The coolest looking genre?

[Job]

Modern day, end-of-the-world confrontations between cults, terrorists, and otherworldly creatures and technology vs. everyday-joe investigators who are struggling to understand and stop the madness. Horror, evil organizations, despicable villains, gunplay, car chases, computer hacking, and a sense of the ticking clock.

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[ForceUser]

I really liked the look of The Matrix. I also like the Victorian look--in fact, I'd have to say that Victorian-era steampunk might be my favorite genre as far as visuals go.

 

[WayneLigon]

Dungeonpunk
Steampunk

I love the ornate look of both the theatrical Dune movie and Chronicles of Riddick.

Superheroes. Love the infinite variations on costumes.

The Age of Sail, with some Musketeer thrown into that.

 

[Mark Hope]

I really love the cross-genre look of the Torg game. Some of the artwork in those books, with cyber-werewolves fighting alongside reptilian paladins in power armour on top of a crashing zeppelin was just great. I recall one particularly bloody battle during The Possibility Chalice, where a lone elven swordsman took down a charging squad of mounted knights who came at him firing uzis from horseback.

Must play more Torg soon. Must play...

 

[Crothian]

I like the look of Film Noir.

THe winner. Noir has the coolest look to it.

 

[Darth Shoju]

I'm a pretty big fan of eastern Asian styles. The Japanese samurai has always been one of my favourites; from their exotic armour to the simple symmetry of their kimmonos. Not to mention I think katanas are some of the most beautiful weapons in the world (odd to call a weapon beautiful I guess, but there it is). I also like some imagery found in Chinese culture; from the architecture and art (that goes for Japan too) to the dress of their beaurocrats and nobility (long robes, long hair, long nails; it all says "I don't do any manual labour and I am proud of it"). Also the grace of Wuxia fighting and weapons is cool.

As far as futuristic settings, I'm very much NOT a fan of the pristine style of Star Trek. Particularily the generic-looking Star Fleet uniforms. I enjoy the variety of Star Wars, although I consider that more space fantasy. For more basic Sci-Fi I prefer the Babylon 5/Firefly style; the military uniforms *look* like true military uniforms, and the dress of common people feels right (no monochrome unitard things).

I also enjoy the Western style; particularily in Eastwood's "Spaghetti" Westerns.

 

[Testament]

Visually? Some very cool ones are Victorian Englans, especially Victorian Horror (mmm, Victorian Age Vampire and Rippers...). Long dark mist alleyways, coats, canes and hats. From Hell would have to be a visual zenith for it.

Visually I've always loved anything to do with Samurai, from Kurosawa's triumphs with The Seven Samurai and Ran, to one of my absolute favourite anime ever made, Ruroni Kenshin. The elegant designs of their armour, kimono, and swords, contrasted with the violence of a swordfight. Kenshin in particular just took it up to a stylised extreme, making the fights beautiful too, until their aftermaths, especially with the two OVAs.

Of any recent Sci-Fi, I don't think anything has visually captured me like Firefly did. It's the freaking anti-Trek! Rverything's dirty, second-hand (at best), rough and ready and works as a result of constant mainetenance and prayer. The fusion of Wild West and Space made for something fantastic.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

I like Classical Fantasy best, like Dragonlance.

 

[Scribe Ineti]

I'm a total sucker for sword fights and epic battles, so I really gotta go with medieval-flavored epic fantasy. Nothing quite like getting dirty and grimy, hearing the clash of steel on steel and hearing the rain plink off plate armor.

Peter Jackson's LOTR films really hit it off for me in terms of look and feel. Tolkien aside, the films are largely how I visualized most of my D&D games when I played and ran D&D.

 

[Herobizkit]

I would go for anime as a preferred visual style. Let's face it, anime is the only genre that makes powerful magical attacks look, well, powerful. Anime can cover other sub-genres as well... near-realistic to chibi off-the-wall humour.

Personally, I find the stuff of Final Fantasy (the games and the upcoming movie) to be my "ideal" gaming world... combining Swords and Sorcery with steam-, mana-, and cyberpunk (to a lesser degree), overlaid in a modern world in places and a completely barren and savage world in others... yeah, that's the stuff.