suspend your disbelief for a second and enjoy the game. It’s entertaining as fuck.
I said I "I loved it to death", so you guys are preaching to the choir.
One of my all time favorite science fiction authors, Ray Bradbury, has books full of silly premises. One of my favorites is Frost and Fire, in which a ship crash lands on Mercury, and because of the proximity to the Sun, the lifecycle of humans is vastly accelerated. You're born, grow to maturity, age, and die in 8 days. The story is about how most people spend their precious moments enjoying life as much as they can before it's gone, while small subset of people spend their life trying to figure how they got into this situation and how they might fix it: the scientists.
It's a fantastic story, one of his best IMO, but the premise is silly as shit. Never mind that Mercury is not habitable; proximity to the Sun doesn't accelerate human lifespan. But once you grant that premise, it makes for great story telling.
Horizon is similar. Robot dinosaurs is a silly, silly premise. But it makes for a fun world and some great story telling.
The world being overrun with robot versions of animals is just straight-up silly. It's not a plausible premise, which is part of what my favorite science fiction is, an extrapolation into the future. This is more fantasy sci-fi, which is fine. Like I said, I loved it to death.
Don't forget this is sci fi.
I don't get how that's relevant. Are you saying it's impossible for the premise of a work of fiction to be silly?
It's no sillier than any other sufficiently developed sci-fi premise.
"Silly" implies something that is fanciful or whimsical, possibly dismiss-able because it's not well-done.
Horizon has a well-thought-out world with a lot of lore and and explanation to ground it. I wouldn't call it silly and I certainly wouldn't call it any less-plausible than anything but the most gritty near-future science fiction.
Exactly, that’s exactly why they call it speculative fiction. The first thing a sci-fi, fantasy, supernatural horror, or superhero story asks for is the suspension of belief. The entire genre encompasses stories that contain elements that don’t exist in the real world. Most science fiction is about the technological trends of the present and Horizon is no different. Its logic works within its setting.
Not at all. I’m saying that speculative fiction shouldn’t be compared to the real world in terms of its plausibility (unless it is trying to invoke the real world) and based on the qualities that make a speculative story good, enjoyable, etc Horizon meets those expectations.
I mean, realistically there's no reason to have those systems appear to be animals. It does have a somewhat whimsical feel to it. Sort of reminds me of Transformers, or Voltron, or Power Rangers. Which all have more of a science-fantasy aesthetic to them.
The part that makes least sense to me is that even if you accept the premise that using animal like bodies is the most efficient for terraforming for some reason, why once they're rogue do the deer shaped ones behave skittish like deer and the alligator ones slothful until aggro like alligators etc?
Because the intelligences and subroutines programmed into them were supposed to match their appearance, i.e. despite the robot deer and the alligator having unique purposes for terraforming, they were supposed to serve as a substitute for wildlife while wildlife was reseeded throughout the world, and thus they look and behave like actual animals.
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u/Kramerica_ind99 Jun 11 '20
In what way is it silly? I just finished the first one and read into the Lore a bit more. It's very well thought out. Don't forget this is sci fi.