ITT, shit shows/movies/vidya/whatever with great settings
And how.
>World is seemingly normal on the surface
>Occassional bleeds of psychic activity but its typically contained
>Becoming a psychic and acquiring a door allows you entrance into the minds of others
>Untold billions of worlds become open to you as you enter into other minds to see how their lives quite literally shape how they see reality
>Try not to turn into tang
>Get caught up in psychic warfare between various government, terrorist, and secret organizations who are all literally warring for our minds
>Try not to turn into tang
>The "occassional bleeds" are roaring tides as psychics actively hunt you in the waking world
>Try not to turn into salsa
>Realize it all runs so deep into civilization, suggested ideas and coercions on a daily basis for millenia
>Are we ever truly free?
>Become tang
Cant wait for the sequel
>>48291124
>>48291190
Explain you lazy shit
>>48291124
Could you be more ass backwards? The setting of SU only has any value because of the specific characters and plot of the show.
>>48291413
I dunno theres a lot of implied alt-history due to gem shenanigans. Still wanna know what the hell happened to !Russia, as well as if there are other random gems or aliens trying to hide out on our little rock.
On larger scale I imagine its basically just !40k
>>48291124
I never really got the hype behind this show or its story. The art is terrible, the characters all have a bad case of tumblr-nose, their "quirky" personalities are irritating, the animation is mediocre, and the singing is god-awful.
>>48291360
For SU
>World is seemingly normal on the surface
>Except thousands of years prior, there was a massive intergalactic war that took place partially on earth
>War was between an empire of sentient polymorphic rocks that form hard-light projected 'bodies', and a splinter cell of said rocks
>Planet was to have all its resources drained to make more soldiers, rebels stopped that
>Thousands of years later, the homeworld is extending its fingers back to Earth, which is now only guarded by four rebels
>>48291360
But anon, Psychonauts was GOOD, not shit.
>Explain you lazy shit
Steven Universe has a rather interesting and unique setting involving silica-based hardlight-holographic alien life forms with a caste-based pan-galactic empire. Individuals of this alien species the ability to physically combine forms for greater strengths, which I think would be a rather interesting RPG mechanic that works well with a setting based on entities firmly placed into their castes.
Steven Universe, However, is a shit show for autistic tumblr-tards or other people who unironically like shit things. The only time Steven Universe deceives you into thinking it is interesting is when it reveals more about its unique backstory and setting. This is why the filler episodes are total dross, while the plot episodes are almost a good waste of a half hour.
This is all, of course, my own personal opinion. Les goûts et les couleurs ne se discutent pas as my grandfather used to say. What you think is shit and what you enjoy are probably completely different to what I enjoy.
>>48291583
While I was rambling, I remembered another good example
>>48291538
You're right, anon. It is a shit show with terrible art/animation/noses/etcetera. It does, however, have an interesting setting.
>>48291583
I know. I just wanna' talk about cool settings from little-known series or at least ones where you dont normally pay attention to the setting, which is in itself also good.
I'm a w/asp/ so honestly I have no right to say what is and isnt good entertainment.
>>48291570
I dunno, if that one race is all the flavor of the show, seems to make more sense to just steal that and drop it into some other setting where it'll contribute to something. Also being "strict caste" makes it sound like an NPC race if they dont have much autonomy as individuals.
>>48291631
Always felt like "X-Men meets anime bullshit, featuring Warcraft's Sha'"
Prove me wrong /tg/
>>48291706
What's a Sha?
>>48291748
This thing
>>48291748
When an elder god died, it was buried underneath an entire goddamn continent as its resting place, this being not!Asia.
The people then noticed that when they even THOUGT of doing bad shit, horrific black and white monsters appear seemingly out of nowhere and begin to slaughter the place.
Instead of going off into city states though, the entire population took up monastic tradition to control their emotions, preventing any more of the creatures from spawning.
Villains also seem to know of ways to harness these evil entities, becoming eldritch demigods in the process.
>>48291821
Pandaria was pretty damn underrated storywise imo
Killing Orc Hitler and raiding a capital city was friggin great
>>48291667
>I dunno, if that one race is all the flavor of the show, seems to make more sense to just steal that and drop it into some other setting where it'll contribute to something. Also being "strict caste" makes it sound like an NPC race if they dont have much autonomy as individuals.
Now you're just nitpicking. Just admit you watch the show and like it.
I unironically like SU, see, I'm free.
>>48291871If only you fucking knew[\spoiler]
Nah I also genuinely like the show but the "setting" is a pretty bottom reason for that. After 3ish seasons and still knowing next to nothing about how anything actually works, pretty sure there isnt much to actually work with.
There could be A LOT to it all, but theres still too many holes to piece anything cohesive together without blatantly making up at least half the setting.
At that point, I'd rather make my own setting.
Characterization is nice though
>>48291124
Civilization: Beyond Earth.
They packed a load of flavor and lore into the Civilopedia, but it's all weighed down by the sheer averageness of the rest of the game.
>>48291869
Killing Orc Hitler was cool, but it just dragged on and on, even into Orclords of Orcnor. The rest of it was pretty great. Blizzard's best stories shines when it's not tied down to the Faction War or any "Leader" characters.
RIP Theramore never forget.
>>48291360
KLK pretends to have a semi-serious story with an interesting setting and lore, some nicely set up characters, then proceeds to go full retard with the plot around halfway through. The tired comedy gags from the sidekick repeated in every single episode don't help either.
Some video games that come to mind:
Hyperdimension Neptunia - Needs no introduction. Everybody has Technopathy. Nobody has ANY protection from psychic powers. Also there's an omega-level reality warper whose sanity-ripping doom-powers lead you to wonder whether they might be evil.
Ar Tonelico / Exapico universe - Magic is songs. Songs are magic. Also magic is computers. And computers are songs. And magic controls robots. And sometimes you have to go into somebody's brain Psychonauts-style and solve their problems so you can save humanity with their computer magic biology songs.
A Reckless Disregard for Gravity - In the year of our lord 20X6, skyscrapers are so high that you cannot see the surface of the Earth. But you can look down from them. And jump.
Creeper World - No matter how advanced humanity and aliens become, the Creeper is more advanced. No matter how deadly humanity becomes, with its black-hole bombs and anti-concept beams and time travel, the Creeper will always be more deadly.
Jamestown - Colonizing the U.S. with robots and eldritch horrors.
Rochard - You're a miner, you mine for neo-oil and neo-coal. One day you find artifacts. You have a gravity gun. Pirates will murder you, if your own megacorporation doesn't first.
There are some fun ideas in Friendship is Magic, which can make the setting downright bizarre if you pick and choose the best parts of it. Unfortunately there's so much shit, and so much bad lore ruining the better parts of it.I'll just take my leave now.
>>48291786
>>48291706
I think you're stretching.
>>48292561
I don't disagree with you.
The idea of having the personifications of day and night having an epic struggle with one another seems like a huge opportunity. Too bad it's just a random kids show.
I'm not sure if it was shit so much as just okay, but Titanfall's universe always intruiged me, if only because they're so damned coy with giving you any details. We have mysterious alien ruins, megacorps supplying both sides with orbital mecha factories, corporate militiraries deploying robot infantry with AI officers, FTL jump points, weapon black markets and frontier planets away from home systems undergoing civil war along with shadow organisations offering elite soldiers illegal boosts for cash.
It's a fucking adventure's paradise. Guns, cyberware, spaceships, corps and factions, and giant fightan robots all for the looting and shooting. Shadowrunners, mercenaries and explorers are all there, and all we ever see are matches and lobbies.
I want to explore the fucking cool sci fi setting with goddamn alien ruins and all I have to work with is a (actually pretty fun) shooter.
>>48291869
It was tied to jack black voiced drunk kung fu pandas though.
It could have been the best thing since gravy and sex and it would still be regarded poorly.
>>48292561Rainbow power.
Always wanted to play/run game in this setting.
>>48293093
...what is it? Why?
>>48292986
I really like the general theme of the inhabitants of Equestria being in charge of just about every aspect of nature. There is something mythical and folkloric about it.
Take fairytales like Old Man Winter or Jack Frost, who personify, but also summon winter in their wake. Take mythological tales like many tales of the Sun Chariot, that draws the mighty sun across the sky every day. Both of those things are in a sense true and normal in FiM.
The royalty control day and night, and the different tribes/races all are in charge of some aspect of nature. They control the weather, bring the seasons, are responsible for most "lesser" animals, plant seeds and direct growth. Their world is a garden, and they are all the gardeners.
And if actually is left to chance, or grows free and by itself, it freaks them out. The Everfree Forest, which is the forest that in many ways is the most like a real world forest, is entirely unnatural to them.
If you view it outside the scope of what the series is, it's actually a really strange world.
>>48293029Pls no.
Such good lore, world building, art. Horrible gameplay. Makes the other Castlevania games look boring in comparsion.
This game is so forgotten it's sad
The history of Hammerfight:
>Flying machines swinging huge-ass maces, swords, hammers, axes AND CRUSHING FUCKING EVERYTHING
>Giant flying worms, crustaceans and BEES, plus polyps with shiny magic gems inside
>Persian vibe
>Warring families of Four Houses
>Timespace fuckery by Seraph the big robot
>>48293129
Command & Conquer. The tech level in the setting (during TibSun and TibWars) is pretty muehc exactly where I like it and Tiberium is an excellent tool to drive constant conflict in the world. Nod and GDI can both serve as excellent antagonist factions for the players. But mostly I like it because you got this feeling of hopelessness as the spread of Tiberium is inevitable and even if GDI would find an answer to that, Nod would come in and break it.
>>48292659
Stretching [spoiled]Yang's poon ;D[/spoiler]
But nah it just feels a little uninspired to me. Like a lot of the concepts are just slapped on rather than woven in with the rest of the setting. Granted, yeah, rule of cool is king in that world, but Im honestly not sure what the real "theme" of it is anymore. If that makes sense
>>48293389
I just cant use spoilers right today wow
>>48293292
>implying GDI will help you
GDI are the tools of corrupt corporate oppressors. Kane will liberate the world and lead us to a glorious future, inshallah.
>>48291124
I'm sure I'll get flak for saying this but I unironically like Sword Art Online's setting, especially after the garbage in Fairy Dance was over.
I really like the idea of a sudden influx of a few thousand people into the "becoming working age" demographic of a modern, relatively peaceful setting whose only notable skill is close combat. I like it even more once the even stupider higher-level plot bullshit starts happening.
The long and short of it is that bad guy from Aincrad invented AIs partially by figuring out how to use human brain function to cause state changes in quantum computers, and now a bunch of different government black teams are fighting over who gets to use the research to invent the future. America and Japan each want to use AIs grown in an accelerated virtual world to pilot unmanned weapons to reduce human casualties in war while another, smaller group made up of people from the first two recognize that AIs are people too and are fine either leaving them to their own devices or just living in the database.
As much as Reki Kawahara is a shit writer, some part of me loves that he took dotHack and expanded it into Metal Gear with a side order of Start Ocean 3.
>>48293474
>Implying Nod is any better
At least with GDI I can enjoy limited freedom, with Nod you're just given a future version of AK-47 and pointed towards whatever enemy they particularly dislike that day.
>>48291706
I wouldn't even go that far, it's more like "Hogwarts meets every tired anime cliche ever."
Destiny and The Elder Scrolls. They both have big piles of interesting background material, but the developers seem terrified of actually using any of it for the games.
>>48292517
But A Reckless Disregard for Gravity is a great game.
Another game with a setting much better than its main plot is Dishonored.
>>48293562
>Future AK-47
I think NOD calls it an AK-47
>>48293562
>implying that people of nations whose tyrannical governments are propped up by the military power of the GDI are free
It's like you want to die of starvation in a hovel while your tax money funds GDI protected citiesprotected cities exclusively for the rich and powerful. Please continue to lick the jack boot as it crushes the life out of your body.
Why oh why did it have to be a trilogy
>>48293680
That sort of reminds me of one of the reaons I think Nod is an interesting faction. Most of the military hardware they have is cheap and shitty compared to GDI but at the same time their elite troops have tech that far outclasses whatever GDI has. Like, even after fifty+ years of fighting GDI still hasn't figured out stealth tech.
>>48293680
Circa the second tiberium war both Nod and GDI use "M16 MK2 pulse rifles"s as their assault rifles. Though the GDI and nod versions are visually different.
>>48291124
Hunger Games (books/movies)
K6BD (webcomics)
Technically also the recent Warcraft movie.
>>48293600
Fucking Jungle Romans. I played Oblivion as my first TES, thought it was pretty good, if unbalanced as fuck.
Then I found out what Cryodiil was originally and what the fuck. How many samey grass fields did I trek through when it could have been a fucking jungle?
>>48293872
But anon that's too high poly and generic Europe is easier to design for.
>>48293600
For Destiny, there's hundreds of pages of interesting backstory, but the second you boot up the game it goes "Here's your gun, go shoot some shit. 'Why?' What are you, some kind of faggot?"
>>48293958
Then go somewhere else. Skyrim was always a rocky snowy place, they could have done that for IV.
How hard is it to do sand dunes? Rocky coastlines? I'm just.. fuck, when else am I going to get to play in fantasy magic jungles? I can go to so many places for pseudo-european medieval fantasy. But not as a Jungle Roman.
That said I did like the Ayleid ruins. Missed them in TESV and their glowy stones you could TK or shoot down for dosh.
>>48294022
Listen here you little shit, Origins is a fucking fantastic game.
>>48294138
Not that guy, but 2 and Inquisition were bad. 2 was better than Inquisition, lore -wise, but they really shat on everything Origins did.
>>48294328
2 had the worst gameplay(repetitive battles) and RP elements, imo
>>48294007
But this show was pretty decent.
>>48293029
>It was tied to jack black voiced drunk kung fu pandas though.
>It could have been the best thing since gravy and sex and it would still be regarded poorly.
This argument always bothered me, because the Pandaren were canonized back in Warcraft 3 and then referenced again during Vanilla World of Warcraft, but somehow Blizzard had gone forward in time to rip it off anyway.
I never really liked Pandaren, but the endless threads about Kung Fu Panda that popped up after their announcement were fucking annoying.
>>48294440
I think its direction/pacing were shit, despite it being an overall good show.
Can I post a picture of an awesome show with a cool setting?
>>48291124
I maintain that Bleach is the single worst offender for this.
>>48295020
Bleach's setting doesn't hold up under scrutiny.
>>48295081
That's because it's almost entirely rule of cool. It's the thematic and stylistic choices that make it great for me.
>>48294328
Inquisition was like, I didn't feel like any decisions mattered at all, that half the party members were lame as fuck and some other shit too.
There seemed to be a lot of small things wrong with it.
Kindred: The Embraced.
> WoD gets TV show.
> Suprisingly shit.
I think they could pull it off today, but back then, it just didn't fly.
>>48295209
>WoD
>great setting
>>48291124
Nasuverse.
Seriously though. No matter how much I love the first three movies they are not good.
>>48291255
ebin
>>48293742
>The entirety of the third film
It gave me cancer
It gave me triple cancer
>>48295583
Bionicle's setting is great. The way the actual story is presented was very hit and miss. Because the main purpose of the whole thing was to sell toys and related merchandise to kids, what was actually going on in the storyline was presented in a billion different ways: during the first four or five years the exact same events would be shown as books, films, games, comics and online animations - all of wildly different quality. So yeah, while the movies were pretty awful cheesy crap, the comics and books that showed the same events might have been way better.
>>48295583
>>48295731
At what point did Bionicle jump the shark and become shit?
I'm gonna go with 'when they had the underwater adventure.'
It went to shit after first two seasons.
>>48295823
It had fucking Evanescence as the trailer music
I thought it was going bad with Metro Nui, but then they had the spider things which was based. After that it was just pretty dank until SPOOPY MUTANT WATER SCRUBS
Homestuck. The story just gets way too fucking convoluted and the ending is garbage, but the actually setting itself is pretty interesting.
>>48295823
>>48296012
I really didn't mind the underwater arc. I thought the villains for it looked great.
I think one of the most poorly pulled off things is how the Mata Nui robot had the entire universe inside of it - but because we didn't know about the robot yet, for 8 years half the world was just underground for no apparent reason.
![the galacios [sic].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/QAX0m5K.jpg "the galacios [sic].jpg")
>>48291360
>The Galochios are a family of wandering gypsy psychics who hold a violent grudge against the Aquatos, Raz's family. According to Augustus, they murdered his entire family and cursed him and all of his descendents to die in water. This curse manifests itself through the Hand of Galochio. While they do not physically appear in the game themselves, Augustus implies they are still actively hunting him and his family. A poster in the Meat Circus advertises a group called "The Galochios." This poster also states they are "dead." This is peculiar, especially considering the poster advertising "The Flying Aquatos" says the same thing. The fact that both families appear to have performed in the same circus also raises some interesting questions.
>The family is never seen by the player and make no direct appearance in the actual game, but their presence is felt throughout. The Galochios are Augustus' biggest motivation against allowing Raz to go to camp. They are why Raz believes his father hates psychics. And most notably, they are the reason Raz cannot enter deep water.
I want to play a Psychonauts campaign right now
>>48293029
leviathan wakes and the second or third book of the Takeshi Kovacs series is all about that.
>>48295224
parts of it were fucking brilliant, then they would slather the gaps in the lore with DREADFUL SJW BULLSHIT AND DIARRHEA SPACKLE FEATURING WHO DARES ENTER MY MAGICAL REALM ELECTRO-SWING MARIACHI TRIBUTE BAND EXPERIENCE.
>>48295209
I saw it as it was originally airing, and thought it was cool. if ventrue hadnt died and we would have gotten another season, i bet it would have hit its stride, and we would have had werewolves and mages ripping shit up
>>48292517
Yet all the EXA_PICO world are good. And "magic" there is just the way they describe their lost technologies after most society suffered a massive technical regression after two near-world ending catastrophes.
>>48294107
They hired an actual writer for the Grimoire cards, and so there's a consistent narrative and themes that continue to turn up, that all consistently hint at a larger picture, but one that still leaves the mysteries deep.
It takes philosophical concepts and merges them with science, mathematics, faith, mythology, and just a whole lot of almost-nonsense, and creates a feel like you can kind of get the universe, but still need a few extra senses and a brain a thousand times more intelligent to actually have an understanding of what's going on in the setting, to comprehend it on a deeper level. It's actually some solid Scifi, and it plays its elements well. The Grimoire entries for The Last Word are unsettling, but also wear their spaghetti western influence like a sheriff's badge. The "No Time to Explain" gun is basically a weapon caught in a paradoxical time-loop. The Book of Sorrows gives you a step-by-step of how The Hive became the Hive, and you can actually understand them to a degree.
I wish you could interact with the world in more ways than simple violence. For the intelligence written into the story we don't see in game, you would expect to be able to interact with the world in smarter ways than simple brute-force. Or at least apply that brute force more cleverly. It's begging for wider plains of exploration, more items and uses and economy, a more complex interaction with players and the environment.
>>48296050
The original canon had the whole world 'underground' already, only not inside a robot.
Originally, everything was inside a giant dome, and there were many other domes, each with their own 'universe' and Great Spirit guardian.
>>48295252
Seconding this. I have no idea how Nasu created such an amazing setting, and has a complete inability to actually fucking do anything interesting with it. Seriously holy shit, what a waste.
Does mass effect count?
The first one was good, but the third as pretty bad comparatively.
>>48295823
The 2005 arc was when they had no pre-planned story. I mean, I liked the setting and the story they threw together was neat, but the entire arc felt incredibly out of place. Very obvious that it was just mandated by Lego. Also that was then things started getting edgy.
The 2006 story had very nice bits, but again, the presentation was too tryhard dark and that's when they threw out almost all of the original atmosphere in favor of generic, flavorless science-fantasy crap that tried too hard to be grimdark.
Still, I can look past these. For me, 2008 was when even the setting (cliffs in the sky and generic swamp) became irredeemably boring, and the retarded internet serials took a heavy toll on the story.
People often consider this franchise shit.
But I think the setting would make for good game mechanics.
Plus who wouldn't want to be kids growing up with your robot slaves being forced to fight each other for parts?
>>48298537
Mass Effect was good until they pulled a JK Rowling and shoehorned in a bunch of shit from nowhere, crunched for time and basically handed the story to one person who could write scifi but couldn't really write the kind of story that had so far been consistently established, which led to a story that was clichéd, melodramatic for cheap drama points, and ultimately the ending which is a massive case of videogame blueballs.
>>48299542
what the fuck is that? Google's showing me nothing.
>>48299629
It's fan art of Medabots based on one episode.
>>48297758
>>48293650
Well, seeing as I've listed these video games, I've played through them, which means I enjoyed them a modicum.
I just listed them as they were either not critically well received (somewhere), or there's a vocal minority that dislikes them and seems to be everywhere they are.
I'm glad you enjoyed those games too.
Ar Nosurge was a beast of a game.
>>48295823
It started going downhill in 2007 with the underwater stuff, sure. But it didn't truly become shit until 2009 when they tried to soft reboot the setting. And then it got even worse when they had to shoehorn in a rushed ending to the entire story a year and a half later.
Spiral Knights
>Our space cruiser has suddenly and inexplicably run out of fuel as we entered an uncharted system
>Before all was lost, we were able to enter the orbit of a strange planet
>It appears to be mechanical, with continents pieced together from different worlds moving up, down, and around various levels on a kind of massive clockworks
>We have no way of surviving outside of our biosuits, and most of the natives of the planet are hostile, whether they're sapients, animals, or supernatural monsters
>However, there is some kind of massive energy source at the 'core' of the artificial planet
>The only way to survive is to look downwards
>>48294328
I liked 2 better than Inquisition. Considering inquisition was full of things i hate, that facebook game table, resource hunt, mmo style leveling system, wide world but forgettable and boring, i've had enough of this shit when i played Amalur.
The companions were also dull as fuck. At least 2 felt comfy.
>>48299542
The was a medabots game, I owned it as a kid but my little bro and I never learned/read the rules.
>>48295638
I was appalled by the lack of axe-dwarves.
Nobody mentioned Naruto? The source material is pretty bad but the setting is legit good.
>>48302436
Only if you're a ninjaboo.
>>48302436
Naruto setting was vaguely interesting in the first half or so, but quickly turned into DBZ, in the bad way, later on. It still maintained several interesting concepts, but they were overshadowed by all the stupid powers like giant chakra mechs.
>>48294570
Nobody really minded the land area existing I think. I thought of them as a fun addition, good for NPCs and quests.
It was making them the focus and title of a whole expansion that got me. There was so much more to their world that would have been more appropriate. Hell. I could have shit out a better premise.
Outlands Reborn, a mysterious Ethereal trader guild has decided to back the Horde, while the free Arrakoa have joined the Alliance! The shattered remains of Draenor once again see battle as through the twisting nether, a new continent collides into the floating lands! Who will claim the riches of the new land, and is everything as it seems! What lurks below the surface?
But now there's... time travel? Dual realities? How can I care about anything if we can just undo shit in time and be invaded by clones from the mirror universe. Nothing carries weight then.
![[DC] 01[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/xlpBtdd.jpg "[DC] 01[1].jpg")
>>48291124
>Virtual Reality everywhere
>Illegal adventurers looting bugs in VR frame for fun and profit
>VR Cops
>Not-so-VR ghosts
The shows wasn't exactly shit but they could have done so much more with the setting.
>>48303268
>Land area
I meant the pandas. Autocorrect can be really stupid at times.
>>48293572
As of Volume4 it looks like we've left Hogwarts, hopefully forever; would mean we get to start actually exploring around and seeing what the rest of the world is like instead of relying on the World of Remnant vids for context.
>>48302771
replace ninjas with wizard mercenaries
>>48291706
No, it's less interesting that X-Men in every way, and plays all of the most tired and boring anime cliches straight-faced and unapologetically.
>>48302436
The setting has some good parts, but I feel like you've been enchanted by those parts and are ignoring all the bad parts. Not an overall 'bad' setting persay, but not at all better than mediocre if you scrutinize it all.
i wish i was kidding
>>48303394
Yeah, I have hopes for V4. Based on what we've seen from what they have decided to show us they have switched animation software and it seems to have improved the animation quality. I think they are using Maya now. Though with Monty, Shane & Dillon gone that is really up in the air. I've also heard that they are hiring actual VA's now instead of pulling staff members.
Also timeskip confirmed.
>>48291538
>tumblr nose
goddamnit anon, that isn't tumblr nose
are you just parroting buzzwords without understanding them again
>>48295638
This. I pirated it and I still felt ripped off.
>>48302420
This also.
>>48292434
This. The Wonder descriptions in the Civpedia honestly contain some of the best sci-fi story/spitballing I've read.
I'd like to try running a game set in the EVE universe.
>>48304451
i wouldnt say eve is shit, though i admit it takes WAY to long to get into and unless your spoonfed is no way "newbro" friendly
Setting is nice though.
>>48304384
Its not a big timeskip, just a few months.
![Black-Stag[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/sUj84dp.jpg "Black-Stag[1].jpg")
>>48302415
I bought some of the figures because the looked cool.
There was also a card game.
>>48292517
Neptunia is fucking fantastic as a setting. I just wish it will actually grow some balls and bare it's teeth to do some merciless jabs at shitty and western developers.
Unfortunately, it seems like it'll stay forever in the realm of "cute girls doing cute things."
Conquest End Best End.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_CbMMZ0WgQ
Maybe I'm a filthy nostalgiafag, but I loved the Jak & Daxter setting. It had a lot of things going for it before Naughty Dog dumped it entirelyI JUST WANT A CURRENT GEN JAK GAME DAMMIT. The setting was all over the place but each game had its own little flavor. TPL with its medium-fantasy low-steampunk mix. Jak II moved to the grimy dystopian future, and was probably the best in the series IMO. Jak III stayed with that dystopian feel while upping the fantasy a bit and adding the whole Mad Max aesthetic with the wasteland. Jak X was pretty good and making it essentially a serious Mario Kart was fun. I refuse to even acknowledge the Last Frontier as a legitimate Jak game, namely because ND handed it off to some noname company that buchered it while ND was jerking off over Uncharted.
It'd be hard to decide upon a system to use if I tried to run a J&D campaign, and even harder to find anyone even remotely as interested in the games as me.
>>48304990
Duuuude, Jak and Daxter had such a great setting. I didn't think about it until now, but the semi-gritty far future/long gone past crossbreed worked really well together.
>>48302436
The Naruto setting also doesn't hold up under scrutiny. Essentially, it makes no sense once you really think about it.
>>48293029
You want Takeshi Kovacks 2: Broken Angels if that intrigues you. The first book (Altered Carbon) is also good, so read it first.
Don't bother with the third book.
>>48304990
WAIT A MINUTE
Who do you think they were shit, those were great!
>>48291124
A historical documentary on the wars and conquests of a fantasy kingdom.
First book features some thirty-keikaku pileup as about ten or twelve different factions, not all of which are aware of the others, all have designs on a city and the people in it. Highlights include one man's romantic comedy plot being suddenly interrupted by some elder thing busting free from the earth, and one man conning a god twice.
>>48294138
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>>48302360
I honestly preferred DA2 to DAO.
Its reuse of maps was annoying, but I found the writing and plot vastly superior and its concepts and art direction refreshing, where DAO just felt like Bioware ripping off The Witcher and Lord of the Rings with a halfarsed approximation for a Baldur's Gate style combat system.
Not only do you spend most of the game fighting some boring horde of absolute evil, but the way everyone always fawned over the (overwhelmingly populated by criminals and outcasts) Grey Wardens was immersion-breaking as fuck. The only DAO party member that didn't feel like a chore to talk to was Sten and the game consistently and blatantly ignores the origin stories.
By comparison, DA2 was a more focused experience, with more interesting character interactions and more politics than rah rah evil horde.
A war raged across time itself and cool enemies like mutant nazis in tanks and people who turned themselves into cyborgs in a desperate attempt to survive. Shame they have to be technobabbled toi death by the doctor whenever they show up.
>>48293529
SAO's setting was always good. It was the characters that made it bad. I hate Kirito, I liked Asuna before she stopped being badass, I can't even name the little girl character she was so forgettable, it was just a mess.
Only character arc I liked in that show was the subplot about being somehow tainted by using a gun even if it was used in self-defense to save a life. Neat little East versus West difference in viewpoints.
The Secret World, though I'm kind of stretching the "shit" because I actually enjoy the game and play it, albeit not religiously as some do with mmorpgs.
Really most of the bad the setting and plot has is because it is an mmo.
Wasted potential in that regard.
>>48291124
League of Legends.
>>48305583
>image caption
>all conventionally attractive
Bioware's tumblr pandering in a nutshell.
>>48293572
Saw this post without its predecessors, thought it was going to be Name of the Wind.
>>48304344
The main reason Ben10 had an interesting setting is that all of the aliens came with their own backstories and place in a larger world. Mostly from revisiting popular villains of previous arcs. I mean, would the planet of "no, ben, you are the monster" even exist if Ghostfreak hadn't made a better villain than power up?
>>48305583
>male notTiefling is a hunched over muscle beast
>female notTiefling is just a tall supermodel who does light aerobics
>male Dwarf is twice as wide as his Human counterpart and strongfat
>female Dwarf is just a short Human woman with wider hips and shoulders
REEEEE
>>48306413
That's Bioware for you
>>48293161
We made a homebrew like that here once, around five years ago. It was zany in other ways, the sky was a dome with light bulbs for stars. But there were all kinds of talking redwallish animals living everywhere and taking care of it, while the humans went on adventures inspired by American folklore (eg Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan, or the Lone Ranger). Would be cool to bring back or build on.
>>48305066
How so? I know the Daimyo stuff always threw me off, the tailed beasts were obviously a retcon to make a larger story arc, and there's timeline weirdness with Orochimaru's banishment, Anko's genin team, and the experiments that gave Yamato his woodies, but otherwise it seemed self-consistent.
Pretty easy to understand. Ninja clans hate each other, a 'let's be nice'-guy gets people to band together for mutual protection in the naive belief that having bonds across clan lines will lead to a safer world, it kind of works in that child murder happens less even if there's still child soldiers, all the other clans notice the new "village" tech is way too strong and gang up together to copy their success, series starts three generations in to this new power of friendship/pragmatic alliance arms war.
>>48306511
Completely third party here.
Why are they even called ninjas in the first place? They more like pseudo Rogue Mage types.
They even have to have a 'Black ops' team to do the ACTUAL ninja stuff
>>48306413
FYI, names of species are not proper nouns. It's just human, cat, dog, elf, dwarf, etc.
>>48306287
LoL has no lore to speak since the Institute of War got retconned.
>>48293389
I think the theme of the show is to take inspiration that is usually considered "watered down" these days (brothers grimm and other fairy tale stories), start it off seeming like the same kid friendly stuff with action mixed in, the slowly devolve it into something heart-wrenching a horrible. Y'know, the way those old fairy tales USED to be before disney butchered them.
Anyone who's read the original stories knows what I'm talking about. Shit gets dark. RWBY spent 2-3 seasons getting fans to like and care for the characters, so it will be all the more horrible when they reach back to the source material and start going Game of Thrones with the entire cast.
>>48306552
I think they were called ninjas mostly because they use ninjutsu as the in-universe magic equivalent. It's like how making for yourself makes you a cook, even if chefs are the ones who cook for others professionally. If you use abilities created by ninja, then you are a ninja as well, even if you don't use them for true ninja stuff.
Mmm...I'm reminded of how the original Magus Killer invented the term "Magic User" to describe himself instead of the more common "Magus" to acknowledge that despite technically meeting the criteria of a Magus his dismissal of the accompanying ideals meant the term didn't really fit him.
Dota.
Two suicidal cosmic entities mind control half population each start a holy war against each other .
War is madness and not needed. War is essetial because it has an end and we finaly can rest after.
Thank god we have final battle tommorow and we can win or loose and blissfull tranquility starts.
>>48294585
The actual book it's based on could only go for maybe 13 episodes so they had to stretch it out.
>>48291631
>>48291706
>>48293572
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>>48304384
Generally I find the show and it's setting to be shit it's essentially has the lazy backstory of every fantasy anime in existence. The world isn't explained in the slightest, only existing to create a plot for the show because God knows seasons 1 and 2 didn't have one. The only thing that could possibly hold the show together is the characters and they are pretty one-dimensional and are only there to look cute.
>>48308569
RWBY is (or was, RIP) basically about Monty's FF OC donut steels having crazy fights with crazy weapons and occasionally dancing. It was a mess of ideas that were swimming in his head for years and RT helped him make his baby real since he helped them out with RvB.
The plot and setting were just there to act as a frame for all the fighting/dancing. He outright said the Grimm were just a plot device to give the characters a punching bag, and the map was a fucking ketchup stain.
His death was sad but Monty's priorities really weren't conducive to what most would consider a "good show".
>>48309331
>and the map was a fucking ketchup stain.
fucking kek
there's worse ways to make a world, i guess
>>48291190
God, what a fucking disappointment that was.
>>48306583
But the names of races are.Depends on the setting.
>>48309440
Some better, some worse, but none as tasty.
>>48309331
So what you're telling me is that it's shit and I shouldn't get into it?
>>48309331
Fuck that gook. He had an interesting project that he abandoned to make way for babby's first animu.
He earned his death.
>>48309550
>It's actually real
>>48309573
Its shit, but I enjoyed it anyway and something resembling a real plot appears after RT assumed control. S4 might actually be good.
>>48305583
While I don't think I have to go into why the gameplay is shit, Storywise, I found it terrible for three reasons.
1) The whole point was a rags to riches story for hawke, but that was all done off screen. We go through act one, get the cash and the quest, then 10 years later he's the super celebrity. We didn't play through any of it.
2) The Mage v Templar issue was handled terribly. Instead of a grey morality setting, we get a black v black morality where almost everybody is an absolute asshole and/or drooling retard.
There is no reason to care about either side, and I was constantly asking myself what reason would my character have to not just take their vast amount money, bail and go back to Ferelden.
The worst part is that the grey morality was handled vastly better in DA:O, where you saw the best and worst of both sides, and most importantly made sure you knew the leaders and majority of both sides were reasonable people. The most poignant scene was the Templar Commander refusing to harm the mages once Ulric was dead, and making it clear that his and Irving's antagonism was purely professional, not personal.
3) The three acts, save for a few minor anchor scenes, felt thematically disconnected.
You jump from each one with barely any links in between.
if not for the party members, I would have felt like I may as well have been playing three tiny expansions rather than a full game.
To contrast, DA:O was nothing groundbreaking, but what it did was done competently.
>>48299542
The guy who made Gurren lagann was involved as at least the animation lead. and it was pretty great until production IG redid it and dropped half the cast.
>i personally love sassy black metabee
>>48291124
Pic not related, of course.
>>48309817
Mage v Templar in DAII was black and white.
Every single mage in that city besides your sister (and that one guy just trying to get laid in a bar) was a wrist slitting demonfucker or one dropped cookie away from becoming one. Meredith was absolutely correct and only went evil because she picked up the crazyrock that was potent enough to make a dwarf snap instantly.
>>48309657
What project?
>>48309960
No, Meredith was explicitly insane, power hungry and corrupt; the other templars even moreso.
It was her good fortune that her scapegoat happened to be accurate.
>>48309764
Problem is they aren't great at plots either.
>>48310015
Power hungry, maybe, but I don't remember any hints of insanity or corruption prior to that sword.
>>48310007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHA3opXjcd0
Have fun.
>>48310123
The main two hints are her trying to threaten Alistair, and the fact that she either ordered, or just doesn't care about, the Templars antagonising mages and going after the genuinely innocent ones.
She was either insane, corrupt, or incredibly fucking stupid to let things get to the point that they did.
Granted, this being bioware, I'm willing to accept that any character is an idiot unless proven otherwise.
I'll never forget one moment, which showed how Bioware was capable of ruining the immersion via their shitty game mechanics.
Some Templars were shaking down a blatantly innocent mage, you intervene, and they suddenly pull about 30 more Templars out their ass, some of which are Elite or higher.
Because Bioware can't into difficulty, we somehow have the Templars being dumb enough to bring sufficient manpower to take down a Pride Demon to deal with someone they knew for a fact was innocent.
>>48310217
>Dead Fantasy
>a Final Fantasy crossover consisting entirely of fight scenes
>"interesting project"
It's great for what it is, but that's all it is. I had assumed you were talking about something else that I didn't already know about, like another series with an actual story and setting that were better than RWBY.
>>48310339
>consisting entirely of fight scenes
You never sat there and wondered why Hayate took Yuna? I'm sorry, anon. There was more to be explored there.
Instead, we got RWBY.
>>48310376
>Yuna
*Tifa
hurr, im a durr
So much wasted potential, and the plot just fucking dragged on and on, with few fights in-between.
Not all that hopeful for S2 to be any better.
>>48310645
Stop spamming
>>48310671
Nigger I misposted in ONE thread.
>>48310645
I dunno. I think the plot was pretty coherent at least. That's more than most gundam shows can claim.
My main criticism is that it played it way too safe with its characters. When gundam is at its best it usually goes wild with the characters (this is why Gundam Zeta will always remain the best gundam).
I prefer my gundam MC:s young, emotional and suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
>>48310715
Yeah, but there was way too much exposition; too much telling, not enough showing. That, and what could have been done within a few episodes was STRETCHED OUT WELL OVER HALF OF THE SEASON. Seriously, the boring-ass space travel with all the fucking detours was the worst.
>>48306644
I really don't care about that, you could make your own with the setting they have,
>>48306552
Naruto was originally going to be a fantasy adventure manga about mages, but got turned into a ninja-esque thing because of the parallels it had with the then booming Harry Potter books.
>>48309482
You overhyped it.
It was O.K.
It wasn't the second coming of Christ though.
Remember; hype kills.
