Does Not Illustrate: Enjoy The Story Skip The Game

I admit I know Planescape: Torment less well than I know Diablo, but this image, added by the same person, appears to have the same problem: All I'm seeing is a gameplay window half filled with tiny unreadable text. This image gives me no understanding that the story is better (or better-received) than the game.

Edited by wingedcatgirl on May 5th 2019 at 10:17:50 AM

I have no idea what's going on there, and the text screen is indeed illegible. Pull with prejudice.

Pull.

Pull.

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Pull

It at least shows the that the story is a big part of the game, so Keep Until Better Image Suggested.

Does it? It hurts my eyes too much to notice that. That blob of text could just as easily be game-play mechanics than story.

I mean, the story is a big part of Diablo, too, it's just a part most of the fanbase doesn't care about. This is an audience reaction, so short of a lampshade or parody, I'm not sure any work will show it in a format one can take screencaps of.

The Play the Game, Skip the Story thread seems to be settling on a webcomic image, so I'd prefer to keep this one a gameplay screenshot. Images on Audience Reactions don't need to show the audience reacting, and images don't need to show every aspect of the trope; for example, Complete Monster subpages have images even though it's impossible to convey all the criteria in one image.

Edited by rjd1922 on May 6th 2019 at 4:52:12 AM

But it's a terrible image. A screenshot wouldn't be bad in theory, but this one is.

Does anyone have any other suggestions? I still think the current is better than nothing.

Edited by rjd1922 on May 6th 2019 at 4:59:23 AM

The current is literally unreadable. Having no image at all would be a better representation of the trope. It also relies entirely on the quote to tell us that the game is text heavy.

Edited by DRCEQ on May 6th 2019 at 5:11:36 AM

Pull.

Exactly.

You can see a lot of text in the image, so how does it not show that the game is text-heavy?

The text is extremely hard to read. This makes it near impossible, without outside knowledge of the game, to know if that text is story text. It could be game-play stuff, like dialogue options.

Regardless, the reason it's a bad image is because it's just not at all visually appealing. It just looks bad, even if it technically does illustrate the trope. That's why it's a bad image.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: An imageless page is always better than a page with a bad image, whether it's bad because of godawful quality or because it doesn't illustrate anything is irrelevant in the end.

Edited by WarJay77 on May 6th 2019 at 8:20:47 AM

Is the first image here any better?

Yeah, it might be. We need to see it at Wiki-Size.

Cropped a bit:

Edited by rjd1922 on May 21st 2019 at 8:28:58 AM

I'm gonna go with no. I still can barely read the text. It's an improvement, but still a bad image, especially with all the grey rocks depicted in the top part. If a picture relies entirely on text to get the trope's point across, then it might as well just be the page quote.

pull.

Pull.

just because a game is text heavy doesn't automatically mean it's got a good story. by that logic... never mind, that's going to go nowhere but work-bashing.

in any case, pull.

e: to clarify, im not saying planescape doesn't have a good story. merely that a wall of text itself is not an indicator of quality.

Edited by razorrozar7 on May 7th 2019 at 4:42:07 AM