and yes, ignoring my spelling and grammar issues, my first post pretty well sums up how I feel about Neo Steam, I knew almost everything i needed to about the original though, so hopefully this new version will be new enough to give me the fun of learning again.

But yes, as you point out in your first point, I was more or less looking for something along the traditional concept of steampunk, which we’ve definitely seen from Asia before. Steamboy, for instance, was a somewhat traditional Steampunk-flavored world, as is Full Metal Alchemist, though I think that latter might be straying more into the full-on fantasy that seems to inspire Neo Steam.

I’ll definitely be giving it a shot.

1. It’s not supposed to be a steampunk game, it’s supposed to be a steampunk BASED game… big difference, and I am sorry if you were looking for the classic cross ties and cravats style.

2. The graphics, (though not Ps3 or 360 good) are pretty good for a F2P game that as we can see has had little popularity up until the big companies like Atlus or Gamogi have picked it up.

3. I personally loved the gameplay, it has a near perfect leveling curve, making it easy to start up and get you into the actual game. It has a large amount of enemies, quests, sidequests, and other such things so that the game doesn’t just become an annoying grindfest.

4. It isn’t NEARLY as bad on the “roving death bands of high level players to continually kill me” and you can actually avoid the enemies nation altogether by staying in your own nation instead of going to the neautral zone known as Rear Land. Your own nation isn’t allowed to kill you so if you want just a boring no risks involved hit, kill, hit, kill..etc. type game, don’t go where theres a chance to die.

I loved the game, I had many high level characters (and it didn’t take me a lifetime to get them there, though I never got to max out a character) and I’m hoping Atlus does well with it’s edits.

/em heads for Google.

OMFG! Pfffft forget Neo Steam. Gatheryn is IT.

Even City of Heroes would be more steampunk – you can do steampunk:ish outfits and you have the Nemesis army to fight – definitely steampunk-inspired.

I’m not really that jazzed about it, but I’m not going to just dismiss it out of hand.

I just would have rather they’d have used the same definition of steampunk that the rest of the world appears to use — a warped and somewhat fantastical version of Industrial Revolution-era Europe, especially England. Jules Verne. HG Wells. James Blaylock. KW Jeter. Tim Powers. Y’know — steampunk!

Not some bizarre fantasy world. Technology vs Magic? But both based on Neo Steam?