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Ludonarrative Dissonance, does EVE have it?

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Skill Training Online
Doomheim
#1 - 2013-09-17 00:55:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Skill Training Online
Ludonarrative Dissonance, is the concept where the storyline is the polar opposite of the gameplay experience.


In EVE we are told that we are building a new world, when in reality I feel we are just doing lots of copypasta of existing assets and blowing everything else up.

If I make 10 spaghetti and meatball sandwiches did I really build a new world or did I just fill the existing world with duplicates of the same carb laden snack?

So there you go, a big word... and a question.


Are you making EVE better or are you just filling it with 100 drakes for the sake of having another 100 drakes?

Thank You Obama!
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#2 - 2013-09-17 01:07:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Kaarous Aldurald
I see someone has a Word-A-Day calendar.

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

Best Meltdown Ever.
Michael Ruckert
Hohere Kavallerie-Kommando
#3 - 2013-09-17 01:11:28 UTC
I feel a dissonance in the Force.

"No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy." - Laurence Olivier
Barzai Mekhar
True Confusion
#4 - 2013-09-17 01:20:53 UTC
Came expecting tears and nonsensical argument.
Left hungy, craving meatball sandwich.


If one were to ignore the obvious troll, one could argue that the changing landscape of alliances and coalitions that EvE has is indeed a strong indication of "a new world being build", in a conquistadorian, "let's kill the natives and bring them smallpox" kind of way. However, as one has been told that arguing in third person is indicative of a troubled mind, one refrains from doing so.
Poison Alice
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2013-09-17 02:01:55 UTC
only thing i understand here is meatball, sandwich and spaghetti, yay Lol
Baggo Hammers
#6 - 2013-09-17 02:02:09 UTC
I feel so thick and ordinary....

If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.
Dersk
Perkone
Caldari State
#7 - 2013-09-17 02:02:36 UTC
Skill Training Online wrote:
Are you making EVE better or are you just filling it with 100 drakes for the sake of having another 100 drakes?


Eve's purpose is to have fun. 100 drakes is more fun than 0 drakes. Unless lag.
Barzai Mekhar
True Confusion
#8 - 2013-09-17 02:23:09 UTC
Dersk wrote:
Skill Training Online wrote:
Are you making EVE better or are you just filling it with 100 drakes for the sake of having another 100 drakes?


Eve's purpose is to have fun. 100 drakes is more fun than 0 drakes. Unless lag.


But what is better - 100 drakes or 100 meatball sandwiches?
Aiwha
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#9 - 2013-09-17 02:27:04 UTC
Barzai Mekhar wrote:
Dersk wrote:
Skill Training Online wrote:
Are you making EVE better or are you just filling it with 100 drakes for the sake of having another 100 drakes?


Eve's purpose is to have fun. 100 drakes is more fun than 0 drakes. Unless lag.


But what is better - 100 drakes or 100 meatball sandwiches?



Are the drakes wrecks?

Sanity is fun leaving the body.
Leigh Akiga
Kuhri Innovations
#10 - 2013-09-17 02:33:58 UTC
Michael Ruckert wrote:
I feel a dissonance in my pants.

Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#11 - 2013-09-17 02:45:28 UTC  |  Edited by: Mara Rinn
The ludonarrative is the story built by the players.

The world we are building in EVE is the real one of friends & enemies, not the fake one of military hardware and ammunition.

The embedded narrative involves torture methods, means of extracting the expertise for capsuleer implants, backstory about super weapons and super villains, and conflict between the empires kept in check only by conspiracy at the very highest levels of power.

There is no dissonance, unless you believe that the world that we are building is represented by attributes in the game.

TL;DR: the spaghetti and meatball sandwiches are the props for a stage play, the world we are building is the script.

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Felicity Love
Doomheim
#12 - 2013-09-17 02:55:58 UTC  |  Edited by: Felicity Love
Nawwwwwwwww, 100 isn't enough. Twisted

And while we're tossing out big words... embrace your inner funtyoonerspism. Shocked

"EVE is dying." -- The Four Forum Trolls of the Apocalypse.   ( Pick four, any four. They all smell.  )
Eugene Kerner
TunDraGon
Goonswarm Federation
#13 - 2013-09-17 06:42:34 UTC
http://i.imgur.com/Iwy5N.gif

AND

http://i.imgur.com/ocezc.gif

TunDraGon is recruiting! "Also, your boobs [:o] "   CCP Eterne, 2012 "When in doubt...make a diȼk joke." Robin Williams - RIP
Grimpak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2013-09-17 06:44:58 UTC
Skill Training Online wrote:
Ludonarrative Dissonance, is the concept where the storyline is the polar opposite of the gameplay experience.


In EVE we are told that we are building a new world, when in reality I feel we are just doing lots of copypasta of existing assets and blowing everything else up.

If I make 10 spaghetti and meatball sandwiches did I really build a new world or did I just fill the existing world with duplicates of the same carb laden snack?

So there you go, a big word... and a question.


Are you making EVE better or are you just filling it with 100 drakes for the sake of having another 100 drakes?

by blowing the crap out of everyone and blasting the **** out of everything, we create a new world.

progress through chaos!

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Schmata Bastanold
In Boobiez We Trust
#15 - 2013-09-17 06:47:13 UTC
Meatball launchers!

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Skill Training Online
Doomheim
#16 - 2013-09-17 20:35:38 UTC
Schmata Bastanold wrote:
Meatball launchers!


I don't even know what this would look like...

Thank You Obama!
baltec1
Bat Country
The Initiative.
#17 - 2013-09-17 20:40:54 UTC
Skill Training Online wrote:
Schmata Bastanold wrote:
Meatball launchers!


I don't even know what this would look like...


When in doubt turn to Japan.
voetius
Grundrisse
#18 - 2013-09-17 20:47:34 UTC

Ludonarrative Dissonance ... why do I get the feeling that this expression was made up by some overpaid academic who has never had a toasted meatball sandwich in their life?
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#19 - 2013-09-17 21:01:19 UTC
I think I'm suffering cognitive dissonance after reading this thread.

Mr Epeen Cool
ISD Cura Ursus
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#20 - 2013-09-18 03:12:25 UTC  |  Edited by: ISD Cura Ursus
All hail the Flying Spaghetti Monster!

Obviously the OP was touched by his noodly appendage.


OP: Of course we are. This is a game. We are not immortal, and we do not live in the backstory, but we make up our own stories. Like that one time I fell into a black hole. True story.

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Lieutenant Commander

Community Communication Liaisons (CCLs)

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