> as an author who really started dreaming about storytelling after I played <videogame> as a kid ahhh, suddenly a lot of things got really clear
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2/ it's called manners not every disagreement about artistic quality needs to tag a guy in and ridicule him by name for how bad he is at his craft https://twitter.com/AndrewLoeschner/status/1252982816259936257 …
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3/ but to get back to the core point about "I was inspired to write by video games", the reason that this is terrible is based off of something I touched on the other day when talking about fantasy and magic systemshttps://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1251572921568550912 …
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ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs @MorlockP6/ faerie stories -> Tolkien -> D&D / tabletop RPGs -> 1990s fantasy -> vidya RPGs and M:TG CTGC -> some modern fantasy so "magic systems" are about balancing white mana against black mana it's game mechanics crap, which is ENTIRELY anthetical to the core of fantasyShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 16 likesShow this thread -
4/ videogames and literature are deeply different genres, and what works in one not only doesn't work, but often fails miserably in another Videogames depend on colors, weapon mechanics, button-mashing to execute specific maneuvers, and visual effects.
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5/ ...but if you try to write a novel like this, the result is ... a breath-takingly terrible train wreck, e.g.pic.twitter.com/bvQEHLNYPI
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6/ we've got everything here - flickering light sources, weapon choice optimized for range and damage, statistics at the top right of the screen (I'm sorry, at the top right of the character's PoV), cringey dialogue, intricate button mashing combat maneuvers, damage per hit
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7/ This is not just terrible writing - the worst I've read in 40+ years of reading fantasy and science fiction - it is a PARTICULAR TYPE of terrible writing. And THAT is what I was getting at in my initial tweet "ahhh, suddenly a lot of things got really clear"
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8/ Specifically, what became clear is that this author's specific manner of being abysmally embarrassingly bad - this author is ignorant of what good writing entails, but he's DEEPLY aware of what a video game looks like. And I find that fascinating.
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9/ ...and I bet he's not alone. I bet that there is a lot of very bad writing that fails in this exact same way. I mean, I doubt it's AS bad - this is quite breathtaking - but I bet that there's not-as-bad-but-similar out there. /exeunt
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The existence of "LitRPG" says there's readers who grew up on videogames asking for that kind of writing.
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