Gods and dragons from Shadowrun.

[doomspike]

I am not too deep into the game yet but I can't help but feel that gods just like dragons in Shadowrun are the same breed of "♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥" so to speak. Extremly selfish and manipulative although sometimes benevolent and reasonable for their own selfish reasons. Or outright psychotic.

[Flo]

I know, it's so realistic! I love it

[Radene]

Well....keep playing :)

[Dorok]

Dragons in SR are more the personalization of world corps. Corp becoming a real character, a dragon.

[Radene]

Publicado originalmente por Dorok:

Dragons in SR are more the personalization of world corps. Corp becoming a real character, a dragon.

Maaaaaybe...but then again, there's the alternate ending to Dragonfall....

[Procrastinating Gamer]

Honestly OP; that kind of also describes the Ancient Greek Pantheon - those guys were serious smegheads.

[Terra]

Publicado originalmente por Radene:

Publicado originalmente por Dorok:

Dragons in SR are more the personalization of world corps. Corp becoming a real character, a dragon.

Maaaaaybe...but then again, there's the alternate ending to Dragonfall....

I do love that they put that clearly non-canon ending in, just because.

It's definitely a "well, you CAN, but what do you THINK is going to happen?!" moment.

[Radene]

Publicado originalmente por B'oh ShadowFighter88:

Honestly OP; that kind of also describes the Ancient Greek Pantheon - those guys were serious smegheads.

The breakdown of calamities in the Greek mythology, by reason:

2%: Mortals brought it literally on themselves
3%: Mortals seriously offended a god/goddess
10%: A mortal totally won against a god/goddess in a contest of skill, and the god/goddess was being a sore loser.
85%: Zeus couldn't keep it in his pants

[Kain]

The Gods of most religions are narcisistic aholes. Nothing new there.

[Kain]

Publicado originalmente por ntnsvc:

After finishing dragonfall I had this empty feeling. Which is why I chose to be hired by that dragon on the subway. Nothing that you do actually matters in that world. Good or bad, the wheel of time keeps turning. Choises you make with an artificial intelligence are I suppose the best example of nihilism expressed in that game.

Question here, did you play the new Dragonfall version, the standalone, did you notice any difference between that and the previous version?

[yjzep]

As an American of Greek descent I approve 1,000%!! :)

Publicado originalmente por Radene:

Publicado originalmente por B'oh ShadowFighter88:

Honestly OP; that kind of also describes the Ancient Greek Pantheon - those guys were serious smegheads.

The breakdown of calamities in the Greek mythology, by reason:

2%: Mortals brought it literally on themselves
3%: Mortals seriously offended a god/goddess
10%: A mortal totally won against a god/goddess in a contest of skill, and the god/goddess was being a sore loser.
85%: Zeus couldn't keep it in his pants

[Kain]

Zeus once turned into a bird to ♥♥♥♥ a woman. I mean, he doesn't want to just have sex, he wants to become some weird crap and then fornicate.

[VERN]

Publicado originalmente por ntnsvc:

After finishing dragonfall I had this empty feeling. Which is why I chose to be hired by that dragon on the subway. Nothing that you do actually matters in that world. Good or bad, the wheel of time keeps turning. Choises you make with an artificial intelligence are I suppose the best example of nihilism expressed in that game.

A game caused you to temporarily lose yourself to despair.

I call that a 10/10 for evocative writing!

[VERN]

The gods in Pillars are more like forces of nature than anything else. They just do things and the mortals feel the effects. The dragons in Shadowrun are kind of on the same level but the biggest difference is that they can be personable and at least a few of them have a sense of humor. For example, one dragon died in the Shadowrun setting and left a hilarious Last Will behind.

[yjzep]

Seriously I grew up Greek. i KNOW the culture. The sexual deviancy has little to do with zeus. Greece is the land where the men are men, and the sheep are really nervous...

Publicado originalmente por Fenrir:

Zeus once turned into a bird to ♥♥♥♥ a woman. I mean, he doesn't want to just have sex, he wants to become some weird crap and then fornicate.