One of the reasons I love the time period is that legends and ghosts were something of a big deal. The main reason I am so interested in this in online is that there are so many places hinting at legends and myths in the game, there are ghost towns with stories we have never been told, places with ghosts that don't really get to tell their story, a crazy old man who is obviously something more than just an old coot who follows you around with each mission, and there are also the abandoned homes of people who obviously have an eccentric flare that we never get to meet. True, R* likes to throw in strange things to throw off the story just a little bit and I really enjoy this. and revisit this idea later in the life cycle of online. Include interesting, well made story missions and voilà, a great update.īut first they need to set the groundwork with outlaw, lawman etc. Like a mystical man searching for weird things or a steampunk guy where you build and unlock interesting items. Later down the line they could add a specialist role dedicated to this type of stuff. RDR2 story included weird things as well. ![]() I know the whole concept of the wild west is also more of a modern concept, but at least it doesn't rely on the use of technologies and fashions that wouldn't have been so universal at the time. Bottom-line, steampunk is a modern concept that cherry picks things from the past to make something new. You wouldn't find people using guns that were steam powered rather than internal combustion powered. You wouldn't find the average person dressed up in goggles, with gears and cogs decorating their outfit. However, more than any of the above, it simply wasn't a thing in our real world at the time. ![]() A good comparison is how Fallout takes nuclear power and uses it as a main / universal power source for things like cars, batteries (fusion cores and microfusion cells) etc. Steampunk takes modern inventions, and swaps electricity for steam and mechanical energy, when in reality steam was used in very specific applications, not universally. As for tech, while steam was a means of powering machinery, it was used in far different ways than what we see in steampunk. Steampunk takes aspects of the fashion of the time, and fuses things which wouldn't be seen together (think the goggles with a formal outfit, or all the copper and brass ornaments / machine parts adorning the clothing). People were not dressing in a steampunk way. ![]() My main gripe with it is that steampunk itself is not a concept that existed at the time. Well for me personally, its certainly partly to do with tech, though not only that. I think many of you are thinking of the old west of the 1860's -70's instead of the 1890's where we were STARTING the transition into the world we know today but still had much of the culture of the world before ours. or is it the tech? have you seen old photo's of some of the tech shown at the worlds fair, or some of the tech Tesla invented in the 1880's? Just curious, how would steampunk stuff break immersion? most steampunk fashion actually existed at that time(though people like that were viewed as Dandies which from what I can tell were the late 1800's version of hipsters with well to do parents and older siblings who actually run the family business.
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