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SCi-Fi VS Medieval
GerothOfWoW
Member Posts: 16
Which is a Better MMORPG style?
Why do you think so?
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There's a lot more distance between, say, Lensmen and Dune than there is between The Lord of the Rings and Conan.
Give me SF.
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Mages and Warriors and such is more exciting than flying ships and the such.
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I prefer High Fantasy, but I'll play any MMOG in any genre that provides fun gameplay.
Cybermarines in a space barge battling acid spitting aliens, thats just so cool.
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I'd much rather attack with a sword, bow or lance then "LAZERGUNPEWPEW!"
How about this, BOTH. Instead of havnig an end-game, the story evolves like the Civilization series. You start off in caves with sticks then after so many patches/expansions you get lasers and spaceships. Maybe instead of instances zones/shards you have alternate histories. Just think of the possibilities for a minute. You msy think, "Oh yeah I got a laser and tough body armour no stick is going to hurt me, but that would be the ultimate prize" and history is full of weaker armies with simple technology defeating stronger foes.
No annoying animated GIF here!
Second, did anyone here played Sci-Fi PnP game like CyberPunk or Shadowrun. Image a MMO about Shadowrun, that would be amazing, you get everything for everyone in it. For those who doesnt know Shadowrun, the timeframe is 2050, magic as come back to the earth waking all the creature. So you have all the creature you have in a medievall game and the future technology. Its Magic against Technology, there is city, forest.....Elf, Orc, Magician, Laser Gun, Armor, everything in one game. I think that game would be a major hit if its well done.
All the Medieval game today all look the same, Magician with Fireball, Warrior with sword and shield, they dont have any difference beside the gameplay.
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If I had to pick one for development I'd go with a Cyberpunk game...
I would say either genre as long as I can melee stuff, make a charcter that I think looks cool, and the game isn't too stereotypical of its respective genre. Its more about the style, design, tone and art of a game then the genre.
But I mostly play Fantasy, because I like swords and I find most scifi games to be what I call corny Scifi, by corny I mean lasers and aliens and spaceships, pretty much every thing that one would typically see in a scifi movie/game, where as imo fantasy tends to vary a little bit more.
I think both genres are translated too strictly into games however, scifi doesn't have to mean robots and lasers, likewise fantasy doesn't have to mean magic and monsters, its ok to be original.
Don't you worry little buddy. You're dealing with a man of honor. However, honor requires a higher percentage of profit
There's no sense of 'I might be the first person to ever see this certain place' in futuristic MMO's, because then you'll remember that, in the future, Google Earth will be flawless :-D.
Alas nthnaoun life is too short to wade through your 77 page post history hehe. I do think sci-fi/medieval can exist in the same mmorpg. I mean a time-travelling mmorpg, [you can get away with a lot....HANG ON
Why not have a Doctor Who mmorpg!
No annoying animated GIF here!
I personally think a more appropriate poll might better be addressed as "Antique VS Modern VS Futuristic" since we are obviously dealing with the preference of historical depiction i.e. setting.
From what appears to be the immediate consensus, Science Fiction is a literary term that merely denotes the dealing with an alternate scientific history whereas Medieval refers to the attributes commonly associated with the historical period of the Middle Ages specifically.
That being said, I would seem to prefer a futuristic setting from an obvious design standpoint - ultimately it is the only setting which allows for the existence of all three periods at the same time from a linear perspective.
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Edit: The "linear perspective" remark, since I saw someone mentioned time-travel.
Ahh I like the way you put things in perspective
In that case modern or antique, I don't have much interest for the future
Don't you worry little buddy. You're dealing with a man of honor. However, honor requires a higher percentage of profit
I have played Medieval my whole like EQ for 6 years, Guild Wars for 2 and WoW for 2 and counting even though I dispise the game completely, I thinking of joining EQ2 just cause I am weird like that but, my idea of the poll came up on the perspective of the higher vote I would look more into those games. Ya get it...and from a request ill put in a new poll on the idea Modern, Antique, and Future