Shadowrun Returns

Basically shamans and the class that can summon toy cars and planes are shit right? At least my shaman was pretty garbage and just a haste bot until I rerolled melee.

Min/maxing for rifles is so OP. All you need is a decker and dps and the game is easy mode.

I agree about the linearity. Multiple hub areas could have solved that, i.e.: modular content for expansions/UGC.

Zaphid_sl said:

The games are nice and all, but the linearity kills it for me, they could cut the combat altogether and turn into an adventure game. If there was more variety in the encounters, then why not, but my main character ended up slaughtering everyone on their own, the rest of the team were just decoys.

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There are some community-made modules out there that are anything but linear. If you have not looked into all the diffrent things the community have created for these games you have missed a big part of what makes them great in my opinion.

Playing the Shadowrun Unlimited mod ATM. The writing is utter garbage but so far the gameplay seems okay. I really liked the Dragonfall campaign, even if it was linear.

As far as Shamans go, they become amazing once you get Earth fetishes that can cast the Cover spell. If you get that buff on your allies, for three turns they'll have medium cover no matter where they are. Opens up lots of tactical options, and makes grenadiers much less of a headache.

Here's something I never actually saw back in 1990... probably a good thing since I would have not played the game if I had.

That was truly awful, and I love everything there is about Shadowrun. The decking part wasn't bad for 25 years ago, but good god the live action parts were terrible. Can't even imagine what kind of shoestring budget they did that footage on.

It was apparently sent to game stores as part of a promotional package along with the glossy preview adventure (which I did get) and posters. It was also apparently playing in a loop at the FASA booth at GenCon that year.

I'll be honest, it took me a few attempts to make it through that without turning it off.

Small bump to remind anyone who's interested that Hong Kong comes out in less than two weeks (the 20th).

Skanda_sl said:

Small bump to remind anyone who's interested that Hong Kong comes out in less than two weeks (the 20th).

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Public service announcement that SR: Hong Kong is now out. Even if you were a backer you might not have received notice- I was and I didn't. Downloaded it and created a character last night. Looking forward to playing today after work.

hodj_sl said:

I'm enjoying Hong Kong.

I'd say its their best effort thus far.

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Considering how much I liked Dragon Fall, that's great news. Weisman just refuses to disappoint.

Game still won't lock the mouse to the main monitor, raaaaaaaage. Otherwise seems great.

I loved Dragonfall, but I didn't back Hong Kong because Dragonfall had some major gamebreaking bugs (like during Apex Rising) that HBS never fixed. I'm going to wait for reviews and watch their Steam forum for bug reports. If everything looks good, I'll buy it.

Just had the first taste of the new improved Matrix and damn, they stepped up the game there.

Any classes specialization seemingly needed? I saw the primary characters included a decker and rigger... Usually I roll a toon that does both. Was going to try an Adept this time around but have a hard time passing up the awesomeness of matrix fun/social specializations.

I'm liking it so far, but I liked dragonfall alot as well.

hodj_sl said:

I'm enjoying Hong Kong.

I'd say its their best effort thus far.

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Same here. Everything about it is just better, and I really loved Dragonfall. They've really stepped it up on the little touches, like ambient conversations and sounds in areas (above and beyond the improvements/changes that you'll notice right off the bat).

I liked the dialogue options at first until some of them turned into novellas. Everything else is far better than previous versions.