I guess it isn't a good idea to make it game-specific, but all the same, a lot of what makes a story so rich and stuff is context. It's not that I'm tempted to vote for things focusing on games that I know of only, it's that I don't trust myself to vote confidently...
I mean, it's not that only fics that I know of are well-written; I think Z's SWHN is really well written, but I can't keep reading it because I don't get it. I don't go in to the FF6 Fandom and try to read stuff even though it's really well written, because I won't get it. The same goes for challenges here; I read them because it's only fair that I should, but I don't get some of it either, and if I'm not going to understand the context in which "You spoony bard!" was made, or another scene similar to that where it really requires prior knowledge to understand, I'm most likely not going to vote for it.
Just imagine out of ten voters, eight of them have played FF10, whereas only three have played FF8, and some probably even dislike FF8. Never mind the well-written fic that is FF8, most likely people can't relate to the characters in FF8, whereas they can easily picture the characters in FF10, the setting, the dialogue, the interaction. Hence, the most "enjoyable" fic, would be FF10.
I haven't had trouble on voting for graphics, based on what looks pretty. It's just the fics that bug me, I guess.
Clearly I'm the only one who has this problem so that's fine, but those are my thoughts.
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I mean, it's not that only fics that I know of are well-written; I think Z's SWHN is really well written, but I can't keep reading it because I don't get it. I don't go in to the FF6 Fandom and try to read stuff even though it's really well written, because I won't get it. The same goes for challenges here; I read them because it's only fair that I should, but I don't get some of it either, and if I'm not going to understand the context in which "You spoony bard!" was made, or another scene similar to that where it really requires prior knowledge to understand, I'm most likely not going to vote for it.
Just imagine out of ten voters, eight of them have played FF10, whereas only three have played FF8, and some probably even dislike FF8. Never mind the well-written fic that is FF8, most likely people can't relate to the characters in FF8, whereas they can easily picture the characters in FF10, the setting, the dialogue, the interaction. Hence, the most "enjoyable" fic, would be FF10.
I haven't had trouble on voting for graphics, based on what looks pretty. It's just the fics that bug me, I guess.
Clearly I'm the only one who has this problem so that's fine, but those are my thoughts.