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Mongoose to publish a new Traveller version

Started by Caesar Slaad, August 04, 2007, 01:52:01 PM

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Erik Boielle

#135
August 16, 2007, 07:11:21 AM
You know, theres not only Halo, but Mass Effect is specifically supposed to look like a classic science fiction movie and really you couldn't get more Traveller if you went all out to make something traveller:-



Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet.

Sosthenes

#136
August 16, 2007, 07:56:58 AM
Classic? Sorry, the gal looks like she's out of Magical Pink Tech Girl Squad 47...
 

Dirk Remmecke

#137
August 16, 2007, 07:59:09 AM
Quote from: SosthenesClassic? Sorry, the gal looks like she's out of Magical Pink Tech Girl Squad 47...
Or a Power Rangerette...
Swords & Wizardry & Manga ... oh my.
(Beware. This is a Kickstarter link.)

Sosthenes

#138
August 16, 2007, 09:00:24 AM
I'm sure some anime buff will come along and enlighten us with the correct term. Also, the alien looks like he got the hots for Dennis Quaid.
 

Erik Boielle

#139
August 16, 2007, 10:00:14 AM
Common dudes - you must remember the traveller space suits -





Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet.

Sosthenes

#140
August 16, 2007, 10:13:17 AM
You don't see the difference?
 

Erik Boielle

#141
August 16, 2007, 10:20:30 AM
The mass Effect dudes have ten billion times as much money and are standing on the shoulders of giants, but they are still riping off the same stuff.

And its bioware. They made Baldurs gate. The same two guys who founded it are still running it.

If they don't know traveller I'll eat my hat.

And the mass market are going apeshit for this stuff.

Total oppertunity for traveller to be a mass effect roleplaying game.
Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet.

Nicephorus

#142
August 16, 2007, 10:27:27 AM
Quote from: SosthenesYou don't see the difference?

The artistic sensibilities are differ but they're the same on a basic level - people and aliens in cool armor and blasters ready to kick ass.  I don't see any differences that would be majorly different in game mechanics.

Sosthenes

#143
August 16, 2007, 10:31:00 AM
I objected to the "couldn't get more Traveller" comment. But let's not get into that "Traveller nature" stuff. Some fans are worse than buddhists ;)
 

Erik Boielle

#144
August 16, 2007, 10:38:55 AM
If you want to get in to 'Traveller is all about low level old men on a rusty spaceship ripping off poor people for pocket change' then I'll kick you in the nads.

I'm here for the ancient sites, battledress and psionics.
Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet.

Sosthenes

#145
August 16, 2007, 10:44:30 AM
Wrong tree. My first Traveller experience was T:NE, so my associations would be a virus-ridding space-scape and people trying to survive in that.
 

Erik Boielle

#146
August 16, 2007, 10:49:02 AM
Quote from: SosthenesWrong tree. My first Traveller experience was T:NE, so my associations would be a virus-ridding space-scape and people trying to survive in that.

Well, I still think the worst thing about TNE was the art - I think people would have liked it more if it had had art more like megatravellers instead of the guy with the veiny arm fetish they used.

I mean, the RC is a higher tech and larger civilisation than the US is today, and theres no reason everyone wears grungy clothing all the time (like the Matrix - we can make big ass flying ships and power armour, but clothing and washing machines are a little beyond us).

And the shattered 3rd I could be really cool - imagine the ruins of a high tech civilisation done up by those Mass Effect dudes.

Not post apocalyptic, but a boom time for exploration and adventure.
Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet.
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