I have been playing through Shadowrun Returns and Dragonfall recently and I am not sure if the game is cucked or not. Its very cool, stylish and I like the combat system a lot, currently playing a troll adept. The only thing that kinda of pisses me off a bit is all these blue-haired anarcho feminists running around. There are the missions where your enemy is just a bunch of non-negotiable racists against meta-humans and I haven't heard much argument against the anarchist flux states, everyone in the game seems to be an extremely far-left and violent against pretty much anything that contradicts "muh flux state". Is my shadowrun group just basically like an antifa wet dream fantasy? What do you think of this and does the game change at all in the messages or narrative much? I was kind of hoping I would have a bit of a chance to manipulate and decide for myself what my characters political beleifs would be or even something a little similiar to factions and reputations like in NV. I am about 9 hours into Dragonfall, quite a lot of that has raised an eyebrow at some of the content but the quality of writing is actually pretty good imo.
What does Holla Forums think of the new shadowrun games?
This applies to Dragonfall: Director's Cut.
Much of the criticism of the flux states lies in background stuff and reading between the lines. The one you're in for example shows that you can easily seize control of one and rule it, so even though there isn't king/queen and it's supposedly a liberal utopia, it often turns out to be bollocks. Some of the ones you visit are crime ridden shitholes with a local crimelord. Back to 'your' utopia city-state, there's a woman who's functionally a drug addict and no-one does shit, a guy is trying to create a shelter for the poor/dispossessed and no-one's helping, there's a medical scientist with some seriously shady shit going on and this is all off the top of my head after not playing it for over a year.
There is definitely liberal themes; fight the power, smash the system, ect but this is cyberpunk, in the context of the setting of Shadowrun and the campaign itself it makes sense.
Not this shit again. Requesting the pic about how these threads usually turn out.
It's ok.
I didn't feel that mechanically it was all that deep, nor was the plot all that compelling; just a kind of revenge plot dressed up as a huge conspiracy. The environments were not all that interesting and I really only enjoyed the mission where you assume fake identities and infiltrate the rich residential building and the one where you control the cybernetically controlled ogre. The setting oscillates between bland cyberpunk and leftist fantasy and doesn't handle its politics well at all, for the most part it avoids the topic entirely, wasting its setting and avoiding any real engagement with the social problems it shows, unlike, say, Deus Ex. Things like the above poster's mention of the drug addict or shelter are used as flavor enhancer for an otherwise bland game and are not handled at all.
I found that magic was kind of useless for my party as well, and only really ended up liking Glory because men go head over heels for tsundere damaged goods apparently. My copy bugged out in her origin story so I dumped it there.
Fuck Duncan Wu. What a horribly written character
Same as I think about any SJW game.
I never really thought about that part but you are right for some awesome flux-state utopia it is an utter shithole with mostly everyone going off against each other. I guess part of my problem is I don't have a lot of context, maybe its because I never played any other shadowrun games or the tabletop but I feel I am in the dark about a lot of things and I have kinda just been dumped here.
There are no good or bad choices so to speak and when I look at the NPCs on a bit more of an abstract level they all come across as quite mentally ill and maniacal. The game feeds my imagination a lot but when it comes to details and specifics it kinda just seems to leave that all to me. Not that I always think thats a bad thing
Well Shadowrun is a dystopia, Its not meant to be even considered a "perfect world".
I think Wu is a shit, but I don't think he was badly written. He at least had reason for being a shit since his entire life was screwed over in a day.
I want to cum inside Gobbet. I bet she'd have a really hairy pussy.
Gobbet is best HK waifu and Eiger is best Dragonfall waifu.
Glory is a whore for Satan literally and worst girl.
Those are some correct opinions.