Fantasy vs Sci-Fi

[CaptainMuskrat]

Fantasy, because Sci-Fi is just modernist propaganda and is laced, LACED with luciferian ideology. Darwinism is also a prerequisite for 99% of Sci-Fi stories. The idea of other planets, outer space, space travel, aliens, it presupposes Darwinian theories as true for the story to even be plausible. Fantasy is much more grounded in the world, in the human condition and the supernatural. And rightly so, since the fathers of the genre based their work on old myths and folklore.

 

[Bonkers225]

Sci-Fi. Films and shows wise, it's vastly superior. I'll take Blade Runner over LotR anyday. I also enjoy the Cyber Punk atmosphere.

 

[diapered]

I prefer fantasy, though I enjoy both. I'm a big fan of the two intersected however, magic and fantasy in a Sci-Fi world.

Yea, I like a fantasy setting with a "lost technology" subplot. For example, I think it was cute when Ramza and Agrais didn't understand what a gun was :3

Also this thread reminds me off that Home Movies episode lol

 

[Sir Auriel of Lionel]

You're asking me to choose between my twins, sure they're not identical but they have the same mom.

Probably Fantasy but I'm in love with Fantasy with lost science/ technology or technology running parallel to the fantasy and sadly I only see titles like Final Fantasy explore this. The movie Wizards is a weird twist on that as well. I need a book series that follow this trend to dive into. I need guns that shoot spells, airships or ships that swim through literal sand, magical tanks in the shape of dragons, giant lizards or birds as mounts, I want an anti-tank gun strapped to the back of a dragon. Not humans on a space ship with their technology crash land on a medieval time period (sorry Star Ocean, I do love you tho) or an advanced human star-ship era race that just for fun colonizes a planet to create a dinosaur, fantasy or mutant world for recreation.

I could also need to find more space opera series to have a better judgement.

 

[lil_thang]

I personally prefer scifi because it has at least more than just LoTR as a baseline to knock off. It has like one or two other baseline things to knock off

 

[Tbest25]

I prefer fantasy, though I enjoy both. I'm a big fan of the two intersected however, magic and fantasy in a Sci-Fi world.

Same. I used to like the opposite way, Sci-fi first then Fantasy. I guess the change came when i've watched the Lord Of The Rings trilogy and read The Hobbit book.

 

[Ian Naxieas]

This is a really tough one because it depends on a ton of different factors, but if I had to choose I'd lean towards sci-fi, though I can't decide between hard or soft science fiction. Fantasy can be amazing if done right, I'm just so sick of the typical fantasy races of humans, dwarves, elves, gnomes, orcs, goblins and half and subraces too. You can use them, but mix it up with other cool races and stop pigeonholing them into a certain alignment or behavior. Science fantasy has it's place too, like Star Ocean.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Fantasy, because Sci-Fi is just modernist propaganda and is laced, LACED with luciferian ideology. Darwinism is also a prerequisite for 99% of Sci-Fi stories. The idea of other planets, outer space, space travel, aliens, it presupposes Darwinian theories as true for the story to even be plausible. Fantasy is much more grounded in the world, in the human condition and the supernatural. And rightly so, since the fathers of the genre based their work on old myths and folklore.

This is a joke right?


As for myself it depends, I'm not keen on Space Opera with techno-babble like Star Trek nor Tolkienian High Fantasy either.

Maybe it's me but I prefer fantasy when it's more like Sword & Sorcery or with advanced ancient technology and SF when it's the near future (so it's more familiar).

Sci-Fi may age less well as the genre is a reflection of the era it was made (it extrapolates on what was conceptualised like how Atompunk is clearly from the 50-60's) and Fantasy has to be a solid and consistent world to be interesting and not yet another cliche of Elves and Gobelins with an European Medieval setting. In fact I think there are too few non-European setting for Fantasy.

 

[Nidoking's iconNidoking]

I'm really picky about sci-fi, but I can really enjoy it from time to time when it's done right.

I've always been way more of a fantasy person, though. I've always liked pretty much everything about it.

 

[Aisf]

I like sci-fi and I like fantasy I can't really choose

 

[RirisuPK]

I always feel at home with fantasy.

 

[Mr. Daddy]

This has always been tough for me because while I think I have a general preference for sci-fi at least on an aesthetic level, often my favorite aspects are things in various sci-fi settings I like are the parts that either could be or just outright are closer to fantasy than sci-fi, like The Force in Star Wars, or the variety of alien species in general. I'm definitely the biggest fan of when they intersect, which is probably from my very early exposure to FF8 and Breath of Fire III, but I also just think that it maximizes the potential for a setting to have both present. That's not to say that I think every setting needs both either. I think outright magic and dragons and such would feel just as out of place in something like Megaman as a spaceship would feel in Lord of the Rings. When a setting is made with both in mind though, like the Eberron setting for D&D, I think it usually ends up being really solid. Bonus points if magic is treated as a science or an aspect of science, since it's often treated that way in regular fantasy anyway.

 

[Ian Naxieas]

Bonus points if magic is treated as a science or an aspect of science, since it's often treated that way in regular fantasy anyway.

Out of curiosity, are you familiar with Xenogears, pops? I love how that game's setting is a weird mix of sci-fi and fantasy, but ends up being 100% sci-fi by the end. It's cool that they thought about their world enough to have an explanation for the fantasy elements.

 

[SolarSpectre]

I prefer fantasy but I'm getting really tired of traditional settings/races/tropes

 

[OmegaPunch's icon OmegaPunch OmegaPunch]

Even though I'm more of a Fantasy type of person, I also love Sci-Fi!
Especially Space Opera, Star Wars/Star Trek style of Sci-Fi.
And I'm also a huge fan of Contemporary/Science Fantasy.

 

[abu2411]

I like both I guess. I like having fantastical elements along with sci-fi.

 

[Mr. Daddy]

Out of curiosity, are you familiar with Xenogears, pops?

I'm familiar with it, but haven't taken the time to play it yet. My backlog is admittedly pretty long and unfortunately not full of short games

 

[dr grim]

hard to choose, and i often prefer a game ( or movie or else ) that can do both or take elements from one to another ...

Chrono trigger have fantasy and sf in it.
Warhammer 40k is SF but does with esoterism

 

[Dyne]

I love both but I do prefer fantasy.
Mixing the two has become somewhat commonplace, but that is with good reason. It can work really well when done right.

 

[symplily]

why not both?

 

[Deleted member 884]

I'm more into fantasy rather than sci-fi. But I like both.

 

[King Koopa's iconKing Koopa]

As a kid I was always fascinated by medieval culture so it was natural for me to be drawn to fantasy. I still like both but I prefer horror sci fi over regular sci fi.

 

[Octopus]

As plenty of people have said already, why not both? Don't mind me as I read through my Shadowrun books for the 200th time. It's a shame there hasn't been a truly great video game adaptation of it, like a single player RPG.

Between the two I think I'd say science fiction, but I prefer it to be closer to our time at least visually. Blade Runner, Mass Effect, Cyberpunk, Cowboy Bebop, etc. I like that more grounded look to sci fi, when technology has gotten advanced but has also become commonplace at the same time. If there's mechs, they're industrial looking instead of high concept.

For fantasy I'm all in that sword and sorcery shit, or darker fantasy. I'm not really big into Tolkien, I'd rather have a Dragon Age or a Solomon Kane/Conan.

 

[JaguarGod6]

Fantasy all the way, with some sci-fi on the side.

 

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

More into fantasy. But Ideally I will prefer something more in between like Steampunk(genre), like the Arcanum pc game or cyberpunkinsh like the pen and paper Shadowrun.