I've already played Half Life many, many times. No really need to go back to it, thank you.

Does it age well?? I recently replayed Bioshock 2 and started 1 (though not system shock) and EHHHHHHHHHHHH

Third greatest* :P

Anyway, I love this game. The only things I didn't like was that the music sometimes felt inappropriate and the ending. Also, just putting it out there, I first played the game four years ago.

While I had a good time playing it, I have never understood why people call SS2 a horror game. Probably because I spent my entire play-through thinking 'Look, "lady who I'm not supposed to figure out who you are but come on dude, I wasn't born yesterday" if you have all these upgrade tokens, how about you stop simply throwing me a few when I unlock a door or flip a switch every hour or so and just give all of them to me up front?' and was too annoyed to be scared. (Spoiler text because, well, I guess it just got a re-release kinda and some people might be picking it up? I don't know, I just don't want anyone to cry at me.)

I do remember laughing at the very ending though (and also kind of grimacing, wow, humanoid rendering in graphics, I take you for granted so much).

I picked SS2 up when it was being treated as abandonware, ie. free, from some place, I can't remember where. It still remains as a black mark on my conscience that I couldn't get far into it due to the primitive nature of the graphics, even with the fan update that's out there.

Having said that, I do confess I'm a pussy when it comes to scary games and I DO recall getting a strong sense of atmosphere from the very short time I played. So maybe it wasn't just the graphics that turned me off.

Well, I'd contest the point that the FPS wasn't a thing when System Shock 2 came out, but I am rather worried that I wouldn't enjoy it because it looks like it's aged poorly, and I don't think I'm an asshole for thinking that. Of course people weren't idiots when it came out, but "good" is a subjective term, and times change.

I finally got home and got the chance to buy it. I guess I'll soon see myself how it holds up.

You're going to play Eternal Darkness?!.....Nevermind

Eh, I'm still going to pick it up because I could never get it to work on my PC before. I hope the GOG version is readily playable so I can just drop the fan patch in and get chugging along. I have a really high tolerance for dated mechanics and gameplay, so I hope I can get the full experience from this thing.

I'm hesitant because maybe it aged like shit :(

I'm actually going to try it out, never played before but I LOVE playing older pc games so I'm gonna give it a fair chance.

Did you try the fan-made patch that's out there?

Yup. This game holds up like shit. Never played it at the time, love Bioshock, but I can't for the life of me play this for more than 10 minutes.

Trying to convince people to play older games is a worthless effort, particularly when your passions are so deeply rooted in nostalgia.