Palladium Games and the fear of progress!
The other day I flicked through Palladium games' recent Robotech effort, Shadow Chronicles (based on the 'new' movie) and I was amazed. Amazed at how stagnant Palladium seem to be. Not only has the Palladium rule system apparently not changed in over twenty years, neither has their layout and presentation.
In this day and age of desktop publishing, PDFs and lovely lovely, easy to read, easy to reference layouts, Palladium games are still using the two columns, typewriter on toiletpaper presentation. Also, far from the full colour artwork and stills from the show/movie I was expecting, they're still using Siembieda and Long's artwork from twenty years ago too. The art from the original printings!!
Strewth! Someone needs to tell Siembieda it's the 21st century now.
In this day and age of desktop publishing, PDFs and lovely lovely, easy to read, easy to reference layouts, Palladium games are still using the two columns, typewriter on toiletpaper presentation. Also, far from the full colour artwork and stills from the show/movie I was expecting, they're still using Siembieda and Long's artwork from twenty years ago too. The art from the original printings!!
Strewth! Someone needs to tell Siembieda it's the 21st century now.