Crimson Echoes

[Kim]

The vast majority of fan art is terrible. There is some really good fan art, but most is terrible. There are really good fanfics (probably) but most of it is terrible. However, I'm generally nicer to those and don't go out of my way to diss on them because that stuff doesn't really have a hype period. You are experiencing it now.

Fan games, apart from being much easier to fuck up, always have to release a lot of hype building stuff, like the Youtube video of the "totally awesome fan game" I mentioned before. When you see art or a story, you are able to judge it then and there, and it is more readily apparent whether it is good or bad. Fan games you can't always tell based on a Youtube vid, and yet people get pulled into the hype of how wonderfully splendiforous it's going to be simply because it's based on something they liked. They have no way of knowing if it'll be any good, like they would with fan art or a fanfic someone posted online, but without any reason other than the source material they jump to the conclusion that it will be. This is why I said I would care less if people were more critical of fan games prior to release or if the people making them had released something original beforehand for me to judge.

Also also, with fan art or a fan story you're using less of someone else's work than you are with a romhack.