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[Draco18s]

Shadowrun MMO Kickstarter

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1964352341/shadowrun-online

They're fairly aware of the single player game.

Uh.  Of course they're aware of the single player game.  Have you not been to http://www.shadowrun.com/ ?
The campaign for SRR talked about the MMO several times, even.  There were questions over whether the two games overlapped (they do not, SRR is in 2050, SRO is 2070) and whether or not the two teams would collaborate to create connected stories (ah la the kind of connection the table top game had with Earthdawn, the answer is "maybe"), hell, SRR even advertised the MMO via Kickstarter update: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1613260297/shadowrun-returns/posts/270143

[forsaken1111]

Shadowrun MMO Kickstarter

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1964352341/shadowrun-online

They're fairly aware of the single player game.

The thing that I'm finding it curious is in its FAQs, talks about the OUYA console. This seems so weird.

I'm not touching that with a $10 pole. Niche MMO's don't have the best track record.

[Draco18s]

I'm not touching that with a $10 pole. Niche MMO's don't have the best track record.

Shadowrun isn't niche.  It's the most popular role playing game franchise in the world--behind D&D.

From wikipedia:
The original game has spawned a vast franchise that includes a collectible card game, two miniature-based wargames, multiple video games, a series of novels and music. From its inception in 1989, it has remained among the most popular role-playing games.

SRO is being made by people who want to make a game that embodies the core experience that is Shadowrun: teaming up with a handful of other people and sticking it to The Man, all just to pay rent.  Oh, and maybe have a firefight with some hellhounds and a toxic waste spirit before jumping off the roof of a 400 story building and escaping on little more than a home-made parachute.

They're doing it the only way they know how.

[forsaken1111]

I'm not touching that with a $10 pole. Niche MMO's don't have the best track record.

Shadowrun isn't niche.  It's the most popular role playing game franchise in the world--behind D&D.

From wikipedia:
The original game has spawned a vast franchise that includes a collectible card game, two miniature-based wargames, multiple video games, a series of novels and music. From its inception in 1989, it has remained among the most popular role-playing games.

SRO is being made by people who want to make a game that embodies the core experience that is Shadowrun: teaming up with a handful of other people and sticking it to The Man, all just to pay rent.  Oh, and maybe have a firefight with some hellhounds and a toxic waste spirit before jumping off the roof of a 400 story building and escaping on little more than a home-made parachute.

They're doing it the only way they know how.

That may very well be, but it's still a niche pen and paper setting and I have little hope of it actually being widespread or successful. I would love to be wrong, but I'm certainly not dropping money on it.

[Draco18s]

That may very well be, but it's still a niche pen and paper setting and I have little hope of it actually being widespread or successful. I would love to be wrong, but I'm certainly not dropping money on it.

I'm not asking you to drop money on it, I'm just trying to point out that it's not an inherently flawed Kickstarter.

[forsaken1111]

That may very well be, but it's still a niche pen and paper setting and I have little hope of it actually being widespread or successful. I would love to be wrong, but I'm certainly not dropping money on it.

I'm not asking you to drop money on it, I'm just trying to point out that it's not an inherently flawed Kickstarter.

I didn't say it was... all I said in the post was that I wasn't going to put any money into it, and that I didn't think projects like this have a good history.

[MrWiggles]

Yea, Shadowrun used to number 3 RPG. It was behind WoD (Until they were bought and disappeared from the table top scene) and well, nothing going to destroy dNd cemented lead.

[lordcooper]

Click for hilarity

[MrWiggles]

Hrm...
Do we have a responability to link to their last crowd sourcing attempt on their new one, or would that be just a dick move?

[lordcooper]

Both.

[Fniff]

That vid looks like it was made with GoAnimate.

Seriously, the computer generated voice and everything is just... wow. Great how the scene changes every second and the thing keeps making hand gestures.

[lordcooper]

It actually was made using that

http://www.yourworldinc.com/

[nenjin]

Hrm...
Do we have a responability to link to their last crowd sourcing attempt on their new one, or would that be just a dick move?

Bucky is back, bitches!

[Draco18s]

Click for hilarity

Da fuq did I just watch?
Ow, my brainpan.  >..x

[SirAaronIII]

.....I had that He-man What's Up cover on my clipboard, and probably didn't press ctrl-c to copy his link in right... so I got the He-man video and I was like WHAT NO but then the URLs were different so the Your World video wasn't actually the He-man video. Oops.

Heheheh, "which is in 3D". He sure seems dead-set on reminding us all that it'll be 3D.