The summer blues...@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agoWhat media has your favorite worldbuilding?message-squaremessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up151arrow-down1message-squareWhat media has your favorite worldbuilding?The summer blues...@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agomessage-square35fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBrkdncr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-26 hours agoBattleTech/mechwarrior. I think it started as a tabletop game? Lots of media came from it, and video games pop up every few years starting in 1989. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BattleTech The series began with FASA’s debut of the board game BattleTech (originally named Battledroids) by Jordan Weisman and L. Ross Babcock III and has since grown to include numerous expansions to the original game, several board games, role playing games, video games, a collectible card game, a series of more than 100 novels, and an animated television series.[3]
minus-squareClay_pidgin@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·26 minutes agoThe main wiki: https://www.sarna.net/wiki/ There was a so bad it’s good cartoon in the 90s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLJM4vjMdhc Tons of novels, two modern TTRPG systems, two current tabletop miniature wargame rule sets. A new action game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2000890/MechWarrior_5_Clans/ A very good turn based game very closely following the tabletop rules: https://store.steampowered.com/app/637090/BATTLETECH/ A multiplayer online action game: https://mwomercs.com/
BattleTech/mechwarrior. I think it started as a tabletop game? Lots of media came from it, and video games pop up every few years starting in 1989.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BattleTech
The main wiki: https://www.sarna.net/wiki/
There was a so bad it’s good cartoon in the 90s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLJM4vjMdhc
Tons of novels, two modern TTRPG systems, two current tabletop miniature wargame rule sets.
A new action game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2000890/MechWarrior_5_Clans/
A very good turn based game very closely following the tabletop rules: https://store.steampowered.com/app/637090/BATTLETECH/
A multiplayer online action game: https://mwomercs.com/