Important Question

[backupdump002]

Throwing this up here real quick while I'm thinking about it.

Internet, what is the main thing that you look for in a story? Three-dimensional characters? Intriguing plot? Breathtaking world/atmosphere? What is the one thing where, even if everything else about the story sucks, you'd keep following it anyway because your interest in that overshadows everything else? Just, you know, if you had to pick.

GO.

Comments

[doxinator.livejournal.com]

I didn't even think of Pokemon! Yeah, most of the time the world's not real important to me and it seems like a lot of stories sort of fall short of a good world, but the ones that DO have interesting worlds, yeah, I'm all over that. Pokemon, Silent Hill, Final Fantasy, Pikmin--I love just exploring and admiring all the details and the thought the creators put into making them. That's probably why it takes so long for me to finish games like those, haha.

Of course, I think a lot of it really depends on how the author works with what they've got, and also the genre/medium, like I was sayin' to gogoicarus. I mean, from what I've seen, video games tend to be more oriented towards worldbuilding than other mediums, because the interactive aspect of video games gives you so much opportunity--movies can show you a world, but games can let you play with it and explore it. And now that you mention it, I'm much more forgiving of crappy characters/plot when it comes to video games, as long as the game has an interesting world for me to run around in and observe. Everything else, though, I tend to lean more towards wanting good characters (with some exceptions) :B

i feel like none of that really made sense WHATEVER POST COMMENT

[zarla.livejournal.com]

I REALLY LIKE WORLDBUILDING SO WORLDS TEND TO APPEAL TO ME :B and why do i automatically default to games when people talk about stories wtf self

BUT GAMES GIVE YOU OPPORTUNITIES TO TELL SUCH DIFFERENT AND VARIED STORIES IN WAYS YOU CAN'T REPLICATE OTHERWISE AND BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH


Another thing that just came to me - If you have a good plot, it'll inevitably be dragged down by bad characters since generally, those characters will be driving the plot. IT IS A BAD SITUATION.