>Having game mechanics in your isekai is bad because....>because...>WELL IT JUST IS OK?
>>284710387It's bad because it's lazy. Good fantasy works tend to put thought into worldbuilding, like attempting to explain how things function. Going 'it's like games' is just laziness and makes the world seem shallow and also often not make sense. Unironically go read/ watch more books/ shows with better writing to broaden your perspectives so you stop saying dumb shit like making retarded reductive strawmen arguments.
>>284710387Not bad by itself, but I really don't want to read >fight goblin>+12423 exp>ill allocate them to these skills with long ahh names i'll use once or twiceskip them and go straight to the fights or the girls or literally anything else
It's trite garbage.
>>284710486>ahhkill yourself too, gen A faggot
Don't use Maki to shitpost.
>>284710387Video game mechanics are meant to be abstractions, not taken literally.Imagine if the Pokemon anime had stats and levels in it. It'd be stupid.
>>284710387Because it's really stupid and out of place 99% of the time, that's whyI don't want to read bullshit that's included just because the author saw someone else doing it
>>284710387Imagine if series set in the real world were written like that>This new shirt gives me +5 cool points>I just leveled up my social link with the transfer student and unlocked a new ability>I'll spend my saved ability points and unlock a new dodgeball ultimate move>This cursed baseball bat gives +20 STR but -20 int so no one uses it, but with my cheat ability 'curse reverse' I can use it without suffering any negative consequences >I'm about to level up and you look like just enough xp
>>284710387The problem is that the majority of it is written by people who clearly haven't played enough RPGs. Just look at all the slop that has the healer or support mage get banished.
>>284710447>>284710486>>284710496>I-It's just bad>>284710853Pokemon should have stats in it. Like 99% of the battles are bullshit without them>>284711060Literally nothing wrong with this
>>284711657>Pokemon should have stats in it. Like 99% of the battles are bullshit without themIt shouldn't, because in-universe, Pokemon are supposed to be living creatures, not 1s and 0s. This isn't Yu-Gi-Oh where it's a card game with set rules
>>284710387is painful in No-isekai anime, if he population talk about "Skills" and "Skills of 1-star to 5-stars"
>>284710387shut up maki, you owe me sex
>>284710853>Imagine if the Pokemon anime had stats and levels in it. It'd be stupid.If it did, I would still watch the anime. But they don't because the anime is just meant to get kids into the franchise.
>>284713371It'd be stupid because the appeal of the anime is showing what Pokemon battles would be like "in real life", not limited by the game mechanics. That was an even a plot point in an early episode with that academy where they played a simulator that was like the games, but the "real" battles played out completely differently from the simulator
>>284713454It's gets old fast. I used to religiously watch the anime as it aired as a kid, but I slowly lost enthusiasm with the series and stopped after diamond and pearl arc. In recent years, however watching people do hardcore nuzlocke has made me interested in the series again. The numbers and calcs are the most interesting thing to watch.
>>284710939>watch game animu>umm, actually the game is out of place
>>284710496/thread
>>284710387Stories like that are nothing but "let's play"s in a different format. Author is just telling about a game they played
>>284710387>it's lazy>it's unoriginal>it's uncreative>it's boringpick your poison my dear faggot
As a romcom fag, I think really it's not just about laziness and uncreativity that makes most isekais and game mechanics very dull. Love stories don't really re-invent the wheel either.Video game mechanics and getting isekai'd is a storytelling vehicle. 'Aha, it works like that, that's familiar to me' but they have no inherit entertainment value. Having the protagonist be a refrigerator this time really adds no value either. There's an infinite number of ways to tell a story about making friends, making yourself a place in a society, climbing up the social ladder, achieving goals and finding love. Isekai adds nothing but unnecessary world building to make you feel like those themes aren't something (You) should strive for irl and be worried about
>>284710387It makes the world building impossible to believe. What the fuck is a skill or exp? Is it a magical process? Is it natural? Why did this come about? Why would evolution ever do this? Is it god? If so, why? Suspension of disbelief falls apart and I stop believing the world and the characters.
>>284715997To be fair, I feel there is a huge difference in the genre. The core of romcon is, well, comedy and romance. Both are very universal human ideas. You don't really need to do anything else, you just need to do it well. Isekai is, explicitly, about interesting people going to interesting worlds. If there is nothing to explore and nothing to discover, then what is even the point of anything? >Inb4 the actual point of Isekai is wish fullfiment. If I look at wish fullfiment that actually appeals to me, I think of something like Command and Conquer or Star Trek. I really don't see how either one benefits from including video game logic to the world, including the one that is literally a video game.
Yes its badAnother question?
