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Posted January 21, 2013
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Navagon: Of course you could just throw together some Jetsons bollocks cobbled together from plagiarism. But then I don't think that would really qualify as sci-fi. But at least it would be in space, I suppose.
You mean kind of like Star Wars? :-P
Posted January 21, 2013
I'm going off on a tangent here but has anyone who has played Civ 4 noticed that the most enjoyable part of the game occurs fairly early on, when all the nations are still markedly different from one another ? Later in the game the differences between nations are far less marked and that makes the later stages of the game feel a bit samey and boring. This is what the REAL world is like too. The past, for instance, the Middle Ages, Classical Greece and ancient Egypt was just so much more colourful and beautiful and nations and races were so much more different from one another than they are now. The internet is only going to make the world even more samey. Languages are dying out at a rapid pace. We are all becoming the same and it is SO DULL. I suppose that's another reason why I am drawn towards fantasy settings, because they hark back to a more beautiful world.......
Posted January 21, 2013
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Theoclymenus: I'm going off on a tangent here but has anyone who has played Civ 4 noticed that the most enjoyable part of the game occurs fairly early on, when all the nations are still markedly different from one another ? Later in the game the differences between nations are far less marked and that makes the later stages of the game feel a bit samey and boring. This is what the REAL world is like too. The past, for instance, the Middle Ages, Classical Greece and ancient Egypt was just so much more colourful and beautiful and nations and races were so much more different from one another than they are now. The internet is only going to make the world even more samey. Languages are dying out at a rapid pace. We are all becoming the same and it is SO DULL. I suppose that's another reason why I am drawn towards fantasy settings, because they hark back to a more beautiful world.......
Hmm ,it'd be depressing if everywhere just became a copy of the western world... :/
Posted January 21, 2013
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KoolZoid: ...
Yeah, I think you have just spelled out what I disliked about JRPG stories: Way too many are 'Fantasy with science twist!' kind of deal, and even tho they throw a ton of very ... imaginative things at you, those things tend to go completely unexplained and with no consistency whatsoever. Worlds in jRPG work exactly the other way than I like a good setting to work: They are there to serve the story and only ever so little of them actually exists out of boundaries of the main storyline you are supposed to follow. That's why you find so much crazy stuff in them: It's pretty easy to just go and say "Oh, and one of the characters will be a mushroom!" But integrate it into the game's world properly and make it consistent with itself, well, that's another story entirely.
Posted January 21, 2013
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McDon: As for RPG cliches I love games that make fun of them. If anyone had ever played Cthulhu Saves the World, they'll know what I mean.
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Leroux: Making fun of RPG clichés has become a RPG cliché in itself, it doesn't make a game more original, IMO. It's a bit like doing something awkward while shouting "Look guys, I'm doing something completely awkward, isn't that hilarious?". Nope, still cringeworthy most of the time. And RPG clichés are too easy a target. But of course there's nothing wrong with enjoying a bit of parody occasionally. (And I admit I will probably buy The Bard's Tale when it's released here.)
The distinction if whether it's clever parody or just dumb. It's entirely possible to make really clever parody of cliche, but it's far easier to just do the cliches and now and then go, "Hey, look at what I'm doing! Cliches, amiright?".
Posted January 21, 2013
Yeah, it's a shame they just stick to that.

I love some magical realism. Which is part of why I loved the Persona series and VtM: Bloodlines.
Posted January 21, 2013
Something similar: You can sometimes get the impression, that WW2 was the only war there ever was if you look at war games.
Posted January 21, 2013
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Jernfuglen: Something similar: You can sometimes get the impression, that WW2 was the only war there ever was if you look at war games.
Don't forget "Unnamed Semi-war Against Vaguely Defined Terrorists". That one's always a favorite.
Posted January 21, 2013
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Jernfuglen: Something similar: You can sometimes get the impression, that WW2 was the only war there ever was if you look at war games.
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Gazoinks: Don't forget "Unnamed Semi-war Against Vaguely Defined Terrorists". That one's always a favorite.
And Commander Badass's War Against the Xenomorph Wannabees.
Posted January 21, 2013
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Gazoinks: Don't forget "Unnamed Semi-war Against Vaguely Defined Terrorists". That one's always a favorite.
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Aaron86: And Commander Badass's War Against the Xenomorph Wannabees.
Commander Badass! :3
Posted January 21, 2013
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Aningan: Cyberpunk 2077 :)
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gameon: Anachronox :)
Deus Ex :D
Posted January 21, 2013
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gameon: Anachronox :)
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JudasIscariot: Deus Ex :D
I was going to mention that, but it's also an fps. Sort of like a futuristic fallout.
Posted January 21, 2013
Like someone said, there are very few RPG's with a scifi type setting ie Space Siege/Space Hackout (both unremarkable games inho) there. Most have medieval/fantasy/apocalyptic type settings (albeit many good ones).
Posted January 21, 2013
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nijuu: Space Siege/Space Hackout
Well... I do think there's a looong list of much more remarkable non-fantasy RPGs you know :-P Sci-fi, even.
Posted January 21, 2013
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Gazoinks: Don't forget "Unnamed Semi-war Against Vaguely Defined Terrorists". That one's always a favorite.
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Aaron86: And Commander Badass's War Against the Xenomorph Wannabees.
You can't beat invincible American heroes versus somehow-communist-again Russia
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