Well, how they used to be played was you took a pen and stabbed the **** who's pager went off in the library/cinema/theatre/front bar/<insert place where telecommunications devices don't belong>.octafish said:
Shadowrun Returns Comes to Kickstarter
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Well, for one thing you can just add it as a shortcut to your Steam game list. Everything is neat, tidy and where it belongs (I do the same thing). Or, according to the poster above me, you may well get a Steam key, so you don't even need to add the shortcut to Steam.HellsingerAngel said:
OT: I've only really heard the name Shadowrun, I was born to late to be familiar with these games, but that world sounds incredibly interesting. I haven't donated to any of the Kickstarter projects yet thanks to Amazon Payments not accepting Paypal, but my girlfriend got a credit card recently so I should be able to back this one. Hooray!
As much as I love this revival of all the great old game genres, these developers really need to agree to spread out their kickstarters. A lot of people are willing to drop a couple hundred bucks on some of these games. A lot less people are willing to do so once a month.
Wow, when I looked at it and pledged, it was at less than 100k and now it's almost 300k already. This will probably get to a million, easily.
When did this thing start? Because it's already nearly at its goal. I'm deeply impressed by just how successful Kickstarter is at funding this stuff.
My group of friends and I have been playing the Shadowrun tabletop for over 10 years. Seeing this, and this man behind the wheel, if we had 10k between the group of us we would have dropped in in a heart beat.
Since that won't happen though, I'll have to settle for my name being in the credits.
Since that won't happen though, I'll have to settle for my name being in the credits.
My question would be, why do I have to chase around the devs to get this information/option? I'm the consumer and they're asking for my money not even for a product, but a potential product. It's vaporware at this point and already they've lost my business because they don't have foresight into their preferred method of distribution. How does that look in the consumer market when a company that's asking for money doesn't have a solid plan going in? It's panhandling. Not to even mention that that project would then be questionable because if they don't have the understanding of the distribution side of the project, what's to say all the features they've promised don't make it into the game or are poorly handled? Again, this should be an option offered up front without my having to ask, especially considering the project type (small development team using digital distribution), not something I should have to bring up as a "hey, obvious point is obvious" request.Darknacht said:
As for why? I've found Steam to be a reliable tool to organize my games, keep everything up to date without so much as having to think about it and has a great in-game overlay that seamlessly switches out to a chat box to talk with friends while gaming and browser to look up anything I may want to know while playing without the normal wait time/possible graphical readjustment normally associated with alt-tabbing out of full screen. All in all, it just works for me and it bothers me to have to have poorly handled clients when Valve has done an excellent job at proving that simplicity and convenience outweigh some intrusion into my gaming experience.
I'm more of the "SQUEEEEEAAAAAALLLL!" variety, but I think mental noises or physical chirps of barely-repressed glee count as synonyms for "bluga".DustyDrB said:
Yeah. A decent Shadowrun game? Yes, please.
Where does it say that smartarse? Guess what its says that nowhere, if you don't have in your terms and conditions you can be sued. We live in the world where gamers sue go to court because they dont like the ending of ME3, some smart arse, just like you, can take them to court and this case stand a high chance of winning. Its baldy thought through, they have committed themselves to things without understanding of the consequences. They have drm free because all the others have said the samething, they have just assumed because someone else has done it they can do it. By not stating that the drm free version will only be available from their website, they have opened up the option for it to be argued that the kickstarter and there website has led to reasonable a exception of a DRM free version being downloadable by steam. Legal departments exist for a reason dimwit.Dexter111 said:Are you dense?albino boo said:
They'll offer the game through Steam AND through other non-DRM platforms like Desura, GamersGate or even their own Website, Steam doesn't hold up any kind of need for an "Exclusivity Agreement" for any game.
So let me get this straight. You not going to, and indeed telling other people, Not to get a game (I know it's vaporware right now) because it won't go right to Steam? That seem rather petty. And don't say you're not telling other people what to do. By posting that amount text, it's just far to heavily implied.HellsingerAngel said:
Let me just grab my flame shield just a sec......
Ok, I really liked the shadowrun FPS, played a lot of it back when I still used my Xbox, kind of disappointed that it's not another one they are tring to make here.
I got it on PC aswell, but Games for Windows Live was such a joke that it was a pain in the ass to use.
Ok, I really liked the shadowrun FPS, played a lot of it back when I still used my Xbox, kind of disappointed that it's not another one they are tring to make here.
I got it on PC aswell, but Games for Windows Live was such a joke that it was a pain in the ass to use.
and even if ya somehow don't, they just open up the option to donate to the cause via paypal.brunothepig said:
most flaming comes from the fact it´s a arena fps of a rpg setting, it´s like if you took mozart and make a rap remix, ya just do that X3Hawk of the Plain said:
I'm still waiting for the battlefront 3 kickstarter article. Since clearly that's the only way those guys will get off their butts to make the damn thing.
WOW. I really thought I would never get to play an Isometric game ever again. I mean Fallout one and two were just pure gold and to see Wasteland 2 get made is unbelievable (though Wasteland was before my time, I'm still excited) AND NOW Shadowrun game. Man when everyone was sitting down to play their Sonic on genesis, i only cared about two games; Pirates Gold and Shadowrun. If Sid Mieres announces he's making another Pirates game after this I'm going to start getting suspicious I haven't merely died and gone to heaven. Seriously this is the first time I've been so genuinely and unreservedly excited for a game since Fallout 3. But not just one, three games! O_O
I keep trying to remind myself, I first need to see the fruits of this funding before I start proclaiming gaming is starting to move towards a optimisitc future... but i can't bat away these sparkles of happiness shooting from my eyes even still.
I keep trying to remind myself, I first need to see the fruits of this funding before I start proclaiming gaming is starting to move towards a optimisitc future... but i can't bat away these sparkles of happiness shooting from my eyes even still.