The coolest looking genre?

[dpmcalister]

Pirates. You can't get much cooler looking than pirates

 

[Numion]

I liked the visuals of Aliens very much, but I don't know what particular genre it belongs to. Realistic weapons (vs. press the red button and enemy disappears), with a strong human element against the complex technological environment. Plus, of course, the aliens themselves grant for some pretty stunning visuals.

 

[Hairfoot]

Any genre that combines guns and swords.

I agree.

Games Workshop get close with their 40K stuff. I adore the visuals of Necromunda - cyberpunk but...good. Not mired in that sort of cheesey 80's cyberpunk style where the internet has become a gateway to superhuman powers and a semi-digital existence, instead of the clunky, flawed, market-driven vehicle for porn and advertising which we now know it is.

 

[Darth Mikey]

Post Apocalyptic. Gamma World, Fallout CRPG (series), Mad Max movies.

Our world is gone. The recognizable world around you is shattered and destroyed. It exists now as a backdrop for the adventures of gritty, battered heroes in piecemeal armor, some armed with flintlocks, some with swords and some with laser pistols.

Villains range from disfigured demigogues leading a horde of mutant followers to deranged cleaning robots armed with disintigrators.

It is our flawed and broken world, but with a different fantasy feel to it. There is no magic, but that which you find inside you. Courage, Hope and Determination.

Plus, what other genre could let you have a siberian tiger moreau armed with twin grenade launchers, backed up by a mutated squirrel with two heads piloting a gunship?

And the pair hunting down a deranged chihuahua moreau and his legion of mutant rebels.

 

[jdrakeh]

For me, it's easily Victorian Age mystery (ala Sherlock Holmes) or adventure fiction from the era (ala King Solomon's Mines). How can you not love foiling evil in the fog-shrouded streets of Victorian London, battling through leagues of cannibal savages in the distant African interior, or working to reveal the re-organized Thugee of 19th century India?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Whatever genre this is.

 

[Lord Mhoram]

Superheroes.

Nothing is cooler looking than people running around in spandex throughing building and shooting energy out of thier bodies.

 

[MonsterMash]

I like the renaissance look of Warhammer FRP personally.

 

[John Desmarais]

What do you think is the coolest looking genre?

No contest: 1930s Pulp-Adventure

 

[Ry]

Steampunk - either the wild west kind or the mixed victorian kind, take your pick.