Nickstermin8r
I dunno if someone already might have posted this, or even if I should be doing it, but every time I play Bioshock, I think of steampunk.
It's not quite SP, but it's close. Like a neighbor to steampunk, makybe.
What do you think?
Oh boy, here we go again.
xd Bioshock is dieselpunk and genepunk, since they are 1) using internal combustion powered machines to recreate things like intelligent turrets and 2) capable of effectively modifying genetic structure in a sense far beyond even modern capabilities. Dieselpunk is indeed a sort of neighbor to steampunk, as it is a subgenre derived from steampunk concepts. Another popular dieselpunk game is Fallout 3, which also has heavy atompunk (a term I use for nuclear power) and cyberpunk themes. One could argue on the core of Fallout 3 being mostly "anachronistic/retrofuturistic atompunk" but the dieselpunk and cyberpunk elements can be equally as strong as the nuclear powered stuff.
If you took Bioshock made all the machines steam-powered instead of internal combustion powered (while Rapture itself is powered by geo-thermal power from volcanoes along the sea floor, or something like that) then it could easily be steampunk with genepunk, even considering how it's set in 1959/1960 with the strong remnants of art deco architecture.
And yes, there is already a thread about Bioshock
here, but I wouldn't expect you to have found it at the moment as we seem to be in a bit of subforum limbo. I'm quite confused and lost, myself. I'm not sure exactly what The Captain is doing.
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