in front of your eyes (which would help with the horror theme), which didn't really exist in SS1 because of the limitations at the time. Again, it doesn't change the game all that much, it makes sense, no one in their right mind would disagree with that.

You are talking nonsense. You really have no idea what you are talking about.

As you've done no research before saying that, I'd recommend reading up on the forums here. Until then, your the only one talking nonsense. Have a long read, then post. We shall be waiting. There was dozen of threads with hundreds of posts on this.