Opening this and clocking.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
As I said in the earlier topic, this is either: Hopelessly vague ("scene is like a video game"... which says nothing because video games can be pretty much anything, and video games are often based off of movies as well) or an Audience Reaction.
Personally I say just cut.
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World's Toughest Milkman
Oh wow. I would have guessed this was about people gathered around watching a master player actually play a video game!
"Makes the viewer feel like he's watching a video game" is an Audience Reaction.
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That's the first thing I thought of too when I just read the trope's name.
If some kind of video game's specific elements (HUD and such) actually appears in a work, would that count?
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Clock is ticking, again.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
That would be Sudden Videogame Moment, I believe.
Anyhoo, one way or the other, this has to go.
Since "looking like a video game" is so ridiculously broad, pretty much every single action scene trope is in there. And the examples are rubbish to boot. I mean just looking at the page, 80% are no context... some of them predate video games (Indiana Jones is a bad example, since the Minecart Madness trope is largely inspired by that movie. But the cake has to go to a 1964 Doctor Who episode).
At 22 wicks I say just cut. 114 inbounds. That low enough to cut it?
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I uhh expected this to be the Xenosaga trope where cutscenes in the game take two hours at a time, to the point there are multiple save points in said cutscene, and make up the bulk of the game. To the point where you are watching a video game not playing
As it is umm maybe rename to Really Long Continuous Special Effects Sequence or something?
edited 7th Feb '17 8:13:18 AM by Memers
Last clock.
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The Unknown
First of all, the name is horrible. I thought it was something related to Let's Plays before reading this thread.
The definition is basically an Audience Reaction. One I doubt is tropeworthy considering how broad and vague it is.
I say cut it.
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Finally read the YKTTW discussion. Strongly discouraging; three times a poster has asked "Wouldn't this be YMMV?" and the sponsor (no-one else) either ignored it or said "nu-uh". The examples collected in the draft process are all ZCE-styled Word Cruft "platformer areas", "might also count", "both do this", "should be in the examples", "definitely made for that trope", "oddly reminiscent of video games"...
I don't see a trope because the concept doesn't feel fleshed out enough. It might be a YMMV item, or might not even be a trope, but I don't see a clear message right now.
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Crazyrabbits
I thought this was about a long, drawn-out, non-interactive sequence in a video game that you can't skip. The current definition is horrible. I'm all for cutting this.
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Cut Page is at 8:2 in favour.
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World's Toughest Milkman
9:2 now. Looks pretty stable.
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Late, but I also say cut.
Not only is it a confusing mess (I THINK it's supposed to be about non-video-works that use a lot of video game tropes but I'm not sure?) but the examples section is a stub.
There's not much to salvage here because it's such a vague concept to trope.
edited 16th Mar '17 9:33:19 PM by shoboni
If someone wants they can YKTTW an Extended Special Effects Sequence trope and a Long Video Game Cutscene trope but for now I say cut.
edited 16th Mar '17 9:39:27 PM by Memers
The Unknown
It's still cut-worthy and all, but I felt that needed to be pointed out.
edited 16th Mar '17 9:46:48 PM by Karxrida
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?
Claiming this one isn't a stub based on technicality is really pulling a Rules Lawyer.
To me a trope with only three folders (two of which only have only about a half dozen examples combined) is a stub. The biggest folder (fFlms) is STILL well under a page long and dozen even have to be scrolled through.
edited 16th Mar '17 10:13:14 PM by shoboni
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No; a stub means that the page seems incomplete and lacking in detail. The word you want is short. Pages are allowed to be short, but (outside of the Tropers/, DarthWiki/, and Sandbox/ namespace) they're not allowed to be stubs.
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Yeah, it's not being a rules lawyer to have definitions for words.
Even removing ZC Es (and they're mostly ZC Es) it's not a stub. Hopelessly underperforming, since the trope description is essentially "an action scene" and waaaaaaaaaaaaay shorter than it should be, but not a stub by any means.
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Based on a conversation in the corresponding trope talk thread,
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The description gives many examples of action elements some movies hold in common with video games, but it seems unclear whether it's meant as a supertrope to those action elements or a more subjective "movies/shows that remind viewers of video games" audience reaction.