IDK I actually liked SS1's unique brand of horror. Whereas SS2 is much more conventional as an action-oriented survival horror to a modern audience (dark rooms, scarce ammunition, initially shitty combat, etc), SS1 was basically an immersive sim FPS that overlaid what would become survival horror. You blasting through enemies in brightly-colored hallways vibing to 90s game tracks contrasts with finding mangled corpses of the crew members scattered throughout, listening to their panicked audio logs and trying to piece together what the hell happened (and how it's all your fault), all while an AI pseudo-god is watching and responding to your every movement. That subtle, persisting dissonance is something you never quite get used to, which is lost in the Remake which tried to incorporate elements of SS2 and modern SH games.