Things like:
-Thundarr the Barbarian
-Heavy Metal
come to mind. But most any post-apocalyptic scenario with mutants and/or robots work well.
-Fallout series
As well as anything with
Any others?
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surprisingly, for me most of all, X-Files, also Tankgirl, and of course Thundarr and a dash of Thundercats:-)
I see your Fallout and raise you Mad Max.
You bet. Mad Max definitely has the wasteland stuff, and certainly predates and influences Fallout. But I name Fallout as being more similar to Iron Gods since it has stuff like laser guns, mutants, super science, even some aliens, where as Mad Max does not.
I see your Fallout and raise you Mad Max.You bet. Mad Max definitely has the wasteland stuff, and certainly predates and influences Fallout. But I name Fallout as being more similar to Iron Gods since it has stuff like laser guns, mutants, super science, even some aliens, where as Mad Max does not.
so Fallout is a movie? TV Show?
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It's a video game, definitely inspired by post-apocalyptic tales like Mad Max. The first two games were on the PC and are turn-based tactical combat games. The third was designed for consoles, and while the turn-based tactical approach is still available, it's also designed for gamers that cut their teeth on Call of Duty rather than Pool of Radiance.
lol!
you would think i'd know that (working at a toy store like i do), i just don't get video games enough or if i do get them never get to play it or never feel like it (i got Skyrim almost exactly one year ago, i'm 6th level, enough said:-D)
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Yor Hunter From the Future.
Yor Hunter From the Future.
Good one! He's like a caveman who fights dinosaurs and later gets to shoot stormtroopers-knockoffs with laserguns, as I recall. That's the sort of thing I'm thinking about. The weird superscience, wasteland, highmagitek-low-life sorta thing.
There's no magic in it, but I think Hardware is another good one.
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Can't forget Wizards! The ultimate clash of magic and technology!
I'm amazed nobody has said Samurai Jack, though that concept might be a better fit in a Numenera type setting.
Lol. Samurai Jack isn't really a genre. That's why it's so cool. It was set in the future to allow for dismembering violence of robots to get around censors for a children's show, but often there's no technology or marks of civilization at all, with Jack doing his endless walk through pristine forests and beautiful, untouched landscapes.
Though I can where you're going. Sometimes there are desert voids, but really it's "a guy with a sword killing robots" ("Jack and the Ultra-robots" comes to mind as having the right setting). Not unlike an adventuring party, using "antiquated" weapons to fight "futuristic" robots. Jack absolutely has the fish out of water thing, and really the point of all the tech in Numeria and Iron Gods is to make discovery wondrous and foreign again, with everything to be encountered marked with that alien strangeness.
That said, Samurai Jack *is* my favorite animated show of all time, barely beating out Batman.
Max Headroom
one of my favorite shows as a kid:)
I recently just watched "The Machine" on Netflix. One of the characters looked like Meyanda and I enjoyed all the android stuff.
Six Syring Samurai
String, not Syring
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and to a lesser extent:
Magnus is clearly a Steel-Breaker Brawler.
Thundarr seems to be one of the inspirations for the Numeria setting alongside the original Expedition to Barrier Peaks module so I suppose it's worth mentioning Blackstarr and the Masters of the Universe cartoons which also mixed magic and technology. Not to mention there was a Master of the Universe movie as well.
dont forget Thundercats:)
I know it´s a game but: Sacred 2
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And, let us not forget the 1983 swords-and-lasers cinematic classic:
(When this film came out, it caused SO much confusion in my AD&D game about what exactly a 'glaive' was...)
And since we're digging into the drek, I think a case could be made for Battlefield Earth being in the same genre...
I just found the following trailer for a 1958 B-movie. I wonder if this monster flick is where Gary Gygax got the idea for the intellect devourer?
And, let us not forget the 1983 swords-and-lasers cinematic classic:
(When this film came out, it caused SO much confusion in my AD&D game about what exactly a 'glaive' was...)
And since we're digging into the drek, I think a case could be made for Battlefield Earth being in the same genre...
According to legend, Krull was originally intended as the first Dungeons & Dragons film before it mutated to its final iteration.
Here's a few:
Hardware
9
Ghosts of Mars
John Carter
Gandahar
Wizards
Flash Gordon