spemanig said:
bigtakilla said:
Yet again you're basing your view off of other things than the environment. The genre of the game is science fiction, but Planet Mira has many fantasy elements.
There is mostly no scientific influence on the native creatures that live on Planet Mira. With little to no scientific influence it is extremely hard to say that the world and its environments are science fiction.
We inhabit a fantasy world using science fiction.
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Oh, I see. Your definition of science fiction is wrong. Science fiction doesn't mean that the areas and creatures are influenced by science. It means that they are expected to be explained (loosely) by science. Hardly anything organic in science fiction is meant to take influence directly from science. The creatures aren't influenced by science at all. They aren't technolical or gene spliced or anything. But they are alien. They can be explained scientifically by the unique alien enfironment the live in, the type of gravity they are exposed to thanks to the many moons, the almost prehistoric look in some cases and ice age look in other cases to all the creatures that almost tease what wild life on earth could have looked like if natural occourances didn't cause their extinction. The giant fungi and pollonous plants largely replacing the more grounded trees, leaves, and flower of traditional fantasy settings. Irregularly shaped langmarks caused by strange occurances of erosion. You can call them fantastical, but you can't call them fantasy.
In fantasy, your expected believe the fanstastic settings you're thrown in, purely based on the fact that you're in a magic and fantastic world where anything can happen. In science fiction, you expected to believe that everything you're seeing can be explained, to some loose degree, by science. There are rules to science fiction grounded in scientific principals and laws. Fantasy is the polar opposite, completely throwing away those principals infavor of allowing what ever your imagination can come up with with no consequence because magic.
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That is assuming that they are explained by science and not magic.
