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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2025-01-02 05:12 pm

[ SECRET POST #6572 ]


⌈ Secret Post #6572 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2025-01-03 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
The 'slightly' in 'slightly more realistic settings' is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

Hitman is lite sci-fi; Max Payne, Saints Row and GTA are about as realistic as your average urban fantasy; and, let's be honest, Jet Set Radio and Ridge Racer aren't exactly story-driven games and the backdrop of JSR is basically wannabe cyberpunk that refused to commit. Twisted Metal is a weird one because, really, the storyline is as much weird fantasy nonsense as your average beat 'em up (and I'm including Tekken and Mortal Kombat in this) and the gameplay is ... just driving with Added Bullshit.

It's all fantasy, all of it.

Fantasy doesn't have to have dragons, sci-fi doesn't have to have space ships and you don't have to justify not liking those things just don't act like you're 'above it all'. Nobody cares. Loads of people don't like Sci-fi and fantasy. It's why they were considered uncool and nerdy for decades.

(Anonymous) 2025-01-03 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
+1 to "it's all fantasy." a modern street setting doesn't mean it isn't fantasy, any more than a sword and a castle means it is (it could be historical non-fantasy!). few fiction genres short of straight up crime mystery and romance contain zero fantasy-derived elements, and even then there's an awful lot of books and shows where a fantasy element slips in anyway.

(Anonymous) 2025-01-03 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, when they said "slightly more realistic," that was not the list of things that I expected to follow that phrase because NONE of them are very realistic at all.