I like magic, swords, brute force burly warriors and good old fashioned lords and ladies. I like giant elven forests and fire breathing dragons. Evil sorcerers and righteous paladins. /shrug I couldn't explain it better than that. Even in my reading materials I prefer fantasy and high fantasy over sci fi. That doesn't mean I didn't thoroughly enjoy things like Ender's Game. I just find that things like Dragonlance captures my imagination better.

Don't get me wrong either. I really enjoy SWTOR and will continue to play it for a while. I just don't picture myself playing it for years like I did with WoW and AC.

 

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Sci-Fi is not fantasy, it is sci-fi. They're two different sections in a book store for a reason.

 

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You reminded me of someone who said The only difference between sci-fi and fantasy is one has rivets and one has trees. XD

 

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lol that isn't half bad

 

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My theory is that the fantasy setting makes us feel it's from the past where as with sci-fi we tend to think of the future. Humans as a rule tend to look upon the past with fondness while the future very often frightens us. I think that might effect us on a base level so that a majority of people would tend to prefer a fantasy mmo over a sci-fi mmo.

Then again it's just a theory.

 

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I think the problem with Sci-Fi is that shooting each other at point blank range seems more ridiculous than swords against armor, etc.

There doesn't seem to be much defense in SWTOR, it's all shields and armor, damage reduction. I remember in AC1 defense was huge, putting points into Melee and Magic defense really worked (magic defense worked much later).

 

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This is another thing "new generation" games are missing as well. DAoC had different damage types, blunt, slash, piercing, and they were strong against certain types of armors. You could also build resists into your template as you built your character to suit how played. There were also multiple magic damage types as well.

Almost all games these days use simple physical and magical damage alone. Removes a lot of the variety.

 

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Hmm, I don't know almost every book store I have ever entered has Sci Fi and Fantasy intermixed.

I had a discussion about this on another board, there is Sci Fi as in the Jules Vern type were it actually based off of Science, like Jurassic Park. Then you have Space Opera or Sci/Fi that is pretty much fantasy only with energy weapons and out of space races instead of dwarves and elves. For the most part Sci Fi that follows Star Wars and the like is fantasy in the reverse. True Sci Fi in the lineage of Jules Vern and Isaac Isamov can never be mistaken or compared to Fantasy.

 

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Yeah I barely consider Star Wars sci-fi hehe, definitely closer to fantasy!

 

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I think the whole sci-fi vs fantasy debate really hit a head in the Shadowrun universe. IMO it was probably the ultimate collaboration between the two. I mean come on, it was set in the future, with cybernetics, bio-organic implants, radical military technology, "virtual reality" hacking, etc. along with orcs, trolls, elves, dwarves, swords and sorcery. It's just a shame that FASA failed to market the setting as it should have been.

I would ABSOLUTELY LOVE to play an MMO set in the Shadowrun universe, but that will probably never happen. Not unless Microsoft (the current holders of the IP for electronic purposes afaik) decides to delve into the MMO market.

On the other hand, I'm reminded of an old joke from the 90s about Microsoft and AOL. Would you rather have your toaster crash, or have it say "ou have toast!".

 

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