3 years after launch, a single player PC game gets multiplayer added by the community.
I picked it up during the Steam sale, Deluxe edition. It's excellent. The SNES version was one of my favorite games, and this one is superior. I love that the designers went "Instead of spending enormous amounts of time designing an engine that will replicate the hopelessly mechanics of the pen and paper game, let's use a streamlined and intuitive engine that players will have fun using that captures the 'feel' of Shadowrun instead." I'd never played XCOM so I didn't realize it used the same basic tactical system as XCOM: Enemy Unknown or Jagged Alliance. And the way Matrix exploration and combat is done is WAY better than in the Pen & Paper version - or at least, in 2nd edition, which was the version I played.
Of all the things I would see fit to complain about, more frequent steam sales is not one of those things.
The original Metal Gear WAS a PC release. The NES version was just a watered down and changed version for the consoles. The MSX version from MGS3: Subsistence is completely different.
I just got finished playing the first few minutes. I'm digging it.
I was expecting a real economics/shop simulation, and was kind of disappointed at the amount of dungeon crawling required to succeed at the game. I was genuinely trying to play as a shopkeeper alone but the mortgage payments very quickly become impossible to meet as such.
ABSOLUTELY
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Well, the final boss is pretty tough. It's worth it, though, to see all the different endings. Not to mention that "New Game+" option is pretty fun!
Yeah but the game gives you so much ammo in the area leading up to the final boss that you can basically forget everything you learned throughout the course of the game. Stuff like taking cover and conserving ammo no longer matter, you just sit there and unload your guns into him, and use healing potions to restore HP as needed. Plus you can tell your companions to flank him, which means he won't be able to use his tower shield power in all directions, further increasing the damage he takes. And then near the end, when he starts calling down lightning, just put on the Dragon Armor and it'll reduce the damage to nothing, switching back to the Wyvern Armor when he goes back to fire attacks.
