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Posted by: Muskie Jan 14 2007, 10:13 AM

A quick Youtube Search on SR came up with this in the piles of Drek that is SR FPS Gameplay vids..

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4kYkqjUF31Q&mode=related&search=

It's rather bad (Levels? a D20?!), But at least it's something...

Anyone wanna try doing a slightly more accurate SR short?

Posted by: Blade Jan 14 2007, 10:43 AM

There's a fanfilm contest organized each year by FanPro Germany with some quite good entries (but let's face it, it's really hard to do a real good amateur SR movie)

You can find two of them http://www.s-run.com/1024x768.htm.

There also was Eralston's machinima, made with Max Payne. I think you can find it on Google Video too.

Posted by: Drraagh Jan 14 2007, 10:23 PM

What would be cool to see is to have some more English SR stuff. Germany really loves their Shadowrun stuff, but we don't get many videos here. D&D is so popular, people make their own fan stuff for that, but not usually for SR, or pretty much very little Cyberpunk stuff I've seen.

Posted by: nezumi Jan 15 2007, 01:36 AM

I wonder why we don't see more Shadowrun games with a 5'6" dwarf who walks around with a pair of clubs but otherwise does nothing of note.

Posted by: SL James Jan 15 2007, 01:47 AM

Because many Shadowrun players aren't quite that pathetic.

Posted by: lorechaser Jan 15 2007, 03:44 PM

QUOTE (Drraagh)

What would be cool would be more people doing translations.

I really don't want to tell people I learned German just to get more Shadowrun....

Posted by: Trax Jan 15 2007, 08:49 PM

At least German is a language you can use in the real world, unlike those people who learn to speak in Klingon, and that Elf language from LOTR.

Posted by: Butterblume Jan 15 2007, 09:13 PM

QUOTE (lorechaser)

I really don't want to tell people I learned German just to get more Shadowrun....

Just claim one of your ancestors is german. Iirc that's true for about a sixth of the US.

Posted by: Drraagh Jan 15 2007, 11:32 PM

QUOTE (Trax)

At least German is a language you can use in the real world, unlike those people who learn to speak in Klingon, and that Elf language from LOTR.

Or speaking Sperethiel. Granted, I can see uses for those languages in the real world, but only if you're dealing in telecommunications, computers or cryptography. They make great security features because, unlike a standard password which consists generally of a word from their native language it wouldn't be found by using most dictionary hacking programs.

Posted by: Kagetenshi Jan 15 2007, 11:36 PM

QUOTE (Trax)

At least German is a language you can use in the real world, unlike those people who learn to speak in Klingon, and that Elf language from LOTR.

I don't know how well-done Klingon is, linguistically speaking, but learning Elvish ought to have real-world usefulness—granted, limited usefulness, but learning languages makes it easier to learn other languages.

~J

Posted by: WhiskeyMac Jan 15 2007, 11:49 PM

I wish someone would make a Shadowrun version of The Gamers. That movie was freakin hilarious. It epitomized a lot of D&D games I've played over the years. You could probably find some of those German movies with English subtitles on the net, I know I have before.

Posted by: Moirdryd Jan 16 2007, 12:30 AM

Klingon is avaiable to study as a language degree in several universities and colleges in the UK.

Posted by: Kesslan Jan 16 2007, 06:00 AM

QUOTE (Moirdryd)

Klingon is avaiable to study as a language degree in several universities and colleges in the UK.

That hardly supprises me. 'Jedi' is a recognized religion in some countries as well.

Posted by: Drraagh Jan 16 2007, 06:16 AM

And Klingon is 'practiced' worldwide. http://www.kag.org/ is just one such group, and is taken seriously by some like the SCA and others are just casual fans.

And let's not forget the people who took a game mentioned in one book, and turned it into an actual game. http://www.tasigh.org/takzh/

Posted by: Rajaat99 Jan 18 2007, 04:50 PM

QUOTE (Drraagh)

And let's not forget the people who took a game mentioned in one book, and turned it into an actual game. http://www.tasigh.org/takzh/

Wow! I admit I'm a dork, but they win the dork prize.