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Sci-fi or Fantasy?
Toxilium
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Not for MMOs, just in general, which genre do you prefer. Fantasy doesn't have to mean LotR, it can include more realistic IPs like Conan. Sci-fi includes steampunk, cyberpunk, etc.
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Both and more.
Personally I didn't vote. I could enjoy either, if it is a well done game. One thing I do hate is when games try and mix the two genres together. Like a fantasy warrior going up against a futuristic warrior. One brings a big knife and the other brings a big gun...ya...that is a fair fight.
In general...Horror
Sci-fi. But I love other genres besides Sci-fi/fantasy also. Such as post-apocalyptic (Fallen Earth!), and modern settings.
Currently restarting World of Warcraft
I prefere Fantasy, LOVED FFXI
But there are ton of sci-fi that I like
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Sci-Fi in general, Fantasy in an MMO... voted Sci-Fi just cause I'm on a Sci-Fi kick right now..
I think you missed a few options.
-1940's Film noir.
- Present day espionage
-Post apocalyptic, Retro post apocalyptic
- World of Darkness (Present day - Vampire, Werewolf, mage)
- Superhero, Retro superhero
- Gibson cyberpunk, Stephenson cyberpunk
-Westerns
-Feudal Japan
-Fantasy/ SciFi parallel worlds (See Piers Anthony, The Apprentice Adept Series)
And so on.
I like both, but I'm really wanting a good sci-fi MMO besides EVE.
Current: None
Played: WoW, CoX, SWG, LotRO, EVE, AoC, VG, CO, Ryzom, DF, WAR
Tried: Lineage2, Dofus, EQ2, CoS, FE, UO, Wurm, Wakfu
Future: The Repopulation, ArcheAge, Black Desert, EQN
I'd play that one.
I hate WoW because it made my plush hamster kill himself, created twin clones of Hitler, punched Superboy Prime in reality, stared my dog down, spoiled my grandmother, assimilated me into the Borg, then made me into a real boy, just to make me a woman again.
Like a Bioshock MMO or something? That could be awesome if done well.
Current: None
Played: WoW, CoX, SWG, LotRO, EVE, AoC, VG, CO, Ryzom, DF, WAR
Tried: Lineage2, Dofus, EQ2, CoS, FE, UO, Wurm, Wakfu
Future: The Repopulation, ArcheAge, Black Desert, EQN
I am tired of fantasy games when it comes to MMOs.
Games I've played/tried out:WAR, LOTRO, Tabula Rasa, AoC, EQ1, EQ2, WoW, Vangaurd, FFXI, D&DO, Lineage 2, Saga Of Ryzom, EvE Online, DAoC, Guild Wars,Star Wars Galaxies, Hell Gate London, Auto Assault, Grando Espada ( AKA SoTNW ), Archlord, CoV/H, Star Trek Online, APB, Champions Online, FFXIV, Rift Online, GW2.
Game(s) I Am Currently Playing:
GW2 (+LoL and BF3)
Didnt Vote.
All depends on what the game is like.
If I could pick between two equally good games, I would choose the sci-fi themed one.
While the whole Fantasy/big sword/magic thing is fun I prefere SciFi and IMHO there is a sad shortage of them in MMO's atm. Looking forward to a few on the way though
I like both sci-fi and fantasy. But if I have to choose one I would choose sci-fi.
I regret including one catagory - modern/historical. Meaning based on real life events, facts, or technology, without going too off context it becomes it's own fantastical universe. Sword of the New World doesn't count, as it is fantasy.
Fallout 3 may still be a "retro" apocalypse, but it is still science fiction, as it takes place hundreds of years into the future with technology in fully-functional service and combat robots, new laser weapons, armour, etc.
I honestly have to go with Fantasy, Thats all I played since I started in the MMORPG industry. Theres alot of story to each of them with little to learn and easy to follow if your a slow thinker. Scifi games are fun to, dont get me wrong. EVE online is pretty tight. Although Warhammer Online and Atlantica Online are my two fav games.
Anything goes as long as its a good game.
Any setting, any timeline, any level of fantasy, any level of sci-fi, any "punk" attached to it... don't even care if I'm controlling a car, ship, spaceship, avatar or a robot. ...as long as its a good game!
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Quality. There are good storys and good settings. But If you are a "creative" producer, and you are allowed/capable of is space marines and medieval paladins, you are unable to produce quality. Yea, you will make maybe the best space marine ever or paladin evern, but that is, quality of craft, quality of creativity of how to acomplish that absolutelly lack of originality target.
Well, Fantasy of course.
What I want is a high quality role playing game experience. An ambundance of possibilities and game content. Lots of races, lots of classes all with different gameplay, lots of interactions between players (such as having tank, damage dealer, tool and healer classes, crafting, castle sieges etc), lots of character customization, and a huge gameworld with many quests in it to explore.
And most importantly, complex gameplay with good challenges.
Fantasy fails often enough at providing this. With SF, its even much worse. The only SF titles that I ever heard about that seemed to have a good game experience where Star Wars Galaxies at release (before SOE changed the game into something completely different), which actually is Jedis and therefore SF Fantasy, and EVE Online, which however provides a rather special kind of gameplay.
And dont give me LotR or Conan. LotR even missed out a major important class, the healer. Well, Conan might actually be made into a good game experience. But "Age of Conan" itself was definitely a most major failure in this respect.
Given the two choices, absolutely sci-fi, I refuse to play a fantasy MMO, I detest the fantasy genre with a passion. There are other genres like horror that I'd probably enjoy but there aren't many good MMOs currently based on it, everyone is just making crappy WoW clones. I could probably enjoy a decent post-apocalyptic game as well, maybe a comedy, but the chances of getting any of them are slim.
Played: UO, EQ, WoW, DDO, SWG, AO, CoH, EvE, TR, AoC, GW, GA, Aion, Allods, lots more
Relatively Recently (Re)Played: HL2 (all), Halo (PC, all), Batman:AA; AC, ME, BS, DA, FO3, DS, Doom (all), LFD1&2, KOTOR, Portal 1&2, Blink, Elder Scrolls (all), lots more
Now Playing: None
Hope: None
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