Snowflake Challenge # 5

[olivermoss]

In your own space, promote a canon/talk about a part of canon that you love. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

This is a toughie. My canons are either well known by anyone reading this, or too niche or are video games.

Leverage:

I'll start with the super obvious. Leverage is amazing. One of the best things about reccing Leverage is that the show can absolutely be judged on it pilot, provided you watch to the end. Most genre shows need time to hit it's stride. Leverage is an easy recc because you never have to say 'just get through the first season' or anything like that. It's well written, shippy and lots of fun.

And a new season is coming, so right now is a great time to jump in!

Horror games:

If you want reccs, ask! There are a lot of good horror games right now, but some of the best are still in early access. It's hard to recc games like World of Horror that are great, but the price is dear for the current amount of content. Phasmaphobia is great if you are up for co-op games. Oxenfree is gorgeous and have great level design.

So, yeah, if you like horror, games or otherwise, just ask for reccs and I'll do my best.

That is all I can think of right now. I might one-off recc posts here and there because I've realized people do like knowing what others in fandom are watching and knowing what reccs people in their circle have.

Comments

[paulamcg]

Thank you for your recs! You've been lucky, as this little mod doesn't know even Leverage and is happy to learn that it's so amazing from the very beginning! ♥

[olivermoss]

You're welcome!

[mekare]

I keep hearing how great Leverage is, it is def on my to watch list.

[olivermoss]

It's 12 episode seasons so it's not a huge time commitment, and it feels like it's a perennial fave in fandom.

And I love Christian Kane. He is a geek about fight scenes and did a lot of additional training for the show.

[kat_lair]

Leverage re-watch is on my 'when you need something feel good' list...

[olivermoss]

Yeah, it's a lot of fun :)

[littlelostcat]

Oh god, Leverage is just ... it's a beautiful constructed show. I remember the first time I watched it I didn't watch the pilot I just caught random episodes and I didn't *get*. But then I started it from the beginning and I enjoyed it, and then I *got* it. And then I became obsessed -- it has everything.

I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE REPRISE. And here's the thing, I trust Noah Wyle to step in. He's worked with the creators and writers on Librarians movies. I'm excited!

[olivermoss]

I am hopeful. Continuations aren't always great, but at least it'll revitalize fandom a bit and give us more Christian Kane fight scenes.

[littlelostcat]

This is very true -- I keep thinking of Arrested Development ana how it had lost some of its magic with the reboot. But I am hopeful.

And yes, give me Christian Kane. Elliot Spencer. Who doesn't like guns and has to use his guns to show that >:)

[tsuki_no_bara]

i hadn't thought about it but you're totally right about leverage. it's the rare show that's excellent from the beginning, and it stayed a really good show all the way to the finale. i'm excited for the reboot/new season/whatever it is. i'm very much looking forward to a return of the eliot and hardison show, for one thing. :D

[olivermoss]

Yes, very much looking forward to more Eliot and Hardison :)

[dreamersdare]

And a new season is coming, so right now is a great time to jump in!

Oh my god, really? That's the best news I've heard in months. I love Leverage; such well written characters and amazing team dynamics (all supplemented by fun stories and delightful antagonists). I agree, it's hard not to love right from the outset.

[olivermoss]

Yeah, I don't know when it's coming out but it was filming back in April. Haven't heard much since so I don't know when it's coming out.

[dreamersdare]

Awesome, something to look forward to in 2021, maybe!

[silveradept]

Leverage is an excellent show, and I am happy that there's a new set coming. Although John Rogers apparently said he had to be careful about writing it, or people might discover his AO3 username. Which is always excellent to know that the creators join the fans when things are done.

A lot of horror games that I come across seem to want to either be "let's cram as many jump scares as we can into the gameplay" or "we make it horror by the amount of blood and bodies that are involved!", and neither of those ideas really appeals to me. I startle badly, so I pretty well hate jump scares of all kinds, and I don't really want games where the characters are going to be killed in as many nasty ways as they can be on the screen. I'm not sure I really want to play horror games, because I'm iffy about playing games where the object is to scare me, too. Am I just out of luck in the horror genre? ("Yes" is a perfectly acceptable answer.)

[olivermoss]

Jump scares because people want to see pretty streamers scream had done a lot of damage to the horror game genre.

The current hotness in horror games is Phasmaphobia which can be played as a 'run around and scream, troll your friends' game or as a serious puzzler where you take risks to get more information. There is nothing in the game that I'd consider a jump scare, but the aim is to be scary. It's just much better done and no blood or decapitations. You might be out of luck if you don't want to get spooped yourself. I don't find a lot of horror games scary, though.

If you don't want to be scared by a horror game, what would you be looking for in a horror game?

[silveradept]

I think the kind of horror game I might be looking for is the kind of game where as you learn more about your situation and what happened or is happening, the full wrongness of what went on (or will be going on) unfolds and the character and player has to deal with the consequences of that new knowledge.

Like, I sort of think of Half-Life as a horror game, even thigh it has a semi do premise and shooter mechanics, because as the story unfolds, there's a lot more understanding of just how terrible things are and what lengths are being gone to to try and cover it all up. (It's also got some jump scares, too, but I don't remember there being too many of them?)

[olivermoss]

Have you looked at a trailer for Oxenfree? It's an indie game with really good art. That might be your sort of thing if you play indies at all.

[silveradept]

There wasn't anything in the trailers that looked super objectionable, so maybe something like that would be the right idea for me.

[olivermoss]

Hopefully!

I am trying a few more indie horror games soon that sound promising, but I haven't played them yet. Buying both The Witness and The Year Walk put me off of indie games for a while. I am slowly, carefully starting to try a few more.

[spikedluv]

I'm glad you started with the obvious so I can squee LEVERAGE!!!! So good. *g*

[olivermoss]

I can't wait for more :) I just hope it's good.

[marzipan77]

Oh, you are spot-on with Leverage. It is just right coming out of the box. That team, those gifts, that snark - I cannot wait to see what they're going to do in the upcoming season!!

[olivermoss]

Yes, I'm really looking forward to it!

[why_me_why_not]

Leverage is amazing and I'm so excited to get more of it! Parker, Eliot, and Hardison are such great characters with rich backstories. I also like that it's mostly nonsequential, so you can pretty much jump in to any episodes. And it's one that my teenagers both enjoyed with me (usually I have things with one or the other; it's rare to have something they both like), which is a bonus.

[olivermoss]

Yeah, they really are such well realized characters. Hopefully we'll have a release date soon!

[why_me_why_not]

I've seen a couple pics from set floating around, and they always make me smile!

[olivermoss]

Yeah, I am following most of the cast on twitter :)