Talk:List of metafictional texts

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[edit] Categorizing by type of work

Shouldn't this be organized by type of work? I have started by adding Deathtrap and moving Rosencrantz and Guilderson are Dead" to a section title Stage Plays. wcf Facts are stubborn. Comments? 01:52, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Also, it might be a good idea distinguish between books with tangential metafictional elements and metafiction as a central theme.

Shouldn't Sartor Resartus qualify as metafictional ?

[edit] Video games

I'm removing the video games. I haven't seen the games in question, but the description linked doesn't make it clear why they would be considered metafictional. In a sense, any video game is metafictional--the player's experience of playing is crucial to the text--but I don't know how a video game could be specifically metafiction. Would that be, "A video game about playing a video game"? If there is support for the concept of metafictional video games, then perhaps there could be an article for metafictional video games. Thirdreel 01:34, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

-Metal Gear Solid 2 is probably the most famous example. With the story (which plays out more like a movie) the player is chastised for playing too long and the reality of the game falls apart. I do not know if many other games go as far to incorporate metafiction into the story.

-Star Ocean III is a game set in a world which, we happen to discover as the story unravels, comes out to be some kind of MMORPG universe, it's "real" counterpart lying somewhere else, behind some curtain (the main characters themselves are mere NPCs of this "game in a game"). In this real world, poor people are those who do not work, spending most of their days playing in this virtual universe while only a small minority is given the opportunity to work (this being considered a privilege). This clearly points to parallels with the player's actual situation.