Are there any really cool singleplayer steampunk games out there i can try?

Are there any really cool singleplayer steampunk games out there i can try?

I've played Dishonored and loved it.

I've seen that Bioshock Infinite is also steampunk, but I've heard that the game itself is a bit rubbish. Is it worth a look?

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dont play Bioshock Infinite if you've played either of the first two games

thief

>steampunk
>literally everything runs on electricity, even in the screenshot you posted
Nigga you dumb

Guns of icarus

But they don't

Avoid all the Bioshock games.
There is nothing of worth to be found in that series.

Seconding Thief (Gold) which pretty much set the standard for PC (and steampunk) games. A co-writer for Dishonored was a level designer for Thief, and it's apparent that some of Thief's brilliance rubbed off on Dishonored.

I've never played any of the others, i was just wondering because I've heard bad things about Infinite.

I tried the first theif and didn't really enjoy it. Is 2 or 3 better? I know the latest reboot is rubbish.

I like the look of Guns of Icarus, but I would be able to convince my friends to join me, which is why I asked for a SP game.

They actually run on whale oil, so it's whalepunk.

Assassin's creed Syndicate can feel pretty steampunky at times. There's even dlc steampunk costumes, a zipline launcher, victorian gangs, carriages, and factories out the ass. But overall it's more Victorian with a steampunk flavoring than what you might be asking for.

>electricity
the only dumb one here is you, user
they're powered by whale oil, which is a highly flammable liquid (in the game at least) and is used for everything

Friendly reminder that Warren Spectator himself said that deus Ex is not cyberbunk and you should be shit for saying it is

Source? It's not like he's wrong, but still.

somewhere in here near the end i think

youtube.com/watch?v=yPKQsSRB9Dc

i aint lyin

Warden Spectator also made Epic Mickey games so I rarely care about his opinions these days

Thief 2 is essentially the same as the first game except there are no levels centered around monsters and it's more steampunkish (the first game really isn't steampunk at all, but the second game is one of the few well-done instances of steampunk I can think of)..
3 isn't worth playing if you haven't played those the others..

AHA! 31:20

suck it cyperbunk fags

What's up with the color autism? I mean, is that information useful to anyone?

i think it's a cosplay reference image

Oh, neat.

So it's sci-fi?

There are simply no good Steampunk games, not even when considering aesthetics alone. Arcanum has some neat isometric backgrounds (or rather, grounds) but it is an extremely wonky game with mostly poor writing. Bioshock Infinite is one of the worst FPS games ever made, mechanically, and it's designed like a corridor with series of triggers where you can hear Ken Levine spout his infantile opinions about politics. Similarly to Bioshock, storytelling consists of slogans blaring their oh so subtle message in your face.

I'd say play Chaos Engine. Or Machinarium. Or just read League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

>Dishonored
>steampunk

yes?

Dishonored is steampunk and a shit game.

No

its whaleoilpunk

Does a dystopian victorian setting with magic, magic whales, magic whale oil and an utter lack of actual steam give you a steampunk vibe?

It's a subset of steampunk just like biopunk is a subset of cyberpunk. The main theme, colonial age and alt history/tech is still there. Arcanum is actually the stupidest way to develop steampunk, throwing in orcs and other boring Tolkien shit.

>dystopian victorian setting

There's your answer.

So everything victorian with alt tech is now steampunk

>magic
yes, not really steampunk
>magic whales
??
>magic whale oil
????

just because it's not 100% traditional steampunk doesn't mean it's not steampunk
this guy is right

No, but there's a clear aesthetic intent right down to uniforms, city life, approach to science and scientists and those stilt striders or whatever. That's the definition of a genre. You don't need to zoom in on the gears to make it steampunk.

Since when is steampunk considered primarily dystopian

Arcanum would be the closest to "good" as far as steampunk goes, it's as steampunk as Shadowrun is cyberpunk, both with the magic element.
Fun fact: the purported originator of cyberpunk, William Gibson, is also credited with the origination of steampunk.

Is no one gonna talk about how the VA for the Outsider isnt coming back for 2 and that reddit is current hugboxing him?

>reddit
>like I care at this point this nigga's username is TrannyDestroyer.
In all I feel bad for him tho famalam. they did even tell him about--it is really like a no-name David Hayter situation

>Is no one gonna talk about how the VA for the Outsider isnt coming back for 2
What, why

>Since when is steampunk considered primarily dystopian

Since always. For starters, the Victorian era was an inherently dystopian time period, but virtually all steampunk works play up the lower class poverty, authoritarian politics, sprawling polluted cities and terrible working class conditions.

Who's the Hollywood-tier VA replacing him? They had Madsen and Hitgirl for the original, so they're likely to get a decent B-lister.

Fuck Imean they DIDNT tell him my b

>virtually all steampunk works play up the lower class poverty, authoritarian politics, sprawling polluted cities and terrible working class conditions.

So basically every story about the Dickensian period ever? Steampunk hardly introduces any themes original to the actual industrialisation, it just turns shit up to 11.

I don't care, they ruined the Outsider by making him into a bullied little boy that got powers because lol so randumb instead of something tied to the Whales. Also we're getting Stephen Russell.

What?

I'm gonna remain skeptical about the actual origins of the Outsider until we get some in-game lore on it rather than just relying on Harvey's twitter shenanigans. I want to believe he's the astral projection of the leviathan that's mentioned more than once rather than just SOME BLOKE.

I always thought the -punk subgenres were meant to emphasize the terrible social and cultural issues of the day that aren't dealt with as technology advances and turns into fantasy.

Didn't Outsider say he was just "some bloke" in the first game

Remaining skeptical won't change the fact that the lead writer literally said what he thinks the Outsider is.

I DON'T WANT TO BELIEVE.

Is the Leviathan some Barkeresque or Lovecraftian elder god type shit? Never got too far in Dishonoured.

>the Victorian era was an inherently dystopian time period

found the marxist cuck

Dickensian stories are not dystopian

Not primarily but since it's a subset of cyberpunk one of its themes is the juxtaposition of advanced tech and slum life.

What the lead writer thinks and what the lead writer actually does are different things

Dunno--in all honesty he seems he's going through that B-BUT I DONT REALLY C-CARE GUYS stage.

Still pretty fucked tho seems like a chill dude--or maybe Im confusing his sorrow for that

I always thought -punk genres were based on what a person from whatever time-period might've envisioned the future being like.

dishonored.wikia.com/wiki/The_Deep_Watchers

BUT WHO WAS BOOK?

>Genre set in time period.
>Uses cultural and social issues and moores relevant to the time period.

I'm not even sure what point you're trying to make here?

It's a magic transdimensional space whale. Or something along the lines

Bioshock 1 has a great story/atmosphere, marred by mediocre combat.
Bioshock 2 has improved combat, marred by mediocre story/atmosphere

Bioshock infinite's only redeeming point is all the Elizabeth porn that's been made.

Infinite is an alright game if you know nothing about it. Sup Forums is more salty on it because it had a lot cut from the build up to release.

It's a pretty fun steampunk shooter that should be up your alley, not as freeform as Dishonored but still alright.

where did you guys get this info from?
i played the game but i never found anything pointing towards a "transdimensional space whale"
read something about "leviathans" though

>is bioshock infinate good?
The only good thing about bioshock infinate are the chaotic, fast paced battles that take place near a sky rail.
>mfw there's more thought put into the packaging than the story design

You play game, you read books, you listen to things, you make connections

>Dickensian stories are not dystopian
Have you even read a single novel by dickens? Jesus christ. Oliver twist? Bleak house? Tale of two cities? Ring any bells?

Like the whales from the old Star Trek movie?
Bear in mind this is a vague recollction

I would really love some proper explanation as to why Emily now has super powers, and on top of that, different powers from Corvo.

Did he just give her powers because Corvo asked him to? Was just because he fucking felt like it? They better give a proper motive.

I've no idea. The whales and everything about them is magic. They also appear in the void which seems to be the source of magic in the world. Local religion denounces the void and the Outsider as blasphemous

Why do you have a problem with Emily having the Outsiders mark and not the others?

Why did Corvo have it?
Why did Daud have it?
Why did Delilah have it?

Probably because he thinks she'll do some interesting shit with the powers he gives her. That's basically the reason Corvo got his.

Yes. They have nothing to do with dystopia which is a 20th century theme. Dickens and works influenced by him are the product of 19th century's focus on human squalor and inhuman conditions faced by lower classes. He's the British Victor Hugo who dealt with similar themes.

Their works are not dystopian because bleakness is contrasted by hope, but not hope that leads into more despair as it is the case with Orwell and Huxley, but hope that can transform the world(view) in the end. It's humanism and even proto-socialism.

There are references to both whales as "leviathans" but also a more specific one; "the leviathan" which is mentioned in some writing as a form of the Outsider.

"Spirit of the Deep, Siren of the Dreams.

I walked for hours along the coast, leaving Dunwall behind me until the lament of the waves drowned all other feeling. I wept, knowing you would not come to me, my love.

You rule my dreams, where I behold with senses I do not possess in waking life the dark splendor of your home in the deep. There the ocean rests on your back like a sleeping child on his father's shoulders.

In these sleepless nights of despair, you appear to me not as the mighty leviathan, but as a young man, with eyes as black as the Void." - Spirit of the Deep

>I haven't played the game: the post

>tfw the only way to get the best ending in 2 is if you refuse the Outsiders help
>tfw the casuals will be screaming "THE GAME PUNISHES ME FOR GOING LETHAL AND USING MY POWERS" even harder now

So it's like the Pagans and Hammerites from the Looking Glass Thief games?

Basically what said. The Outsider is curious about what might happen if he gives powers to people he finds interesting. This becomes very apparent in the game after you've played the Daud DLCs as you notice that the Outsider's responses to Corvo if he goes high chaos are pretty tame because he's seen this all before in Daud. Similarily when you actually play as Daud, the Outsider seems less and less interested if you keep killing everything and everyone because that's what Daud has been doing for the last decade as the top hired assassin of Dunwall; killing aristocrats like they're cattle.

Unsurprisingly, game was made by Deus Ex and Thief blokes

I'm just saying it seems coincidental that she happened to get it as well. Maybe it is coincidental, or maybe it's because of her relation to Corvo.

I didn't play the DLC but I did the main game.

You have to produce electricity somehow though.

>mfw after the first playthrough, I decide to have fun by indiscriminately killing bad guys
>mfw treated like a nigger by all NPCs

>I didn't play the DLC but I did the main game.
No, you didn't play it at all. Unless you went a blindfolded and deaf run. Everything you asked about was explained at some point

Yeah, Arkane got a dusting of the dissolving greatness I hear.
Probably why the combat in Dark Messiah was so good.
The boot is a feature.

>mfw the kick button is back in Dishonored 2

youtube.com/watch?v=KnxgQMSsc8c

>They have nothing to do with dystopia which is a 20th century theme.
Don't try to talk about subjects you don't understand. Hell, a quick google could have saved you from looking like this much of a retard, but I guess the urge to talk out your arse was too strong for even perfunctory research.
I bet you don't even know that dickens was a socialist, do you?

>treated like a murderous psychopath for wantonly killing innocent guards

oh, no way, why would they do that

Why is there so many "-punk" genres. Some seem super niche. IMO I feel like, it at least in games, there's no 1:1 match of the punk they rip/derive from. Case in point being made with Dishonored as it takes the sort of the whole punk genre's core concept (Save for cyberpunk maybe) and that X is revolutionary and X get used for everything down to the X-powered bread basket/dildo warmer. Says it right in the name though. (DIESELpunk, STEAMpunk, ATOMpunk)

But Dishonored sort of show should the basic skeletal work and basick sub genred it self out with with WHALES. Though if I had to put two cents in I would call it pre-Dieselpunk. Mainly due to it being in the Great War (WWI) than generic Victorian era. Very industrialist too. Again this mean fuck all when the mcguffin goes by a different name.

The reason Emily got her powers in the sequel was explained in the original? Fuck off.

I'm asking if Emily got her powers coincidentally or whether Corvo, or her relationship with Crovo influenced that decision.

Infinite is an alright game only if know nothing about Shock games

The whale oil is used to produce electricity.
The electricity we use everyday is produced using other sources too, some of them chemical.
It's about the thing itself that powers the machine, not the fuel.
You're retarded.

I'm gonna pre-order if you can confirm this.

Go play the fucking game before whining like a baby

>The reason Emily got her powers in the sequel was explained in the original?

I hope that doesn't sound outlandish, friend.

She gets fucking ousted as the Empress and is on the run for her life when the Outsider offers his mark to her, (which you can refuse this time).

This isn't fucking complicated.

One of the dieselpuink games I can think of is Ring Of Red.
Pretty sure the -punk suffix involves high (timeframe context) tech - low life though, that seems more pure military.

>I bet you don't even know that dickens was a socialist

I specifically mentioned socialism in the post you failed to comprehend but I'm glad you googled dystopia.

Thief: The Dark Project and Thief 2: The Metal Age


Go play them fucking now, OP

its pretty bad for everyone.

but ACTUAL electricity in the game appears (iirc) only in the form of light gates
are diesel cars electrical?
then why would tall boys be electrical?

>kick button matters when your can kill 5 enemies in 4 seconds
C'mon man.

Not in Dishonored world, stupid. Everything is whale oil.

You could kill 5 enemies by kicking one of them off a cliff or something

Avoided playing it during the big hype, played it recently.
Not good. It stumbles over the narrative it's so proud of and sacrifices immersion and playability for it.
Levine is a bit of a hack. He rehashed the majority of the System Shock 2 story and character arcs, hell, even most of the weapon and upgrade balancing for the first Bioshock, dude does not deserve the accolades he basks in now.

youtube.com/watch?v=Cqdy1SydhLw
Check about 5:40

It's amazing how shitty that gameplay demo is though. So compressed and obviously played with a controller.

Did you read my posts? I didn't play the DLC if that's what you're thinking of. Learn to read, because this sure as shit didn't happen in the vanilla.