Decline Poll - What Settings would you like to see more represented in RPG's?

[Kem0sabe]

Fallout 4
Sword Coast Legends
The Age of Decadence
Shadowrun: Hong Kong
Legends of Eisenwald
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Pillars of Eternity
Avernum 2: Crystal Souls

In 2015 we had 2 post-apocalyptic RPG's, 3 high fantasy RPG's, 1 Dark Fantasy RPG, 1 Medieval Fantasy RPG and 1 Cyberpunk RPG
Here be Dragons!
And/Or Elves... Cowboys... Aliens... Dinosaurs... Space Jesus... Harry Dresden... Vault Dweller's...Robot's.

But we keep getting the same regurgitated setting with a small twist... So, what settings do you want to see in the next Codex approved™ RPG? and why?

 

[Snorkack]

Missing a 'present' option.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Missing a 'present' option.

Added "Modern Day" Option.

 

[Beowulf]

I long for good s-f games, but I personally don't care if we play as f**king fecal bacteria struggling to survive in american whale digestive tract as long as it's good.

With C&C.

 

[likaq]

Why we can't see who voted how?
Pls, change that.

 

[Ulminati]

Dark high-fantasy steampunk western-opera set in alternate prehistoric near future.... with cats.

 

[Doktor Best]

Clicked on basically everything besides High-Fantasy, as its just overused. But the setting itself is just second-rate priority since the way the setting is handled is much more important. What i dont get is why so many developers fear putting their own sort of twist into the setting to make it stand out.

 

[janior]

Cyberpunk all the way, one deus ex per few years years is not enough.

 

[Shin]

A time-travelliing horror adventure starting in an alternate history steampunk age and rewinding to the prehistory and proceeding from there all the way to some scifi space opera/cyberpunk SF adventure featuring western-style gunslingers. I like. But for real, maybe you should've asked which settings you DONT want to see, as I'd like to see about everything except high fantasy and low fantasy.

 

[Scroo]

SPAAAAAACE

pew pew lazorguns turn based asteroid mine crawling full party creation flying around in spaceships agawd itz heavanz

 

[Kem0sabe]

I chose Hard-Scifi. I find it ridiculous the lack of scifi rpg's with complex themes and problems, most devolve into saving something from someone/something else without spending much time explaining whats going on and why to the player, only touching everything, thats not related to killing stuff, very superficially.

Why not a colonization of a different world rpg, where the actual science is taken into account and the obstacles that the colonists face to maintain stable living conditions are the main catalysts of the game.

 

[InD_ImaginE]

Superhero or Urban fantasy would be nice.
Modern day would too I guess, but what skill are you going to have? Tax paying? Nah, it is just I couldn't think what Modern Day RPG would have as a setting except war, and I'm really not interested in that.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Superhero or Urban fantasy would be nice.
Modern day would too I guess, but what skill are you going to have? Tax paying? Nah, it is just I couldn't think what Modern Day RPG would have as a setting except war, and I'm really not interested in that.

Law enforcement, a detective rpg would be quite nice for example.

 

[SausageInYourFace]

Most of the stuff in the list has already been done often enough or I don't see how it even lends itself to an interesting setting (modern day RPG? why?).

I'd like more RPGs set in other cultures, such as Arabian and Wuxia settings.

Also, you may want to add 'Historical' to your list of alternatives. I think we can use way more history inspired RPGs and the possibilities there are endless as you have literally the whole spectrum of human experience with all its history and culture to pick from.

 

[bloodlover]

Steampunk and cyberpunk. There are very few notable games in these genres and they are a great change of pace from the eternal medieval fantasy setting.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Most of the stuff in the list has already been done often enough or I don't see how it even lends itself to an interesting setting (modern day RPG? why?).

I'd like more RPGs set in other cultures, such as Arabian and Wuxia settings.

Also, you may want to add 'Historical' to your list of alternatives. I think we can use way more history inspired RPGs and the possibilities there are endless as you have literally the whole spectrum of human experience with all its history and culture to pick from.

People were discussing this earlier in the shoutbox. An historical rpg by definition would leave very little leeway for player action, as the outcome of every actor in the setting is pre-determined by history, if you affect the outcome of history then you are moving into an alternate history setting.

 

[PeachPlumage]

Cyberpunk all the way, deus ex in 2000 is not enough.

Can we vote for multiple settings or just choose from a single preference?

 

[deuxhero]

I'd really like to see a game take inspiration from the Meiji era. Tons of factions playing eachother and trying to kill eachother, strong themes of tradition vs. progress, interesting mash of technology and a setting that allows for (though doesn't necessarily encourage) melee attacks when firearms exist.

So far the nearest we've gotten is the first and fourth Way of the Samurai games (The fourth is great and on PC now, though the first has forced iron man making it unplayable on an actual console due to how unreliable CD based PS2 games are)

 

[a Goat]

An historical rpg by definition would leave very little leeway for player action, as the outcome of every actor in the setting is pre-determined by history, if you affect the outcome of history then you are moving into an alternate history setting.

Alternative history opens a way for "victorian steampunk dinosaurs in outer space" though that's why it didn't get a vote from me.

Voted prehistoric and hard s-f. Hard s-f in general is one of the most demanding things in fiction as it requires insight, perspective and knowledge because you can't put "it's mass effect/psychic/spice/whatever magic in work! It werks really" explanation anywhere and prehistoric... I WANT MY NEANDERTHAL RPG

 

[InD_ImaginE]

Law enforcement, a detective rpg would be quite nice for example.

Hmmm yeah those would be good. Didn't think about it hard enough.

And come to think of it, modern spy fiction RPG would counts as Modern day, no? Some games in the vein of Alpha Protocol would be nice.

 

[MrMarbles]

Hard sci-fi. There are dozens of Philip K. Dick, Clarke, Asimov and Simmons stories that scream rpg, instead we get more skeletons and steampunk. Plus it would be cool to have some interesting AI's whose decades of planning can't be thwarted with a speech check.

Threw in science fantasy because of Ted Chiang's "Hell is the Absence of God", and Book of the New Sun.

 

[Doktor Best]

Law enforcement, a detective rpg would be quite nice for example.

Adventure is the genre youre looking for. Or what exactly do you want to fight in a detective game?

 

[Snorkack]

Modern day would too I guess, but what skill are you going to have? Tax paying? Nah, it is just I couldn't think what Modern Day RPG would have as a setting except war,

I'd think of some setting like in the movie 'Enemy of the State'. You're some Joe Average who gets himself into the classical 'wrong place, wrong time' situation by accident and now the NSA pulls every possible lever to silence you.


Another one I'd love to see would be from the alternate history compartment. The setting would be in the spirit of the novel 'Fatherland' by Robert Harris. The game would be set in germany in the 60es after WWII was won by Hitler. In a film-noir style you unravel some horrible nazi secrets and get yourself into deep trouble. In the game's progress you gain the power to destroy the Nazi Regime... or you side with Hitler and seize the control! Man, the codex would love that game!

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Where's ma noir option?

 

[Crooked Bee]

Meaningful difficulty settings.