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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 8513717" data-attributes="member: 5142">Jein. Blizzard initially did start Starcraft as a reskin of Warcraft II; however, an utterly disasterous game preview at their 1996 E3 showing of Starcraft caused them to go back to the drawing-board and do more than reskin the game. (This disasterous showing is incidentally where its derision as "orcs in space!" originally came from.) In particular, Blizzard wanted the game to be more credible within the realm of the science-fiction genre with improved art, more than two factions, and a new game engine. They needed Starcraft to be more than just "Warcraft in space." Honestly after having played both, I would say that Star Wars: The Old Republic feels like a WoW sci-fantasy reskin but as done with the usual Bioware fanfare. While there are other sci-fi MMOs out there, I also think that we are seeing a decline of WoW-style MMOs across the board. Once upon a time, I certainly would have enjoyed a Starcraft MMO, but that was before Blizzard's decline and the recent trainwreck revelations. Of course, but psionics tap into a wonderous idea of the psychosomatic human potential. As such, while psionics break physics and defies scientific plausibility, it also tends to have a little more thematic/aesethetic constrain and less whimsy than D&D's wizarding magic. A wizard can summon a tiny hut or a rope into a pocket dimension. I suspect that even you wouldn't predict such spells on a psion/psychic/mystic spell list. Even if your favorite psychics/telepaths/telekineticists in superhero comics started doing more Dr. Strange, Zatanna, or John Constantine wizard/warlock/magician type magic, it would probably be a shock for people since mind powers typically focus on more psychosomatic power sets. Again, I agree that I think you can reskin the pre-exiting magic system for psionics, but I don't think that this argument somehow requires us to pretend that there isn't a different aesthetic or thematic scope between what we commonly find for psionics and wizarding magic.</blockquote>

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