To add onto Iconochasm's reply, Shadowrun is very aware of the conflict between the natural, magical world and the artificial, technological world, and it makes for a really nasty setting when you think about it for long enough. Getting augs makes you less good at magic (and there is a character in the second game from the Harebrained Schemes trilogy who exploits this for a reason), one of the top 10 megacorps literally performs blood magic (or at least is heavily, heavily implied to benefit from it), and the powers that be are where they are because they've tamed the chaos the world gives rise to.
That despair in the face of megacorp dominance takes on entire new dimensions when the CEO is a millennia-old Literal Fucking Dragon that knows ancient lore beyond space and time and can cram new research faster than any metahuman.
I mean... yes, but that's still just Saburo Arasaka...
The dude's a 180 year old Japanese flying ace from ww2 that's run his company and most the world more than most people's grandparents have been alive, and he pretty much literally eats people's souls
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To add onto Iconochasm's reply, Shadowrun is very aware of the conflict between the natural, magical world and the artificial, technological world, and it makes for a really nasty setting when you think about it for long enough. Getting augs makes you less good at magic (and there is a character in the second game from the Harebrained Schemes trilogy who exploits this for a reason), one of the top 10 megacorps literally performs blood magic (or at least is heavily, heavily implied to benefit from it), and the powers that be are where they are because they've tamed the chaos the world gives rise to.
That despair in the face of megacorp dominance takes on entire new dimensions when the CEO is a millennia-old Literal Fucking Dragon that knows ancient lore beyond space and time and can cram new research faster than any metahuman.
I mean... yes, but that's still just Saburo Arasaka...
The dude's a 180 year old Japanese flying ace from ww2 that's run his company and most the world more than most people's grandparents have been alive, and he pretty much literally eats people's souls
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