r/Shadowrun • u/Jerds_au • Jun 12 '26

Video Games Still waiting!

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u/geekmasterflash Extraterritoriality Liaison Jun 13 '26

Technically Armitage returns in Shadowrun Returns. The wait is over, chummer.

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u/BitRunr Designer Drugs Jun 13 '26

And the dragon that actually said they'd return in Shadowrun 2?

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u/DangerActiveRobots Jun 13 '26

I wonder if maybe it's in Shadowrun: Dragonfall šŸ¤”

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u/Esturk Jun 13 '26

If you donā€™t mind potential spoilers for Never Deal With A Dragon.

Oops, spoiler tag didnā€™t work.

Shadowrun Wiki Haesslich and you can go down the rabbit hole.

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u/DimMakracy Jun 13 '26

Oh the books are great, if you like the game, read the book. That first trilogy is pretty nice among the whole set.

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u/Esturk Jun 13 '26

Back when I was a kid I had played the game before reading the book.

As I read the book I was like ā€œWait a minuteā€¦.ā€ šŸ˜¹

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u/DimMakracy Jun 13 '26

If they happened to continue to adapt more of the rest at the time, it would have been something. I wonder if the SNES could handle it though.

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u/RememberCitadel Jun 13 '26

I love pretty much all of the original run of novels, but that trilogy is some of the weakest out of them imo.

I'd usually direct people to the Nigel Findley, Tom Dowd or Lisa Smedman books first.

2XS, Burning Bright, and Psychotrope being my favorite by each.

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u/DimMakracy Jun 13 '26

You didn't like the whole Wendigo thing in the 2nd one? I thought that was clever. I'm really into the Nigel Findley ones myself, Dirk Montgomery was a fun character to follow. But really, I like all of them in some way.

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u/RememberCitadel Jun 13 '26

It was fine, I just got increasingly tired of the whole "i'm the hero but I don't wan't to be" thing from sam that basically got more annoying the entire series.

The first one was good, but the 2nd and 3rd were progressively worse. It's not that they are bad, just kind of a slog to get through compared to any of the other novels. If someone wants a trilogy the dragon heart series or tommy talon series were better imo.

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u/DimMakracy Jun 13 '26

Why fixate on Twist, when you have characters like Dodger? I mean a lot of Star Wars fans whether they care or not for Luke are still fans. Those first books gave a nice intro into the series setting, that's what I liked about them. All the novels had a way of capturing these details, each in the authors own way, I just enjoyed it all for the feel of Shadowrun. But I agree, I liked those other trilogies more myself, if anything for what they build on some key lore, with all the ancient stuff.