What you guys want in Fantasy & Sci-fi

[HyperTurboFox]

After all the copy-pasted Medieval Europe, Space and Cyberpunk setting within Fantasy & Sci-fi.
What you guys want in Fantasy & Sci-fi
Tell me your ideas and unique settings for both the genre.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Would be great to have more games take place in North America funnily enough. When you think about it, you realise there's actually a severe lack of present day USA settings in games, and this country is like, THE country for Cyberpunk.

 

[Segadude113]

Final Fantasy and Phantasy Star used to do both at the same time.

 

[soulsas]

Give me space cowboys and laser sword-wielding samurais—that’s what I’m here for.

 

[SpaceCress]

For fantasy I like world ending stuff, maybe add some cult stuff, make it horror like but not actual horror because it might be too niche maybe and for fantasy maybe some sort of biopunk stuff would go hard, like being able to edit your genes as stats or something

 

[HyperTurboFox]

Give me space cowboys and laser sword-wielding samurais—that’s what I’m here for.

That sound so COOOL!

 

[Questless Knight]

Take Legend of the galactic heroes or Macross and Banner of the star BIG EPIC space battles and some drama.

I want good space operas with massive battles. After seeing the 1000s of thusand ship battles in Legend of the galagtic heroes or even Banner of the star.

I want more of that.

But what do I get shitty sci-fi about feature earth and no space and if it´s in space I get some half ass drama and comdey.

And let me not get started on regular movies "meaning with real life actors" We get shitty horrors or some crappy drama they even menage to turn Star trek in to pure garbage.


Sadly space opera and Star trek exploration sci-fi is dead :(

 

[HyperTurboFox]

To be honest a North American Wild West Fantasy Setting can be a good change of peace. It's nice to see Firearms being use in Fantasy after so many Tolkien-Inspired Regions with Swords, Elves, Castle and so many Medieval trope.

I like seeing some Cowboy using their firearms like the American Way. But it's don't mean Sword or Science is useless. They still gonna to be use but it's no longer the main.

This Wild West Fantasy Setting remind me of Wild Arms

 

[Segadude113]

To be honest a North American Wild West Fantasy Setting can be a good change of peace. It's nice to see Firearms being use in Fantasy after so many Tolkien-Inspired Regions with Swords, Elves, Castle and so many Medieval trope.

I like seeing some Cowboy using their firearms like the American Way. But it's don't mean Sword or Science is useless. They still gonna to be use but it's no longer the main.

This Wild West Fantasy Setting remind me of Wild Arms

Wild Arms does it perfectly. There's even magic you can cast instead of just using your gun.

 

[Sunnyside]

Ditch graphical realism entirely. Make games that look bizarre, colorful, hyper-stylized. Fantasy/sci-fi has limitless creative possibilities but studios stick to the most boring settings over and over again.

 

[Sfjeov]

For fantasy I like world ending stuff, maybe add some cult stuff, make it horror like but not actual horror because it might be too niche maybe and for fantasy maybe some sort of biopunk stuff would go hard, like being able to edit your genes as stats or something

Ngl it would be nice to see more biopunk for a change

 

[Sunnyside]

That reminds me! I rarely ever come across solarpunk in media. Its polar opposite cyberpunk has been massively popular though. That's probably contributed to solarpunk's appeal for me. It's something different.

 

[Jimbo_McDumbo]

For both I'd want sincerity. I'm tired of whedonesque or MCU or whatever you want to call quippy writing where everyone is a pop culture referencing sarcastic snarker. Give me characters who give a damn about what's happening and about the things and people around them.

But for genre specifics I'd say actually evil enemies in fantasy tales. The sympathetic orcs from Rings of Power and the refugee demons from Adi Shankars most recent fan fic don't work for me and a lot of other people. Shades of grey in everything make for a phenomenally dull painting, and makes exceptions less exceptional if the bad guys are all just normal people in bad situations. And this doesn't mean that these enemies have to be boring interchangeable mooks, just look at the orcs in the Lord of the Rings movies and in the Mordor games. Those orcs were as evil as that Nestle CEO but they oozed personality, among other oozes since they were so damn gross.

For sci fi I'd say there's a reluctance in cyberpunk media to move away from the old ideas of the genre. The idea that Japan would take over almost entirely is all but a fantasy what with all the major manufacturing being moved to China or Southeast Asia, also a lack of 3d printing in a lot of modern things baffles me. Maybe I need to branch out more since I'm speaking mainly about Cyberpunk 2077, Lazarus, Ghost in the Shell, and some other examples. Also stop calling future currencies "credits" literally anything is more creative or informative. Money is what makes the world go 'round, it's what defines our lives for better and for worse and the use or naming of it can tell you a lot about the world and help stories stick out in our minds if only a little bit

Give me space cowboys and laser sword-wielding samurais—that’s what I’m here for.

Based. Keep it simple

 

[LiberoVulpesLiberoVulpes's icon]

I prefer Science-Fantasy over Sci-Fi, mostly cause I can't be arsed to read 50+ pages on how a fucking engine works in universe.

I wish there were good war stories, let's have some fun with future war crimes, my kingdom for something as based as Hammer's Slammers. Don't give me boring Ender's wannabes, give me the boots on the ground doing questionable things and fighting the actual war, that's the good shit.

Oh, and ever since my review of Battlezone 98, I really want some more of that, I have been told its called Nasa-punk, but Starfield almost killed it, it really needs to be revived.

 

[JackNoir413]

Final Fantasy and Phantasy Star used to do both at the same time.

phantasy star sucks tho?

 

[HyperTurboFox]

phantasy star sucks tho?

Try out Phantasy Star IV,
It's is the best out of the Original Quadology.

You won't miss out

 

[JackNoir413]

Try out Phantasy Star IV,
It's is the best out of the Original Quadology.

You won't miss out

i want to play them but my grip is with its overall art design. you try to look at the armor in those games and not feel like you're playing a game for nerds. i played the first one and i thought it was pretty solid but MAN i hate that it tries to mix the worst aspects of medieval fantasy with the worst aspects of sci fi. i can explore different planets but i still gotta use a sword thats just DUMB.

 

[HyperTurboFox]

i want to play them but my grip is with its overall art design. you try to look at the armor in those games and not feel like you're playing a game for nerds. i played the first one and i thought it was pretty solid but MAN i hate that it tries to mix the worst aspects of medieval fantasy with the worst aspects of sci fi. i can explore different planets but i still gotta use a sword thats just DUMB.

Even Sword is still the default weapon for every Original Phantasy Star Protagonists.
Phantasy Star IV is the only one within the original Lineup that feel more up to date and more recommended to Newcomers. Plus it's more advanced in term of setting than the first Phantasy Star at least it's not Generic Medieval England with Sci-fi elements.

I still recommended Phantasy Star IV for Beginners despite being connected to 1 & 2 but it's only came later.

 

[JackNoir413]

at least it's not Generic Medieval England with Sci-fi elements.

yeah this is exactly what it felt like and i thought "man what the fuck"
cause by then we already had some decent jrpgs they had no excuses to be so lazy about it.
still i think phantasy star 1 had some really good dungeon design and mechanics. i just really really really wished the art direction was more than the round table on MARS

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Final Fantasy and Phantasy Star used to do both at the same time.

I miss when Final Fantasy did that scarcely instead of going all sci fi for a decade.

Would be great to have more games take place in North America funnily enough. When you think about it, you realise there's actually a severe lack of present day USA settings in games, and this country is like, THE country for Cyberpunk.

I wish we could see non-USA Cyberpunk and non-European High Fantasy.

Ngl it would be nice to see more biopunk for a change

I totally agree but sadly it was also in the zeitgeist of the turn of the century...

 

[Narisucks]

I have always wanted to see urban/modern fantasy branch out and take its ideas further. I would love to see the love and care put into the genre that we get in high fantasy or just some worldbuilding that goes beyond "magic exists but its a secret shhh" or "vampires are real but dont break the masquerade".

I'm not saying those ideas are bad but I want to see like, the evolution of society. Like, what would Middle Earth or The Matrix be like 500 years into the future? What stage would society be in? Would there be a functioning sewer system, electricity, public education, etc? Would it be a solarpunk near utopia or some borderline pre-Bomb Fallout stuff going on? Would new species emerge? Would famous locations in the main series be forgotten, repurposed, or memorialized? Would different social groups split apart from the trauma of the past and join up with others?

The only media I can think of that touched on the concept was Bright and uh....yeah. It sure did that thing it did...

 

[elwynd16x]

Is anyone into worldbuilding around here? I've seen fantasy/sci-fi come up a few times now, it'd be cool to collab with someone.

 

[DEH]

I never thought about something like that. I'm not very picky if good then I'll take it.

 

[Narisucks]

Is anyone into worldbuilding around here? I've seen fantasy/sci-fi come up a few times now, it'd be cool to collab with someone.

There are a lot of dedicated reddits and other forums for worldbuilding. I honestly just come up with an idea, write about it, and fill in the holes later when I forget about something. Like I came up with the history of a city...but forgot to name what language everyone spoke and the currency. Neurodiverse brain just be like that sometimes.

Honestly the easiest thing you can do is just think you're writing for a very simple ttrpg or have a program like scrivener to keep everything together in one project file...so you dont lose it and end up panicking at 3am for no reason... >_>;;

 

[Sir Auriel of Lionel]

Would like another world like Ivalice, Fantasy and science in a beautiful marriage where giant airships fly the skies, a pirate can have a gun and a rabbit-morph partner with a bow and very good magic, instead of the sci-fi encountering fantasy on a distant planet or high science capabilities making a fantasy playground. I do like the idea of medieval fantasy in different places outside of Europe maybe the Artic getting colonialized and using polar bear mounts.

A proper magician's world taking place in America that isn't New York or like Harry Potter but more lived in fantasy with folk medicine being sold to normies and magic, folklore being half truths and cryptids being our magical creatures without urban paranormal tropes like hunters. Or maybe a return of a magic shop of curios that ends in disaster for the buyer of the item. I'm so disappointed magic is Eurocentric when the origins can take place anywhere and everywhere and JK nearly destroyed that with her twitter nonsense, magic needs to be reshaped away from her and WB's dominance.

Sci-fi, honestly I would like a better Valerian and Laureline as the concept is very amazing but the movie was such a flop that I don't see it coming back even though it might be good as a series on TV as big money did flow into TV for a time. Maybe a nature documentary in either genre? I like science but there tends to be a set cyberpunk palette to the movies that's hard to separate from and there's few ideas I can think that are original that haven't been done to death in Sci-fi like rebellion, post apocalypse fall, big brother, what measure is a human vs non human, alien invasions, AI gone rogue, and such. Maybe Sci-fi needs to take a backseat to let old Speculative Fiction take a turn as The Handmaid's Tale got a good strong start and reception that isn't traditionally thought as SF.