Which RPG setting do you prefer?

[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.

 

[Datsle]

fable 2, highwayman/magic hit right home here. Else its alittle steampunkish. Ff6/9

 

[TheSanityAssassin]

hm... space, or something in between (like morrowind)

 

[Yossarian1507]

None. I mean, I like them both, but my most favorite setting is 'Modern World with a twist'. For example I really like (and so I'm going to make a Story-tell RPG soon for my friends in this setting) the world from 'Heroes'. It's our today's modern world, but some people happen to have superpowers. It's awesome concept. Time is really lose to us, so we can better adapt our behavior than in middle age games, and yet there is some abnormal concept which successfully defeats the 'there's nothing new, so there's nothing interesting to do' problem.

Too bad, they are not making RPG's in this setting, but maybe someday...

 

[Simon Pettersson]

Post apocalypse is nice and fantasy aswell ^^

 

[Redliph]

I prefer a good mix like you get in Cyberpunk and Steampunk settings. Games like Dark Cloud 1 and 2, anything having to do with Shadowrun, I love all of that stuff.

Fallout 3 isn't a sci-fi setting...

I don't know about you but if it has aliens and laser guns in it, I qualify it as Sci Fi. There is no such things as lasers and plasma guns yet, but there maybe someday, which is pretty much science fiction in a nutshell to me.

 

[Nemu]

Medieval or fantasy, I suppose. I've loved the FF series for about 20 years now, still love Asheron's Call and Suikoden and, yes, I play WoW, so I'd say those are wot I'm drawn to, mostly. A great story > setting, tho.

 

[child of lileth]

I like sci-fi stuff like Star Ocean, but I hate anything with wizards and faries and stuff like that. I don't mind fantasy settings, as long as they don't get too odd about it.

 

[hermes]

I grew tired of the medieval RPG. I stop playing Oblivion after a few hours because the setting was bland and boring. I pretty much preffer the futuristic setting (Mass Effect, Fallout) or fantasy setting (Final Fantasy)... Looking forward to Alpha Protocol and its spy setting.

 

[Steampunk Viking]

Easily Sci-Fi, probably because the Fantasy systems get samey and are done to death. I'm actually running a Mass Effect Tabletop Roleplay (using my custom, modified rules for an existing system) and even a bar fight is huge fun to do.

 

[Quaidis]

Wild West, especially if something steampunk is involved. Like the WildArms series (or at least one through three). Other than that, I like rpgs that involve dragons, samurai, and very imaginative surroundings; rps that go against the 'brown landscape, unoriginal fighter/species' mold like most fantasy elf/dwarf rpgs out there. I believe Miyazaki from Studio Ghibli is making an rpg for the DS right now that fits the imaginative mold.

And all this is secondary to gameplay. I will play anything if the game is fun to play, regardless of the setting they put it in. After all, if the game is fun to play and the story wont put me to sleep, I see nothing against picking it up and playing.

 

[Catalyst6]

Sci fi or modern realm. Or steampunk. Really anything like that. Not a big fan of the elves in forests types.

 

[Bobzer77]

Fantasy
Sci-Fi
Steampunk

In that order.