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[LOCKED] [OT] Let's have ANOTHER rage thread!
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Flyleaf(IntoTheMist)Wolfi
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pravado wrote:
Philosopher Xu wrote:
Not rage. Waxing indifference at this point. I am not curious about MH anymore, its drifted from a great series to some kind of Scooby-Doo mystery where the bad guy will get his mask pulled off at the end after a chase through the forest.


actually, this is pretty accurate for me too.

then leave

PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 9:06 pm
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Themagikarpevolution
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 		Rage at how I'm no longer paranoid of being alone in the dark as I was at the beginning of the series. Now I don't have to look closely at every tree to know there is no Operator peeping out, I can walk by and know that if he's coming after me he's just gonna be standing there in the wide open.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 10:45 pm
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pravado
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Flyleaf(IntoTheMist)Wolfi wrote:
pravado wrote:
Philosopher Xu wrote:
Not rage. Waxing indifference at this point. I am not curious about MH anymore, its drifted from a great series to some kind of Scooby-Doo mystery where the bad guy will get his mask pulled off at the end after a chase through the forest.


actually, this is pretty accurate for me too.

then leave


if you want i can start bitching in main threads again specifically to annoy you

i don't think you want that though, so get out of the thread meant for this kind of stuff

PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 1:44 am
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pravado
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 		essentially i watch this series for the horror aspect, but stay for the story. if you try and focus too much on the story and not enough on the horror, it deteriorates from it's main focus. the fact that the operator feels like he's long gone doesn't help. even though he showed up in entry 60, the gaps between entries is what makes it feel like he's not there anymore (entry 60 was uploaded what, 40+ days ago?) . the fact that he isn't bothering jay or tim, the fact that he isn't even being mentioned in dialogue for more than a split second if he is even mentioned at all, are things they need to address. it feels at this point like the operator's moved on and we're just finding out about how he affected a poor soul or two before he moved on. it feels like totheark is more malevolent than the operator, which shouldn't be the case if totheark is going to be the one to help them stop him.

and i know big op is obviously still around. if they can't figure out how to get the operator to look real and move, then that 's on them. i want the horror aspect to come back to the series before i can claim that i'm satisfied. memory loss isn't a creepy thing to me anymore since it happens so often.

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paladin181
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pravado wrote:
essentially i watch this series for the horror aspect, but stay for the story. if you try and focus too much on the story and not enough on the horror, it deteriorates from it's main focus. the fact that the operator feels like he's long gone doesn't help. even though he showed up in entry 60, the gaps between entries is what makes it feel like he's not there anymore (entry 60 was uploaded what, 40+ days ago?) . the fact that he isn't bothering jay or tim, the fact that he isn't even being mentioned in dialogue for more than a split second if he is even mentioned at all, are things they need to address. it feels at this point like the operator's moved on and we're just finding out about how he affected a poor soul or two before he moved on. it feels like totheark is more malevolent than the operator, which shouldn't be the case if totheark is going to be the one to help them stop him.

and i know big op is obviously still around. if they can't figure out how to get the operator to look real and move, then that 's on them. i want the horror aspect to come back to the series before i can claim that i'm satisfied. memory loss isn't a creepy thing to me anymore since it happens so often.
This could also be their plan, to phase out the operator and leave TTA in its wake. Not that I think this is the case or feel like it's what is actually happening, or even SHOULD happen, but it's another possibility.

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mattastic
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pravado wrote:
if they can't figure out how to get the operator to look real and move, then that 's on them. i want the horror aspect to come back to the series before i can claim that i'm satisfied. memory loss isn't a creepy thing to me anymore since it happens so often.


Having the operator be mobile is an awful idea. With its awkward proportions, it'd just look goofy. Have you ever seen a newborn horse try to walk?

Also, if you're going to make something based on evoking a single emotional response (in this case horror), it is going to be a completely one-dimensional and boring experience. Seriously, if they kept trying to drum up scares, how long would it be before the operator goes from terrifying otherwordly stalker to where's waldo in a suit?

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Geneaux486
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mattastic wrote:
pravado wrote:
if they can't figure out how to get the operator to look real and move, then that 's on them. i want the horror aspect to come back to the series before i can claim that i'm satisfied. memory loss isn't a creepy thing to me anymore since it happens so often.


Having the operator be mobile is an awful idea. With its awkward proportions, it'd just look goofy. Have you ever seen a newborn horse try to walk?

Also, if you're going to make something based on evoking a single emotional response (in this case horror), it is going to be a completely one-dimensional and boring experience. Seriously, if they kept trying to drum up scares, how long would it be before the operator goes from terrifying otherwordly stalker to where's waldo in a suit?


Agreed, the Operator already moves as much as it should.

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fezstudios
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 		#REAG at people calling masky/hoody a Creepypasta. I love me some pastas, but...seriously people?

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Xman
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Philosopher Xu wrote:
Not rage. Waxing indifference at this point. I am not curious about MH anymore, its drifted from a great series to some kind of Scooby-Doo mystery where the bad guy will get his mask pulled off at the end after a chase through the forest.

I sort of agree with this. I'm still gonna watch every entry in a heartbeat, but that Scooby-Doo comparison is spot on.

I'm not really liking what Troy is doing currently. Just with Entry #62 and the tweet afterwards. Like it just doesn't make sense why the "e" was lowercase in that tweet. Was that a mistake or something? And then he just tweets 3 days later that him and Tim are okay. Those two things just don't flow right for the story in my opinion.

I really hope it's all going to come together.

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Ikekudeyg
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 		Found an old camera with some tapes... there is nothing on them and the camera is broken... I am raging internally. never mind it works but still nothing on the tapes.

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pravado
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mattastic wrote:
pravado wrote:
if they can't figure out how to get the operator to look real and move, then that 's on them. i want the horror aspect to come back to the series before i can claim that i'm satisfied. memory loss isn't a creepy thing to me anymore since it happens so often.


Having the operator be mobile is an awful idea. With its awkward proportions, it'd just look goofy. Have you ever seen a newborn horse try to walk?

Also, if you're going to make something based on evoking a single emotional response (in this case horror), it is going to be a completely one-dimensional and boring experience. Seriously, if they kept trying to drum up scares, how long would it be before the operator goes from terrifying otherwordly stalker to where's waldo in a suit?


nobody's saying the story goes kaput if they bring horror back. i'm just saying it doesn't feel like a horror series anymore. the operator was mobile in entry 14 and return and he looked awesome. also in entry 40 he moved somewhat and it looked good. him staying still and reappearing behind them just doesn't do it for me. i'm not saying we have to see his legs move, just saying he should be mobile rather than just standing there.

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twistedpuppet
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 		Sometimes you need mundane parts in any horror flick to fool you into a false sense of security so that when the scares come, they have an actual impact.

Remember the tunnel entry? We hadn't had a proper operator scare in quite a few entries and then suddenly BAM!!! Oh Hai Operator ohjeezohfuckgottagetawaynow!

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Magyk
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 		Less raeg about the substance, and more raeg about the quantity pls.

WHERE IS MY NEXT ENTRY TROSEPH!!?!?!

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KTsteve
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DaturaStramonium wrote:
Philosopher Xu wrote:
I am not curious about MH anymore, its drifted from a great series to some kind of Scooby-Doo mystery where the bad guy will get his mask pulled off at the end after a chase through the forest.


While I'm not at this point, I am gaining disappointment with each new entry added, mainly because my expectations are so high. I still believe that they have been building the plot up to a pinnacle of which will soon be reached and, hopefully, the series will regain some much needed active action and vitality.


Honestly, the problem isn't that the series is moving slow, it's just releasing slow causing you to think it's slow. If you watch the series back to back it's fine, weekly/bi-weekly it was fine. However, 3+ weeks an entry makes it seem like the story is not moving forward at all. If you look at the entries time wise, we've only had an hour worth of video for season 3.

20 minutes was an intro (meeting tim getting tapes) another 20 was background (watching said tapes), whatever jay and tim going to the annex was, game changing twist (Tim confronting jay), 10 suspense and scare (traveling into the tunnel), and then 20 minutes of climax building (Tim going masky/jay finding him) That's a pretty legit pacing if you look at it as a whole. Knowing marble hornets they'll probably drag out the climax building for a long time, which isn't necessarily bad, then there will be a huge climax where everything gets resolved.

All my RAEG however to the excessive release times messing it all up.

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pravado
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twistedpuppet wrote:
Sometimes you need mundane parts in any horror flick to fool you into a false sense of security so that when the scares come, they have an actual impact.

Remember the tunnel entry? We hadn't had a proper operator scare in quite a few entries and then suddenly BAM!!! Oh Hai Operator ohjeezohfuckgottagetawaynow!


again, i'm not saying the story itself is irrelevant. i'm just saying they could use with more horror.

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