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I don't see I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream listed, which is disappointing. Definitely one of the best adventure games I've played. It's no Grim Fandango beater. But still probably in my top five adventures.
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Barefoot_Monkey: Shadowrun (the Megadrive and SNES games, completely different from one another) are about the cyberpunkiest games around.
We really, really need a proper Shadowrun game now. But all we seem to get is multiplayer games that sort of miss the point.
Post edited January 22, 2012 by Navagon
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Navagon: 40K is basically what it says: Warhammer. But 40,000 years in the future. It's a fantasy world expanded to a fantasy universe and having undergone 40,000 years of technological evolution. It's essentially still fantasy and has no pretence of being sci-fi of any kind.
Huh, thanks. Although I did hear that stupid little "The more you know" tune when I finished reading your post ;D

I found the Warhammer comment interesting. So it's alternate-future-fantasy-fiction? Or to fuse "high fantasy" and "sci fi", Sci Fantasy?
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Navagon: 40K is basically what it says: Warhammer. But 40,000 years in the future. It's a fantasy world expanded to a fantasy universe and having undergone 40,000 years of technological evolution. It's essentially still fantasy and has no pretence of being sci-fi of any kind.
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Runehamster: Huh, thanks. Although I did hear that stupid little "The more you know" tune when I finished reading your post ;D

I found the Warhammer comment interesting. So it's alternate-future-fantasy-fiction? Or to fuse "high fantasy" and "sci fi", Sci Fantasy?
Fantasy in Space?
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MrWilli: Fantasy in Space?
That should be a show! "Danger, Danger, Will, son of Robin!"
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Navagon: 40K is basically what it says: Warhammer. But 40,000 years in the future. It's a fantasy world expanded to a fantasy universe and having undergone 40,000 years of technological evolution. It's essentially still fantasy and has no pretence of being sci-fi of any kind.
That's not exactly accurate. Warhammer 40k does have a lot of fantasy elements in it, its not the Warhammer universe in the future though. Its supposed to be our future, is just takes a lot of inspiration from Warhammer. When humans made it into space, the Orks were there. They didn't come from earth and join the humans in space travel. Elder are pretty much space elves, but they aren't the Warhammer elves.
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MobiusArcher: ...
The only good elf is a space elf. I recently started playing around with the Eldar. :D
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Runehamster: I found the Warhammer comment interesting. So it's alternate-future-fantasy-fiction? Or to fuse "high fantasy" and "sci fi", Sci Fantasy?
Yeah, let's just call it space fantasy. Works for Star Wars.
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Barefoot_Monkey: The Deus Ex games are set in a near-future transition into cyberpunk setting.
It took twelve post to get to Deus Ex? Seriously, guys?
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lugum: bloodnet / neuromancer
You should use a guide to play those to, especially Neuromancer is fucking unfair!
Post edited January 22, 2012 by SimonG
Once upon a time Warhammer fantasy & Warhammer 40k were connected. The warhammer fantasy world was a world stuck in a warp storm, and thus had no contact with the surrounding world any more (apart from all the chaosy stuff. In fact it was entirely possible to have a chaos champion in Warhammer fantasy battles with a bolt pistol!)

GW has since separated the two completely and officially.
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SimonG: It took twelve post to get to Deus Ex? Seriously, guys?
Eh? What's Deus Ex? *ducks*

Seriously, though, I'm a bit cheesed off. I bought Deus Ex a while back from Steam and finally decided to give it a try (I was promised by multiple people that it's an amazing game and only the first island is irritating). I found out I'm victim of this peculiar, apparently insoluble bug that prevents Steam versions of Deus Ex from working. At all. Supposedly they patched it to fix a bug :3
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AFnord: GW has since separated the two completely and officially.
Expect from the "concept" of Chaos. It's the same in both games. You can still use those models in both games (afaik).
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SimonG: It took twelve post to get to Deus Ex? Seriously, guys?
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Runehamster: Eh? What's Deus Ex? *ducks*

Seriously, though, I'm a bit cheesed off. I bought Deus Ex a while back from Steam and finally decided to give it a try (I was promised by multiple people that it's an amazing game and only the first island is irritating). I found out I'm victim of this peculiar, apparently insoluble bug that prevents Steam versions of Deus Ex from working. At all. Supposedly they patched it to fix a bug :3
People have been shot for less, you know...
Post edited January 22, 2012 by SimonG
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MobiusArcher: That's not exactly accurate. Warhammer 40k does have a lot of fantasy elements in it, its not the Warhammer universe in the future though. Its supposed to be our future, is just takes a lot of inspiration from Warhammer. When humans made it into space, the Orks were there. They didn't come from earth and join the humans in space travel. Elder are pretty much space elves, but they aren't the Warhammer elves.
That's what I meant by fantasy world expanded to a fantasy universe. So yeah, orcs were elsewhere as were the Eldar who were originally just called space elves (along with the space dwarves, who were renamed then axed).

I don't see any indication of it being our future though. It makes sense as a Warhammer-like universe 40,000 years from now. But not only does it include a lot of magical aspects, but also ignores a lot of our technological progress.
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SimonG: It took twelve post to get to Deus Ex? Seriously, guys?
Probably because it's mentioned in the opening post.
Post edited January 22, 2012 by Navagon
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Navagon: I don't see any indication of it being our future though. It makes sense as a Warhammer-like universe 40,000 years from now. But not only does it include a lot of magical aspects, but also ignores a lot of our technological progress.
It is supposed to be our future, the emperor was actually born somehwere in todays Turkey, iirc. The lore makes a lot of references to earth. The "lack" of modern technologies is always handwaved/lampshaded by the "dark ages of technology" were some "AI urprising" occured and therefore advanced computerization was deemed illegal/herethical. All technology used "now" is "recovered" ancient technology.
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SimonG: It took twelve post to get to Deus Ex? Seriously, guys?
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Navagon: Probably because it's mentioned in the opening post.
oops...
Post edited January 22, 2012 by SimonG
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SimonG: It is supposed to be our future, the emperor was actually born somehwere in todays Turkey, iirc. The lore makes a lot of references to earth. The "lack" of modern technologies is always handwaved/lampshaded by the "dark ages of technology" were some "AI urprising" occured and therefore advanced computerization was deemed illegal/herethical. All technology used "now" is "recovered" ancient technology.
According to AFnord they changed it to that. So yeah, hardly surprising. So many lore changes to that universe that it's difficult to keep up unless you're an avid fan.
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Navagon: According to AFnord they changed it to that. So yeah, hardly surprising. So many lore changes to that universe that it's difficult to keep up unless you're an avid fan.
Actually, I've never rolled a dice for that game. I worked in a comic book/hobby store when I was younger and the WH 40K books were my favourite read on the loo. But the PC games kept me up to date :-). I did read some of the novels though. Some are quite good (in what they try to be) others, well, not so.