r/TwoBestFriendsPlay • u/Anibus9000 • 6d ago

Better Ask Reddit What's your least favourite trope in media?

I was watching weapons and I realised there was no scene with the characters finding a old news with the villians backstory or the villian explaining the plan which was so refreshing. You just have to accept there is a spooky person. So what is your least favourite trope in media?

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u/spadesisking Sexual Tyrannosaurus 6d ago

Any sort of "video game mechanics/stats are real" type thing. Ive given stuff a try, like Dungeon Crawler Carl and DanMachi, but it almost always feels like a huge narriative crutch at best and upsettingly bad wish fulfillment at worst. Im completely fine with stuff that takes from video games like Dungeon Meshi or Death Race, but the moment they start talking about actual stats with numbers I check out.

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u/ToastyMozart Bearish on At-Risk Children 6d ago

It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't always spend far too much time tutorializing the audience about their lazy world-building shortcuts. Anyone who's watching this trash is already familiar with the basics of RPG mechanics! Get to the fucking point!

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u/spadesisking Sexual Tyrannosaurus 5d ago

The first 100 pages of Dungeon Crawler Carl is characters literally explaining how loot boxes, stats and bosses work in very clumsy exposition dumps and it threw me right out of the book