Poll: Steampunk or cyberpunk?
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Star Trek isn't Cyberpunk, and Bioshock isn't Steampunk, let's call it Deco Punk. I really like both the Neuromancer trilogy and The Difference Engine, do I have to pick? Steampunk is so often badly done or strangley implemented that I'll have to go with Cyberpunk, gearpunk just gives me the shits.
I dig both steampunk and cyberpunk equally, really. As much as I love the whole victorian style of steampunk, I also love the style of things like ghost in the shell and neuromancer. I really can't think which I prefer - I just know I'd rather live in a cyberpunk world. Steampunk is cool and all, but only if you're a gentleman/lady adventurer, whereas cyberpunk is just -cool- even for the plebs.
Steampunk. I prefer the past to the future and I love the way it all looks. Cyberpunk just doesn't cut it though, I don't know what it is, but it's no steampunk.
Probably because it wasn't Steampunk. It was Dieselpunk. Steampunk is a lot more optimistic than Dieselpunk.Nemesis729 said:
Just to alleviate some confusion I see, these are examples of Dieselpunk-
*Bioshock
*The Fallout Series (mixed with Nukepunk)
*IL-2 Sturmovik (more realistic than most others, but still qualifies)
*Children of the Sun (whose creator coined the term Dieselpunk)
From an aesthetic point of view I prefer Steampunk, however I really like the dark mood of most Cyberpunk stories...but then there are less games featuring a steampunk scenario so I guess I'll support Steampunk.
Steampunk is the Victorian age, generally 1800s.Senial said:
Far from the Dark Ages.
Well, at least, Victorian age technology evolved for 20th century purposes.
Can't tell me they wouldn't think of a way to make mechanical robot suits after 200 years of using steam, either.
Not to mention, SteamPunk's sort of about being outrageously extravagant and over-the-top with some inventions.
I rather like both but for Steampunk is slightly more interesting simply because it seem's hopeful and Cyberpunk is just like BSG all day long. I have a question, would the following two item's count as steampunk?
If anyone can answer my question thanks!
If anyone can answer my question thanks!
I do like both, but I prefer cyberpunk.
Steampunk is for the most part just a flimsy, shallow visual style. Cyberpunk also has that, but a lot of philosophical and ethical stuff is also inherent in the genre - common themes are transhumanism, corporatism, religion - while steampunk just isn't anything more than a design - it often appears along with alternate history stuff, but it doesn't require alternate history themes or anything else than steam machines and stuff.
Steampunk is for the most part just a flimsy, shallow visual style. Cyberpunk also has that, but a lot of philosophical and ethical stuff is also inherent in the genre - common themes are transhumanism, corporatism, religion - while steampunk just isn't anything more than a design - it often appears along with alternate history stuff, but it doesn't require alternate history themes or anything else than steam machines and stuff.
