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Zevin_Mars · Boot Joined: 14 Feb 2011 Posts: 17

Is slendy starting to become a dead horse?

MetaMike · Boot Joined: 11 Dec 2010 Posts: 53

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**Posted:** Tue Feb 15, 2011 8:12 pm

SolDL · Unfettered Joined: 21 Oct 2010 Posts: 545

Not necessarily, your final product just needs to be of a higher quality to push through the shite. I did start the Slender Review for that reason, though that project's kinda fallen by the wayside at the moment, because of other things I've been doing.

**Posted:** Tue Feb 15, 2011 8:14 pm

HunterEris · Unfettered Joined: 10 Feb 2011 Posts: 600

I don't think the "too many" is the problem. It's that they are all the same.

I'm crafting my own unique take on the story for my own ARG as we speak. See my recent thread and this thread.

**Posted:** Tue Feb 15, 2011 8:15 pm

ZorakRamone

Yes.

To beat the odds: Update regularly. A mediocre Slendy vlog is lightyears ahead of other really promising ones if it can keep people talking with regular updates.

Don't just do "more of the same". We get it, you saw Marble Hornets.

Don't take 5+ videos (and a month) to get to the point. You're wasting our time.

Figure out what your endgame is before you start. If you don't do this it'll show and a) be more of the same and b) wasting our time.

Don't throw pointless clues/symbols/ToTheArk updates at us. Please.

Have fun!

**Posted:** Tue Feb 15, 2011 8:40 pm

Ryuujin Dracos

I think it's more of a quality problem than a quantity problem not enough really good Slender Man related ARG's and the few good ones haven't been updated lately or at all really.

**Posted:** Wed Feb 16, 2011 12:43 am

Hombre Delgadas

Lots of Slendy blogs cause HE MAKE MOVE NOW

**Posted:** Wed Feb 16, 2011 1:23 am

awakeasaurusrex · Entrenched Joined: 12 Oct 2010 Posts: 1099

Slendy, in the wrong hands, was a dead horse from the start. In the right hands he's got a lot of life in him still.

The basic problem is that there are too many blogs whose plot can be boiled down to "slendy stalks someone, weird shit happens", without any real structure or story or endgame plan beyond that. That's never been satisfying.

**Posted:** Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:30 am

konamouse

*cough*
Don't hurt the poor pony.

IMHO:
Blogs are NOT real ARGs. They are just chaotic fiction.

Sorry, but BORING!

A good ARG has puzzle elements that require a group collective mind to SOLVE to continue the story, to do something for the characters, to make something happen in their lives.

All I see in these are personal recollections or strange videos.

*yawn*

END RANT

**Posted:** Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:27 pm

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Ouroborus · Unfictologist Joined: 13 Jan 2008 Posts: 1352

Maybe in the blogs.

But we've seen him what..like twice in the big three this year for like a total of 5 seconds? I could stand to see him around more often

**Posted:** Thu Feb 17, 2011 12:03 am

Zevin_Mars · Boot Joined: 14 Feb 2011 Posts: 17

**Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 8:48 am

KamenZero · Entrenched Joined: 05 Sep 2010 Posts: 860

**Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 8:50 am

Gus23 · Boot Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 48

**Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 10:20 am

ZorakRamone

**Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 10:54 am

konamouse

**Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 10:58 am

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