Poll: Sci-fi or Fantasy?
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Fantasy and Sci-fi are really the same thing but one with a focus on the unexplainable and the other with a focused on the explainable but not explained. At least that's how I see it. Both rely on a world outside our own with incredible powers beyond man to express their ideas.
Fantasy and Sci-fi are really the same thing but one with a focus on the unexplainable and the other with a focused on the explainable but not explained. At least that's how I see it. Both rely on a world outside our own with incredible powers beyond man to express their ideas.
Sci-Fi no question.
I hardly read Fantasy, but almost everything Science-Fiction
Everything Fantasy is ripped from LOTR nowadays, it's mostly 'Dragons and Dwarfs', you know what i mean. And that just gets old.
Plus, i saw Star Wars and Dune when i was like 6 years old. That stuff is burned in my brain.
I hardly read Fantasy, but almost everything Science-Fiction
Everything Fantasy is ripped from LOTR nowadays, it's mostly 'Dragons and Dwarfs', you know what i mean. And that just gets old.
Plus, i saw Star Wars and Dune when i was like 6 years old. That stuff is burned in my brain.
I really hate when people make poles and have a both option. That usually wins since why not have both? Make us choose which we'd rather have.
OT: I favor fantasy only because I just love that whole style. While sci-fi probably has better movies/games/books. I always preferred fantasy. Like skyrim coming out, I simply cant wait for that game. Fantasy setting I'm all for it. Which is funny since Mass Effect is probably my favorite series for games, well other then Zelda which happens to be fantasy.
OT: I favor fantasy only because I just love that whole style. While sci-fi probably has better movies/games/books. I always preferred fantasy. Like skyrim coming out, I simply cant wait for that game. Fantasy setting I'm all for it. Which is funny since Mass Effect is probably my favorite series for games, well other then Zelda which happens to be fantasy.
It all depends on my mood. Currently, I'm in fantasy mode- I'm playing through Dragon Age 2 again, and I have to say, it's not nearly as bad as everyone says (worst thing about it is the new Darkspawn and Qunari look, IMO)- but I can already tell I'm shifting gears back to sci-fi, for once I'm done I'm itchin' for a Mass Effect 1+2 playthrough.
But if I had to choose one, it would be sci-fi, as that's the mode I'm usually in.
But if I had to choose one, it would be sci-fi, as that's the mode I'm usually in.
I attribute equal love to both genres. I love sci-fi to death but sometimes I love a good old fashioned fantasy just as much too. Thus I declare it a tie seeing as I'm enthusiastic writing in both genres.
I'd much rather have original races and settings and stuff than just mixed up roles, like what I described. Seeing as not a whole lot of original content is being made considering the sheer volume of fantasy and Sci-fi works, I reckon it'd be at least interesting to break the standard races out of their standard roles.lunncal said:
But I'd much rather have a fully realised new race than Orcs in an Elven coat of paint.
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Also, quoting what you said there, that is a pretty damn good question.
I would like fantasy a lot more if it weren't so damn stagnant. The Lord of the Rings was great, but we don't need thousands of imitations.
I really think I can lose myself in books if they're sci-fi, and I'm not the hugest fan of fantasy because I feel a lot of them are trying to be Tolkien.
I'd have to say sci-fi. When I was a kid I always used to come up with intricate behind-the-scenes flim-flam that would turn any fantasy tail into something closer to a probable sci-fi story.
This (minus the Dune part...I should probably go see that)Sjakie said:
Fantasy is all the same thing in the same settings (or extremely similar settings). Sci-Fi is limited only by your imagination and vision of the future (or alternate universe/history, w/e).
Hmm. A good space opera generally beats the crap out of almost any fantasy, so , I guess I have to pick that one. However, to me fantasy seems to be more reliably mid-range, while I have read some god-awful sci-fi. I'm still going to pick sci-fi because there are reasonably reliable ways to determine which books are good, and which aren't.