Shadowrun Returns : Anticipation Station
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I believe it will be, because it had that big shitstorm about them only releasing the basic game and the first DLC/expansion as DRM-free for supporters, mainly because Microsoft is forcing them to use DRM. So yeah... it's ether going to be Steam or Games for Windows Live. Or both.
This is going to be coop yes?
Pre-ordered on Steam two days ago. PUMPED.
It only matters when you take price into account. If I'm paying $60 for a game, but it's over in 8 hours, that is a poor investment of capital, especially considering I can pay $5-20 for a Fallout game and play that for a hundred hours or more. It's not necessarily a statement against the quality of the game, but the value of the game.
So, by your estimation of value, all platformers are inherently worse than RPGs.
No, because platformers from the 90's/early 00's had TONS of stuff to do. Super Mario 64? 120 stars to find. Banjo Kazooie? Tons of jiggies, jinjos, notes, and other stuff to find. Conker? Look for that sponduli! Shadowman? Tons of dark souls to find, plus hidden weapons and other things. A platformer can have a ton of stuff to do and thus has more value.
But that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about a western style RPG, which have traditionally had several dozen (if not hundreds) hours of gameplay as a genre feature. It is one of the things that defines the genre. To not have that tells me that the devs ether didn't have confidence in their writing ability or the time to add more. Considering it's a kickstarter, it's probably the latter.
That being said, I thought Shadowrun was a $60 release like most games. At the price it's going at now (currently $18, $20 during other times) it's actually got a lot of value to it.
Downloading right now....wonder if I'll make it to work tonight....
And then suddenly Jay posts shortly after to say how disappointing the game is. 
And then suddenly Jay posts shortly after to say how disappointing the game is.
Nope, so far it's pretty damn good. There's a -lot- of roleplaying going on. Lots of talking, branching conversations, exploration and investigation. There's combat, and the turn based combat system is pretty good (think x-com if it were done in the style of the original Fallout) but so far there hasn't been a ton.
My only complaint is that it uses a checkpoint system rather than save anywhere.
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