I guess, similar to the uncomfortable feeling of not being able to like later characters in an archetype class, I get an uncomfortable feeling that I'm giving too much credit to knock-off characters-- that by lacking knowledge in early FE, I can't really praise any of the later games because I don't know what's what. In a sense, I feel as though any claim about a character, world, plot, etc. amounts to a claim about the Whole Series-- if not, then you can bet someone will take it that way. Again, it's not a strict progression from Platonic Ideal to dollar-store versions who wish they could be the original-- I get this theoretically. But when it's pointed out my first is not the first (even when it's not a discussion about archetypes), I definitely get a sense like I'm not justified in my preferences. Maybe it goes in the other direction, too? "Why am I obsessed over this 16-bit fool when some other guy came and did this schtick with a lot more text on the Gamecube?" kind of thing? In any case, I agree with wolt in that a constant battle between "first" and "better" is going to yield a lot less fruit than just accepting that nobody picks favorites based on some kind of pure, logical algorithm-- and that would make for just as boring a fandom as the purely-emotion-driven self-insert sector. But I have this gnawing feeling that I really need to just sit down and have the FE equivalent of a classic film marathon before I can really say anything else.
It's more like DNA combining and recombining.
That's a good way of putting it. For some reason there's a lot of like, violent language attributed to this recycling? IS can't loot from its own wares. Again, when you've got something like Zelda there's a certain comfort in the formula-- people accept similar elements as part of the overall world of the series. It sometimes seems like a lot of FE fans have a love/hate relationship with this recombination. But I think that comes back to it being a kind of battle among fans at times. You'll like it when it helps you win your arguments, and hate it when it seems to take your favorites down a peg. And people will react to the archetype system in that way as long as it's used for arguments.
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Date: 2013-04-27 06:50 pm (UTC)It's more like DNA combining and recombining.
That's a good way of putting it. For some reason there's a lot of like, violent language attributed to this recycling? IS can't loot from its own wares. Again, when you've got something like Zelda there's a certain comfort in the formula-- people accept similar elements as part of the overall world of the series. It sometimes seems like a lot of FE fans have a love/hate relationship with this recombination. But I think that comes back to it being a kind of battle among fans at times. You'll like it when it helps you win your arguments, and hate it when it seems to take your favorites down a peg. And people will react to the archetype system in that way as long as it's used for arguments.