Game Setting
 

Do you have a favorite type of setting? Do you prefer fantasy or sci-fi? Maybe you like more modern settings?

Does it change on the type of game you are playing? Like you like your MMOs to be high fantasy, but you like your RTS games to be mildly sci-fi.

I was just wondering.

Generally speaking I'm more of a sci-fi fan in all things, but it really depends on, well, everything else besides the setting, story, the plot, the premise, etc. I have favourites in most types of settings, from Red Alert 2 to Rome; Total War. Dark Cloud to FFX. Bioshock to Borderlands to Unreal Tournament to BC2.

Mmm, interesting question. I actually care very little about the genre a story is set in at least for games it's more important that the game mechanics are sound and that it plays well everything else is just built on that frame. I mean a good story is important but if the game plays like ass I will never get to see all the story because i won't play it.

I prefer fantasy and sci-fi over modern, but I'm not sure I could say I have a preference between the two. Generally, I like my rpgs to be fantasy and my rts's to be sci-fi, but a lot of it depends on the actual game individually.

I'm very fond of modern, contemporary settings with supernatural/fantastic elements, over say, futuristic/Space Sci-fi settings or ancient fantasy settings.
I guess it's that little bit of familiarity that draws me into the rest of the story.

Sci-fi is my favourite in everything. I'd like to remind everyone that sci-fi is a pretty broad definition, and it doesn't always mean Mass Effect style epic fantasy sci-fi. Even speculation of the near future can be sci-fi.

That said, I don't count a games setting not being a sci-fi one at that, to be a bad thing. I like variation. As long as the game has been done well, especially the story, then I'm all game (so to speak) regardless of setting.

While I do like both fantasy and sci-fi, I would really like to know a good setting in which elements of fantasy and sci-fi were all combined in a modern setting.
That way, we could have science explaining half the fantastic elements of the setting, and magic explaining the rest of the things that don't make sense.
So yeah, I was thinking Dwarf Fortress + Arcanum + Fallout.

I've always loved Sci-fi settings, don't know why. But considering some of my favorite series are Metroid, Mass Effect and Dead Space, it's pretty obvious. And while I do like fantasy, sci-fi just catches me much more easily. Never could figure out why.

But any setting that blurs the lines is a huge plus for me. Skies of Arcadia comes to mind. If a game can do anything like that, I'll probably be sucked in from the concept alone.

I prefer fantasy and sci-fi settings, mostly. The time period never really mattered to me, i just like fantastical elements in my games.

...I feel like this is the point where I should start pimping the Geneforge series.

Action: High Fantasy
Turn-based Strategy-Tactical: Mid-Fantasy
Turn-based Strategy-Strategic: Sci-Fi
Real Time Strategy: Sci-Fi
First Person, Adventure: Fantasy
First Person, Shooting: Sci-Fi
Simulator, Flight: Sci-Fi
Administration/God Games: Modern/Hard-Sci

I find it's important to deliniate tactics from strategy. On one hand, I enjoy the strategic aspects of waging an intergalactic war, interplantary trade, contact and relations with races we cannot communicate with, ect.

Yet, on the other hand, the tactics of space combat tend on the bland, wheras "Shieldsmen afront, Archers behind, Skirmishers cover flanks" is a thinking game that is well understood (Somewhat like Chess, really) and doesn't pull phlebotinum in to mess with you.

Love the sci-fi settings. I guess that comes from books and not just games. I always find sci-fi more impressive. So I likes me my Mass Effect and StarCraft over Dragon Age and WarCraft.

Second is probably modern day, if only because I do not see it much. Fantasy rolls in third I guess.