Thursday, December 13, 2012

Victorian, Steampunk, bandwagon...

Really only after researching for our final paper did I see something that interested me, literally EVERYTHING coming out now, that is worth a playthrough anyways, is somehow Victorian or steampunk. Why so popular now? Seriously...

  • Heres a list
  • Dishonoured
  • Alice: Madness Returns
  • Bioshock 1,2, and Infinite 
  • Diablo 3
  • Torchlight 2
  • Metro 2033
  • ...

The list is long and I really don't understand where this came from. Everyone is all like, oh steampunk! YEAH! Which I get Steampunk is like the coolest thing ever. Just why the sudden infatuation? I really can not figure it out. Perhaps this is just a cycle art is taking? I'm not sure of other art forms, but I know music follows a very nice circular path where every few generations we "recycle" older styles and they become popular again. This is the most reasonable assumption I can make. Unless of course, Professor you are really behind it all.
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  1. UnknownDecember 20, 2012 at 8:43 AM

    Hard to say, but steampunk is totally the in thing right now. I think has something to do with how steampunk humanizes machines -- we as a society are always scared of how different they are from us.

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