[ SECRET POST #2695 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2695 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Stuff you've abandoned as your tastes changed

[ariakas]

Licensed genre fiction. I used to read the Forgotten Realms and Warhammer 40K novels, and while I'd still admit that there are a few rare gems, they're overwhelmingly awful. Well above Sturgeon's Law of 90% - more like 99%.

Oh and JRPGs, for the most part. And anime - though that's because anime's changed, not my tastes. I still like a lot of the older stuff.

Re: Stuff you've abandoned as your tastes changed

[dethtoll]

Oh, god, yeah, I'm done with licensed genre fiction. I'll still read every new Ciaphas Cain book, but that's about it.

I think what broke it for me was Stalker: Southern Comfort, which was beyond bad.

Re: Stuff you've abandoned as your tastes changed

[ariakas]

Ugggggggggggggh yeah I believe we've discussed how fork-in-the-eye abysmal the Stalker books were. I don't know if you've read the second one, but believe it or not - it's worse.

Re: Stuff you've abandoned as your tastes changed

[(Anonymous)]

Ditto.

I use to read all of the Star Trek novels and adored the Star Wars EU - but then I hit a whole bunch of them that were utter crap and, well, fanfic happened. Haven't gone back since.

Re: Stuff you've abandoned as your tastes changed

[(Anonymous)]

I used to love Star Wars when I was a kid, now I couldn't care less about it.

Re: Stuff you've abandoned as your tastes changed

[cushlamochree]

Licensed genre fiction is really bad but I still enjoy it, partly for nostalgia, partly because I still like the things I liked about it when I was a kid.

It's like the Kraft mac and cheese of books

Re: Stuff you've abandoned as your tastes changed

[ill_omened]

I still need to catch up with the Halo books.

Couldn't really stand most other licenced fiction, but they were suprisingly decent on average (ignore the videogame adaptation and the other book by the same guy).

Like Mass Effect 3, Halo 4 sorta killed my interest in the series though. Will see if I can rekindle a little of that love.

Re: Stuff you've abandoned as your tastes changed

[ariakas]

I'd heard that about the Halo books, actually. I'm not all that into the universe because I've been PS from the start but I have friends on Xbone who recommended them highly.

I'm still surprised by how much the ending of ME3 has soured me on the rest of the series, especially since - as other people are quick to point out - the rest of it remains good. The whole thing is just... tarnished, somehow. I keep meaning to play the trilogy again but never get around to it because I know how it ends now. That no matter what I do, it will be shitty, and virtually identical to everything else.

Re: Stuff you've abandoned as your tastes changed

[ill_omened]

They actually paid out for some legit sci-fi authors like Greg Bear to do a few of them, which probably helped.

And yeah, Mass Effect is an interesting one. I'm not usually bothered by bad entries to a good series outside the obvious dissapointment, but the fact that the series had been sold so heavily on the idea of a triology with the personal journey of your hero effecting everything was really hurt by the finale.

It just made everything you'd done before ring less true.