Why are sci-fi games less popular and numerous compared to standard fantasy?
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Because wearing a jumpsuit and using a laser gun on moon #67384628 is the most boring fucking shit imaginable, the only games that make it work are ones where you're a pilot the entire time because sci-fi has no other entertaining classes. And shit like cyberpunk is fantasy since the technology used is effectively magic.
>>729349067>shit like cyberpunk is fantasy since the technology used is effectively magicYou suck
It's hard to make sterilized scifi settings interesting.
>>729349067Space is only boring because Mass Effect is one of the only series to even try to have interesting alien races.
>>729349617Mass Effect wasnt good because of its different aliens though
>>729349067So don't create the boring setting that you're describing then, make a not boring sci fi setting. What a dumb post.
>>729348676Because sci-fi in general is less popular compared to standard fantasy. That's just the way it is.Even tech-fantasy nerds like me are generally comfortable with that though. It's only the hard-SF autists who start getting uptight.
>>729348676For fantasy settings you can just keep copying all the same shit that people have been using since the invention of mythology and people will eat it up without question because it's familiar. For Sci-Fi settings you actually have to put in work to make something at least somewhat interesting and unique, because most people don't think space or even grounded futuristic settings are interesting. And if you try to make a genetic sci-fi game it'll get ignored even worse than a generic fantasy one.>>729349186Name one Cyberpunk setting that doesn't inevitably devolve into pseudo-scientific BS.
>>729348676You can literally just copypaste standard fantasy stuff so it's easier and cheaper to make
scifi is gay because you have to have a phd and research fucking every aspect of your story or ppl will rip your fucking balls off and scream at you about how much ur shit sucks. fantasy is just like ayyy we love magic and politics and history lets gooooo!!!
>>729348676>Fantasy can just talk about elves and dwarves and shit, going on a generic quest. There's obviously some trademarks to deal with, but there's enough ambiguity to slide past with something generic. There is a trove of shit to talk about that people are just familiar with and there is also a massive amount of public domain fiction that can be used to inform a fantasy setting. >Sci-fi will constantly whack you over the head with the "nuh you can't talk about that" copyright/trademark stick. Can't in any way talk about 20th or 21st century culture and how it impacted your speculative future fiction setting, because it's all covered by trademark and copyright. Can't use any sci-fi from the 20th century to inform your setting more thoroughly, because even the public domain shit is sometimes still being guarded by screeching lawyers with trademark lawsuits (See: John Carter of Mars). Most of the extant sci-fi that people are familiar with is just WW2, Vietnam or racism allegory, so basically the cornerstone of all media that has been done to death by now.Gee, I fucking wonder why?
>>729348676You can't just use stock D&D setting or shart out generic Souls slop hack n' slash braindead combat with a scifi setting, despite that I don't think scifi games are actually that rare they just tend to be shooters and simulation instead of rpg games and even there we have quite a few games on the horizon like Expanse, Exodus, ME4, Cyberpunk 2 etc.
>>729349617ME aliens are generic as fuck, ME just gets a pass because its basically the only big budget RPG in a epic space opera setting.
I like the Star Ocean approach.
>>729348676Fantasy is pretty well codified so you can generally make some assumptions and know what you'll get. Sci-Fi is much wider, and will vary wildly between settings or even how fictional the science is. The Division is technically science-fiction, but the fiction is a man made virus being used to depopulate a city and cause general chaos. Something that totally wouldn't happen in real life...
