due to an argument with a friend we are wondering is Bioshock considered steam punk or hydro punk and regrettably I kind of need evidence to support either side.
is Bioshock steampunk or hydropunk
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Its neither. Rapture is art deco. Columbia is aeropunk.
Silly.
EDIT: Oh you need evidence. Ok.
STEAMpunk requires that all technology be made of lots of pipes and valves and of course STEAM. Hydraulic cylinders, valves and lots of gears. Lots of brass as well. To the point where it doesn't make any sense. Bioshock has camera technology and circuitry (despite what the hacking game implies)
Aeropunk requires lots of hot air balloons, fans, wind powered stuff. No steam, no valves where they aren't really needed, brass isn't necessary; canvas and ropes are big in aeropunk.
Silly.
EDIT: Oh you need evidence. Ok.
STEAMpunk requires that all technology be made of lots of pipes and valves and of course STEAM. Hydraulic cylinders, valves and lots of gears. Lots of brass as well. To the point where it doesn't make any sense. Bioshock has camera technology and circuitry (despite what the hacking game implies)
Aeropunk requires lots of hot air balloons, fans, wind powered stuff. No steam, no valves where they aren't really needed, brass isn't necessary; canvas and ropes are big in aeropunk.
I consider it a Steampunk because everything i saw in the game remind me so much of Steam Age,you know,when every machine use Steam to power their engine.
Also,the machinery in the game are powered by steam (well,not all of them)
So yeah,it's Steampunk.
Also,the machinery in the game are powered by steam (well,not all of them)
So yeah,it's Steampunk.
Bio punk / diesel punk hybrid.
Infinite is looking like steam punk.
Diesel punk if you're going on the era the game is set in.
Bio punk if you're going by the major technology featured.
Infinite is looking like steam punk.
Diesel punk if you're going on the era the game is set in.
Bio punk if you're going by the major technology featured.
I can't remember a single thing powered by steam in either Bioshock. Most used some form of fossil fuel.Ashsaver said:
the whole fiction behind the game is interesting and as it stands so far i still think its steam punk.
I have to second this.Milky_Fresh said:
OT: Rapture is "diesel punk" - the exagerration of 30s-40s' style and technology. With Nazi superscience, of course. And there's no such thing as "hydropunk", plain and simple.
That definition is of retrofuturism (a rather broad collection of styles), not steampunk.mikozero said:
It's not really either. It doesn't use steam at all (Not sure why people call it steampunk) and I'm fairly sure you just made up Hyrdopunk. It's more of just 20's tech on steroids. So I guess I'll just make up another genre and call it 20's-punk.
Hydropunk?! Really, the "-punk" genre has more sub-genres than metal.
But no, it's not steampunk. Here's a good explanation:
Hell, even today we do that with fossil fuels; we burn things, that heat heats water to the point of boiling, that steam is used to turn dynamos which creates electricity.
But no, it's not steampunk. Here's a good explanation:
I'd like to add to that that steampunk as a setting is usually set in the mid-late 19th century, perhaps the very early 20th but that's pushing it. After that things just get too advanced, as demonstrated by Bioshock and it's advanced electronics like cameras and the likes.grimsprice said:
Not exactly true. Rapture makes use of geothermal energy, that's usually used to heat up water to create steam.Eagle Est1986 said:
Hell, even today we do that with fossil fuels; we burn things, that heat heats water to the point of boiling, that steam is used to turn dynamos which creates electricity.