Poll: Cliches... need they be stopped?

[Gerazzi]

I played plenty of videogames to know some basic cliches.
But seriously I'd like to know if the Escapist Community is as sick of them as I am.
Gamers don't seem to deter from videogames because of this though.
So I ask the question as to whether or not you want to kill all cliches.

I do, and I'd do it twice if possible... while wearing a helmet just to spite the cliche gods.

Please post your thoughts and explain your answers.
Mine is that anything repeated to a noxious degree must die.

 

[NeutralDrow]

Absolutely not.

I refuse to endorse an idea to get rid of cliches until gamers as a whole decide to stop defining cliches as "things I don't like, that appear in more than one game." Since this runs contrary to the nature of the internet and any non-troper residents, I feel confident in saying that "cliches" are here to stay, and I couldn't be happier.

 

[Zamn]

What exactly are you talking about? An example of one of these clichés maybe?

 

[Curtmiester]

Nooooooooo. Cliché used properly can be funny.

 

[Zhalath]

I'd like cliches that harm ideas or the game to be removed (I have a personal vendetta against fanservice).

 

[randommaster]

Abooga-dabooga-dedadboogadaboo!!!!

I disagree with your argument, white wine is horrible with oysters.

If you hot rid of cliches, then new ones would pop up because they are defined by their use, not their content.

 

[JRCB]

I'm fine with them. Sure, sometimes you groan when you hear them, but whatever.

 

[ActualOvaltine]

Cliches or so commonplace, they are a cliche all their own...

 

[GuerrillaClock]

Absolutely not.

I refuse to endorse an idea to get rid of cliches until gamers as a whole decide to stop defining cliches as "things I don't like, that appear in more than one game." Since this runs contrary to the nature of the internet and any non-troper residents, I feel confident in saying that "cliches" are here to stay, and I couldn't be happier.

Wow, a whole thread ended in the first response. Pretty much my thoughts, word for word.

 

[-Seraph-]

The way people on here complain, everything is a cliche. There is nothing wrong with cliches, it's how they are implemented that define how good or bad they work in the game/story. Cliche's are fundamental aspects that are the basic framework of almost everything. So don;t complain unless they are poorly implemented.

 

[A random person]

Absolutely not.

I refuse to endorse an idea to get rid of cliches until gamers as a whole decide to stop defining cliches as "things I don't like, that appear in more than one game." Since this runs contrary to the nature of the internet and any non-troper residents, I feel confident in saying that "cliches" are here to stay, and I couldn't be happier.

Congratulations, you just won (bonus points for the troper thing). Do you have anything to say to the camera?

Also, as for things that actually are cliches and not simply tropes, no. We'd lose something to make fun of. Some of them might be essential to making an otherwise good game, movie, or whatever.

 

[PureBredGentleman]

I played plenty of videogames to know some basic cliches.
But seriously I'd like to know if the Escapist Community is as sick of them as I am.
Gamers don't seem to deter from videogames because of this though.
So I ask the question as to whether or not you want to kill all cliches.

I do, and I'd do it twice if possible... while wearing a helmet just to spite the cliche gods.

Please post your thoughts and explain your answers.
Mine is that anything repeated to a noxious degree must die.

Yes they do. Yes they do INDEED. *Cough* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFPReLQSt8k

*Cough cough*

 

[blaze96]

no because cliches are used in pretty much every game. If you ban cliches, most plots go out the window regardless of quality, characters start having just strange flaws, and most locations die out very quickly.

 

[Time Travelling Toaster]

Some of them, some still make me laugh though.

 

[TheMercenary]

You will always have and will always need cliches.

A cliche tells you history and provides platforms to work off of. Not to mention, some of the best ideas are just cliches mixed together in innovative ways.

 

[FluffX]

I'd hate cliches, but it's too cliche.

 

[NeutralMunchHotel]

Just remember: chiches die, TV Tropes dies.

 

[Jonny The Kay]

I don't think they're going to stop regardless.