How would you run/play/design a Blade Runner-inspired game?

Calm your tits. It's not a critic, just a simple observation. It's very well possible that cyberware was used during World War Terminus, but it's not featured in the movies or in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. The book also features those mood implants that are absolutely absent from the movies.

O_o I made an observation too...

Movie Deckard was pulled back into the job from retirement. He wasn't a hotshot decker/cyber whatever. He was a hired gun with Runner experience that only came in when the dude on the job got himself Leon'd. From his flightless car, he was scraping the bottom of the barrel tech wise.

I give DADoES a pass on cyber stuff because it was writen in '68.

My group ran a Noir detective cyberpunk game a few months ago. It was pretty fun. We just had to solve a simple murder and only had one real gun fight, but nit was a blast either way.

We had a decent mix of characters, most of which who were plice, but still. We had a normal human police officer with only the bare minimum augmentations to function in that society, a heavily augmented private eye who was more machine than man, and a straight up Police Synth. He barely looked remotely human, made no attempt to pretend to be, and had basically accepted his lot in life. He was a sniper of sorts. The Laws of Robotics were in full effect, so his aiming was top-notch, but they needed a second man to "pull" an electronic trigger to fire the gun and bypass the whole "first law" thing.

I'd give it pretty visuals but make the story tedious and predictable.

But also. older scifi was notoriously crap at predicting how quickly computing power would advance & how networking would develop. So an advanced matrix/internet might not even be a thing for the same reason there were no cell phones in the BR future.

Eclipse Phase then?

Take your average modern game. Add megacities, post-apocalyptic landscapes, space colonies, a fuckton of pollution, flying cars, LAPD blasters, replicants, video payphones, robotic animals, art-déco furniture, lots of booze and cigarette smoke. Mix with jazz, holo-waifus, hard-boiled detectives and femmes fatales. Stir and shake - et voilà, Blade Runner RPG.

That way.

The 2nd is better than the first, go see it you fags. Even more so if you played EYE before, so many visuals made me think of EYE.

I'd try this...

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Forgot the Replicant Nexus-8 hookers.

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A question that I'm asking myself is: are Blade Runner and Alien linked. The aesthetic is kind of similar (futuristic and dirty). I could imagine that Tyrell, then Wallace, corporations make the replicants to be used in space. Weyland-Yutani does the off-world stuff.

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Reps aren't androids, they're synthetic humans. It's been theorized before though that they could share a universe.

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I believe there's an in-universe mail, either in Blade Runner 2049 or Alien Covenant or Prometheous, where Mr.Weyland makes fun of Tyrell Corporation and boast how superior are his milky androids.

The big difference between Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049, was that the food seemed better in 2019. At least you could get some sushi and yakitori sticks. In 2049, all proteins that are available are genetic engineered worms and maggots, cultivated in hydroponic farms (doesn't seem very logic since growing soya in aeroponic farms seems less resource intensive).

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Food is so bad in 2049, that your hologram waifu has to cover it with hologram food.

I guess Kurt Russell was Nexus - 3 or 4

Weyland and Tyrell must have the same relation like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.

Indeed. His emotional responses were pretty limited. A Voight-Kampff machine wouldn't have been needed to detect him.

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So was Weyland-Yutani attempting to make... Xenomorph replicants?

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>Marvin Stein, “video arts” producer (who routinely suborns pregnant surrogates into pornography).

Bazingas, that's topical! Was this game written before the scandal broke? Writer must have worked in Hollywood.

As someone who has been running a noir game for a while, would probably be the easiest.

You likely don't understand yet how important to the genre is your lone protagonist. If there's five players, it makes it difficult to break them and give them hard choices, because of all that pesky friendship.

Tyrell = genetic engineering
Yutani = space stuff and transportation
Wallace = food production
Weyland = robotics and A.I.'s

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I would run it as a Voight-Kampf test, Mr Deckard.

It bypasses the "party of superheroes" problem that cyberpunk games face.

I want to know more about the Russian ballerinas that the Soviets were advertising on the streets with holograms. Tell me about them.

Me too. Seems like an intentional retro-80s-future anachronism.

The world of Blade Runner is not our world. In that world, the Soviet Union never collapsed, the Cold War didn't end, pollution got worse, computers are shittier, genetic engineering is better, there were nuclear wars, and all the best people moved off-world.

Product of CCCP SOVIET HAPPY

In capitalist Soviet Union, Ballerinas sell you!

>Alien
>Predator
>Blade Runner
>Shared Universe

Wallace's office was straight up from EYE
Also the naked female statues

With all the bald children and the domes, I couldn't help but be reminded of The Big O in that sequence.

Definitely. I had some huge EYE vibes everytime we saw Wallace buildings. That movie was so goddamn great man.

>moved off world

Did they? I thought off world had become so hard that they needed replicants for that? Or was it just for colonising?

>The 2nd is better than the first
Shit. I thought for a moment that Streum On spawned another EYE

I imagine Replicants were the ones who 'paved the way' and made everything palatable for the human colonists. And given the '9 Planets' comment int 2049 they were still colonising some worlds.

I believe Scott himself confirmed that they are in the same universe. Maybe? Check out IMDB trivia facts of either the 1st 2nd Blade Runner, that's where I saw it mentionned.

Scott is also nigh-insane, looking at all the stupid shit he tried to cram into his two latest Aliens movies

I wish my dude. I wish.

That is also very true. Covenant had some really interesting bits and pieces that would have made it extremely compelling if developed but goddamn the rest was a mess.

youtu.be/7ir-bCPOBYk
Seriously, tell me that wouldn't fit in Blade Runner? Especially the 2nd one.

Hell yeah!

TechNoir. It's all-in on the "cyberpunk detective" themes and its push dice/tag system gives every short campaign the right hardboiled plot structure of escalation and things getting out of hand.

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Fuck yes Voight Kampf.

Planning on running a Genesys campaign with this baby at some point.