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Loving SR:HK so far. I backed both games on KS. Playing the usual Ork Rifles / Decker.

- really like the new matrix
- upgrade paths for followers is awesome
- engine looks better and seems to have optimized as well (Unity 5 upgrades)

Given the consistent quality, if they put one of these out every year I'll back it no question. Wish they would do a Director's Cut of the first one.
 
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Astral Projection_sl said:
Loving SR:HK so far. I backed both games on KS. Playing the usual Ork Rifles / Decker.

- really like the new matrix
- upgrade paths for followers is awesome
- engine looks better and seems to have optimized as well (Unity 5 upgrades)

Given the consistent quality, if they put one of these out every year I'll back it no question. Wish they would do a Director's Cut of the first one.
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They have proven they can put out a quality game. Now I just wish they would put out a full open-world BG style SR game. Something where you have full control over a main and up to 5 other characters in a sandbox world. Start in Seattle and just open it up. Find Johnsons and take jobs to earn cash and street cred while following a loose but progressive main story. Buy vehicles, apartments, nightclubs, etc.
 
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Arden_sl said:
They have proven they can put out a quality game. Now I just wish they would put out a full open-world BG style SR game. Something where you have full control over a main and up to 5 other characters in a sandbox world. Start in Seattle and just open it up. Find Johnsons and take jobs to earn cash and street cred while following a loose but progressive main story. Buy vehicles, apartments, nightclubs, etc.
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^ agreed
 
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Got to talk with a bunch of the HBS dudes at Pax and they sound like they have some cool stuff coming down the pipe. There's a free update for HongKong coming that is some more story wrap-up and such for loose ends, and it'll apparently be a lot more "open" in the sense you aren't working for anyone and it's up to you to track down work, make connections etc.

Also they are making a Battletech game, so fapfapfap.
 
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Hong Kong was a solid game, but the story narrative seemed to rely a bit too much on just rehashing elements that worked for dragonfall. old man having started something a long time ago with which he has grievances etc. also the text in the game could have used some editing to shorten it down.
 
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Just finished it. Took 27 hours. Looking at my Steam profile it took 20 hours to finish X:Com an 20 hours to finish Skyrim (main storyline only), so that is a pretty decent amount of content.

My Dragonfall got upgraded to Director's cut, so it erased my time stats. ;(
 
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I got through most of Hong Kong but I didn't bother finishing it. I had some bugged missions and once I got past the "you can't go back" point in the main-mission my reservoir of fucks was nearly empty. I'll probably go back to finish eventually, but meh.

After 3 games, the things I hate really start standing out. Like, no true party and character editing/building and the on-rails game design. I tried Shadowrun: Unlimited to see if that would scratch my sandbox itch, but it really didn't (lots of bugs/repetition/issues).

Astral Projection_sl said:
Just finished it. Took 27 hours. Looking at my Steam profile it took 20 hours to finish X:Com an 20 hours to finish Skyrim (main storyline only), so that is a pretty decent amount of content.
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I disagree that it's a decent amount of content, but that is probably because we play games differently and we can't sandbox or grind random missions with Shadowrun. I have 390 hours into Skyrim and I probably played X:Com 100-200 hours but for some reason it only shows 9 hours (may have played it offline a lot). I never bothered to finish either...with Skyrim I ran around looking for ALL THE THINGS and just generally wasted a huge amount of time, and with X:Com I literally did everything I could not to finish the game.

I mean, 20 hours to finish a game? I could probably do it but that thought makes my skin crawl (I finished Shadowrun Returns in 14 hours and I was super unhappy)
 
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Finished the Hong Kong follow-up campaign, overall still felt a bit "meh", not on the level of dragonfall in terms of characters, writing etc. basically a few extra quests and tying up some lose ends. most of the characters (NPCs etc) just seem annoying, aside from maybe Racter and Gaishu.
 
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Collection is free on Epic store now. First game is decent. Two and three are great.

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Shadowrun Collection

Shadowrun Collection includes Shadowrun Returns (Base Game), Shadowrun Dragonfall - Director Cut (Base Game) and Shadowrun Hong Kong - Extended Edition (Base Game)
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I got these on a steam sale a while ago and they were better than expected.
 
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Tried it again b/c it's free on Epic. Still clicking through massive text boxes and rarely in combat. /yawn
 
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A great little low budget series. Second game is the best, third is also pretty good, while the first is like any pilot: unpolished. Severely under-used setting and universe for RPGs.
 
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A great little low budget series. Second game is the best, third is also pretty good, while the first is like any pilot: unpolished. Severely under-used setting and universe for RPGs.
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Naaaaniiiiiiiii?

The matrix changes alone push Hong Kong past Dragonfall.
 
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