If you can find a copy the original "Morrow Project" RPG was excellent as well.
If something of a pain-in-the-ass to run/play because of it's rather excessive realism.
I ran a campaign in the mid 80's for a year or so and streamlined a number of things to make it more playable.
YES, there is such a thing as "to much" realism in a game. Most games however go far to far in the opposite direction.
My god, I didn't think I'd ever hear anyone else reference Morrow Project! If you like crunch that game makes most seem unbreaded. I'll never forget that first time I looked out of my bunker's periscope and saw what had to be a gigantic wolf scarf down a deer with one bite, or narrowly escaped from my first encounter with a blue undead...sadly we weren't using our geiger counter, we didn't realize it was already too late.
You get all the red points I can give, sadly that is only one, but know that I'd give you more if I could.
I swapped out the V-150 for a LAV-25 because I didn't want my players having multiple vehicles (I had 5 players and the vehicle driver and radio/sensor operator were NPCs because they were pretty much tied to the vehicle) and it had a MUCH better cargo capacity (they were a heavy recon team).
Once they ran into a nut-case bandit who tried to rob them, after he bounced multiple .50cal black power balls off the vehicle the gunner put a 25mm APFSDS round thru his forehead (he COULD have used the MG, but nooooooo ...). They also mounted a Mercedes Benz hood ornament on the 25mm. Then there was the time one of them emptied a drum from full-auto 12ga and rolled so poorly he missed a target at 15m, I had a couple geese that "just happened" to be flying overhead fall out of the sky. They ate well that night anyway.
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Every time I played we wound up rolling for team nerd, so we usually found ourselves more on the failing to rebuild infrastructure/society type missions. It was a blast, but more misadventures with power plants than military hardware.
Thanks for posting this primer to the PnP-game. Wasn't familiar with the original game and can now understand the concern many have if the game will capture the spirit of the PnP's rules.
I want to point out that I think the artwork in Cyberpunk 2020 was very important to establish a look and a mood, with crisp and high contrast line drawings, and then I guess there were textured (warm?) drawings as well. Never relying on color at all. It IS nice that the cover for the sourcebook is colored though. Presumably, some of the charm was having to sort of imagine the rest of it, just like when reading a book with text only.
Admittedly, I don't remember if any of the later extra material books for CP2020 had color in them.
Admittedly, I don't remember if any of the later extra material books for CP2020 had color in them.
They weren’t initially overly succesful, but they did reach a cult status and birthed one of the most revered and succesful RPG franchises.
Indeed.
That’s what I’ve been trying to push for for the past 5-6 years.
majority of the books are black and white I do believe one of the chrome books had a few glossy pages that where done in colour.
Here's a pretty good analysis of Dragon Age: Origins as a computer role playing game (cRPG).
In terms of what makes a video game an RPG.
And lots of other stuff as well of course (skill trees, etc.).
Of particular note is the area around 1:20:00 discussing the Lothering portion of the game. Regarding character skills, skill use, player choice, etc.
In terms of what makes a video game an RPG.
And lots of other stuff as well of course (skill trees, etc.).
Of particular note is the area around 1:20:00 discussing the Lothering portion of the game. Regarding character skills, skill use, player choice, etc.
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One of the first RPGs to combine old school mechanics and depth with the new cinematic style and high production values. The game is essentially a perfect bridge in that regard.
Different kinds of mercenary. Almost every video rpg, except for extremely short ones ( like Age of Decadence) has a default class that everything is built around.
In fantasy games, you're always "forced" to be an adventurer. In post/apocalyptic ones a scavenger. In open world games like TES, an explorer. In Cyberpunk it makes sense you are a mercenary.
People who expected here to hold concerts as rockerboy, run/or work for corporation or for media agency...had simply far too unrealistic expectations.
For that kind of game you would have to design something fundamentally completely different from nearly anything on the market. Mount and Blade would be closest to it.
You'd need budget the size of a small country, and thousands of people putting god knows how many years of work, to pull it off in something like this.
It was pretty good, but I expect a lot more here. DAO had very linear/simple quest design with almost no gameplay alternatives, player skills/stats had almost no impact on dialogue, background had few real consequences and choices were mostly binary and simple in implementation ( support good/bad guy-> extra summon at the end+slider). Plus level scaling through out.
Also known as Nostalgia effect.
Except for less dialogue options, I think CDPR will do better here. That Maelstrom quest alone was more complex than anything in DAO, when it comes to options and player agency. And tbh, I prefer a more freeform char progression than choose a class and always pick the same few abilities.
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It's a completely open sandbox with no central narrative or quests that's entirely centered around rpg mechanics and factions.
CDPR could actually design something like this,( and damn I'd love to see this) but I'm not sure they have the manpower for this. Or tech.
Cyberpunk Online.
Pick a role at the beginning with set skills, gain xp from MMO-like tasks ( designed for each role) and eventually ally with each faction, engaged in fight for control over Night City.
But you can also kiss goodbye story, characters, quests, a ton of simulation elements, protagonist voice acting, etc, etc.
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Same here.
DAO had some good ideas and the design core had its heart in the right place, but it was ultimately just about going from cutscenes to grinding trashmobs and back to cutscenes.
Besides in DAO it is not possible to grind nor there is thrashmobs, as every fight in this game is hand placed and cannot be done again...
Console version maybe?
Doesn’t really matter what it’s called, the effect is still the same. The constant fighting and mowing through hordes of enemies slowed the game to a crawl and in its exhausting repetition was one of the biggest reasons I never finished it.
(No, not a console version.)
Maybe you should have played in a harder difficulty so that every fight would be an interesting challenge if you feel ennemies are just slowing you down instead of being part of the fun.
Personally I prefer playing it on Nightmare difficulty.