This is where I stand.
At the very least everything in the world should server a purpose and have a place. Without this your story is going to be difficult to follow and the world is going to seem like a mess. There still have to be rules no matter how zany the world, pic related, but the rules can make little sense. At this point space travel is powered by a hamster on a wheel, but that same hamster has trouble powering a dragons refrigerator because dragons eat a lot and breath fire so his fridge is really big and it takes a lot to keep it cool.
Internal consistency is the bare minimum if you want an audience to get immersed. If something works in a certain way then it will keep working that way and if something is taken from real life it will work like it works in real life. At this point space travel is common and widespread without realistic downsides and dragons are intelligent.
Plausibility is where an audience only has to suspend their disbelief a little. Any sci-fi is firm to hard. The science is bent a handful of times, and only just. The fantasy is grounded, and what little magic exists is well explained and fleshed out. Good reasons are given for why things are the way they are. At this point time dilation is a problem in space travel and dragons are just big lizards with wings.
Realism demands that what happens in your story really could happen in real life or really did happen in real life. Realistic historical fiction demands the historical figures act how they acted in real life. Realistic science fiction requires any technology in the world exists at the scale people are using it in real life. The animals that show up in your story must exist in real life. You get the idea. At this point people can get into orbit if they work for a wealthy enough government and dragons don't exist. Realism can be the enemy of fun if handled improperly.
Historical Realism in Games
people who dont want realism (code word for complexity) in their fantasy are called casuals
why the fuck anyone would ask himself if theres something deeper in the opinions of a casual is beyond me
The word is piques, you illiterate monkey.
Can you not read? I said "not as much as they are", you illiterate mongoloid.
I have only met this sort of strawmanning-due-to-stupidity when I spoke to fucking beaners you shitskin, and now I come across it on a near-daily basis on this God-forsaken shithole of a website. So fucking sick of room-temperature IQ faggots like you. Kill yourself with a rusty spike you waste of space.
hit a nerve?
read a book nigger
This has always been rather silly. People seem to think fantasy is always one thing, and never another. At least, those who aren't aware of Warhammer Fantasy and the like. The notion might be catching on in the vidya's wake.
What about a fantasy game set in medieval Greece? I've never seen that before.
No and yes, and write properly, shitskin.
Yes in that you were the final straw that broke the camel's back, but no in your insult.
You misread my post, that is why.