Which setting do you prefer in games?

[Yankee Zulu]

Vote.

[Tinky Winky]

>stated wuxia, which is basically a dead genre but no post apocalypse.

[Valter]

What the **** is the term for stuff like Vampire The Masquerade? Urban fantasy?

[Yankee Zulu]

>stated wuxia, which is basically a dead genre but no post apocalypse.

added post-apoc

[Yankee Zulu]

Added 2 more options
- folklore
- fairytales, myths and legends

[Yankee Zulu]

What the **** is the term for stuff like Vampire The Masquerade? Urban fantasy?

World of darkness? Gothic punk? Added.

[rusty_shackleford]

Steampunk is a stupid setting. The one good so-called "steam punk" game is just Victorian fantasy.

[Yankee Zulu]

Added Victorian fantasy and Lovecraftian.

[maidenhaver]

Your stupid poll resets every time you change it. You're welcome for voting again.

[MrTwinkls]

Please add Arabian Nights and Wild West settings to the list to reset the poll again.

[Tweed]

Steampunk is a stupid setting. The one good so-called "steam punk" game is just Victorian fantasy.

Either way the setting is underutilized.

[Oyster Sauce]

I like very magical settings. Middle-Earth is boring to me because aside from like one haunted crypt and forest it's mostly devoid of anything fantastical for the common man. I want there to be gnomes hiding in bushes everywhere, dickass wizards constantly ******* things up for everyone, communities of mythical creatures, and cursed rivers that make you horney when drink from them. Closest I can think of in games would be Azeroth or Golarion.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

To me, the aesthetics are more important. I like colorful artbook fantasy settings. Doesn't matter if it's medieval like Warcraft, or looks like medieval Japan like in Utawarerumono, or looks like the 19th century/steampunk like Trails, or looks like futuristic sci fi like Xeno. As long as it looks really amazing. I also prefer a heroic tone, where the heroes are actually good and actually trying to make things better.

I like very magical settings. Middle-Earth is boring to me because aside from like one haunted crypt and forest it's mostly devoid of anything fantastical for the common man. I want there to be gnomes hiding in bushes everywhere, dickass wizards constantly ******* things up for everyone, communities of mythical creatures, and cursed rivers that make you horney when drink from them. Closest I can think of in games would be Azeroth or Golarion.

I think this is mainly an issue stemming from the Peter Jackson action movies, which has a very mundane look. Some of the art by Ted Nasmith and the Brothers Hildebrandt depict a more appealing world.

[Tangerine]

I hate what Redditors love. Steampunk, cyberpunk, Lovecraftian.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Steampunk is a stupid setting. The one good so-called "steam punk" game is just Victorian fantasy.

When we say something like "steampunk" or "solarpunk", we are alluding to the visual aesthetic idea of that time but pushed to the extreme. Victorian era and steam engines to the extreme. Cowboypunk would allude to cowboys, but to the extreme.

[Acrux]

Me in the hat.

[Acrux]

Steampunk is a stupid setting. The one good so-called "steam punk" game is just Victorian fantasy.

That's exactly what steampunk started out as. It was fine before it meant sticking goggles and cogs on tophats worn by fat chicks. It also didn't have anything to do with "punk" as in counter-cultural like the term is interpreted today. K.W. Jeter intended the term in the early 80s to describe the books that he, James Blaylock, and Tim Powers were writing at the time that were fantasy and light science fiction with Victorian backdrops. It was a play on words about cyberpunk and had nothing to do with any of the modern trappings like things considered virtues to reddit users these days.

[Valter]

I love works that explore the implications and consequences of advanced tech or magic in our every-day, contemporary world.
Not too far into the future that it's unrecognizable, but just alien enough to see a familiar society in unfamiliar circumstances.
The former is more commonplace, like Cyberpunk and Post-Apocalypse. But I'd like to see more of the latter, of which I can only name VTMB off the top of my head, aside some visual novels.

[Brugmans]

I like very magical settings. Middle-Earth is boring to me because aside from like one haunted crypt and forest it's mostly devoid of anything fantastical for the common man. I want there to be gnomes hiding in bushes everywhere, dickass wizards constantly ******* things up for everyone, communities of mythical creatures, and cursed rivers that make you horney when drink from them. Closest I can think of in games would be Azeroth or Golarion.

Makes me think of the King's Bounty series (I haven't played the original).

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[Brugmans]

Steampunk is a stupid setting. The one good so-called "steam punk" game is just Victorian fantasy.

That's exactly what steampunk started out as. It was fine before it meant sticking goggles and cogs on tophats worn by fat chicks. It also didn't have anything to do with "punk" as in counter-cultural like the term is interpreted today. K.W. Jeter intended the term in the early 80s to describe the books that he, James Blaylock, and Tim Powers were writing at the time that were fantasy and light science fiction with Victorian backdrops. It was a play on words about cyberpunk and had nothing to do with any of the modern trappings like things considered virtues to reddit users these days.

Every time you post this another fat chick buys a top hat with goggles and cogs.

[Acrux]

Steampunk is a stupid setting. The one good so-called "steam punk" game is just Victorian fantasy.

That's exactly what steampunk started out as. It was fine before it meant sticking goggles and cogs on tophats worn by fat chicks. It also didn't have anything to do with "punk" as in counter-cultural like the term is interpreted today. K.W. Jeter intended the term in the early 80s to describe the books that he, James Blaylock, and Tim Powers were writing at the time that were fantasy and light science fiction with Victorian backdrops. It was a play on words about cyberpunk and had nothing to do with any of the modern trappings like things considered virtues to reddit users these days.

Every time you post this another fat chick buys a top hat with goggles and cogs.

I didn't realize I have fans who memorize my material.

[Brugmans]

That's exactly what steampunk started out as. It was fine before it meant sticking goggles and cogs on tophats worn by fat chicks. It also didn't have anything to do with "punk" as in counter-cultural like the term is interpreted today. K.W. Jeter intended the term in the early 80s to describe the books that he, James Blaylock, and Tim Powers were writing at the time that were fantasy and light science fiction with Victorian backdrops. It was a play on words about cyberpunk and had nothing to do with any of the modern trappings like things considered virtues to reddit users these days.

Every time you post this another fat chick buys a top hat with goggles and cogs.

I didn't realize I have fans who memorize my material.

I wouldn't want to forget such an instructive post.

[ArcaneLurker]

I assumed "Victorian Fantasy" would be like the Fable 2/3 setting.

[Cipher]

I like low magic medieval fantasy. Magic exists but is rare and dangerous. Monsters exists but they are monsters. They are to be feared and their destruction requires preparation and extensive training. No +1 magic swords. No "scrolls of revivify". Healing can only be achieved by natural means, medicine and divine miracles. Magic items are wondrous relics.

Outside of that, I like space opera sci-fi when its more on the hopeful side. For dark and cynic settings, either Lovecraftian or cyberpunk.

[J1M]

[x] - Disable bloom
[x] - Disable depth of field

[WaterMage]

I wish that we had more urban fantasy games like VtMB.

[Tweed]

I hate what Redditors love. Steampunk, cyberpunk, Lovecraftian.

Normies eventually get ahold of everything and ruin it. Dieselpunk will succumb eventually.

[WhiteShark]

To me, the aesthetics are more important. I like colorful artbook fantasy settings. Doesn't matter if it's medieval like Warcraft, or looks like medieval Japan like in Utawarerumono, or looks like the 19th century/steampunk like Trails, or looks like futuristic sci fi like Xeno. As long as it looks really amazing. I also prefer a heroic tone, where the heroes are actually good and actually trying to make things better.

I was going to say something similar. My favorite settings are fundamentally bright, even if dark things happen sometimes. As cool as those settings may be in some ways, I can't tolerate the way Chaos' ultimate victory is a certainty in Warhammer 40,000, nor the way """God""" is spiteful and uncaring in World of Darkness.

[Brugmans]

To me, the aesthetics are more important. I like colorful artbook fantasy settings. Doesn't matter if it's medieval like Warcraft, or looks like medieval Japan like in Utawarerumono, or looks like the 19th century/steampunk like Trails, or looks like futuristic sci fi like Xeno. As long as it looks really amazing. I also prefer a heroic tone, where the heroes are actually good and actually trying to make things better.

I was going to say something similar. My favorite settings are fundamentally bright, even if dark things happen sometimes. As cool as those settings may be in some ways, I can't tolerate the way Chaos' ultimate victory is a certainty in Warhammer 40,000, nor the way """God""" is spiteful and uncaring in World of Darkness.

I think most people want bright settings and they're made grimdark only because spiritually Jewish artists are allergic to good and beauty.
(Warhammer 40k is the exception that proves the rule because the idea that "all sides are evil" mostly hinges on measuring the Imperium of Man with the stick of liberal values)

Conversely when noblebright settings are made, they align with a warped and flaccid idea of good that makes the whole thing feel childish, sometimes on purpose.
People then settle for g(r)ay morality as the least bad option (and then it's fake anyway).

[Ranselknulf]

low fantasy, meets medieval combat, meets rare high tech factions.

Many such examples.