Bioshock - A Steampunk genre first-person shooter

I recently made a “new” game purchase: Bioshock on the PS3.  You may wonder what in blazes took me so long.  Well, price, mainly.  And that I wanted it on the PS3.

And I have to say, I really really wish more game developers delved not only into role-playing games (RPGs) but the Steampunk genre as well.

Okay, so Bioshock isn’t really an RPG.  (Unless you mean of the rocket-propelled grenade variety.  It has those.)  Bioshock is a first-person shooter (FPS), but it does have RPG-like elements to it, which helps make it more enjoyable.

But Bioshock itself isn’t really the special thing here.  I mean we could go back to games like Arcanum.  Now there was a real RPG.  The thing is, I love a setting of invention, and I love a good RPG.  And even better yet if you can find a way to mix in some magic.

The world needs more games like this.  The rawness of the dawn of invention.  The creativity of making.  The thinking.  I love it.