| M.U.G.E.N said: Nope I think your the one who is missing the point here How the hell is fighting aliens on different planets across the galazy or fighting golems and dragons on ancient lands be any less fantastical than the JRPGs? How the hell is that being 'grounded'? It's all fantastical, all unrealistic..it's just different takes on it |
It's grounded when you come up with scientific explanations for everything that happens. Mass Effect is the clearest example of this, and I will say it again: it's grounded in physics. Everything is painstakingly researched and justified, from th way space combat is waged to redundant nervous systems in some aliens.
It only asks two conceits of you:
1. That there is an element which can create the Mass Effect
2. That there is extra-terrestrial life
THat's it. That's all it asks. Everything after that is based on hard science and grounded scientific theory, particular for the way communal AI would work.
The difference between Western science fiction and Japanese science fiction tnds to lie in explanation and justification for different elements - in the West we tend toward "hard scifi" a lot more often. That's not opinion, that's not interpretation, that's fact.
And you'll notice how western fantasy tends to hold to its own itnernal logic (generally derived from D&D or Tolkien) which does nont hold down Japanese fantasy in any way.
The only way you could argue that Japanese scifi and fantasy isn't more fantastical is if you have no frame of reference for comparison.
