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FastEddie MOD Since: Apr, 2004
2013-02-11 17:14:49

Let's Play is not a trope so much as it is a work. The tropes of the game have a huge impact on the Let's Play(s) done on the topic. It is useful information on the game's page that there are Let's Plays available for the work. Leave 'em in, please.

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Nocturna Since: May, 2011
2013-02-11 17:14:51

I believe Lets Plays of a work would count as trivia for that work, in the same way that Abridged Series of a work count as trivia for that work.

ArkadyDarell Since: Dec, 2011
2013-02-11 18:11:48

I'm with Fast Eddie, though from the opposite direction, perhaps... Let's Plays can be useful ways to access the work so people can check out the existing tropes and add new ones, especially if the game is hard to get a hold of and/or run on modern computers. It's akin to linking to a webcomic's strips for context to me.

That said, I wouldn't be that cut up if they had to be moved to the Trivia tabs.

Edited by ArkadyDarell
troacctid (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2013-02-11 19:23:38

It's not a trope within the work itself, so it doesn't go on the main page. No consensus on Trivia vs. YMMV, afaik.

RoseAndHeather (Edited uphill both ways)
2013-02-11 19:55:29

From a completely outside viewpoint - aka one of someone who has never so much as completed a level of a videogame in her life - I'll throw my hat in for Trivia. It's not a variable audience reaction inspired by the work, which AFAIK is what a YMMV trope is. Just my 2c!

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supergod Since: Jun, 2012
2013-02-12 03:01:03

Thanks for the replies.

@Fast Eddie: I still think it's kind of pointless, since pretty much every game in existence has been let's played. At the very least it shouldn't be listed as a trope. "Trivia" would be great as people mentioned, but I'll leave it for now.

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DracMonster Since: Jan, 2001
2013-02-12 08:00:30

That's an idea. Lets Play Recs might be worth a page since many games have multiple LPs.

Edited by DracMonster
ArkadyDarell Since: Dec, 2011
2013-02-12 10:21:16

I like the Lets Play Recs idea. Let's Plays aren't quite fanfic, plus you wouldn't necessarily think to look for it on the fanfic tab (I wouldn't, anyway).

troacctid (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2013-02-12 10:58:37

Fanfic Recs can be used for non-written fanworks. Videos are fair game.

Fighteer MOD (Time Abyss)
2013-02-12 11:55:28

More to the point, getting people to look at Fanfic Recs for LP's is as simple as putting them there. There's no need for a new namespace to do what amounts to exactly the same thing. An LP is, by definition, a fanwork related to a video game.

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ArkadyDarell Since: Dec, 2011
2013-02-20 16:44:16

Most LPs are not fanfic, though, since most of them don't create a new story out of the game. If you wanted to change it to the more inclusive name Fanwork Recs, then that would work.

Fighteer MOD (Time Abyss)
2013-02-20 17:08:21

Let's put it this way. Better to lump 'em under fanfics than make a new subpage that will just have to be merged when we discover that it's an exact duplicate. If you think we should change fanfic recs to fanwork recs, great, pop over to the forums and suggest it.

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