User blog comment:Blarble Blornets/Cliches and Cleeshays/@comment-25021327-20141207153345

I pretty much agree with the theme of this post. When reading and reviewing I try to be as lenient as I can with judging clichés, tropes, themes, etc. It's sort of a tricky subject, expecially since so many stories, and so much content has already been covered in Gaming Pastas, and frankly, in the fiction genre as a whole.

I try to read things with as open a mind as possible. A lot of things that now seem overused would geniunely be disturbing if they happened to us in real life. Blood and guts should be upsetting, a game calling us by our name should be upsetting, having a nightmare based upon a strange gaming experience should be upsetting...

It's a shame because so many stories on this Wiki are by no means bad, but they have a hard time standing out from the rest of the pastas around. A lot of newer writers honestly dont know that what they are writing has already been done to death. They are not being lazy, they honestly think that their pasta is pretty original.

So I agree that there should be some leniency with reading stories that have clichés (or cleeshays) as, with a little shift of perspecive from the reader, they may still contain good elements, and genuine scares. Sometimes it is obvious that the writer has put little effort into a piece, or simply rewrote another gaming pasta to suit a game that they enjoy, or are more familiar with.

And it's true as you say, I often think about this, that few people want to read a story in which the narrator plays a game, strange things begin to happen, so the narrator just turns it off and doesn;t play anymore. The End.

Anyway... I'm rambling. I agree with most of what was touched upon in this post :)