 SR FPS Review, for those who care |
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 Jun 12 2007, 02:40 AM
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Runner  Group: Members Posts: 3,382 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Shadowland Member No.: 8,297  |
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Jun 12 2007, 03:19 AM
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Mr. Johnson Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,148 Joined: 27-February 06 From: UCAS Member No.: 8,314 |
Wha...?
Whuzuwhahuh?
What the ... well, okay, I can see that.
Okay, good.
Okay, bad. It's not that I don't think the game is drek and that they could have made an actual Shadowrun FPS ... wait, yes it is. |
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Jun 12 2007, 06:39 AM
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Project Terminus: Soul Hunters Group: Members Posts: 1,052 Joined: 6-November 03 From: Casselberry, Florida U.S.A. Member No.: 5,798 |
Well this has been covered in another thread already but hey seeing as you went to the trouble to post it again and twice at that I'll reflect what another poster said in the other thread.
This reviewer also seems to be of the thought that FASA is still a company. Not only is the game massively wrong in 90% of it concepts the reviewer doesn't even know which company owns the pen & paper version of the game let alone who's publishing it jeez. |
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Jun 12 2007, 06:47 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,382 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Shadowland Member No.: 8,297 |
You are correct. I posted so that everyone could see how ... unfortunate ... the confusion will be. However, there are some who will come this way due to this ... this ... - is abomination too strong a word? - so some good will come of this. Yes, I posted twice as there are a few who like to camp out in SR or SR4 exclusively. |
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Jun 12 2007, 06:53 AM
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Canon Companion Group: Members Posts: 8,021 Joined: 2-March 03 From: The Morgue, Singapore LTG Member No.: 4,187 |
If you simply turned off your RPG SR knowledge off and went in and played the SR FPS, it is quite nice actually, not that much different from many other FPS out there but not bad nonetheless. I think the reviewer does know who owns the PnP version but didn't bother to elaborate because those who know he didn't need to tell, those who didn't won't need to know. The rules for the SR FPS is different from that of the SR RPG, but conceptually the basic magic + future tech concept of SR stays the same.
If you look at it as a whole new ballgame, that's when you actually get to enjoy it, instead of looking at where it differs from the PnP version. |
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Jun 12 2007, 07:23 AM
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Project Terminus: Soul Hunters Group: Members Posts: 1,052 Joined: 6-November 03 From: Casselberry, Florida U.S.A. Member No.: 5,798 |
Well my problem is he mentions the P-n-P game and if those who don't know were to think well I like this shooter lets see what reviews it has.
They go looking see this review and go oh hey it was a P-n-P game lets look up FASA so they type in as would seem obvious www.fasa.com and then they get a web page for Financial Aid. This leads them to think the game is dead and we lose a potenial new player. As to the game I could care less about it one way or the other as I don't like first person shooters remembering button mashing seaquences or using 90 macros to play a game just is not fun to me. I play role-playing games which yes are more adventure games that role-playing and yes you can run right through and win but you miss the story which I think makes it a role-playing game. I do rarely play a good simulation game Civ useally or a stratagy game war/starcraft, warlords. though if it's not an RPG then it is usealy a puzzle game that requires one to think before they act. Very rarely I'll play a spelling game but man my spelling sucks so I don't do that too much lol. |
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Jun 12 2007, 09:12 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 84 Joined: 22-June 05 From: Behind you!!! Member No.: 7,458 |
I don't think there are any button sequences or macros to speak of. You DO have to assign stuff to 3 buttons but that's it. |
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Jun 12 2007, 11:34 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,010 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
The basic concept of Shadowrun is the struggle of individualism against collectivism. Magic+future is just a backdrop. Casazil: about giant button sequences and macros, this is a shooter, not a fighting game. Though a Shadowrun fighting game would be pretty awesome if done right... ~J |
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Jun 12 2007, 12:29 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 313 Joined: 26-February 02 From: UCAS Member No.: 1,015 |
Pretty much any game would be pretty awesome if done right.
All they had to do with the FPS was set it in the world. Make it a "matrix game" featuring Karl Kombatmage with ads for NERPS throughout and it wouldn't matter how inaccurate it is. The average joe in Shadowrun knows as much about the limitations of magic as the RL game devs do. |
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Jun 12 2007, 03:47 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 94 Joined: 27-March 03 From: Pittsburgh Member No.: 4,341 |
I would buy a copy of this for all of my friends; and this would have been an excellent way to make a 'faithful' tie-in to shadowrun and still get to play as fast and as loose with canon as you like. |
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Jun 12 2007, 06:56 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 633 Joined: 23-February 06 Member No.: 8,301 |
I also cried out at how much they deviated from the source material when I first saw this game. But I've played the demo for it, and, regardless of how far it breaks from continuity, it is a very fun game. I might even buy it (which is high praise coming from me).
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Jun 12 2007, 07:19 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,451 Joined: 21-April 03 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 4,488 |
BTW, FASA Interactive IS still a company. It was the video game and VR development arm of the original FASA responsible for the MechWarrior PC games. When FASA started to crumble, they sold the company to Microsoft. It's the last vestige of the original FASA left.
The Abstruse One |
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