Former Shadowrun Community Manager Kimona has announced that the official Shadowrun forums will be shutting down within the next two weeks. With the game's developer FASA having closed its doors, there simply weren't enough people on payroll to monitor the forums.
"We'll eventually close down www.shadowrun.com," Kimona adds, "and transition it to the folks working on the next generation of Shadowrun products."
Whether or not those products will be videogames remains to be seen, but it's unlikely we'll see Shadowrun home appliances or microwave dinners. For those still looking to discuss Shadowrun, Kimona suggests the forums on Xbox.com. We suggest moving on to another game.
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9:31 AM on 01.04.2008
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But then again, this is all I ever saw Robert Summa playing when I had him on my friends list on my 360, so that might be saying something there...
I do want to see a new Shadowrun RPG though that sticks more to the source. Didn't some guy involved with the original franchise just buy the license to do that?
Shadowrun was pretty good for a few days, in fact I'd say I really liked it. But after a while it just got really dull and a began to hate it. I wonder how many active members there were on the forums.
I don't know much about the original RPG but the Snes game was awesome and as long as the next game (if there is one) keeps that cool cyberpunk/voodoo feel to it it will rock.
@Rosseh: If it didn't have the cyberpunk/magic feel, it wouldn't be Shadowrun. The RPG is not very widely used, but it is a very popular game system.
And the whole needs windows vista in order to play thing was pretty gay.
/or maybe not but that's how I felt :)
I think the biggest gimmick of the game was the powers, which IMO set it apart from every other online MP FPS. Cross-platform play was over emphasized since most people didn't really care but it was still nice to have.
I'm all for playing with console gamers... but how about giving them aiming help while letting my skill actually mean something.
Playing it made me believe that the folks who designed it sat down and said:
"Alright, let's make a game that's too complex for most gamers, but far too shallow and random for hardcore gamers, and then we can all collect unemployment!"
Way to go champs. I hear the local Fuddruckers is hiring.