/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4879879
Why do people constantly confuse camp (which is an intentional comedic approach from writers and actors who know they're being absurd but play it straight) with garden-variety incompetence (which can be hilarious but not on purpose).

The Adam West Batman series was campy. When Adam West whips out bat-shark repellent or does the Batusi without giving away the joke, it's not because he didn't get the joke, it's because him not acknowledging it's funny makes it more funny. He's deadly serious in character but he knows it's a joke.

The naked gun is campy. When Leslie Nielsen says "don't call me shirley" he knows it's a pun. He gets the joke. His character doesn't, and that makes it funnier, but he gets the joke.

When Barry calls Jill "the master of unlocking" the writers are completely serious, because they were not good at writing dialogue and probably didn't even notice how awkward it sounded because they were hastily trying to translate from japanese. And the voice actor is completely serious because he wasn't thinking about it very hard and just read what they put in front of him with whatever inflection the scene called for. They don't get the joke because it wasn't a joke. They were serious, they were just so bad at being serious it became accidentally funny. And incompetence is not ironic, it's just funny in the same way a guy accidentally getting hit in the balls is funny. You can laugh at it, but don't give the creators credit for being genre. I doubt the guys who wrote the game even knew camp was a thing.

>>4813427
>VIII is shit

VII is 3rd best after VII and VI, if for no other reason than the ability to eliminate random battles completely and level up by playing cards instead and only fighting boss battles. It's the comfiest way to play any FF game.