Talk:Purple prose: Difference between revisions

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I find it interesting that of all the IF games created, only two could be found as an example of purple prose. Surely you can do better. Aurora 18:28, 7 October 2007 (PDT)

I guess you mean "we" can do better. Well, here are some other games that have been mentioned on r*if as having purple prose: The Ritual of Purification, Pentari, Enter the Dark, Pathfinder, Where Evil Dwells. Probably any Rybread Celsius game. I'm not adding any right now, because I'd rather get more of a consensus. -- cendare 18:54, 7 October 2007 (PDT)

1) This is an age-old phenomenon. The original Adventure and Zork II were prime examples. 2) No, I really did mean "you" (generic plural).

Aurora 04:44, 8 October 2007 (PDT)

I agree that the Examples section of this page is far from satisfying! I also understand that being listed as one of only two typical examples of bad writing may seem insulting to the authors of these games.

Anyway, I'm not sure an Examples section is a good idea here; I suspect a consensus is almost impossible, because it's so subjective. "Some have claimed that the following games contain purple prose": "Some"? Maybe (but who, by the way?), but maybe others have claimed they didn't. (And did they talk about the entire games, or just excerpts?)

This R*IF thread: Prose style in 'Losing Your Grip' is a good example of different tastes about prose. Other links: Emily Short - SPAG Specifics of The Act of Misdirection; Here, someone accuses an excerpt from Metamorphoses of purple prose. I guess Kallisti could be seen as an extreme case of purple prose, although it was intentional. --Eriorg 03:30, 9 October 2007 (PDT)

I'm not the best person to talk about this, maybe, since I wrote a review specifying some of the prose in Aurora's game as purple! Maybe we could find some prose from non-IF that is generally considered purple (like "a dark and stormy night") and either link to or quote from that? Or, as you sort of imply, we could drop the examples altogether. --cendare 06:03, 9 October 2007 (PDT)

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 :Anyway, I'm not sure an Examples section is a good idea here; I suspect a consensus is almost impossible, because it's so subjective. ''"Some have claimed that the following games contain purple prose"'': "Some"? Maybe (but who, by the way?), but maybe others have claimed they didn't. (And did they talk about the entire games, or just excerpts?)
 :This R*IF thread: [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.int-fiction/browse_thread/thread/0ed580eb4103c3c9 Prose style in 'Losing Your Grip'] is a good example of different tastes about prose. Other links: [http://sparkynet.com/spag/backissues/SPAG36 Emily Short - SPAG Specifics of The Act of Misdirection]; [http://www.geocities.com/risor_iracundus/writing.html Here, someone accuses an excerpt from Metamorphoses of purple prose]. I guess ''[[Kallisti]]'' could be seen as an extreme case of purple prose, although it was intentional. --[[User:Eriorg|Eriorg]] 03:30, 9 October 2007 (PDT)
+::I'm not the best person to talk about this, maybe, since I wrote a review specifying some of the prose in [[User:Aurora|Aurora's]] game as purple!  Maybe we could find some prose from non-IF that is generally considered purple (like "a dark and stormy night") and either link to or quote from that?  Or, as you sort of imply, we could drop the examples altogether. --[[User:Cendare|cendare]] 06:03, 9 October 2007 (PDT)