Darkwind - Viewing Topic: Shadowrun Returns.. *UPDATE w/Review*

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Ive not checked that stuff out for a while

Might be time to have another look

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Posted Dec 3, 2013, 2:06 pm

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now DRM free and soon available on GoG. Will still accept updates and will run all third party add-ons from Nexus
http://www.nexusmods.com/shadowrunreturns/?

Harebrained Schemes said:

We just want to send out a quick update to share some good news. Thanks to a new agreement we were able to negotiate with our partners at Microsoft, Harebrained Schemes is pleased to announce that we are now able to release fully DRM-free versions of Shadowrun Returns and future expansions such as Berlin.

This was posted back on the 12th of last month

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Posted Dec 3, 2013, 3:43 pm	Last edited Dec 3, 2013, 3:45 pm by Grimm Sykes

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Yep, saw that!

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Posted Dec 3, 2013, 7:48 pm

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I gotta jump in here.

This game is Awesome.

Note the capital A.

It's awesome. People brought up loot and non-open story - I think I can squash that...

So, you're broke, all you've got is a slick trenchcoat, a pistol, and a trusty AK-74.

You cobble together a crew to go break into a corp that's holding something for a Mr. Johnson.

You get contact, medium, and drop a few guards.

Back to that AK - it's your life. You clean it every day - even though you don't have to. It's never failed once. Thing is, if this thing failed on you, you'd be dead.

Back to the run. So, you downed a few guards, that's nice - but, they had submachine guns. Great maybe I'll just pick one up and use it - if I was braindead. Let's suppose you had enough ammunition there to use it. When's the last time this gun was cleaned. It ever been tinkered with? Is it mechanically sound?

Would you trust your life on it?

Loot - I guess you could swipe one or two sub machineguns and sell them to other Shadowrunners. I guess. For one, if I owned a megacorporation that just got hit and all of a sudden Tamco Submachineguns were being sported down at the local dive, I'd merc everyone there just to be safe.

Open Story - The included campaign was very well written, yet linear. Thing is, this is a campaign-centric game. On Steam there are tons of highly rated campaigns already. I haven't touched the campaign editor but if you wanted to recreate Fallout2 in it, I don't see one reason why it wouldn't be possible.

Anyway, the game is well worth checking out for setting and writing alone.

The campaign editor is like Neverwinter Nights - with guns.

Check it out!

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Posted Dec 16, 2013, 5:44 pm	Last edited Dec 16, 2013, 5:50 pm by Groovelle