TIL Shadowrun dwarves dress like 90's rappers.
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What is Cyberpunk?
Cyberpunk is a science-fiction sub-genre dealing with the integration of society and technology in dystopian settings. Often referred to as “low-life and high tech,” Cyberpunk stories deal with outsiders (punks) who fight against the oppressors in society (usually mega corporations that control everything) via technological means (cyber). If the punks aren’t actively fighting against a megacorp, they’re still dealing with living in a world completely dependent on high technology.
Cyberpunk characteristics include:
- Dystopian city setting where mega-corporations rule
- Full integration of technology into society, featuring cybernetic implants
- Outsider protagonists (punks) who often are very familiar with the technology around them
- Hard boiled detective and film noir vibes and influence
- Themes dabbling in trans-humanism, existentialism, and what it means to be human.
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I spent way too much time hacking in the Genesis game.
Did you ever play the SNES version? How would you describe the differences between the SNES and Gensis games? I know they're totally different but I never played either.
The Genesis game is an open world RPG. On the streets of Seattle, the gun fights are real-time and difficult. It's really easy to die, and the odd pace of combat was difficult for me to pick up. You do jobs for fixers to earn money and move the plot along. The story is decent, but I don't remember much about the characters. For me, all the fun was in the hacking - real-time, where your abilities are on cooldowns. Steal data, sell data, buy better hardware/software, hack servers with more ice, repeat. Oh, and the art's neat. I only rented the SNES game, and I don't remember nearly as much about that. I think it's more of a traditional RPG, with more focus on puzzle solving and story. Everyone says the SNES story/characters are better. No hacking game, though, or not much of one.
Yep, that was 4th edition. The first completely non FASA edition. I think the cover was very much meant to be reminiscent of the Shadowrun 1st edition cover. Different style of course, as the 1st Edition cover art was by Larry Elmore, and done in his style, but 4th edition, like 1st (and 2nd) edition both showed a group of runners in a dingy alleyway, mid action. The two covers look like two different artists takes on the same designers prompt.
Ah, ok. So it was intentionally trying to evoke the older artwork style. That makes a lot of sense, thanks for the clarification!
I don't know that for sure, but it certainly feels that way to me
I’m confirming that’s SR4
This is SR4A
When did they move away from the skull logo? I expected the new logo on the SR4A version but I didn't realize they'd already moved away from the skull logo in the original SR4.
Pretty sure it was when catalyst bought the franchise from FASA, so at the 4th