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« Reply #16200 on: September 30, 2019, 10:15:17 am »

SNES Shadowrun is basically an adventure game with free aim shooting. Not great, certainly not bad, and some parts of the early game really nail the setting.

But the SEGA one is just flat out better IMO. Less adventure game, more of a endless killing and looting simulator. Better visuals. Top down rather than isometric. But it is way closer to Shadowrun in terms of RPG mechanics. Hacking is great, probably one of the better simulations of it that's ever been made. Invading corp towers to do missions feels like you're actually playing Shadowrun. In the SNES Shadowrun once you've finished an area, you're pretty much done with it and have no reason to go back except to tie up loose ends. SEGA Shadowrun has more of an open world vibe going on.
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« Reply #16201 on: September 30, 2019, 10:15:23 am »

I think by "ego shooters" they mean "power fantasy", but not sure.
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« Reply #16202 on: September 30, 2019, 10:27:40 am »

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« Reply #16203 on: September 30, 2019, 10:33:17 am »

I think by "ego shooters" they mean "power fantasy", but not sure.
So it's politically charged?

More like, "You're an unstoppable action hero".
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« Reply #16204 on: September 30, 2019, 10:59:25 am »

I think by "ego shooters" they mean "power fantasy", but not sure.

So it's politically charged?

Huh? What?
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« Reply #16205 on: September 30, 2019, 11:08:37 am »

Mkay, I think it's too late to turn back anyway, and I got to play something, right... I'd just hate it if this turns out like Megaman X (I had beaten the first on NES, but I don't want to keep banging my head against Sigma's fortress). But it's probably way more interesting than Super Mario RPG (I didn't even know we had gotten SA1 implementation for the sd2snes, hail kirby!), so thanks for giving me some confidence.

Sadly I have no Sega nor the everdrive for it, though that and the NES would interest me very much. Gotta spare PS2 I could mod too... Start working trough your own library instead of spending more money dude, sigh.

Super Mario RPG is fuckin' great. A way better game than your brain tells you it should be just by looking at it.
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« Reply #16206 on: September 30, 2019, 03:46:24 pm »

Originally $20. Now $13. Does this count as a sale?
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« Reply #16207 on: September 30, 2019, 04:01:11 pm »

Ego Shooters?

It's an alternate term for an FPS... may include TPS nowadays though. I've heard two different explanations for the term-- that it's based on something in German, or that it's how you're basically dropping into somebody else's head.
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« Reply #16208 on: September 30, 2019, 04:21:18 pm »

Originally $20. Now $13. Does this count as a sale?

Yes, and surprisingly also game related. Excellent work.


may include TPS nowadays though.

This?


Edit: One-day sale at Humble. Is For the King worth it?
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« Reply #16209 on: September 30, 2019, 04:27:42 pm »

As in Third Person Shooter. e.g. Solid Snake.

Don't feel bad, I always go to Office Space when I see someone use the term too :P
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« Reply #16210 on: September 30, 2019, 06:43:47 pm »

As in Third Person Shooter. e.g. Solid Snake.
What?

Okay, I'm not the most knowledgeable Metal Gear Solid fan (especially since I've only played two of the games - if PC ports of the other ones were added to widely available platforms like Steam that might change), but from what I've seen and played, Metal Gear Solid is only kind of a third-person shooter (and earlier titles like Metal Gear Solid 1 and 2 don't even have a third-person shooting mode - it's either first-person or top down). Even then, the series is, for the most part, a stealth-based game series. Your mission is to infiltrate, not to fight!

Also, Solid Snake is a character in Metal Gear Solid, not the title of one of the games themselves.

I know what you really mean, and sorry to go on a rant, but I just got too irritated to leave the comment be.
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« Reply #16211 on: September 30, 2019, 07:44:06 pm »

I think by "ego shooters" they mean "power fantasy", but not sure.

So it's politically charged?

No, it sounds more like they misunderstood you, assuming it does indeed just transliterate into something like FPS+plot, i.e. a FPS where you play a character in a story instead of a faceless avatar for multiplayer.
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« Reply #16212 on: September 30, 2019, 08:43:32 pm »

As in Third Person Shooter. e.g. Solid Snake.
Also, Solid Snake is a character in Metal Gear Solid, not the title of one of the games themselves.
I'm aware, and was being purposefully broad to include all his games, though I mostly had MGS 3 in mind, which, being mostly outdoors, tended not to have fixed camera positions.
The first two did have run 'n gun traditional third person shooting as an option, but it was much more efficient to use the first person for aiming.
Overhead/top-down is a kind of third person perspective, btw.

No offense taken. Guess I should've been more clear ;)
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« Reply #16213 on: October 01, 2019, 05:20:51 am »

First person shooters are alright, but second person shooters are just terrible.

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« Reply #16214 on: October 01, 2019, 05:55:26 am »

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