I am watching ‘Game of Thrones’

Fantasy. Why is fantasy always in a dark-ages European setting? This is what I don’t like about fantasy as a genre, it always goes straight for the ye olde thing but because it’s ‘fantasy’ they don’t have to be historically accurate or anything; it’s sort of camp in a way. 

That is also what I didn’t like about the early Final Fantasy games, they are so twee with their mages and wizards and knights and it meant that atomosphere, script, story, characters and relatability or imagination went out the window because they went straight to a stock dark-ages-ish mise en scene based on a cliche of a cliche of a cliche. Later games in the series like Final Fantasy vii and viii made up for this though, being set in a fictional contemporary or future dystopian world. 

Even Oblivion/Skyrim gets grating, the way the genre is such a simplistic view of the fictional fantasy past.

Game of Thrones does the genre so well, based on these early episodes, it needn’t be done again… please?