Azimuth

From Stardust, to Stardust: Tales of Andromeda, a Sci-Fi Fantasy RP

It is the will of the great blob. It has claimed those missing posts as a hole through which it may push its fingers into our universe.

Explain what your neutral face looks like.

From Stardust, to Stardust: Tales of Andromeda, a Sci-Fi Fantasy RP

So, my new nation sheet. Is it any closer to what you had in mind, or would you prefer that I keep working? I mean, this is around the third attempt, excluding the countless sub-iterations.

Kindly dishregard.

geh

Kindly dishregard.

Kindly regard dishes.

Games you wished existed/Video Game Ideas

It sounds familiar. Is this an older gen game?

@Cynder

Yeah. Not -too- old, but it definitely shows its age in parts. If you've played Baldur's Gate 1 or 2 on the PC or the first two Fallout games, they're a decent idea of what it's like. The combat is far more clunky than in any of those, however. Additionally, there's also Rise of Legends, which is a fairly decent RTS that features one pretty interesting steampunk/clockpunk faction called the Vinci. The other factions are also pretty great, with one that is heavily inspired by Arabian Nights and the other is pretty much Ancient Astronauts Aztecs/Mesoamericans. They're not steampunk, however. Windforge is yet another in a long string of Terraria knock-offs (Which is of itself a Minecraft knock-off, which is of itself an Infiniminer and Dwarf Fortress rip-off, and so on), but features steampunk airship building shenanigans. I had a great deal of fun with it, but unfortunately it's a little limited content-wise. It's a little harder to recommend than the rest, but there's also Steambot Chronicles, a rather overlooked game for the PS2. It's Japanese and the steampunk aesthetic kinda comes and goes, but it's a pretty unique game. It plays kinda like Armored Core, but with far rougher (but surmountable) controls and far less depth. However, it compensates for this by having a semi-open world, a somewhat branching storyline (you can even join the baddies), oodles of side material, and actual dialogue choices (In a Japanese RPG of all things!) Aside from the aforementioned problems with controls, it has a fair amount of loading screens (I wasn't personally troubled, but many reviewers were), a storyline that's kinda crummy in places, a rather uninteresting cast of characters, and a soundtrack that I honestly think is a bit balls. I dug it enough to play it through, despite these failings.

From Stardust, to Stardust: Tales of Andromeda, a Sci-Fi Fantasy RP

Space elves are perfectly reasonable. Especially ones that have shuriken firing rifles and ghost robots.

From Stardust, to Stardust: Tales of Andromeda, a Sci-Fi Fantasy RP

40k. Serious.

@MrFoxNews

Green chavs with cobbled together scrap machines that literally only function as they do because they believe they do = serious. Massive, multi-turreted tanks that make the T-35, Neubaufahrzeug and T-28 look like reasonable propositions = serious. Imperial Guard Astra Millitarum being comprised of tons of different regiments of assorted silly hats and time periods = serious. Notable mentions being the guys that look like the good guys from Zulu, the guys that are WW1 Francebritagermany: Clones Edition, the guys that are WW2 Germany, the guys that are Lawrence of Arabia: The Faction, Space Mongols... I wish I had the handy dandy visual charts of major Imperial Guard Astra Militarum regiments on hand, but I do not. I could go on forever. To be fair, the setting has long distanced itself from its initial purely satirical origins, but there's still a lot of silliness to be found. Not that I'm complaining, I love how over the top 40k is, but there's loads of better examples out there as far as serious settings go.

Games you wished existed/Video Game Ideas

A good steampunk game that isn't a JRPG. Or that awful Resonance of Fate game either. . . need more steampunk games.

@Cynder

Arcanum's combat kinda sucks, but everything else is pretty damn neat. I imagine you've already heard of it, though.

From Stardust, to Stardust: Tales of Andromeda, a Sci-Fi Fantasy RP

@Azimuth In all seriousness, the CS looks good. Not as wild and amazing as the others but it is very solid.

@SgtEasy

Well, it's by popular demand that it's that way. But thank you!