Poll: Steel vs Laser

[Doug]

Hand me a plasma rifle and +1 composite armour, I may be some time.

 

[Vlane]

Fantasy of course. Why? Fantasy has more memorable characters!

I'm serious. I can't think of one character in a Sci-Fi game who is memorable.

What about Gordon Freeman?

I haven't played any Half-Life game so I didn't knew that it is a Sci-Fi game.

 

[Vlane]

Wrong button. Sorry.

 

[DirkGently]

Fantasy of course. Why? Fantasy has more memorable characters!

I'm serious. I can't think of one character in a Sci-Fi game who is memorable.

What about Gordon Freeman?

I haven't played any Half-Life game so I didn't knew that it is a Sci-Fi game.

To clarify, you said "Sci-fi game" not, "Sci-fi RPG". As for a memorable sci-fi character, how about Revan from Knights of the Old Republic? Or HK-47?

 

[Vlane]

Fantasy of course. Why? Fantasy has more memorable characters!

I'm serious. I can't think of one character in a Sci-Fi game who is memorable.

What about Gordon Freeman?

I haven't played any Half-Life game so I didn't knew that it is a Sci-Fi game.

To clarify, you said "Sci-fi game" not, "Sci-fi RPG". As for a memorable sci-fi character, how about Revan from Knights of the Old Republic? Or HK-47?

I'm not really a fan of KotOR but okay Revan is memorable.

 

[Aries_Split]

SHODAN.

Duh?

 

[rossatdi]

And there I was thinking he meant John Henry Iron aka Steel battle with a drinking addiction to Laser Malt Liquor.

Incidentally, Sci-Fi on general terms but a well done knights battling evil tops everything for me (just isn't done often, or well).

 

[Zac_Dai]

Just not enough Sci-Fi RPGs so I vote for that.

 

[Maka112]

I would have to go for a Fantasy RPG as ive grown up with them and not many sci-fi ones.

 

[DirkGently]

Fantasy of course. Why? Fantasy has more memorable characters!

I'm serious. I can't think of one character in a Sci-Fi game who is memorable.

What about Gordon Freeman?

I haven't played any Half-Life game so I didn't knew that it is a Sci-Fi game.

To clarify, you said "Sci-fi game" not, "Sci-fi RPG". As for a memorable sci-fi character, how about Revan from Knights of the Old Republic? Or HK-47?

I'm not really a fan of KotOR but okay Revan is memorable.

I'm trying to think of more, but there aren't that many Sci-Fi RPGs. RPGs are pretty often the realm of Fantasy, but there are getting to be more sci-fi RPGs, with games like Mass Effect, KotOR, hell, there's even a RPG based on Alien being produced. J.E. Sawyer is working on it, if I remember correctly.

 

[neoman10]

Fallout 3

end of story

 

[Wicky_42]

Fantasy of course. Why? Fantasy has more memorable characters!

I'm serious. I can't think of one character in a Sci-Fi game who is memorable.

What about Gordon Freeman?

I haven't played any Half-Life game so I didn't knew that it is a Sci-Fi game.

To clarify, you said "Sci-fi game" not, "Sci-fi RPG". As for a memorable sci-fi character, how about Revan from Knights of the Old Republic? Or HK-47?

I'm not really a fan of KotOR but okay Revan is memorable.

Master Chief? Sgt Johnson? Darth Vader n his little kid? Gordon Freeman needs to be mentioned again - just 'cause you ain't played the game doesn't make him un-memorable.

 

[Vlane]

Fantasy of course. Why? Fantasy has more memorable characters!

I'm serious. I can't think of one character in a Sci-Fi game who is memorable.

What about Gordon Freeman?

I haven't played any Half-Life game so I didn't knew that it is a Sci-Fi game.

To clarify, you said "Sci-fi game" not, "Sci-fi RPG". As for a memorable sci-fi character, how about Revan from Knights of the Old Republic? Or HK-47?

I'm not really a fan of KotOR but okay Revan is memorable.

Master Chief? Sgt Johnson? Darth Vader n his little kid? Gordon Freeman needs to be mentioned again - just 'cause you ain't played the game doesn't make him un-memorable.

You can argue about Darth Vader because the movies made him memorable and not the games.

And Master Chief is maybe memorable to some people but not to me.

I don't say that Gordon isn't memorable because I haven't played the games. I said I didn't knew that Half-Life is a Sci-Fi game.

 

[hamster mk 4]

Scifi has a greater range of possibility than fantisy ,which generaly gets shoehorned into midievel europe with magic. That being said Scifi has a greater posibility of getting it wrong. For every Dune or Warhammer 40K universe there are dozens pathetic attempts to create a memorable setting, which fail miserably. So miserably I can't remember them right now.

 

[Zemalac]

Both are great, both have many, many subgenres that are pure liquid awesome. In general fantasy is awesome because there's an infinitely greater amount of possibilities to choose from, and sci-fi is great because it can predict the future and do so with huge explosions.

 

[Puppeteer Putin]

Recently? Would have to say Sci-Fi. Had a excellent succession of good Sci-Fi RPGs. Mass Effect, Bioshock (.. Steam-Punk I know, but it's closer to Sci-Fi than fantasy in my view), STALKER, Fallout and it's predecessors. It goes on.

 

[protogenxl]

What about a Steel Laser?

Aurthur C Clarke's Third Law
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

 

[Chickenlittle]

They both are indeed good, but with Science Fiction, the only restriction on what you can do is the cost and thee developers' imaginations. Warhammer 40K comes to mind here. With Fantasy, there is a set limit.

 

[Danny Ocean]

Fantasy of course. Why? Fantasy has more memorable characters!

I'm serious. I can't think of one character in a Sci-Fi game who is memorable.

Uh...
Samus Aran
Master Chief
Nomad
Shepard
Gordon Freeeman

Off the top of my head.

 

[Uncompetative]

Surely, George Lucas cracked this problem with a sword which could also cut through doors like a laser - the lightsabre.