Forum Overview :: Shadowrun

Elder Scrolls and Deus Ex were always fps, Fallout 3 basically a mod of Oblivion by jeep 07/26/2013, 6:04pm PDT Game companies think they can reboot franchises like movies, but it turns out people are as much fans of gameplay as they are of setting. Fallout 2 and Fallout 3 are both 'games' and both in the same setting but they are not similar the way the Sam Raimi film Spiderman and the newer Amazing Spiderman are. Those are still both the same kind of thing so fans carry over, but FO2 and FO3 are basically 2 different media so fans don't carry over. I know "media" isn't the perfect word there but I think "genre" is the wrong word to separate the two. Modern usage of "genre" implies similarity in narrative and often setting and so they are "the same narrative genre" but they are not the same "type or kind" of game. In most key ways FO2 and FO3 are more different from each other than FO3 and Spiderman, so the scale of the difference seems to call for "media." Now that I think about it old greek rhetorical terms might fit better here altogether.

Let's get a report on this by fabio 07/24/2013, 1:19pm PDT     Bought it, will report back tomorrow night I guess. by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/24/2013, 2:10pm PDT     I'll let you know NT by WITTGENSTEIN 07/24/2013, 2:51pm PDT     Harlequin is only supposed to have one ear, shitheads! by MM 07/24/2013, 4:15pm PDT         I am expecting a great graphics, good game play, terrible writing NT by Matthew Holland 07/24/2013, 4:59pm PDT             RPS's verdict - by WITTGENSTEIN 07/25/2013, 1:51pm PDT     if you're not all busy prepurchasing The Bureau that is NT by fabio 07/25/2013, 2:33am PDT     Pinback says it does not support save anywhere NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/25/2013, 1:30pm PDT         Nope, checkpoints only NT by WITTGENSTEIN 07/25/2013, 1:31pm PDT             And like, checkpoints every 20 minutes. NT by pinback 07/25/2013, 1:37pm PDT                 Oh well, at least it's not a game about cutting-edge technology. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/25/2013, 1:56pm PDT                     First Impression based on Char-Gen by WITTGENSTEIN 07/25/2013, 4:17pm PDT                         I'm hooked. Positive! NT by WITTGENSTEIN 07/25/2013, 8:09pm PDT                             Good god is it 12:45am already? NT by WITTGENSTEIN 07/25/2013, 10:50pm PDT     I've put about 5 hours into it by jeep 07/25/2013, 4:47pm PDT         The new char-gen takes some getting used to. by WITTGENSTEIN 07/25/2013, 5:06pm PDT             that part matches 4th ed NT by jeep 07/25/2013, 10:57pm PDT                 Eh, I can live with that. by WITTGENSTEIN 07/26/2013, 6:06am PDT                     Re: Eh, I can live with that. by jeep 07/26/2013, 6:36am PDT                         Matrix runs slow tabletop games to a crawl, so I'm not surprised. by WITTGENSTEIN 07/26/2013, 6:53am PDT                             oh god the unsolvable shadowrun problem by jeep 07/26/2013, 8:14am PDT                                 Blackjack's answer to that was appoint a co-GM to handle the Matrix part 1-on-1 by WITTGENSTEIN 07/26/2013, 8:44am PDT                                     I was always a fan of the Genesis version by Lurker 95453 07/28/2013, 6:57am PDT     Really enjoying it so far by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/25/2013, 10:52pm PDT         Re: Really enjoying it so far by WITTGENSTEIN 07/26/2013, 7:23am PDT             Re: Really enjoying it so far, also I just finished it at the 13 hour mark by jeep 07/26/2013, 8:23am PDT                 It wasn't a fait accompli (see: fallout >2, deus ex, elder scrolls) by WITTGENSTEIN 07/26/2013, 8:29am PDT                     Elder Scrolls and Deus Ex were always fps, Fallout 3 basically a mod of Oblivion by jeep 07/26/2013, 6:04pm PDT                 I hit a wall at the UB facility. by WITTGENSTEIN 07/26/2013, 10:45pm PDT                     no I was near-broke too, it doesn't matter by jeep 07/27/2013, 4:21am PDT