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Not everything is fantasy. All it means is fantasy is popular. Splinter Cell, the Battlefield games, Hitman, are all not fantasy. I'm inclined to include Unreal, but my exposure to that series is limited. Half-Life. Star Wars when it's not focused on Jedi, such as in Republic Commando or Bounty Hunter (never played Bounty Hunter, I'm assuming). Battlestar Galactica, the supernatural aspects don't play that big a role, in my opinion and I don't include hearing sound in space. Firefly/Serenity, and I'm also tempted to include Farscape. Chronicles of Riddick, but not Pitch Black. In Half-Life's case it features aliens who shoot green lightning from their fingertips, by the reckoning of many in this thread that falls under the domain of fantasy. That's the problem I have with this way of categorising, fantasy/sci-fi goes from being a useful indicator of the feel of a game to a technical exercise in pigeonholing. Star Wars feels way more like traditional sci-fi than it does like traditional fantasy so I will continue to think of it as such. These are specifically aliens. We have creatures in our own world that can discharge electricity, and humans can even do a small amount from static discharge. This is not necessarilly magic. That doesn't mean that humans learning how to fire lightning bolts from their fingertips is not fantastic. This is magic. If you refute Star Wars as fantasy, you should probably also refute Final Fantasy VII as fantasy, as the Force providing the Jedi with their powers has a distinct parallel to Lifestream and materia users.

Not everything is fantasy. All it means is fantasy is popular. Splinter Cell, the Battlefield games, Hitman, are all not fantasy. I'm inclined to include Unreal, but my exposure to that series is limited. Half-Life. Star Wars when it's not focused on Jedi, such as in Republic Commando or Bounty Hunter (never played Bounty Hunter, I'm assuming). Battlestar Galactica, the supernatural aspects don't play that big a role, in my opinion and I don't include hearing sound in space. Firefly/Serenity, and I'm also tempted to include Farscape. Chronicles of Riddick is fantasy, but not Pitch Black. Star Wars isn't Science Fantasy. Science Fantasy would imply that science is used for the fantasy. It's Science Fiction & Fantasy. Depending upon what you're looking at, the specific book, game, movie, or whatever, it will lean towards one or the other. Science Fantasy would be the equivalent of technomages, people who fling around otherwise supernatural powers as the result of scientific advancement.

I'm currently playing German 2040. Hoping to get the A-rank on this level, which will help me unlock the Psychology Grad level.

Does BGtutu enable the ability to play the Wild Mage in Baldur's Gate?

Star Wars isn't just a little "fantasy." One of the main features of the game are wizards that fling around magic. It's about as much fantasy as D&D, it even has dragons. Though their dragons are a bit more sci-fi appropriate. The Jedi are not. God of War is definitely fantasy. Warhammer 40k is obviously fantasy, too. Jak and Daxter is fantasy. Never played Ghost Recon, Company of Heroes, and barely remember ZoE. Most things can fit somewhat into fantasy. Fantasy isn't an exclusionary classification, it's a descriptor.

Is that from Kingdom Come? I loved that series.

That's not your name?

Are we there, yet?

My copy was at an unbeatable price. Free, from someone who got a second copy when he bought a new graphics card.

*pats Dark Raven on the head* It's okay. Shh, it's a-okay.

A tall tale would be when I reminisce about World War II and fighting the Germans.

It wasn't a description, it was a command.

Nerf.

He's a dark Moon Elf.

Fantasy has nothing to do with time period. Medieval is just the most popular. Fantasy is defined by the presence of fantastic elements, such as people flinging around lightning, fire, or even other people. Or fantastical creatures like giants and fairies.

I absolutely loved it. The action of it is superior (at least when playing a stealth + archer). The companion character (the one that is heard more than seen) is lots of fun to have and really helped make the game for me, providing character and amusement throughout. If you're interested in action-adventure games, and not looking for some open ended sandbox or whatever Oblivion is, then I would hazard to guess that you would like it.

If it's dark and an elf, I'm heavily tempted to say it fits the description of a dark elf.

Like Jan Jansen. I prefer to have a halfling in the party before a gnome. Mazzy was a great halfling. I'm quite the opposite. I like Gnomes, and I liked Jan. I won't even let Mazzy in my party for a second because she's a Halfling. Of course, I hate Grobnar so much, you must guess why I keep making statements at to his actual race.

Mad props. Those last series of races seemed like they were a half hour long. Back on the RPG front: I got tired of the endless reloads from high-level wizards owning me in BG2:ToB, but I wanted to see how it ended so I cheated my way through. So, technically, I finished that one, although I didn't put much work into it. I had to cheat the final boss. MASSIVELY cheat the final boss. I also had to cheat the final boss of the first Baldur's Gate. But, no need to cheat the final boss of regular BG2.

I just remembered some to add to the list Chrono Trigger: Literally at the last boss. Final Fantasy VI: Halfway through Final Fantasy IV: Just over barely touched.

By mutants, do you mean simply mutated, or are you looking towards X-Men. Once you start going towards super powers...

That was one of the most hilarious stories I'd ever heard. Anyone have a link saved for posterity?

Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (per the other thread) and about to give up on it because I'm fighting dragons that paralyze my entire group until they're dead. The only counter for having all three members paralyzed is Amulets of Freedom, which I need to go about dealing with the annoying item invention nonsense.

Thanks to this, I've just reordered my stack of PS2 games in order that I now am going to finish them, first to last: Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (will pick up from save) Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven (will restart) Shadow Hearts (will restart) Jak II (will restart) Disgaea - Hour of Darkness (will restart) .Hack: Infection (will restart) .Hack: Mutation (never started) Silent Hill 2 (will restart) Silent Hill 3 (never started seriously) Silent Hill 4 (never started seriously) Final Fantasy XII (will pick up from save) Suikoden V (will pick up from save) Then I'll give the two Fallouts a try and finally System Shock 2. I might buy Xenosaga: Episode 3 and give that trilogy a playthrough. Edit: Oh, and I still want to finish my Wild Mage Baldur's Gate 2 playthrough. Looks like I have no reason to buy a new game until next year.

We're throwing non-RPGs here? Barely touched Silent Hill 1-4 (will finish someday) Barely touched any but 2. Uru Disgaea (will finish someday) Jak II (will finish someday) Dawn of War: Winter Assasult Halfway through Star Ocean 3 (should have included it earlier, plan to finish) Fell at the last hurdle Fable (maybe should have included earlier) Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven (will finish someday)