Seems there's a new shadowrun game being made by a bunch of the origninal creators:
Jordan Weisman, the creator of Shadowrun, is back and Shadowrun Returns (for Apple & Android tablets and PCs) is the game that Shadowrun fans have been waiting for a long time. A graphically rich 2D turn-based single player game with deep story interaction, meaningful character development, and highly-contextual tactical combat, Shadowrun Returns is not only going to make some old geeks (like us) very happy but it will introduce new players to a dynamic gaming universe that is beloved around the world.
As well as:
Michael A. Stackpole Mike Mulvihill Tom Dowd Malik Toms Mel Odom Jason Hardy Stephen Kenson
Created almost 25 years ago, Shadowrun remains one of the most original and cherished role-playing settings. The game world’s origin story mashes-up the dystopian Cyberpunk future of a Blade Runner with the high fantasy creatures and races of a Lords of the Rings in an organic way that produces iconic characters, environments, and situations.
So check out the kickstarter page, there's more info there, and update videos and such.
On April 09 2012 05:38 Bigtony wrote: hrm...15$ for the download is almost worth it by itself. Still a little weird that kickstarter getting so populary for this type of thing.
It's not. I've personally backed 4 projects so far, mostly revivals of old-school genres. No surprising at all, players of these genres probably all have stable incomes now. Also, no one else is making them.
I love everything about it, but the whole "PC and tablets" thing makes it more or less unbackable for me. There's no way they can have the depth in the game I would expect when it runs on frickin telephones.
On April 09 2012 09:00 Tobberoth wrote: I love everything about it, but the whole "PC and tablets" thing makes it more or less unbackable for me. There's no way they can have the depth in the game I would expect when it runs on frickin telephones.
have you ever played shining force 1/2? genesis level tech can have tons of depthy
Sci-Fi Street Samurai Elves and Gnomes? Count me in. Had me at that but then I see Stackpole on the list and I'll have to get in on this because quite frankly I am all for cool games like this.
Didn't played the first Shadowrun Game, is it more like an Single or Multiplayer game? But anyways it seems like its worth his money, i like this style.
shadowrun on SNES was amazing, I also played the RPG (table top) with my friends older brother when I was in about 5th/6th grade. It was so awesome. I'll definitely back this!
One of the recurring themes in the stories we hear is how the music of the Sega and SNES Shadowrun games stays with you after all this time. Whenever we read your comments and whenever the team talks about it, the conversation always comes back to, “Wouldn’t it be cool if we could get the guys who wrote the original music?”
So we did.
Today, we’re incredibly excited to announce that Marshall Parker, who wrote the music for the Super Nintendo game and Sam Powell, who wrote the music for the Sega Genesis game, have agreed to COLLABORATE on the music for Shadowrun Returns.
Nice.
Doc wagon card concept:
Also, good news for the shirts:
Reading through the comments about the Backer T-shirts, we see lots of fans for all three designs, so we’ve decided NOT to survey backers about which shirt back you want most. INSTEAD, backers at the $60.00 level and above get to choose which shirt they want!
Just threw in my 15$ contribution, i still remember the Sega Genesis version being my favorite game of my childhood; the first game i played with an open world, and the first with a compelling and adult story. And while i tried to get people to play the pen and paper version it never beat out d&d or paranoia (both good but not shadowrun ). So this project is like a direct line into my nostalgia center of my brain. plus this post gets an excuse to bump this thread up. 4 days left guys, this game has reliable and awesome people making it and it deserves your support.
Just wanted to bump this real quick. Only a few hours left on the kick starter, and well the tiers are pretty fleshed out in regard to rewards ontop of just the game.
Well. This sucks. Got all my hope up for nothing. Shadowrun the FPS was a FANTASTIC multiplayer game and was one of the most competitive FPS's ever made on the 360. The possibilities of what you could do were limitless, it was insane. Since it came out, every fan's been hoping for a sequel. Sucks that this is the one for the fans of the FPS ;\
The map that they shown are made in the map editor. So People can make their own scenarios and adventures, sick!
I'm already getting hyped for this game
That looks really awesome actually, I'm getting hyped myself all of a sudden. I really like the graphics style and it seems like they are trying to make a decently deep game.
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). So this project is like a direct line into my nostalgia center of my brain. plus this post gets an excuse to bump this thread up. 4 days left guys, this game has reliable and awesome people making it and it deserves your support.
