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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3300 Joined: 1 Nov 2007     | |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 834 Joined: 21 Aug 2008     |
Brunette. As long as Sci-Fi is brunette, of course. |
BANNED  Posts: 2340 Joined: 27 May 2008    |
Well...the Steampunk civilization in Rise of Legends.... User was banned for: [NEW SCREENIES]Prototype [HOLY SHIT]. (Permanent) |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 988 Joined: 22 Sep 2008     | I'm not going to lie. I'm a huge fantasy nerd, and it can still feel fresh to me. Almost every sci-fi universe, meanwhile, I find myself comparing to Star Wars. I think sci-fi is just harder to do because you have less room to move within the genre. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4229 Joined: 27 Apr 2008    | I'll stick with my post apocalyptic RPG for now, thank you very much. I just like the feel of it more |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4090 Joined: 23 Apr 2008    | Hand me a plasma rifle and +1 composite armour, I may be some time. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2361 Joined: 14 Sep 2008   |
I haven't played any Half-Life game so I didn't knew that it is a Sci-Fi game. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2361 Joined: 14 Sep 2008 | Wrong button. Sorry. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1331 Joined: 22 Oct 2008   |
To clarify, you said "Sci-fi game" not, "Sci-fi RPG". As for a memorable sci-fi character, how about Revan from Knights of the Old Republic? Or HK-47? |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2361 Joined: 14 Sep 2008 |
I'm not really a fan of KotOR but okay Revan is memorable. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2904 Joined: 12 May 2008    | SHODAN. Duh? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2621 Joined: 27 Aug 2008    | And there I was thinking he meant John Henry Iron aka Steel battle with a drinking addiction to Laser Malt Liquor. Incidentally, Sci-Fi on general terms but a well done knights battling evil tops everything for me (just isn't done often, or well). |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1173 Joined: 21 Oct 2008  | Just not enough Sci-Fi RPGs so I vote for that. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 58 Joined: 15 Dec 2008   | I would have to go for a Fantasy RPG as ive grown up with them and not many sci-fi ones. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1331 Joined: 22 Oct 2008 |
I'm trying to think of more, but there aren't that many Sci-Fi RPGs. RPGs are pretty often the realm of Fantasy, but there are getting to be more sci-fi RPGs, with games like Mass Effect, KotOR, hell, there's even a RPG based on Alien being produced. J.E. Sawyer is working on it, if I remember correctly. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1063 Joined: 23 Sep 2008    | Fallout 3 end of story |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 373 Joined: 15 Sep 2008    |
Master Chief? Sgt Johnson? Darth Vader n his little kid? Gordon Freeman needs to be mentioned again - just 'cause you ain't played the game doesn't make him un-memorable. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2361 Joined: 14 Sep 2008 |
You can argue about Darth Vader because the movies made him memorable and not the games. And Master Chief is maybe memorable to some people but not to me. I don't say that Gordon isn't memorable because I haven't played the games. I said I didn't knew that Half-Life is a Sci-Fi game. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 683 Joined: 29 Apr 2008  | Scifi has a greater range of possibility than fantisy ,which generaly gets shoehorned into midievel europe with magic. That being said Scifi has a greater posibility of getting it wrong. For every Dune or Warhammer 40K universe there are dozens pathetic attempts to create a memorable setting, which fail miserably. So miserably I can't remember them right now. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1209 Joined: 22 Apr 2008   | Both are great, both have many, many subgenres that are pure liquid awesome. In general fantasy is awesome because there's an infinitely greater amount of possibilities to choose from, and sci-fi is great because it can predict the future and do so with huge explosions. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 549 Joined: 3 Jan 2009   | Recently? Would have to say Sci-Fi. Had a excellent succession of good Sci-Fi RPGs. Mass Effect, Bioshock (.. Steam-Punk I know, but it's closer to Sci-Fi than fantasy in my view), STALKER, Fallout and it's predecessors. It goes on. |
Paperboy  Posts: 39 Joined: 5 Mar 2008  | What about a Steel Laser? Aurthur C Clarke's Third Law |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 767 Joined: 4 Sep 2008   | They both are indeed good, but with Science Fiction, the only restriction on what you can do is the cost and thee developers' imaginations. Warhammer 40K comes to mind here. With Fantasy, there is a set limit. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3415 Joined: 28 Jun 2008 |
Uh... Off the top of my head. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1766 Joined: 2 Jul 2008  | Surely, George Lucas cracked this problem with a sword which could also cut through doors like a laser - the lightsabre. |
BANNED  Posts: 1084 Joined: 29 Sep 2008    | Yay!!! From the poll it seems people are getting tired of Fantasy!!! User was banned for: Poll: Round 5 - Field of Four - (1) Turbine vs (1) Nintendo. (Permanent) |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 94 Joined: 8 Nov 2008   | I tend to enjoy both kinds, but at a push I would choose Sci-fi. My favourite kind of game is one set in the very near future - Somewhere between 2010-2050 tends to be my ideal setting, although that probably doesn't class as Sci-fi. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1129 Joined: 9 Oct 2008   | i choose fantasy becuase i'd like to think a massive storm of lightning, swords, and biscuts is more powerful than 1 plasma rifle wielding soldier |
BANNED Posts: 1084 Joined: 29 Sep 2008 |
What about the G-Man? User was banned for: Poll: Round 5 - Field of Four - (1) Turbine vs (1) Nintendo. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2169 Joined: 4 Jun 2008   | I prefer Sci-Fi RPG's since there tends to be less tension surrounding what you have to take in as the world and what you have to accept as 'fact'. After all, which sounds cooler? An enchanted dagger of 'you can't be arsed to fight anymore' named 'Doubt-strike' or a advanced Axon pattern plasma pistol mk2? (you can name the pistol yourself is you wish) Whatever you can list as being present in an fantasy RPG is not only present in Sci-fi but has also useually undergone an uprade or two in terms of coolness. Plate armour and chain mail = Advanced combat/enviro suits and personal force shields. Crossbows and muskets = Plasma rifles, shotguns and miniguns. Magic = Psychic powers Dragons and monsters = extraterrestrial beasts Elves, Dwarfs and other friendly races = Aliens, Robots and other friendly inhabbitants of space I could go on. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2361 Joined: 14 Sep 2008 |
Same as with Gordon. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2361 Joined: 14 Sep 2008 |
Samus Aran - granted |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 89 Joined: 4 Nov 2008 | Of course it always depends on the story and graphic style, but personally I like sci fi better. At least in the RPG world, fantasy is done more often and generally better, so a GOOD sci fi is always welcome. There's also more opportunity for creativity, in my opinion. Any kind of archtitecture or weapons can be put in the game, while with fantasy you're limited to medieval weapons and such. There's always magic, but even that has limits. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3415 Joined: 28 Jun 2008 |
Didn't read the previous posts. How about Lara Croft? Huuh? She's almost a household name! |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1209 Joined: 22 Apr 2008 | Why do people keep thinking of fantasy as only the Medieval Europe stuff? The whole point of fantasy is that you can make anything you feel like! Though looking back on it, it does seem that most of the sci-fi RPGs are more original than the fantasy ones. It's different with books, I think. Maybe some developers should break out some Arabian or Aztec myths to make their games. That would be cool. |
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Don't care. As long as its an intresting IP it can about 3 eyed pandas that invade the nether kingdom of Greg-land. Hang on, I'm writing this down...