Like just having to play through a bunch of games that just aren't very good is *exhausting*, it demands more attention by far than watching a bunch of shitty movies
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
And like with the movies it makes you like even the good games somewhat less Because it makes you hyper conscious of how games work, of the careful series of decisions you have to make to maintain the illusion and how fragile the illusion is once you fuck up
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
I read a blog of someone taking a screenwriting class talking about how once you internalize the stuff they teach you you see it everywhere, especially in popular Hollywood films, and it has a way of seriously killing the magic
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Plutoburns and
I think this is why I fell hard a decade or more ago for certain "cheap tricks" like killing characters at "inappropriate" moments and protagonist switching.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
Or in games (and really only original Deus Ex has really done this) letting you change how the story goes but not telling you you can do it (like have an NPC you aren't prompted to attack but you can kill and if you do it changes things)
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
But like, protagonist switching prevents "Save the Cat" stories, as one example of why I like it
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Plutoburns and
The Coen Brothers are big fans of subverting Save the Cat cliches, hence stuff like the big shock of killing off the ostensible protagonist of No Country for Old Men
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
This is assuming that the primary means of enjoyment one gets is novelty though, and there's certainly an occupational hazard of (some) professional writers and creators wanting to do New Stuff or Quirky Stuff which satisfies their need for novelty but not necessarily an audience
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
I'm an audience. I need novelty
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @loudpenitent and
Yeah I mean this is an eternal war and it's the unfortunate result of the fact that to be a skilled creator you kind of have to be jaded to the point that this stuff for newbie suckers is old and boring to you Even though, as they say, there's a new sucker born every minute
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I remember the viral thing when some theatre critic wrote an angry meta-review of the latest production of A Christmas Carol all "What the hell am I supposed to say about this They do one every year Every possible variation on this piece has been explored"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
"It's fine It's a great tradition I'm sure the kids who have never seen a play before will love it I don't know why I have to go see it or what you expect me to say about it"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
A Christmas Carol being to theatre what The Nutcracker is to ballet The whole genre of "Christmas entertainment"
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