"Your perfect post apocalyptic vision (pic)" Topic

From TV, movie, video game, mange, comics, game board, etc.

That one (two, three,…) image(s) that sums up what you look for in a post apoc gaming setting.

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I find this sort of topic interesting as the range for post apocalyptic future spans quite a gap and we seem to gravitate out in many directions.

If I were considering a game for a group then I would take their interest into the process and truthfully I could go down nearly any of the potential paths, but the are some that are more appealing than others.

And for you?

I like an overgrown city look…lots of green…plenty of water, food, etc…but most everything going wild as it were.

I'm lukewarm to most post-apoc settings as I find them very dispiriting. So I gravitate more to the kind of stuff Miyazaki has dabbled with.

First two from Future Boy Conan, third one from Nausicaä. That overgrown thing in the first picture which might be mistaken for some kind of medieval tower is a crashed rocketship.

No matter how we try to re-paint the picture, the first one sticks in my mind best …

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Miyazaki San hit it right on the money with the Toxic Jungle from Nausicaä IMO! For those who have not seen it, the vast majority of the world is touched by the toxic jungle…a condition of too much life, the air is actually teeming with life and you can not breathe it (or so they have seen in the past)…people live in remote oasis.

Huge insects, glowing fungi, and lots of interesting stuff in general.

uhhh, Red Robin…yummmm!

nice set of guns.

Wow, I wish I could pin it down guys, every time I go looking for pictures for my own personal Universe of Ruin I find places that fit in that fictional geography.

Really it starts with something on the order of Grimjack's Cynosure, with a vast and ruined landscape spreading out from it's center. [I must note this my personel Universe of Ruin, unlike the source is largely devoid of supernatural powers.]

So Info, this is only decent pic I could find of Cynosure

So basically a rundown modern city? Perhaps these are close?

Yep that comes close, pretty much any none 1st world city makes the image for me. The massive drift towards urban environments world wide kinda has driven the shanty town sort of feel. 2007 the worlds population shifted from majority rural to majority urban.

Though I tend to look at Japan interdigitation of urban and rural uses within a set landscape as a model of edge cities of the blasted ruins. Kinda like the levels of cities of history with the newer city being built of and on the rubble of the old. It also allows for those dungeons that players so like to delve into…

The Troll Market lends itself well to a wasteland setting

Cool…. Stolen…

City of Ember was fun and had much going for it also

Ember… I need to see that one…

It is aimed at the Harry Potter age group but as a whole it is a fun movie with loads of potential for those of us who like the post apoc setting…and it is different…it only takes a moments consideration to elevate into a gamable setting.

Shame it didn't make enough money to warrant adaptations of the sequels; those books have some good gaming fodder as well.

Indeed…the movie was a bit odd for most audience tastes…but I liked it quite a bit.

What if you let that cook underground for 800,000 years or so?

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800,000yrs is an extreme leap…certainly nothing would be left from the prior modern civilization?

I know this is just a nod towards your beloved Morlocks :) I like them also.

I would think 800yrs would be plenty.

Enough time to erode the old modern setting yet there may be bits and pieces still available.

True, I know that 800,000 is quite a reach. It's more in the realm of Fantasy and way further into the future than any Planet of the Apes or Thundarr timeframes.

My personal choice for realistic is actually 50-100 years after whatever the "big one" happens to be, as long as the catastrophe happens within the next 20 years or so.

So, after doing a little math, I guess I'm looking at gaming Apocalyptic scenarios that take place about 2060-2100, but with some remnants of arms and technology from no later than 2030.

Would that be fun at all to game, you think?

Dan

Al good stuff and would be fun.

As a preferred time I like 30yrs or 300yrs. Completely different settings but both fun.

Hmm I forget it's name but that City in the old Soviet Union that got abandoned after the nuclear incident, it's real creepy….so many big buildings and homes all without Homo Sapiens..

Promyshlennyi perhaps?

How about these mechanical monsters?

This submarine base is insanely fun

Look up and or watch "The Road" and you'll have my vision pretty much down pact.

M.

Wow. I really like that screenshot with the two fishing boats on the freeway!

I saw a lot of that in New Orleans right after Katrina.

Dan

Cynosure

Have you seen the remake of Total recall"?

Set on earth & somehow Britain rules the world (what's left of it) again; but the city sets …

Have you seen the remake of Total recall"?

Set on earth & somehow Britain rules the world (what's left of it) again; but the city sets …

Yep, that was one of the most visually compelling depictions of a post-holocaust Earth that I've ever seen. Darn shame they forgot to include a story in such a great looking film. :)

-Chris K.

Erm has anyone seen the screenshots from the new MMORPG / SyFy (their spelling, not mine) TV series that is due out in March 2013?

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That has some neat screen design – the MMORPG just looks a dull boring shoot em up but the TV series might be alright.

"I'm lukewarm to most post-apoc settings as I find them very dispiriting. So I gravitate more to the kind of stuff Miyazaki has dabbled with."
That's how I feel about Miyazakis settings, given his all-people-who-don't-live-like-cavemen-are-evil-even-the-heroes-who-use-technological-items-to-bring-you-this-message-so-buy-this-dvd-and-watch-it-on-the-technology-of-the-modern-world-oh-crap-I'm-so-confused attitude of his. It's the same reason I didn't make it through the first disc of Arjuna.
Like that twonk in Fight Club who thought an apocalypse would come and everything would magically become wonderful and Utopian so long as everyone was reduced to the level of medieval peasants. Obviously didn't watch enough of Tony Wilsons' Worst Jobs In History.

I think the 19th century will return, while someone might manage the odd car or aircraft, only in the case of some cities not being destroyed will an industrial society exist in the slightest. Most likely industry will go back to the old west, with most towns looking something like a settlement from a stereotypical On30 layout.
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Though with newer junk.
While there may be badlands and places not to live or settle, if the whole world is a lifeless wasteland it won't be able to support any life, so struggling to survive will be virtually irrelevant. Only the very least worthy to survive will think they can do so by fighting over a dead world.

If you give it 800 years, civilisation may have even been renewed, so it can hardly be said to be post-apocalyptic at all.

Have you seen the remake of Total recall"?

Set on earth & somehow Britain rules the world (what's left of it) again; but the city sets …

we've done it before, it's not that unplausible, it doesn't always have to be the US that wins/survives/is the last bastion of hope ;-p

@chironex,
Man vs. nature is a big component of his, because it's all about industry and exploitation. Technology isn't the problem. In the manga (spoiler), the Toxic Jungle is revealed to be a bioengineered ecosystem to clean up the planet whilst the surviving populace lives in hibernation.

The 70s were particularly technophobic. In fact, most big screen SF contains a great deal of technophobia… Terminator, Prometheus, even Star Wars.

Ah the 70's…. Yes the 70's were kinda Technophobic, and understandably so, the Clean water act was substantially expanded in 1972, after things like rivers catching on fire on a regular basis, not to mention the passage if the Clean Air act in 1970. Before these the US was filthy and poisonous in a lot of places, and big industry was the source. Thus born the entire Nature is Good, technology is Bad. Which is kinda funny as it took even more advanced tech to clean up those messes, the funny thing is it is more profitable cleaning up those mess than it was to make them now.