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Old 05-24-2011, 07:28 AM   #50
Frida Fantastic
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I guess I just bristle very easily when arguments stray in that area, because the (true and objective) point you just made is usually coupled with a judgement of value that amounts to "images are for dumbasses therefore books are BETTAR", which is a logical fallacy on so many levels it boggles the mind.
I agree. I love books and I read novels more than I watch movies/TV/play video games/do any other kind of mediaing combined (other than well, The Internet), but I respect other media. The basic written text is more my thing but a specific medium doesn't create inherently bad/inferior/stupid content. There's just bad content everywhere, period. I enjoy video game narratives and the merging of story and game play. There's a lot of good stories, but some are better suited to a specific type of media than others. You can't have something like Planescape: Torment as a novel. It's said to be like an "interactive novel", but the interaction and choices made is part of the story.

I still believe that plain old fiction text will be here to stay, it won't mutate that much in the next 50 years. I agree with the whisky analogy. I just like my whisky, when I want mixed drinks, I'll go get them, but I like my whisky 90% of the time. It might change in a centuries' time, but there's just a massive culture around the art of writing (without media) that it'll continue to go strong into the next century. Until people's multimedia experience skills get refined over time and get a bigger audience, plain written fiction will continue to be important and popular vehicles for delivering stories.
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