Friday, March 4, 2011
A Brief Break: A Question
So apparently we're starting up our little book club, thingies sometime soon. Personally, I'm going to be reading Boneshaker. Honestly, when a nerd hears the words Steampunk and Zombies describing a single thing, it's practially a requirement that they investigate it. This got me to thinking. So, fellow nerds, I summon thee from the darkest depths of your individual lairs! Riddle me this: what are your favorite games that could be/ are apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic? For me, I wanna say it's the Devil May Cry series. I know that any self-respecting RPG gamer would generally shun the shoot-em-up action style the games have, but these games have something the others lack: story. The way the stories for all the games are introduced and played out, and especially the character development all make them (in my opinion) great games. While they may be a bit cookie-cutter as far as the gameplay goes, they do leave room to develop skill. Anyway, that's pretty much my answer/defense for myself. What about you guys?
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I'm gonna go kind of old school and mention an old pen-and-paper RPG I used to play when I was a kid (a loooooong time ago!) called ShadowRun. It was a dystopian future set decades after the Mayan apocalypse in 2012 which didn't result in the end of the world just the start of a new one. Magic, which had lain dormant since ancient times, returned spawning new warlocks and shamans, and children started being born as elves and trolls in addition to normal humans. It had cyborgs, magicians, the Matrix (literally called that, a decade before the film trilogy), dragons, and lots more. A very interesting setting full of all kinds of diverse characters. Sort of Blade Runner with a bit of the Dresden Files, and presenting a very interesting future Earth where corporations have far more power than governments.
ReplyDeleteI never got the chance to play the table top version, but I did play the third-person shooter version they made for the 360. It was a really fun game if you ignored the lack of a campaign, any sort of offline play, or a respawn timer.
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