General Geekery

So I've been looking into some RPGs that I might want in the future, try some new things and stuff. I know very little about them other than what I've gleaned from forum discussions, rumours batted around on the Internet, and short articles.

I'm going to make a handy list for myself here (and also, it's my birthday in a short while. Eh? Eh?)

Kult: Death Is Only the Beginning is, well... a cult game, by now. Famous for being very dark, very offensive and accused of having inspired at least one murder and at least one suicide, it's more or less a collector's item. It's a Gnostic game in which characters gradually go more insane. Don't think I'd like to play it, but it's so famous that I should probably own it. Would probably prefer the English version, though it is a Swedish game.

Adventure! Also a cult game, this game focuses on a group of psychics and superheroes in the 1920s Pulp era. You basically play as Indiana Jones fighting against psychic Nazis, monster-worshipping cults or pulp-era supervillains - think the early superheroes from Watchmen. I know very little about this game, except that it's famous among White Wolf fans.

Aberrant Taking place in the same world as Adventure! Aberrant is a relatively famous superhero game. It runs on the same engine as Exalted/old World of Darkness, but with themed groups of superpowers allowing for creation of superheroes. It's reputed to have a good focus on character interaction, and also to have a slight Watchmen-feel about it.

Cthulhu Tech It's H.P. Lovecraft meets Alien meets giant mechas! This game focuses on war with alien superbeings in a dark future, placing characters in the role of mech pilots, weird fringe sorcerers, beastmen, symbionts and other people who fight the strange by getting stranger. Also: People in giant mechas fighting against cosmic principles, pitting human hope and fighting spirit against the fabric of the universe itself? Who the hell do you think I am?

Shadowrun Simply too famous not to have at least tried, this is a somewhat silly mash-up of Neuromancer and J.R.R Tolkien. A cyberpunk fantasy game, Shadowrun is very widely renowned for being an interesting setting, although the rules may be somewhat clunky, which is a big turn-off for me.

Edit! Forgot some vital ones:

Pathfinder The famous "D&D 3.5 + 0.5", this game is an alternative to the 4th edition for those who preferred the track 3rd edition was on. While I don't play a lot of D&D these days, it seems like it could be fun and it fixes a lot of the problems with D&D - for instance, there are far fewer "dead levels", levels where nothing happens.

Scion: Hero This game is about the children of gods, half-gods wreaking havoc in a modern world as the old Titans return to, well, mess with people presumably. It's pretty much the Percy Jackson series, except made by White Wolf, running on oWoD mechanics and a penchant (as usual for White Wolf) for really weird stuff. Bonus points for allowing you to play children of voodoo gods, because voodoo is awesome. There are two "sequels"; Scion: Demigod and Scion: God.

The Wave

Google Wave is a new application from Google, allowing you to share and edit documents as part of a collective. Enterprising geeks have already figured out how to use it for a rather neat online role-playing tool.

The great thing here is that, while the system has kinks and flaws (heck, it's not even officially released yet) it allows you to play on any sort of time-scale using the same system. It means that you can post your characters' action on a coffee break, and if your friend happens to be online during the same coffee break, you can act out a small scene - or just leave it be until everyone's gathered later.

It's completely text-based of course, so you lose out on some of that live actor action - but it seems to adequately solve the time-frame problem of online gaming, since you can play it as a chat session when that fits, and as play-by-post when that fits. I think it looks very interesting, so I'm going to investigate this matter a little further.

Which Disney Protagonist is the most awesome?

I think I've included every options for which people are going to vote. If I missed anyone, I guess you'll have to cast your vote in a comment instead. Some more obscure movies are kind of missing.