Best gaming sci-fi series?

Mass Effect for me.

Metroid.

[QUOTE="jasonharris48"]

[QUOTE="istreakforfood"]

My favorite hss to be Halo series.

SpiritOfFire117

Depends on who you ask.A series like Halodefinately has a rich universe with lots of detail if it has its own wiki.

[QUOTE="istreakforfood"]

My favorite hss to be Halo series.

jasonharris48

Personally I loved the Halo trilogy.

Halo Wars and Halo ODST storywise they were meh.

ODST made it up by having a great cast of characters and its fun gameplay.

[QUOTE="istreakforfood"]

My favorite hss to be Halo series.

[QUOTE="SpiritOfFire117"]

[QUOTE="jasonharris48"] Outside of Halo 1 (which I did enjoy) I haven't played another Halo title are they that good? (Story and character wise)

jasonharris48

Depends on who you ask.A series like Halodefinately has a rich universe with lots of detail if it has its own wiki.

Heck, here is the wiki.

http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

[QUOTE="jasonharris48"]

[QUOTE="SpiritOfFire117"]

Depends on who you ask.A series like Halodefinately has a rich universe with lots of detail if it has its own wiki.

SpiritOfFire117

Heck, here is the wiki.

http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

[QUOTE="dreman999"][QUOTE="DarkLink77"] Because it makes them feel like aliens? I don't know. It's better than having the universe being one giant melting pot of uniformity, with the exception of maybe the Krogans and the Hanar. DarkLink77

When is that ever explored outside of party specific dialogue? Or codexes?

I guess I'm just going to have to agree to disagree with most of the people in this thread. Mass Effect is a great series. Is it the best example of Sci-Fi in gaming? IMHO, no.

In terms of science fiction; Starcraft. In terms of favourite, Half-Life. :)

[QUOTE="DarkLink77"][QUOTE="wolverine4262"] seriously? The whole series (especially the second) makes a point of stuff like this. Quarians life on the flotilla, krogans hatred of salarians, turians and humans mutual distrust....everything that happens keeps each races back stories in mind...dreman999

The Quarians suits, their names...vans and nar mean some thing you know. And their saying "keelah se'lai" , which is not translated because its meaning it too rough. Heck we went to their flotilla and saw all this stuff.

The Krogan and their nuclear winter home world. How they believe in strength through destruction and survival. That they must always test themselves in conflict. Heck, Warlord Orker on grunt recuit mission was the extreme on krogan beliefs.

The Bartarians omega, The Asari's Illium that at the pinnacle of art and technology. I'm sorry but if you look around ME2 has these other alien cultures that defined their races,

the only proper answer is:

WING COMMANDER

IMO, Halo wins from the games provided, heck it wins anyway.

Man... I have to say I love Half-Life, Halo, Starcraft, and Homeworld.

Metroid.Cherokee_Jack

This by a wide margin :D

Starcraft ^^

Half-Life, Warhammer 40,000 and Mass Effect.

Mass Effect

Metroid, MGS or Mass Effect for me.

[QUOTE="wolverine4262"]out of those: halo... the actual answer though is mass effectSpiritOfFire117

Pretty much this.

Also have to agree, though I would also have to place Halo and Half Life in a tie.

Deus Ex and System Shock I would say pretty much crap over all of those choices a part from HL and Warhammer. Starcraft is also decent, although it copies heavily from Aliens and Warhammer. Halo is not even Sci-FI imo, In that nothing in it is actually logical and makes sense. It's actually much more like Fantasy Sci-fi I guess , something you would expect to see in saturday morning cartoon. Mass Effect again, in the same boat as Halo. It's just not edgy enough.

Since I doubt anyone else has said it and I like to be unique, I guess I'll go with Star Ocean.jalexbrown

Metroid Prime.

[QUOTE="jalexbrown"]Since I doubt anyone else has said it and I like to be unique, I guess I'll go with Star Ocean.dreman999

Saying anything but 40K just means your ignorant to the entire thing to be honest not a single one of the franchises you have mentioned even come close to 40K. In computer game terms im not so sure tho. Oh you said RTS in taht case i still give it to 40K Dawn of War is probably one of the best games i have ever played not just because of the setting its a true RTS with great mechanics.

I'm a fan of the 40k Universe, but I would argue that it's more fantasy than sci-fi

[QUOTE="akbar13"][QUOTE="DarkLink77"]

The exception to the rule. But again, they speak English, like all the others, and really, how many Hanar have you seen in Mass Effect so far? You can count them one one, maybe, two, hands. I don't even remember any Hanar in ME2... hm... I liked the Hanar, too.

DarkLink77

That's a trope used in mass media for such a long time. From Star Trek to friggin The Hunt for Red October to The 13th Warrior.

It's a design decision but has an explanation in the canon of the story.

Not only are there the hanar, there are the volus, elcor, racchni, keepers, krogan. They and the humanoid species have their own distinct cultures which are explained through dialogue and character interactions in addition to the codex entries.

[QUOTE="SpiritOfFire117"]

[QUOTE="jasonharris48"] Hmm I might have to check out the other titles (well may be not Halo Wars RTS on console doesn't cut it for me unless it offers M/KB support).

jasonharris48

Heck, here is the wiki.

http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Granted that it's mostly a shooter series, some of the story elements aren't as fleshed out as they would in an RPG like Mass Effect. Then again Mass Effect also has a codex in its pause menu to fill you in on the side.