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My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Live Reactions & Discussion)

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A thread to discuss My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the tie-in media.

All of the usual forum rules apply. In addition, please remember that the thread is discussing a kids' show, and it's primarily focused on the work itself, not the fanfic — in particular, we don't want to see lewdness creeping in.

     Original OP text 
I don't know WHAT the Hell happened (I blame shenanigans) but we're going to start from scratch. Post your feels for this awesome show again! Naow!

Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM

Crowfall Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Hoping Senpai notices me
#32026: Dec 24th 2013 at 1:50:20 PM

I was about to make a comment about the average pony not really reacting much to Twilight being a princess now, but then I realized none of the episodes have really involved the cast interacting with average ponies. They all take place in the castle, or with Daring Do, or in another dimension. Wonder when we'll see them just hanging around Ponyville again.

Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#32027: Dec 24th 2013 at 1:54:33 PM

Maybe it's me biased because I sworn to never play the "AAA" games ever again(or my terrible mood speaking), but I don't want one of MLP.

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#32028: Dec 24th 2013 at 1:55:01 PM

Yeah, that's my one overall complaint with the season thus far: it's not mundane enough. Every episode focuses on some sort of special occasion. I want a "mane cast futzing around in Ponyville" episode. Some legit Slice of Life stuff where they're just going about day to day business rather than exploring ancient castles or going on adventures.

"AAA" games?

edited 24th Dec '13 1:55:55 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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marston Since: Sep, 2011
#32029: Dec 24th 2013 at 1:55:58 PM

I think we'll probably see them in Ponyvile again in either the next episode {At least before the actual conflict starts} or in the one where Pinkie meets her potential Evil Counterpart.

@JT: Honestly, I don't mind that. S3 and most of S2 had a big lack of adventure episodes, so I'm happy to be getting a few in a row like this.

edited 24th Dec '13 1:57:31 PM by marston

Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#32030: Dec 24th 2013 at 1:57:49 PM

"AAA" games?

Big budget, big publisher, big refusal to ever let players think for themselves.

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#32031: Dec 24th 2013 at 1:58:58 PM

Well, that's a vague definition. tongue

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storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#32032: Dec 24th 2013 at 2:08:29 PM

"AAA" games?

Call of Duty clones, basically.

Anyway, I pretty much only play indie games too. In the last 5 years, I think the only games I've played from big companies were Portal, Bioshock, and Portal2. Though I am planning to get Bioshock Infinite eventually.

And Portal was more like an indie game than AAA anyway.

edited 24th Dec '13 2:13:29 PM by storyyeller

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Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#32033: Dec 24th 2013 at 2:13:32 PM

@Story Then again that's ALL Activison makes in terms of games, bloody Call of Duty games. And the worse thing is that my sister now has Modern Warfare on my Wii so yeah not a big fan of that.

@On the subject of Slice of Episodes Personally I don't mind that I get more Adventure episodes than Slice of life episodes considering we had a lack of those in previous seasons where it was nothing but slice of life episodes so really ya need some balance basically.

edited 24th Dec '13 2:14:25 PM by Starscream759

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JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#32034: Dec 24th 2013 at 2:18:27 PM

Eh, I'm not averse to adventure episodes, but I tend to prefer the Slice of Life ones. I think the writers are better at it.

EDIT: Family is calling. Must go now. Merry Christmas, everybody.

edited 24th Dec '13 2:25:11 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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Mio Since: Jan, 2001
#32035: Dec 24th 2013 at 2:25:21 PM

[up]The writers being better at them was we didn't get more adventure episodes in the first season.

darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#32036: Dec 24th 2013 at 2:41:48 PM

Still, there's a wonderful simplicity in situations like 3 ponies having a sleepover, and pretty much running on character interaction to fill the episode.

Adventure episodes are nice enough, but at the end of the day they're pretty disposable when you've seen the flashy effects and fights. I mean, how many times are you going to rewatch Princess Twilight vs say Sister Hooves Social or Look Before You Sleep?

storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#32037: Dec 24th 2013 at 2:45:04 PM

Then again that's ALL Activison makes in terms of games, bloody Call of Duty games

Hence the hate.

It occured to me that Kegisak will probably rant on the subject.

Princess Twilight. Is that the season 4 opener?

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Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#32038: Dec 24th 2013 at 2:47:02 PM

Thinking about it now, I would go for some slice of life episodes.

Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#32039: Dec 24th 2013 at 2:47:31 PM

@Story Why does he have strong opinons on it? Though I'm a bit vocal when it comes to that franchise.

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Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#32040: Dec 24th 2013 at 2:49:26 PM

Xmas episode of the thread - kicking Call Of Duty to the face. Not that it doesn't deserve it, it's just the oddest of occasions to pick that topic.

Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#32041: Dec 24th 2013 at 2:51:26 PM

@Lumious Well to be fair we were talking about Activison and past games for the MLP franchise though.

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marston Since: Sep, 2011
#32042: Dec 24th 2013 at 2:55:06 PM

/*Is one of the few people who likes the Call of Duty games, though I understand why a lot of people don't*

IkeAndMike Exists for some reason from Earth Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Love is for the living, Sal
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#32043: Dec 24th 2013 at 3:07:35 PM

I wanna play one of the call of duty games just to see what the big deal is- whether it's as good as the fans say or as horrid as the haters say.

I mostly play RP Gs and turn-based strategy games. I also play TF 2, it seems to be the only shooter I like.

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Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#32044: Dec 24th 2013 at 3:09:43 PM

@Ike

Modern Warfare 2 is the right one to play then. Pretty much has it all packed in.

Play that and Half-Life(any Half-Life) back-to-back and you'll see why people hate this.

edited 24th Dec '13 3:14:52 PM by Luminosity

kegisak Element of Class Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
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#32045: Dec 24th 2013 at 3:16:02 PM

It occured to me that Kegisak will probably rant on the subject.

Well, I do have some opinions on it...

It's unfair to say that all AAA games are 'call of duty clones' - strictly speaking shooters aren't even that popular anymore, though even in the shooters hayday it wasn't the completely dominant genre. It never will be, really, since players want variety. But a AAA game is best defined as any advertised game, because advertising requires a budget that somebody expects to get payed back, which usually means a lot of budget went into it already. AAA covers everything from Assassins Creed to Legend of Zelda, with varying design methodologies.

The trouble with AAA games, design wise, is that they're often backed by people who have no interest in games, but want to make their money back, and therefore they're designed with a very, very wide range of audiences in mind. Sometimes this works out alright, but othertimes it completely undermines the game itself - see the most recent Batman game, which was very much designed for fans of the Batman mythos, and therefore caught a lot of flak for 'obscure' villains that have always been pretty central to batman.

It also means the design suffers a lot of times due to range being forced on it. Ideally, I'd like to see a lot more games like Mirrors Edge, which had a very focused and tightly-designed gameplay, which made it very fun and memorable despite many faults. It also had a lot of aesthetic design, which is something else that you don't see often in AAA games - most of them prefer to just throw pretty graphics at a game, which is a shame, honestly.

Overall I don't think AAA games are bad, but there are a lot of kind of sad trends. I can't say much, but it does look like some of those trends are starting to fade, though. In the old days there were a lot of AA games - small, kinda no-name titles that could still be really great, like Psychonauts, and those kinda kept the whole thing balanced. Now those are expensive to produce and advertise, so when they exist at all it's largely on PC or other digital download things...

Myself, I actually hope to work in the AAA field, because I want to try and fix those trends. A game that's allowed to have indie sensibilities on a bigger budget could be a thing to behold for a lot of reasons.

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storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#32046: Dec 24th 2013 at 3:18:49 PM

Thinking about it now, I would go for some slice of life episodes.

Same. Hasn't been anything quite like LBYS in a while.

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IrishZombie Since: Dec, 2009
#32047: Dec 24th 2013 at 3:23:31 PM

To me, the largest problems with AAA games are:

1)They often end up playing it safe, rarely trying new things, which leads to a lot of repetition. Not true of all AAA games, just a large number of them.

2)It's just an unsustainable business model if everyone tries to top each other. When the only way for you to make a profit (or in some cases, just break even) is to be the Next Big ThingTM, then you have a problem.

That's just the way it appears to me, as a person who plays games.

Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#32048: Dec 24th 2013 at 3:27:06 PM

@Kegi and @Irish Zombie I agree AAA games shouldn't be about who can top who it should be about original and unique ideas in terms of these type of games.

edited 24th Dec '13 3:27:41 PM by Starscream759

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JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#32049: Dec 24th 2013 at 3:33:10 PM

@Dark: Look Before You Sleep is one of my favorite episodes for exactly that reason: it runs entirely off of the strength of the characters' personalities rather than requiring much outside catalyst. It just puts them in a room and lets the characters take it from there. The show hasn't really done many episodes like that and I'd really like to see more.

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Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#32050: Dec 24th 2013 at 3:34:37 PM

I very much disagree that the trends are starting to fade, if anything they culminated to their highest point, making me now and forever stick to indie games.

Arkham Origins and Grand Theft Auto 5 are pretty distinct symbols of this culmination. Both are unfinished, barely tested shadows of better games with focus on shallow and featureless multiplayer undermining the singleplayer experience and vice versa, like a set of siamese twins.

Arkham Origins, for example, has a nonsensical story mode, that takes very unnessesary twists, doesn't expand or offer anything new, and despite being advertised with having loads of bossfights, can't measure to Arkham City boss fights in any conceivable way. The multiplayer, being the clear focus as always, because everything needs multiplayer these days apparently, while a fun premise of possibly playing as Batman to whack mooks, is ultimately lacking features to play it more than once. And then there's this handholding, which is plaguing every "AAA" game. The publishers are terrified of anyone taking their time with the game, they want you to rush through as fast as possible, without any challenge at all, and so they deny you the rights to even simplest thoughts, always butting in and explaining exactly what you have to do. Big publishers all have taken the EA approach of throwing games out with the speed of Mc Donalds, no matter how unbaked, to the point of it not being baked at all. Cover shooters, iron sights shooters, it's all there with "variety" now being virtually nonexistent within AAA titles, no small "thanks" to Call Of Duty fans bashing every other game out there no matter how distant from Co D.

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