Shadowrun MMO

Ok all, heard a while back that M$ is developing a Shadowrun game for XBOX 360.
(http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/8767/Shadowrun-in-Development-for-the-Xbox-360/)

One, it's a fps, ugh. In the above article, it's an 'Animator' that's leaked the info, so I'm hoping that it's rpg(ish) in a 'first-person' perspective (ala system shock2, or Dues-ex), and he just doesn't know any better. Or he's intentionally mis-leading people. They also seem to be coming out with many MMOs on the 360, with the Xbox-live network. So maybe it'll even be multiplayer or MMO style (wishful thinking probably).

The idea of having to buy 2 xbox360's (one for me and one for the old lady), 2 copies of the game, 2 'live subscriptions, and fighting over who gets the 52" HDTV is killing me (if indeed it is a MMO).

So, I've been toying around with the idea of writing a Shadorun game for years, but of course always wanted it to be co-op multiplayer. I've been reading up on PHP, MySQL, Java, etc. and have thought about a browser-based turn-based Shadowrun MMO. I'm kinda thinking of the original Neverwinter Nights (the one on AOL years ago, kinda like a multiplayer TSR Gold-box type game).

Any thoughts on this? On either one of the topics, xbox360 or my homegrown MMO?

Anyone even know what Shadowrun is? (Am I a freak?...wait, don't answer that one, haha). There are problems converting SR to a game, especially if you want a full Matrix (is the rest of the team gonna have to wait while the decker tries to open this locked door? maybe a more simplistic Matrix that depending on where you jack-in, it's just 1 combat sequence to get to the CPU, and 1 more sequence to perform an action. Maybe a preliminary ICE battle if you are outside the building (like a firewall)?)

Hmm, all comments are welcome.

-K

 

360 is a joke. 90 day warranty for a 400 dollar machine?

I think not.

I know of Shadowrun, used to play it on Sega Genesis

 

Haha, yeah I still have both the sNES & Genesis versions for my emulators. (Even still have the snes cart).

But yeah, the last thing I want to do is buy a 360, not to mention 2.

-K

edit: Oh yeah, anyone who liked System Shock 2 / Dues-ex, look up Bioshock. Pretty much SS3, same group of people. Looking Glass was one of the best game developers ever, good to see they've gotten back together (now Irrational Games).

 

They also did the Thief series of games from memory.

 

cool to see SR coming back to life. i still have the old SR pencil and paper RPG book. i think that was the first incarnation of the SR universe. pretty fun game too!

 

i amdea post on mmorpg.com.....but i'll paste it here for you to read too:

Those of you how say shadowrun should be a shooter, obviously have not spent the same amount of time i have reading all the source books for the area through out he sixth world.......my favorites so-far are denver in which the city has been divided into five areas (bit like germany directly after ww2) as it is at the apex of the five states....the other is chicago(i think it is) where the awakening allowed some pretty stupid shamans to open a portal to 'a spirit-world' after which massive amoutns of bugs spirits poured out into the city posessing the plentiful supply of human hosts, the end result was that the city became a home to giant dung-beetles and roaming mosquitos.....

Reading the sources book alone is fun, you get to the shadowland forum posts from people in the area nad its hardcore roleplay story telling.....i love it, i love it, i love it !

the only show on tv that i might say has come close ....well i cant cuase i dont watch tv anymore....i wont say ghost in the shell, nor firefly/serenity, or even matrix. Why? well poopypants puts it nicley.....drugs and the not-so-nice aspects of dystopian society...

In the sixth-world drugs come in apporximatly three flavours.....chemical, electro-stimlua, and magic.
the chemical drugs are really exspensive due to the need for resources....the electro-stimlua are like what trinity uses to learn how to pilot the helicopter in 'The Matrix' which branch further into two categories of 'knowledge while chipped' and stimchips....which are almost like tailored single use computer viruses.

The bladerunnner only slightly touches these aspects, the bladerunner books go much further...to the point i get the impression that the population in that world is shrinking fast.

anyyyyway. shadowrun was bought by M$ longtime ago....with the idea to prevent some game coming out that would overshadow halo or any of their other projects....just like Desnow puts it.....consume your proscribed entertainment with your left hand first or else we will force feed you disney shows every two hours...with bright lights.

first person shooters without a serious role-play element that includes trading, crafting, resource management, guild management, and world economy is just going to be are-hash of doom 1.

ps i have like 4 characters on world of warcraft......a lvl45 undead warlock, a lvl28 undead rouge and a lvl12 human rouge. so i kinda have something to lean on when i post this message.

nuff said chummer.

 

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