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Psion posted:Yeah, they did a better job with this in df/hk, but in this one you can safely ignore at least one person per game...forever. IIRC you can pretty safely ignore Spider Shen in HK if you don't happen to be a melee character, unless you just want to get to know everyone. DeathChicken posted:Man but that song does sound familiar. Maybe an off-version of the dialogue music from the SNES game? Yeah, I can't quite place my finger on it but it definitely reminds me of something. Could also be from a different series entirely though. Tax Refund posted:* Except Skyrim, where every single shopkeeper has a home (or at least a place to sleep) and when they're done with their business hours, they close up shop and go home, or sometimes to the tavern for a bite to eat and a drink before they go home. Makes the world feel more realistic and lived-in, but it's also more inconvenient for the player if fast travel landed them in town right at 6:01 PM and the shopkeeper won't do business with them until fourteen in-game hours later. Which is, of course, why most computer RPGs go for the "shopkeepers are always around day or night and don't have lives outside the shop" approach. Skyrim? Pff, Ultima V did that already back in 1988. They also took breaks to eat during dinner time. And shouted at you if you were too poor to buy their wares.
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Kanfy posted:IIRC you can pretty safely ignore Spider Shen in HK if you don't happen to be a melee character, unless you just want to get to know everyone. And miss the sweet sleeveless combat armor they sell? No thanks.
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# ? May 19, 2017 12:10 |
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Kanfy posted:And shouted at you if you were too poor to buy their wares. I imagine Iolo's thinking "When was the last time you upgraded your resume, apprentice?"
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betamax hipster posted:And miss the sweet sleeveless combat armor they sell? No thanks. Kanfy posted:Skyrim? Pff, Ultima V did that already back in 1988. They also took breaks to eat during dinner time. Gothic 2 did that as well. The first shopkeeper npc you run across is a shopkeeper's apprentice at a small stall outside his master's shop. During the day he stands behind it, goes and sweeps the street in front of it, during the evenings he goes to the tavern at the market square and at night he sleeps in his bed at his master's house. Oh and he occasionally goes into the alley near his stall and has a piss against the city wall.
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# ? May 19, 2017 20:15 |
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Poil posted:That's pretty cool. Also pretty absurd in that particular case. For those unfamiliar with the Ultima series: Iolo is a major recurring NPC who often accompanies the player character on his adventures. When he's not adventuring he makes crossbows for a living and owns a store called "Iolo's Bows." He's married to a woman named Gwenno and employs another woman named Gwenneth to run the shop while he's away. Now, knowing that take another look at Kanfy's screenshot and see if you can spot what's wrong with this picture: DGM_2 fucked around with this message at 00:30 on May 20, 2017 |
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DGM_2 posted:Also pretty absurd in that particular case.
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# ? May 20, 2017 00:46 |
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Gwenneth is calling her employer, her employer's wife, and the savior of Brittania slime because they're short on money for a crossbow, the weapon that Iolo himself made.
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Geomancing posted:Gwenneth is calling her employer, her employer's wife, and the savior of Brittania slime because they're short on money for a crossbow, the weapon that Iolo himself made. Oh I suppose you'd prefer a corrupt system where the hard-working middle class need to lick the boots of the aristocracy.
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Geomancing posted:Gwenneth is calling her employer, her employer's wife, and the savior of Brittania slime because they're short on money for a crossbow, the weapon that Iolo himself made. Cyberpunk corporate dystopia as gently caress
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Geomancing posted:Gwenneth is calling her employer, her employer's wife, and the savior of Brittania slime because they're short on money for a crossbow, the weapon that Iolo himself made. Bingo. And for bonus points, she's yelling at Iolo to get out of his own shop. I'm thinking her Christmas bonus might be a bit small this year.
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DeathChicken posted:Man but that song does sound familiar. Maybe an off-version of the dialogue music from the SNES game? Some of the director's commentary for HK suggests they remixed a dialogue track (the one with Dog, I think) into the safehouse themes in more than one game, but I listened and can't seem to hear it. I think it's got to be a SNES or Genesis Shadowrun inspiration, though.
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Psion posted:Some of the director's commentary for HK suggests they remixed a dialogue track (the one with Dog, I think) into the safehouse themes in more than one game, but I listened and can't seem to hear it. I think it's got to be a SNES or Genesis Shadowrun inspiration, though. The safehouse themes in both Dragonfall (Blood Hounds) and Hong Kong (Take Refuge) are real similar to each other and I think based on Exciting/Otherwordly Canines from the SNES game, I don't recall the commentary but I'd imagine that's the one they mean.
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# ? May 20, 2017 06:59 |
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DGM_2 posted:Bingo. And for bonus points, she's yelling at Iolo to get out of his own shop. I'm thinking her Christmas bonus might be a bit small this year. Bonus 2: Britain is the city of compassion. Yelling at people isn't very compassionate.
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# ? May 21, 2017 01:11 |
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Basically my entire experience with Shadowrun was some friends being in a campaign a few years ago and telling me a bit about the setting and the shenanigans they got up to, and it sounded really cool but I couldn't actually join in because the guy DMing for them has some sort of weird primal loathing of me in particular. I basically just resigned myself to never getting to play it myself and forgot about it, but now that I know that I can experience the setting in video game form I might have to pick these up sometime. Looking forward to the rest of the LP!
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Bah, I don't think I've been sick for a week straight like this since I was a kid.LAY-ZX posted:Basically my entire experience with Shadowrun was some friends being in a campaign a few years ago and telling me a bit about the setting and the shenanigans they got up to, and it sounded really cool but I couldn't actually join in because the guy DMing for them has some sort of weird primal loathing of me in particular. I basically just resigned myself to never getting to play it myself and forgot about it, but now that I know that I can experience the setting in video game form I might have to pick these up sometime. Looking forward to the rest of the LP! The setting is definitely cool and the games certainly worth playing, the latter two in particular. And good timing!
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# ? May 21, 2017 10:23 |
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Part 12 - Meeting the Locals Continued Good evening Coyote, Dr. Castle, severed arm. Wait, which one of you is the doctor? Thanks for helping me out back there. Looked like you could use a hand. Ouch! Bad joke right now. [She looks down at her mangled arm.] Okay folks, I'm going to have to ask you to sit in the waiting area. Watch some trivid or something. This young lady and I have work to do. Mrs. Kubota never said what kind of cyber-arm she'd pay for. I want something badass. Got one with a laser inside? Or how about a gatling gun, I know one guy. You'll take what I give you, lady. Now, let's have a look at your face... Leave it. Excuse me? Coyote... I earned this face. By being stupid. I'm gonna keep it. End story. An indeterminate amount of time passes Nice arm. Thanks. Mrs. Kubota will have me working it off for the rest of my life. We could buy a new cyberarm for like, a thousand nuyen. You might want to consider asking for a raise. [She notices your expression.] You look like you've got something on your mind. I have some questions. [She flashes you a puzzled look.] What kind of questions? About Sam Watts. Sam Watts? What about him? He's dead. Holy drek. Sam. I can't say I'm surprised. He was on a downward spiral for a long time. What can I tell you? Not really sure either, but let's poke around and see if something relevant comes up. Tell me about Sam. I hear you liked him. I did. He made me laugh. No one else seemed to like Sam's jokes, but I did. No accounting for taste. Sam made some bad jokes. If the dictionary entry for hypocrisy doesn't have our picture in it, the world really has gone to hell. Not when he was sober. He was chill. And funny. I guess I knew him the best of everyone here. Sorry he's gone. You served him the night he died. What do you remember about that night? It was a pretty average night. Regular crowd, as I remember. Sam was drinking with a guy named Armitage. Jake Armitage? Yeah, you know him? Met him. He's a charmer too. Mr. Kluwe wasn't around - can't remember why - so she asked Jake to do the honors. Jake dragged him out the back, into the alley, and that's the last time I saw Sam. Yeah, things got pretty serious for him after that. Wait, did I use that one already You said he got loud. Do you remember what he was saying? [She thinks.] Standard Sam drek. How he grew up rich and didn't deserve this. How he hated his mother. How he loved his mother. It was pretty pathetic stuff. Did he have any enemies? [She thinks again.] Enemies? That's hard to say. Sam partied hard and when he did, he ran his mouth off pretty good. Got his rear end kicked on more than one occasion. But no, I don't think he had any enemies. At least none that I'm aware of. Where did he live? On the streets, mostly. He'd occasionally convince someone to let him flop on their couch but he'd always overstay his welcome and get kicked out after a few days. Sometimes, I'd sneak him down here so he could crash in one of the bunks. He used one the night before I saw him last. Sounds like something worth checking out, just in case. Exactly how bad was his drinking? If it was just the drinking, it would have been bad. But Sam wasn't the monogamous type. He dabbled in everything. Booze... chips... drugs - he loved the Nitro - whatever he could get his hands on. It wasn't always like that but once he got sick, he started using more and more stuff to try and forget about it. Sam was sick? Well, his liver problems are definitely gone now that the liver took the problems with it. Did he say how he got better? He said his mom helped him out. Never said how, though. Thanks, Coyote. What do you need, babe? I need you to talk to Mr. Delilah for me about the Royale run, he is usually upstairs. Tell him I didn't get the gems. Maybe I can take another run at it when I recover. Oh, right, the gems. Yeah, it's really too bad we never found them. Something in my inventory uh I mean heart tells me you probably shouldn't bother going for them again though. I will. Talking to Delilah is an optional objective, the primary one being investigating Sam's bunk. But let's introduce ourselves to the good doctor properly first. Man, I wish I had my personal shoulder imp too. Just look at the cute lil' fella. And I suppose you were the one who patched her up. Impressive work. Thank you. It's a shame she wouldn't let me repair her face, though. [She notes you eyeballing the facilities.] I can tell you're surprised to find a full-service medbay under a dive bar in a slum. Don't be. This is a shadowrunner bar, after all. For a purveyor of cyberware and trauma kits, there is no better place to set up a practice. I patch runners up, install and maintain their cyberware, and provide medical supplies for their runs. I may not be as mobile as Doc Wagon, but I'm the next best thing. So, can I help you with anything? DocWagon is the world's largest medical service corporation. Amongst other things they offer service contracts, with the top tier Super Platinum service coming with all kinds of benefits including but not limited to your personal biomonitor and 5, that's right, 5 free resusciations per year for the low low annual price of ¥100,000! I'd make some scathing quip about American healthcare but let's face it, those guys have it bad enough already. Castle also offers a small tutorial on revival items. They revive people. I see shamanic fetishes. You a shaman too? While modern medical technology makes surgery less disruptive than it used to be, it's still an ordeal for both the body and the spirit, requiring extensive recuperation to properly heal. I am trained in the ways of the spirit world as well as the scientific world. I do my best to heal the whole patient. What's that on your shoulder? This little guy supports the healing rituals I perform on my patients after surgery, dramatically reducing their recovery time. Not standard procedure, of course, but the results speak for themselves. Castle is the final vendor down here, and like she said she offers both medical goods and cyberware. While she doesn't offer Medkits beyond basic ones, she does have all Trauma Kit tiers available from the start. A little expensive for us right now, though. The section has some cool but pricey stuff. That said none of the currently available cyberware is really worth buying for us who don't spend much time in the frontlines. We head back upstairs to find Mr. Delilah. We spot him in the back room near an enthusiastic lady enraptured by elf butt. Mr. Delilah? We have business to discuss. What business? I got no business with you. We're with Coyote. She's indisposed at the moment. [At the mention of Coyote, he finally gives you his full attention.] Why didn't you say so? Coyote is late and my client is getting anxious. Where is she? Downstairs, trying on a new arm. Your run went south for her. No kidding? Hrm. Well, whatever. She's tough. She'll pull through. So, who're you two? This is Coyote's boyfriend, Paco. I'm Amazon. What is this, a romance trid? I don't give a crap about boyfriends. Where're the stones? We have three choices here - Either giving him all the gems, pocketing the best gem before giving him the rest, or pocketing a strange rune-covered pebble before giving him the rest. He'll see through it if we try the latter two however, getting downright pissed if we keep the pebble, so we might as well give a trustworthy first impression by handing them all over. That's the one. [He pockets it.] Okay, you done good. But you're late. And Coyote knows that in this case, late equals no payment. But, I'm feeling magnaminous tonight so you guys can keep the rest of the gems as your reward. Not gonna argue with that one. Deal. Looks like you impressed him. I know a fence for those gems. Van Graas. Follow me. The in-game text actually has Paco call him "Van Gaas" which is mildly funny. We walk over to the ever-occupied dwarf. There is an optional Charisma check of 3 here which makes zero difference in anything except the next couple of lines. I can see you're a busy man. [He nods his head.] That's right. And...? So, I wouldn't bother you if I hadn't come into possession of these rare stones. [You have his attention.] Rare stones, huh? Let's see these rare stones. Here we actually have four different choices, with the first one being simply accepting the money. Alternatively with a Charisma check of 5 we could increase the price to 1500, and with a Strength check of 6 we could strong-arm him into paying 1800. The fourth option requires the Academic etiquette which just so happens to be one of the two we have. Did the software in your HUD appraise the value of the stones? [He looks amused.] Could be. We both know the International Gemological Institute will set the price far higher than your offer. It'll take time for you to get top nuyen for it. Let's call it two thousand. You got a deal. This is arguably the most beneficial etiquette usage in the entire campaign as an extra thousand is quite big this early on and the two other options both pay worse and have high requirements. Done. Gimme your credstick. +2000 nuyen, of which Coyote will see zero because she never asks and we can't bring it up with her. Real shame. It's time to get this plot moving again, so we head back downstairs to see if Sam's bunk will reveal its secrets. You can see our item stash next to the bunk, we can use it to store any extra stuff we have. Any items found during missions which don't fit into our inventory will transfer there automatically. It'll also repair our broken drones. Searching through the bed, we eventually find an old photograph. Cute. We flip it around to see if there's anything on the back. So, this Jessica person who sent that note to him was his twin sister. Are both his sister and mother somehow relevant to this whole thing? We pocket the photo and go see if Coyote knows anything, making sure not to mention anything about any valuable stones or monetary rewards. You know someone named Jessica? [Her brow furrows.] No. Why? That's the name of Sam's sister. Jessica Watts... yeah! He mentioned her once. It didn't sound like they got along that well. I'm starting to think there was literally nobody outside of Coyote he did get along with. Suddenly! Officer Aguirre, what a pleasure to hear from you. Yeah, yeah. We're buddies. Let's go dancing soon. Listen, the Ripper got another one. The victim worked at the NTSB investigation facility down on the docks. You owe me for this. Again? Gotta hand it to this murderer, they're not in the habit of wasting time. Put it on my tab. You there now? Yeah, but better get here quick - before McKlusky arrives. [The image on your PDA dissolves as the call ends.] Another Ripper murder? Where? The docks. I've got to go. Thanks, I appreciate the help. There's nothing left to do here, so we're off right away. Hopefully betrayals and ambushes have gone out of vogue since our last visit. Wouldn't hold my breath though. Official art: The Seamstresses Union Bar Kanfy fucked around with this message at 12:03 on Dec 6, 2017 |
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It will never stop being surreal to me seeing the names of places I've been and lived in a game about elves, cyborgs, and magic.
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Alacron posted:It will never stop being surreal to me seeing the names of places I've been and lived in a game about elves, cyborgs, and magic. I bet, I assume you're talking about Lake Sammamish State Park in this case? I've always thought that it must've been really weird/cool to have grown up as a gamer in Tokyo especially, considering the crazy number of games that take place there and all the different forms the city has taken in them.
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# ? May 21, 2017 10:56 |
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I get that feeling a lot due to games that happen in New York. "Hey, Castle Clinton...this somewhat almost resembles Castle Clinton in Deus Ex. Prospect Park, this is where there was an irritating boss fight in Maximum Carnage."
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# ? May 21, 2017 14:48 |
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I imagine eventually there'll be cyberware worth purchasing for a rigdecker? Skillwires or something?
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# ? May 22, 2017 01:29 |
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Glazius posted:I imagine eventually there'll be cyberware worth purchasing for a rigdecker? Skillwires or something? Cyberware in Dead Man's Switch is kind of unimpressive in this regard. It gets more creative later on, which is kind of Dead Man's Switch in a nutshell.
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Since I figured it might be neat and to potentially help the next update be on the next page, I'm gonna post the short story "Dog Tags" from the Anthology which ties Jake's story from the original Shadowrun to Returns. It'll be in two pieces and I've adjusted some names and whatnot as they didn't all match the release version of the game. Guest starring: Kitsune Dog Glutman Hamfist Anders Spatter Shadowrun Returns Anthology posted:
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# ? May 23, 2017 19:53 |
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"Well let me just bring a redundant decker probably in no way capable of doing this Matrix run, a lousy mage who betrayed me in an alternate timeline, my girlfriend who is an okay mage yet still squishy, and Anders. I see no way this can go wrong."
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# ? May 23, 2017 21:23 |
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no one named anders deserves trust
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# ? May 23, 2017 21:30 |
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Shadowrun was the first tabletop RPG I ever played with a group of friends in freshman year of high school, even though I was aware of D&D, but had never found a group interested in it before then. When one of my friends suggested this new game and told me about the background lore, I fell into it pretty quickly. I was rear end at the game and was terrible at not metagaming, but I was still super interested in the game and trying to scare up new campaigns or whatever. We were playing 3rd Ed, and exploding dice to hit target numbers plus combat dice pools were a strange system that didn't work really well, I thought, but I still have the character sheet from that first character stashed away in a drawer in my desk, for nostalgia's sake. Played a bit of 4th Ed in college, even bought a Chessex block of d6s for rolling up my Street Sam cutting loose with his assault rifle, but never really got to use it more than once or twice. Still, it was fun while it lasted, and I still try to find games when I can, but I can't find people who want to play SR. I also keep up with the metaplot, and I leaf through any new books that look interesting, but I haven't gotten into 5th Ed that much because I haven't had a chance to play it yet. Still, chatting with some line devs at PAX East 2 years ago while also trying out BattleTech was fun, and seeing where they're going from there was cool. Some of the metaplot stuff at the end of 4th Ed (the splatbook for the Atzlan-Amazonia War was just terrible all around, and I was colored by the loathing for the Azzies like any good Shadowrun player should have, along with some Shiwase hate because the first campaign I ever played had em as villains, but I got over that after a while) was rear end, but I liked most of the setting material, if only to complain about the New York splat a bit with those line devs, comparing it to the city I know today (which, gladly, didn't get hit by a killer quake in 2005 that had the government write off Manhattan to the point where the corps rebuilt it and turned it into even more of a playground than in Bloomberg's wildest dreams) and how weird so,e of the stuff they came up with was, and how decent other parts were. As for these games, I wanted to back this game on Kickstarter, but I didn't have the money at the time. I was aware of the Dragonfall Kickstarter as well, but a similar lack of funds prevented me backing that as well. However, I did back Hong Kong, and wasn't disappointed with my choice, especially since I've got family there, and it's such a good game. So many Easter eggs as such, plus metaplot relevant things too. I think it's the only thing on Kickstarter that I've ever backed, and I felt it was money well spent there. I didn't get SR:R until a Steam sale way after Dragonfall came out, but I liked it. I never played any previous Shadowrun games (I wasn't into it back when the SNES game was out), so some of the callbacks to that game flew over my head. But I got a whole lot of the metaplot backing stuff, which improved my enjoyment of the game, even if the last part is a bit of a slog and the mission structure isn't all that good. I understand it was a new attempt at reviving the IP, and HBS did a very good job with it, but until I picked up Dragonfall later in another Steam sale, I had no idea how much it was lacking. And Dragonfall does a lot of things very well, as does Hong Kong later, including party members that actually had personality, among other improvements. I always played a cybered-up Street Sam with a big gun, but in this game, I splashed into rigging and decking to see how those worked out. The Matrix was very weak, but I liked how drones worked. Only problem was lack of nuyen in buying all the cyber and guns and poo poo I wanted, along with some new drones and programs or decks when I needed it, which is kinda standard for a Shadowrunner, eh? One major complaint I had about these games is how they did cyber, and how the paper doll slot thing for it doesn't really make all that much sense and limits my options, alongside the sweet bioware I wanted to stuff inside my Street Sam for those sweet stat bonuses if they were available, but I understand how they have to make it a more accessible and easier to handle system for people unfamiliar with the tabletop and to make it easier to portray in a video game. The essence thing bothers me though. I want my fractional essence, dammit. Another thing that bothered me were people who recommended splashing into Shaman in the later games to pick up a totem for the mechanical bonuses even if they otherwise never cast spells and were so heavily cybered up so as to make it a poor choice to do so. Like, I understand gameplay min-maxing and all that, but that just rubbed me the wrong way lore wise, since you're pretty much born awakened with magic or not, although I guess your totem and powers might've never revealed themselves to you until you had already started filling your body with chrome to shoot better, however unlike that is. I think most magical powers start to manifest around puberty, so again, people saying you should splash into Shaman for the totem bonus rubbed me the wrong way for a lore junkie like me, though I never did it myself. Still, video games systems, and all that, I guess. Anyway, back to this game, I'm enjoying your run so far and seeing people's reactions. In my own run of this game, I don't think I ever splashed into rigger enough to get anything better than the Doberman, so I never saw the ridiculousness of the Smoker until later games when party members brought their own drones with grenade launchers (and by that time, I had picked up the M79 Grenade Launcher myself for bloop tube action, which was great with the auto reload arm they added in Dragonfall), plus Is0bel's own meatspace grenade launcher. Waiting to see how much more powerful later drones can get. Also waiting for more lore stuff to pop up for people familiar with Shadowrun history. One of the people who I talked to about this game was my cousin who didn't know anything about the metaplot but still enjoyed the game, and it was interesting to get his take on it after he beat it. By this point in the game, I already figured out where some of it was going because of certain names we've seen, but I won't say much more than that. Keep up the good work. 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And then Kitsune survived and moved to Berlin I have no idea how that story ends, I just ran DF using her as a custom portrait.
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Oh sure, Dog asks for dozens of random crap around Seattle and it's fine, but Jake installs multiple pieces of soul-destroying technology and suddenly spirits are too cool to talk to him. Also lol Spatter died again
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Man, Jake. Just get a party face. Things get so much easier when people actually think you're supposed to be there. Just look at Johnny Clean, he knows how to do it. Nobody suspects the janitor, and with a bit of smooth talk, nobody suspects the "outside contractor troubleshooters" either.
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It's always cool to read about other people's experiences with Shadowrun, thanks. And yeah, it's always especially interesting to hear the views of those who don't have prior familiarity with the game or the setting. TheMcD posted:Man, Jake. Just get a party face. Things get so much easier when people actually think you're supposed to be there. Just look at Johnny Clean, he knows how to do it. Nobody suspects the janitor, and with a bit of smooth talk, nobody suspects the "outside contractor troubleshooters" either. To be fair, Johnny Clean looks like Generic McGenericFace whereas you could recognize Jake's hair half the city away on a clear day. Anyway, here's the rest of it. There are some discrepancies caused by the fact that this was written early on that I didn't bother trying to cover up, but just roll with 'em. Shadowrun Returns Anthology posted:
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Kanfy posted:To be fair, Johnny Clean looks like Generic McGenericFace whereas you could recognize Jake's hair half the city away on a clear day. Still, if you can talk quick enough, even the troll with the mohawk that doesn't even have a cyberdeck passes for a Matrix expert troubleshooter. Anything is possible with enough Charisma. Also, Coyote Ugly? Really?
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Little touch in there. What, precisely, totems are is the subject of a great deal of debate. But the one thing everyone can agree on is that what they appear as isn't what they are. They represent concepts, ideals, and appear to practitioners of shamanic magic in a form they find easiest to associate. Dog is not the totem of belly rubs and licking your nuts. Dog is Loyalty, both given and earned, to the pack and to the follower. As such, he's one of the few totems that will genuinely gently caress you up for ignoring him. Adversary always gets his in the end, Eagle gets doing your thing solo, and trying to venerate Shark instead of just going on a bloody rampage is going to get you bloodily rampaged. But if you do not demonstrate loyalty to Dog, Dog will return the favor. With interest. And that jack in Jake's head is a pretty profound expression of disloyalty to the spirit realm.
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# ? May 23, 2017 23:27 |
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I like how Jake still can't step outside without a dozen hitmen trying to shoot him.
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# ? May 23, 2017 23:36 |
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Ze Pollack posted:Little touch in there. What, precisely, totems are is the subject of a great deal of debate. But the one thing everyone can agree on is that what they appear as isn't what they are. They represent concepts, ideals, and appear to practitioners of shamanic magic in a form they find easiest to associate. A lot of runners dabble a bit into shamanism or a mage school while retaining one or two augs, its not that big an issue having a datajack. They literally the lowest essence drain you can get in most versions.
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Gridlocked posted:A lot of runners dabble a bit into shamanism or a mage school while retaining one or two augs, its not that big an issue having a datajack. They literally the lowest essence drain you can get in most versions.
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# ? May 23, 2017 23:56 |
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Yeah, Jake was probably also toting dermal armor, wired reflexes and some kind of charisma booster judging by his last game
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TheMcD posted:Still, if you can talk quick enough, even the troll with the mohawk that doesn't even have a cyberdeck passes for a Matrix expert troubleshooter. Anything is possible with enough Charisma. Jake comes from a game where he pretty much had no dialogue of his own, his social skills have gone a little rusty. I think they completely dropped the "Ugly" part of her nickname in the release version of the game. A couple of other bigger differences are the facts that the Seamstresses Union was far more explicitly a brothel, Mrs. Kubota was called "Madame Sinful" and the gang hounding Jake were the Rusted Stilettos rather than the Halloweeners. PMush Perfect posted:Keep in mind, it's Jake. The datajack may well have just been the straw that broke the camel's back. DeathChicken posted:Yeah, Jake was probably also toting dermal armor, wired reflexes and some kind of charisma booster judging by his last game Yeah, it says as much in the story: quote:But the cyberdeck had allowed him to get the damning file; his boosted reflexes had allowed him to save Kitsune’s life; and his dermal armor implants had saved his own life on the way out of the corp building. If he had forgone any of those, would he still be alive? What spirit could guarantee him that kind of assurance? Of course he has none of those in the actual game for some reason. Kanfy fucked around with this message at 08:07 on May 24, 2017 |
# ? May 24, 2017 08:04 |
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I like the story, but is it really necessary to mention every piece of equipment by its maker and model? It's grating.
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# ? May 24, 2017 09:12 |
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Fat Samurai posted:I like the story, but is it really necessary to mention every piece of equipment by its maker and model? It's grating. Read anything Tom Clancy or his ilk have ever written. Notice how it's never just "a gun?" Same mindset.You use the brand name so the reader knows how awesome it is.
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# ? May 24, 2017 09:44 |
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Read anything Tom Clancy or his ilk have ever written. Notice how it's never just "a gun?" Not just that. It implies the reader is "in the know". Sure, some people might think it's just "a gun", but you? You're a hardened badass who knows all about special operations gear, and of course you can say why John Jackson selected the Benningham 822 single action for this operation over the Anemone 11945 full auto. It's nerd porn of a similar sort to any other pop culture reference. If it's done right, it makes a few readers feel clever, a wider pool assume you know what the hell you're on about (after all, they've never heard of the YoRHa NFCS, but if the writer's bringing it up, it must be something relevant), and doesn't particularly bother the rest since it's just a couple extra words every once in a while. Of course, as with so many things, you see it done badly much more often.
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# ? May 24, 2017 10:38 |
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# ? Jun 10, 2024 13:31 |
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Nearly everything in the game itself is labeled similarly. We have DocWagon Trauma Kits, Aztechnology Cyberlegs, Renraku Kraftwerk-1 cyberdecks, Fichetti Frag Grenades... It makes sense in a world where corporations are everything I think, of course they'd have their names be inseparable from their products and included wherever possible even in writing.
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# ? May 24, 2017 10:47 |