Yeah, just saying you can turn any fantasy world into sci-fi by saying it's in the far future when the current world has been completely forgotten, but that's cheating :P
I was just clarifying why Ryzom is clearly fantasy and not sci-fi for me, since my definitions are different from most. The definition of sci-fi, to me, is that the story is about how future developments could change the current world. Fantasy is a story in a world that's always been different from ours.
Star Trek is sci-fi. Star Wars is fantasy.
A story wherein humanity discovers magic in 2030 is sci-fi.
A story can still be both, ofcourse, for example a story wherein humanity discovers another planet in 2150 is sci-fi, but a story about the indigenous culture of that planet is fantasy.
By that definition, Ryzom is very clearly fantasy. Atys has always been different from earth. There are no sci-fi elements at all unless you want to speculate that homins are somehow future humans, something for which there is really no ingame support.
I was just clarifying why Ryzom is clearly fantasy and not sci-fi for me, since my definitions are different from most. The definition of sci-fi, to me, is that the story is about how future developments could change the current world. Fantasy is a story in a world that's always been different from ours.
Star Trek is sci-fi. Star Wars is fantasy.
A story wherein humanity discovers magic in 2030 is sci-fi.
A story can still be both, ofcourse, for example a story wherein humanity discovers another planet in 2150 is sci-fi, but a story about the indigenous culture of that planet is fantasy.
By that definition, Ryzom is very clearly fantasy. Atys has always been different from earth. There are no sci-fi elements at all unless you want to speculate that homins are somehow future humans, something for which there is really no ingame support.