(06-18-2014, 02:38 PM)Dogberry Wrote: I bang on the fourth wall all the time. I've directly quoted Monkey Island in context while in character before. I know it breaks immersion for some, but it amuses me. I do this for a couple of reasons:
1. The actual Final Fantasy series does it A LOT. Seriously HOW many times has Square made Star Wars jokes in a Final Fantasy game? Biggs, Wedge, Celes' rescue, the main cast of FFXII... And that's only off the top of my head. The FF games play with the fourth wall a lot, so it's something I consider genre appropriate when RPing in a FF game.
Yep. There's a lot of in-jokes in FF games, even XIV.
I actually joke about keeping a score of how often L'yhta slips in IC-appropriate references to pop culture. Some examples include "Looks like we got here just in time! That makes us... big damn heroes!" and "This is the Stardust Rod, one of the most powerful rods in the world. It can blast a man's head clean off..." and "I can only show you the door; you have to walk through it." This works for her because the comments are entirely appropriate in timing and setting IC and because she's got a rather strange sense of humour. I don't generally do it in particularly serious or dark RP, but again, that's got a heavy IC component to it as well -- she's not going to quip when the chips are down and everyone needs to be serious.In terms of what the OP was describing, though, I usually do corrections in OOC, but sometimes I'll stick some fourth wall commentary in emotes when there's some limitation in the game that's getting in the way and where the comment would be amusing. For instance, just the other night, I was crafting in the FC house, but I wanted to be doing it at one of our tables. So, I emoted, "L'yhta Mahre is peering through a pair of magnifiers, making a very tiny adjustment on a nearly invisible golden wire, and she's doing that at the table, not at a portable grindstone on the floor." As an additional example, we have a pair of benches that we use for seating at our main table. However, because of how they're placed, it's easy to end up having to jump on the table and walk backwards to sit facing the table, or to end up repeatedly facing away from the table. This has led to emotes such as, "L'yhta Mahre drops onto the bench, notably not by leaping up and down on the table."
So, in the end, as long as the OOC fourth wall comments don't end up dominating the conversation (and therefore break immersion), I'm fine with it. IMO, there's a fine line between being silly and being distracting.
The IC stuff is, in my opinion, awesome as long as it doesn't end up feeling forced.
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