Dark cloud 2/chronicles I suppose.
That was easily the best RPG on the ps2, if not the best game on it period.
That was easily the best RPG on the ps2, if not the best game on it period.
Poll: Why has no one made a Steampunk RPG recently
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I didn't read through all the posts but LoK: Blood Omen 2 is, although arguably the worst game in the series, steam punk. It doesn't focus so much on shiny brass fetishism but instead more on the dystopian angle of it. That said, I wouldn't recommend getting it if that's all you are after because while steam punk is present it's never the focus and only serves as a background framing device (with a few spots of technology abuse mindfuckery).
Morrowind touches on the steampunk setting with the Dwemer... I should check out this Arcanum thingie. Off I go :3
Some of the Final Fantasy games are kind of steam punk I suppose.
I love the Steampunk style. It's a pity there are so few games that use it.
I love the Steampunk style. It's a pity there are so few games that use it.
i do highly agree, and no offense but some of the games people listed, while they are steampunk, i would never list some of them under rpg category...xXxJessicaxXx said:I just wanted to note that I didnt mean why has no one made a steampunk rpg game ever there just doesn't seem to be much interest in it recently
How nice would a AAA steampunk game be? Yum.
but yeah i could really go for a nice steampunk rpg
Truthfully?xXxJessicaxXx said:
Steampunk alienates based on level of detail. With traditional fantasy, there is little to explain, maybe the source of divine beings or the use of magic, but even then, those can be told be how characters use magic. A lot of the time, it's based on folk-lore and traditional fantasy-trope.
Steampunk never happened, it's sorta based on the Victorian era but not as deeply as fantasy is related to medieval. Thus there isn't much of a bases for everyone to dive into; what is the traditional Steam-punk hero? There is no strong answer for this; where as with Cyberpunk it's normally some sort of Loner-Recluse-Hacker.
Truthfully, for a lot of people Steampunk feels very exclusive. It's nice to look at; but it's very hard to dig deeper into a setting like that simply because of how obtuse it can be at times.
Edit; anything made by Troika is built-to-break. There is a story on Escapist of some guys computer breaking when playing Bloodlines.
I remember one of the mod communities putting up an April Fools a while back for a COMPLETE over haul of Bloodlines to make it Mage: Ascension. All the screen shots were just scenes from the Matrix.Stiffkittin said:The fans absolutely love that game and they're a dedicated and talented bunch. All of Troika's games have received a lot of love over the years. The work on TTOEE is impressive and Bloodlines has been completely overhauled.xXxJessicaxXx said:I haven't played Arcanum for a long time. Nice to hear there is a patch that makes it a bit more playable though
Doesn't the very fact that it's obtuse make it more open for interpretation. I would say a good Steampunk hero would be a pilot or even pirate. There are plenty of things you could do with the Steampunk style. You could get people arguind that a dwarf would live in a tree top for example but with steampunk its all there to be laid downOneEyeX said:
Yeah, lots to do but NOBODY has ever made the most of it.xXxJessicaxXx said:Doesn't the very fact that it's obtuse make it more open for interpretation. I would say a good Steampunk hero would be a pilot or even pirate. There are plenty of things you could do with the Steampunk style. You could get people arguind that a dwarf would live in a tree top for example but with steampunk its all there to be laid down
When choosing an era, setting, theme, etc, a game developer should embrace it and make the most of it. I've yet to see any sequence (let alone an entire game) that makes the most of a steampunk setting. Visually it can be neat, sort of like what happens when you get 2 fabricators and a mechanical engineer drunk, but the gameplay has never stood out as something steampunk.
Which is a shame, because there's some bloody good puzzle platforming, adventuring, and most importantly, user creation tool-ing gameplay that could come out of it.
DON'T YOU ARGUE WITH ME I'LL BE SO MAD AND ANGRY YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW!xXxJessicaxXx said:Doesn't the very fact that it's obtuse make it more open for interpretation. I would say a good Steampunk hero would be a pilot or even pirate. There are plenty of things you could do with the Steampunk style. You could get people arguind that a dwarf would live in a tree top for example but with steampunk its all there to be laid downOneEyeX said:
Kidding.
Pilot and Pirate aren't Steampunk exclusive. You could easily have a Dragon Rider or Space Scavengers in a Fantasy/Sci-fi setting.
Going back to Cyber-punk, a Hacker who deals with large corporations is kinda exclusive.
With Steam-punk, because there is a lot less to assume and a lot more to explain. The reason for this is that it takes place in an altered past with various amounts of this that are just weird. Extra arms powered by steam and riveted metal. Magic and fire-arms co-existing (along with people who still wield swords because they think it's cool.).
Steampunk stuffs too much into a setting, theres so much to be done and the player has to figure it all out. Even Arcanum at times felt like there was just TOO much to figure out, and as a protagonist, they have be relatable.
And that's hard, a lot harder then it is to relate to a Starship Captain or a Knight-in-shining armor.
Yeah but you are making alot of assumptions there I'm pretty sure that a writer could come up with a background to explain a character in steampunk setting as much as any other.
For example two things there you could have a Fae companion who still uses a sword and charcters who use magic becuase in mythology iron is a anathema to magic and magical creatures. There are plenty of scenarios you could invent.
For example two things there you could have a Fae companion who still uses a sword and charcters who use magic becuase in mythology iron is a anathema to magic and magical creatures. There are plenty of scenarios you could invent.
I would like to see something like this exept done by Bethesda or just in first person, then it would be very intresting..
