![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
Jane Austen and Us
So this post isn't from my list. Because ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
my_daroga told me about this, and I had to Google.
Jane Austen on Wii. - Basically, someone wrote up what playing Pride and Prejudice on a Wii might be like.
There are some problems with it. First of all, Austen is not Victorian, and I get distressed when people think she is. But creator gets points for actually spelling Lizzy the way Austen does; when spelled "Lizzie" it really pisses me off, for some reason. I guess I think people didn't read the book--and it's a good book!
Anywho, problems--this would be more of a social interaction game than an Austen game, which the creator says in the comments. I just wish it was an Austen game. What if you got points for behaving "in character"? Of course, that would hack a lot of people off, just like fanfic and The Great OOC Debate. (Does "OOC" exist? Or is it a myth? Stay Tuned.) Wouldn't it be cool if fanfics had multiple choice questions in them, and if you answered the answers that were "in character" you'd get the ending you want (e.g. Lizzy and Mr. Darcy get together), but if you answered inappropriately, Alternate Ending goes into play (Rock falls, everyone dies. Lizzy marries Colonel Fitzwilliam. Sues take over the world.)
And if we do have to call it something Austen, can't we call it Emma, and have the character-giving-instructions be Mr. Knightley? I can just imagine going around pressing "B" the whole time, having Mr. Knightley say over and over, "Badly done, Emma. Badly done indeed!" The final showdown of the game takes place at Box Hill, naturally. Miss Bates is just like a final boss you have to fight.
Also furniture and clothing don't seem reasonable currency (this is mentioned in the comments, too). Marriage prospects and friends should be the currency. Though Lydia does get hats and trips to Brighton for bad behavior.
I do like how a "B" action was breaking a vase. I read a fanfic once where Lizzy breaks a vase at Rosings Park, and hijinks ensue. Totally unrealistic, but that girl's Sense and Sensibility fics were the first fanfics I ever read that weren't by me. Republic of Pemberley used to be good times, man, before they got stuffy about fanfic.
Other Period Themed Links:
-Wuthering Heights Role-Playing [Paper and Pencil] Game Rules (linked in comments to Wii idea). For fun Victorian times. When creating your character, you roll for the amount of Rage and Despair, and then calculate the number of Problems your character has. It obviously must be awesome.
-Regency Era Dress Up: heroine and hero. I spent nearly half an hour with the hero one night, because after I dressed him I decided he needed an invisible male partner, because he was gay and also having issues with his magic. He accidentally made his husband invisible, see. But his husband was a good sport about it, and got dressed to go out with him anyway, and they posed. They held hands. Invisibile hands.
Suffice it to say: I love people.
my_daroga told me about this, and I had to Google.Jane Austen on Wii. - Basically, someone wrote up what playing Pride and Prejudice on a Wii might be like.
There are some problems with it. First of all, Austen is not Victorian, and I get distressed when people think she is. But creator gets points for actually spelling Lizzy the way Austen does; when spelled "Lizzie" it really pisses me off, for some reason. I guess I think people didn't read the book--and it's a good book!
Anywho, problems--this would be more of a social interaction game than an Austen game, which the creator says in the comments. I just wish it was an Austen game. What if you got points for behaving "in character"? Of course, that would hack a lot of people off, just like fanfic and The Great OOC Debate. (Does "OOC" exist? Or is it a myth? Stay Tuned.) Wouldn't it be cool if fanfics had multiple choice questions in them, and if you answered the answers that were "in character" you'd get the ending you want (e.g. Lizzy and Mr. Darcy get together), but if you answered inappropriately, Alternate Ending goes into play (Rock falls, everyone dies. Lizzy marries Colonel Fitzwilliam. Sues take over the world.)
And if we do have to call it something Austen, can't we call it Emma, and have the character-giving-instructions be Mr. Knightley? I can just imagine going around pressing "B" the whole time, having Mr. Knightley say over and over, "Badly done, Emma. Badly done indeed!" The final showdown of the game takes place at Box Hill, naturally. Miss Bates is just like a final boss you have to fight.
Also furniture and clothing don't seem reasonable currency (this is mentioned in the comments, too). Marriage prospects and friends should be the currency. Though Lydia does get hats and trips to Brighton for bad behavior.
I do like how a "B" action was breaking a vase. I read a fanfic once where Lizzy breaks a vase at Rosings Park, and hijinks ensue. Totally unrealistic, but that girl's Sense and Sensibility fics were the first fanfics I ever read that weren't by me. Republic of Pemberley used to be good times, man, before they got stuffy about fanfic.
Other Period Themed Links:
-Wuthering Heights Role-Playing [Paper and Pencil] Game Rules (linked in comments to Wii idea). For fun Victorian times. When creating your character, you roll for the amount of Rage and Despair, and then calculate the number of Problems your character has. It obviously must be awesome.
-Regency Era Dress Up: heroine and hero. I spent nearly half an hour with the hero one night, because after I dressed him I decided he needed an invisible male partner, because he was gay and also having issues with his magic. He accidentally made his husband invisible, see. But his husband was a good sport about it, and got dressed to go out with him anyway, and they posed. They held hands. Invisibile hands.
Suffice it to say: I love people.
no subject
Wii Austen game cracked me up. I support the idea of Mr Knightley, he can scold me anytime.
I think that Role-Playing is the way to go in Austen games, whether we're talking paper and pencil (woah, I'd buy the player handbook seconds after it came out) or computer games.
no subject
Second that about Mr. Knightley. And I would totally buy the player handbooks too!
no subject
People who say Austen wrote Victorian books makes my eye twitch.
no subject
Duuuude. Write the choose your own adventure fanfic! It would be great!
no subject
no subject
Look for this at your local Barnes and Noble or Borders bookstore in April. http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Zombies-Classic-Ultraviolent/dp/1594743347
(Squee.)
no subject
no subject
no subject
And yet, first of all people who thinks Austen wrote Victorian books always made me sick. Second Wii Austen game, lol. But I think the idea with Role-Play Game is interesting. I didn't think about it before.
And Mr. Knightly, awww.
no subject
no subject
no subject
It'd be cool if you could play Lydia, instead. Or if your character was determined by what choices you made early in the game.
As to the name thing, that is a mistake I think I could easily make, and probably have made. Because I do not remember things like spellings. I don't have a picture of what it looked like in the book, despite having read it multiple times; most of the time when I see the name is it spelled "Lizzie," and if I was dashing off a comment or something I'd probably misspell it. Which doesn't excuse me, but it's an explanation.
We should play that Wuthering Height game, y/y?
no subject
I listened to Kate Bush saying she was Cathy today.
no subject
Oh, I totally agree, and I'm not trying to argue you're wrong; except for the part where I'm sure I've spelled it wrong, too, due to distance from the book or something and the prevalence of "-ie"'s. I think it totally makes a difference, and Erik and Eric are totally different people. I just understand the mistake or am defensive.
I saw the cds on the table. :)
no subject
Sorry I left them out!
Hope practice went well last night. I really want to get some writing done tonight.
no subject
Oh heavens.
Also, I did not mean you should have put cds away. I was just happy to see them.
Hope practice went well last night. I really want to get some writing done tonight.
Me too! Hope you had fun last night. I missed you.
no subject
I didn't really think you were actually hurt or anything. I just meant, I wouldn't want anyone to feel they had to defend themselves because my comment was equivalent to shouting and waving my arms at the world, not someone in particular.
I didn't think you meant I should put the cds away either, I just realized I hadn't put them away.
My God we are so polite; it's sickening!
no subject
But I understand we understand each other.
Mr. Bennet feels oppressed by your Bennetts.
Also I am pretty sure I like Lizzie better than Lizzy, but that doesn't make it right.
no subject
This and your idea about multiple choice fanfics reminds me of a book thing I read/played last year which was a Jane Austen choose your own adventure book. It was fun, but predictable. There was an amusing running commentary that would make snarky comments about your choices, and you were Lizzy but it let you drift throughout all the Austen books, so you could, say, take on Emma's role and potentially end up with Mr Knightley (but I was holding out for Darcy). My only issue with it was if you chose to do something that was totally opposite to what happened in the original stories, you would more often than not instantly die or suffer some unpredictable fate that would cause you to be unmarriable for life.
no subject
no subject