Which RPG setting do you prefer?

[JUMBO PALACE]

I like both but I prefer swords and spells over starships and lasers.

 

[Tony2077]

i like any but prefer sci fi space ones

 

[Tomster595]

I love a Medieval setting

 

[Delock]

I like the whole fantasy meets some sort of technology (FFIX, X, XIII), but I'd settle for something medieval turns fantasy (Legend of the Dragoon, Tales).

That being said, I loved Mass Effect and found Fallout's whole apocalyptic setting sort of fun.

 

[Jinx_Dragon]

All of them...

Personally though I fall back onto Steam Punk. A nice blending of technology and magic that can be quite beautiful to behold.

 

[Ack-ack]

arcanum of steamworks and magick obscura, its steampunk vs. magick setting has not been bested yet.

 

[cj_iwakura]

Modern.
(See: Persona 2, Dreamfall, Bloodlines)

 

[Cakekey]

I love them both, really. Fantasy tends to bore me, though. there's always two dozen gods, some good, some bad, a mix of races, with tension between them and everything, some guilds here and there, different schools of magic, etc... I just don't remember the last time a Fantasy Game really surprised me at all.

That's why I like Sci-Fi more. There's always new, interesting technology, they tend to have more shooter action as well, which I always like, and all sorts of interesting landscapes to explore, thanks to the possibility of space travel.Except for Fallout, though Fallout makes up for it with its own charm, and delightfully diverse characters.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

My favorite is when they all kinda collide into one strange and fantastic world. Yes, I want my cake and I plan on eating it now watch as I use this plasma cannon on that Mythril-scaled Wyvern [rolls a pair of 1's, trips over my feet and blows myself into it's mouth. This all being recorded and broadcast live across the planet]

 

[DefunctTheory]

Space opera. More possibilities if done right, though done wrong it can possibly be the worst.

 

[Capt. Crankypants]

Was very happy with Oblivion, the game that got medieval first person fighting right! (there may be some other, obscure game, I wouldn't know, I'm not a game encyclopedia).

Dunno about space RPG... I suppose it's not THAT far from medieval fantasy, but it just seems too easy to make things up. I mean, it's space... any weird and fantastical gun/creature/doomsday weapon is possible. Medieval is similar with magic I guess though *shrug*, but I like my bow and arrows thankyou.

 

[FalloutJack]

I liked FF7's setting. A decent world mixing machine with magic. I'm generally a guy who likes dark and evil settings too, but that's provided I'm either its overlord or an up-and-coming badass who kicks ass in an evil way. If I'm human, then I want a world that fits human life...but it's cool. So, that's why I pick that one.

 

[ACHVDragon]

Fantasy

It just seems more fun mainly due to the lack of guns. I mean, with guns, thats it, guns. But in fantasy, theres swords, maces, polearms, staves, bows and arrow combinations, magic, elves, dwarves, variety of monsters, and much more

 

[Petromir]

Sci-fi has the likes of Stargate, Mass Effect, Warhammer 40k and Star wars (though this is really a combo of the two). Hard to beat that.

It's the clear winner in my book. Not to mention your "fantasy" settings, 9 times out of 10, are just ripping off Tolkien. Elves as archers who talk to trees and Dwarves who live under mountains and who like using axes, you say? How original. Still enjoy the genre though. love dragon age and elder scrolls.

on the otherhand the final fantasy and the steam punk settings just don't appeal to me. I'm all for a combination of Medieval fantasy and Sci-fi, but I just think that star wars did that best. That, and the art style of the two is very off-putting to me. Steampunk more so than FF.

Let me get this striaght, you're using Warhammer 40k, basically warhammer fantasy just in space, as a sign of how much more inventive sci fi is? A rip off of a Tolkien rip off?

Neither set has a particuarly divesre set of core universe/world sets, and both have good and bad examples at hiding this.

Plus there was little actually new in Tolkien, he borrowed alot from others, his genius lay in the death and completeness in his fantasy world. The reason so much fantasy seems to be like Tolkien is he'd already taken aspects from most areas.

Alot of sci fi is fantasy with the magic/deamons/mythical beasts replaced with tech and aliens. And they are not really more imaginitive in the tech/aliens than fantasy is in its areas.

Boths strengths are in how well they create a universe and portray it, neither are great in creating new settings.

 

[michiehoward]

played all games mentioned love all of them, couldn't choose, except Fallout would come in last place, i love the game and all but damn

 

[Johnny Cain]

I'll gladly roll with any setting. It's the writing and backstory to a setting that make it work.

 

[chstens]

There is only one fantasy setting: Middle earth
There are two sci-fi settings: Utopian Federation and Rusty Post-Apocolypse

Sir, are you familiar with the works of Robert E. Howard?

 

[Akirai]

Steampunk is my all time favourite for any game really. I hate the default swords and sorcery settings: I like swords (Mount and Blade, Oblivion w/o magic) but hate the sorcery. Sci fi is just uninteresting.