Revisiting

Started by JukeboxTheGhoul December 30th, 2015 5:21 AM
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JukeboxTheGhoul

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Posted December 1st, 2020
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When revisiting brands or themes in a roleplay, including: Pokemon, Star Wars, super heroes and etc, do you prefer darker or grittier takes on it (i.e. Pokemon with Pokemon Deaths or set in a dystopia) or keep/make them lighter? Do you prefer it to be realistic? What do you prefer?

Often it seems childhood favourites for people usually get a darker reboot as when the fans are older their favourite thing matures because the fans mature and want to incorperate their life experiences in to enriching their experience with it and make it be able to teach lessons that are on a more mature level.
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Yeah, I've seen a lot of darker takes on Pokémon here and I like it. I guess that's often what we need in order to make RPing truly more exciting than picking up your handheld console and going through the (relatively childish) games again?

Sometimes I prefer a lighter take on pokémon though. Journeys can still be fun if you do them anime-style, with less realism (you need food and sleep and toilets and change of clothes??) rather than try to put a pokémon region into our real world and workings.

Haven't really thought about grittier or lighter versions of other franchises. Digimon is an example of a franchise that can be pretty grim/realistic (well, still relatively) already so I haven't really felt a need to change things there.
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I do enjoy grittier takes on a lot of things, but I still find I can enjoy some things without making them any darker than they originally were.
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I can't say I enjoy darker takes on Pokémon myself, but I do see why other ls enjoy it so much. For me the franchise is a real happy place, where everything is fun, and trying to give creatures that cry out their own name that grittier tone isn't something I'm able to do well.

I do like it when a franchise allows an RP to be both gritty and silly, depending on the take. A superhero RP can really be both, for example. Another good example would be Harry Potter. It allows for a simple fun school set RP, or a dark magical manhunt.

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I'd say a franchise can be made more mature without making it grittier/darker. Your characters can just relate to one another in a more realistic way, and that makes the roleplay feel more mature anyway. You can do that a still have something fairly light-hearted. That being said, I do enjoy a bit of grit or darkness added to some franchises. Like with Pokémon, introducing death and more realistic violence can create new ways to relate to the franchise. If your Pokémon can die, morality comes into question. I enjoy both ways of making something a little more mature.

That being said, sometimes it can be fun not to have to think too much about massive overarching concepts like the concept of morality when you just want to play out a trainer battle. It's 50/50 for me as to what I enjoy more. Like with most things, it's largely dependent on current moods and/or interest. I chop and change a lot. :P
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Light or dark, I am not fixed on it. As long as there is a unique take on something canon, that is well executed to become something original (I use the word loosely of course xD by originality, I mean something authentically created that merges the essence of the creator and the fan), as long as it impresses me, I'll give it my seal of approval. It is often the simplest of things that allow such brilliant sophistication to be explored.
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Gritty is the best. Most popular franchises these days are painted as a light and dark good vs. evil battle where good always triumphs with recognizable and more importantly marketable characters. While that's fine and enjoyable, I think its always been more interesting to look at the darker side, the smaller characters behind the story. Also I'm a heartless ba***rd, so there is that too.

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I think it really depends on what mood i'm in, currently i'm very dark and moody kind of mood, so that is the theme of the characters I'm playing.



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