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#2: May 26th 2022 at 2:17:12 PM
Could you possibly clarify? Are these tropes, works, subgenres, what?
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#3: May 26th 2022 at 7:05:41 PM
New Weird, to quote this wiki, is:
a post-modernist take on certain kinds of literary genre fiction. In a nutshell, it's a specific genre of Scifi/Fantasy/Horror literature that does not follow the conventions of derivative Sci-Fi, Fantasy or Horror, without being an outright parody or deconstruction. Similar to the New Wave Science Fiction movement of The '60s, but it took off in the mid-nineties, and was at its peak in the early-to-mid Turn of the Millennium.
Total Distortion is pretty dang weird, and includes multiple elements from various speculative fiction genres. The question I'm asking however, is does it count? It says that it took off in the mid-nineties, and the game did in fact come out around that time.
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#4: May 26th 2022 at 7:25:03 PM
I have never heard the term "New Weird" used to refer to video games and I have serious doubts that it actually exists as a definable genre, but I have no opinion on that particular work.
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It certainly features many elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror etc all mixed together in a postmodern way, but at the same time it just feels like a product of "90s weirdness". I don't really understand the definition of "New Weird" either.
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