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Not really worried about any of those things.

Most of the stories I've looked at simply died off due to time constraints and lack of free time. So the ideas are good, just couldn't be completed.

I picking up stories off of people I know fairly well, so synergy between ideas isn't so much of a problem. Not to mention I can always ask them what they think about it. And then, once the story is adopted, it's no longer the original person's work. *shrug* The problem most people have in terms of this is trying to pick up random works they followed off of random people they don't know.

And really... I wouldn't exactly say fanfiction.net is the best place for quality fanfiction in the first place. There are good works, sure, but they're in the minority.

Oooh, looks interesting just from the art. I hope you have fun writing it, and get on well!

But if I might widen the perspective, I'm worry about adopted stories in general. I trust you to get it right and to break the mould, as it were, so please don't feel that these apply to you, but random ff.net author #9933434 doesn't get that trust or consideration. A little list of pitfalls and reasons:

1) Why did it abandoned in the first place? If it was such a good idea, what stopped the original author carrying it out? If they got bored, that's probably not a good sign. If they've reconsidered the quality of the idea, that's a problem too. Even just not having time can be indicative of a difficulty - ideas churned out by someone who's constantly leaping from one project to the next can be of a lower quality.

2) Why is someone picking it up? Most authors have their own ideas - that's why they're writing to begin with. What's gone wrong with them such that they've ended up using someone else's layout? Are they perhaps unsuited to writing in the first place?

3) The clash between the original author and the adopter. Sometimes you'll find that the original author has come up with ideas that the the adopter doesn't like. Throwing them out can damage the story as a whole. A clash of visions in general is very likely to throw a story out of whack. There's also the potential problem that, the adopter not having come up with the idea itself, they're less invested in it. That may lead to abandonment (again) or a lowered standard.

4) Personal experience - I have never read a story which proclaimed that it was adopted and which was both good and complete. Never.

I'm just sad they're going more towards the horrid comic redisgn of her. I like the Harley of old: Girl Next Door Cute. I do not like Goth Clown Slut Harley.

Fan-tas-tic! One can never brutalize Harley too much, I always say.

I bought both Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City during my buying splurges on Steam, and they've been "Games on my list to play" during this summer once I am free from my current job.

Looking forward to that as well as a few others.

There was some gameplay footage on TV, but I haven't seen any on the net yet.

It was basically explaining how Robin's gameplay differed from Batman's. Like how "he not afraid to fight dirty" and how he can use his shield to get past environmental hazards and deflect enemy bullets.

Damn, what a teaser trailer. I guess in a week or 2 we get the trailer that shows snippets of gameplay?

I'm glad I waited before starting my New Game Plus run of Arkham City, I can complete this before going for it.

Reminds me of this song, for some reason.



...That band is seriously underrated.

Oh god, another RP idea? Don't do it and when you do save me a spot.

In total agreement. I'm not sure why they're calling it DMC when they've basically made a new character. There's plenty of clones out there and Capcom can still back it without slapping on a big-name series skin on it.

Bayonetta didn't need to be called Devil May Cry, and it was more Devil May Cry than 4 was.

Meh.

*sigh* I'm gonna ignore that.

They'll never call it anything else. It's called Marketing, Sei.

I didn't look through the thread. I went on youtube, saw it, and just blogged my thoughts. Not a big deal. :/

Sei, I already posted the video in that thread. Did you even notice or were you just lazy? ._.U

Meh. My personal view is play it and if I like it I like it.

Also...Is the trailer name a Reference to the OST from DMC 1?

And I swear someone here starts fanwanking or debating I'm going to stab them...

Heaven's Cage, however, is getting back into the groove. :P

Nah, you don't need mod regulation for slow posters, because we just know who the slow posters are anyways and quietly shun them. :3

Well, people failing to post regularly is not exactly uncommon in an RP. As I recall, Heaven's Gate had a substantial number of people who were slow to post.

As for "regulation" of the RP (in that sense, anyway), surely that's up to the GM. If they think people are being too slow, then they can impose "consequences" accordingly. It shouldn't be up to the mods to deal with such things. Also, sometimes it's not plausible to simply "remove" people from the RP, and certainly not to replace them (Heaven's Gate was an example of that).

You're also forgetting the problem of people playing important characters just totally up and disappearing. Fate/Heaven's Gate kind of couldn't progress, in multiple ways, due to a certain poster's utter, stubborn inability to actually get their character's actions in, which sucked.

Perhaps some regulation of RPs is in order, in the sense of "sign up only if you think you'll be able to get this in on a timely manner," with consequences if you don't, up to and including removal from the RP (especially if there's someone who wants to take over the role) if that's what it takes.

@Five
I'll post.

Once you update. :P

@Leo
I agree with you, for the most part.

Dual GMing, to me, is problematic because, in most cases, you end up with a person with a lot of "power" who isn't really involved in the making of the work itself. I've seen a decent number of RPs spiral downwards because of GMs getting bored and/or abusing this power to entertain themselves or "add something" to the work. :/

Now, I don't think it's a bad thing, but I think the respective GMs need to have a lot of compatibility in order to work together effectively. Otherwise you'll end up with conflicts of interests or a respectful GM who's basically just a buffed player.

And of course posting speeds will always be a problem, but you can't make people do anything. Not unless you want to antagonize them anyways.