Poll: Sci-fi or Fantasy?

[Da Orky Man]

Both..but fuck final fantasy. Warhammer 40K all the way. Where its a true sci-fi fantasy. Space ships, super soldiers, orks, elfs, and demonic beings.

Don't forget the cathedrals-on-legs known as Titans (at least the larger ones)

 

[Da Orky Man]

I went with Sci-Fi, only because it seems to have much more variety than Fantasy, which is somewhat ironic*.

They both have vast amounts of potential though, maybe it'll be realised soon as people quit thinking every fantasy world needs to be full of Orcs as either 'the Scourge' or the proud warrior race, Dwarves as the stumpy hermit miners, Elves as the skinny pretty freaks, some 'Ancient Evil' and whatnot with Humans always as the Jack of all Trades race who are overall the least hated and most rational. Which makes no fucking sense.
Wish there was a fantasy setting, and maybe there is, where the roles are all mixed up. Orcs are the technologically advanced fast moving hunter types, Dwarves are the diplomats and merchants, Humans are the reclusive ones hiding in mountains and no longer have a +10 to diplomacy, and Elves are the proud kill everybody warrior race guys.

Well....it'd be varied at least.

It wouldn't be varied at all, because those "Elves" would actually just be Orcs, except everyone would call them Elves. The Dwarves... well... actually Dwarves usually are the merchant race so they would still just be Dwarves. The "Orcs" would really be Elves, except everyone would call them Orcs, and the humans would just be mountainous-nomad-humans, yet another thing ripped straight out of Lord Of The Rings. Mixing up the roles would result in the same thing, except with the appearance and names randomly swapped, which would only serve to be confusing.

What I would like to see in a fantasy setting is completely original races that are nothing to do with Tolkien at all.

How about a race of technologically gifted but hideously ugly and mutated giants?

How about a race of sentient fungus creatures who share a hive-mind and seek only to spread across the world and cover it in spores?

How about... a race of ethereal and ghost-like sexual deviants?

The point in a fantasy world is that it is new, different, and fantastical. So why do we always end up with the same things? I love The Lord of The Rings, the books and the films, but there's only so many Middle-Earth rip-offs I can take before getting sick of them.

[sub]*I'm aware this may not be the correct usage of "Ironic", but I don't care. You know what I mean anyway.[/sub]

"Ethereal and ghost-like sexual deviants" - Episodes of Most Haunted.
"Sentient fungus creatures" - Orks/Tyranids in 40k.
"Technologically gifted but hideously ugly and mutated giants" - Fair enough. I'm stumped.

 

[Jedoro]

Sci-Fi, but mostly because I'm in love with guns and prefer having them around.

 

[DEAD34345]

"Ethereal and ghost-like sexual deviants" - Episodes of Most Haunted.
"Sentient fungus creatures" - Orks/Tyranids in 40k.
"Technologically gifted but hideously ugly and mutated giants" - Fair enough. I'm stumped.

Huh... didn't know Orks and Tyranids were fungus, but anyway this proves my point. Neither of those are fantasy, one is Sci-Fi and one is...

Wait, what? 0.o

 

[Twilight_guy]

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Fantasy and Sci-fi are really the same thing but one with a focus on the unexplainable and the other with a focused on the explainable but not explained. At least that's how I see it. Both rely on a world outside our own with incredible powers beyond man to express their ideas.

 

[Sjakie]

Sci-Fi no question.
I hardly read Fantasy, but almost everything Science-Fiction
Everything Fantasy is ripped from LOTR nowadays, it's mostly 'Dragons and Dwarfs', you know what i mean. And that just gets old.

Plus, i saw Star Wars and Dune when i was like 6 years old. That stuff is burned in my brain.

 

[Randomeaninglessword]

I like both. But I chose Fantasy, because most of my favorite games are fantasy games.

 

[inFAMOUSCowZ]

I really hate when people make poles and have a both option. That usually wins since why not have both? Make us choose which we'd rather have.

OT: I favor fantasy only because I just love that whole style. While sci-fi probably has better movies/games/books. I always preferred fantasy. Like skyrim coming out, I simply cant wait for that game. Fantasy setting I'm all for it. Which is funny since Mass Effect is probably my favorite series for games, well other then Zelda which happens to be fantasy.

 

[Tiger Sora]

I love both but I'll take fantasy over Sci-fi any day. LoTR beats Star Wars sorry.

 

[ZeroMachine]

It all depends on my mood. Currently, I'm in fantasy mode- I'm playing through Dragon Age 2 again, and I have to say, it's not nearly as bad as everyone says (worst thing about it is the new Darkspawn and Qunari look, IMO)- but I can already tell I'm shifting gears back to sci-fi, for once I'm done I'm itchin' for a Mass Effect 1+2 playthrough.

But if I had to choose one, it would be sci-fi, as that's the mode I'm usually in.

 

[mireko]

Going with fantasy, if only because good sci-fi games are few and far between.

Really, really sick of anything Tolkien-inspired, though.

 

[PunkRex]

I like both, thats why I play WoW.

Damn Draenei are smexy!

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I attribute equal love to both genres. I love sci-fi to death but sometimes I love a good old fashioned fantasy just as much too. Thus I declare it a tie seeing as I'm enthusiastic writing in both genres.

 

[PunkRex]

Going with fantasy, if only because good sci-fi games are few and far between.

Really, really sick of anything Tolkien-inspired, though.

Read Edge Chronicles, thank me later.

 

[malestrithe]

Both, but I have more Fantasy books right now.

 

[IBlackKiteI]

The point in a fantasy world is that it is new, different, and fantastical. So why do we always end up with the same things? I love The Lord of The Rings, the books and the films, but there's only so many Middle-Earth rip-offs I can take before getting sick of them.

I'd much rather have original races and settings and stuff than just mixed up roles, like what I described. Seeing as not a whole lot of original content is being made considering the sheer volume of fantasy and Sci-fi works, I reckon it'd be at least interesting to break the standard races out of their standard roles.
But I'd much rather have a fully realised new race than Orcs in an Elven coat of paint.

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Also, quoting what you said there, that is a pretty damn good question.

 

[poppabaggins]

I would like fantasy a lot more if it weren't so damn stagnant. The Lord of the Rings was great, but we don't need thousands of imitations.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I really think I can lose myself in books if they're sci-fi, and I'm not the hugest fan of fantasy because I feel a lot of them are trying to be Tolkien.

 

[Iron Lightning]

I'd have to say sci-fi. When I was a kid I always used to come up with intricate behind-the-scenes flim-flam that would turn any fantasy tail into something closer to a probable sci-fi story.