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Bioware GM: Anthem will be Science Fantasy instead of Science Fiction
- Thread starter Renekton
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There can be only one.
It exists because the burbledrive exuded enough hyperfrazzium to power the Kyber Core in only three parsecs.
What....
Source? I've been looking for concept art.
Boombloxer
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Doctoglethorpe
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That is the warlock
And it stole the hunters cape, so now hunters have nothing. NOTHING. Ahhahahahahah!
Come on now, hardly a small minority opinion
Most sci-fi IS fantasy ... people just don't know the difference. Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke are sci-fi -- an awful lot of the rest is fantasy with spaceships, which is fine ... I like Star Wars a lot, but Mass Effect -- regardless of what was intended -- became science fantasy.
Hero_of_the_Day
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Nothing is cooler than a lightsaber. Nothing.
Continental 0p
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So Borderlands with a jetpack and a social club
Psychoward
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Mass Effect 1 was yeah, especially if you read any part of the Codex?
Lightsaber > phaser. All day. Every day.
Phrozenflame500
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Makes sense, it really does seem more like a shooter then their RPGs
More_Badass
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Eh, I see science fantasy as stuff like Tides of Numenera, Book of the New Sun, and far future works in general. Mass Effect would be primarily science fiction. It's a far cry from the typical works categorized as science fantasy
LumpOfCole
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Biotic abilities alone made every Mass Effect game, even the first one, more Science Fantasy than Science Fiction. "Mass Effect fields" themselves are arguably much more fantasy than science.
You're thinking too hard. It's just being used as a buzzword by marketing these days to describe "more Star Wars, less Star Trek, hey look DESTINY!"
Some Nobody
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It's not, but it's incorrect. Star Wars' fantasy element is so poorly thought out its unimpressive. The trappings of Trek were always cooler.
Shadow Broker
Banned
Space magic?
quick thought. what if, just what if...it's better than mass effect? Ever thought about that?
What goes on in the head of a Mass Effect zealot:
>If the game is awesome
WHY DIDN'T THEY CALL IT MASS EFFECT INSTEAD? IDIOTS!
>If the game is bad
WHY DIDN'T THEY MAKE MORE MASS EFFECT INSTEAD? IDIOTS!
>If the game is Mass Effect
WHY ISN'T THIS AS GOOD AS THE LAST MASS EFFECT GAME I PLAYED? IDIOTS!
Sounds reasonable.
I hope your hope is dashed and this turns out to be a runaway success.
Exploratory
Banned
Is this a joke?
Phrozenflame500
Member
God no, I hope Bioware doesn't get a chance to run Mass Effect into the ground further. Anthem success please.
Why do you both think it's this black and white?
Dash_Riprock
Member
You know, just because you have a "Destiny Killer" doesn't mean you have to ape all of Destiny's aspects...
EVE Online has me torn.
Such a cool setting and universe with tons of lore... but hardly any of it is integrated into the game proper, and you have to go diving into the fiction wiki (or the various printed supplements) to really get any of it. Of course, some of this is unavoidable in a game where you spend the grand majority of your time spaceborne, but I really do lament the lost opportunities when they dropped the walking-in-stations aspect almost entirely.
I wonder if they'll ever get back around to it.
What goes on in the head of a Mass Effect zealot:
>If the game is awesome
WHY DIDN'T THEY CALL IT MASS EFFECT INSTEAD? IDIOTS!
>If the game is bad
WHY DIDN'T THEY MAKE MORE MASS EFFECT INSTEAD? IDIOTS!
>If the game is Mass Effect
WHY ISN'T THIS AS GOOD AS THE LAST MASS EFFECT GAME I PLAYED? IDIOTS!
I don't want any possible new favorite things. I just want my old favorite things again.
Needs more Titan buttcapes.
RecRoulette
Member
That's too bad, but I don't think they could match Mass Effect 1's world-building anyway so it's fine.
Is this a thing destiny fans are doing because they thought they were getting something closer to anthem than what they actually got?
GuitarAtomik
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As soon as OP put up those examples, I knew where this thread was headed lol. Should have left it at Star Trek and Star Wars.
Doctoglethorpe
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Youre being too nit picky. This is why the term hard sci-fi exists. The majority of sci-fi exists inbetween hard sci-fi and science fantasy, not as one or the other.
We knew about this game as a "Destiny killer/Destiny like" before we knew it's official name. The comparisons are obvious and will continue.
Man, if this ain't true...What goes on in the head of a Mass Effect zealot:
>If the game is awesome
WHY DIDN'T THEY CALL IT MASS EFFECT INSTEAD? IDIOTS!
>If the game is bad
WHY DIDN'T THEY MAKE MORE MASS EFFECT INSTEAD? IDIOTS!
>If the game is Mass Effect
WHY ISN'T THIS AS GOOD AS THE LAST MASS EFFECT GAME I PLAYED? IDIOTS!
Terra Battle is also Science Fantasy. Mostly Fantasy. With a bunch of cybernetic limbs.
A game like Mass Effect 1 but multiplayer would be amazing. But that would probably be extremely difficult to get right
Those aren't comparisons. Yall are acting like somebody stole something that bungie didn't make up.
Sho_Nuff82
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Yeah, ME went through a lot of trouble explaining how the FTL travel worked, why the relays were necessary, how biotic powers worked, and it's all part of the narrative.
Fittingly, people hit with bullets or biotics in cutscenes are critically injured unless they are wearing actual armor or shields.
Halo is more hard sci fi in the novels, they handwave a bunch of stuff in the games to get you to the next checkpoint.
I would say the first Mass Effect is Sci-Fi. Not the heaviest of sci-fi but still solidly in the genre I think. That argument gets a lot harder with the others. I would agree that Andromeda is Sci-Fantasy pushing more on the fantasy. This is likely why ME1 still my favorite.
Dash_Riprock
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Um, I don't play Destiny...