Anyone else here absolutely loathe steampunk? It sickens me on a primal level for some reason. Maybe it's simply the sickly, rusty colours but I think it's also something else I can't put into words. I really hate it and I will actually completely dismiss games that lend itself toward this aesthetic. Just wondering if I'm alone in feeling this way.
Steampunk Sucks
Blake Ross
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Bentley Flores
No, you're not alone, you're just kind of dumb, mistaking an annoying fanbase (hint, most fanbases are annoying) to the stuff itself being shit.
Brayden Long
Steampunk is fine. It's the annoying fan base and the fanfic levels of bad writing that plague the setting. Also I think most people prefer it as a supplement to another setting such as fantasy.
Brandon Campbell
But with the exception of The Difference Engine steampunk as a whole is shit user
Jaxson Lewis
A genre's a genre a genre. Anything can be good, all it takes is good writers behind it. Obviously everyone's going to have their preferences, but I think anything can work if it's used the right way. I'm not a huge fan of steampunk normally, but when it's not made too over the top and has some restraint to it, I like it.
Charles Perry
As an Engineer, I loathe the fuck out of Steampunk.
It makes me visibly angry.
Jonathan Young
The execution often leaves a lot to be desired. I'm not keen on so much of the genre being themed by Victorian England.
The 'rust' is actually brass. I don't know why anyone would be butthurt over brass, but then this is Veeky Forums.
What gets me though is that a lot of people who hate steampunk settings for their corniness will readily lap up the most generic, uninspired ''''Medieval''' fantasy shit with great gusto. If that's not you OP then good for you. Otherwise, consider indulging in a spot of afternoon suicide.
Jacob Myers
It's no worse than generic medieval fantasy, you're just not as used to it.
Nolan King
I don't mind it, honestly provided it's done in a halfway interesting fashion. But the fact they tend to just lift a highly specific, ahistorical aesthetic and some aspects of Victoriana and then do nothing with it turns me off a bit.
Also the fact that so much of it is so goofy looking. Rifles that look like half-baked prototypes being mass-issued, unnecessary gears, goggles where they have no business being, etc.
Magitech is where it's at.
William Cruz
It's like medieval fantasy if everything were the worst of WoW's unnessary floating bits and giant shoulderpads; steampunk that breaks the basic mold is very rare.
Off the top of my head, Into the Odd is about the only exception and that may be because he focused less on the steam aspect of the setting and more on the oddity of it.