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Fantasy vs Sci Fi,,,, Which do you Like Most?
tro44_1
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Fantasy vs Sci Fi,,,,, Which do you like most?
IMO fantasy based MMO style is better then both Sci Fi and RealLife style MMOs.
Even Santa Claus agrees, since he use ELFs rather then Robots to help him make his Toys. 
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Sci-Fi.
Jam is sticky.
personally, I prefer fantasy style settings over sci-fi most of the time.
However, since there seems to be a glut of fantasy worlds out there, I do seem to get more excited when I hear of a good sci-fi game coming out.
now is this a vocal minority? or do really 63% of pople like sci-fi more?
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Played Darkfall, Played Wow,
I like them both but it really matters how the sci fi one is done I might like it more then fantasy.
Sci-fi. So much more versatile. You can literally have millions of sci-fi games and never have 2 that are exactly alike.
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Same thing with Fantasy. It just happen so that people keep using the same thing. Just look at Guild Wars. They have plety of never before seen (well in that way) races.
It's a very small sample (4 votes after mine), so a large lead is meaningless so far. Odds are it'll stabilize at much closer numbers as the sample size increases. Then again maybe not, as RL and sci-fi might be seen to "require" different game mechanics, which could be very desirable.
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Same thing with Fantasy. It just happen so that people keep using the same thing. Just look at Guild Wars. They have plety of never before seen (well in that way) races.
See, there are plenty of different types of sci-fi. There are very few different types of fantasy.
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Same thing with Fantasy. It just happen so that people keep using the same thing. Just look at Guild Wars. They have plety of never before seen (well in that way) races.
See, there are plenty of different types of sci-fi. There are very few different types of fantasy.
explain what you mean by this
Look at all the sci-fi IPs out there (Metroid, Farscape, Stargate, Star Trek, Star Wars, Endless Ages, Firefly, Avatar, etc). They all have common elements, but essentially there's always a way to separate it from everything else.
Look at all the fantasy IPs (Final Fantasy, Warcraft, Dungeons and Dragons, Lord of the Rings, etc). They all have distinctive elements, but generally, you have the same magic, swords, sorcery, dragons, goblins, orcs type things.
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Look at all the sci-fi IPs out there (Metroid, Farscape, Stargate, Star Trek, Star Wars, Endless Ages, Firefly, Avatar, etc). They all have common elements, but essentially there's always a way to separate it from everything else.
Look at all the fantasy IPs (Final Fantasy, Warcraft, Dungeons and Dragons, Lord of the Rings, etc). They all have distinctive elements, but generally, you have the same magic, swords, sorcery, dragons, goblins, orcs type things.
Couldnt agree more myself.
Look at all the sci-fi IPs out there (Metroid, Farscape, Stargate, Star Trek, Star Wars, Endless Ages, Firefly, Avatar, etc). They all have common elements, but essentially there's always a way to separate it from everything else.
Look at all the fantasy IPs (Final Fantasy, Warcraft, Dungeons and Dragons, Lord of the Rings, etc). They all have distinctive elements, but generally, you have the same magic, swords, sorcery, dragons, goblins, orcs type things.
What?
They all have Guns, Lazers, Ships, Robotics, planet warfare.
Again the same situation, just not using magic, swords, sorcery, dragons, goblins, orcs type things
Look at all the sci-fi IPs out there (Metroid, Farscape, Stargate, Star Trek, Star Wars, Endless Ages, Firefly, Avatar, etc). They all have common elements, but essentially there's always a way to separate it from everything else.
Look at all the fantasy IPs (Final Fantasy, Warcraft, Dungeons and Dragons, Lord of the Rings, etc). They all have distinctive elements, but generally, you have the same magic, swords, sorcery, dragons, goblins, orcs type things.
What?
They all have Guns, Lazers, Ships, Robotics, planet warfare.
Again the same situation, just not using magic, swords, sorcery, dragons, goblins, orcs type things
Sci-fi, it's really been mostly untapped as far as MMOs go.
It's kind of like First Person Shooters where every game and its grand mother is a World War II game. Don't get me wrong, WWII is a great genre for FPS, but there are so many of those freaking games that it's hard to tell the good ones from the bad ones. You overall get sick of the genre.
That's how I feel about Fantasy, all of these developers have done Fantasy to death, the ins and outs of the entire freaking genre, lets be honest here, it's time to move on.
Sci-fi is somewhat limitless because although many of the Sci-fi games look alike, they can be so much more. Because Sci-fi presents itself in the future, people can just use their imaginations and create a game world that's much more vast and creative than any fantasy game ever could be. Sure you have the basic building blocks of specific elements (Lazers, ships, magic, swords, dragons, etc. etc.) but Sci-fi can offer a lot more.
Games like EVE and Planetside are good examples of innovation and doing something outside of the box.
"IRL is a pretty upstanding MMO with thousands of classes, a lot of PvP and even some pretty unique emotes and titles you can acquire. Explore that world first, then we'll talk about this virtual one."
I would have to say Sci Fi.
I am bored and tired of fantasy games with the same old "A terrible magic/evil is trying to destroy the world. Only you and other brave adventurers can save the world."
I mean Fantasy games always seem to be the same story, augmented to fit the new world. But after a while it gets hard to tell the difference between each setting. I dont think its because there is only one theme for fantasy, I think its all due to the fact that its just the easier choice for devs and something familiar to the players.
With sci fi you can have it set in space, travel through time, a utopian society with a dark agenda, or even set in the present. Sci fi can be subtle or grand and doesnt always have to be like Star Wars or Star Trek (just like fantasy doesnt always need to have elves and orcs).
But I guess the main reason I like Sci Fi for an MMO is because it seems to be lacking in the genre. For every 1 sci fi MMO you have at least 6 fantasy.
There are 3 types of people in the world.
1.) Those who make things happen
2.) Those who watch things happen
3.) And those who wonder "What the %#*& just happened?!"
Sci-fi.
The only fantasy game that tried to be slightly different is Ryzom. Other have elves, humans and orcs + each game have fireball. Seriously... mage shooting fireball, name one fantasy game without it.
I much more prefer sci-fi games like EVE, Anarchy online or Fallen Earth. Each is totally different and exploring this games is not totally boring or predictable.
The only 'fantasy' setting I would like to try is some vampire/werewolf game (CCP waiting for that World of Darkness you slacks!)
Fantasy 4evar!!!
You can have very absurd glitering fantasy like Aion and Warcraft, and something not that exagerated like Elder Scrolls, Gothic series, Guild Wars 2 will introduce steampunk with the Charr, with is a nice "sci-fi" that matches very well with fantasy.
Besides SOME shooters, sci-fi can is very boring to me, cant remeber any good sci-fi rpg (yes, i DINDT liked fallen earth/mass effect).
Well a matter of taste, i still waiting for a good fantasy mmo with mount&blade-ishy combat, and hope you guyz can get you sci-fi mmo.
good luck
ps: keeping an eye on DC universe too
edit: OK, DEAD SPACE, but that one is horror and horror> all
now: GW2 (11 80s).
Dark Souls 2.
future: Mount&Blade 2 BannerLord.
"Bro, do your even fractal?"
Recommends: Guild Wars 2, Dark Souls, Mount&Blade: Warband, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.
To vote for preference is one thing but to argue a false dichotomy for that preference is stupid. Both genres are defined by the same parameters (our imaginations) and created by the same tools (our minds).
I voted SF but mostly because I actually hate fantasy, but on the whole thats likely down to the fantsy I have exposed myself to I guess. For example, I read 3 Tolkien books before the age of 15 for school and utterly hated them all, by the time LotR came out I already detested it before I watched it. I tried not to be bias to the game but thats very hard.
Also I find the boundaries between the two genres being blurred so much now that I just can't tell the difference anymore, in fact I don't think I ever really could, I don't think I really want to. To my mind, especially in the last 10-15 years the idea of fantasy has been shrunk and far more of it moved to the SF heading.
I guess however I'm more of a hardliner SF fan as I prefer the more pure science-based SF, I also draw a more regid line on what I consider to be good scientific theory.
To those that have seen Avatar, thats pure fantasy, would that make a good game?
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The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
I actualy prefer a mix if your going light, but would love to see a horror/gothic theamed game i.e. Blood Omen Online or Underworld Online (preferably neither of thouse IPs but you get the general idea) a dark world, no good vs evil no evil vs evil nothing polerized, fantasy I suppose at core but always loved the mixxing of science and magic in fiction Airships and space stations with Mage and sword toting warriors . . . . sounds like star wars lol
What? Avatar was not fantasy. its Sci-Fi, just cus one race doesnt have gunz and shipz doesnt mean its not Sci-Fi. there is no magic or anything in it. (and yes i dont count the whole connection to the world thing as magic(or the fly mountains))
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Played Darkfall, Played Wow,
As what would you guys classify a world with fantasy creatures and magic, but with an added twist, the intro and the lore clearly states that the apparently classic monsters came about due to genetic manipulation and the magic is in essence nanotech and/or highly advanced physics ? For all intents and purposes, because... say post apoc, anyone unaware of the lore clearly sees classic fantasy gameplay.
Is it fantasy because it appears to be/plays like fantasy ?
Or is it still Sci-fi because the premise is clearly not of fantasy ?
(note : anyone who resorts to bickering about this hypothetical and very much illustrative scenario fails to see the point)
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Look at all the sci-fi IPs out there (Metroid, Farscape, Stargate, Star Trek, Star Wars, Endless Ages, Firefly, Avatar, etc). They all have common elements, but essentially there's always a way to separate it from everything else.
Look at all the fantasy IPs (Final Fantasy, Warcraft, Dungeons and Dragons, Lord of the Rings, etc). They all have distinctive elements, but generally, you have the same magic, swords, sorcery, dragons, goblins, orcs type things.
What?
They all have Guns, Lazers, Ships, Robotics, planet warfare.
Again the same situation, just not using magic, swords, sorcery, dragons, goblins, orcs type things
....I love how you're the OP and you shoot down the responses you get because they don't agree with you...
In any case, it's not the same. Fantasy is limited to its assets. There's nothing else that can be associated with fantasy besides what we've already seen. However, as another poster said, sci-fi remains a largely untapped genre.
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I am not really into magic much at all, especially basing the setting around it, which is usually the premise of fantasy settings.
I prefer higher tech environments but I don't like aliens, spaceships lasers teleporters etc. These are just as silly and uninteresting to me as magic.
So I will say sci-fi but specifically dieselpunk, post apocalyptic and cyberpunk.
Also superheroes, which are their own setting I guess.
Don't you worry little buddy. You're dealing with a man of honor. However, honor requires a higher percentage of profit
Lol, I am so sure the reason for sci-fi to win over fantasy is the newest bandwagon that is "there are too many fantasy MMO's around these days, I want somethin "new" and refreshing~". If it wasn't for that the poll would be in fantasy's favor by far.
At first I'd say fantasy. But somehow it's so overdone in computer games that I wouldn't touch any fantasy mmorpg for a while.
Let's play Fallen Earth (blind, 300 episodes)
Let's play Guild Wars 2 (blind, 45 episodes)
Sci fi