Home › Forums › The Smoking Room › Where has the world-building creativity in games gone? › Reply To: Where has the world-building creativity in games gone?

I think you are partly right CK Lai on the Lovecraft being open to use. However, I also think it is more so that Lovecraftain monsters have finally hit critical mass in terms of popularity in geek culture that it has become a comfortable setting for games to be created from. Which is all the more weird given that it is supposed to be a strange and inherently disorienting setting.
I am still amazing that there is such a thing as generic fantasy. I mean it is fantasy which is supposed to be about the fantastic, but when we talk about books, games, and other media it almost always means a European-ish medieval place with wizards, elves, dwarves, etc. all of which conform to fairly narrow guidelines set down by works more than 30 years ago.
Universal Head is correct much of these fantasy settings are largely superficial in the differences. It is like a dozen different flavors of vanilla ice cream. There is nothing wrong with vanilla ice cream and everyone is going to have their own favorite brand of vanilla ice cream. Many are even likely to have vanilla ice cream as their favorite ice cream. Oh, and sci-fi would be like chocolate ice cream.
I still think there are a bunch of flavors to choose from, though; I also, as a customer, think their could be more variety in flavors rather than more variations on vanilla and chocolate.
Log in or Register
Recent Topics
- Guess what..one year has passed..
- Core Space: First Born Kickstarter
- AT-43, Confrontation and Age of Ragnarok stuff
- Machina Arcana 3rd Edition
- Greetings from Germany
- Looking for player for a Descent 1st Edition Road to Legend Campaign
- Airbrush has changed everything…
- Finally in my collection
- The Last Great Hoard of AT-43 and Confrontation?
- Mission: Red Planet 2nd edition – foam board inserts
Recent Replies
- Wrath of Kings and Dark Age from CMON
- Wrath of Kings and Dark Age from CMON
- Guess what..one year has passed..
- Guess what..one year has passed..
- Guess what..one year has passed..
- Core Space: First Born Kickstarter
- Airbrush has changed everything…
- Airbrush has changed everything…
- Airbrush has changed everything…
- Airbrush has changed everything…
Recent Comments