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bigtakilla on 13 February 2015
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spemanig said:
bigtakilla said:

I respect your opinion.

Not even mentioning multiple moons and the floating islands. You know... The fantasy stuff.


I wouldn't call that an opinion. It's a defined catagory. None of what you posted is that of a fantasy setting, and multiple moons is definitely not a fantasy trope. It's a Sci-Fi one. Those are all alien settings with alien creatures. The plantlife is unfamiliar, yet biological. The stuctures are alien and often times mechanical. The wildlife is alien in design. They are meant to look completely unfamiliar and strange. Even gross looking. Not inspired to be remenicnent of mythological creatures or uncannily familiar to Earth animals like with fantasy. Even the floating island can be explained away with a science mcguffin involving gravity and atmosphere.

And that's completely ignoring all the futuristic alien cities, militant alien races, existance of alien races at all, giant mechanical flying robots, futuristic space ships, alien space ships, blah blah... 

It's not stylistically or practically fantasy. Not even a little bit. And there's nothing wrong with that. There are very few works that actually attempt to blend the Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Star Wars is one of them. Xenoblade X definitely is not one of them. Xenoblade 1 was fantasy. Xenoblade X is sci-fi. Maybe Xenoblade 3 will blend the two. Or maybe it'll be something completely different like steam punk. Who cares? I guess I do. I like catagorization and organization. They matter. That's an opinion. X being science fiction is a fact.

Just because something has fantasy element doesn't mean it has to take inspiration from mythological creatures or uncannily familiar to Earth animals (though I will say that the horses are remniscant of pegasus). 

Most of the cities, militant races, flying robots, space ships are not what we are talking about in this thread. 

Agreed that there is nothing wrong with something being science fiction.