Will you buy Microsoft's new SR videogame? Options

[betageek]

I hadda go with a solid no on this one, if for no other reason I can't afford to buy a console that expensive when I have college to pay for and my EMT refresher looming that I still have to figure out how to pay for...

[Justin Cray]

First I was in denial that this game would even be made, then I was prepared to buy a 360 just to play this game, now I am not so sure I would even download the demo for PC (if there even is one).

[nezumi]

I'd like to play it, but I won't pay more than $20 for it. So that probably means playing the demo, getting a copy from a 'friend' or just waiting until it lands in the bargain bin.

But I'm not planning on upgrading to Vista, and getting an xbox is just out of the question. So maybe I won't be playing after all.

[Thorn Black]

I'm a yes. Played the old Shadwrun on the SNES and although it wasn't shadowrun as we know it, it was close enough for me.

I'm of the opinion that the more people who are aware of the shadowrun brand, including the console gaming community, the better. And if some of that interest generated by this game filters back to the RPG then so much the better.

[PhishStyx]

Voted no because I don't have or want Windows Vista at any time.

EDIT: Just noticed this topoic to be 2 years old, sorry about that.

[CanRay]

I might buy it, used, if it ever comes out for the PS3. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[Stahlseele]

i would not even buy it if it came out for the nintendo wii, my second most favourite system . . it is out for pc and that is my favourite system and i still did not buy it . .

[CanRay]

I wouldn't call coming out for Windows Vista so much a "System" as a "Virus waiting to infect the world with evil tendrils.".

[ShadeRavnos]

Yea, I bought it but haven't played it yet... Being that is Vista only and my lappy top doesn't have the video ram to run it and my desktop is XP... And the wife wont let me use her's to play it(she's so mean sometimes)

From what I've seen of it it may be OK for network play as far as PC goes... But heard that the Xbox version is multiplayer only, no storyline mode.

[Isath]

I saw a demo Version, yet I still wonder where the link is between the name and the game. Although it states Shadowrun there for sure, they put some other game onto the disc...I guess.

Even the old SNES Shadowrun game was more Shadowrun than that thing.

[bofh]

Sorry chummer, my deck can't handle that dreck. I'd have to wipe it and reload all my programs.


(running a Mac, no console of any sort in the house.)

Carl

[masterofm]

It seems like the poured gasoline on the system and lit a match. Then after it got turned to ashes they urinated on the ashes, then threw up on it, and then had a monkey eat it so it could defecate it out and then wash rinse repeat about three times and there you go. The old RPG shadowrun I believe it was either on the Gen or SNES.... now that was good times. I got right up near the end of that game, but could never really beat it. Oh well.

[Blade]

The old RPG shadowrun I believe it was either on the Gen or SNES.... now that was good times. I got right up near the end of that game, but could never really beat it. Oh well.

There's one on the SNES and one on the Genesis. Both are good, but the SNES one is a bit less canon than the Genesis (both in fluff and rules).
There's also one on the Mega CD/Sega CD which looks great. It uses SR2/3 rules with dice rolls shown on screen during combat. Unfortunately it's in Japanese and there's no translation available.

[ravensmuse]

There's one on the SNES and one on the Genesis. Both are good, but the SNES one is a bit less canon than the Genesis (both in fluff and rules).
There's also one on the Mega CD/Sega CD which looks great. It uses SR2/3 rules with dice rolls shown on screen during combat. Unfortunately it's in Japanese and there's no translation available.

Well, floating around on the seedier undersides of the net there may be one. You never know. Fan translations, especially of older games, are starting to really get some steam.

[Blade]

Even there, there's no translation.
There had been one project to translate each screen, but it was abandonned after translating the 5 first screens.
Someone also did some work on the coding side to figure out how to hack in a translation. He wrote a document about it but he didn't went any further.
There was also the last message in this thread, that could mean that something is on its way, but could also just mean that it's probable that someone will do it some day.

[paws2sky]

It seems like the poured gasoline on the system and lit a match. Then after it got turned to ashes they urinated on the ashes, then threw up on it, and then had a monkey eat it so it could defecate it out and then wash rinse repeat about three times and there you go. The old RPG shadowrun I believe it was either on the Gen or SNES.... now that was good times. I got right up near the end of that game, but could never really beat it. Oh well.

You make the world a beautiful place with your words.

-paws (IMG:style_emoticons/default/silly.gif)

[ravensmuse]

Even there, there's no translation.
There had been one project to translate each screen, but it was abandonned after translating the 5 first screens.
Someone also did some work on the coding side to figure out how to hack in a translation. He wrote a document about it but he didn't went any further.
There was also the last message in this thread, that could mean that something is on its way, but could also just mean that it's probable that someone will do it some day.

See? I knew that some work had to have been done. With the fact that the roleplaying and video gaming hobbies intersect, and with SRs popularity, someone somewhere must have seen, "has not been translated" and gone, "fuck that particular brand of noise."

[nezumi]

But heard that the Xbox version is multiplayer only, no storyline mode.

You heard correctly. What you omit is that the PC version also has no storyline mode.

In both versions, the actual 'Shadowrun' content was going to be added in a patch, but since FASA Interactive went belly up, we'll likely never see that either.

Tell me how you like it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Kagetenshi]

I could probably work on a script, but I could never get the ROM to not freeze up and haven't been able to find the game in any of the used bookstores or suchlike (let alone a megadrive).

~J

[CanRay]

I tried it at a friends place.

It's Battlefield with a few extras.

That's. It.

[masterofm]

That's odd I specifically remember the copy of Shadowrun that I had was all in english. It was the SNES version of the game. You start out with a cranial bomb in your head and have a short amount of time in which to find a street doc or you are toast. I think I still have the game somewhere in my parents basement. It was quite a fun game, and it was all in english.

[Stahlseele]

yeah, the SNES-VERSION was in english . .
CD VERSION was not in english . .

[ornot]

I downloaded the demo, and it was quite amusing, as multiplayer only FPSs go. Nothing remotely to do with Shadowrun, unfortunately. There's no way it could compete as a multiplayer FPS with the merchandising juggernaut that is Halo; and without the fanbase and the players it's doomed to failure.

[ravensmuse]

Now that I'm on a lunchbreak and can actually talk...

I haven't picked up and played (even with a price drop the 360 is still out of range) but what I saw informed me to stay away. I'm pretty familiar with the video game scene, and you could tell they were desperately trying to sell the thing. The moment SR players heard "resurrection tree"? It was game over. No dice.

A SR MMORPG could work, I think - runs are essentially quests, after all, and you'd just have to choose a setting city to act as a hub. SR even has a decent justification for pick-up-groups, people who essentially have no idea who the other person is, but they're all out for some dough.

Of course, you'd get jerks like me who'd just want to stay in their doss and work on their magic / resonance skills, but hey. I spent two years sitting in Kelethin just getting drunk, after all.

[cryptoknight]

I would cry/scream/beg for an SR MMORPG... The trick would be to come up with runs that are intriguing and *sadly* not repeatable...

I mean... what kind of sense would it make... if everybody was doing DreamChipper... or hitting the same research complex for the same paydata?

Now what would be cool... would be if the first group of runners start bringing in contact info... which gets word somehow and causes another run to be hired to protect the target of the first run... which might get a third team involved to stop the 2nd... etc