I've been on the codex before. just never made an account until recently.
This isn't why I joined. It was just something I was curious about.
Ambiance-fag
People that play games for story primarily aren't there for the pure aesthetics of the experience. Considering that video games are multimedia it's only natural that you might engage with it just to soak in the atmosphere. The right digital art, music, coupled with interactivity coming together into something more pronounced than the sum of its parts. I've read film critics describe this kind of media object as a "mood-piece", and more high-brow films tend to lean into this, the plot being barely there, if at all, as an excuse to bring about a phenomenological transportation, into exquisite landscapes of sight and sound allowing you to partake in this being for a moment. The writing and characters are only there to provide further texture, in the case of Bloodlines amalgamations of Y2K archetype-stereotypes mashed together with those from the tabletop game. Beneath the cheap nostalgic wrapping of the transitional period of the new millennium there's something more inexplicable and alluring.
Not really. I usually play games for the gameplay but when it comes to RPGs, I do care more for the worldbuilding and writing then I do for other genres. I've tried a lot of RPGs, but I've only finished a few like fallout 1 and KOTOR 1&2. bloodlines is my favorite by a long shot. not necessarily for the plot but for the setting, writing and characters. I'm not sure if those things fall under the storyfag category or not. I also love bloodborne and elden ring but I consider those to be action games more than RPGs.
Well I don't love bloodlines for its plot, so maybe I already am a writingfag
It definitely makes you a connoisseur of great art.
You didn't mention combat, encounter design, exploration, character advancement.
meh. at least replace jeanette with therese.
