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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The_Gneech" data-source="post: 1545561" data-attributes="member: 6779">That game was my baby. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Well, not exactly, more like my adopted baby. Of the four products ever made for it, my name is in the credits of two, (one of which, The Perfect Warrior, was written entirely by me), and I was going to be writing big pieces of the fifth when the line got yanked.I loved that game, and of all the things ever published by White Wolf, it was the only one I liked at all, because it was fun and upbeat. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Which is, of course, why the WOD core audience hated it, le sigh. But James Estes, Steve Long (more widely known for his Champions stuff) and I all loved it to pieces and were having a great time with it.Was it a role-playing game or a fighting game? Answer: Yes. In other words, it had elements of both. You could spend skill points on more better fighting moves, but you could also get things like a sensei or NPC companions -- neither of which were the slightest bit of use in a fight. It was designed to tell very comic-book melodramatic stories, make no mistake, but they were definitely stories, not just a framework to go from one fight scene to the next.The ending of the Street Fighter line, I think, was one of the big things that drove me away from "deep immersive storytelling;" the whole thing began to just come off as smug and self-congratulating on the part of people who were into it, and I was as smug as any of them. (I remember being so proud of having my GMing compared to Twin Peaks -- now, the idea makes my skin crawl.)Le sigh, I do miss the Street Fighter game.   -The Gneech <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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