Do you have a favorite genre for gaming?

[Hans Rancke-Madsen]

Originally Posted by d10000

I liked sci fi fiction but I can't help thinking, "for Gawds' sake, just let the super-intelligent android do everything; and hey, you can't dodge or survive energy weapons. Let's just get on the internet and crowdsource our engine problems. .. in fact, let's just have computers do everything, why are we even on this ship?"

I think Larry Niven's short story "Safe at any speed" answers those and similar questions very well: Such a setting would be boring.


Hans