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| 21 Jun 2015 01:10 PM |
I've been around in this forum for a while and have seen many people attempt (ATTEMPT) to do creative stories, plots, and whatever came to it. Although I find writing a great activity and imagination a very good property of the mind I find that many people in this forum have a level of arrogance despite their stories not being half as good as they would often describe.
Reviewing through each genre and type of thread I will explain what their pros and cons are. Don't expect more positives.
Do also keep in mind that, not every single thread on the genres I will describe are the same.
>Sci-Fi.
The first thing I see is the author believing to be a creative genius creating planets with brought up names (Literally anyone can bash their head on the keyboard and later add a "-thia" or "-onia".). With the names of the races being completely pointless and with an apostrophe spam that doesn't even have a function.
I call these stories unoriginal because ANYONE can make uninspiring names for planets and then do even more uninspiring naming for the races.
"Planet Xecron: Species: Xecronians" --very creative.
>"Fantasy"
Most likely living off the massive Tolkien stereotype of fantasy as many would just imagine castles and dragons. That's a TYPE of fantasy and ISN'T fantasy itself.
Many of them would go about a Kingdom, a "chosen one" (MASSIVE CLICHÉ) bla bla bla defeating evil bla bla bla. Utterly unoriginal and not even worth reading 4 paragraphs of it. That if the author even bothered using paragraphs, by the way.
"He was the chosen one, who is to defeat the evil [antagonist name/creature] and save the world"
--doesnt take effort by a long shot
>Post-apocalyptic
Every single post-apoc I've read in this forum follows the general stereotype that there is a lot of zombies and a bunch of survivors.
That's pretty much all they offer.
>A roleplay version of FanFiction
Generally about videogames or series. They would offer a good chance for the players to roleplay as their favourite characters if said RP wasn't so terribly executed.
In some stories that, aren't completely focused on player participation the author will often add some default characters. In the opposite case, the RP participants will most likely design their own.
Here's what comes out. >A bunch of Mary Sue characters
That's all.
Pretty much this is my honest opinion of what I see in the RP forum. |
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Pruz
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| 21 Jun 2015 01:11 PM |
| I still prefer The Mirror World. |
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| 21 Jun 2015 01:11 PM |
oh I also forgot half of those post apocalyptic also involve the dissolution of several countries, which leads to war.
which with time began to be the everyday bread. |
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marc12267
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| 21 Jun 2015 01:24 PM |
| So yeah. You were somewhat right, except I have attempted to be creative by making a 80s slasher RP called "The StunningView Resort Massacre", which is about a group of 8 people going on an abandoned resort, not knowing that the spirits of the Alcatraz are going to possess a man or girl for every night until said spirits were exorcised. It died off because either the RPers were inactive, I was bad at being the showrunner or both. |
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marc12267
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| 21 Jun 2015 01:40 PM |
| Oh yeah, and few of such RPs you criticized were actually good, I guess. |
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| 21 Jun 2015 01:51 PM |
| From my one month stay in this forum, I can definitely agree to all of this, but what do you expect? This is a roleplaying section on a kids game that isn't about roleplaying. |
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Pruz
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| 21 Jun 2015 01:52 PM |
| This is roleplaying. At least half is. The other half is OoC. |
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| 21 Jun 2015 01:58 PM |
| You said there would also be pros. |
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| 21 Jun 2015 02:40 PM |
where's the pros
i feel cheated |
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| 21 Jun 2015 03:29 PM |
| op's going to say "pros: there are none because you suck big dongles lol topkek get rekt" |
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| 21 Jun 2015 03:49 PM |
| Implying that the only thing we do is make Mary Sues. I know a few kid's sites out there that have a roleplaying section and 90% of the characters created are late teen females that are special in some way. |
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| 21 Jun 2015 04:16 PM |
where's the pros
i feel cheated x2 |
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| 21 Jun 2015 04:51 PM |
i said don't expect many pros. there is one pro. one tiny little one.
hey. i'm just being honest. |
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| 21 Jun 2015 04:52 PM |
"there is one pro. one tiny little one."
but where is it |
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| 21 Jun 2015 04:53 PM |
"Generally about videogames or series. They would offer a good chance for the players to roleplay as their favourite characters if said RP wasn't so terribly executed."
actually funny how the only "pro" is not even completely a pro.
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| 21 Jun 2015 04:54 PM |
| Wel, if a dominant species native to a planet called Xecron, I'd expect them to be called Xecronians. |
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| 21 Jun 2015 04:55 PM |
| Well, if a dominant species native to a planet called Earth, I'd expect them to be called Earthians. |
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| 21 Jun 2015 04:55 PM |
@popple
Or you can not use such a UGGH name in the first place |
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| 21 Jun 2015 04:56 PM |
| Yes, but still. Anyway, I find the rest of this extremely accurate. |
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| 21 Jun 2015 09:25 PM |
| The role-plays here aren't the worse. |
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| 21 Jun 2015 09:34 PM |
"The role-plays here aren't the worse."
You're right.
but the community is bad though. 'cause yeah this is roblox. like 20% of roblox are original. maybe even less |
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| 21 Jun 2015 09:35 PM |
| The community was good until the originals left and new people joined. |
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