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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.
I wasn't really introduced to the universe until after that stuff was all sorted out. I didn't actually know about any of it.
Did anyone mention Anachronox? Not a perfect game, by any means, but enjoyable
This topic is now about defining Cyberpunk!
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SimonG: GW has since separated the two completely and officially.
Indeed, Chaos is present in both games, with all its gods, and the Chaos Daemon army uses the same models in both games.
But Chaos works differently in the two worlds. You don't have The Warp in Warhammer fantasy, which is where chaos & its daemons live in 40k.

In the old "realms of chaos" books, chaos was described as entering the warhammer fantasy world through two large warp gates, one on each pole. It was the brave Slann that held back the tide of chaos, and managed to shut the warp gates. Slann back then were not like Slann are now, in the old days they were roughly human sized humanoid toads, basically taking the role of the modern day Lizardmen army. Lizardmen back then were larger creatures who served the slann. The same toad-creatures existed in 40k, and had advanced technology. With the release of 4th edition WHFB GW dropped the old Slann army (probably because they did not sell very well), and with the release of 2nd edition 40k the slann were phased out there as well (people don't seem to much care about the old 40k slann, but if you mention Squats whole forums can erupt into pro/anti-squat flame wars). When Lizardmen were introduced as a whole army in Warhammer fantasy, Slann were relegated to a leadership position. They were immensely powerful mages, and a lot larger than a human, and so revered by the lizardmen. In 40k the slann still exists in the fluff, they were even mentioned in the last core rulebook, but they are not a playable army (some people have converted models and use the tau codex to represent slann).

With the slann changed so much, the old fluff was automatically invalidated, it is not left in a state of ambiguity, like a lot of the older Ork fluff. And with it, a lot of the old ties between the games have effectively been cut, so even if GW never had made an official statement about the relation between the two games, the fluff incompatibilities would be enough to make a strong case against it being the same universe.
Still, there are a lot of people who like to theorize about connections between the two. A common theory is that Sigmar was one of the lost primarches.
A lot of games I want to mention are already covered. However, I notice Hard Reset is missing from this thread. It is a semi-old school style FPS game that is pretty action oriented, with cutscenes that contain the more popular cyberpunk elements often found in other media.

Not to mention, the atmosphere and visuals are just really well done.
CYBERBUMP

The top 10 cyberpunk games I really, really, really want to see made available on GOG:

1. I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream
2. Blade Runner
3. Hell
4. Rise of the Dragon
5. Flashback
6. Snatcher
7. Darkseed
8. System Shock
9. Oni
10. Cyberpunk 2077 (whenever the hell it's released)
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Runehamster:
The only one of those you mentioned that was at all cyberpunk was E.Y.E. (for future reference!).
Check out the book Neuromancer by William Gibson - it's the first true cyberpunk story and influenced all sorts of things from The Matrix films to anime and so on.
It's sad that if somebody ever made a Neuromancer movie, most people would think it was a Matrix rip-off.
http://www.mobygames.com/genre/sheet/cyberpunk-dark-sci-fi/

Of particular interest I find A.I. Wars: The Awakening and Neuro Hunter.
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Navagon: We really, really need a proper Shadowrun game now. But all we seem to get is multiplayer games that sort of miss the point.
Shadowrun Returns looks pretty good.
http://harebrained-schemes.com/shadowrun/
If you can find a copy, Chaos Overlords is one of the most addictive games ever made. It's a cyberpunk mafia area-control turn-based strategy game with a kick-ass soundtrack. I /really/ hope GOG manages to rerelease it some day.
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Toast_burner: Shadowrun Returns looks pretty good.
http://harebrained-schemes.com/shadowrun/
You see, this is why necroposting is a bad idea. I posted that over a year ago. Since then I heard about the Shadowrun Kickstarter, backed it and have been following its progress on a regular basis ever since.
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junker154: Any other suggestions? Help is really appreciated.
Made a pretty in-depth list of cyberpunk games that are on the wishlist.
Also here is my cyberpunk GOGmix
Hope these links help.
Post edited June 05, 2013 by irishskrapper