360 Shadowrun Title Partially Confirmed 49
Via Gamasutra, a mysterious outline on the FASA website of a quartet of Shadowrunners. This likely indicates that the much rumoured Shadowrun title for a Microsoft console will be making an appearance sometime soon. Hopefully even next week. From the article: "If true, this project will mark the first American Shadowrun video game in over twelve years, following games for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Genesis, which were developed by Beam Software and BlueSky Software, respectively." Ahh, the SNES version of Shadowrun. Being a Dog Shaman was never so much fun.
Long live Shadowrun (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Long live Shadowrun (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Long live Shadowrun (Score:2)
Heck, back in my day, we only got a penny for every night spent awake and pot of tea drunk!
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Re:Long live Shadowrun (Score:1)
Pulitzer prize on the way.
Re:Long live Shadowrun (Score:2)
That was assonance [wikipedia.org], not alliteration [wikipedia.org]. Go back 3 squares and lose a turn.
Re:Long live Shadowrun (Score:1)
Homework assignment for the week is to read even more.
Re:Long live Shadowrun (Score:2)
I love Shadowrun, but I'd argue that Johnny Mnemonic (the film) is more true to Gibson's vision of the future than Shadowrun. First, I've read the Sprawl and Bridge trilogies and a few other Gibson pieces and I've never seen mention of orks, trolls, or magical Native Americans. Then there's the inescapable fact that Johnny Mnemonic is based on a short story by the same name written by Gibson himself, no matter how far off course the film producers may have strayed.
Also, apparently Fanpro changed the SR dic
Re:Long live Shadowrun (Score:2)
Now I'd just like to know what the Finn, the Count, and Angie are up to...
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i suddenly have a reason to buy a 360 (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:i suddenly have a reason to buy a 360 (Score:1)
MMORPG (Score:4, Interesting)
They could impliment a bunch of rules directly from the books. I'm envisioning a stop-action type of game. For example, imagine a combat situation. Like, turn based for each player but they don't have long to take their turn or decide what to do. You move half of your limit (displayed on the ground where your move limits are) and turn to shoot. The action goes pretty fast once the turns are decided. Complete with sports-like camera angles showing the action.
So our hero, half-crouching in a walk pops up for a surprise shot at a nearby gang member who is shooting at his friends. The member turns around just in time to see him, and the camera focuses on the look of surprise. It shows the dice roll in the window as he fires his shot, and it shows the dice roll for damage against him. Then the reaction of the target.
Instead of the watered-down shit they have for D&D Online.
Could be an awesome game, but no..
Re:MMORPG (Score:1)
The truth is computer games and board games are very diffrent beast. I never thought I'd say that seeing as how I'm constantly saying they are the same, and they are in many respects. But the most substatial diffrence isn't that video games need to be real time or effectively use visual infor
Re:MMORPG (Score:2)
Re:FASA? You mean Wizkids, right? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:FASA? You mean Wizkids, right? (Score:3, Informative)
Wizkids owns the rights to publish the tabletop game, FASA Studio (i.e. Microsoft) still owns the rights to publish video games.
Re:FASA? You mean Wizkids, right? (Score:1)
360 eh? (Score:1, Insightful)
(I do hope it's good.)
Wow! (Score:2)
hopefully (Score:2, Troll)
http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppert/games/s
quite possibly the worst looking game for that system...
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Re:hopefully (Score:3, Interesting)
I also enjoyed the Sega Genesis versions qiute a bit as well.
Look, those games were at least something, the storyline and the Showdowrun world is so, so so cool and there is so much that could be done with it. Frick, just about every video game could be based on that world. Imagine grand theft auto in SHADOWRUN world? That would rule!
Sad Panda (Score:2, Informative)
You just described Deus Ex. (Score:1)
That isn't to say the Shadowrun license doesn't bring anything new to the table, though. Here are a few possibilities, just off the top of my head:
Imagine getting a smartgun or smartgoggles and seeing helpful targeting info appear in the actual HUD.
Imagine this being that rare FPS that actually implements melee combat *well* and stylishly. Think of your typical razorgirl- wired reflexes could be represented by a Max Payne-ish slo
Re:Sad Panda (Score:3, Insightful)
And that game made me a happy panda.
It's coming. (Score:5, Informative)
Another Team Xbox story [teamxbox.com] mentions that a game artist's resume revealed that he had been working on high-poly count characters for Shadowrun for the last five years.
I have just enough karma pool and an Armtech grenade launcher that says the game will be here soon.
Partially confirmed? (Score:3, Funny)
360 Shadowrun Title Partially Confirmed (Score:4, Insightful)
In other news "Color of Napoleon's white horse partially confirmed as being white"
How realistic can it be? (Score:3, Funny)
Why hasn't this been "THE" MMORPG license to have (Score:1)
PC version please (Score:1)
XBox360 killer app (Score:1)
IFF it's a MMORPG of course (or at least a coop multiplayer that can handle up to 8 in a party), so I can run with my chummers round the nation.
Hell, I'd quit WoW for this if they did it right.
Get me some nutrisoy and soykaf (Score:1)
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Trolling (Score:1)
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Maybe I overreacted, but I felt Gibson fans should know there are RPGs much closer to "William Gibson's vision", if they're really interested in that sort of thing.
Just adding my voice... (Score:2, Insightful)
Point being, of course, that it has to be done right... if they make a game worthy of the 360, in the Shadowrun universe (can you imagine onl
Monowhip FTW! (Score:1)