Has the sci-fi genre completely died?

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From: justin credible
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 16:52

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After reading all the over-rated hype about Galactic Civ 2 and hoping
it would revive
the genre and inspire creative programers but alas,this sim GC will not
impress *experienced* players much imo,it's just another "civ" type
game and certainly not *creative*. When you compare it to the real
classics such as Game of the Year: Starflight
 it seems so shallow, unfortunately gaming in this genre has NOT
progressed but actually regressed especially when compared to classics
like Starflight which had actual storylines with depth..did all the
creative minds in this genre die..if you don't believe me,read some of
the SF links especially:

http://necrobones.com/starflt/


..you do the numbers!

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From: "justin credible" <highpurity@gmail.com>
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