Game News Shadowrun Returns Kickstarter Passes $1mil, 13 Days To Go

So what's the Codex view? I haven't played any of the previous games but judging from what I've seen on Wikipedia, and that video, Weisman didn't have any control over them. Not familiar with the original PnP game either.

Anyway, I've pledged $15 on the strength of his personality alone. Seems like a likeable guy and he said all the right things.

Like Hitler?

My experience with the franchise comes purely from the Genesis game (physical copy) and playing the SNES one on an emulator. Those games were good enough for me to throw some money at this. The fact that they went "multiplayer? lol no" was a huge plus as well.

The backers' exclusive mission seems to generate a lot of drama on the kickstarter page. Many don't want the now traditional marketing ploy: "buy here and get this exclusive weapon". Can't say I blame them.

Don't forget where you are.

It's not buying power, since you're actually paying less than retail value with a $15 pledge, albeit with a slight risk attached. The console games were both pretty good, so I think I'll go with the $30 tier. I'm not entirely on board yet, but I'm getting close.

That's why I didn't send them any money yet. Pay 15$ extra for exclusive ability, pay 30$ on top of that to get docwagon license. Same shit on higher tiers but tied to mission editor. Seriously?

I never played the console games, but the setting seems interesting and it's going to be a turn based cRPG. So I'm intrigued. What worries me is the graphics. I don't want to back the game if they are going to be using cartoon/comic book false color rendering. The concept art looks a bit comic book-ish and has me worried. Especially if they are going for a Blade Runner vibe. On the kickstarter page I didn't notice any mention of the graphics at all. For a graphical game that is quite an omission. Has he mentioned his plans for that at all? Maybe in an interview? I can only assume it will be isometric and not direct top down or first person, but I really have no idea if he is going to go for a cartoonish look or not.

Shadowrun is srs business.

I love the high fantasy setting, but it's been played to death. The console Shadowrun games were fun, but a deeper PnP based Shadowrun cRPG would be awesome. Wasteland and Shadowrun are very compelling non-high fantasy RPG settings with excellent pedigree. Wasteland is good to go; Shadowrun still needs help and is very worthy of funding.

FASA was one of my favourite rpg studios. I loved both Shadowrun and Earthdawn. I always dreamed of a crpg version of the latter.

The thing is they've already gotten most of the money from generous people who want to support this and don't care about exclusive missions, and now they want to try and incentivize it for the fence sitters, the people who would otherwise wait till it's out, or the scumbags who need extras and day 1 dlc. It's not like making the exclusive mission itself will require $500,000, it goes to making the whole game better.
Anyway I'm in for $15 and may up it (ooh usb dogtags) if some preliminary design work is released and is pleasing.

It seems like a potentionally great game, but i'm still worried about the art style (i'm not a gfx whore though, but imagine a jrpg or facebook style?) and the depth of the game.

Sure combat is turn based, but so is a jrpg

Well on their kickstarter page it explicitly says they won't use facebook style graphics.

Got a link for that?

"A graphically rich 2D turn-based single player game" is the only thing i've read about the style so far.

I still want some concept art, and talk about the technical side of things before i make up my mind.

FUCK YOUTURD! I cannot get one FUCKING MINUTE of this video to load!

Either way, thank you guys for funding, I am waiting for more info, but the world sounds intriguing, and I never played the originals, but was kind of wishing for another Shadowrun game just so I could see what it was about, true to the setting.

That, plus the fact that it's going to be tailored around iPads and other tablets. From what I've heard this could very well be as deep as a Facebook game. After all, many Facebook game ads mention "depth and immersion". I mean, even crap like Puzzle Quest might qualify as a "story driven RPG".

I know it's funded and a game will be created, but at this point I think there is good possibility that I will not be able to enjoy that that game.

Exactly. Right now most of what we got are buzz words which are relative, where as Fargo is talking about the game mechanics already.

Guys, Weisman said he wanted to do an X-Com like game, albeit with an RPG bend. I don't see how we could end up with a puzzle quest or a JRPG...

I cancelled my pledge on this. He's getting way too 'EA' with his backer bonuses.

Guys sorry, I can't find it anymore, but I could swear it said somewhere on the kickstarter page it will be a rich 2d graphic game not like facebook games. I'll also wait to find out more about the game before pledging and I don't like excessive ingame backer gameplay changes too. If people bitch about wasteland 2 changes that have nothing with gameplay, then what about this game, and we know even less about this project. We'll see. The guy seems likeable, but I will need more info.

Also, is there any way to see how much paypal donactions shadowrun got? I can't see it anywhere and I'm wondering why?

I also begin to think, they seem to not get it.

A lot of people are sitting on the fence for this, wanting to get over with this and pledge, but what they need to set their money in motion is not exclusive content, and also no videos of Jordan saying wow! for the 10th time, but 1-2 pages with facts.

What will the "mission" structure entail, compared to an RPG like e.g. Fallout?
Describe us how a game made for tablets is going to look on the PC?
Can you give a graphic example of the art style you have considered so far?

Plus the answers to the other questions, which we could already answer here by digging in personal mails and the wording of individual phrases.

I had hoped we'll have some Codex interview with relevant questions to answer us all that. Maybe we still will after Wasteland 2 kickstarter ends, so we can focus on (maybe) the next best thing on the kickstarter.

Yes, they still got 12 days.

Wish the Codex would do an interview, adressing some of those issues a lot of us got.