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Subject: Destiny: science-fantasy vs science-fiction

He's right on top of us! I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using...

Ockeghem
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I consider sci-fantasy and sci-fi distinct genres.

-- The science-fantasy genre includes things like Star Wars (the force) and Warehouse 13 (artifacts). They involve sci-fi, but they also involve some element of the fantastic / supernatural. Things that defy science.
-- The pure sci-fi genre includes things like the TV show Eureka!, The Time Machine, Ender's Game (first book), etc. There are no fantastic elements to the universes portrayed within these works.

I would put the Halo games (of Bungie's) in the pure sci-fi category. However, Destiny was revealed to be a "sci-fantasy action shooter," not "science-fiction." I think there will be fantastic elements in the story of Bungies next IP in a way there weren't in Halo or (if I remember correctly, but its been years) Marathon. I do not, of course, have any idea what this element(s) will look like.

Will there be some kind of non-scientific power that exists within the universe?
Will there be an artifact that defies or transcends the bounds of science?

Those are my first two guesses. What do others think? What could the fantasy part of Destiny be? What would you want it to be?

[Edited on 07.09.2012 11:32 PM PDT]

  • 07.09.2012 10:20 PM PDT

Posted by: Ockeghem
Ender's Game
*cough* The Outside. *cough*


Anywho, Bungie's game. It will be a game. It will be multi-platform. It will involve stuff. That's kinda the limit to my speculation unfortunately.

  • 07.09.2012 10:27 PM PDT

DEEDLE LEEDLE LEEDLE DEEEEE

It will be good.

  • 07.09.2012 11:59 PM PDT
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I'm gonna finish it. Just like Jigga did to the pyramid.

I want to play the alpha noah!!!

  • 07.10.2012 12:19 AM PDT

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Still betting it'sa sci fi space flight sim\rpg

  • 07.10.2012 12:30 AM PDT

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Posted by: devastat0r09
It will be good.

  • 07.10.2012 12:30 AM PDT