JcDent

mine is that soft scifi > hard scifi

Nowhere was it more annoying than in Mass Effect, but it can be found as far as Star Control III

Was it what made Star Control III bad? No, but it didn't help, I bet

Among the reasons why I hate it is that stellar civilizations getting wiped out would not only leave a lot of trash and signs of their activities, but also worlds that have been stripped bare of raw materials

So while a galaxy is a big place - a really big place - you'd still encounter patches of stuff that has been mined out to fuck

There wouldn't be any legendary homeworlds that are top-of-the-line in 4X desireability terms because everything would have been nommed up already

Plus, in ME at least, the reason for wipes is extremely fucking dumb, the dumbest thing in the fucking series that also includes "Asari don't look like blue space babes since every species sees them as their own space babes" ass-covering retcon delivered as a throwaway background NPC chatter which makes no God-damn sense and is as obvious a reaction to criticism as declaring that Asari don't actually use material from non-Asari parents for babies

Well, not entirely here, since we need to wait a week for pre-orders and then there will be a week of pre-orders and then potentially a week for delivery...

But it's done! It's here!

There's really no good reason why they couldn't have given use the date a month ago!

IT'S HERE!!!

mine is that magic systems that try and be all realistic and grounded instead of just letting you cast fireballs and stuff suck

put a little sci fi in there. give your setting a few alien robots and laser guns.

If you look at ancient fantasy games (ADnD, Ultima), they include literal sci-fi stuff, like crashed alien ships, and no harm is done.

Who cared about alium robits, we have trolls and magic on our side

mine is that soft scifi > hard scifi

or more close to unrelatable that I don't care about it

If you, say, extrapolate from modern naval combat, if a ship isn't entirely automated, it will have a small crew telling systems high level orders as drone fighters close in to launch anti ship missiles and/or railgun rounds

Most of them miss or are intercepted

One hit and the ship is vaporized

That's it. It's like combat in Honnor Harrington series, but even more boring.

And if you far enough to where weapons sling graviton waves that have to be absorbed by tachyon-folded space, just fuck off