Shadowrun deserves better

[MGibster]

The trouble is 2077 was so successful for three hard-to-replicate reasons:

You should change your name to Ruination Explorer after you ruined any hope I had of a Shadowrun game. My wife saw me crying and asked who died. Explaing to her it was only my hopes and dreams was awkward.

 

[500 Toads]

"Outer Worlds" did not impress me in terms of Obsidian's ability to write an internally consistent setting with plausible, complex characters. There's a difference between making an effective parody, and just making almost every character an extreme caricature from the "Too Dumb to Live" category to the extent that it's astonishing that they haven't all died from dehydration, exposure or disease by the time you've awoken.

CDPR can write. They do oversell a bit how reactive and branching their writing is -- Cyberpunk in particular does not give you that many options in a lot of cases -- but at least they can build a pretty well-written world in which to set their stories and populate them with non-flat characters and the occasional non-cartoonish decision to make. However, if Microsoft doesn't want to license out the SR IP on remotely reasonable terms, well, that's that.

 

[neceros]

5e is not good. 3/3.5 was better. 5e leaves out too much.

I like that sr is crunchy. I agree that 3e is great.