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- The Hague
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- He/Him
Controversial gaming opinion: video games are good.
What are controversial gaming opinions you have?
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- Nunya, Arizona
Folks do narrative storytelling in game all the time, and it's fairly common with streaming and whatnot? Fanfics of minecraft run all over the place. Not baffling even a little if you're aware of even a bit of the general environment around the game. That kind of thing's, like... incredibly common for sandbox games in general, tbh. It's a good chunk of the point of a lot of them (spontaneous, procedural storytelling) and it's not exactly a surprise when folks put to pen stuff inspired by goingons in game.
If you want real fun, there's officially published novelizations of minecraft stuff, too. I've cataloged a couple for my library's collection, ha.
E: Have an example, a four book set based on some youtuber's minecraft series.
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- Northern Virginia
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- He/Him
Crossover fics, and a bunch of RPFs by middle schoolers.
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- Third planet from the star named Sol
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- He/They
Minecraft Youtubers, spin off games, and so on. The DreamSMP minecraft youtuber group really took off during lockdown, and the fandom they developed did what fandom does.
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- Sydney
Not Minecraft is basically the surprising answer to this question.
Majority of Minecraft fic is about Minecraft YouTubers/streamers.
So I have finally gotten around to playing Fallout 4, have put in a little over a hundred hours and the game is far better than I was led to believe. The moment to moment gameplay , settlement building, item modding, some of the environmental storytelling, and the story until you reach Father are all remarkably good.
This is not to say that the game is without flaws, the story after you reach Father is deeply lacking and squanders the momentum it had built up to that point. The world building also has serious flaws and if you do not keep your build and gear competitive late game enemies can become annoying bullet sponges.
So I would say the game is a solid 8/10. Would recommend.
This is not to say that the game is without flaws, the story after you reach Father is deeply lacking and squanders the momentum it had built up to that point. The world building also has serious flaws and if you do not keep your build and gear competitive late game enemies can become annoying bullet sponges.
So I would say the game is a solid 8/10. Would recommend.
Vyslanté
The self is a prison
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- European Union
Minecraft is the best sold videogame of all times ; it's not that surprising that it would have a massive reach, and that's not even taking the whole youtuber thing into account.
(though to be honnest, the next best-selling games are GTA V, Tetris, Wii Sports, PUBG, and Mario Kart 8 and there's hardly any fics for those)
Now, granted, even taking that into account, it's doing better than The Last of Us : Minecraft averages at one fic on AO3 per 2755 units sold; TLOU (counting both games because AO3 does not separate them) is at one per 3866. And because I had the list of best-salling games open, for comparison, Red Dead Redemption 2 is at one per 4910.
Comrade Future
Man from Zeerust
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- USSR
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- He/His/Him
I am perplexed by the fact that in the last Mortal Kombat the guest fighters were both Homelander and Omiman. It's just that, in essence, these are characters of the same archetype - the "Evil Version" of Superman. To me this kills diversity.
People give the Playstation flagship titles (GoW, TLOU, Horizon, etc) a lot of grief for how much they try to be movies, try to chase a certain obnoxious cinematic prestige. I'd say it's definitely a part of Sony brand identity at this point. I think the cinematic/gameplay ratio for these tend to be kinda overstated, but also, hell, I don't mind watching a little movie intermission between killing a bunch of dudes. Show me your collective Dad Feelings, why not. 😌
(relatedly jesus christ did GoW Ragnarok really fuck the whole storytelling approach Cory Barlog was shooting for in 2018. terrible)
(relatedly jesus christ did GoW Ragnarok really fuck the whole storytelling approach Cory Barlog was shooting for in 2018. terrible)
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- Ireland
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- He/Him
Both are specifically the TV show versions of the characters, and they're both pretty wildly different. The baseline archetype might be the same, but in actual practice they're not meaningfully more similar than Mortal Kombat having multiple ninjas or gods or soldiers as playable characters in their games.
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I don't know how you managed to ignore my footnote. It was literally right there.
Vyslanté
The self is a prison
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- European Union
I wanted an excuse to look at numbers instead of actually working 😔
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- An Underground Fortress
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- She/Her
To be honest, and this may be my brain doing some really odd things, but a decent "walking sim" still has more of that gamefeel than any Sony Prestige Title. The former at least feels like it can't be translated to another medium so easily, while the latter, well...we've seen how easy it is to make a TV show out of one of those.
And yet it's the latter people put on a pedestal for "pushing the medium forward."
And yet it's the latter people put on a pedestal for "pushing the medium forward."
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Queshire
Wants a pink flamingo for their lawn.
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I mean, if you're doing a crossover or something then Minecraft powers are easy to understand, versatile but still would require a bit of creativity to actually be able to use in a fight effectively. On the other hand, getting stranded in Minecraft land lends itself to easy plot as you got to try to survive in the wilderness, establish a base and develop technology.
grommile
nasty-minded old cynic
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- NERV-Mercia
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- Traditional/Animate
Not really a gaming opinion.
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- Canada
I know. Was in response to the Minecraft fanfics above
4WheelSword
The original N-body Problem
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- It/She/They
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- Canada
Absolutely yes. Write fanfics about fictional characters, not real people. It's creepy and objectifying.
Hiding behind "they're putting on a performance so they're really also a fictional character" is also dumb. If your fic is using their legal names, just don't.
Mizu
Software Developer
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- Victoria, Australia
How do vtuber factor into this? Often the character is a persona that's treated entirely separate from the entertainer behind it, as I understand things, and they even develop their own lore and backstory.
In that sense if you write a fanfic about the vtuber character, then are you writing stuff about an irl person? Or a fictional one?
Renewal
Boring Person #5883781345
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RPF is not gaming. We have an equivalent fanfic pet peeve thread:
forums.sufficientvelocity.com
Pet Peeves in Fanfiction
So, to those of us here that are common fanfiction readers, what writing trends, character archetypes, plot threads, etc. are so annoying that they can turn you off a fic, cause you to like it a good deal less, or just really bug you? To start off, I hate sudden time-skips from one time period...
forums.sufficientvelocity.com
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And said amount of ninjas has been memed about for actual decades now. People make fun of Smash for the number of Fire Emblem characters it has, but anywhere between a third to half of Mortal Kombat's playable fighters started out as palette swaps of a guy in a cheap yellow and black ninja costume.
Besides, it's not a great look for roster diversity when two of the three DLC characters are both evil variants of Superman and the third is from the same universe as the real deal. Even ignoring the amount of similarities between them (sure, they're surface-level, but that's basically MK's middle name), it's not a great sign when it looks like they're just desperate to keep a deeply mediocre entry afloat with guest characters. At least SSBU was a good enough game to have earned the hype.
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- He/Him
Well when the last entry already had the Joker, Spawn, Rambo, the T-800, and Robocop, I think they've pushed it into the kind of charming absurdity you can only get when you know something is dumb but you commit to it anyway
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- That place in the thing
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I feel a lot of it comes down to a certain vocal minority of internet-dwellers feeling as though they need to "put the pretentious indie devs in their place" and defend the honour of multi-billion dollar corporations. It's the video game equivalent of those people who lost their shit at Martin Scorcese for saying he didn't like the MCU.
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It's just cynical and corporate. And even ignoring my own grievances about the MK franchise as a whole, 11 was a much better game than 12 (I am not calling it Mortal Kombat 1). While I hesitate to say they earned it, they were a lot closer to it with the last game than the current one.Well when the last entry already had the Joker, Spawn, Rambo, the T-800, and Robocop, I think they've pushed it into the kind of charming absurdity you can only get when you know something is dumb but you commit to it anyway