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btw wisdom, when you do pick it up i'd recomend you snag a PC copy. if it were any other game I'd be a total Xbox fanboy about it, but you are going to want to screen cap the shit out of this game. seriously, there's a sourcebook in the making here. oh, and don't buy it from game stop, they're fucking with the PC version's packaging.

well, get a team of edgerunners together and steal it. where's your cyberpunk spirit

well... wow! that was quite the experience. watching the ending credits now. loved every minute of it, lots of choices that have real consequences. been putting in ~12 a day for the past couple days, so it's easily a 40 hrs plus experience. did my first run through like hitman, killing everyone from the shadows. think next go round I'll go for the pacifist achievement and do zero body count. if you're on the fence, buy it, it rocks!

ps. never played the first one so i can't compare it, it's miles better than invisible war though.

oh and spoiler, maybe?

if you stay to the end credits there's a short clip involving some guy named "bob" and people talking about the chimera virus. a reference to game one?

reviews are trickling in, so far they seem positive.

G4 4/5

IGN 9/10

Escapist 4.5/5

wish gamestop was doing a midnight launch, will have to wait till morning

just one week till it drops. there's a new video up, and it could easily pass for an add by the inquisitors. anti rejection drugs, why didn't we think of that!

because there's no cans around?

i'm not saying it was a good idea, or even a problem that needed fixing. just that the alt cults were a central part of mike's vision for V3, and could not have been spun off as an alternate module to use or ignore.

 

Then when it would have taken off on its own, they could have brought in the AltCults as complete sourcebooks as expansions to the system(in a way similar to the Hardwired and When Gravity Fails sourcebooks in CP2020), instead of two-page blurbs in the main book, it still would have been our choice on how we're supposed to play it. If we'd just want to play the basic game without any of the altcults, we could do so, or we could just bring some of them in.

the thing is, alt cults were central to what mike was trying to do (i think). it was mikes attempt to "fix" one of the inherent "flaws" of cyberpunk, wherein everyone is paranoid and amoral meaning they have no reason to trust each other or work with each other (and means games are likely to end in a huge backstab fest). it was a ham fisted way to go about it, but you can at least see what he was trying to accomplish and why he thought it needed to be mandatory.

hello and welcome to the board.

just a heads up, while hound is still listed as a member and a mod, he has not posted in quite some time...his access to computers has apparently been curtailed. what little we know, you can find here

welcome to the board

unfortunately with class i don't have the time to commit to another game at this time. perhaps if you guys are still running come June I'll jump in.

i know you guys intend to run this narratively with no GM, but you might want to consider asking the mods to grant one of you forum mod status just in case it becomes necessary to split up topics, close them, or otherwise clean things up at some point in the future. companero can probably hook you up

but but but, benefits and penalties were what i likes most about IU

you're no fun wisdom

JK

welcome aboard glosz

hey, check it out guys... spoiled meat!

good to see ya back dude

fresh meat! welcome to the jungle

i tried to like it, i really tried... but it's such a steaming pile of shit. a pile of shit i spent eight years eagerly anticipating, and stayed up till midnight so i could download it ASAP. ain't that a kick in the nuts

awesome update wisdom, makes me want to play a nomad real bad ::hint hint::

does diamond age have a significantly less annoying protagonist? might have to check that one out if that's the case

what can i say, my leisure reading is usually military non-fiction or fiction written by operators. comp got on my case last year to catch up on my "required reading", but i gave up on it. necromancer was good, i just got busy. snow crash was just so annoying, dude took his job way to damn seriously in my opinion.

I've still got Mona Lisa on the shelf, is it worth a read?

ok guys, I'm back to civilization and the land of a decent connection. DAMN, you guys posted a lot while i was away, gonna take me a week to read all that ok, just need to work out some gear issues and I'll get posting.

as to the last discussion... if i only read about half of neuromancer, and the gave up after a chapter or 2 of snow crash, does that make me a bad person? (this representing the totality of my reading of CP literature)

ok, so it's time for good news/bad news. the good news is I've finally settled on a character (after driving datadream crazy with my indecision for weeks now). I've added the writeup to reservoir dogs for you all to peruse and comment on. i still need to map out some gear and mods, but that should be complete this week.

bad news, however, is I'm trekking up to the mountains for a week starting Friday. the place I'm staying has absolutely shitty wifi, and posting by iphone is a pain (tiny damn keyboard), so i won't be able to start posting in game till October . but i am coming, it'll just take a little bit longer is all.

if anyone wants to work up some background feel free to contact me by PM. just keep in mind he's only been stateside 3 years, he's not the "best buddy" sort, and he refuses to meet clients face to face. this doesn't preclude any past interaction, it just means that past interaction would have to be in the vein of him hiring the other character to do work for him (then they're an employee, not a client ).

looking forward to gaming with you all

i haven't forgotten about you. i have however scrapped the media idea, so at present I'm scrambling to come up with a workable substitute... damn you inspiration, strike already! (fucking writers block)

was node16's ref book ever green? perhaps that's what he's looking for?

not sure where you'd find a free preview (unless there's a friend you can borrow it from) but if you want to pick it up cheap the file is only $11 at drive through RPG

never bought it myself, so i have no opinion on it's usefulness.

V3? Burn the heretic!