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9.7% (7) |
No |
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29.2% (21) |
Only the ones that aren't sexy |
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27.8% (20) |
Only the ones that are sexy |
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5.6% (4) |
Depends (elaborate please) |
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15.3% (11) |
Don't care and never will. |
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12.5% (9) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1941 Joined: 18 Feb 2009     | |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4871 Joined: 23 Mar 2009     | Absolutely not. I refuse to endorse an idea to get rid of cliches until gamers as a whole decide to stop defining cliches as "things I don't like, that appear in more than one game." Since this runs contrary to the nature of the internet and any non-troper residents, I feel confident in saying that "cliches" are here to stay, and I couldn't be happier. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 211 Joined: 18 Apr 2009    | What exactly are you talking about? An example of one of these clichés maybe? |
BANNED  Posts: 11268 Joined: 3 Jan 2009     | No, cliches encompass everything. Nothing is original. User was banned for: Why do Many Girls take Pictures of Themselves?. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1432 Joined: 13 Jan 2009    | Nooooooooo. Cliché used properly can be funny. |
BANNED  Posts: 2270 Joined: 14 Apr 2009   | dont care, do what they like, but do it good! User was banned for: IMMA FIRIN MAH LAZAR. (Permanent) |
Beat Writer  Posts: 150 Joined: 19 Mar 2009 | I'd like cliches that harm ideas or the game to be removed (I have a personal vendetta against fanservice). |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1647 Joined: 10 Sep 2008    |
I disagree with your argument, white wine is horrible with oysters. If you hot rid of cliches, then new ones would pop up because they are defined by their use, not their content. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1700 Joined: 11 Jan 2009   | I'm fine with them. Sure, sometimes you groan when you hear them, but whatever. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 118 Joined: 1 Jul 2009   | Cliches or so commonplace, they are a cliche all their own... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1130 Joined: 11 Jul 2008    |
Wow, a whole thread ended in the first response. Pretty much my thoughts, word for word. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2319 Joined: 19 May 2008   | The way people on here complain, everything is a cliche. There is nothing wrong with cliches, it's how they are implemented that define how good or bad they work in the game/story. Cliche's are fundamental aspects that are the basic framework of almost everything. So don;t complain unless they are poorly implemented. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3192 Joined: 20 Apr 2009  |
Congratulations, you just won (bonus points for the troper thing). Do you have anything to say to the camera? Also, as for things that actually are cliches and not simply tropes, no. We'd lose something to make fun of. Some of them might be essential to making an otherwise good game, movie, or whatever. |
Muckraker  Posts: 300 Joined: 24 Dec 2008  |
Yes they do. Yes they do INDEED. *Cough* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFPReLQSt8k *Cough cough* |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 966 Joined: 9 Apr 2008    | no because cliches are used in pretty much every game. If you ban cliches, most plots go out the window regardless of quality, characters start having just strange flaws, and most locations die out very quickly. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2858 Joined: 1 Mar 2009   | Some of them, some still make me laugh though. |
Paperboy  Posts: 22 Joined: 22 Jul 2009    | You will always have and will always need cliches. A cliche tells you history and provides platforms to work off of. Not to mention, some of the best ideas are just cliches mixed together in innovative ways. |
Muckraker  Posts: 317 Joined: 27 May 2008   | I'd hate cliches, but it's too cliche. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1808 Joined: 14 Jun 2009    | Just remember: chiches die, TV Tropes dies. |
Muckraker  Posts: 302 Joined: 21 Dec 2008    | I don't think they're going to stop regardless. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 95 Joined: 16 Mar 2009   | Cliches? Yes. Tropes? No. I don't really see the point of this thread. It feels a little pointless and juvenile. Why can cliches be sexy. I'm really confused. |
Anonymous Source Posts: 1 Joined: 10 Aug 2009 | Cliches are an indication of a weak, sedentary and unimaginative mind. |
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I played plenty of videogames to know some basic cliches.
But seriously I'd like to know if the Escapist Community is as sick of them as I am.
Gamers don't seem to deter from videogames because of this though.
So I ask the question as to whether or not you want to kill all cliches.
I do, and I'd do it twice if possible... while wearing a helmet just to spite the cliche gods.
Please post your thoughts and explain your answers.
Mine is that anything repeated to a noxious degree must die.