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Shadowrun Online?

MordothMordoth Member UncommonPosts: 65
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Has anyone heard anything about this game being considered for an online game?  I loved playing the PnP version of it, and would love to see it online or even as a solo game.

 

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  • GRIMACHUGRIMACHU Member Posts: 528

    Just what we don't need, more elves >.<

    If we must do yet another game with fantasy trappings, Iron Kingdoms would be a good choice.

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  • ianubisiianubisi Member Posts: 4,201

    Originally posted by GRIMACHU
    Just what we don't need, more elves >.<

    You can never have enough Elves. They stay crunchy in milk!

  • lomax006lomax006 Member Posts: 6
    Ok the Shadowrun I remember didn't have elves in it.  I remember playing the one on Sega that was a futuristic game where you could hack into terminals, do missions, and use advanced Technology.  And yes I loved that game and think it would make a great MMO if done right.
  • vqlyvqly Member UncommonPosts: 296
    elves in shadowrun?  HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAH!!!!!
  • lonelyrobotlonelyrobot Member Posts: 194

    Shadowrun online? Oh god that'd be wonderful.

  • hazmatshazmats Member Posts: 1,081


    Originally posted by lomax006
    Ok the Shadowrun I remember didn't have elves in it.  I remember playing the one on Sega that was a futuristic game where you could hack into terminals, do missions, and use advanced Technology.  And yes I loved that game and think it would make a great MMO if done right.


    I still play that sega Shadowrun game from time to time.  One of my favorite games of all time.

  • GRIMACHUGRIMACHU Member Posts: 528

    Yes, Shadowrun has elves.

    It posits a cyberpunk future in which magic starts to leak back into the world, thus you have 'changelings' being born, elves, dwarves, trolls all the usual fantasy claptrap hastily mooshed together with Cyberpunk.

    Of course, it was very popular in its day because some people will buy anything with pointy ears and a unicorn thrown at it.

    It was resurrected recently as a Heroclix set, but with much bigger figures with interchangable weapons and a new edition of the TTRPG is supposed to be coming along.

    Do yourselves a favour and play that instead, might get you onto some real RPGs ;)

    http://gamesgazette.topcities.com/Shadowrun.jpg
    http://www.halle-der-helden.at/rollenspiele/sr-collaborate.jpg

    You can clearly see the elves and pixies and magic contamination in these two images.

    Eww, you got pixies in my dystopian SF technothriller, cooties!

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  • RudnocRudnoc Member Posts: 208

    yeah, I remember ol' Shadowrun. Here is a link to some info..

    http://shadowrun.dnaco.net/

    or if you are lazy....

    Magic meets machine in 2063, a futuristic world where Orks, Elves, and Troll walk among us - casting off their Human guises. Insidious corporations have replaced the corrupt governments in the balance of power, and the heroes are the nameless souls who are only known by the title 'archetypes'. Be a deadly Street Samurai, a net-running Decker, a mysterious hermetic mage, or a wizened shaman. You also have the option to play any of the other major players in the Shadowrun universe, such as Mafia, Yakuza, Rigger, Reporter, Ganger, Fixer, and many other possibilities.

    I remeber playing it on the Ninetendo a long time ago. Didn't really remember elves too clearly, but maybe the word "shamans" may refresh your memory about the game.

  • MordothMordoth Member UncommonPosts: 65

    Well, I played Shadowrun PnP for several years (never even saw the Sega version), and I found it very entertaining.  I liked playing a mage with cyber-implants, or an Ork with a Remington Roomsweeper (shotgun pistol).  Even took down a helicopter once with a spell.  It was great fun.  People still play it.  I just happen to have been bitten by the online gaming bug a couple years ago, and my old group has sorta parted ways as often happens in post-college years.

     

  • lavengerlavenger Member Posts: 6
    OK my bro used to play that game and i REALLY want to play but i dont have a genesis... if anyone knows how i can get an emulation for it for the computer please tell me cause i really wanna play it. please just pm me on it... thanks all
  • AnubisanAnubisan Member UncommonPosts: 1,798

    Unfortunately I haven't heard anything about this... but the idea is great. I remember playing Shadowrun quite a bit when I was younger, and it would be great to see that universe in a MMORPG.

  • ChieftanChieftan Member UncommonPosts: 1,188
    There was a SNES version that came out first that was totally different and I liked it alot better than the Genesis version. 

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  • Ramonski7Ramonski7 Member UncommonPosts: 2,662

    Played and still have both the SNES and GENESIS versions of this classic. Sweet, sweet game. I would play this game in a heartbeat if it was a MMO. I have to say that the genesis version had a darker feel to it than the snes version, which was my favorite.

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  • JenuvielJenuviel Member Posts: 960

    It's not exactly in the MMO category, but I know I recently read an article at BioWare's site about a soldier overseas who's writing a Shadowrun version of Neverwinter Nights. Here's an address:

    http://nwn.bioware.com/players/profile_shadowrunner_nights.html

    It certainly looks like it'll be fun for fans of the original game. I know I always liked running around in a black trenchcoat with a monofilament katana and a pair of mirrored Ray-Bans tucked around my pointed ears. I also loved that it was set in Seattle. I've lived in Seattle most of my life, so I knew all the streets and landmarks in the official books. ::::01::

  • AzathothAzathoth Member Posts: 357

    The dumbest game online. Is that what you're after?

    Chaos is more than just a game.

    Cartman has a big fat ass!

  • cuskariecuskarie Member Posts: 11

    Seems to me that Shadowrun is a no-brainer for a mmorpg.

    You have a big mix of juicy Fantasy,cyberpunk,first person shooter and driveing sim all wraped up in a crispy mmorpg pastry.

    Sorry for the food referance but I am hungry and the cubards are bare.

    Cuskarie

  • MordothMordoth Member UncommonPosts: 65
    imageJust need to win a big lottery, then put together an design team, and walla!!  image
  • SONOFAGUNNSONOFAGUNN Member Posts: 414

    Dang I just made a reference to SHADOWRUN in another post.....

    Very cool idea, has acres of plots and storylines... and while you think we have enough elves and dwarves... I think you haven't lived until you have fought a dwarf with a x-wing fighter  or a dragon with a light saber.... hmmmmm ... while think of this FASA product why not a MECHWARRIOR MMO? We need a good friggin sci-fi game besides SWG or EVE (both are cool games but they are getting old).

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  • Gythe1stGythe1st Member Posts: 45

    A shadowrun Mmo might be pretty fun. I'd certainly give it a try. Of course if I was going for a cool new scifi game I'd so go for RIFTS but thanks to that scumbag kevin seimbieda That won't happen whil he's still drawing air in his lungs.

    But of course till something new comes out I just picked up the New SWG 3 pack game I hope it will tide me over for te time being.

    Oni

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