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* ''Franchise/DragonAge'' has elements of this. While the rest of Thedas is stuck in MedievalStasis, the Qunari on the other hand have invented ironclad warships, cannons, and psychosis-inducing gas. Justified in that the Qunari hail from a continent which has never suffered a Blight or been devastated by the Darkspawn horde, thus their technological development never suffered this handicap. Coupled with their strong dislike of magic, they have sought technological means to solve problems, while the rest of Thedas is more comfortable with relying on magical or enchanted means. The ''only'' time Qunari appear to use magic is when turning Saarebas (collared mages) against their enemies, apparently having learned from the Tevinter Imperium forcing their invasion of Thedas to a stalemate, that despite all their technological prowess, magic remains superior in terms of raw firepower... at least, ''for now''.
** The fact that apparently [[spoiler: combining magic with gunpowder produces a ''hell'' of an explosion]] might lead to... interesting developments in this field. Also, less dramatically, printing appears to exist (which undoubtedly speeds up the spread of information, whether on Brother Genitivi's travels or on the earth-shaking events going on).

8th May '13 5:52:11 AM IfOnly

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6th May '13 8:37:35 AM nombretomado

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3rd May '13 8:42:57 AM erforce

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** "The Thinker", Rapture's MasterComputer introduced in [[{{DLC}} Minerva's Den]] goes all over the place with this: it's apparently the brain behind the aforementioned security bots and it's capable of [[spoiler:perfectly mimicking human personalities given enough input, effectively passing the Turing test]] and yet despite being the size of a building, according to an advertisement it's capable of performing "one million calculations per second", meaning any computer/console capable of running the game itself can out perform it.
** ''BioshockInfinite'' (taking place in 1912) is even crazier with this, although it at least justifies most of the crazy technology with the existence of tears in time/space that the architects of Columbia (itself an example, being a gigantic city in the sky that floats via quantum levitation-- and was originally built in ''1893'') used to view the future, before crudely replicating what they saw with the materials of their day. This results in things like run-of-the-mill Colt revolvers and Mauser pistols existing alongside a portable, crank-action RPG, a revolver grenade launcher with a gilded finish, autonomous clockwork robots, hovercraft that are beyond even today's technology, and giant steampunk cyborgs. Not to mention the fact that the radio airwaves are populated by a bunch of songs from the 60's, 70's, and even 80's that have been rewritten in period-appropriate styles.

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** "The Thinker", Rapture's MasterComputer introduced in ''Videogame/BioShock2'' {{DLC}} ''Minerva's Den'' goes all over the place with this: it's apparently the brain behind the aforementioned security bots and it's capable of [[spoiler:perfectly mimicking human personalities given enough input, effectively passing the Turing test]] and yet despite being the size of a building, according to an advertisement it's capable of performing "one million calculations per second", meaning any computer/console capable of running the game itself can out perform it.
** ''Videogame/BioshockInfinite'' (taking place in 1912) is even crazier with this, although it at least justifies most of the crazy technology with the existence of tears in time/space that the architects of Columbia (itself an example, being a gigantic city in the sky that floats via quantum levitation-- and was originally built in ''1893'') used to view the future, before crudely replicating what they saw with the materials of their day. This results in things like run-of-the-mill Colt revolvers and Mauser pistols existing alongside a portable, crank-action RPG, a revolver grenade launcher with a gilded finish, autonomous clockwork robots, hovercraft that are beyond even today's technology, and giant steampunk cyborgs. Not to mention the fact that the radio airwaves are populated by a bunch of songs from the 60's, 70's, and even 80's that have been rewritten in period-appropriate styles.

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30th Apr '13 5:30:08 AM Gamezfan

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