Fan-Fucktion

[arpad]

During some old USSR-USA TV show, a woman told a famous line "There are no sex in USSR". I tell you - after reading what they call a fanfic, I definitely have nostalgia surge. Looks like the "genre" is limited to, err, relationships between Red-Hat-Girl and the Wolf, Harry Potter and Drako Malfoy, Dart Vader and Frodo and so on ad infinitum.

There are no story, no new characters, no adventures, no effects. Fantasy promptly stops at homosecsual orgy of orcs and elves.

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Yes, presious, these stinky books are obsolete. We should crawl under the mountains of doom millions-dollar-cost-production and see what we can do with these computer games instead.

Comments

Re: The horror, the horror

[elinai.livejournal.com]

Actually, this one sounds like fun (Shrek 2 style).

[arpad.livejournal.com]

It was fun.

It also was a manifestation of one of hardest problems of massively-multiplayer game designer, which is how to make your audience to play along with the game universe.

I have some thoughts on this matter - but it is a different and looooooong story.

[ars-longa.livejournal.com]

Yeah, having made a mistake of joining a RP game not so long ago I can see where the problem is. :) I myself tend to be obsessed with continuity, characterization authenticity and all that.

hear hear

[arpad.livejournal.com]

continuity - that's the word

[elinai.livejournal.com]

I used to be a big fan of EverQuest some years ago, until now I consider it the best game that I have ever played. It seemed that the main design problem there was economy. As for the audience, the main concern was loosing all family and friedship ties, lack of clean dishes and too far of a distance between computer chair and the bathroom. ;-)

Hear, hear!

[gholam.livejournal.com]

What server by the way? :)

Re: Hear, hear!

[elinai.livejournal.com]

Xev :-) It was 4 years ago, though. 16 Clerik and 29 Druid.

Re: Hear, hear!

[gholam.livejournal.com]

Ah... I was on E'ci, quit about two years ago, 65 rogue and 30-something cleric alt.

Re: Hear, hear!

[elinai.livejournal.com]

65 - kudos
Never had that much time.

Re: Hear, hear!

[gholam.livejournal.com]

The joys of being a teenager...

Re: The horror, the horror

[ars-longa.livejournal.com]

It can be, if done right. Everything can be fun if done right. Unfortunately, all too often things like that are inspired by primitive lack of imagination.