Am I The Only Person Who Hates Futuristic Games (In General)???

I would just like to know who else thinks the same way as i do? When i play either FPS or RTS games i hate it when you have some really cool massive gun or something and instead of a huge BOOOM noise you get some stupid ZZZAAAPPP and some pink lazer comes out of your turret. Actually the whole concept of the future just seems boring to me when it comes to games, although some games of that type have taken my fancy in the past. Im not trying to prove a point here or anything,,, i would just like to know how many people feel the same way as me...... so dont go posting sarcastic offensive replies like so many people love doing.

What I want is a new, and very complex starship simulator. At least as close as you can get to one speculating on future technology.FreyarHunter

kind of - i think generalising is the worst thing you can do, though - i don't like most scifi/future games - or settings in general - unless it specifically relates to me or us in some way that i can feel for - to use television as an example, i find star trek tng, while great - very distant and hard to relate to... but firefly has a great deal of culture that appeals to me and a style i enjoy, even though it's a very futuristic setting - and even though those old western pistols go zzzap, i still love it

i also am madly in love with warhammer 40k - which is especially why i don't want to generalise onanti future stuff - but often, yeah - i'd rather play a present day story or something historical or fantasy than something futuristic... i think one of the biggest problems is that developers lose sight of the humanity of... humanity... when working on science fiction - everything is drawn in shades of grey

I'm the opposite, I am getting tired of WWII shooters and games based in the here and now. It irks me to no end that Civilization (all of 'em) ends with modern weapons and that's it

To me futuristic games are all about creativity. Unreal Tourney for instance is a lot more fun to me because you play on these worlds that don't really exist - they seem to come out of your imagination, you have weapons and vehicles that are over the top and when you blast someone with it you can almost feel it :) Maybe I just watched too many Wile E Coyote cartoons as a kid.

I just think of it as another era in combat. I mean, yes the booms are very fun, but at the same time, there's also a lot of fun to be had being all sneaky and hitting your enemy with a nice red sabre.FreyarHunter

  Look up the Warhammer 40k universe..  its a Sci-fi on steroids with a side of fantasy as well (melee combat with swords, socery, daemons, psychic powers)..   It is by far the most unique and most indepth Sci-fi universe I have ever seen, while at the same time completely redifing human behavior and society to a point of flat out brutality which I usually never see.  In the end there is no choice of absolute good in the universe, only the choice to survive.

It doesn't bother me as long as the gameplay is good. I don't really have anything against any theme whether it be cavemen fighting with clubs or WW2 or SupCom type schitt I Like em all =)

lol I accidently voted "yes" so minus one for yes and plus one for "no"

[QUOTE="FreyarHunter"]I just think of it as another era in combat. I mean, yes the booms are very fun, but at the same time, there's also a lot of fun to be had being all sneaky and hitting your enemy with a nice red sabre.sSubZerOo

  Look up the Warhammer 40k universe..  its a Sci-fi on steroids with a side of fantasy as well (melee combat with swords, socery, daemons, psychic powers)..   It is by far the most unique and most indepth Sci-fi universe I have ever seen, while at the same time completely redifing human behavior and society to a point of flat out brutality which I usually never see.  In the end there is no choice of absolute good in the universe, only the choice to survive.

I think, if done right, futuristic setting can be a good thing. The problem with Doom 3, Quake 4, Prey, and all other games that is sci-fi/futuristic looking is that they overuse all the effects. Blade Runner and The Fifth Element are examples how futuristic elements should be handled... it has to be something we can related, while still convinces us that we are in the future.yian

I'm all for the powerful "holy hell it sounded like I just shot a real shotgun" sounding weapons, but how can anyone not have love for a railgun or a shock rifle?Warsport99

Apparently, I prefer that setting....

Metroid Prime (Gamecube), DOOM II (and Ultimate DOOM), Half-Life 2 (and HL), and System Shock II are among my all-time fav games.

im with you bro, i really havent played that many futuristic games ... i generally stear clear of them ... i'm more of a gritty realist when it comes too games. i like swords and guns smoke and blood ... im also not that fond of flashy fiery swords of doom magicka stuff ... its just not my thing.

exceptions are half life ... love the gravity gun babe :p 

Future games are great.... lots of creativity and imagination (well, if its a GOOD future game)....

System Shock 2 and Deus Ex are 2 excellent games set in the future.

My hope is that when we have turrets in the future, that they aren't designed by women.  Pink lasers lol....

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[QUOTE="FreyarHunter"]I just think of it as another era in combat. I mean, yes the booms are very fun, but at the same time, there's also a lot of fun to be had being all sneaky and hitting your enemy with a nice red sabre.BloodMist

  Look up the Warhammer 40k universe..  its a Sci-fi on steroids with a side of fantasy as well (melee combat with swords, socery, daemons, psychic powers)..   It is by far the most unique and most indepth Sci-fi universe I have ever seen, while at the same time completely redifing human behavior and society to a point of flat out brutality which I usually never see.  In the end there is no choice of absolute good in the universe, only the choice to survive.

  Bloodmist I fail to see why you keep trying to bash the universe when I refuted every point you had when we had this last argument. Not to mention the last argumetn we had showed how ignorant you were of the Warhamer 40k universe due to constantly spouting off stuff that weren't true what so ever...

   Norse Mythology?  Is that the best you can do, the only thing close to Norse Mythology is the Space Wolf Chapter and that is one tiny part of the thousands of pieces that make up the Warhammer 40k universe.. Honestly why not try to read into the universe, read a novel based in it before you say really anything.. Because I honeslty think your misinformed..

  Honestly the only reason I can see is to protect your Warcraft and Starcraft which ARE based off the Warhammer universes..

I enjoy sci-fi, but can't stand westerns and world war (The Great War and WWII) themed games, so I can understand your bias. Maybe it warrants its own thread. Something about the realism of those games and drawing from the atrocities that happened bothers me on a fundamental level.

I prefer to escape reality rather than replicate it.