with correct opinion cadence the best times for fantasy rpgs are shit like wizardry and might and magic where you would have wizards doing spells while traversing crashed starships against robot sentries and nerds who scream for nothing but pure high fantasy are big buttwipes.
I don't know that I've ever been more hype than I was as a preteen going UNDERWATER (huge deal in Might & Magic games) in Might & Magic 7 in order to RAID AN ALIEN SPACE SHIP to get LASER GUNS to kill ALIEN DEMONS. That shit fucked HARD