Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

swans in the Commonweal books are deeply amusing. they were weaponised by rogue magicians millenia ago and they are the size of rhinocerouses

unrelated, all the Shadowrun games just showed up on gamepass. do not play shadowrun returns but do play dragonfall and hong kong

NoiseAnnoys posted:

again great setting, imperfect execution. dragonfall and hong kong rule though.

i would dearly love someone to give a good aaa treatment to shadowrun though. not cd projekt red after cyberpunk (fun but flawed) but maybe another studio with better writers and less egregious treatment of employees.

pog boyfriend posted:

my mom says boats have human emotions and complex motivations

pog boyfriend posted:

paging todd howard

Famethrowa posted:

I'd like a good game based on the Edgerunners anime.

NoiseAnnoys posted:

supposedly that's in the works from CDPR

Famethrowa posted:

I said good.

Douche Wolf 89 posted:

the advice i got for canada geese working with an ornithologist was to counterintuitively look them in the eye and face your body toward them as you pass. for swans, she said nothing works

NoiseAnnoys posted:

again great setting, imperfect execution. dragonfall and hong kong rule though.

i would dearly love someone to give a good aaa treatment to shadowrun though. not cd projekt red after cyberpunk (fun but flawed) but maybe another studio with better writers and less egregious treatment of employees.

Nuns with Guns posted:

Shadowrun's vision of the cyberpunk hell future, caused by a mixture of several massive global pandemics, the continued exploitation and obliteration of native peoples to plunder their land, and the militarization and privatization of police forces, are all disconcertingly on point. The early stuff like a cutting edge wireless phone that fits in a portable brief case is quaint now. They really need to bin the Neo-Confederacy thing though.

Douche Wolf 89 posted:

are you maybe a lot of seeds? or bread

DaysBefore posted:

I never knew anything about Shadowrun so when somone recommended the game to me last year I looked it up and thought 'oh is this based on that Will Smith movie'

NoiseAnnoys posted:

yes, but they have ELVES.

(also, yes, to all of your post but i'm lolling at the first or second edition rulebook where having portable computer the size of a briefcase as some unobtainable black market hacking gear was so unobtainable. it also is so loving quaint it's almost cute.)

Nuns with Guns posted:

The D&D race stuff is dorky but also charming, yeah.



And the real reason we'll never get a Shadowrun game on the level of CDPR's run at Cyberpunk is that Catalyst Games may very well be the most incompetently-run extant tabletop gaming company. The CEO straight up embezzled almost a million dollars from the company and he's still there. They released a statement being like "Yeah, he stole from the company but we're good Christians and forgave him." The latest edition of Shadowrun was published in a state so incomplete it was basically nonfunctional at release. They constantly bilk the contract workers they have write and draw art for the books. The dedicated company that translates and distributes the game in Germany is the only semi-connected division that puts any effort or passion into salvaging the game and obviously that's not available worldwide

Alaois posted:

just play the genesis game, that's the peak of Shadowrun's entire cross-medium existence

iwentdoodie posted:

I got flying tackled off a motorcycle while sitting at a red-light by an irate turkey, as well as ambushed and chased by an emu while trail riding.

My earliest memory is being attacked in a stroller by a goose while my mom laughed.

I stay away from all swans, given my track record.

Edit: yakuza 5 is going to have more play hours than 0, somehow. The batting side story is fun af even if it gets so easy as to be broken.

Nuns with Guns posted:

The D&D race stuff is dorky but also charming, yeah.



And the real reason we'll never get a Shadowrun game on the level of CDPR's run at Cyberpunk is that Catalyst Games may very well be the most incompetently-run extant tabletop gaming company. The CEO straight up embezzled almost a million dollars from the company and he's still there. They released a statement being like "Yeah, he stole from the company but we're good Christians and forgave him." The latest edition of Shadowrun was published in a state so incomplete it was basically nonfunctional at release. They constantly bilk the contract workers they have write and draw art for the books. The dedicated company that translates and distributes the game in Germany is the only semi-connected division that puts any effort or passion into salvaging the game and obviously that's not available worldwide

Famethrowa posted:

this rules. keep those goslings safe 🙏

Nuns with Guns posted:

The D&D race stuff is dorky but also charming, yeah.



And the real reason we'll never get a Shadowrun game on the level of CDPR's run at Cyberpunk is that Catalyst Games may very well be the most incompetently-run extant tabletop gaming company. The CEO straight up embezzled almost a million dollars from the company and he's still there. They released a statement being like "Yeah, he stole from the company but we're good Christians and forgave him." The latest edition of Shadowrun was published in a state so incomplete it was basically nonfunctional at release. They constantly bilk the contract workers they have write and draw art for the books. The dedicated company that translates and distributes the game in Germany is the only semi-connected division that puts any effort or passion into salvaging the game and obviously that's not available worldwide

Lady Radia posted:

lmao'ing while mourning

Marcade posted:

That reminds me of a study I saw about crows in traffic. They found that crows that were run over were overwhelmingly hit by trucks. Best guess is that crows can warn one another about caws, but not trucks.

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

ban + 30

Marcade posted:

That reminds me of a study I saw about crows in traffic. They found that crows that were run over were overwhelmingly hit by trucks. Best guess is that crows can warn one another about caws, but not trucks.

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

ban + 30

Frank Frank posted:

You fucker.

YOU FUCKER

Lady Radia posted:

lmao'ing while mourning

copy posted:

NoiseAnnoys posted:

yeah, it really needs a new steward of the ip. again, massive and massively squandered potential.

and given the success of cyberpunk 2077 (even if flawed) it would be time you'd expect someone to make at least like an updated video game version of it.

Nuns with Guns posted:

Keep in mind that "most incompetently run tabletop gaming company" is a very tight race, and it says a lot that Catalyst might have a slight lead on the competition there.

"Massively squandered" is the right descriptor. Like, I would say out of the two big cyberpunk games out there, Shadowrun has been the stronger seller for years before the recent uptick in interest for Cyberpunk. And some of that was definitely because it's "Cyberpunk, but with familiar D&D magic and races" but some of that was also that Cyberpunk as a brand was basically in stasis for years and years after Mike Pondsmith stepped back from the industry to work at Microsoft. He was so flat broke they couldn't even afford real art for Cyberpunk v3 and resorted to dressing Barbie dolls up to take pictures of:



And then work starts on the CDPR game, a new Cyberpunk game edition, etc. and meanwhile Shadowrun released the worst edition of their game yet in response.

So tl;dr, Shadowrun's marketing sense peaked at the 1989 "game trailer"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GPGQoR6f6w

Nuns with Guns posted:

Keep in mind that "most incompetently run tabletop gaming company" is a very tight race, and it says a lot that Catalyst might have a slight lead on the competition there.

"Massively squandered" is the right descriptor. Like, I would say out of the two big cyberpunk games out there, Shadowrun has been the stronger seller for years before the recent uptick in interest for Cyberpunk. And some of that was definitely because it's "Cyberpunk, but with familiar D&D magic and races" but some of that was also that Cyberpunk as a brand was basically in stasis for years and years after Mike Pondsmith stepped back from the industry to work at Microsoft. He was so flat broke they couldn't even afford real art for Cyberpunk v3 and resorted to dressing Barbie dolls up to take pictures of:



And then work starts on the CDPR game, a new Cyberpunk game edition, etc. and meanwhile Shadowrun released the worst edition of their game yet in response.

So tl;dr, Shadowrun's marketing sense peaked at the 1990 "game trailer"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GPGQoR6f6w

copy posted:

he had a full sleeve tattoo and part of it was what he called a "combat mage" and it was supposed to be a wizard with a gun but mom called it beyonce because it kind of looked like beyonce but with a gun and magical lol

Nuns with Guns posted:

Keep in mind that "most incompetently run tabletop gaming company" is a very tight race, and it says a lot that Catalyst might have a slight lead on the competition there.

"Massively squandered" is the right descriptor. Like, I would say out of the two big cyberpunk games out there, Shadowrun has been the stronger seller for years before the recent uptick in interest for Cyberpunk. And some of that was definitely because it's "Cyberpunk, but with familiar D&D magic and races" but some of that was also that Cyberpunk as a brand was basically in stasis for years and years after Mike Pondsmith stepped back from the industry to work at Microsoft. He was so flat broke they couldn't even afford real art for Cyberpunk v3 and resorted to dressing Barbie dolls up to take pictures of:



And then work starts on the CDPR game, a new Cyberpunk game edition, etc. and meanwhile Shadowrun released the worst edition of their game yet in response.

So tl;dr, Shadowrun's marketing sense peaked at the 1990 "game trailer"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GPGQoR6f6w

copy posted:

he had a full sleeve tattoo and part of it was what he called a "combat mage" and it was supposed to be a wizard with a gun but mom called it beyonce because it kind of looked like beyonce but with a gun and magical lol