Why Sci-Fi Games Don't Make Sense

[MONSTERheart]

Now, I love a good Sci-Fi game. Halo, Gears of War, etc. But there is something that always bugs me about them. It's mainly a plausibility issue. You're probably thinking "Well no shit it's not realistic!" but hear me out on this one.

The great Stephen Hawkings said this one or two years back: "Watch out if you would meet an alien. You could be infected with a disease with which you have no resistance." That scenario is similar to the novel/mini-series, "Andromeda Strain", which deals with a similar concept: Alien diseases we can't effectively deal with because we have no pre-existing immunities towards it.

So, that means that Halo would have been pretty lame. Just a lot of sick, dying people. Thoughts?

 

[3rd rung]

umm thats to say the diseases could even infect us look at all the diseases we have on this plant that don't affect the human race but affects other animals. there is no reason to think that a race of another plant could even tranmit it to us, and if it could be the same thing would happen that normally does, a lot of people would die (for sure) but then mutations present in some people would make them immune and then they would thrive and reproduce eventually making the population immune which is what happens normally, just evolution and natural selection at work mate

 

[Chicago Ted]

umm thats to say the diseases could even infect us look at all the diseases we have on this plant that don't affect the human race but affects other animals. there is no reason to think that a race of another plant could even tranmit it to us, and if it could be the same thing would happen that normally does, a lot of people would die (for sure) but then mutations present in some people would make them immune and then they would thrive and reproduce eventually making the population immune which is what happens normally, just evolution and natural selection at work mate

Beat me to the point there.

 

[Valate_v1legacy]

No, read War of the Worlds. The inverse is also possible.

 

[grimsprice]

As the 3rd rung said, its far more likely that any life would be so radically different it wouldn't know how to harm us. And if it did, well, natural selection bitches!!!

 

[A Weary Exile]

I say that Halo also makes no sense purely because of the goal of the Covanent, "The Flood are evil and will kill us all. Our solution: destroy the entire universe!" o_0

Maybe they believe in alien heaven or something.

 

[Necrofudge]

1) If both sides are advanced enough to have high speed space traveling ships and laser beams, I'm pretty sure they understand the concept of sterilization.

2) Its science fiction for a reason.
That reason being that the writers for the game don't want to have to explain every detail involved with discovering an alien species and deciding that instead of trying to learn from each other, an unexplained war must be fought even though in any realistic scenario we would have lost simply because they outnumbered us and had more advanced technology.

 

[ottenni]

Realism in games suck. If you have games that are realistic people would complain. "You run to slow" "The people don't have giant exclamation marks above their head telling me that i have to talk to them" "The mini map is to confusing" "I cant do quadruple back flips sixty feet in the air wielding a two hundred kilo key blade while fighting against an army of demons, that sucks!"
and most likely "I die to easily".

 

[badgersprite]

I want to make a realistic science fiction game. It's set 4000 years in the future and nothing has changed. No aliens. No warp speed. No nothin'. =P Wouldn't that be a fun game?

 

[The Heik]

Well humans are pretty adaptable little buggers, so even if there were a disease that could theoretically kill us, we'd eventually beat it.

Anyway in the case of Halo they'd already dealt with the Covenant for years before Combat Evolved, so the adaptation would have kicked in a while ago. And I know somebody in Halo who wouldn't get sick at all: Master Chief. The dude's wearing hightech self-sealing body armor with recharging shields! The only way he could be better protected is if he was encased in a tank made out of lead!

 

[Mr.Black]

So you're saying that game developers are doing the right thing by making sci-fi games fun, rather than realistic and depressing? Gotcha.

 

[Dark Knifer]

I say that Halo also makes no sense purely because of the goal of the Covanent, "The Flood are evil and will kill us all. Our solution: destroy the entire universe!" o_0

Maybe they believe in alien heaven or something.

Actually your right they all think it will send them on a "great journy". Oh yeah and the leader knows that the rings kill everything but he is just a psycotic, religious finatic. Like your modern day terrorist.