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Ookamikun This is going to be so much fun. (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
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#1: Sep 27th 2024 at 9:00:44 PM

So maybe it's just me, but the whole Video Game Movies Suck page description felt like it's written by a... biased word? Even an attempt to make the whole page neutral felt half-hearted. Stuff like "gamers haven't yet entered in the work space" entry for instance feels awkward, especially when the fan-liked Mortal Kombat movie goes against that notion.

I'm glad the trope has no entries. Was worried it might have things that objectively got high gross (implying it actually got what it set out to do) while having bad reviews.

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#2: Sep 28th 2024 at 7:51:11 AM

[up] Well, it is No On-Page Examples, so a wick check for complaining might be needed.

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#3: Sep 28th 2024 at 10:39:01 AM

I just remember Blizzard telling Uwe Boll that they would not be selling the movie rights to WarCraft, "especially not to you". tongue

This is one of the older pages on the wiki and is basically the inverse of The Problem with Licensed Games: studios basically seeing video game movies as cash-grabs without regard for what makes the games attractive. Western game-to-film adaptations have been getting better in recent years (partly because of gaming becoming much more of a mainstream hobby), but there's still a back catalog of really terrible ones.

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#4: Sep 29th 2024 at 2:31:14 PM

It's one of the oldest pages on the wiki, back when tropes were treated as any concept media related. There is still some value in commenting on differences between interactive and linear narratives, but the current name and definition wouldn't fly today.

Comics are just words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.
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#5: Sep 29th 2024 at 3:08:38 PM

[up] Might do a wick check — I can see a potential Linear Interactive Narrative Dissonance trope existing, and I can also see the complaining present here.

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Ookamikun This is going to be so much fun. (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
This is going to be so much fun.
#6: Sep 30th 2024 at 12:03:08 AM

[up][up]&[up][up][up]Ah figures it was one of the earliest entries here. It really has that nerdy feel to the statement, especially with the "this medium is better" post.

Edited by Ookamikun on Sep 30th 2024 at 12:03:30 PM

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