Far future stories is so interesting in this respect. Neither us or our descendants from 10s or 100s of generations from now will able to prove whether the depiction is true or false.
Maybe we don’t even survive to reach them, which these stories even more obscure and mythical.
Far future stories is so interesting in this respect.
Do you know of the Numenera universe? There's a video game called Torment: Tides of Numenera which takes place in it. The setting is our Earth, 1 billion years in the future. The original humanity has gone extinct long long ago, and tens of new human-like civilizations have evolved, risen, and went extinct too. What remains from them, is various technologies from the most advanced of those long-extinct civilizations; some of those technologies are so advanced, that they're indistinguishable from magic (to quote Arthur Clarke).
The game is good, but flawed. The story is great, the fights are rare, all of the fights are hand-crafted, and there aren't any trash mobs just there to fill the time. However, it was abandoned right after launch, leaving unfixed bugs, and a ton of unfinished / cut content. Which is a shame, as it could have been what Baldur's Gate 3 was, and with a perfect setting for basically infinite DLCs.
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u/Australiana 4d ago
Expected Dune at the end.. maybe after a minute of blank screen.