System Shock 2 is Still A Masterpiece

[@Pyrocynical]

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[@swiftie762]

lol whats good pyro

[@eyedine]

W

[@HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva]

What's poppin' Pyro

[@thefan3618]

Hairline

[@woketacha6112]

34 likes in 2 years, bro fell off

[@CreepsMcPasta]

Time to grab my popcorn

[@biblio_nosleep]

what a trip to see you here! at least I know I’m in the right place!

[@VoiceActorCash]

sorry wife i can’t eat at the dinner table ramsker uploaded

[@nooneinparticular5256]

"Honey, dinner's ready! Come on down to the table!" "Nah."

[@rixxamazing3922]

Oh shit I almost forgot you existed. Didn’t see anything from this channel in a while, good to see it alive.

[@leinadreign3510]

Played it in german. Damn, it is sooo creepy. And they went for the extra mile and translated everything in the game. Even textures like signs on the wall. Amazing!

[@swiftie762]

Thanks for scratching that game analysis, comedic, "Pyrocynical" itch 🤗

[@erc0re526]

To find such a video at such length, on that game, is priceless and you'll forever be thanked for it! Love your humour

[@derzw3rg]

I am a simple man. I see System shock 2 - I click.

[@omegamanGXE]

System Shock 2: Electric Boogaloo

[@gace4453]

I can't believe you're back.

[@middleclassbear]

finally, ramsker upload

[@filipraukar8451]

Still the most underrated KZbinr

[@Innadiated]

System Shock 2 came out years before dynamic lighting was a thing. A lot of your complaints in the lighting department simply were not possible at that time. Doom 3 introduced dynamic shadows 5 years later and required a monster of a PC to actually run.

[@Treblaine]

Thief seemed to handle darkness pretty well. And I used the same engine!

[@Innadiated]

@@Treblaine If you mean Thief 1 it didnt even have colored lighting until Dark Engine 2. Forget dynamic shadows. Most of those games from the era accomplished darkness with clever texture work as shadows and lighting were very limited.

[@Heat7208]

And Unreal 1998 had RTX, reflective floors in some. Truly the Crysis of the 90s.

[@officedullard8722]

That video of the buff guy dancing around SystemShock2 was absolutely delightful for some reason.

[@Killysunt]

God damn, you held me onto a KZbin video for almost 2 hours. Great job!

[@terrabytesized]

This deserves so many more views, man. Video's beautiful and you obviously have put a ton of time and effort into it.

[@Cnith]

Thanks for the video! You managed to keep it interesting throughout, even though I sometimes felt like an old fart that didn't get some references. I think many of the minor criticisms boil down to: "The game had to fit on a CD-ROM" (640MB).

[@malloid]

I was the first person in the world to review System Shock 2, for PC Zone magazine. As it was the cover game, the editor asked me for a line of text describing it. I thought for about ten seconds and gave him: "A masterpiece unveiled." It was a masterpiece. It wasn't perfect, but it was great in all the right ways. In particular the atmosphere, and the feeling that you were rarely - if ever - safe. One thing that always bothered me, though - and I don't remember if I brought it up in my review or not - is that the psionic monkeys had ape sound effects (they sound like slightly sped-up chimps, but look like monkeys), and apes and monkeys are different (and that matters). I can't remember, but do the monkeys in System Shock 2 have tails? If they do, then they're monkeys. If they don't, then they're apes. But the ape sound effects I found to be highly unnerving. You could hear one of these deadly simians well before you saw them, and that was scary. PS. Deus Ex is pronounced "Day-uSS Ecks", not "deuce ex".

[@aiodensghost8645]

Yo, yo ,yo... PLEASE tell me you plan to play System Shock remake? If you don't, I understand

[@LuLe232]

Just played twice back to back, that's a short list indeed, MWAH!!

[@joshuapatrick682]

“Still” a masterpiece? A masterpiece doesn’t stop being one because of the passage of time.

[@scootyman3800]

Damn pyro needs to pay this guy more

[@RealMailou]

What an amazing video. Criminally under known, you deserve 100x thede views.

[@Jouzou87]

45:00 Higher maintenance stat also gives a bigger battery for energy weapons and cyber implants.

[@mikehawk8984]

16:26 I legitimately shot my coffee out of my nose all over my phone. I was *NOT* fucking prepared for that jump cut 😅😂

[@thomasramsay8212]

I keep rewatching this, and everytime I check back the views are still in the thousands? This should very much be in the millions.

[@viiuan]

been sitting on watching this video since i really treasure everything that covers these games in detail! your editing and humour were great throughout and i love your analysis of it all :] did not expect the actual pyrocynical jumpscare re: co-op (also. what music did you use at 20:44?)

[@joshybunny893]

Imagine selling to bloody tencent... Of all people. System shock 3 is dead.

[@Fanrose2475]

Great scripting and pacing of the jokes. I loved your deep dive into the nurse's backstory

[@Tom_Videogre]

A fantastic and well rounded take on the game and the world around it.

[@redline1916]

"Join me" "Nah."

[@ZylonBane]

This man is what happens when you build your vocabulary around guessing what words mean.

[@aaron_0083]

The Death Grips reference took me off guard lmao

[@ethancrowe280]

My guy is back

[@basicallyjovani6462]

Half way through the video. I'm glad I clicked, it's awesome

[@Rishaan]

holy shit this video is so well made and you already know it will age like fine wine

[@ants3991]

Holy crap i just realized this video only has around 200 views, this is a crime. The amount of editing and comedy in this is awesome you deserve way more my man.

[@Erosgates]

When I was a kid I randomly happened upon a SS2 case with cd-rom inside. I had a steam-powered pc at the time running windows’98 & had been playing Baldur’s Gate.. until I found that case. Had no idea as to what I was getting into but within ten minutes of playing the game I had fallen in love.

[@Freckles.]

new ramsker i watch

[@CelAbration]

The algorithm summoned this after my rabbit hole of G-man lore (childhood games am i right) ps: wtf youtube, you should've been in my feed ages ago. Great stuff!😂

[@bgth3cks232]

Damn dude this video is fucking goated, great job!

[@rowanmilestaco4797]

10 minute Pyrocynical video: I sleep 2 Hour Ramsker video: REAL SHIT!?

[@xproflipscarab]

Can't focus too busy jamming to Munch's Oddysee: Munch 4 - Pattern #6 😎😎

[@lukekowansky]

yooooooooo when ramsker has a better upload schedule than pyro

[@juanignaciocorreabraun6425]

Wake up babe, new ramsker finally dropped :)

[@Miggggy]

Unironically your last video was among us unbelievable

[@qee4617]

The wrench is just a reskin from Thief's Blackjack

[@shroomsel8803]

Isn't it the sword?

[@WMan37]

bro dogged on the graphics of a game that looks absolutely incredible for something that came out a year before the Playstation 2 did 💀 But I instantly put aside how I felt about this because 3:27 absolutely sent me

[@gilliusthunderhead2185]

These diamonds they shining. All this ice got me changing my climate.

[@zion6680]

Munch's Oddysee music. Man I thought it was Exoddus for sure, but my mind got it mixed up... Fuzzle Testing goes well with System Shock talk :D

[@nope5994]

Thank you for the upload pyro

[@TerribadMike]

2 friggin hours of someone talking about system shock 2?? DONT MIND IF I DO

[@johannory3710]

@3:15 from what game is that piece pf soundtrack again?

[@milczyciel]

It's a piece from the OG Fallout soundtrack. The exact one you timestamped is called "Vats of Goo". Good stuff. The composer made it publicly available, so you can download it for free - google "Mark Morgan Vault Archives" and voila. Or just stream it I guess.

[@rehfeuge]

Subscribed because sam n max

[@jeremyabbott4537]

is it weird I could see the Cyborg Midwife and Revenant from Doom being a power couple?

[@CHRONUSGD]

HOLY FUCK, RAMSKER UPLOAD.

[@madcat789]

The Crowbar in Half-Life also make a bit of story telling. t strikes so quickly, so haphazardly, because Gordon is probably freaking out having to defend himself with a Crowbar.

[@_MaxNeon_]

18:07 This is so much funnier, if you're drunk.

[@analogGigabyte]

I played SS2 in 1999 and it was a shock. Scary af. Deep, engaging, profound. Bioshock games are watered down compared to the original series. I got bored with Bioshocks pretty quick. Meantime, in SS2, I was shitting my pants every few minutes, also pondering how I could handle a different path on future runs.

[@GeekMan237]

Whats the song that starts here? 53:50?

[@GeekMan237]

Never-mind I found it, Scarlet forest from the deltarune soundtrack great video btw!

[@theknightjester]

This video is a master piece 🤌

[@mouse6770]

She's not ominous - she's Mommy Dom🥵.

[@Arexion5293]

I'm meanwhile the weird type that was introduced to System Shock 2 through a Screwattack top 10 video and a Let's Play. I've never played Bioshock even to this day. My video game habits are strange.

[@GenericProtagonist7]

I love how you *immediately* tried to turn the quantum reconstruction device into a jab at capitalism; If someone invents immortally they don't have to share it. They're not "purging" you by no sharing their tech with you for free.

[@VVVvvv___vvvVVV-z7r]

Okay Mr. Monopoly

[@GenericProtagonist7]

@VVVvvv___vvvVVV-z7r You would 100% give it to rapists and murderers without a second thought.

[@shodan2002]

Never played ? I played it it was amazing finished ss1 and 2 multiple times

[@TheTruePlague]

1:05:18 i think you overestimate how strong the recoil is in a launcher

[@Mirinovic]

I think that reviving nanit coast is in higer diffculty right?

[@arkgaharandan5881]

bioshock infinite combat sucks because its a numbers game, early enemies die with 2-3 hits and in the later areas you headshot them 10 times and numbers pop out of their heads, system shock 2 weapon animations might be extremely primitive but that was never the focus of the game, they werent trying to make a shooter...oh and of course enemies are not giant bulletsponges and if they get to that point, you can always use the right ammo, meanwhile in infinite, bulletsponge galore.

[@dragroch5536]

Feels like an ADHD victim's review of SS2

[@MICKEYrenraw]

System shock 2 enemy design, i feel is still unmatched to this day, of all the games that have come since, featuring the "once human corrupted crew" they all feel bland and samey by comparison, i'm looking at you Dead Space and Prey, great games, but boring (visual) enemy design also SS2 coop, i played a few times with a friend, he'd frequently be turned into a crate during level transition, i crate i could loot :D also also the lack of SS3 is truly a crying shame, tho after the state of the pseudo ultima sequel, maybe it's for the best

[@Chambooey]

Ramsker

[@Marduk401]

i hope there is a special place in HELL for people who call system shock just shock

[@quirinprediger3278]

Damn I wasn’t aware of a German version of shodan its scary af

[@MatadorShifter]

The protagonist of SS2 silent? I am NAH sure. He just spends the whole game thinking of right words to say to Shodan during the final encounter (and boy, he makes a perfect choice)

[@dusanvukovic9950]

Im fucking done i came back a day later how does this video have only 1 k viwers? Big love from Serbia keep it up youll make it big someday.

[@arkgaharandan5881]

cyber modules are not money neither are nanites, its like star trek, there is no inflation better replication technology is used in med sci for experiments, cheaper in engineering and in recreations people keep making expensive stuff so the cost is higher especially since they were frozen for a long time to ravel far away in space, its not like they can order more resources from amazon. Then you got the hacked reality theme that shodan is doing so there is that. Cyber module price to upgrade has to go up since each one is more complex wiring in your cybernetics.

[@HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva]

Unrelated but who made your profile pic? Genuinely one of the coolest designs I've ever seen.

[@ghostmoths_]

oh banger

[@SoilentGr33n]

1:54:26 that's a cool riff.

[@Huemnn]

Funny alien story

[@mouse6770]

I played it at a kids...I was born in 97- it this the day I realize...I'm old??

[@OfficialDTHQDTC]

access granted.

[@DRGNLRD]

I really like what you do, but to be honest, I’d be surprised if you make another vid after this.

[@aliify]

good video m9

[@indybingyi]

Man that thumbnail is fucking cursed

[@qee4617]

9:50 Try changing the renderer

[@alt0248]

Imma say it, Bioshock's combat is pretty good. That's it though.

[@SamLabbato]

yeah, when me and my friends played system shock 2, we had to download logmein hamachi and host a server. that works pretty well for anyone wanting to play multiplayer. the tabbing out is still an issue though LUL

[@Ramsker]

When the remaster is out hopefully it'll be all refined

[@CeschiArt]

Everyone knows SS2 stole from "the sopranos" PS2 game the AI going rouge in space mechanic

[@DubiousFIN]

451 is peak code

[@P2Weenie]

Im here only because petscop 2 is still in development

[@fuzzy9649]

YEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS

[@zhalosc]

now do a video on the first game remake

[@lolipopstix9763]

why do I feel like ramskers videos are more better than pyrocynicals. they both good but damn......I feel more with ramskers video essays.

[@Kainlarsen]

>Title calls it a masterpiece >Proceeds to passive-aggressively shit all over it like a zoomer Ramsker, are you actually kidding me? Also, will you pick an accent and stick with it?

[@EngiGODS358]

Trvth tsar bomba

[@Tommymoises10]

Pyrocynical but good

[@samusaran3468]

But we have a problem i am olay systeam shock

[@ratmations8306]

ok

[@VValkyr]

Sweet jesus christ, is that why you vanished for like 15 years?

[@arkgaharandan5881]

also play system shock infinite mod its great.

[@arkgaharandan5881]

speaking of 451, yeah guardians of the galaxy the game has it in the beginning. Because at least one of these people might have worked on a deus ex...game sucks though.

[@pblreza]

But I did play this masterpiece