Recommend me some sci-fi games where the future isn't a dystopia. I'm tired of everything being about things going to shit.
Optimistic Sci-fi
Recommend me some sci-fi games where the future isn't a dystopia. I'm tired of everything being about things going to shit.
Dead space
Is this just shitposting, or an acknowledgement that there aren't any hopeful sci-fi games?
Uh
Ratchet & Clank series
the first and only PS2 games were mocking the dystopian ~~*capitalistic*~~ oligarchy the galaxies were entrenched in, gadgetron did not gave a single frick while it was being attacked, megacorp creeped into every sapect of living in bogon galaxy, dreadzone broadcasted hunting games as entertainment (the best honestly game)
goyslop does not exist and should never be noticed as existing
I think its sad we've given up on optimistic views of the future.
You could only find that in the golden age of sci-fi books but I cant recall any game with that. there's builder games tho, you could shape an optimistic future there.
but no predefined setting like those that I know of
>I think its sad we've given up on optimistic views of the future.
I know, right? Sci-fi used to be so hopeful. It bled over into everything, no matter how it was expressed, there was this dream of a better world. Somewhere, that's all collapsed into cheap cynicism. It's like we're all in this rut as a species, and nobody's got any idea how to fix it.
Possibly Elite Dangerous since humanity is freely exploring the galaxy and our bubble. Yea, the only discovered alien species is hostile, but that's just about it.
Also watch Melodysheep's Beyond Life series. He does a wonderful job of giving you hope for finding life.
melodysheep is fricking great. I’m very excited for that sights of space video. Gonna download it and watch it on my flat screen. Does he use blender?
I have no idea. But whatever he uses, it looks fantastic. I actually regularly listen to his music because my autistic ass loves it over modern shit.
Stellaris can be hopeful I suppose. You can create your own ideal society and conquer the galaxy.
norman's sky
Is No Man's Sky actually good now? I keep hearing good things, but I heard all that before they launched.
Its still a resource collection game, but they added a ton of content so if you don't mind loads of mining in between exploration bouts you'll enjoy it.
technically mirror's edge is a utopia
Mass Effect if you ignore Reapers and the Batarians.
Not a bad choice, to be honest. Even in the grungy parts of the setting, there's an idea that an individual in the right place and time could fix them. The Reapers ultimately bring almost everyone together as well, with a bit of prompting.
>mass effect if you ignore the main plot or the side quests
So ignorance is bliss..
>Waagh my setting has bad guys
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Anon Im not sure if you realize how ironic your post is.
I didn't read the OP properly so I got this self induced idea that he was asking for non-dystopian settings, which Mass Effect technically is if you ignore the big bad invaders and the literal slavers.
Everyone pretty much gets along decently, and even people in bum frick nowhere outer sectors live comfortable lives unless bandits or batarians fly by.
It's called Revelation Space.
>optimistic
The word you're looking for is 'delusional'.
Embracing cynicism is the death of the soul. It makes us less than we should be. In the end, it's drilled into people to stop them trying, to keep us servile, and to make us into things that are easily controlled and catalogued. It is the moral duty of every free man to reject it, to demand more than the offered scraps of the world that was stolen from us.
Or, have you been beaten down enough that 'you've learned your place'?
unfathomably based, cynicism is a teenage phase any normal man grows out of eventually
Godspeed spacechad.
The journeyman project
Star Trek
Satisfactory
Bros... why couldn't we have been born in the time period where humanity is actively exploring the Galaxy?
>be born 10,000 years from now
>complain that it takes 30 years to cross the galaxy
Freelancer for the most part
If you read the news articles and planet descriptions Freelancer is a straight-up dystopia, that fact just takes a backseat to the exinction-level threat of the nomads
>all the houses tend to have hugely unequal societies, with workers underpaid, regularly maimed on the job and generally getting treated like cattle (in one case literally being given cattle fodder to eat)
>prisons are overfilled to the point that multiple space-based prison complexes containing
thousands of prisoners are built and it still isn't enough
>every 20 years or so the houses get into incredibly destructive wars
>the staple food for 90% of the population is "synthpaste" due to failed terraforming projects
>the entire sector is swarming with bandits, rebels and outcasts to the point that they'll regularly attack capitol planets
>it's so bad a dipshit like Edison Trent can easily make more than enough credits with barely any effort and live a life of luxury and comfort
>even a lazy fat frick like Tobias can make a good living
I think the rags in that universe push negative narratives for fear mongering, just like real life ones do.
Maaaaybe not then.
I would like to take a moment and say how easy is to evade bans.
I don't know what qualifies as science fiction to you, but the wonderful 101 has some peak retro futurism aesthetic and technobabble and is through and through a setting where humanity got its fricking shit together and moved onto bigger problems.
Phantasy Star Online
Most Sci-fi is dystopic because it makes for a much easier way to incorporate gameplay and story. Its quite hard to make a fun interesting game out of a society that is working perfectly well and beloved by all.
Wing Commander? I think you eventually join forces with the Kilrathi.