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Message no. 1
From: riftspyro@*****.com (Mike Watren)
Subject: Shadowrun Mud and shot down Shadowrun Game Dream..
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:00:22 -0800 (PST)
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oh .. microsoft owns fasa now? Whats this world comeing to.. im mean
im glad Shadowrun is still around but why them.. *grumbles* sorry im a
little anti microsoft but thats me.. *Ahem* any ways I Think your right
about the game thing im just tired of seeing all these medevil games
out there when there should be a lot more cyberpunkish games *shrugs* Hey
can I help it i rather play a elf with neon green hair named
"Locohendo" that uses 2 pistols named "pride and joy" then play a elf
with a bow
and arrow and can talk with animals and trees? meh besides the point oh
the mud thing.. yah i play this mud called Deckeon its allright they
are still working out bugs its the mest Shadowrun Mud I have seen out
there of course some of my fellow players dont agree.. *smerk* heres the
link..

(http://www.deckeon.com/) < Dont mind the sorta lame flash video>

Spend to much time there but if you enjoy it you will see me around
there a lot.. Peace out side...



The Great Mr Slamm-0! ( Just becuse we have to serve you doesnt mean we
have to like you... <Clerks>)





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Message no. 2
From: adamj@*********.com (Adam Jury)
Subject: Shadowrun Mud and shot down Shadowrun Game Dream..
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 19:06:29 -0500
At 19:00 2/19/2003, Mike Watren wrote:

>oh .. microsoft owns fasa now?

No. Please go here and read this: http://www.shadowrunrpg.com/book/faq.shtml

Particularly the questions: "Who owns Shadowrun?", "What happened to
FASA?"
[both in the first section] and
"Why isn't there a Shadowrun computer game or MMORPG?" [in the last section.]

Adam
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Message no. 3
From: justin@******.net (Justin Bell)
Subject: Shadowrun Mud and shot down Shadowrun Game Dream..
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 19:55:58 -0500
At 04:00 PM 2/19/2003 -0800, Mike Watren wrote:

>oh .. microsoft owns fasa now?

no, just the computer game rights

>I Think your right
>about the game thing im just tired of seeing all these medevil games
>out there when there should be a lot more cyberpunkish games *shrugs* Hey
>can I help it i rather play a elf with neon green hair named
>"Locohendo" that uses 2 pistols named "pride and joy"


Unfortunately due to the HUGELY popular games like Neverwinter Nights and
movies like LOTR, I think fantasy themed games will stay in medievil times
Message no. 4
From: korishinzo@*****.com (Ice Heart)
Subject: Shadowrun Mud and shot down Shadowrun Game Dream..
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 22:27:52 -0800 (PST)
--- Mike Watren <riftspyro@*****.com> wrote:
>
> oh .. microsoft owns fasa now? Whats this world comeing to.. im
> mean im glad Shadowrun is still around but why them.. *grumbles*
> sorry im a little anti microsoft but thats me..

LOL...no. MS bought the rights to FASA Interactive, hence the
Battletech games released by them.

> *Ahem* any ways I Think your right about the game thing im just
> tired of seeing all these medevil games out there when there should
> be a lot more cyberpunkish games *shrugs* Hey can I help it i
> rather play a elf with neon green hair named "Locohendo" that uses
> 2 pistols named "pride and joy" then play a elf with a bow
> and arrow and can talk with animals and trees?

Fantasy roleplaying is what brought roleplaying games into being.
Prior to them, all we had were wargames. While fun, there was no
role, just roll (and charts, and charts, and rulers, and diagrams,
adn, and, and). Massive amounts of book keeping and cross
referencing, but no role playing. Fantasy gaming changed that, and
will probably continue as the dominant RPG genre for years to come as
a result.

> meh besides the point oh the mud thing.. yah i play this mud called
> Deckeon its allright they are still working out bugs its the mest
> Shadowrun Mud I have seen out there of course some of my fellow
> players dont agree.. *smerk*

Aahhh yes, Deckeon. Played there for a while (as Ash). GMed there a
while (as Korishinzo). Found the attitudes of the certain people
intolerable (no names, but one went by the initials Archserver).
Repeatedly offered the game designers the help of some actual skilled
coders to fix some glaring wholes and inconsitencies in their code.
Offered repeatedly to build for them so they would have more than 18
tiny little blocks of map. Buildings never saw the light of day.
Offers of competant coding never accepted. When I left the mud was
about as stagnant as anything could get. If and when my friends and
I find time amidst our rather busy schedules, we firmly intend to
build a text-based MUD worth the hard drive space it occupies. We
have thus far generated a few thousand lines of code, and some nice
maps. It is slow going. :)

> Spend to much time there but if you enjoy it you will see me around
> there a lot.. Peace out side...

Seeing as Arch does not particularly like me, and deleted my
personas, I doubt I'll bother going back. Say hi to everyone from
Kori though (especially Fate). Some of them really rocked. :)

======Korishinzo
--what I could do with that player base...



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Message no. 5
From: loneeagle@********.co.uk (Lone Eagle)
Subject: Shadowrun Mud and shot down Shadowrun Game Dream..
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:01:10 +0000
At 06:27 AM 20/2/2003, Korishinzo wrote:
>======>Korishinzo
>--what I could do with that player base...

Let's see...

Cause half of them to run screaming from the game vowing never to play
under a GM with both a "k" and a "z" in their name (known to be evil
letters.) and cause the other half to rig themselves up to IV drips so that
they don't have to leave their PCs? <Grin>


--
Lone Eagle
"Hold up lads, I got an idea."

www.wyrmtalk.co.uk - Please be patient, this site is under construction

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Message no. 6
From: pgrosse@********.com (Paul Grosse)
Subject: Shadowrun Mud and shot down Shadowrun Game Dream..
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:16:02 -0500
<snip>
> *Ahem* any ways I Think your right about the game thing im just
> tired of seeing all these medevil games out there when there should
> be a lot more cyberpunkish games *shrugs* Hey can I help it i
> rather play a elf with neon green hair named "Locohendo" that uses
> 2 pistols named "pride and joy" then play a elf with a bow
> and arrow and can talk with animals and trees?
</snip>

Hmm, well while there aren't many cyberpunk single player games. Has
anyone else, besides me, tried Anarchy Online? It's set pretty far
into the future and not on earth, but it has a lot of good
cyberpunkish overtones. Plus you aren't "totally" defined by what
class you start with unlike most RPG games.

Paul "Yes that Paul" Grosse
PCGen OGL Gibbon
ICQ: 14397299
Anarchy Online: Nylan
Various forums: Nylan (or Nylanfs)

"The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race
to keep all it's eggs in." - Robert Heinlein

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