Poll: Sci-Fi vs. Fantasy,who wins?

[Da Orky Man]

Well, fantasy can pretty much call the God card depending on the setting, so they would clearly win.

Fantasy has Magic, Gods, Gods, Goddesses, more Gods, Demigods and demigoddesses. Oh, and Gods. Did I mention all the Gods?

Sci-fi can't beat Gods.

L'edito: Damn ninjas. Maybe I should spend less time per post typing the word Gods.

Fantasy, actually. Sci fi has a lot of planet destroyers and such, but fantasy has more gods that destroy everything.

To all of you, try staring down this:

The God-Emperor of Mankind fighting the Warmaster Horus, his genetic son? I think we all know who wins here...

 

[weker]

I like Sci Fi more as it tends to not sit with the crappy, basic myths and legends like Minotaur, trolls, orc and elves, which I have grown very tired of. Only issue is my opinion may become the same for Sci Fi as it seems the Cyber punk theme is starting to make a wedge with Hard Reset, Human Revaluation and the Syndicate.

To all of you, try staring down this:

The God-Emperor of Mankind fighting the Warmaster Horus, his genetic son? I think we all know who wins here...

Okay yer you just extended my opinion that Sci-Fi is better by a mile. I do find it strangely ironic that one of the best Sci-Fi worlds uses such vast quantities of fantasy elements.

 

[twaddle]

alot of games have both. Final fantasy games(almost all of them), Star ocean,Xenosaga, etc. Hell even the marvel universe says they were one in the same thanks to thors ppl.Stargate and doctor who had them too as well as the fable star trek series. Tell me the Q's wern't for all intensive purposes gods

 

[mb16]

oh noes! they have swords....

PEW PEW PEW

"Your foe is well equipped, well-trained, battle-hardened. He believes his gods are on his side. Let him believe what he will. We have the tanks on ours."

 

[kingcom]

alot of games have both. Final fantasy games(almost all of them), Star ocean,Xenosaga, etc. Hell even the marvel universe says they were one in the same thanks to thors ppl.Stargate and doctor who had them too as well as the fable star trek series. Tell me the Q's wern't for all intensive purposes gods

Any significantly advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Stand ins for something does not make one something.

 

[plugav]

Up to a certain point, the forces are pretty even. But fantasy, by its very definition, can always go one step further.

 

[Mythrignoc]

Fantasy wins by literal definition.

Both are the same but they are also polar opposites in terms of order and chaos. Science is defined by order, theories, tests and experiments and even though it's fictional, it requires plausibility for it to exist.

Fantasy on the other hand, is imagination itself. That's the literal definition, imagination. Imagination is determined by the person at hand, and thus anyone who imagines themselves "Impervious to even the power of a god," immediately trumps anything science can ever come up with.

 

[Swny Nerdgasm]

Isn't Sci-fi at it's most technical definition still part of the larger Fantasy genre? At least thats the way I see it, so I'm going to have to vote for fantasy

 

[Drake666]

Neither I would say
Was it Terry Pratchett himself that said something among the lines of : "Science-Fiction is when you replace everything magic by Science" ?

 

[Lantsvants]

Nihei Tsutomu sees your Gods, Dragons, and Magic and raises you handheld weapons that make the Imperium of Man's titans look like pea-shooters, an infinite number of machine soldiers that make the armies of hell seem pleasant by comparison, and atomic manipulation. And that's just Blame!.

 

[Joby Baumann]

they are the same damn thing, to quote Arthur C. Clark, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

fantasy is just that, fantasy, it has next to limitless amounts of power because it is "fantasy", the word itself destroys what sci fi stands for.

oh that gattling laser you destroyed that godlike being for? yeah well my mage is a demi god that is drawing power from the nether realm itself for limitless power.

 

[hailfire]

I almost said scifi, but if fantasy could cast a spell against lazers, they would win pretty quickly

 

[WOPR]

Well, fantasy can pretty much call the God card depending on the setting, so they would clearly win.

Fantasy has Magic, Gods, Gods, Goddesses, more Gods, Demigods and demigoddesses. Oh, and Gods. Did I mention all the Gods?

Sci-fi can't beat Gods.

L'edito: Damn ninjas. Maybe I should spend less time per post typing the word Gods.

Spoiler: Chaos God of the year 40,000 is displeased with your logic

(Warhammer 40,000: still has gods, and magick, and breasts, and daemons... Sci-fi wins because it has everything fantasy has, AND MORE)

 

[WOPR]

I beg to differ.

Spoiler: Dragon

You were saying?

*clears throat*

And you were saying..?
best of all we don't need to breed dragons, we just need to make a sacrifice

Spoiler: here's another pic of another one

 

[RedDeadFred]

considering sci fi is limited, and fantasy is unlimited, there's clearly no contest.

You obviously haven't heard of the infinite improbability drive.

 

[PUR3_GAM3R33]

oh noes! they have swords....

PEW PEW PEW

"Your foe is well equipped, well-trained, battle-hardened. He believes his gods are on his side. Let him believe what he will. We have the tanks on ours."

woah,that's cool,what game is that from?

 

[flamingjimmy]

depends on what universes we're talking about really.

In crap fantasy fiction they can do pretty much anything (a really powerful wizard did it).

But then again, in crap science fiction they can do pretty much anything (special new element that can be used to do anything)

Parameters need to be defined better.

 

[cubikill]

Fantasy because they have balefire, and that just wins everything.

 

[flamingjimmy]

(Warhammer 40,000 - the definition of sci-fi, still has gods, and magick, and breasts, and daemons... Sci-fi wins because it has everything fantasy has, AND MORE)

Warhammer 40K is not the 'definition of sci fi'. Just because something is set in the future and has laser guns and ftl travel does not proper sci fi make imo. Warhammer 40K is a soft as sci fi ever comes. Don't get me wrong, I love it to bits, but it is not a proper deep sci fi, and certainly doesn't define the genre.