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Forums - Gaming - Examples of Science Fiction theories in gaming

flagship on 13 February 2009
shio said:
flagship said:
-Mass Effect's got the whole greater than light travel and eternal evil that threatens the whole universe (basic story behind several award winning Sci-fi novels (engines of god, fire upon the deep)

-Psychonauts has well psychic powers.

-Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross play the classic time traveling bit

- The Red Alert and Shadow Hearts series pull the whole parallel alternate universe what if bit.

- Lots of RPGs (Wild Arms1, Lunar 2, Grandia 1) use long lost ancient civilizations of tremendous power.

- Fallout uses the post apocalyptic theory.

That's all pretty generic and not very specific. And you in fallout you are missing a big part of what it's meant to be... my guess is you only played Fallout 3.

 

Most Scifi plots are rather generic when you get to the heart of them andI'm not Wikipedia, why waste half an hour writing what someone could easily discover on their own.

And I've played every fallout, including the wonderful Brotherhood of Steel and Tactics spinoffs and I can tell you Fallout has been so bastardized that it really doesn't mean anything at this point. The whole Fallout Tactics storyline with a valut zero to reunite the valuts is in contradiction Fallout 3's the vaults were a social experiment.