ramik81 said:
Since every fantasy is trying to be a JRR fantasy, I've really gotten tired of them.
Right now Sci-fi just seems to have more freshness involved.
There are truth in this mans words.
I really do love both genres, flying around in space is just as cool to me as hacking apart foes with a broadsword.
Problem is it seems like ninety-nine percent of all fantasy games
exhumed Tolkiens corpse just to see what else they could get out of his pockets and perhaps pull out his gold fillings while they're at it. I like games such as Oblivion and Dragon Age, but I like them
in spite of them being full of orcs, elves, 'ye olde fantasy engrish' and the dwarves who hate the elves.[footnote]Oddly though despite the previous comment I do really like dwarves for some reason. A race of technically minded subterranean alcoholics appeals to me on some level.[/footnote]
As such, I've been having better luck with Sci-Fi games lately. They also have a lot of the same sort of dead-horse-tropes that also populate fantasy games, but at least the devs seem to be aware of this fact and actively try to be as unique as their risk-adverse corporate paymasters will let them.
