Fantacy world ftw XD

My favorites are the the ones that start with a relatively modern, or at least a future that I can relate to, and then some kind of change, or twist, that warps the setting. I like the start out normal and suddenly, everything's different. If I can't have that, I guess I prefer just modern or realistic future. Alien races settling earth and wiping all the humans out is getting tiring though.

Fantasy worlds, pure and simple.

Historical Times have already come and gone, there are no surprises unless you intend to try and rewrite history. I'm not impressed.

Modern Times are too stoic. We see life like that every day, why go into a game to experience more of it? (unless its something ridiculously fantastical, like Prototype).

Futuristic and Interstellar scenes bug me only because of the sheer vastness. Trying to wrap one's mind around the scope of it all, not including the history that hasn't happened yet but has in the game/story/whatever, is enough to make your brain liquify itself. Like Douglas Adams once said, if there's anything a person can't have in this world, it's perspective.

Fantasy worlds, however, let you keep your feet planted squarely on the ground (referencing/thinking of TES IV: Oblivion) and mostly limited to one little niche of land (little being figurative, of course), as well as simplify the rules and laws of the world.

(All aforementioned statements are the opinion of ObadiahBlack. If you wish to disagree, please do so in an orderly manner. Trolls will be ignored.)

Ivoryagent:

Gxas:
Fantasy all the way for me. Even if its not real, it helps me to escape the hell that is this world.

Crrraaaaawwwwwllliiinnnnggg in my skiiiiiinnn.

I lol'd hard.

Getting into specifics...

For me, I love the bodymods and cool personal armor suits of futuristic settings. The Crusader suit from Crusader No Remorse, the clone trooper suits from you-know-what, or the Deep Eyes armor from Spirits Within... Always love that stuff. Bodymod-wise, cyberlimbs with robo-cop style thigh holsters, Shadowrun's cybereyes and decking toys, and of course, gunlink/smartgun technology.

Now Medieval is more about the weapons. I do love the armor, and platemail in specific always works for me. More than the armor is helmets, medieval full helms are an obsession. But all the cool medieval armor still pales to my love of cybertech/futureistic armor. But the weapons can't be beat, specifically swords, axes, hammers. The D&D basics, I just love them. I'm am totally enamored with flamberges, katanas, and the gladius. Some polearms also wound their way into my heart, scythes are top of the list, but glaives and naginatas rate high. I'm more for the sword-on-a-stick polearms than choppy choppy axe types. And a nice light combat-style hammer is always good for when you need some serious 1-on-1 time with someone who pissed you off. Nothing says don't fuck with me like shattered kneecaps and finger bones bashed into dust.

After weapons, fantasy/medieval times also interest me with castles. I want a castle, I want to siege a castle, and I want to launch a cow out of a castle with a catapult. Yay, castles.

Now steampunk/dieselpunk and me are kinda iffy about eachother. I love airships, oh gods do I love airships, it takes all I like about 14th century naval ships and makes them into airborne toys. The rest of steampunk I'm favorable towards, but not fanatical. Trains, airships, and that clockwork nazi from Hellboy, those are my high-end steampunk interests.

Lastly, modern times... Well for modern interests its all about the guns. Steyer AUG, HK MP5, HK Compact Tactical USP, Fabrique Nationale P90 SMG, Remington 870 shotgun, HK MP7, the list goes on...

So give me a castle in the highlands, an airship to travel with, some bitchin guns and even more bitchin swords, and a nice suit of power armor, and I'll be happy.

Ares Tyr:

Ivoryagent:

Gxas:
Fantasy all the way for me. Even if its not real, it helps me to escape the hell that is this world.

Crrraaaaawwwwwllliiinnnnggg in my skiiiiiinnn.

I lol'd hard.

That was good.

Seeing as how ancient settings (and future, I suppose) are always fantasy versions anyway, I'd have to go with fantasy.

Dude, I've had my eyes on Nightmare Armor Studios' Deep Eyes suit for years now. Once I've paid off my car, bought my motor scooter, cleared my student loan and credit card, I will buy one for sure. Just can't justify $5K right now while I owe so much. Might wanna get two though, one for use in paintball, oh it would rock for paintball.

You do realize in the "Ancient Times", you didn't have warm homes, people just murdered each other for fun, you could've been sacrificed to gods, there were no games nor TV, and the normal age was 20-30 years? Also, the future is bad too, because as I have seen from predictions of what might the computers and games be in the future, it IS going to screw with out minds. And fantasy. It might look epic, and be fun to play, but when you would be in a fantasy world, say Final Fantasy VII, there is a high rate you would die because of Sephiroth, or if you would be Cloud, you would have a high rate of dying, through regular monsters, or Sephiroth. Also, depends on what fantasy world you enter, it could be similar to the Middle/Ancient Ages. Low life expectancy and bad living terms. Unless you're a king or something.

Ivoryagent:

Gxas:
Fantasy all the way for me. Even if its not real, it helps me to escape the hell that is this world.

Crrraaaaawwwwwllliiinnnnggg in my skiiiiiinnn.

Yeah, yeah, you got me lol. I'm not that bad... I'm happy sometimes...

fantasy for me, because you can take all the best parts from the other times and make them into one kick ass place.

XLFAGBALLS:
Oh come on... Ancient times kicked ass life was soo much easier and brutal why everyone going for the complexity of fantasy? psh

I don't get it, why he's banned for saying he likes Ancient times?

Futuristic gets my vote. You don't get gigadeaths and the destruction of solar systems with fantasy and ancient times. I also like to see what designers think the future will be like someday. After all, you see one ancient temple and you've seen them all (brown castle, anyone?).
From an aesthetic viewpoint too, if you see some incredibly smooth, undented, white spaceship that's been near totally destroyed the contrast between the designed 'perfect' shapes and the wreckage when it's been exploded makes for a more interesting effect than seeing some crumbling castle.

And also because nothing says fun like shooting down a starship with a handgun, nuking a planet from orbit, or giant space battles fought from light-minutes away with lasers.

Random argument man:

XLFAGBALLS:
Oh come on... Ancient times kicked ass life was soo much easier and brutal why everyone going for the complexity of fantasy? psh

I don't get it, why he's banned for saying he likes Ancient times?

That is some weird stuff right there. Probably because the moderator was tired of his offensive/stupid username.

Fraught:

Random argument man:

XLFAGBALLS:
Oh come on... Ancient times kicked ass life was soo much easier and brutal why everyone going for the complexity of fantasy? psh

I don't get it, why he's banned for saying he likes Ancient times?

That is some weird stuff right there. Probably because the moderator was tired of his offensive/stupid username.

Actually, we have very strict policies about ancient times and who exactly is allowed to like them.

I like all of them, depending on how they are used. But if I had to pick I'd say the future mainly because I prefer science over magic.

Gimme fantasy. Swords and magic but also some tech users too. Throw in orcs and the occasional gobbo to drop kick and im in.

wilsonscrazybed:

Fraught:

Random argument man:

XLFAGBALLS:
Oh come on... Ancient times kicked ass life was soo much easier and brutal why everyone going for the complexity of fantasy? psh

I don't get it, why he's banned for saying he likes Ancient times?

That is some weird stuff right there. Probably because the moderator was tired of his offensive/stupid username.

Actually, we have very strict policies about ancient times and who exactly is allowed to like them.

Just so long as everyone knows it's forbidden to dislike steampunk here, we're all generally pretty safe.

steam punk forever man

wilsonscrazybed:
Actually, we have very strict policies about ancient times and who exactly is allowed to like them.

Oh, now I know. You have a very matching avatar, that matches the title "Red Guard" sir.

Oh and uhh, so we're not allowed to like the Ancient Times, and must like Steampunk?

I liked Ancient Times due to the lack of censorship laws.

I like fantasy becas you can do what ever the hell you want

STEAMPUNK FTW!

On topic, the future for me. There's no excitement living in the past, and too much work.

In the future, however, there's the mystery of space, uncharted places to see, mystical creatures/things to discover, and all at the push of a button.

When I think about it, the internet is about the same thing really.

*Look nervously about* (whisper)"I don't really care for steampunk, it's just never appealed to me. I just find a little too creepy and unrealistic, I know there are a lot more unrealistic things but steampunk just seems like an annoying visual style to me."

*ducks under cover to avoid incoming hail of firey death*

Why would anyone want to live in ancient times?

Fantasy is probably the best, but that is a REALLY open descriptor. My second favorite woul be future, but only non-dystopian.

Not a Spy:
*Look nervously about* (whisper)"I don't really care for steampunk, it's just never appealed to me. I just find a little too creepy and unrealistic, I know there are a lot more unrealistic things but steampunk just seems like an annoying visual style to me."

*ducks under cover to avoid incoming hail of firey death*

I'm not exactly sure what steampunk is. Or if Wilson was kidding above.

I'm not kidding, I'm semi-confused...

Reaperman Wompa:

Not a Spy:
*Look nervously about* (whisper)"I don't really care for steampunk, it's just never appealed to me. I just find a little too creepy and unrealistic, I know there are a lot more unrealistic things but steampunk just seems like an annoying visual style to me."

*ducks under cover to avoid incoming hail of firey death*

I'm not exactly sure what steampunk is. Or if Wilson was kidding above.

I'm not kidding, I'm semi-confused...

#1 - Steampunk is basically a futuristic setting set in the world of a past. For example, The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello has steam powered airships, but the world is in the Victorian era.

#2 - I hope he was kidding. You can't permaban for an opinion on Ancient times, and I agree that his name was outwardly stupid.

I'm fond of the rare setting that gloms them all together. A good example would be cybernetic knights on motorcycles hired by a necromancer with an undead army armed with both primitive and futuristic tech.

wait what? his name is from a zero punctuation episode where he names his character fagballs, that's no terms for ban...

EDIT: replying to guy saying his name was offensive

Fantasy, because creating a whole world you didn't learn about in World History Class is much more interesting, if done right.

Ancient Times!?!?!? I don't find dying from simple things like diarrhea attractive. Fantasy worlds are better for they aren't bound by things that make reality boring. like the laws of thermodynamics or natural selection.