Talk:Medieval fantasy

May 2009

Googling "Medieval fantasy" will give you 548,000 results. It is a commonly used term. I think the article could use some improvements of course. Dream Focus 15:08, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

I added in places on three notable sites that use the term

Notice that Richard Garriott, created of the famed Ultima series, uses the expression. There are many other places on those sites the word could be found, as well as elsewhere, but this establishes that the phrase is used in the industry. Dream Focus 15:24, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

notability tags

Proving the expression exists in notable third party media sources, and is commonly used to describe things in the gaming industry, should prove notability. One editor disagrees, and has placed the tags back. Everyone state your opinions please. I'm curious what everyone thinks. Dream Focus 18:57, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Question

In medieval fantasy what would be a better way to kill a population, poisoned water or disease carrying rats? 76.103.232.241 (talk) 04:20, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

• In medieval fantasy, the better way to kill a population of people is to use rats as a carrier of disease, especially magical rats. Water could be used, but it lacks imagination and it wouldn't spread as fast as the rats would. Also, it would be rather easy to fix a problem with the water supply, i.e stop using poisoned water supply. Dr.MedievalFantasy (talk)
  • I was just passing by, but I think Dr.MedievalFantasy is on to something here. Poisoned water is rather lame and easily fixed. Rats would be much better since they could lurk in the shadows and in walls and creep up on people when they're asleep and spread there disease. 24.4.18.84 (talk)
• I agree with Dr.MedievalFantasy. Rats would be much better. 24.4.20.128 (talk)

Criteria for inclusion on the list

This could actually be a category, which list all the games in this genre. Looks like a nice list so far though. If anyone sees something they have played, which they don't believe counts as a medieval fantasy, then please discuss it here on the talk page. Do they all meet the definition of medieval fantasy, listed in the article itself? And if you see anything else that should be on the list, then add it. If the game is notable enough to have its own wikipedia article, then link to it. I think all of the Ultima games count as medieval fantasy, other than the Worlds of Ultima of course, those two games taking place in a more primitive place with native American tribes in a dinosaur filled area, or on Mars in the Victoria era. The rest of the games were clearly medieval fantasy though. Dream Focus 14:15, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

• Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (Collector's Edition)

Isn't this the same as Elder Scrolls III? No sense for two listings for the same game. Dream Focus 14:16, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

• Removed Age of Mythology, as the setting is clearly ancient and not the mediaeval. 87.112.132.77 (talk) 16:26, 27 June 2011 (UTC)Nefertum

Final Fantasy VIII and Chrono Trigger are not medieval fantasy.

Final Fantasy VIII is a futuristic game and Chrono Trigger is based on time travel with the original setting being the Industrial Age. Therefore, I will remove them from the list. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sega31098 (talk • contribs) 23:18, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Commonly Recurring Features

I've modified the 'Commonly Recurring Features' section to be more factually correct in regards to The Lord of the Rings (many of the listed features are absolutely not present), along with various minor corrections, yet I can't be in the minority when I suggest that the section should simply be removed. It's terrible. Like a list one would scribble on the back of schoolwork in the third grade. --Saerain (talk) 20:15, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Novels and thier Authors

Pre Renaissance earlier than 14th Century

Renaissance 14th to 18th Century

1800's

1900's

• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

2000's

• Shannara by Terry Brooks

211.31.4.111 (talk) 12:25, 3 May 2010 (UTC)211.31.4.111 (talk) 12:29, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Commonly Recurring Features

• Fantasy races such as elves and dwarves.

There are a great deal more races than just those two of course, no need to list them all.

• Wizards and other magic users.

Wizards, sorcerers, witches, warlocks, mages, etc. etc.

• Creatures from folklore such as dragons, ogres, goblins, trolls, werewolves, unicorns, and giants.
• Monsters.

Not all monsters come from folklore, nor is everything from folklore a monster. So it has a separate entry.

• Magic
• Kings, princesses, knights, castles, and other things you'd find in medieval times.
• Heroes

There are always heroes in these tales.

• Great tragedies in their past

Dragonlance novels had their great cataclysm, The Legend of Zelda series had its entire world flooded at one time, many series have the world overrun by monsters, or some other great problem about. Dream Focus 15:02, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Spyro the Dragon?

I'm not sure how Spyro can be viewed as a medieval fantasy game. Yeah there's dragons, but there's also gnorcs with guns and kind of a lack of anything really medieval I think. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.97.147.83 (talk) 21:24, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

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Most of that has nothing to do with medieval fantasy, being rather high fantasy, dark fantasy, and so forth, set in altogether fictional worlds:

Print media

Literature

• The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955) by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-1956) by C. S. Lewis
• Slayers (1989-2018)
• The Witcher (1993-) by Andrzej Sapkowski.
• A Song of Ice and Fire (1996-) by George R. R. Martin
• KonoSuba (2013-)
• Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World (2014-)
• Inheritance Cycle (2002-2011)

Comics

• Berserk (1989-)
• Black Clover (2015)

Games

Tabletop

• Dungeons and Dragons (1974-)
• Tunnels & Trolls (1975)
• White Bear and Red Moon (1975-)
  • RuneQuest (1978-)
• Warhammer Fantasy Battle (1983-2015)
• Castles & Crusades (2004-)
• Pathfinder Roleplaying Game (2008-)

Video game

• Ultima series (1981-)
• Wizardry (1981-)
• Heroes of Might and Magic (1995-)
• Dragon Quest (1986-)
• The Legend of Zelda (1986-)
• Final Fantasy I (1987), II (1988), III (1990), IV (1991), V (1992), IX (2000), XI (2002) and XIV (2010)
• Ogre Battle (1993-2001)
• The Elder Scrolls (1994-)
• Warcraft (1994-)
• Baldur's Gate (1998-)
• EverQuest (1999)
  • EverQuest II (2004)
• Gothic (2001-2008)
• Neverwinter Nights (2002-2009)
• Guild Wars (2005)
• The Witcher Games (2007-)
• Dragon Age (2009-)
• The Souls Series (2009-)
• RIFT (2011)
• Eragon (2006)

--SNAAAAKE!! (talk) 16:34, 25 March 2019 (UTC)