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Is Shadowrun more "cyberpunk" than Cyberpunk 2020 ?

Started by Itachi, November 13, 2017, 05:21:16 PM

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tenbones

#60
November 17, 2017, 12:50:41 PM
Quote from: Voros;1008147Yeah it reminds me of when I was in university and classmates went on about how they were going to fix the problems caused by the Baby Boomers. We know how that went...

/sigh... I think we're all still dealing with that unfortunately. Give it another decade or so, people will *really* start saying "Damn... this is feeling kinda Cyberpunky, isn't it?"

Some might say that now. I wouldn't know, since I live in the equivalent of an arcology. Seven of the top-10 safest cities in America are all in Dallas (mine is #3) - of course this will only last until the last Californian shows up and ruins it all. Then I'll be back in the Combat Zone.

laber

#61
November 18, 2017, 08:05:00 AM
Quote from: tenbones;1008253The Japan Domination Idea didn't end with the
I think S'mon is referring to race not being an element not the japanese domination.
Quote from: S'mon;1008216AIR Gibson's novels don't have race as an element either, ... everyone seems to be white/culturally white, or Japanese.

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#62
November 20, 2017, 02:36:23 AM
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#63
November 20, 2017, 10:17:43 AM
Shadowrun is more cyberpunk than Gibson! :eek:

tenbones

#64
November 20, 2017, 10:27:40 AM
Quote from: Omega;1008603Shadowrun is more cyberpunk than Gibson! :eek:

How dare you!

jeff37923

#65
November 20, 2017, 01:51:27 PM
Quote from: Omega;1008603Shadowrun is more cyberpunk than Gibson! :eek:

Yo mama!
"Meh."

ArrozConLeche

#66
November 21, 2017, 12:57:16 PM
I'll have a toke of whatever Omega is smoking. Must be an amazing trip.

Itachi

#67
November 22, 2017, 01:25:25 PM
There was a story called "plus ça change" that opened up the first edition of Shadowrun that I've read (2nd), which seems to reflect the game ethos very well. Yeah, we got the awakening and dragons and matrix crashes, etc. but in the end of day, it's all about man eating man. There are it's share of alien inter-dimensional threats and all that, but the core of the setting is about man.

Omega

#68
November 22, 2017, 02:33:02 PM
CP2020 though did make for the superior CCG.

Spinachcat

#70
November 22, 2017, 10:48:56 PM
Love this thread.

Thank you everyone!!

Omega

#71
November 22, 2017, 11:41:13 PM
Quote from: Itachi;1009001Haha true!

Its too bad they stripped out the CP2020 setting from the re-release by FFG.

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#72
November 24, 2017, 03:28:12 AM
I think they're probably just two different kinds of Cyberpunk.
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jeff37923

#73
November 24, 2017, 04:00:29 AM
Quote from: Omega;1009066Its too bad they stripped out the CP2020 setting from the re-release by FFG.

It is expected. FFG stripped out a good user-friendly resolution mechanic from all of their Star Wars games.....
"Meh."

Vile Traveller

#74
November 24, 2017, 08:37:42 AM
Quote from: S'mon;1008216AIR Gibson's novels don't have race as an element either, except the dominance of the Japanese - everyone seems to be white/culturally white, or Japanese.
A Rastafarian group (in orbit) were pretty important in Neuromancer.
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