What is the difference between Cyberpunk and Futuristic games (scenario based)? [closed]
I can definitely tell which game titles are each, but I can't define what Cyberpunk and Futuristic are outside of them. Is Cyberpunk future in the city, and Futuristic future in space, or what?
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According to Wikipedia:
Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a future setting, noted for its focus on "high tech and low life". It features advanced science, such as information technology and cybernetics, coupled with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.
Futuristic
of or relating to the future :
a futuristic view of the world.ahead of the times; advanced:
futuristic technology.(sometimes initial capital letter) of or relating to futurism :
the futuristic rejection of traditional forms.
In summary, "futuristic" is a very broad description that includes everything that is somewhat related to the future, including cyberpunk.
Cyberpunk on the other hand describes a mix between advanced technology and social decline.
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Futuristic just means that it has the appearance of coming from the future. A futuristic game would have at least some significant element, usually technology but potentially other things, that you can only imagine existing in the future. For example, while all Star Wars games are set "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" they contain numerous things like light sabers, dogfighting spacecraft, and talking robots, that you can only imagine existing in the real world at some point in the future. Even a post-apocalyptic setting where technology actually regressed — a fairly popular genre right now — might be called futuristic because we can only imagine them taking place in the future.
The cyberpunk genre was pretty well defined by Nolonar, and I'm sure you've got a good understanding about what it is, so I won't give my own definition. But it should be fairly clear from the above that pretty much any cyberpunk setting also counts as being futuristic. In addition to futuristic technology like cybernetics, the cyberpunk settings also contain social changes that we can — with a suitably pessimistic world view — imagine our own society ending up resembling in the future.
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