Sci-Fi versus Fantasy (Poll)

You guys lean more towards Sci-Fi, or Fantasy?

Think along the lines of:

Starcraft vs. Warcraft
Star Wars vs. Lord of the Rings
Mass Effect vs. Oblivion
Or whatever, just to get the idea across...

If there were two similar games, only different themes, and you can only pick one. Which would it be?

Sci-Fi all the way. Fantasy is always the same, there's never anything new. It's not nearly as interesting as the Sci-Fi genre.

I like them both although I prefer Sci-fi.

I far prefer fantasy over science fiction.

My biggest problem with science fiction is that I find it pretty hard to relate to. It's always so distant, so clean and so computerised. Everything feels grey coloured to me when it's science fiction. And things usually are. There's almost never religion, and while I'm not religious myself, I really enjoy fanaticism.Holy wars. That's something you justnever see inscifi, usually.Now, don't get me wrong - scifi is awesome - but I think it takes a very particular style for it to appeal to me.

Fantasy, on the other hand, I just love. I love the clothes and the weapons, the fact that combat is man against man, metal and muscle. I love the speech styles, I love the grittiness of it, the brutality of it. I love how multiple races - with unique cultures and so forth - exist on the same planets more often than not. And most of all, I love magic. Magic can be done very poorly at times, but at its best, it's a raw, almost uncontrollable force of unimaginable power that can cause unimaginable destruction. That appeals to me.

I don't think its a coincidence that my favouroite roleplaying universe - Warhammer 40K, takes the best of each and merges them into my favouritest setting of all: Gothic Science Fantasy. I love how you can have genetic super humans in power armour fighting aliens on another planet, but they're using swords, screaming fanatical religious prayers as magic - an equivalent, anyway - flies around, with devastating effect.

I guess, to sum up in a sentence: I get much more out of stabbing someone with a sword than I do shootig them with a laser gun.

Sci-Fi all the way. Fantasy is always the same, there's never anything new. It's not nearly as interesting as the Sci-Fi genre.

TheMotherBrain

i prefer star wars, a great blend of fantasy and sci-fi. but if pressed to choose one or the other, i'd choose fantasy. i can't do without magic in most of my games.fireandcloud

Magic is useless compared to a good blaster kid.

[QUOTE="mfsa"]IMy biggest problem with science fiction is that I find it pretty hard to relate to. ADG_

Fantasy, on the other hand, I just love. I love the clothes and the weapons, the fact that combat is man against man, metal and muscle. I love the speech styles, I love the grittiness of it, the brutality of it. I love how multiple races - with unique cultures and so forth - exist on the same planets more often than not. And most of all, I love magicmfsa

I think the only solution here is for us to fight to the death!!!

[QUOTE="fireandcloud"]i prefer star wars, a great blend of fantasy and sci-fi. but if pressed to choose one or the other, i'd choose fantasy. i can't do without magic in most of my games.Grantelicious

Magic is useless compared to a good blaster kid.

thanks for calling me a kid. and i'd disagree. i'd cast protection from energy, then time stop, and steal the blaster from you. then i'd blast you with your own blaster, just for the irony.

i dont like sci-fi RPGs because they will give u a ton of words that you have no idea about

if a sword is a faser-taser-light-thingy and ranged weapon is plasma-shmasma-blasta i have to spend hours just figuring out what they mean. and then the next time i see a homo-geno-robo-machine i forget its use. sometimes the visuals are not as easy to make sense of either (a futuristic device is something that someone thought up of, unless he tells what it is, theres no way i can tell what it is just by looking at it).

otherwise, i think sci-fi games are a good change of pace, (starcraft, star wars shooters i really enjoyed)

[QUOTE="Grantelicious"]

[QUOTE="fireandcloud"]i prefer star wars, a great blend of fantasy and sci-fi. but if pressed to choose one or the other, i'd choose fantasy. i can't do without magic in most of my games.fireandcloud

Magic is useless compared to a good blaster kid.

thanks for calling me a kid. and i'd disagree. i'd cast protection from energy, then time stop, and steal the blaster from you. then i'd blast you with your own blaster, just for the irony.

hmm.. nice. how about turning sci fi kids into frog :P

[QUOTE="Grantelicious"]

[QUOTE="fireandcloud"]i prefer star wars, a great blend of fantasy and sci-fi. but if pressed to choose one or the other, i'd choose fantasy. i can't do without magic in most of my games.fireandcloud

Magic is useless compared to a good blaster kid.

thanks for calling me a kid. and i'd disagree. i'd cast protection from energy, then time stop, and steal the blaster from you. then i'd blast you with your own blaster, just for the irony.

He's actually paraphrasing a Han Solo line from Star Wars IV. I doubt he intended any hostility.

[QUOTE="fireandcloud"]i prefer star wars, a great blend of fantasy and sci-fi. but if pressed to choose one or the other, i'd choose fantasy. i can't do without magic in most of my games.Grantelicious

Magic is useless compared to a good blaster kid.

[QUOTE="fireandcloud"][QUOTE="Grantelicious"]

[QUOTE="fireandcloud"]i prefer star wars, a great blend of fantasy and sci-fi. but if pressed to choose one or the other, i'd choose fantasy. i can't do without magic in most of my games.mfsa

Magic is useless compared to a good blaster kid.

thanks for calling me a kid. and i'd disagree. i'd cast protection from energy, then time stop, and steal the blaster from you. then i'd blast you with your own blaster, just for the irony.

He's actually paraphrasing a Han Solo line from Star Wars IV. I doubt he intended any hostility.

ah, yes. he butchered the line a bit. it's 'no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.' but still, i was a bit slow on the uptake. thanks for clearing that up.

Fantasy for sure, although it hasn't been done well lately, i love getting a sword or axe and hack my way through enemies, i usually hate ranged weapons, such as bows, so when it comes to FPS's they have to be amazing, like half-life or CoD. Sci-Fi just gets boring, cuz its always a bunch or lasers on some planet and you follow some linear path all the way through, which can be good sometimes, but not usually. I did like advent rising though, and that was about as sci-fi as you could get, and system shock 2imhioncrak

I was actually thinking less about what's been implemented so far, but more conceptually.

Think about the "perfect game", hypothetically of course. Should it be set in a sci-fi universe or fantasy universe for you?

Personally, I'm a sci-fi fan, so it's very interesting to hear your opinions :)

I just never deeply got into elves, trolls, hobbits, or stuff like Dungeons and Dragons, or Might and Magic games, etc. But I love sci-fi, stuff like Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, etc.

ps. sorry, I intentionally left out a "both" option, no indecision allowed :P (flip a coin if you need to, if you are that indecisive, then that's probably similar to the method you'd use between identical games with different themes if you could only have one)

I definately prefer fantasy, with the exception of the star wars movies (I love them), I don't really like sci fi. I have DoW, but don't play it much. I loved oblivion, the lotr RTS games (and of course the movies), now the witcher, and many others (warcraft 2,3, ...)

Crysis is great for the little amount I played it, but it seems more of the near future than true sci fi (well, I haven't gotten to the aliens yet). I don't hate either one, like both, just fantasy more :)

[QUOTE="Grantelicious"]

[QUOTE="fireandcloud"]i prefer star wars, a great blend of fantasy and sci-fi. but if pressed to choose one or the other, i'd choose fantasy. i can't do without magic in most of my games.fireandcloud

Magic is useless compared to a good blaster kid.

thanks for calling me a kid. and i'd disagree. i'd cast protection from energy, then time stop, and steal the blaster from you. then i'd blast you with your own blaster, just for the irony.

That was a star wars joke cause than han solo guy saying "no match for a good blaster kid".

[QUOTE="fireandcloud"][QUOTE="Grantelicious"]

[QUOTE="fireandcloud"]i prefer star wars, a great blend of fantasy and sci-fi. but if pressed to choose one or the other, i'd choose fantasy. i can't do without magic in most of my games.Grantelicious

Magic is useless compared to a good blaster kid.

thanks for calling me a kid. and i'd disagree. i'd cast protection from energy, then time stop, and steal the blaster from you. then i'd blast you with your own blaster, just for the irony.

That was a star wars joke cause than han solo guy saying "no match for a good blaster kid".

got it. i'm a bit slow on the uptake today, i'm afraid.

EVE-ONLINEor WOW? Of course EVE-ONLINE. WOW is just too easy and childish..when in eve you have to actually think, plan your steps ahead and cooperate with people in order to achieve something, and in WOW you just kill hogs to gain XP and do boring quests all the time...

Lets just say that I'd rather get a kick butt twin barrel machine gune with incendary ammo with a hint of uranium.....added with a mini rocket launcher on the side of that mini gun...............then a long sword that adds 5 to my dexterity and attack speed.....although i like stuff like Devil may Cry which might be fantasy.......lets just say that anything along the lines of Oblivion& WOWis just not my thing unless its something really really special.....and that I normally stick to the star wars type games and the modern games like CoD

Personally I prefer Cardboard Boxesbut as this is about Games i will have to go withSci-Fi but the Elder Scrolls Series is Awesome. Well oblivion is and that is the only one I have played, but they start work on Number 5 when Fallout 3 is released.

I almost cant stand fantasy with midgets with big axes on horses.

But i love Sci-Fi and horror. Thats why i love games like Deus Ex or Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines and never really liked anything based in fantasy.

Which one will w1n? Out of sight, out of mind, will be pulling for Sci-fi.

1 Vote - Fantasy. Big daunting mourning stars, ripping into hordes of ironclad flesh. Leaving massive piles of dead, bloody heaps behind. Beats out a little pew pew, any day for me.

1 Vote - Sci-Fi. Stranded on a post-apocalyptic, war ruined alien world. Battling off gnarly toothed, razor hided behemoths. With only your advanced cybernetic nano-suits, and arm mounted lazar cannons, for melting monster's faces. Beats out a flower pooting elf anyday for me.

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Fantasy > Sci-fi

In sci-fi game: warrior (or whatever) stands in one place (battlefield) and shoots everyone with his laser-smazer-tiny-sminy-gun, that's not very enjoyable to me. ^^

While in fantasy game: it's all about technique. Amazingly fast sword fighting or amazing skill with bow (i just love Wood elves), lots of different magic; weapons are so simple and at the same time so beautiful..

Also i have NEVER been sucked in sci-fi game story. It's almost always boring to me. (i love astrology - so i do play sci-fi)

But fantasy games is satisfaction for me. almost every time it has interesting, deep story; emotional characters and beautiful places. (:

Fantasy > Sci-fi

In sci-fi game: warrior (or whatever) stands in one place (battlefield) and shoots everyone with his laser-smazer-tiny-sminy-gun, that's notvery enjoyable to me. ^^

While in fantasy game: it's all about technique. Amazingly fast sword fighting or amazing skill with bow (i just love Wood elves), lots of different magic; weapons are so simple and at the same time so beautiful..

Also i haveNEVER been sucked in sci-fi game story. It's almostalways boring to me. (i love astrology - so i do play sci-fi)

But fantasy games issatisfaction for me. almost every time it has interesting, deepstory; emotionalcharacters and beautiful places. (:

SouRoNas

I like them both, and they both tend to be equally cheesy, but when I think "sci-fi" VERSUS "fantasy, then I'm thinking of like, Warhammer vs. Warhammer 40k, 40k is so much cooler! I wonder though, Star Wars or LotR....They're both cheesy and awesome (I mean c'mon, the death star had this like...tiny hole in it...shoot it...and BOOM there goes billions of dollars.)

Eh, whatever, I like Sci-Fi more.

which is better: steampunk or cyberpunk?lordlors