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PurpleXVI posted:You know, I didn't want to call anyone out, but that was exactly the one I was thinking of. Well then.  It's probably the one I remember actually bouncing off the most when reading. Otherwise I quite enjoy reading them. But that one in particular has stood out to be. Then again I don't think I ever really read the classic Fallout fanfic LPs either. But that was mostly because those are games I've played so much myself.
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Cooked Auto posted:I remember reading the Arcanum LP in the archives ages ago and bounced off because it went a bit too much into the fanfiction writing for the main character. Oh yeah, I remember reading that too and thinking it was really odd at the time. I pushed through it though because I never managed to finish Arcanum as a kid.
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I appreciate that Sanguinia's FFXIV LP does have original fiction as an optional link in their posts for the sufficiently engaged members of the audience who might be interested.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:You can't tell me that Didja Redo's Gazillionaire Deluxe LP isn't art. Avalon Code was also fantastic by Didja Redo, definitely a case of fanfiction re-writing a game that is conceptually amazing but is actually incredibly mediocre. GuavaMoment's X-Com and Speedball's XCOM LPs are the same but more akin to that Gazillionaire LP where the in-game narrative is mostly light/non-existent.
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I fan-fic wrote my Exile LPs because character and plot are very thin on the ground, and having characters the players can relate to helped people understand what was going on, and why I did the things I did in the order that I did them.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Avalon Code was also fantastic by Didja Redo, definitely a case of fanfiction re-writing a game that is conceptually amazing but is actually incredibly mediocre. GuavaMoment's X-Com and Speedball's XCOM LPs are the same but more akin to that Gazillionaire LP where the in-game narrative is mostly light/non-existent.
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Fanfic clearly has no place in LPs, please do not examine at any of my work or look at what day of the year it is.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:GuavaMoment's X-Com and Speedball's XCOM LPs are the same but more akin to that Gazillionaire LP where the in-game narrative is mostly light/non-existent. Another good example of the approach is Kinu's Sympathy for Chisa Inomiko expanding on 7th Dragon: 2020, along with Rea's Etrian Odyssey LPs that inspired it. I feel like plot-light games like dungeon crawlers are a solid fit for this sort of thing in general, especially when they're not as fraught action-to-action as, say, Nethack or Angband. EDIT: The right game, dammit! fatsleepycat fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Apr 3, 2024 |
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Yapping Eevee posted:The amount of plot a game has on its own is definitely an important factor. And of course you get your Etrian Odysseys and Wizardrys and such where your parties are all generics, which allow for tons of LPer-created dialogue. When I did the story mode LPs for the Etrian Odyssey Untold games I didn't bother with a narrative cause hey, the game already did that for me there since everyone's a preset character with 1 silent protagonist per party, and way less work for me! And also why in the world would I want to distract people from the train wreck that was Untold 1's story mode?
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TeeQueue posted:Fanfic clearly has no place in LPs, please do not examine at any of my work or look at what day of the year it is. Take fanfiction to Creative Convention!
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At one point, I was gonna do an LP of 7th Stand User in the style of a novelization of the game, but my cursed enemy Transcribing Dialogue made it way more work than I wanted to deal with E: I've still got the prologue recording and the first chapter written up... Waffleman_ fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Apr 2, 2024 |
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Yeah, as someone who did a quasi-DarkId fanfic-style sslp, there's nowt wrong with that type of LP, so long as it is good.
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As someone who does light in-character commentary and often struggles greatly getting anything half-worthwhile together even then, I can only respect people who do entire LPs that way.
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Waffleman_ posted:At one point, I was gonna do an LP of 7th Stand User in the style of a novelization of the game, but my cursed enemy Transcribing Dialogue made it way more work than I wanted to deal with Oh no I ended up redownloading the game
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Waffleman_ posted:Oh no I ended up redownloading the game I was actually considering doing 7SU before I settled on doing VFD, but then I realized just how much loving game is in there and decided not to. Like seriously you have to clear the game five times just to unlock chaos mode.
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Oh no no no this would be a single playthrough, doing a 100% LP of 7SU is a fool's errand
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Matul Remrit is still my favorite Dwarf Fortress LPs/fanfic and possibly one of my favorite LPs ever: The art and music were great, and it was fun seeing more of the setting's social intrigue play out as the dwarves became their own worst enemies. I still have the little clay statue of Dowl from the thread contest  On the other hand I tried to give a reread to an LPfic of a shallow RPG, but I forgot that it inexplicably turned the princess into a cannibal and the queen into a pedophile. Some of the worldbuilding was neat but those were just weird choices to make out of the blue. That was before 2010 so I guess it was just in the era where a lot of people thought a good adventure story needed to be violent. Waffleman_ posted:Speaking of which, I wonder if Pokemon Reborn ever ended up getting finished I remember one of the biggest criticisms of Reborn was that the characters were taken from the tragedies of real forums users, but apparently the author walked that back and said it was all fiction? Honestly that's a huge relief, though I really wish they'd done that sooner instead of doubling down and saying a grieving daughter was totally okay with her dad's suicide being put into the game. Anyway yeah I don't think there's anything more that could be gotten out of another Reborn LP attempt. MiracleFlare fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Apr 2, 2024 |
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I'm generally up for giving LP fanfiction a shot, even if other people think it's going overboard. The only time I can think of where it fell flat for me was the Total War "Scotsmen in Egypt" LP. I gave up on that one because having the Scots perform curbstomp after curbstomp did not mix with the LP being so narrative-heavy. I would not have had this problem with it if it was more of a mechanically oriented explainer of how Total War worked.
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Fajita Queen posted:I've always been on the side of fanfic in lps that already have stories being really cringe, but I simply just don't read them if I don't like the writing, instead of being even weirder about it than the lp writer is. PurpleXVI posted:I think there's a bit of a limit, personally, though it's always a taste thing. I don't mind when someone adds dialogue to a mute protagonist, snarky asides to the pre-existing companions or whatever, but there have been a couple of times where someone wrote their own, entire secondary storyline to go alongside the existing storyline and it went completely overboard as a creative writing exercise. I remember when I first got the idea/urge to add some Fanfic to the FF14 LP to flesh out who I was starting to understand my Warrior of Light to be, I was pretty nervous about it, not just because I was putting my writing out there to be skewered, but because the story is the absolute center of that game and I didn't want to tread on it. Still, I felt passionate enough about it to go through with it (and continue to add more here and there when the occasion strikes me) and settled on the compromise of making my writing an external link so nobody had to read it if they weren't interested. I think it's worked out well. The people who like the fanfic bits are vocally supportive of them, and the people who don't can ignore them freely without it impacting their LP reading experience.
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I think FF14 is a pretty good vehicle for it because the protagonist has no real personality in the game, and there are a ton of scenes where you can imagine them full of emotion and wanting to brain someone, or otherwise caring about what's going on. Lots of unexplained protagonist passivity you could write about.
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fatsleepycat posted:Another good example of the approach is Kinu's Sympathy for Chisa Inomiko fixing the absolute absurdity that was 7th Dragon VFD that's not even the game(s) i lped. BisbyWorl did that one. also i think my lp is exactly what most posters in this thread would call 'too much' lmao
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PurpleXVI posted:I think FF14 is a pretty good vehicle for it because the protagonist has no real personality in the game, and there are a ton of scenes where you can imagine them full of emotion and wanting to brain someone, or otherwise caring about what's going on. Lots of unexplained protagonist passivity you could write about. Especially after HW starts, the WoL is more like Commander Shepard than a usual blank protagonist.
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Kinu Nishimura posted:that's not even the game(s) i lped. BisbyWorl did that one. also i think my lp is exactly what most posters in this thread would call 'too much' lmao  Fixed, because of course I was going to realize this catching up on the thread right before I saw your post. Regardless, I enjoyed it. Fic is good, LPs are good, LP-fic can be good. 'S'all good.
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Kinu Nishimura posted:that's not even the game(s) i lped. BisbyWorl did that one. also i think my lp is exactly what most posters in this thread would call 'too much' lmao yeah but you did it good so you get a pass
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The avatar’s name is Steve and she went to Mars once
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Mega64 posted:That's the thing, as long as the LPer enjoys doing it and it isn't completely creepy then who cares? Even the weird poo poo that Mageknight did at least has some entertainment value (albeit for different reasons than he probably intended), and he did seem overall chill to the reactions to the Fire Emblem and Pokemon Retsu's. Mageknight seemed completely chill with people finding their stuff funny. Their LPs were goofy but they seemed a class act.
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I liked the Tales of Symphonia LP where it's Martel commentating on the plot from outside of it. And while the LP of the GBA Chain of Memories was mostly standard, I did like how, during the plot-free revisits on Riku's side of the Disney worlds, they made some diary entries detailing Riku's thoughts. Some was gameplay coverage, but it was interesting to see him reflect like that.
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While I waffle back and forth on how I feel about LPs with fanfic elements, I can at least appreciate the effort that it takes to put those in. It's much harder than just going [love_interest.png] "gently caress those loving fuckers, lol" (in canon they are shy and abhor conflict) An author that can capture the characters personalities and voice and bring those out in their own additions, without Flanderizing them, is rare. It requires pretty thorough knowledge of how those characters act and sound throughout the entire game. More power if you can pull it off, though!
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What if the characters in Chrono Cross said "gently caress"?
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Honestly, amazed that Kid never has.
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TeeQueue posted:Honestly, amazed that Kid never has. As an Australian she would never use such a mild swear.
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Well, uh, ninegearcrow just got banned and seems to have privated their entire youtube channel in response.
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BisbyWorl posted:Well, uh, ninegearcrow just got banned and seems to have privated their entire youtube channel in response. I wish that people would at least get banned in funny ways, that was just a sad and somewhat gross way.
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Don’t go to cspam, it rots your brain out in an unfun way.
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So is this too late for Meltdown March or too early for Meltdown May? I can never keep these straight...
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Augh, April
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It's not even like it was a perma or a 100k, dude torched his online presence over a two-week timeout. 2016 really did break him.
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Your Uncle Dracula posted:Don’t go to cspam, it rots your brain out in an unfun way. 
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Your Uncle Dracula posted:Don’t go to cspam, it rots your brain out in an unfun way.
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