Can we get unique fantasy/sci fi settings that are not tolkien inspired DnD slop or quirk chungus star wars shit?
>>731834526>tolkien inspiredi wish. tolkien inspired would be something like the sword of shannara universe. instead we get gay forgotten realms ripoffs.
>>731834526The Elder Scrolls, even if Oblivion kind of ruined the "not Tolkien" part, but it's only one game in the series.
>upload failedWhat the fuck even causes this shit? Some sort of embedded metadata?
Here's your cool sci-fi setting, bro
>>731834526Geneforge and Avernum
>>731834526Eastern Europe is prime setting for a horror game or dark fantasy. Once you get past the surface level Dracula and werewolves shit you get some pretty gnarly stuff.
Elden Ring, if you know anything at all about Western esotericism and Mediterranean history. Anyone who claims that it's a Tolkienesque fantasy setting first and foremost is an idiot, and I will disregard any post arguing otherwise.
>>731835002retards will call antything with elves tolkienesque. i haven't seen a real tolkien like game outside the middle earth ones. im not willing to write an essay explaining what that means.
>>731834526Death Trash blends scifi and fantasy, set in a world that survives off meat that grows from living meat gods that is harvested from them, willingly or not.
Caves of Qud is a pretty unique setting, it's like ultra post apocalyptic sci-fi with minor lovecraftian themes, and the way they integrate real world religious ideas is pretty cool, just ignore the faggot bear
>>731835002There are 'people' on 4chan brown enough to think that Tolkien invented European folklore anon, it's beyond saving.
>>731835002>what if we make a fantasy game...but it's inspired by medieval western europe...and there's armored knights and dragons and shit...and there's magic and castles and cathedrals!!!waaaaooow so unique. even shit like magi is a million times unique
What was that game with literal catfish people living on top of a colossal animal whom they later slaughtered and started drinking her blood to prolong their lifespans?
>>731834526Man After Man was a shitpost by a speculative biologist because the publishers were being faggots, so he made it as silly as possible as opposed to the original goal of having serious speculative evolutionary paths for mankind.
>>731834526Why do turks don't look like that irl
>>73183624>why do turks look like that irlgrik propaganda
>>731835871
Kingdoms of the Dump features a garbage theme world with living clothes, living objects like trash cans and cardboard boxes, incest and mammals commonly found in dumpsters.
>>7318346791st person fighting game
>>731836349arr rook same
>>731834526Why don’t more people talk about the Turkish practice of recruiting Janissaries?
>>731834526I'd like a classic resident evil inspired game in a (mid-) fantasy setting, maybe hope punk, too. Horror fantasy is massively underrepresented, especially in vidya. This forced dark fantasy we get showered with is lame.
>>731835002Er and e33 look really samey. Some shit crumbs floating around and shitting around.
>>731835540Is this post cyber(punk)?
>>731836583Qrd
>>731836590>JanissariesSome leader decapitated the sultan, sounds based, ngl.
>>731836590Because nobody gives a shit about the Balkin shit hole.
>>731836486Looks irony poisoned.
>>731836590The ruling class recruiting foot soldiers from the underclasses in order to undermine non-ruling elites and the middle class?That'd hit too close to home for most people in the first world.
>>731834734>The Elder ScrollsYou mean Morrowind, because Arena and Daggerfall are pretty normie
>>731837947apparently the creator is an actual janitor, so
>>731838034I'm having a flashback.This is the fucking guy who inspired to gamedev like 4 years ago because I hated how fucking cowardly it felt.I actually released my first game before him too by like a year. Cool.
>kidnap balkan BVLLs to rule over yourselves because you suck at fightingGEG do turkroaches really?
>>731837754turkey man does whatever turkey canthat includes flying
>>731838413Banzai
>>731838358how do you think you go from looking like a gook to a hairy virile beast of a man in only a few hundred years?
>farmers? nafri>beaurocrats? greek>ruling class? balkan>soldiers? christianhas there been a more pathetic """empire""" than turkey?
>>731834526post more medieval creatures please
>>731836583you are the weak sperm. you are the weak sperm this is the strong sperm, the greek god
>>731834526Dragons Dogma is very unique, traditional fantasy mixed with Buddhism themes.
>>731834526Landships from Arknights and psychosphere from Perimeter and Vangers are the only unique ones I can remember.
>>731838358The sissy Otoman noblemen didn't want to garrison infantry because it was considered too dangerous.So the sultan got the Christians to be his personal elite infantry.
>>731835764And the developers and everything they put into the game.
>>731838802>very uniqueArguably>>731838737Funny, directly watched the vid after realising6>>731838413>turkey man does whatever turkey can
>>731838358>kidnap balkan BVLLs>to rule over yourselves >because you suck at fightingWhy exactly do you hate logic?
>>731836645I'd also like valuable feedback
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>>731836590They do, western historians occasionally like to present devshirme as evidence of ottoman egalitarianism, for providing the subjugated populations with an avenue for rising in the ranks. No, completely unironically.But when the canadians forced natives to go to school it was literally genocide and a heckin' colonialism.
>>731834526I wish we actually got something "Tolkien inspired".
>>731840051Every game with Elves and/or Orcs is directly copied from Tolkien
>>731840081Whoa I don't even need to as if you're legally retarded. Good job.
>>731834526Ueda games feel pretty inspired. They don't quite feel Western or Eastern, some sort of mix between the two. Interested in seeing how Project Robot fits in with it being sci-fi
>>731838687The>H>R>EI guess.
>>731840051Same for Buck Rodgers/Flash Gordon inspired sci-fi, I can't find an example that isn Star Wars, deconstruction and/or parody.
>>731834526Dark Sun: Shattered LandsPlanescape: TormentTESIII: MorrowindSacrificeOddworld: Abe's OddyseeVangersPanzer DragoonElemental GearboltBaroque
>>731835824No, it's just that Tolkien is their only exposure to it. Even in European countries, unless you go out of your way to learn it you're not really going to be exposed to it more than you're exposed to Tolkien bullshit.Which is something I find hilariously ironic.Tolkien originally set out to make a fantasy for England, since most fantasy bar Robin Hood was either Scottish or Welsh because the Norman elite purposely suppressed English culture.But in doing so, he nailed the final nail in the coffin.Nobody thinks of Ents, Orcs, Elfs, Dwarfs, (they even use the Tolkien created terms Elves and Dwarves), Witches, Mages, Giants, Dragons (and so on, I think my point is made) as English culture. When you hear Ents you think of Tolkien's fantasy attacking Isengard, not the forests English people wouldn't walk through because of stories about seeing the Ents patroling them.I know he abandoned the "English folklore" eventually but it's funny how his initial motivation is the complete opposite of what he accomplished.
>>731839880if you conquer your enemies they win
>>731835002>Elden Ring, if you know anything at all about Western esotericism and Mediterranean history>put generic JewishloppaDie
>>731838687Yes, the various Russian empires. The Japanese empire. Aztec empire. Incan empire
>>731834696>that texthell american writers can't write for shit
>>731836486Incest?? Now I've got to try this game out.
>>731834526why does the baby look like that?
>>731843584Never seen a serb?
>>731843584The pic clearly says he's Balkan.
>>731838687yes
>>731839961>They do, western historians occasionally like to present devshirme as evidence of ottoman egalitarianismThe fuck?Egalitarianism?LMAOKidnapping children and brainwashing them into becoming part of a military machine ain't any shit like that.The rules being loosened over the centuries with Janissaries becoming a desirable profession didn't come from the Ottoman court; it came from the Janissaries themselves undermining the entire Empire to chip away power for themselves little by little, so as to benefit the subjugated nations back home in the Balkans. Homes that, mind you, had a system where native populations were forcibly driven from cities by the Ottomans in order to cut their avenue for upwards social dynamics and education since a city was the place for that. Instead they forced illiteracy upon the people with exceptions for a minority such as Spahije for example; and this created the only inverse pyramid in Europe when it comes to the age of revolutions, nationalism, and liberalism; because there was no middle and upper class to spread it, it had to all come from the peasant class unlike the rest of Europe. That's 400 years of cultural stagnation when it comes to organizational sciences; and the churches having to take over education and building libraries away from Ottoman sight.This wasn't Egalitarianism in any sense or form. This unique situation is why the Balkans have the unique property of liberalism and conservatism co-existing in a schizoid way that the Western mind can't grasp due to very differing histories.
>>731844456Reading about the cultural differences between pre-civil war southerners and yankees as a euro reminded me of the cultural distance between western euros and balkanites. Guilt cultures and shame cultures can't help but talk past each other.
>>731834696What's the difference? I can't remember shit besides Tolkien's stuff being more... homey?
lol
>>731834679Opened the thread to post this
>>731844456>balkan slav gypsy overestimates his value again
>>731834974Like alcoholics?
>>731834526Turkeys wish they looked this good.
>>731839173>ArknightsI'm most events you can consider it an urban fantasy sort of thing.
>>731835540>Early Access since 2021Jesus Christ
>>731845620It's Türkiyes /pol/tard.
>>731845765That's a fairly short development time for an average early access game, I'd say?
>>731840493You can't find them because they don't sell, but they exist. Do not underestimate the power of the algorithm when it comes to anything reaching someone else's eye. There's a shitload of fantasy books on amazon that only have like 2 or 3 purchases because the author only knows how to do the production work, not the marketing. For everything created that you see, there's probably 1000 more that you don't, simply because it's hidden from you to promote profits.
>>731845867Turkroach*
At first I thought it was kind of a generic sci-fi fantasy post apocalypse world with some japanese flair but the setting is genuinely strange and had some stuff I didn't expect
>>731834696Tolkien’s lore is pretty plain in comparison to most high fantasy these days where magic is commonplace and there’s even sci-fi elements. There’s only like 6 wizards in all of Middle Earth.
>>731846073You clearly haven't read the Silmarillion.
>>731846073Eh you can argue either way with Tolkien since his writing both includes the conflicts of godlike beings (or angel-like I guess) who formed the entire world, and also the later times of Man where magic is becoming more subtle>>731846118Exactly
>>731834974There's an interesting village in eastern Serbia with "haunted" vampire watermill, but it's completely unknown to international public because there are no interesting medieval castles, just wooden houses, rocks and sound of wind. Aside from that, Slavic mythology is pretty wild but underutilized even here because it was deemed pagan and anti-christian and because of that we know more about the Greek or roman gods and myths, than what our ancestors believed in
>>731845950*turkroachistan
>literal cradle of civilisation>invented ironworking>invented phonetic alphabet>basis of european and islamic civilisation>poor and retarded as fuckwhy are balkananatolianchuds like this?
>>731843795What language are you writing in again?
>>731838358turks are the worst thing to ever happen to the balkans.
>>731835002>western>tikkun olamYeah keep inverting that tree you fucking kikes
>>731836590Wow, roaches vs the slavs of all slavs, please tell me more
>>731834974EE is just India you westoids are just clueless https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcphmKDUeXc&t=3h58m
>>731849505/balk/ do not interfere!!!
>>731834526FFX weird mix of ancient japan/clow/surf setting.
>>731834526Yoko Taro's games fit in that description o a tee. The Drakengard/Nier universes feel like a genuine mythos, especially Nier Replicant/Gestalt. That game is overflowing with a weird dreamy quality that I love. It's no wonder I come back and play it every few months. It's just that beautiful
>>731834526Wasn't a great game, and many have been inspired by or ripped off Giger, but I think Scorn deserves some credit for going as hard as it did in committing to looking completely repulsive
>>731845912I went into IMDb and put the tags to try finding a movie like that, and I couldn't find a single one that wasn't super old with a terrible score.The closest thing I ever found was the Buzz Lightyear cartoon, but that leans into parody. People spent the last 80 years making fun of tropes that never were common apparently.
>>731836590the victims aren't black
>>731845450And gypsies. And alcoholic gypsies. Really the scariest way to portray eastern europe is to avoid any supernatural shit and just show what it's like to live a normal life here
>>731852391Where would you rather live?Eastern Europe or Latin America?
>>731850021don't tell me what to do you swarthy mediterranean cigan turkish albanian fyromese bvlgar serbhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwDrHqNZ9lo
>thread actually about videogames for once>/v/ STILL finds a way to avoid talking about video gamesall of you need to die.
>>731834679I fucking love the zeno clash universe
>>731852830Someone mentioned eastern europe here and someone else linked it to /balk/. It was over before it started.>meanwhile /balk/ is trying to talk about videogames
>>731848125AMERICAN!
>>731850604That game had a great aesthetic. Most just rip off the alien from alien.
>>731853125USA USA USA!
>>731848125pig french
>>731850604>>731853201Returnal did the aesthetic pretty well in the early biomes.
>>731834696Why are they all so ugly?
>>731835002Visually it seems based off of 70s fantasy paintings.
>>731836517is that a bad thing? the game i'm working in is this
>>731834815>generic fantasy slop, but theres a dinosauridk anon
>>731852460NTA, but might as well live in the place with the nicer weather.
>>731834526Try Shadowrun Returns. Fantasy mixed with cyberpunk.
>>731850604The civilization is inspired by Giger but there's also Beksinski serving as the inspiration for its decay, a great setting but a hard one to make a good game with.
>>731858274>unique>its based on a Will Smith moviepick one
>>731843584It's a book about how humanity would look in the future, the baby is just a future human
>>731835002>"Western esotericism">look inside>it's jewish sandnigger mysticism
>>731835002Kabbalism is desert rat erotica, not european fictionKys nigger
>>731858715Shadowrun came first. The tabletop game dates back even further.
>>731838687>Arab empire>Turks do all the work>Turkish empire>Georgian and albanians do all the work
>>731856596So any setting where someone has a sword is generic? Play the first 5 minutes and you'll see it's not.
>>731860717>So any setting where someone has a sword is generic?Yes.
>>731847683Thank you for acknowledging the primordial babylonian heritage of south slavs.
>>731834696I don't know whether to blame JRR Tolkien or Peter Jackson, but those movies are some of the most mind-numbingly gay bullshit I've tried to watch. Is it a World War Z situation where the adaptation just missed the mark that hard?
>>731834526
>>731852706SAAR!
>>731834815I’m playing Avadon hd by the same devs. I’m really enjoying it. Does this play similar to that?
>>731834734Whiterun is literally just Edoras. Morrowind is the only non tolkien title after daggerfall if you dont count spin offs.
>>731836687They do. At least Elden Ring has a much more diverse color palette.
For anyone who's into speculative biology. I highly recommend this show.
>>731835002Dude, its GRRM. The damn game wouldnt exist without tolkien. Nips have been stuffing their rpgs to the gills with kabbalah shit since ff7 - the villain's name in that was sephiroth for christ's sake. Elden Ring did not break ground in that department.
>>731858925Desert rat erotica existed 5000 years before Europeans had a written language. It’s influence is inseparable from the things it would later inspire
>>731835002Just because you learn the plots about alchemy 130 hours in doesn’t mean that the overwhelming majority of your play experience isn’t fighting dragons in castles
>>731863460It’s fucking criminal were not getting season 2
>>731834526It’s possible, but the jannies here hate people who discuss it because it's not le tranime.
>>731858715What Will Smith movie? When Shadowrun first came out, he was busy with Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
>>731858274Don't listen to him, OP. Play the superior Shadowrun game - on Sega Genesis.
>>731863460Good show, almost ruined by reddit characters.
>>731863460>For anyone who's into speculative biologyFor anyone who understands IRL biology and biological systems, this show is pants on head retarded.
>>731865192>For anyone who understands IRL biology and biological systems, this show is pants on head retarded.Trvke. I always thought if they had a season two they would actually explain how the planet didn't evolve naturally but was designed by something or someone just because how every creature had a weird use case or overly complicated method of existing. The whole planet was more like a moving art gallery than a real ecosystem.
>>731850563I wish there was a sequel for each ending of Drakengard 1, it would've ascended the series.
>>731845973Don't forget the insane of amount of detail that went into the geography showing accurate water erosion all over the map that ties back to lore. This game has some higher type of autism sovl poured into it that you don't really see a lot anymore.
>>731861308The movie adaptions change a few things, mainly characters, to make it more palatable to modern audiences.You can't really blame Tolkien for everyone else being so uninspired and stealing from him (and badly at that).>>731863282You're still going to mount doom to confront the evil lord and destroy the magic macguffin that holds his power, even if the rest of Morrowind is Frank Herbert's Dune.
>>731834526We can, but no one will play it.
>>731863094Not even close. Avadon and the newer games are like a bastardized deformed child with a lot of mobile oriented design decisions. The older games are actual crpgs.
>>731835002nobody has ever compared elden ring: a golden excrement farming simulator to tolkien in any shape or form.
>>731834780Love this game
