Can't Fight the Homestuck

[mizi]

The Homestuck adventure game's kickstarter reached 1 mil last night. The kickstarter has only been up for a week, so that number seems pretty insane to me. I'm just wondering what you guys think of the crazy phenomena called Homestuck, would you buy the game when it comes out? Do you wish to stuff the whole fandom into a rocket and launch it into the sun? Is it - the best thing ever/interesting experiment/fills you with apathy/confusing as hell? Why is there so much love and hate for that webcomic?

Here's a link to the Homestuck webcomic for the curious
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/

I would post a link to a concise description of Homestuck, but I haven't been able to find a good one besides - "Four kids go on an adventure through a computer game to save the world in the framework of an old school adventure game."

 

[Keoul]

I think the homestuck fanbase is one of the richest, and most creative fanbase in the world.
Seriously the stuff they make is pretty damn impressive like the fake anime screen shots and the contributions they've made to the actual story.
Though some can be a bit dense :L like when one fan threw a real steel bucket at a cosplayer's head "Cause it happened in the comic lol"

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

I'm kinda a fan. I stopped reading midway though the Troll Arc and haven't gotten back into it yet.

On the other hand I DID cosplay Big Bro at Anime North this past summer.

Spoiler: It's nothing impressive at all, though.

YES, I know I botched the Sunglasses, alright?! XD

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

The Homestuck adventure game's kickstarter reached 1 mil last night. The kickstarter has only been up for a week, so that number seems pretty insane to me. I'm just wondering what you guys think of the crazy phenomena called Homestuck, would you buy the game when it comes out? Do you wish to stuff the whole fandom into a rocket and launch it into the sun? Is it - the best thing ever/interesting experiment/fills you with apathy/confusing as hell? Why is there so much love and hate for that webcomic?

Here's a link to the Homestuck webcomic for the curious
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/

I would post a link to a concise description of Homestuck, but I haven't been able to find a good one besides - "Four kids go on an adventure through a computer game to save the world in the framework of an old school adventure game."

Homestruck wasn't the first webcomic kickstarter to reach over a million.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/599092525/the-order-of-the-stick-reprint-drive

But all the more power to them!

 

[Imthatguy]

Ehhh.... I don't get Homestruck.

 

[Lunar Templar]

Ehhh.... I don't get Homestruck.

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what is home struck, and why is it getting a game 'important' o.o?

 

[Vuliev]

Ehhh.... I don't get Homestruck.

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what is home struck, and why is it getting a game 'important' o.o?

http://mspaintadventures.com/

Mind you, the homepage shows the most recent update to the story--a story that's been running for almost three years now. If you want to understand the whole story, you'll need to read it from the beginning, a feat that will take you weeks to achieve.


I find it funny that while I was the one that got a couple of now-die-hard Homestuck-fan friends into the series, I stopped around Act 2 or 3, when the story became this incredibly dense and knotted demon-tale from hell. The change of story delivery from short text snippets and rich artwork to massive, extremely-difficult-to-read text walls, is what turned me off.

IMO, Problem Sleuth is the better of the two--more fun, simply incongruous and head-bending as opposed to Homestuck's dense, convoluted, poorly-delivered mess.

 

[Texas Joker 52]

Well, Homestuck does have a pretty damn massive following. Its fans are legion, and a pretty large portion of them are rabid fans at that. There's cosplay, fan fiction, fanart, fankids and fantrolls.

Hell, I just finished making a sprite of my own fantroll:

Spoiler: I'm actually rather proud of it, despite my shittastic artistic skills.

So, really, it shouldn't come as any surprise to see it be so successful so quickly. And of course, with added 'reward paks and perks' for those that pledge certain amounts, its funding is only going to grow more in the, what, 24 days left as of me writing this very sentence?

Me, I'm just hoping the game itself isn't entirely linear or has a set cast. Oh, I'll likely play it and have a ton of fun regardless, but hell, I'd love to make my fantroll or fankid in the game itself. It would be awesome...

 

[Weaver]

I read some of it and I was really bored. I don't really understand its crazy following.

 

[LevROLL]

That does seem rather impressive. It seems almost nonsensical to have something amass so much money in such a sort timeframe. Then again, I'm sure more impressive feats have been accomplished. Probably. It seems pretty likely.

I am sort of a fan of Homestuck, though I've only been so fro maybe a month. Didn't stop me from reading five-thousand pages in the course of five days. If it wasn't for me having previously read Bob and George, I would probably have written the whole thing off because of all the time travel shenanigans. As it stands, I can't figure out which is worse... probably Bob and George. So far.

I've never done this before, but the captcha... thing was Sprite. I was told to describe it. The first thing to spring to mind was... The Quenchiest.