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Also Snow Crash.
The game was also fantastic.
Yeah, Crescent Hawk's Inception is the game I was thinking of. The bit where you're betrayed by one of your party members blew my tiny, nine-year-old mind. Then on my second playthrough I found that the identity of the traitor is determined semi-randomly each time you play. MIND BLOWN AGAIN.
I've read them multiple times. That said I'm not opposed to people recommending cyberpunk instead of Shadowrun books.
I'm thinking the same thing. Counter argument: it's $125 that --let me continue to beat my dead horse-- kicks MS in the crotch for doing nothing with FASA after buying them.
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Not sure there was ever a video game based on it though, maybe he is hoping they do one.
Yeah, we're aware of that, but there was never a video game based on it.
It would be pretty hard to sell a BattleTech video game where 'mech combat is de-emphasized or entirely absent, I think.
The update is definitely having a significant impact on the funding, no doubt about that. Funding has spiked up an extra 50% and counting today over the average per-day funding of the last several days; the money will probably hit a million by some point tomorrow.
Many people have said it is impossible to tell what in the blue hell is going on in this game.
I am here to tell you those people are 100% correct.
That is all.
Late as hell, but I hate and love you so much on this one.
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Edit: Oh, who am I kidding. I'll just spread it across 2 paychecks.
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E.Y.E. is retarded and insane and buggy and totally amazing and so much fun.
I heard the author is a douche.
"Tolkien in my Blade Runner? Most unorthodox hutootootoo!"
Well, he basically said it seemed silly that there are elves, magic, and other paranormal happenings in Shadowrun. If you don't want that, go play Cybertech.
Shakespeare? That fucker punched a baby.
Tell that to Big D...
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* (... mostly to fuel the creation of a powerful magical artifact called the Dragonheart. Then he reincarnated into a free spirit named Lethe, but I digress... only a handful of folks in the game world would actually know this information, just like only a handful of people in the game world would know that Tempo is a conduit for an evil free spirit and not just a popular street drug. And yes, this is retarded, but the only relevant part you really need to know about is his Will, which is plothook central and fairly cool overall)
I knew about the tempo but not that about big D
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I think Tolkein would like D&D, actually. I've got some of his personal writings on the concept of fantasy storytelling, or, as he would call it, 'Faery Tales.' He had a big personal extended metaphor for ALL storytelling referred to as The Great Tree. But, neither here nor there I guess.
I think Gibson has a more critical bent of intellect that doesn't want his stuff to get caught up in the trappings of adventure and fantasy. More or less, he doesn't want to run the risk of his work being misrepresented. Lest we forget his unfortunate cameo in Keanu Reeves' Johnny Mnemonic.
Most of the details exist only in novel fiction, not sourcebooks.
Let's be fair.
He wrote the movie of Johnny Mnemonic. It was taken away from him in editing, directing, and the like, but it wasn't like it was just a cameo. He's probably got a share in the flaws.
Everything I've read of his, though, says he thinks things through. Even when I disagree with him, he's clearly taking a view of the angles. Shadowrun, he just isn't fond of, if memory serves. Doesn't care too much, but he doesn't dig the whole elves thing since it's ignoring viewing the world for "This is cool, right?" Style over substance.
I'd rather play it later if it means having a better, bigger game.
A smug jerk I used to roleplay with showed me the end of a novel that left open a lot of stuff regarding Dunkelzahn... I don't know if those threads were ever followed up on, as I've avoided the novels like the plague.
... I just gave a vial of tempo to my psychotic pyromaniac mage...
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I don't think that will be the case, at least not in terms of adding a significant amount of time to the dev cycle. Something to remember is that we're basically paying these guys to develop this game, but they develop other stuff too. The more money they get, the more time they get paid for to work on Shadowrun and the faster they can do work. It also means they can hire other people to do certain things instead of doing them in-house, which also saves time. And on top of all that, most dev cycles seem to run about the same amount of time no matter what the budget is; Halo 3 had a huge budget and took a couple of years, but Prototype 2 has a much smaller budget and still took a couple of years.
Personally, I can see the potential here for one of those ageless, immortal games like Xcom or Deus Ex. The right talent is in place, publishers aren't in the way, the people who love and made this stuff are in control, and the fans who want the game are being given choices on what they want added. Even if the extra content adds a couple months to the dev cycle, I can totally live with that if it means I'll pick up the game ten years from now and still enjoy it.
Second, does anyone have a picture of a dragon with it's pinky claw touching the corner of it's mouth because we've hit. ONE MILLION DOLLARS.
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Good God. I hope this works out well.