Poll: Steampunk or cyberpunk?

[Carboncrown]

Oh come on! That's an impossible question.

 

[hem dazon 90]

thats why

 

[Rakkana]

Both have their place. But cyberpunks a clear winner.

 

[MikailCaboose]

Steampunk. I've always loved gear-works and the like.

 

[spartan773]

Lately i've been re-playing bioshock and wacthing Startrek on TV, and it got me thinking which is better, Steampunk or cyber punk? So i figured i'd pose the question to you, my fellow escapists.

Personaly i like Steampunk better because we are geting closer to cyberpunk every day and it's starting to seem...ordinary.

i say both. they both have their cool factors.

 

[Queen Michael]

I like Cyperbunk more. *polishes Ghost in the Shell fanboy badge*

Just great, I was going to pick steampunk because I love Girl Genius [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20021104] and now I can't decide.

 

[veloper]

Steampunk for being different.
Cyberpunk is now.

 

[TheSentinel]

Dieselpunk. It exists.

 

[BlackWidower]

Steampunk for aesthetic. Cyberpunk for realism.

 

[Substance-E]

Cyberpunk all the way. Steampunk is fine until they try weirdass stuff like steam powered computers or other modern technology and then it just kind of turns into a bad fanfic joke to me...

No matter how wacky cyber punk gets it's at least plausible. We may not have half-human half-animal people yet or cyborgs but cybernetics and genetic engineering are real...

 

[Cowabungaa]

Aesthetics-wise I go for steampunk, atmosphere-wise it's a tie.

I really see no point in picking one. I just love both.

Dieselpunk. It exists.

Indeed, as BioShock is the closest thing to a dieselpunk videogame we've got. It's way too advanced for steampunk.

 

[Axolotl]

Neuromancer, Bladerunner and Deus Ex.

Cyberpunk easily.

It's funny I know the steampunk aesthetic but I can't think of any actual pieces of media that are steampunk.

 

[GrinningManiac]

STEAMPUNK STEAMPUNK STEAMPUNK

MY GOD STEAMPUNK

I love Zepplins (sp?) and brass and victorians and empire and 'Zulus, sah, Faasands of 'em!

For TechnoQueen and Country!

 

[Outcast107]

How about Both?! Steber Punk!

 

[bojac6]

I think good Steampunk is better than good Cyberpunk, but there is a lot more good cyberpunk out there. So much steampunk stuff is just silly or poorly executed, while Cyberpunk is now at a point where it has reached a level of consistency.

 

[josemlopes]

Bioshock isnt steaam punk, Bioshock Infinite is but the first one isnt.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

Why must I choose? Both are excellent when treated properly, both are annoying as hell when approached poorly. I'm in favor of all forms of the "Punk" Subgenre of SciFi/Fantasy.

 

[bojac6]

Cyberpunk all the way. Steampunk is fine until they try weirdass stuff like steam powered computers or other modern technology and then it just kind of turns into a bad fanfic joke to me...

No matter how wacky cyber punk gets it's at least plausible. We may not have half-human half-animal people yet or cyborgs but cybernetics and genetic engineering are real...

But mechanical computers do exist today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_engine while Ghost in the Shell level technology is decades, if not centuries, away.

 

[dark-amon]

I like steampunk. Lately I've gooten quite interested in the game Shadowrun so steampunk is getting some competition. But there's a steampunk RPG (Not videogame, like DnD and Shadowrun) where one can be a bloodmage working for the mafia, how awsome dosen't that consept sound?

 

[Pegghead]

I'd say steampunk, when compared to cyberpunk it's a relatively unexplored medium and what would you honestly prefer, a cyborg bloke riding an electronic jetpack or a gentleman in a top-hat with monocle and moustache riding a whimsical steampowered jetpack?