General News - Aliens In, Elves Out @ NYT

[Dhruin]

According to the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/16/arts/television/16game.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin), aliens are the cool thing this summer with elves taking a rare back seat:
It started in August with the sleeper hit BioShock, which can best be described as intelligent sci-fi noir (genetic engineering in 1940s big-band style). Then last month came the pop culture juggernaut Halo 3, the epitome of mainstream action sci-fi (men with huge guns saving the galaxy from an interstellar menace). Between now and Thanksgiving gamers will see gothic sci-fi in Hellgate: London (demons invade post-apocalyptic London); the first major science-fiction online game in years in Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa; and the magnum opus-cum-space opera Mass Effect.
More information. (http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?newsbit=6816)

[azarhal]

Why can't we have Elves in Sci-fi games?

Like that everybody would be happy.

[Squeek]

Elves had a good run there for a while. It's probably better this way, anyway. Maybe Orlando Bloom might be able to go out in public again without getting mobbed by 'tweens.

[aries100]

Some say the the supermutants in Bethesda's Fallout 3 look like orcs & elves. Don't know if this is true, though ;)

But why can't we get space elves??

[zakhal]

According to market research best race for a fantasy game would be one with long ears, thick beard, black skin and tentacles.

[magerette]

Some say the the supermutants in Bethesda's Fallout 3 look like orcs & elves. Don't know if this is true, though ;)

But why can't we get space elves??

What about Spock? Vulcans could pass as space elves any day. ;)