Gatheryn' steam (not the Valve kind)

[UnSub]

Steampunk could be a quirky and interesting genre for MMOs to explore. Gatheryn is doing down this path in a F2P / Wizard101 kind of way.

Some info from Massively. Originally they planned to launch this year, but I don't know how that stands right now.

EDIT: because I can't close tags.

[schild]

Gatheryn is going to be a free-to-play game. Yes, that's right, a free-to-play steampunk MMO.

See, sentences and phrases like this are why I can't read massively.

Also, complete and total meh.



Indie MMOGs, always winners.

[UnSub]

But everyone gets a top hat!

[NiX]

We could be fancy, Schild. Fancy!

[damijin]

I'll just leave this here... http://www.remnantsofskystone.com/blog/

[JWIV]

This is only going to lead me to reinstall Arcanum.

[UnSub]

Beta sign-up.

The world of Gatheryn awaits.

[Nebu]

Looks like a poor man's Renoir Online.

[Ghambit]

Ummm... where's the Steampunk?

[PalmTrees]

From a post on massively:

savarage0 said on 11:13PM 5-23-2009

The agreement has this in it word for word "You acknowledge that Mindfuse may, in its discretion, charge a fee for the Beta Materials and/or participation in the Beta Program, and your continued participation in the Beta Program is contingent on your payment of such fee(s)"

Also their website is remarkably uninformative. There's no mention of the game mechanics such as whether there are classes or whatever. They just mention there's gonna be crafting mini-games.

[Modern Angel]

Ummm... where's the Steampunk?

See, the less steampunk there is the more I'm interested. Because steampunk is fucking stupid.

[Falconeer]

See, the less steampunk there is the more I'm interested. Because steampunk is fucking stupid.

Shut up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eidolon

[Falconeer]

or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_Dreams

[Tarami]

I'm with Falconeer on this one. Steampunk is awesome.

[UnSub]

Looks like a poor man's Renoir Online.

I would encourage everyone to go and look at the screenshots.

Free Realms is the kind of title that will bury Gatheryn (unless the steampunk audience is larger and more dedicated that I believe).

[raydeen]

The robots look pretty kick-ass. I'm signing up.

I've never been much into steampunk but a similar style that I love is that of Leiji Matsumoto. I always loved how retro his sci-fi stuff looked. All dials and levers and push buttons. I'd love to see an MMO set in the Yamato/Harlock/G.E.999 universe.

[Stormwaltz]

or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_Dreams

I wanted that game badly in high school. Never did find a copy.

[Falconeer]

Let's do it, Stormwaltz. Gotta love the Internet and being adults with wages.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Ultima-Worlds-of-Adventure-2-Martian-Dreams-Complete-PC_W0QQitemZ200327874776QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_Vintage_Video_Games?hash=item2ea478c8d8&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72:1205|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318|301:1|293:1|294:50#ht_4268wt_1166

http://cgi.ebay.com/Ultima-Worlds-of-Adventure-2-Martians-Dreams-PC-Game_W0QQitemZ220407558754QQcmdZViewItemQQptZVideo_Games_Games?hash=item3351507262&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72:1205|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318|301:1|293:1|294:50#ht_500wt_924

[Musashi]

What the fuck do pipes and gears have to do with punks?

It's an art style.  I get it.  It's also not that interesting.

I take that back.

The pipes and gears are interesting.  But the punks are not.

[Falconeer]

Steampunk, the term, was a spinoff of cyberpunk.

[Musashi]

Punks who cyber?

Still stupid.

In a perfect world, this happens:

[Falconeer]

So you have a mouth fingers. Interesting.

[Morfiend]

What the fuck do pipes and gears have to do with punks?

It's an art style.  I get it.  It's also not that interesting.

I take that back.

The pipes and gears are interesting.  But the punks are not.

 
 
 

[Modern Angel]

Steampunk, the term, was a spinoff of cyberpunk.

The fuck it was. It's the latest expression of bored, white, middle class ennui and pining for a time when stuff "meant something man". It has absolutely nothing to do with the mostly overrated but based in real fears of corporate abuse that is cyberpunk. Instead, itt's throwing a bunch of fat goth chicks into frills and top hats while simultaneously finding a way to make them more boring which, as a former DJ in that scene, I can attest should not be fucking possible because they're the most boring people imaginable.

If you like steampunk you are a bad person and should probably kill yourself because you really don't have much to look forward to.

See this?


If you call that cool you are broken.

[Tale]

Steampunk, the term, was a spinoff of cyberpunk.

The fuck it was.

The term got attention due to this novel. At the time, William Gibson's Neuromancer was the biggest thing in sci-fi for decades and Bruce Sterling was another cyberpunk writer. The public had never heard of the internet. But for cyberpunk readers like me who picked up The Difference Engine, there was a promising new genre in it. Today it's overdone by Boing Boing etc, so it's just annoying. But it was cool in 1991.

[schild]

Is that Abraham Lincoln with some kind of jetpack / possibly Steam Power Arms for the Punching of Faces?

If you don't think that's cool, I'm 1,500% sure you just have bad taste. Really bad taste.

Also, Modern Angel has no fucking clue what steampunk is itt.

[Bzalthek]

I'm sure a sprocket touched him in a bad place once upon a time.

[Ingmar]

Abe Lincon + jetpack = automatic win.

[Endie]

Modern Angel has been exposed to Steampunk Goths, who are hilariously stupid-looking (always been more of a darkwave person myself).

It is easy to find funny examples of all goth sub-cultures, of course, but - without sinking to the lol-fatty pictures - cyberpunk looks more fancy-dress party than most:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/hottopic_shockhound_production/images/366995/Steampunk.jpg

http://www.impactlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/steampunk-20.jpg

http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs37/f/2008/268/9/6/steam_punk_or_dandy_goth_by_Wilhelmvs.jpg


This is fun, though: http://idleparis.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/datamancer-pc.jpg

[K9]

If you call that cool you are broken.

I call it awesome.

http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs37/f/2008/268/9/6/steam_punk_or_dandy_goth_by_Wilhelmvs.jpg

I think that is the jolliest goth I have ever seen.

[Modern Angel]

I maintain: you are all hideously broken people who will die alone, unloved, shrieking about etherships as you're cast into the pits of Hell.

[Hindenburg]

I'm afraid you've made your intent a bit too obvious with your last post.

[Modern Angel]

That was over the top. But steampunk is still really stupid. Gay 90s nostalgia was more fun in the 70s.



I mean look at that. LOOK AT IT!

[Hindenburg]

as a former DJ in that scene

Also, the usual "name a culture. Any culture. There'll be retarded examples of it." diatrite.

Gay 90s nostalgia was more fun in the 70s.

Wut

[Modern Angel]

I'm saying that somehow, someway, inexplicable nostalgia for the 1890s was cooler when Lawrence Welk was trotting out white people to sing in full hoop skirt regalia than it is when neckbeardy nerds are making shit out of vintage stereos so they can get back in touch with something real.