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Oh hooray we're going to talk about the game now?? I have a question then . . . I like RPGs but I don't have any first-hand experience with the Shadowrun universe. Could someone try explaining to me why nerds revere Shadowrun so much? Do people just really like magical cyberelves with machine guns or is there something deeper going on?
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| # ¿ Apr 5, 2012 03:18 |
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| # ¿ May 22, 2013 20:35 |
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I'm going to chip in $30 for now because apparently in the Shadowrun universe, Oregon becomes a nation of elves. I might chip in more depending on how the drive goes and what we see in updates.
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| # ¿ Apr 5, 2012 03:56 |
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So he really picked 24 days for the length? I was wondering if I'd missed a couple days of it or something. Anyway, that's pretty amazing. I'm really wondering how big this one will get. Probably as big or even bigger than Wasteland and DF.
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| # ¿ Apr 5, 2012 15:47 |
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endlosnull posted:Also, I brought up the idea of a small little Quick Look or Let's Play with some of us and Jordan and Mitch playing the old Shadowrun games, SNES, Genesis, PnP, or XBox360. Do you guys think you'd like something like it? No promises though, I don't wanna be that guy. This would be fantastic. It'd be a great intro for those of us who didn't play the earlier games but the existing fans would get a kick out of seeing these guys play their old favs too.
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| # ¿ Apr 6, 2012 20:26 |
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Tufty posted:Sorry but that neither dumbshit or silly, it's awesome. Yes I agree, it's awesome. It's probably more awesome to me because I live in Oregon and I can't help but assume that it's some sort of political or cultural comment about the state. Is that possible or am I reading into it too much? If it's possible then I can't wait to check out what happened to the rest of the world.
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| # ¿ Apr 7, 2012 17:26 |
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Will the DocWagon service probably be available in the game even if you don't back at the $60 level? My wallet is getting hosed by Kickstarter lately so I'm not sure if I'll be going above $30.
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| # ¿ Apr 8, 2012 08:54 |
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Those pictures are nice but there is a cat person in one of them and that scares me. Does Shadowrun have cat people?
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| # ¿ Apr 9, 2012 07:40 |
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The more I hear about the actual game, the less enthusiastic I feel.  I hope they aren't funding something "with mass appeal" on the backs of the longtime fans.
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| # ¿ Apr 11, 2012 23:45 |
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Cantorsdust posted:What concerns me is that they're raising funding from the PC fans to make the game, but they'll focus on the mobile version to sell for post-production profit. That said, there's nothing about tablets that would restrict a game of this type, so I'm cautiously optimistic. This is how I feel. I am not sure they understand their audience, or at least the one that's actually donating to the Kickstarter. Either that or, like you said, they are milking the PC fans for money so that they can try to sell the game to tablet users. I'd love if they did a poll of what platform(s) people want to actually play this on. I think that'd give everyone a big wake-up call (either that tablet users DO want this, or that none of the backers are tablet users).
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| # ¿ Apr 12, 2012 03:45 |
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Hooray for "no more wacky features, extra money = bigger/deeper game." I'm definitely feeling a bit better about the project and might up my pledge a bit. Need dat Doc Wagon.
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| # ¿ Apr 15, 2012 02:28 |
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I'd also be down for some goon Shadowrun. You guys didn't post anything in TG yet did you? I poked around and didn't find anything I recognized from this thread.
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| # ¿ Apr 19, 2012 20:30 |
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SilverMike posted:I believe Grey Hunter posted a thread earlier today for SR over Skype. That looks awesome but I'm American and have a job so it won't work with my schedule at all unless I'm reading the times wrong or something.
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| # ¿ Apr 19, 2012 21:07 |
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Commissar Kip posted:Maybe we could also run a pure play by post game next to the skype game? I'd DM but I've never played shadowrun before. If the GM is serious about running at like 6 or 7 AM his time then I can do it, but there will probably be a few people squeezed out when he finalizes his schedule either way. So this'd be cool if someone wants to GM?
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| # ¿ Apr 20, 2012 17:33 |
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I love the gray one even though I have too many gray t-shirts. The second is really boring and the first is just terrible. I'd up my pledge to $60 if I was reasonably certain that the gray one would win.
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| # ¿ Apr 20, 2012 22:52 |
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fullTimeLurker posted:Love the grey one as well, but I think the first one is way worse than the 2nd one.. the first one..just..who would wear that. Maybe if I was going to a NRA gun show? Even tacky is too tame a word for that poo poo. The first one reminds me of something you'd put on a little kid's backpack or lunch box. Only it'd be on some 300 lbs. nerd's gut instead!
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| # ¿ Apr 20, 2012 23:21 |
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Der Shovel posted:In the middle of whatever these last two pages were, we seem to have glossed over the fact that T-shirt backers can now pick their own design instead of everyone getting the same. I hope this doesn't bump up their printing costs too much but it did bump up my pledge from 15 to 65 bucks. Yeah, glad I bumped up to $60 because of this. All the loving nerds that refuse to wear anything that isn't a black t-shirt would've screwed me out of that sweet gray one. They're going to make us send photos for the Doc Wagon cards aren't they  Edit: Actually I was reading the FAQ and they said they are only making the t-shirts in sizes M-XXXL. So no small dudes or non-giant women allowed? I messaged them about women's sizes a few days ago but they didn't get back to me. :\ HondaCivet fucked around with this message at Apr 25, 2012 around 07:40 |
| # ¿ Apr 25, 2012 07:36 |
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Is anyone else still not sure that this thing is going to end up being any good? The campaign's almost over and I'm not feeling much more confident than when it started. I didn't feel good about Wasteland 2 for awhile but as it wore on, Obsidian got thrown in, discussion of the game itself became more frequent and it became more clear that the game had solid people and concepts behind it (well, to me at least). Here? It's Shadowrun as gently caress, that's about all I know. Not trying to be a jerk, just wondering if I missed something or if others are feeling the same way.
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| # ¿ Apr 26, 2012 06:03 |
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Dapper Dan posted:My feeling is that they haven't had the time to sit down and work out all the nuts and bolts about how everything is going to work just yet. For example, we don't really know how character creation is going to work exactly. Will each be a linear path or prone to customization? (For example, possibly making a 'Face' type character using the Street Sam archetype). It's possible . . . He's been making new promises this whole time though, like a Linux port and a second city. He can promise a second city and riggers but they don't have enough work done to tell us how character gen might work? That seems a little backwards. The game may very well turn out awesome and I'll be happy to buy it then but right now it still feels like a cash grab from Shadowrun fans.
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| # ¿ Apr 26, 2012 06:48 |
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Aurubin posted:I have a feeling the three big kickstarter games, Doublefine, Wasteland 2, and Shadowrun will be received favorably, both critically and by fans. These are developers who know what they are doing as far as these particular niche games, and as such, unrestrained by executive meddling, will be great representations of that niche. That don't have the budgets to break the mold, but at the same time are free creatively. The veterancy of the people developing these games is what reassures me of quality. Look at that guy wanting to make that MMO for all the wrong reasons for an example of what happens when you go into this half-cocked. For these three however, I'll be surprised if they review poorly. Weisman helped create the Shadowrun world and other PnP and tabletop games but he's not a video game veteran like Schafer and Fargo are, at least as far as I know.
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| # ¿ Apr 26, 2012 07:05 |
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Der Shovel posted:He isn't, but he's surrounded himself with people who are veterans. I was pumped when I saw things like Perfect Dark and Rez on there but then I noticed that he just worked on their ports. :\
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| # ¿ Apr 26, 2012 07:22 |
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Der Shovel posted:Most importantly to me, he worked on MechCommander and Crimson Skies. I'm not super familiar with those but if they are good games then that's cool I guess. Still, not a single RPG that I can see so while he'll be of great technical help I'm sure, who knows how much he knows about RPG mechanics.
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| # ¿ Apr 26, 2012 07:29 |
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I'm in the process of doing that and I'm reaching the same conclusion. I'm not saying that it definitely won't be a good game, just that I don't have much evidence to give me confidence in them. I really hope that it turns out well though.
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| # ¿ Apr 26, 2012 07:59 |
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I played my first Shadowrun PnP game today and it's got me all excited about Shadowrun so I upped my pledge to $60. I'm such a sucker. I'm still not convinced it'll be a particularly good game but it'll be Shadowrun as gently caress and the music will probably be very good so hopefully that'll be enough. Are they really going to get it done by the beginning of next year?? That's not a good sign either.
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| # ¿ Apr 29, 2012 00:30 |
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Holy poo poo, Mitch Gitelman is really excited about giving us "ninjas." Was hoping they'd have one more little reveal or surprise for us but these people don't seem to ever sleep so they were probably incapable of coming up with anything on short notice.
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| # ¿ Apr 29, 2012 08:31 |
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Did any other backers not get the survey email? I just got the Kickstarter update email and that doesn't seem to have a link to the survey. What does the survey email look like?
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| # ¿ May 10, 2012 22:58 |
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Athenry posted:They added to the bottom of the update that only 10,000 surveys can be sent per day for some reason. might be a few days. That seems like something you should note pretty prominently to avoid getting thousands of emails from confused backers.  I pledged pretty late so I probably won't see it for another day or two then. Thanks!
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| # ¿ May 11, 2012 00:10 |
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| # ¿ May 22, 2013 20:35 |
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Saoshyant posted:Uh, I never received the survey email, and I even have been paying attention to my spam box just in case. At this point I'd probably email them and ask about it since it's due on Tuesday.
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