Question of the Day, August 2, 2010

[Engarde]

I enjoy a good steampunk theme every now and again, but my true love is with clockpunk.

The intricacy....regular as clockwork.
Heheh.
I agree with you.

 

[Proteus214]

I tend to like steampunk if it's for pure fantasy. I don't really like the "re-imagining history" steampunk. I think that's just kind of silly.

 

[Keava]

Both steam and cyber punk are my two favorite settings. So yeah i love them and wish there would be at least a little more of decent games/movies using those conceptions. Majority of what i've seen that wanted to tie itself to either of the setting was rather uninspiring so far.

 

[Wintio]

I'm pretty new to steampunk but I got my hands on my first steampunk book last week (Leviathan) and I quite enjoyed the change of setting. It's a fun idea to play around with, and I hope to see more of it.

 

[Jesusthewizard]

its alrite I wouldn't say is the best, but i'll probs be more into it when avatar legend of korra comes out lol

 

[Dys]

It's stupid. The tech tends to be stupid, and while I love clockwork machinery, or really any machinery that shows the inner working, but the steampunk setting typically is poorly done and is well and truely overused.

I suppose I'm somewhat biased though, I do love cyberpunk settings, though possibly because it's rather underused lately.

 

[Badong]

Every time I see steampunk, I see the word 'punk' which equals to 'modern douche-fag' in my dictionary, so the word itself is annoying in a small, if not stupid, sense.

Other than that, I like the concept itself, because it is the closest thing to magic without actually saying the word magic... even though it still lacks any damn sense.

 

[joshuaayt]

Pff. Cyberpunk all the way.
That said, between steampunk and something that isn't cyberpunk, I'd probably pick steampunk. Even though it tends to get a little bit ridiculous.

 

[Digikid]

Anything punk...stupid, ridiculous, retarded......the list goes on and on and on. Nothing positive about it whatsoever.

 

[Danallighieri]

Steampunk is awesome, I need a full steampunk gettup

 

[TriggerHappyAngel]

No man, i hate all those Punks on Steam (*sarcastic laugh*)

OT:
Steampunk, fck yeah!
- definetly one of my favorite themes (in games or movies)

 

[Kiefer13]

I like steampunk (and cyberpunk), but I'm not overly in love with it. It's nice now and again though.

 

[Kajt]

I like it, but I wouldn't say that I love it.

 

[Reverend Del]

I adore steampunk. It's a fantastic genre done well. Just wish it was done well more often.

 

[Marter]

I'm probably going to get flamed for this, but...

What is steampunk?

*Runs to Wikipedia*

 

[Guest_Star]

I hate it.
Overused and a piss-poor excuse to rip of existing material.

Done right it can be a good setting. Too bad that almost never happens.

 

[Jaebird]

I see it as an untapped artistic license. Nearly everything out there is sci-fi or cyberpunk. I still remember Final Fantasy IX for having some of the coolest steam--er--"mist"-related stuff; and not just the air-ships.

 

[Angerwing]

I hate it. It's so god damn pretentious.

 

[DTWolfwood]

I like what it is i just dont quite like the word used to describe it. Anything with the word punk annoys me!