Steampunk stories should be set in realistic worlds. Like a story set in sort of victorian times where such technology might not seem out of place. Then make it so that the technology in question is not over the top, like giant robots, but plausible, like steam powered blims or something.
Steampunk: What is the right way to do it ?
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That is the color of rusted copper, it's why the statue of libery looks like that. "Copper and Iron. Rusted Copper over an Iron frame."Cowabungaa said:Rusted copper looks like this:Blueruler182 said:
*shudder*
This is the colour of steampunk:
Shiny shiny braaaass...
And you're damn right about a steampowered motorcycle. Steamboy has a steampowered unicycle, and it's even more awesome.
Or an automatic rifle if you're feeling saucy. I could rip through anything with that thing. Well except this one ogre fellow I was forced to get past after I walked in a cave for some cave, therefor ruining my savegame. I was a sad panda that day.Rhinzual26 said:
I found the Elephant Gun to be hugely useful, and the tranquilizer gun is a downright godsend when in a group because it can do what, fatigue damage in the very low triple digits? Sure you can only fire a few shots at max DEX, but against one ogre, that should be enough to send him into negative fatigue for everyone to murder.
How has this thread gone on for so long without someone mentioning the Thief series? Thief 2: The Metal Age in particular had a lot of awesome steampunk elements. Giant steam powered robots, enormous technological citadels. It was a great setting.
Opinions may vary, but I believe the right way to do steampunk - aside from Steam Boy - would be that your world had modern technology of a high level AT FIRST, but then something screwed up and destroyed civilization. You start over, and there's alot of this old tech lying around that doesn't make sense because you've only figured out clockworks, pulleys, steam engines, and so on. So, you examine these things to see what they must be for. And once you realize that, the gears get turning and you say, "Well, I think I can recreate this bit of lost science myself, with the right tools. If I recreate some of the parts of this device and hook it up to my engines, I'll be able to toast my bread and keep food cold to preserve it longer!". So basically, steampunk should be about restoring technological advances using that level of development.
One part that made it so great was not just commitment towards Steampunk, but how Magic and Science in general can't work together, as magic alters physics to achieve a goal, and science uses physics and exploits it to achieve a goal. Large machines and factories create an anti-magic field, whereas powerful mages in close proximity create an anti-technology field. I've seen a couple steampunk and magic games, usually no-name MMOs and such where what could be called a Technologist gets healed by magic. Yet trying to heal a technologist decked out in tech gear with a healing spell does squat.Zaik said:
Sorry I keep going off at lengths about Arcanum, it's just that good and well thought-out.
It's called sarcasm..or a rhetorical question. I can't believe you just responded with a play by play.SIXVI06-M said:
Maybe if you didn't need everything explained you could've figured that out for yourself.
Oh hey, is that a badass Dwarf with a flamethrower? Why yes, yes it is. Games called Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura. Very solid rpg put out by the late great Troika games, in which you played as pretty much anything you wanted in a steampunk era fantasy setting complete with clockwork robots, fireball hurling wizards with shotguns, orcs flying tri-planes to shoot down blimps (That's the intro!), knights in full armour and a brace of pistols, and you're flamethrower wielding Dwarves among other games. It's also as far as I know the only game aside from Fallout 2 where you can become a prostitute... With a flamethrower! Anyway pointless detail for you, but there you go.
So damned awesome.
I must play that game.The Madman said:
Oh hey, is that a badass Dwarf with a flamethrower? Why yes, yes it is. Games called Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura. Very solid rpg put out by the late great Troika games, in which you played as pretty much anything you wanted in a steampunk era fantasy setting complete with clockwork robots, fireball hurling wizards with shotguns, orcs flying tri-planes to shoot down blimps (That's the intro!), knights in full armour and a brace of pistols, and you're flamethrower wielding Dwarves among other games. It's also as far as I know the only game aside from Fallout 2 where you can become a prostitute... With a flamethrower! Anyway pointless detail for you, but there you go.
So damned awesome.
I have no options. I MUST play it.
The downside? Poor combat system, the way to counter that is to pick up a spell called disintegrate and never have to worry about anything...except armies of dwarves. Damn magic resistance.Weilyn said:I must play that game.The Madman said:
Oh hey, is that a badass Dwarf with a flamethrower? Why yes, yes it is. Games called Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura. Very solid rpg put out by the late great Troika games, in which you played as pretty much anything you wanted in a steampunk era fantasy setting complete with clockwork robots, fireball hurling wizards with shotguns, orcs flying tri-planes to shoot down blimps (That's the intro!), knights in full armour and a brace of pistols, and you're flamethrower wielding Dwarves among other games. It's also as far as I know the only game aside from Fallout 2 where you can become a prostitute... With a flamethrower! Anyway pointless detail for you, but there you go.
So damned awesome.
I have no options. I MUST play it.
All i heard was prostitute with a flamethrower and I agree with youWeilyn said:I must play that game.The Madman said:
Oh hey, is that a badass Dwarf with a flamethrower? Why yes, yes it is. Games called Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura. Very solid rpg put out by the late great Troika games, in which you played as pretty much anything you wanted in a steampunk era fantasy setting complete with clockwork robots, fireball hurling wizards with shotguns, orcs flying tri-planes to shoot down blimps (That's the intro!), knights in full armour and a brace of pistols, and you're flamethrower wielding Dwarves among other games. It's also as far as I know the only game aside from Fallout 2 where you can become a prostitute... With a flamethrower! Anyway pointless detail for you, but there you go.
So damned awesome.
I have no options. I MUST play it.
I must play that game(too)!
Bioshock games are FPS/RPGs and nothing elese. If you want a sandbox then play Saints Row 2.Flames66 said:
A lot of things brush with the Steampunk look, but one thing so many sources seem to forget is that steampunk is ornate. Every feature in a steampunk world should breathe clockwork; everything should either have a purely smooth surface with a clean, simple surface or be overflowing with all sorts of doo-dads and ornate details.
Natural and earthen tones would be the primarily palette; a thing's beauty should come its physical form. (And possibly the juxtapositions of various metals, raw fabrics or richly colored wood)
In this sense, everything in a steampunk world should be epitomized by a pocket watch.
Victorian clothes can be an exception, especially with women's clothing.
At least, that's pure Steampunk to me. I don't mind variances on the theme, like the Bioshock Infinite's Americana steampunk as long as its visually pleasing. Grand scales typically lend themselves to
Natural and earthen tones would be the primarily palette; a thing's beauty should come its physical form. (And possibly the juxtapositions of various metals, raw fabrics or richly colored wood)
In this sense, everything in a steampunk world should be epitomized by a pocket watch.
Victorian clothes can be an exception, especially with women's clothing.
At least, that's pure Steampunk to me. I don't mind variances on the theme, like the Bioshock Infinite's Americana steampunk as long as its visually pleasing. Grand scales typically lend themselves to
borderlands is more dieselpunk (with some desertpunk thrown in for good measure)hotpotat0wned said:
Or download the WIP mod that greatly enhances the games, especially with the attention ranged weapons get. Disintegrate also has this tiny issue of destroying loot on humanoid enemies, and that loot can fund better staffs if you want more disintegration spam.kingcom said:The downside? Poor combat system, the way to counter that is to pick up a spell called disintegrate and never have to worry about anything...except armies of dwarves. Damn magic resistance.Weilyn said:I must play that game.The Madman said:
Oh hey, is that a badass Dwarf with a flamethrower? Why yes, yes it is. Games called Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura. Very solid rpg put out by the late great Troika games, in which you played as pretty much anything you wanted in a steampunk era fantasy setting complete with clockwork robots, fireball hurling wizards with shotguns, orcs flying tri-planes to shoot down blimps (That's the intro!), knights in full armour and a brace of pistols, and you're flamethrower wielding Dwarves among other games. It's also as far as I know the only game aside from Fallout 2 where you can become a prostitute... With a flamethrower! Anyway pointless detail for you, but there you go.
So damned awesome.
I have no options. I MUST play it.
Oh, and a technologist build that specializes in both ranged and thrown explosives is a downright monster. Explosive grenades are so cheap to make, but sell for so damn much too.
Do any of the ranged enemies have a tranquilizer gun in that game? That thing can just about empty a target's fatigue, rendering mages very weak, especially if the first shot puts them in negative fatigue.