| Steve Hazuka | 05 Nov 2009 5:08 a.m. PST |
A previous thread discussed is 15mm Sci-Fi more popular than 15mm fantasy and it led me to think that 15mm Sci-Fi is a bit to broad of a topic. Agruably Zombies and pulp fiction are si-fi or horror but if used in a fantasy setting then firmly entrenched there. So if we had a genre called something like Action Gaming it could cover everything from modern fighting zombies, aliens on starships, Mad Max, Stargates and so on. I thought it was interesing last night watching Lost in Space that the Jupiter II launched in 1997, and we're past 2001 Georges 1984 is long ago history and we still have a moon even though 1999 has passed. We are living in the era that is supposed to be sci-fi. So what about Action Gaming? |
| GarnhamGhast | 05 Nov 2009 5:12 a.m. PST |
I like that idea. Perhaps you've defined a new genre. |
| Angel Barracks | 05 Nov 2009 5:37 a.m. PST |
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| tima113 | 05 Nov 2009 6:03 a.m. PST |
Isn't it all just adventure gaming? |
| Goldwyrm | 05 Nov 2009 8:11 a.m. PST |
I'm very content using Sci-fi to describe the dated Sci-fi themes of the past. Science Fiction does not have to be in the future, it can simply be alternative timelines. It was created as Sci-fi, so even if technology or the timeline has advanced it's still contextual from its own frame of reference. For example, I'd still play Twilight2000 as a post-apocalyptic setting from the reference point of that background's timeline. |
| Ron W DuBray | 05 Nov 2009 9:30 a.m. PST |
george orwell's 1984 is still Science Fiction |
| Lampyridae | 05 Nov 2009 10:09 p.m. PST |
War of the Worlds was set in the 19th century and it's still considered sci-fi… |
| tnjrp | 05 Nov 2009 10:40 p.m. PST |
Yep, science fiction as general genre never was and never should be solely about the future, or space travel, or whathaveyou. And while many, if not almost all, big budget (American) scifi films are in fact action films where scifi is used as an excuse to have really overblown action scenes, science fiction in itself does not imply action. That said, obviously almost all tabletop miniature games, regardless of genre, are action games of some sort. In fact I think the great majority are war games or at least combat games. Hence it wouldn't be exactly wrong to describe nearly all of them as action games. I just don't see what the benefit thereof would be. |
| AWuuuu | 06 Nov 2009 10:05 a.m. PST |
Do we really need grand divide in theoretical reflection on miniature gaming genres ? :> actually
Do we really need theoretical reflection on miniature gaming genres ???? :> |
| RavenscraftCybernetics | 06 Nov 2009 11:44 a.m. PST |
Back in the 80's GAMA suggested Adventure Gaming to cover the entire hobby. I don tbeleive it ever really caught on.
Lets ask for a new board to discuss it. |
John Leahy  | 07 Nov 2009 12:40 a.m. PST |
Yeah, Adventure Gaming was Duke's concept. The US was pretty anti-military in the 60, 70's and early 80's till Reagan. He thought it worked better than wargaming. Now where is adventure gaming………..yep, it's history. ;-D Thanks, John |
begins to think about terrain for Team Yankee.
