IIRC Albion features both sci-fi and fantasy elements. In fact, the main hero is space shuttle pilot who has crash landed on a planet where magic exists.

The only fiction I can stomach anymore is just the Flashman series. Nonetheless, a match up between space marines vs pathetic elves would be fun. It'll be like those movies ala The Final Countdown or GI Samurai where modern military troops go back in time and just go and slaughter people whole sale.


ps, I used to be really into Science Fiction so space human military dictatorships > magecracies.

A while back I recall seeing a turn-based, isometric strategy game that was from a Eastern European developer. IIRC the plot was that a generic Dark Lord and his horde of demons, goblins and orcs showed up in 199X Europe and you're the NATO/UN/EU commander tasked with banishing him. But for the life of me I can't remember what it was called.

Apparently for a very short time, there was an idea for Warcraft II being like this.

From wowwiki:

"After the first Warcraft and when we were talking about Warcraft II, there was an idea for about a week where we'd open another portal open and have the Orcs invade the modern-day world. We had this whole cut-scene we were talking about where it was going to be dragons and F-16s and firefights and stuff. And we were like, "Man, that's going to be weird. That's going to suck. That's not going to be Warcraft." - Bill Roper, Games for Windows, Jan, 2007.

Wizardry Ohh, you beat me to it.

Yeah, Rise of Legends, pretty much.

Or Warhammer 40k, if you fancy that kind of stuff: Orks with choppaz and rokkit launchaz, magick-weilding elf-like Eldars, etc.

Wizardry 8 has some good fantasy/tech and Might & Magic 6-8 as well. Not so sure about number 9 though cant remember as i never got too far into it.

Didn't the original Shadowrun rpg have a 'Bladerunner with orcs 'n elves vibe' to it?

Spellcross?

Warhammer 40k would be my first answer to this

Yes and I remember something about cybernetics and magic running around side by side and maybe even some weird combinations of the two...but I am not 100% sure. What ticked me off about MS was how they made their Shadowrun an MP game with nothing else going for it.

Would Geneforge's setting count as a sort of mesh between sci-fi and fantasy??

The problem is most of them SUCK DONKEY NADS. And no one wants to encourage that bloatware Jabba clone called George "Porgie" Lucas to make more crap.

It's sad though, there are so many hints of brilliance - if only he would STOP churning out shit and actually sit down, focus and MAKE A BRILLIANT GAME FULL STOP.

There are some pretty good Star Wars games, actually. The Jedi Knight series is pretty good, Empire at War is mostly good, and the Knights of the Old Republic series is excellent. And I won't even mention Tie Fighter (oh wait, I just did). ;-)

Also, as far as I know, George Lucas never made any games. He just licensed them.

I'd also say that Star Wars has been a good way to combine Fantasy and Sci-Fi, a specific genre that exists under the name of Space Fantasy, or Space Opera.

But, hey, let's not forget that sci-fi is not just space fantasy, or any kind of universe with space and starship battles, sci-fi is way more than that, it can even takes place in the present.

As for the "battle" of Sci-Fi vs Fantasy, I've always loved both of them, but I'll say sci-fi because fantasy is now an over-used genre.