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MedSci1: Science Sector
Looking Glass Studios Lyrics

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@Okazu84

3y↑4

As unwelcoming as MedSci was for me as well, I never entirely figured out why I still managed to somehow get around it and slowly, but surely and methodically advancing through its dark and highly oppressive corridors, literally one step at a time and save scumming like crazy specially when hacking, all the while it was having a constant toll on my senses and wearing me down by the minute every time I played, I absolutely remember the emotional side of it, beyond the actual experience itself. I can say I stood right at the crossroads between the two typical categories of people, my mind and intellect unwilling to quitting but the whole of my body telling my to just give up.

I guess being 16 at the time and at the height of my video-gaming passion (or passion at all, for pretty much everything) plus extreme attraction to anything cyber-ish played a part in overcoming what appeared to be tailored to the milimeter to reject me. It was the first time ever I played an FPS of that league, with so many additional mechanics, menus, and of course RPG elements, different paths and profile for your character and so on. Double it with that well-thought art direction specially geared at conveying some dark and intrusive sense of horror to the player, and you have a gem that will drive some of us to the fringes of straight up masochism.

I love every bit of it and really started to enjoy it when my character was upgraded past 50% of the chosen path with most stable weapons loaded with enough ammo, which meant suffering in an uphill battle for a good 10 hours until I was upped and familiarized enough with the whole thing.

Those hidden art terminal codes though. 14106 was it ? I mean, How to forget THIS ONE. Those FIFTY turns taken right past the missing ones right.

But as rewarding was the very act of finally beating this game, I guess I'll never have the energy, time and motivation pull that challenge anew in the future, bar a complete remake in the leagues of the first System Shock due this summer (that I never played to begin with, which helps). There are challenges you only have the strength to accomplish once. High School and Uni exams would be two other such examples for me :D

@zuc1896

System Shock 2 is superior in gameplay but honestly Bioshock has the upper hand in originality, story and in a way even atmosphere. It was just the right combination of elements.
Yes many things were simplified and there’s not much exploration since the game is kinda railroaded but I’m glad that it ended up being that way or I fear that the general audience wouldn’t have given it a chance.
Besides, Plasmids are really fun to use and have both combat and environmental effects, so you can still play around with them.
One thing that sucks in Bioshock 1 is the hacking minigame, good thing that they made it more blended in the action for the sequel.

P.S. One thing that I would change about SS2 is to put a door in front of the bioreconstructor, like SS1 did. I understand that this game is more action than the prequel and having the chamber open lets you get back in the game right away, but when doing an Impossible run I found myself killed by a security robot, when I respawn… SURPRISE! The robot is right in front of the chamber and is camping me, soft locking the game since I can’t do anything but load a previous save.
It sucks really bad.
Same thing happened with some annelids.

All comments from YouTube:

@schnitzel9003

4y↑47

Prey was probably my favorite game of 2017. That being said, I eventually picked up System Shock 2 to see where games like Prey (2017), and Bioshock took their inspiration. System Shock 2 was definitely not as easy to get into as the games previously mentioned but once I got past that, I found a really enjoyable game that had just about everything that made me fall in love with Prey (2017) with a personal highlight of the game for me being the Recreational Deck.

@pauloricardo-wn6ps

19w

prey is like bootleg system shock 2

@Ragitsu

4y↑30

Initially, one wonders why Janice Polito has a sharp edge to her voice as she guides the protagonist through the Von Braun. On second (and subsequent) playthroughs, I cannot help but chuckle whenever SHODAN!Polito talks smack as rave music blares in Med-Sci.

@Torgo1969

4y↑11

Sometimes the mask slips!

@Ragitsu

4y↑13

@Torgo1969 The lady can't help herself.

@yamato6114

3y↑5

I noticed that too. The real Polito in the audio recordings has a slightly higher pitched voice, and she isn’t as monotonous

@georgsgrants9925

2y↑2

Actually meeting shodan is a plot twist in the sense that the knife is twisted even further. The game basically tells you “polito” isn’t who she says she is. But you know you have to continue and do as she says, and you can’t do anything about it

@Arexion5293

4y↑14

The fun thing about System Shock 2's Med Sci is that even though the huge monologue about what needs to be done is indeed a pretty long one, all it boils down to in gameplay is pretty simple: explore the map, see what you can do and then explore elsewhere for the key item to progress further. Just explore shit and see what you find. For the most part that is what the game progression boils down to. Since the main method of progression is that simple, it gives more room for the player to think about all of the systems the game is filled with, since the question in the end always ends up being: How does this help me progress?

@williamredding8953

5y↑26

Please fastidiously go through the entire game.

The Von Braun's got six decks, the Rickenbacker, Body of the Many, and Final Level can each count as a deck.
So at one hour per deck, that's a good 9 hour mini series.

I'd watch it.

@ThePlayingField

4y↑6

Well I'm glad you like it! Though given I don't have the greatest track record of consistent uploads I'm hesitant to focus on one game that much :P

@geroldgrimel4811

3y↑5

23:00 I believe the reason for having the skill gate cryogenics section, was like the pop quiz for students who chose to 'bone up' for the test by taking the training courses offered. In other words, it provides accommodation for both players who want to jump into the game right away, as well as players who have the patience to master the games skills ahead of time.

@muzboz

6y↑50

Fun fact: As I understand it, "0451" was actually really the key code to get into the Looking Glass Offices at one point early on, too!

It was fun to see Arkane use it in Prey quite early on, too. :)

@muzboz

6y↑4

I hadn't quite put together how utterly the same Prey is to System Shock 2.
I mean, I have been playing, and knowing all the connections, and knew it was a strong nod to the series... but yes, it's like, almost exactly the same! :)

I like how polished and accessible Prey is. They've done a great job of streamlining the story and systems. It's very polished, but still has a lot of player expression with the recycling/neuromod system.

And considering that I'm playing on PS4 (and not much of a console gamer), it feels intuitive and well mapped to a console controller, which is pretty impressive for a fairly complex game.

@ThePlayingField

6y↑4

Oh god yeah, I'm finally getting around to Prey and the number of similarities, mechanically, systemically, and fictionally to SS2 is kinda nuts. It actually got to the point where, making the SS2 map for this video, I started thinking someone could recreate Prey as an SS2 campaign (I'm not crazy enough to attempt that yet).

And I found out the Otherside door code is NOT 0451 precisely because a number of people know about Looking Glass using it. :P

@muzboz

6y↑5

Haha, yeah, Otherside would be stupid to use the code for real! It must be in about 6 games at least by now, and a well known thing.

The fact that Prey uses "Looking Glass" as a key fictional technology in the game is almost mindblowingly delightful, too. Hehehe. So good.

@Torgo1969

LOL, I visited family in Boston a few years ago and I made a pilgrimage to the building on Cambridgepark Drive where Looking Glass was located and The Builders of so many legendary games practiced their Honest Craft. Had my bro-in-law take a pic of me trying to break into the place while dressed as Garrett! https://www.deviantart.com/vinsanecat/art/Thief2-531959988

@ReclusePhayder

6y↑54

Apparently, 0451 is NOT a reference to farenheit 451 but instead the old code to get into the Looking Glass studios in Cambridge. Also you've earned yourself a subscriber.

@ThePlayingField

6y↑6

It was their code for a while, though I think they made it that because of Farenheit 451. By the way, the code to Otherside's office isn't, for obvious reasons.

@ReclusePhayder

6y↑1

Well yeah. Not anymore. But it was. Still, as said, you did get yourself a subscriber. Keep makin' me happy buddy <3

@dominicdelbrocco6136

6y↑14

Im so glad you made this dude. I'm always trying to tell everyone why they should play this game, now they can watch this then experience the glory of the many!

@Torgo1969

Glory to The Mass!

@officedullard8722

5y↑23

It took me a good deal of effort to get into this game. It has very difficult mechanics and it is very easy to get punished. The sparse resources combined with infinite enemies is rough.
I eventually forced my way through the pain because I was obsessed with this game, as I was with the first. This got to the point where I was doing Impossible OSA-only runs for sheer fun.

@5000Seabass

4y↑5

Wrench + unlimited enemies = many resources :D

@sf3testvids

4y↑2

@5000Seabass yep... I pretty much use a wrench through all of medibay and most of engineering to stock up on ammo. It's only hydroponics and operations where I start using ammo due to the.... urrhem... need to adapt for certain obstacles >.>

@SIGNOR-G

3y↑1

@pat nik from those levels the game also get....disturbing

@sf3testvids

@- MR GLADIUS - ."....babies must sleep.... babies must rest...."

@SIGNOR-G

3y↑1

@pat nik eheh you got it right man. The enemy "fauna" gets a little too uncanny for my taste. Im ashamed to say that cause im a grown man and this is a low polyn game

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@solharv7817

6y↑7

Using sparse quick saves is so much better imo than respawning. Turning off Vita Chambers in Bioshock also makes that game way more enjoyable. Infinite isn’t a horror game, so the respawns worked out for one of them at least.

@Okazu84

3y↑4

@GhostLapse

3y↑1

Having just completed my first play through, this was amazing. I genuinely would have loved videos covering all the levels.

@_BirdOfGoodOmen

4y↑3

Stumbled upon this video and man your channel is criminally underrated. Great video!

@alexdietrich7975

46w↑1

Just found this channel. I. Love. This. Give me more insight on the areas I've spent probably days of my life in literally.

@unfa00

2y↑1

I have recently started my first playthrough and when it came time to choose the military branch I had no idea what's what. I had found no information what that choice meant. Only watching your video I've learned that I went the Psi route :P

@bubbleboy2590

3y↑1

Just stumbled across this video after deciding to recreate this level for a bit of game making practice! Thank you so much for your very informative video!

@JustAboutTime

2y↑2

I bought this game after having played Unreal .. and Half-life .. and I was DYING for another experience like those. And then I played this which was far more my kind of thing .. a Sci-fi horror. Though the game was mercilessly complicated I quickly got into it and though it took me a while to understand what all the D&D style game points were all about .. (I had never played D&D so I didn’t know) I got into it as time went on. And subsequent play thoughts were even better because of it .. trying out different classes and abilities.

When BioShock hit I was thrilled to play that ,, only to find that despite a good story .. it felt like an inferior, carnivalized, version of SS2. Dumbed down .. and made far too simple. You could see it in the enemy classes .. the similarities between SS2 enemies and Bioshocks .. even with the two primary warring factions of Shodan Vs. the Many … Andrew Ryan vs. Fontaine. I much prefer the combat in SS2 .. which can be a little clunky (swinging your wrench is a bit of a skill) .. but BioShock just seemed like everything is hyped up on meth as you’re attacked.

SS2 doesn’t make things simple for you .. you are required to think .. and learn fast.

As much as I appreciate BioShock .. it annoys me when people have reverence for that game but not for SS2 .. because to me SS2 was .. as is .. the superior game. And I can’t wait to play the reboot. I hope they keep the same music score .. cuz that techno stuff was feckin’ awesome!!

@zuc1896

@daniilvol

5y↑4

Having just finished the game, this is exactly what I needed. Thank you for your effort to go into such great detail!

P.S. I know I'm in no place to ask, but since the Patreon is down, is there any way to see your level? If it was ever published, of course.

@ThePlayingField

5y↑3

Thank you for reminding me! There's a link here on my website. https://jaredemitchell.com/articles/system-shock-2-medsci-the-playing-field/

@victory4me1000

6y↑4

your channel is a gem thanks for sharing your knowledge

@JacobKinsley

5y↑1

I think the tutorial being repeated is so you can test out what you've learned in what the player thinks is a timed event, and the voice and stuff is just for people who managed to either completely forget about it or just had a break between the tutorial and the space station

@codecixteen

Just found your channel, hope you make more content, I like analysis vids like this one and you do a good job and are entertaining!

@necrophobicnecromancer7471

7y↑6

Having started ( and restarted) this game many times before actually finishing it, I really appreciated your analysis of a level I'm so familiar with! Great video!

You got a great voice, btw. Please send me a homebrew

@ThePlayingField

7y↑5

It's in the mail, but only if you're of legal drinking age.

@macgeek2004

6y↑1

+NecrophobicNecromancer Honestly, I beat the game on my first way thru (without using any guides or looking anything up), but I think that may have only been because the game’s reputation preceded it for me. I played completely minimalistically. That is, I started as an OSI Officer in order to gain access to Psi abilities often and more cheaply than every other class, and then I preceded to horde FUCKING EVERYTHING, including cybernetic/upgrade modules.

Essentially, start out as an OSI Officer, get really good at only using the melee weapons in the game in order to save on ammo, and then spend your upgrade modules ONLY WHEN YOU ABSOLUTELY NEED IT. It’s not exactly a power trip thru the game, but it is by far the most versatile and adaptive ways to play it.

@Orange_Swirl

@macgeek2004 Stop commiting blasphemy.

@chucklesnchestnuts

7y↑2

Very well done sir. I could not have better well said it myself about this game.

@Maddin1313

7y↑99

~ ｆｒｏｂｂｉｎｇ ~

Great video!

@VimyGlide

4y↑15

i thought this was an hour long loop of the Medsci track.
i am...uh...pleasantly surprised.

@anthonyortiz7924

System Shock 2 was such an awesome game. I remember using it with my Aureal 3D card and 4 speaker system; the 3D surround sound was absolutely amazing. I would have a friend of mine play the game, place the speakers around him, turn off the lights, and watch him scream and literally jump out of his chair and run away during the first encounter. The game environment was so immersive and engaging and scary as hell, I would get goosebumps when a ghost suddenly appeared; it's one of my favorite games of all time.

@justaguy5923

5y↑5

So I've done the dance with ss2 about 4 times, trying to start playing only to end up quitting before I finished the first level and then coming back after a significant amount of time has passed to repeat the cycle.

But recently I made my 4th attempt to play the game and this time things were totally different, and it took me a while to realize why it was all of a sudden so easy for me to become invested in the experience. The long and short of it is fear held me back. Not literal fear of the game but fear of "playing the game wrong" and ruining the experience.

I obviously had heard about ss2 long before I ever actually played it. It's in hundreds if not thousands of articles, videos, and posts online with people talking about virtually every aspect of the game, and you can easily come across these even if your not trying to. I once read that players will optimize the fun out of any game as soon as you give them the chance. and this is incredibly true for me. The way this all comes together though is the random information I had received about the game over the years actually played into my need for maximum optimization among other things.

I had read about how difficult the game was. How the weapon degradation was supposedly so extreme that it made weapons seem completely worthless. How in order to enjoy the game you needed to instal mods and fixes and etc. And most notable was when I read that if your not careful you can build your character wrong and make it borderline impossible to progress. Combining all this with the old school graphics that can be a little hard to swallow until you get used to them and the game systems that look much more complicated at first then they actually are and I ended up with a artificial barrier of entry that seemed so high it took me 4 tries to make it over.

@sapphirewine7470

4y↑2

I cant believe how exact your experience seems to match mine, i had the same issues and only after multiple attempts at playing ss2 could i finally enjoy it.

even then i couldnt resist looking up guides and trying to play "optimally"

how did you manage to overcome it?

@justaguy5923

4y↑1

@WolfLikeASir It was several things but essentially i just said fuck it and go. I was able to issolate and circumvent the self impossed barriers I had put in place myself (like wanting to play on a high difficulty for no reason other then pride, not wanting to look up for help on a guide when i didnt understand or remember what i needed to do because pride, and not running gimmick builds like psy and melee only my first time through).

Combine that with my quick realization that alot of the proposed barriers I had heard about over the years like weapon degredation (not a problem at all if you spec into maintainance) and bricking your build (also not really a problem on rational difficulty levels because of how many modules you get and how often you get them) and it became much easier for me to enjoy the game and stop worrying about potential problems. It also helped that i just got older lol.

How about you? What finally got you over the hump?

@sapphirewine7470

4y↑2

Just A Guy It was pretty much the same, though i think i followed a guide a bit too much, but after getting a general outline of what skills are good and needed, like maintenance, i could focus way more on immersion without having to worry about anything unnecessary.

playing it through in a few sittings not long apart obviously helped with not getting lost and losing motivation and for the few times i got stuck i simply looked for a guide with minimal spoilers.

so the journey was as smooth as possible and it let me focus on all the good stuff.

@justaguy5923

@WolfLikeASir Well im glad you were also able to find your way to success :)

@DanMcLeodNeptuneUK

4y↑2

Excellent video essay! I love this shit! Good first channel impression!
I'm disappointed that more viewers didn't hit that sub button :(

@wowathena

6y↑2

One thing i would personally change if i was designer was the way how bio reconstructor respawn works. Instead Reviving players i would use bio reconstructor for healing broken leg, arm or head/eye injuries, which player can suffer during fights that add significant penalties to player. such as worse aiming in case of arm injury or slower moving or more noise with leg injury, or worse vision and hallucinations in case of head injury. But considering revival mechanic itself i would have a certain new item purchasable from vendor machine that can be activated to last for certain period of time and while it lasts if player dies, thell be revived on spot right away with certain amount of life. Usage of this item will be skill dependent with longer duration and more health returned upon revival improved based on certain skill improvements.

@collegiatebuilds4505

3y↑1

I'm 3 years late, but I'm here to inform you that the "451" keypad is not a reference towards Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit-451; it is a reference towards Irrational game's office. Their code for their main door was "451". Although, someone probably already told you that. Great video though, I'm not a game designer, I'm more of a writer, but I found it very interesting and enjoyable. I learned a few things and I'm glad about that. 11/10 would recommend.

@collinschubert6940

4y↑2

That music was so awesome and still is. Fucking perfect for the atmosphere of the game and its setting.

@IkanaMusicBox

1y↑1

2:54 oh it brings me such joy to see someone else suffer with that damnable ladder

@YT2CoolChris

6y↑2

great video! I ❤️ system shock 2 and its one of my favorite games

@knotnorechannel

amazing video, interesting and extremely well done

@BinaryDood

6y↑2

the first level in this game is cool af

@dewittbourchier7169

5y↑3

Thank you, it was a frame by frame dissection of a classic, and something that is not done for video games.
But I confess I've never been able to finish the game, sheer fear and how it plays on fears. The only thing that has come close is Alien: Isolation.

@SIGNOR-G

Did you gave up at the hydroponics?

@dewittbourchier7169

@- MR GLADIUS - No I powered through to the reveal but the invisible spiders made me think 'nope, nope, I am too chicken.'

@SIGNOR-G

@Dewitt Bourchier the invisible spiders? And i thought it would have been the cyborg ladies. Those things are disturbing

@dewittbourchier7169

@- MR GLADIUS - Disturbing but I can handle it. I am a major arachnophobe, and also because I know those are giant spiders those are flesh masses of what used to be animals and human beings and goodness knows what the Many has warped the flesh into.

@SIGNOR-G

3y↑1

@Dewitt Bourchier your comment is very interesting. This game terrorizes us in different way. While it is the machine phobia (and noise of those abominatipns) that makes me shiver for you its the fear of the flesh (and spiders). Its very interesting

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@Flowcast

4y↑4

This channel deserves more subscribers !

@macgeek2004

6y↑3

Looking Glass coined the term “frobbing???” I was WONDERING who came up with that! I’d only ever run into the term when playing The Dark Mod, which is a re-implementation of the looking glass era Thief games sans the maps in the Id Tech 4 Engine (a.k.a. a stand-alone Doom 3 Mod).

@ThePlayingField

6y↑2

Someone in the comments informed me it actually came from MIT, which is where a lot of Looking Glass employees came from. Makes sense. And I've actually made maps in The Dark Mod! Really well-put together project.

@AluminumHaste

@The Playing Field Really? Which ones?

@HotaruZoku

I LOVE the infodump. The game is utterly upfront about how hard it's going to be..

I feel totally different about the "doling out". I HATE that. I HATE being given piecemeal information. Getting it all at once establishes the voice in your ear as being capable of planning and initiative, AND there's a flat STORY reason for her to speak that way to begin with.

@dominicdelbrocco6136

Why not do a full playthrough series and live vicariously through me lol. I did see someone attempt it but I know yours will do much better.

@Larkinchance

4y↑2

Why has System Shock II survived?
Brilliant atmospheric sound design and the level's stark appearance, lacking in unessential detail.

@SHDW-nf2ki

32w

I think the fact that MedSci is slightly offputing is why its so appealing, System Shock 2 feels like a very hostile game. You're actually challeneged and threatened unlike a lot of modern games.

@aceenigma9805

6y↑26

Really love your analysis, very detailed and explained articulately.

However, I do think most people would likely quit playing the game not after the exposition dump but after having been killed by the turrets. Safe to say that players might not have found the reconstructor and got a game over. The fact that they'd have to restart the game and go through the tutorial, linear intro, and exposition just to retry the turret area is very off-putting.

P.S. Your humour added a nice amount of levity after long periods of explanation. Most of it worked for me besides one or two jokes that felt a bit forced around the 40 min mark and some of what sounded like Plinkett-esque moments. The Dukes of Hazzards bit was great despite me having never watched the show; I think pop culture osmosis helped there.

@ThePlayingField

6y↑3

Ohhhh definitely, I'm sure the turrets were a deterring factor for a number of people. I remember getting really demotivated with a number of games around this time because autosave wasn't widespread yet and I'd forget to do it myself.

@AluminumHaste

Was there no savegames in the original release?

@AluminumHaste

5y↑1

@Steven Hunt I was being facetious. I was commenting on the OP saying that people would quit the game after dying to the turrets and having to start the game over again, just to die again at the turrets.
Obviously people would save before trying something difficult in case they died.

@jackson12ten85

5y↑3

I'm not really sure why you talked so much about the bioreconstructor, because, at least in my experience, it's made completely useless by saving. And once you get to Deck 5 (from my memory, maybe it's Body of the Many) they're non-existent, which would make the entire ending half of the game nearly impossible because of how far back the last bioreconstructor is, so if you mess up you're all the way back to Deck 4 (from my memory)

@ThePlayingField

5y↑2

Yeah, that's fair. Whenever I go back to SS2 I always forget that I need to manually save, so I typically early on get killed and remember that I needed to do that right as I lose all my progress. Maybe the bioreconstructor was a compromise for that (though Deus Ex and the Thief games didn't have equivalent systems, so that might not be it either).

@AluminumHaste

5y↑1

@The Playing Field It was a probably just world building, have a non-immersion breaking quickload.

@poszukujaccelu

the point was that it was hard to reconcile everything, memory and processor limitations,hardware, but the championship is a general combination. It's a world championship, programming like that. Game atmosphere, connections, character enhancements, it's a genius above geniuses. I know what I'm saying, today it's like this to connect everything, millions of money, and that's how they create crap.

@designator7402

4y↑1

To explain the insurance group holding the rights to system shock: the company holds (held?) some of the intellectual properties that looking glass had when they went under.

@lukehansen6788

This is quality content.

@PopCopShow

5y↑1

It's very easy to explain: It's like a Prey but 17 years ego.

@ZylonBane

7y↑1

Have you considered a run-through with the Shock Community Patch? It's a fan-made patch that fixes... well, a lot of things.... but among them many of the illogical bits in the systems and level design.

@ThePlayingField

7y↑3

Huh, I was not familiar with that. Might check it out.

I also feel like I'd prefer to cover the game as shipped by the developers (as much as possible, anyways). Thanks for watching, though!

@unfa00

A patch that fixes the game's irrational parts? Interesting...

@SaltpeterTaffy

28:16 Me too. That moment is the gaming equivalent of a Renaissance painting.

@rothchildiii

Great video! Warren Spector debunked the Farenheit 451 connection though, and it was simply the code to enter the LGS offices. Just a head’s up (total nitpick correction :p)

@SoilentGr33n

4y↑1

Meh, I think having the bioreconstructor a little further down the line cultivates the "oh shit oh shit oh shit, oh fuck yes THANK GOD" aspects of SS2. Every time you felt comfortable enough to enter a new deck the stakes skyrocket again for a while.
Great video. I found this video while frobbing Youtube.

@ShahStark

4y↑1

To be fair the redundant stuff was probably just in case the players missed or for whatever reason skipped the tutorial

@rezganger

Very cool video!I will def keep an eye on yr channel.I also just started ss2 after "preparing" for several months.I'm so excited.
But whats that game 28mins with all the lava?Its looks interesting.
Thanks for sharing.

@ThePlayingField

Ha! That's actually Underworld: Ascendant, which I ended up working on a few months after releasing this video. That's a really old preview build of the game.

@rezganger

Its supposed to launch nov.15,yes?What do u think of it?Do y have anything to say about it?What did y do on it?
I have now started my playthrough of ss2 and am past MedSci!(after 3-4 tries!)Yr video made it a bit more accessible and interesting,i think.
Thanks,man.

@hedwyn8803

6y↑104

No mention of Swinekeeper being available in MedSci, 0/10 analysis

@ThePlayingField

6y↑34

AH SHIT

@mikvance

6y↑1

Great stuff. Subscribed!

@joltin6148

6y↑5

Alright so can someone explain to me the sequence at 39:45? The ghost seems to be the guy you play as, even though he is not dead or anything. Is he his brother? Is he player 2? Is he seeing a potential end? Also why do you see this ghost at that particular section of the game? It doesn't seem like a very special room or anything. I've been questioning this sequence for years and i still don't get it. Plz help.

@tothmo8659

6y↑9

He just has the same model and texture.

@mr.nostaforta34

6y↑1

That's how all those people look like on the Von Braun, but Soldier G65434-2 survived because he stayed in a capsule while the spaceship got the virus from the planet Tau Ceti V.

@johnyironmaiden

6y↑1

Quality content

@xCynder

5y↑4

Can't believe SS2 turns 20 this year

@sugoha_2548

you've secured yourself a new subscriber!

@UnluckyCarousel

6y↑2

Can someone explain to me why you would ever feel the need to use regeneration system or whatever it's called when there is quicksaving?

@noctemcat_

4y↑1

I know I'm late, but if some people want to play without saving they can use them. For added challenge.

@midnitdragoon

And now we have no clue with what's the future of the system shock remake.

@DariusMakesContent

6y↑6

Awesome analysis... but could you eventually cover Deus Ex (2000) it would lend itself well to game design analysis... who am I kidding you probably are going to anyways

@ThePlayingField

6y↑2

Definitely on the list

@kan249

Why not make a ss2 on snap doom. Great video.

@shlokwaghela9560

3y↑1

Hey, good video, I subbed, your sense of humour is great!!!

@schniemand

I think the body of the Many just doesn't make sense in any way. I think the core of the Many should have been a mostly intact but still overrun ship segment, not a huge blob of flesh with a few narrow tunnels. You cannot even really explain how it grew THAT large in the first place, that's like thousands of tons of meat, magnitudes more than what you could gather from the two ships combined.

@ambrosiaplatypus

If you stop playing System Shock 2 the moment you launch the escape pod from The Rickenbacker into The Body Of The Many, it's one of the best FPS ever made. Everything after that point is awful but it's only like an hour long so just pretend the game ends before that point and it's golden.

@zuc1896

2y↑1

So true, I heard some people compare it to Half Life’s Xen chapter and honestly I think it’s a fitting comparison.

@richardschaffer8740

Nice video. Getting some Harry S. Plinkett vibes from your jokes.

@deep_cover1879

The first few times I played the game i just jumped and held the button onto the duct and climbed over it instead of the ladder... ooops!

@Torgo1969

31:00 Yes. The first levels are extremely unwelcoming, especially if you are OSA. And all these orders barked at you by "Polito" are very intimidating and disorienting. This elevator and that elevator, Doc Watts, Doc Grassi, this Deck and the other Deck and the other thing and the other Section, blah blah blah...With all due respect for the Looking Glass people, The Builders of such a great game, Verbal Diarrhea is NOT a good thing with which to start a game!
I have still played the game about 10 times over the years, but I understand why some are turned off by it because of its rude beginning, LOL.

@cuttingedgeretro9164

System Shock 2 much denser than Quake, Half LIfe, Unreal in one bag

@scootza1

47w↑1

Im not gonna lie, i genuinely expect system shock 3 to either flop or be cancelled completely. After how long it took for the "reboot" of the first game to release and promises of the second being rebooted with the same exact problems on the horizon i do not see customer trust or interest sticking for long

@ThePlayingField

21w

Yeah, as is my understanding Otherside sold the project to Tencent, and it's been radio silent ever since.

Although funny enough while I worked at Otherside I did play a very early build of SS3, right before the Starbreeze deal fell through. Little feather in my cap.

@myriad9597

You have earned a new subscriber.

@iron6672

5y↑4

I love your humor, fam.

@doom64101

3y↑1

35:26 fucking gold

@TooMuchSascha

4y↑1

Well, bad news.
SS3 is shelved because the majority of Otherside either left for no discernable reason or got laid off for no discernable reason.
SS1 remake is still most likely coming out this year but SS3 is probably doomed and if it does come out it'll end up being not great

@ORANOID

43w↑1

How lucky it is for me that you are living in America: I can be best Russian level designer (or world's)

@ThePlayingField

21w↑1

Haha, well thank you, but I'm still learning just like everybody else.

@stoosh95

6y↑23

22:30 ... is that droid doing the macarena? #awesome

@kevinbettis9547

6y↑7

With all honesty, the droids from System Shock 2 did the lying backstab friendly robot schtick way before and way better than the turrets from Portal 2 for this reason alone, because nothing beats the "Trioptimum way."

@mr.nostaforta34

Yes xD, i love that part

@trager8933

5y↑1

Its a easter egg

@Superschokokeks

lol your subtitles are a treasure

@MaiaCoimbra

Nice game

@misterx008

You didn't need to spoil the big twist. Yes, the game is old, but you were talking about how not everyone has paid it, and new players struggle with the game.

There was no need for this.

@ThePlayingField

7y↑2

Well I feel dumb missing that contradiction in my script.

Fair point. The video I'm currently working on handles spoilers more sensitively.

@dedeedo9355

Saw it coming from a mile away, having played Bioshock

@DanielSantosAnalysis

7y↑32

I really love how articulate your analysis is............. but man your comedy is not great dude I am sorry. I will admit that "frobbing" gave me a chuckle and I understand wanting to have humor to break up the video a bit so it's not just one tone all the way through, but it was honestly kind of cringey and took me out of the video several times. I am not saying to cut out humor entirely, but it needs to emerge more naturally as a lot of this came off as really forced and was unfunny as a result. The video was at it's best when you talking about the game itself and whenever you veered away to tell a dumb joke it actively took away from the video. Part of why "frobbing" was funny was because it came about naturally and you took advantage that it was inherently funny. However you having a random banjo playing and putting on a hick voice was just out of nowhere by comparison. It also creates a weird disconnect where you're very serious and composed for the majority of the video but then it's interspersed with random fits of goofiness. Think of it like a film, for example David Fincher's film Seven (hopefully you've seen it) the majority of the film is a grounded, realistic and disturbing detective story. Now imagine if at seemingly random points in the film there were these over the top fart jokes....... wouldn't that take you out of the film completely?

Anyways, I didn't mean to harp on that so much, I just really enjoyed the video otherwise and I want to see you improve. There is clearly a lot of potential here for some truly great content and I want to see that potential realized, not squandered.

@ThePlayingField

7y↑8

Honesty's much appreciated, dude. I was kind of worried about it anyways.

It is mostly a pacing concern, though a lot of jokes were just spur-of-the-moment things while writing the script. I at least had the good sense to cut out a couple of ones I wasn't feeling (god, there was a ham-fisted Terra Nova joke in there). I'll also say that the banjo hick-voice thing is a reference to the Dukes of Hazzard, though I certainly know that's not the most relevant thing right now, and it does just come out of nowhere.

I'm kinda trying to emulate H. Bomberguy's style, but in a recent podcast he was on he mentioned playing around with him being distinct from the "character" that he plays while narrating his videos, which is something I'd never noticed paying attention to his stuff. Maybe that's worth looking at, because I'm sure if I dissected some of these jokes through that lens they wouldn't hold up.

I'll put more effort into considering that in the future. I think the next couple of videos are going to be more serious anyways, just due to the subject matter. Thanks again for the feedback.

@DanielSantosAnalysis

7y↑4

Maybe the Dukes of Hazzard joke would've landed better had I seen the show, but relying so heavily on the reference exposes the weakness of the joke. The joke should be funny on it's own and it being a reference should simply make it even funnier if you're in on it, it shouldn't be the crux of the joke. Keep in mind that I am not a comedian or any sort of authority on comedy, this just how I felt while watching.

As for emulating H. Bomberguy I am not so sure that should be the main source of your inspiration. Don't get me wrong when I say that as you should watch whoever you want and take inspiration from multiple places in order to improve as much as you can. That being said when I see your videos his definitely do not come to mind. When I see your videos I am reminded more of Turbo Button, Novacanoo, Writing on Games, Joseph Anderson and MathewMatosis. These guys are great speakers and analysists (such as yourself) and only throw in a joke on occasion to lighten the mood. H. Bomberguy by comparison is more on-camera visual gags mixed with over the top smugness and you do neither. If you haven't heard of the guys I mentioned please give them a watch! Really great guys that have made some awesome videos. Anyways I look forward to your future videos and I am glad to finally see an insider looking out so to speak making videos to give a fresh new perspective on game design analysis. Despite my grumblings I do want to make it clear that I thought this video overall was still excellent and I look forward to seeing you hone your craft.

@jet100a

7y↑1

The Playing Field Nice video man! also by chance do you know why they named the interactions "frobbing?"

@ThePlayingField

No earthly idea. I think they wanted a new word to describe what interacting with an object would be like, though obviously we now know "use" won out.

@nieldewet5315

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@balakebeats5590

6y↑1

I love the game, but can't figure out where the fuck i have to go half the time 😂

@TaoQiBao

I can tell you why people don't play on: they usually get killed by 2 hybrids when entering the section that has burned into your mind. There is no save game and the game has not been exciting enough to hook you yet. So that's it then.

@MrRoomerz

5y↑1

12k views? wtf we need more
That was gr8

@orvilleredenpiller338

“The game tries to encourage you not to [overspecify into one playstyle].”

Fucking good. Undertale Syndrome is a plague on game design.

@HystericalHuntress

7y↑1

0451 is also the first door code you can get in Deus Ex. Also, why the hell did you have the Shard AND Wrench on you at the same time? The Shard is 100% better than the Wrench in every way, ditch that blood stained turd once you get the Shard and are able to equip/use it.

@hackhenk

Subscribed at the 2:30 mark. <3

@icarus313

6y↑2

Great video, but PLEASE add a spoiler tag to the video title or description!

@ThePlayingField

6y↑2

I'll do that for my videos going further.

@H4zZ4rDGaming1

are we gonna talk about the stutters every second on the portal gameplay? got under my skin really quick lol. nice vid though

@Eaterofsouls999

Can you do the other areas of the game

@orvilleredenpiller338

5y↑4

SPACE D&D!

directed by David Cronenburg.

@DanMcLeodNeptuneUK

4y↑1

Wait... was that a robot doing the macarena??

@ThePlayingField

4y↑1

lol yup, love that Easter egg

@ciaranhappyentriepaw

1y↑1

"pseudoprofessional"

hehe i love that word.

@WhispersOfWind

3y↑1

Are you still holding onto that beer mate?

@JonahDominguez

56:08 thief isnt a horror game?

@renecastaneda47

6y↑1

I frobed the subscribe button so hard

@p_owl5925

Pls more,

@randommz60

its a cool video

@hadinasrallah8928

7y↑18

Yo great vid but could u review the spongebob movie game?

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