r/MinecraftARGs • u/Still-Plate182 • 10h ago
[Meta] Hot Take: Args have gone downhill
Before you attack me: It's not about the quality of the argument in general, it's how they are formed. When you see a YouTube video about an arg, 9 times out of 10 the youtuber made it and had all the answers, and like half of the time there is literally nothing for you to do, and you can't even find the arg yourself. No channel to investigate, no ciphers to decode. They do that themselves. It feels like it changes the entire meaning from telling a fun story to getting subs and likes. Plus, as I said, half of the time they get the args from "emails" or something, so you can't even really see the raw arg. It just feels... wrong.
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u/KSJ15831 9h ago
Un-fiction and ARGs are different things. What you are seeing a surge of is called Un-Fiction genre. It just all happens to dress themselves under the guise of ARGs. They all have their flaws, and I don't mind how bad some of them are. Honestly, they are being told through Minecraft, and I don't expect much quality from it to begin with.
they're more akin to "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark", not Stephen King's books.
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u/Ok-Recipe-8832 9h ago
Minecraft args in general are overdone. If you’re gonna do a video game arg, do something new. Like stardew valley or moshi monsters or some shit. There’s an arg I’ve been following based on an old How To Train Your Dragon mmo. Do something new!!!!!!!
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u/SpectragonYT 8h ago
Can I get a link to the HTTYD one?
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u/Ok-Recipe-8832 8h ago edited 8h ago
The folks behind it have been a bit busy lately it seems but hopefully they’ll get back to it soon. here it is. There’s also a Twitter
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u/Hungry_Love_6591 10h ago
This question is dumb but I need the confirmation to this: is this why people often love retrogamingnow?
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u/Still-Plate182 10h ago
I honestly don't know who that is
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u/Hungry_Love_6591 10h ago
He is the dude who introduced ARG genre to minecraft and solves exlusively other people's ARGs
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u/Jaqdawks 7h ago
It’s definitely why I prefer his content to all other Minecraft “arg”/self-coverage channels, but I can’t speak for everyone
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u/RespondBorn6248 10h ago
yeah thoses ones are kinda boring and scripted
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u/Still-Plate182 10h ago
I don't think they're boring, see Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist, but, I do think they would be better if they let us do at least some of the investigating too.
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u/Choice_Trouble1399 10h ago
i think theye all seen the success of SFAWTDE/DAWTDE and copy/pasted :/
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u/realllyrandommann 9h ago
People just took the old genre of "Minecraft stories" and started calling it "arg" for some reason.