Why can't books have multiple endings like how video games can have multiple endings?
>>25221919What are you trying to say here, plotfag?
They can. LotR has like 5.
they can. It's called a choose your own adventure.
>>25221922Actually it's called gamebooks. CYOA is a genericization.
>>25221923Choose Your Own Adventure was a specific series of books by R. A. Montgomery.
>>25221919because that's retarded
So, does anyone want to just dump modern CYOA's?Cause 2120 by George Wylesol was pretty fun.
>>25221919I think you should stick to picture books.
They can, dear boy
>>25221923>>25221930Any good ones? The goosebump ones were dissapointing even as a young kid.
>>25221919too many pages
>>25221919Because the majority of the book's worth isn't what you read but what you meditate on. So, in a way, you craft the ending.
it's an interesting question. for me the question is: if a book did have multiple endings and said 'you choose!', why would it somehow feel more claustrophobic and closed-down than the usual linear, choiceless form? or would it not feel that way? to me i think it would. there's an openness in good endings, not only the openness of speculating how things may continue, of sorting through your emotions and thinking about why you care how they continue, but also of looking back over the book you've just read and seeing it all as, in some mysterious way, leading up to that ending, ads if secret compartments have now opened up to you. idk. much to think about.>>25222115sounds right.
Are there any legitimately good CYOAs?
>>25222066Yeah, the Fighting Fantasy series. It integrates puzzels and aspects od D&D gameplay.
>>25222126If you want open ended you choose try lois Lowry, I fucking hate them all. I want a definite conclusion whether I agree or not. Choose your ending is just lady and the tiger bullshit.
>>25222128No because the genre is for kids, well except that one about Atlantis were Atlantis is like on pages 115 & 116 but no page in the book tells you to turn there. That shit was wildin.
>>25222191Thanks
>>25222288more info? what happens?
>>25221919cortazar, shklovsky... its out there you just gotta look
Might I recommend R.L. Stine?
>>25221919>Why can't books have multiple endings like Many reasons. Even in computer games they are only half-baked, in the best case.I'm lovin' this thread though
>>25221919quality over quantity not repeating yourself
>>25223684surely literature multiple endings could be more in depth than video game endings, considering you don't have to generate a ton of assets to make more endings to a book?
>>25221919Don't they though? You need to get out of plotfaggotry and then infinite endings open up.
>>25223804it's probably not an issue of assets as those come cheap nowadays, like from china or indiabut the writing (and programming it) grows exponentially with the number of meaningful choices you have available, especially if it's not just an epilogue or last few minutes of gameplayalso absolves the director and/or writer(s) of a lot of responsibility... quantity over qualityas you can see, I consider the same issues reflected in writing too: 3 meaningful choices already push the needed pages almost five-fold (1+1+1 vs. 2+4+8) and that implying that they are all binary choices... but we don't even need to go there, it's enough to ask ourselves: would you prefer a 40 page ending or 3 pieces of 20 page endings (implying one meaningful choice with 3 options)I'm obviously overthinking it but who knows, somebody is really interested and is not only here for conversation... I once started making a branching-choice story and 3 layers in it already was waaaaay too complicated to write and keep track of... and I'm talking something really simple, like (X happens, would you do option 1, 2)
>>25221919I mean I guess they can through equivocal endings
These are pretty good
>>25221919you might like robert anton Wilson's schrodinger's cat trilogy. three different histories of the eighties.
>>25221919The French Lieutenant's Woman
>>25223988quite an irony because that dude seems to me one of the "totally convinced" ones
