Anonymous 2009/07/08(Wed)20:23 No. 745 ID: aaf584
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This reminds me to finish watching the prequels.

Anonymous 2009/07/08(Wed)20:25 No. 746 ID: c59967
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I've always loved pulp science fiction, with its solar systems jammed full of intelligent humanoid life & its fantastic/almost magical technology.

Anonymous 2009/07/08(Wed)20:29 No. 747 ID: c59967
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You never lack for adventure in these pulp sci-fi universes.

Feel like a survival game? The PC's ship crashes into a primitive world & they have to find a way to either repair it or get rescued before the native life ruins their shit.

Political intrigue more your thing? The PC's are part of a party of diplomats to an alien culture that is none to happy with humanity.

Feel like blowing shit up? Interplanetary war.

Anonymous 2009/07/08(Wed)20:32 No. 748 ID: c59967
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Plus there's the chance to play a non-human PC who isn't an Elf or a Dwarf.

I prefer Space Opera that is human centered. Maybe throw in an alien race or two that the protagonist only seldom hears of or encounters and I'm game. Maybe that is why I enjoyd Hyperion (not that it was Space Opera by any stretch).

Anonymous 2009/07/08(Wed)20:40 No. 751 ID: c59967
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In practice it would be like playing old school Star Trek, but with even less basis in reality or scientific grounding.

>>750

So Firefly then?

>>752
I've only seen the movie but yeah, something like that. I like the fact that the evilest motherfuckers in the galaxy were just people who have lost their mind.

Anonymous 2009/07/08(Wed)21:00 No. 757 ID: c59967
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Personally I prefer systems teeming with alien life & packed full of interplanetary tension & conflicts.

>>757
Those systems tend to have human-like intelligent aliens more so than not. Star Trek springs to mind.

>>758

That's just for budgetary reasons -- science fiction books or short stories don't have to conform to special effects budgets & are able to be more creative.

>>760
Do any of them portray the aliens as alien with any degree of success? Our way out thinking tends to edge the things we create to the human perspective. I think it would be difficult to go against the flow.

>>762

That depends on what you consider success. If you want them to make interesting characters who aren't human, then yeah you find some of that. If you want the author to pull a non-human intellect out of his ass which cannot interact with humans on any meaningful level, then that would be trickier.

>>763
I would prefer the latter. While I am not much of an avid reader,that sounds like a mighty fix of miscommunication hijinks.

>>764

The 'Foreigner' series by C.J. Cherryh is pretty good for that. The aliens there look almost exactly like people, but they have a different set of instincts that ended up leading to a war between themselves and human beings due to miscommunication.

>>766
Googled. I'll look into it, thanks.

Anonymous 2009/07/09(Thu)06:50 No. 774 ID: 11619c
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You know what's weird? Everyone is talking about Pulp Sci-Fi and has failed to mention the greatest modern success. That is weird.

Farscape wrecks everyone's shit.

>>763
>>764
You should read up on Stanislaw Lem's work. He often makes alien life truly fitting of the concept.

>>774
That image is frustratingly incomplete. Where are Rygel, Zhaan, and Stark?

Anonymous 2010/01/14(Thu)06:29 No. 3281 ID: b77075
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Does this count as Space Opera? Because it's way too ridiculous to be proper sci-fi.

>>313194
DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAD. Or in energy form or whatever it is Stark does. I don't even remember where Rygel ends. Did he get his empire back?