System Shock

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2018–2023), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with System Shock, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 8 complaints

Controls are awkward, and the player gets stuck in a minigame with no clear way back to the main UI2023-07-12
Buttons hard to see on walls, players skip areas thinking they're blocked2023-07-12
Game so hard and busy with mechanics that the commenter quit2023-06-01
Controls were among the worst ever, awkward compared to Duke3D style mouse look2023-05-30
Controls were unusable because mouse look was not yet standard2021-03-19
Interface feels clunky and difficult to use compared to modern FPS games2018-04-06
Feels horribly outdated compared to Thief's minimal controls and UI2018-04-05
Original game's controls are hard to use, hoping a remaster fixes them2018-04-05