>after Hong Kong
The signs were on the wall already with Dragonfall. By Hong Kong they went full-blown, "Every male character is incompetent, stupid, a villain, or all of the above while all the strong wymyn characters run all the good factions. Oh, and your main Johnson is an obese Chinese women that's one of our developer's slob fetish insert."
I mean, I guess they nailed the dystopian feeling of the setting pretty well in that regard, but I don't think they intended that part.
/pol/tards in 2018 screeched incessantly over a trans dev when HBS Battletech came out and are retroactively applying "tranniness" to the Shadowrun games.
They literally destroyed every single HBS battletech thread in Ganker to the point where it couldn't be discussed at all for months after release.
All because Mitch and Weisman made the mildest possible concession to the aforementioned dev and included an "IT" pronoun at character selection.
For a Battletech vidya fan who wanted that itch scratch after the abortion that was MWO it was infuriating.
The game was meat and potatoes, unoptimised to shit and had its faults, but didn't deserve to be shut out of discussion altogether.
Looking back it was the start of all the troony screeching on the site since it was incredibly effective at shutting down discussion for certain topics.
Let people discuss vidya on its own merits anon, I beg you.
There was a time where we were all happy, before /misc/ and GamerGate came.
This thing was one of the horrors wasn't it?
Yes, there is a specific ending where you turn its own rules against it and force it to leave in a "perfect ending" of sorts.
11 months ago
Anonymous
I got that secret ending on my first run because I like talking to all the npcs between missions anyway. I think it's a great example of a secret ending you can get organically.
Physically Is0bel's decent, if the bellhop uniform is any indicator she can even clean up nicely with the right clothes. But she's also a turboc**t who deserves to be Gaichu's next plate of sashimi.
What DLC? Dragonfall and Hong Kong are separate games from Returns. Returns is the weakest entry, but worth a playthrough. So far the only one I would replay is Dragonfall.
they're standalone games
unlike that other anon, i really don't recommend Returns unless you're a Shadowrun buff in which case you would've played it already
maybe play it after the other two if you really liked them
What DLC? Dragonfall and Hong Kong are separate games from Returns. Returns is the weakest entry, but worth a playthrough. So far the only one I would replay is Dragonfall.
Was boston ever any good? Did I miss out on not playing it back in the day?
I'm pretty sure I romanced Eiger. I always play a streetsam orc shotgunner stuffed full of cyberware. I also died because I told the dragon politician to go frick himself.
decking is shit in every game, they did it differently in each of them but never found a way to make it enjoyable. It's my only real complaint. I honestly don't know how I would fix it either.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Agreed. It was just slightly more obnoxious in HK for some reason. I wish there was a way to skip decking entirely.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Why didn't they just copy and improve the decking from the Genesis game?
The conversation where he reveals this was one of the best in the game for me. I saw it coming quite a ways off into the start of the convo but it was just really enjoyable. In comparions the ghoul samurai dude I thought would be cool, but his interactions were kind of dull.
i liked the fact that all your teammates were buttholes in their own way in Hong Kong
racter's a psycho
gaichu's so full of himself it doesn't even register with him how much suffering he's caused to his former team
gobbet's unprincipled and disloyal
isobel's a plain c**t, he's the odd one out because there's nothing likeable about her
your gay brother is a bro until the very end of the DLC
>your gay brother is a bro [spoilers]
that piece of shit
I saved him many times and he talks to me like that?
Then I did his ending thinking >huh, whatever, family, ok...
And that shit happens to the other two...Frick him: canon for me is letting that moron alone.
The conversation where he reveals this was one of the best in the game for me. I saw it coming quite a ways off into the start of the convo but it was just really enjoyable. In comparions the ghoul samurai dude I thought would be cool, but his interactions were kind of dull.
>picked the option to not side with any of the factions thinking the game would find a way to balance things out when the fight started >turns out it just makes you fight both factions at the same time while starting the combat literally in the center of the firefight
kek deserved I guess
out it just makes you fight both factions at the same time while starting the combat literally in the center of the firefight
ah, that: I loved
and this dude
>assumed psychopath >literally hand-waves essence issues because of it
I enjoyed talking to him
man i wish the shadowrun games were good
i love the setting and characters but holy frick the combat just feels like a chore
it's so basic and fricking boring
In some alternate universe, we have a shadowrun crpg with the same amount of content and complexity as Wrath of the Righteous, and I fricking want to go there.
I guess Rogue Trader will be next best thing... Probably.
>remember reading a Shadowrun fapfic on /monster/ >entire premise was about a face (you) banging your cute blonde troll streetsam >didn't keep up with the threads before it finished >cripplechan archives are so shit I can't even find it
It's not fricking fair, bros...
If those are the only options, I'll go with simsense chips.
No contest
yes
Satan's frickhole, please and thank you
Already mine anon, sorry, please choose a lower tier runner-waifu
sex with mountains
orc girls are rare in vidya
We will never get another Shadowrun CRPG are we?
Gobbet is so adorable personality wise but we'll stay just friends because holy frick she smells so bad
probably not, but it was a good run
HBS got sucked down the troony sinkhole after Hong Kong, so i sure hope they won't make another one
>after Hong Kong
The signs were on the wall already with Dragonfall. By Hong Kong they went full-blown, "Every male character is incompetent, stupid, a villain, or all of the above while all the strong wymyn characters run all the good factions. Oh, and your main Johnson is an obese Chinese women that's one of our developer's slob fetish insert."
I mean, I guess they nailed the dystopian feeling of the setting pretty well in that regard, but I don't think they intended that part.
What
/pol/tards in 2018 screeched incessantly over a trans dev when HBS Battletech came out and are retroactively applying "tranniness" to the Shadowrun games.
They literally destroyed every single HBS battletech thread in Ganker to the point where it couldn't be discussed at all for months after release.
All because Mitch and Weisman made the mildest possible concession to the aforementioned dev and included an "IT" pronoun at character selection.
For a Battletech vidya fan who wanted that itch scratch after the abortion that was MWO it was infuriating.
The game was meat and potatoes, unoptimised to shit and had its faults, but didn't deserve to be shut out of discussion altogether.
Looking back it was the start of all the troony screeching on the site since it was incredibly effective at shutting down discussion for certain topics.
At this point I hate the anons who won't shut the frick up about troons more than I hate the troons themselves
This.
Because of you two we have Black Aragorn and wheelchair heroes in DnD.
>he thinks he's part of some kind of resistance by spamming threads on Ganker
frick off
>He thinks he`s part of some kind of revolution by spamming threads on subreddit
No U troony gay.
I hate troons, I just hate you even more
Who are you trying to mess with? - You are fricking abomination of man.
If you really hate troons grab a rope and have a nice day troony.
Update your playbook, troons.
Clearly they didn't do it enough.
Let people discuss vidya on its own merits anon, I beg you.
There was a time where we were all happy, before /misc/ and GamerGate came.
Yes, there is a specific ending where you turn its own rules against it and force it to leave in a "perfect ending" of sorts.
I got that secret ending on my first run because I like talking to all the npcs between missions anyway. I think it's a great example of a secret ending you can get organically.
I guess that's why Hong Kong is the worst one: a fricking book with a huge predetermined background for your character
would
all 3 of them
I'll take Satan's sloppy seconds. Does she even have her original pussy anymore anyway?
probably not
if a woman replaces her pussy, can she be considered a virgin again?
No, but you can at least be the first guy to peel off the tamper seal from her freshly installed cyberpussy.
i'll take the bartender
massive disappointment that you can't frick her
For some reason I own this game and a bunch of expansions too
I do not remember buying this game
You're welcome.
my character had to spend the rest of his life avoiding the internet because I chose to bamboozle that thing
damn i hated Isobel, her only saving grace is that the game lets you make fun of her
>Short brown nerd
I like all of these things
>Hates video games
And into the trash she goes
Physically Is0bel's decent, if the bellhop uniform is any indicator she can even clean up nicely with the right clothes. But she's also a turboc**t who deserves to be Gaichu's next plate of sashimi.
I freed that thing because I thought it would make for a more interesting ending lmao
Worst part is my character was a decker so I'm royally fricked.
Should l go with all DLC for a first playthrough?
What DLC? Dragonfall and Hong Kong are separate games from Returns. Returns is the weakest entry, but worth a playthrough. So far the only one I would replay is Dragonfall.
The mood in Dragonfall is great, it really nailed the shadowrun atmosphere imo
Oh I assumed they were expansions or something, I know absolutely nothing about this game
they're standalone games
unlike that other anon, i really don't recommend Returns unless you're a Shadowrun buff in which case you would've played it already
maybe play it after the other two if you really liked them
Hong Kong's Director's Cut adds a really good post-ending story DLC if you didn't play that
Don't forget to play the Hong Kong DLC, it wraps up the game after the main story's ending. I almost missed that.
Was boston ever any good? Did I miss out on not playing it back in the day?
Didn't the first game take place in Seattle?
I was talking about boston lockdown, it was a shadowrun MMO that got shut down way before I ever had the chance to play it
I liked the troll lady way more than the smelly rat or glory
the big one, THE BIG ONE!
None of them. I'd rather chill with racter
Dragonfall was kino, I never finished Hong Kong. But I'll take the revenge ending satan's frickhole.
how smelly?
rats live in her hair and clothes
>Glory
Motor oil
>Eiger
Potent troll sweat mixing with her deodorant
>Gobbet
Actual raw sewage
i'll take Satan's frickhole
i remember being disappointed with Eiger though i can't remember the specifics
rat is charismatic but she's an butthole in a way that's a huge turnoff
I'm pretty sure I romanced Eiger. I always play a streetsam orc shotgunner stuffed full of cyberware. I also died because I told the dragon politician to go frick himself.
>romanced Eiger
what?
Or am I misrembering the game? I could be.
You can't romance anyone in the games. Best you'll get is Eiger being your loyal subordinate.
So I am misremembering. So many CRPGs have romances these days.
So, to correct my statement: Would.
I'll have to check it out again. I disliked the hacking in Hong Kong, so I checked out of it midway through.
decking is shit in every game, they did it differently in each of them but never found a way to make it enjoyable. It's my only real complaint. I honestly don't know how I would fix it either.
Agreed. It was just slightly more obnoxious in HK for some reason. I wish there was a way to skip decking entirely.
Why didn't they just copy and improve the decking from the Genesis game?
You can tell the skinhead shaman guy that you and Monika were in a relationship before but that's about it
>They stopped making this kino to make mechwarrior
Lol, lmao
For me it's Lucky Strike.
i really liked how she says she doesn't buy into the whole hippie commune shit Monika was cultivating
tfw no shadowrun campaign set in japan where you play a disgraced renraku agent running the shadows to get revenge
I'm sad the modding for this game never really took off like other more popular games.
Based taste
a bullet
HK was the one I enjoyed the most.
I also liked it the best. The whole foster brothers thing was pretty cool.
That's cause it was the best one
What are the chances she fricked the hellhound?
forgot pic
>assumed psychopath
>literally hand-waves essence issues because of it
I enjoyed talking to him
The conversation where he reveals this was one of the best in the game for me. I saw it coming quite a ways off into the start of the convo but it was just really enjoyable. In comparions the ghoul samurai dude I thought would be cool, but his interactions were kind of dull.
>mfw I killed the ghoul
I had no idea he was a potential party member.
i liked the fact that all your teammates were buttholes in their own way in Hong Kong
racter's a psycho
gaichu's so full of himself it doesn't even register with him how much suffering he's caused to his former team
gobbet's unprincipled and disloyal
isobel's a plain c**t, he's the odd one out because there's nothing likeable about her
your gay brother is a bro until the very end of the DLC
>your gay brother is a bro [spoilers]
that piece of shit
I saved him many times and he talks to me like that?
Then I did his ending thinking
>huh, whatever, family, ok...
And that shit happens to the other two...Frick him: canon for me is letting that moron alone.
I love ractor, he's a real friend
I'll be honest: I prefer DMS out of all the games.
>want to replay dragonfall
>remember the level where you have to deal with the crazy AI
No thank you. Also melee adept is the best playstyle.
>picked the option to not side with any of the factions thinking the game would find a way to balance things out when the fight started
>turns out it just makes you fight both factions at the same time while starting the combat literally in the center of the firefight
kek deserved I guess
out it just makes you fight both factions at the same time while starting the combat literally in the center of the firefight
ah, that: I loved
and this dude
best thing in that mess
man i wish the shadowrun games were good
i love the setting and characters but holy frick the combat just feels like a chore
it's so basic and fricking boring
In some alternate universe, we have a shadowrun crpg with the same amount of content and complexity as Wrath of the Righteous, and I fricking want to go there.
I guess Rogue Trader will be next best thing... Probably.
no game deserves the pathfinder's buffing hell
I really liked the combat system, I don't usually play crpgs so it seemed fresh to me.
SMELLY
HAIRY
ORC
RAT
PUSSY
i take Satan's frickhole but the Mountain ain't bad either
>killed off the ~~*dragon*~~ menace
>turns out they were keeping le big bad at bay
What an asspull.
It's from Earthdawn. They're keeping the Horrors at arms length long enough for civilisation to thrive for a time but they inevitably lose in the end.
You know, the whole "Sixth World, magic is returning" thing? It's a cycle of Magic > Horrors > No Magic > Magic > Horrors.
How are there any survivors for No Magic after horror part?
They built underground cities, sealed themselves in and waited it out while Horrors ruled the surface
So that`s how that clown-elf survived... Fricking survivors could just tell that horrors menace incoming instead of neutrality and secrecy shit.
Why, the cute vampire secretary of course!
Gobbet is cute too but she stinks and eats literal garbage
This thing was one of the horrors wasn't it?
dunno but that fine lady gave me a couple years of good luck 🙂
what did she ask in return anon
just a couple dead weights. my boy racter stood with me
I'm guessing you're unable to do this post game thing if you kill everyone but Racter and the ghoul guy
I loved to buy shit from trolls because of this banger:
is there actually romance in this game?
no none of the shadowrun games have romance
Glory wasn't just Satan's frickhole, she was a concubine in a cult harem too
bamp
Eiger>Racter>Gaichu>Gobbet>Blitz>Glory>Dietrich>Duncan>Dog>Black person
Gobbet is the perfect woman actually
She's actually one of the better girls
If you didn't kill her you're a simp.
>Doing what she tells you to do
You're the simp
>killing dragons
i prefer corporate dystopia than bug food hell dystopia.
My PC is an overpowered monster, I'm sure he can handle a few bugs!
Dragon lives matter she's a good girl she dindu nuffin
>remember reading a Shadowrun fapfic on /monster/
>entire premise was about a face (you) banging your cute blonde troll streetsam
>didn't keep up with the threads before it finished
>cripplechan archives are so shit I can't even find it
It's not fricking fair, bros...