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Originally Posted by Blood-Pigggy
None of that has anything to do with what I said,
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Oh really so you didn't write:
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System Shock was just Ultima Underworld with guns and more textures
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I was pointing out how ridiculous that statement was. SS was NOT just U:UW2 with guns and more textures. If you believe that, you didn't properly play the game.
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Originally Posted by Blood-Pigggy
people could actually play UU and UUII, no one could play System Shock because the system requirements were insane, the level design was tedious and annoying while the interface was absolutely abysmal.
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You're exaggerating the performance issues. It needed a 486 to run well which may have been uncommon but we're still talking 1994 here, when a 486 was the medium system being sold. I played it on my 486 SX 25 which was hardly a power beast for that time and guess what? It ran perfectly. Of course, you shouldn't be so daft to crank up the detail to full and play in a maximised window - that's like wanting to run Crysis with everything on Very High: it's not a surprise it will have dropping frame rates at times.
The interface did take some getting used to - I admit it could have been done better but to call it "absolutely abysmal"? Again, exaggerating. Considering the amount of stuff they had to put on-screen at a resolution of only 320x200, I think they did quite well. And it took me only half an hour to figure out where everything was and what I needed it for.
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Originally Posted by Blood-Pigggy
It's an overrated game, ORIGIN made a lot of messy games that critics seemed to like a whole lot but that were absolute travesties when it came to anyone that didn't have a $5000 PC.
And the critics wonder why no one ever bought the damn game.
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$5000 ...
$5000 would have gotten you a top end Pentium with +16MB memory and you'd still have money to spare.
You can find it overrated - that's your prerogative - but at least get your facts straight. Exagerating left and right and calling it U:UW2 with guns just makes you look like an ass. The messy interface is about the only valid point you made and even that is hardly a deal breaker - it just requires a bit of effort to get to grips with.