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 May 19 2004, 06:17 AM
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Runner  Group: Members Posts: 2,901 Joined: 19-June 03 Member No.: 4,775  |
Eh. I see a lot of general form resemblance to the MSG90 if you factor in a lot of incompetence. Then again, the 93R AG Auto 9 is pretty much spot on (at least relatively), so maybe it's coincidental and simply bad. Who knows.
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May 19 2004, 06:29 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,889 Joined: 3-August 03 From: A CPI rank 1 country Member No.: 5,222 |
I've been looking at different HKs for most of my life, simply because I've always loved what they look like. Generally speaking, I can spot when a drawn gun has been inspired by HK styling right away, the most telling is always the trigger group and grip. In this one, they don't look HK at all.
I'm really trying hard to see any similarity to existing HK firearms, and I can't. No HK gun has similar design in any of the specific parts I mentioned (which basically means no part of the gun looks like HK at all). |
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May 19 2004, 07:05 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 269 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 752 |
nevermind
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May 19 2004, 07:29 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 215 Joined: 18-May 04 Member No.: 6,336 |
Kagetenshi, yes, that should be all there is so far, I don't think I'll bother with the cover, too much work, besides, all it says is:
Fantasy File Fantasy file (yes, they repeated the same thing) The Understand Shadowrun well book! Murakawa Shinobu & Group SNE -JL Thanks to everyone involved in making the translations available. Tzeentch for the originals. Kagetenshi for the webspace. Dumpshock for the forum. |
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May 19 2004, 11:24 AM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
edit: never mind...
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May 19 2004, 12:01 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 345 Joined: 10-February 03 From: Leeds, UK Member No.: 4,046 |
Gotta love literal Japanese translations. So much more fun than English :) |
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May 19 2004, 01:33 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 515 Joined: 10-April 04 From: Chicago, IL...Ich vermisse Deutschland. Member No.: 6,230 |
Looking at what I know of Fanpro's shadowrun art, they've come a long way. Should the chance happen, look at the German Germany Sourcebook. The art is more mediocre than even SSC. It's just....it could have been better. Heck, the art from the American translation is twice as better, and that's not exactly one of the big art books. The new Germany sourcebook and some of the art in the newer books is pretty good; I'm interested in seeing which art gets used in SoE. Don |
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May 19 2004, 03:22 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 3-June 03 Member No.: 4,671 |
But that's it's charm! It's like the kind of crap you scribble in the margins of your character sheet when the GM is off handling the decker or the damn mage who wants to travel everywhere in astral space (I know I'm not the only one who does it). Its shoddiness is what makes it cool. :)
Man, one of these days I'm gonna translate that game, just so nobody will ever play it with me. Beautiful art though. It had those little mini-manga bits in it too. I wonder if that kind of thing is common with Japanese RPG's? Tenra Banshou Rei and Shadowrun are the only Japanese RPG Books I've ever seen. |
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May 19 2004, 05:01 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 858 Joined: 25-August 03 From: Braunschweig, North German League, Allied German States Member No.: 5,537 |
To me it looks pretty much like the HK227 picture from SR1. And AFAIK the HK227 had Assault Rifle damage code in SR1 which would explain the picture - it's not a SMG but an AR Carbine like the AK-97MP or a real-world M4. With SR2 it was turned (stat-wise) into an ordinary SMG. |
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May 19 2004, 09:02 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 746 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 459 |
-- If you're awesome at translation, or know someone who is, and are willing to work for peanuts let me know. The English translation of Tenra Bansho IS being worked on . . . muhahah . . . it's just in Japanese contract hell right now at Enterbrain . . . |
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May 20 2004, 09:05 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 16-May 03 Member No.: 4,597 |
Still better than the SR mangas themselves :) Anyone interested in samples from them? |
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May 20 2004, 09:33 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 596 Joined: 18-February 03 Member No.: 4,112 |
Sure. Are they really that bad?
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May 20 2004, 12:57 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 264 Joined: 26-March 04 From: Houston Member No.: 6,197 |
I think he means bad in the car accident sort of sense. It's horrible, and you want to look away, but you just can't.
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May 20 2004, 03:50 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Sounds good, old Brandybuck.
~J |
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May 20 2004, 10:38 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 973 Joined: 3-October 03 Member No.: 5,677 |
...The elf on the lower-left of the cover looks disturbingly like Link sans his infamous green cap...
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