Unclear Description: Fan Sequel

To elaborate: The trope was originally launched as an exclusively Video Game trope, and the description still references video games solely. However, it seems to have accreted examples from other media, which makes the page seem like a needless duplication of the Continuation trope (whose own Video Game examples more properly belong on Fan Sequel anyway).

So how should we handle this? I'd prefer we keep the two pages as distinct as possible, with Fan Sequel staying game-specific, but I wouldn't be opposed to merging the two if that's the consensus.

Is there any reason why we need a Video Game specific form of this?

Well, if it's about literature, what would be the difference between this and a fanfic?

Actually, that works as well in reverse: how is this not simply "video game fanfiction"?

And aren't they usually referred to as simply fangames? Or Fanime, or whatever the media is...

I can see the need to separate them there. Video game fan works may be traditional fan fiction, fan movie or fan games. It looks like the Fan Film namespace already exists, but Fan Game was previously deleted for some reason. That's the standard term. It should be under there.

, The chief distinction, at least from a video game perspective, is that between a Fan Sequel, which continues the story, and a Fan Remake, which is exactly as it says: A fan-made remake of the original game, usually to port it onto a newer or different system.

edited 26th Jun '12 8:36:43 PM by Specialist290

That makes a distinction between a Fan Sequel and a Fan Remake, but says nothing about what a Fan Game is, which, if both former ones are about games, is the supertrope.

edited 26th Jun '12 10:08:30 PM by Feather7603

If Fan Game is a trope as opposed to a medium, then this is Fan Game meets Continuation.

True. We probably should have a page for that, now that I think about it.

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