Books that would be impossible to adapt into games
Maybe not impossible but unless you make it into a soulslike where you actually fight giants and shit I don’t see what you could do with it
>>724556575>tfw no scalping minigame
Truly impossible.
>>724556852>>724556974But..... these..... have been made...... into games........
>lit/fags when no one goes to their dead subreddit
>>724557526Could be a typing tutor game. Like typing of the dead
>>724556575>apache village stealth mission
>>724556575>read book>play game vaguely in its genre or theme and think of the book>be playing a game of a bookIts that easy. The old cut-up method.https://youtu.be/3dymsKE_N3A?si=blIkcYwFvaPfYR92
>>724557717?
>>724557845Sleeping Dogs
>>724557526
>>724557526Scrabble exists
>>724557526Wordle
>>724557526scribblenauts
>>724557430where's the don quixote game?
And then the old man farted and sharted amongst the crowd for the poultry had been made sour amongst his innards wafting the disagreeable odor into the mass the prevailing wind of ill omen. Faced darkened, not the least as darkened as the last spark of joy was extinguished. Wasn’t fore long rowdy laughs turned into silent accusations, a live crowd into a dead one, it’s as if it’s ever been here, that familiar phrase was apt enough.
>>724558080this is genuinely what illiterate retards see when they open a book without pictures in it
>>724557430needs a couple spanish words. just put the word "hacienda" in there somewhere. 7/10
>>724558253Cormac’s pulp
>>724556575This would be easier to make into a game than a movie.>>724558080>punctuationNice try, retard.
>>724558287meant to reply to>>724558080
>>724558001https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2H22Q3NNfc
>>724557889?
>>724558534He does punctuate though looking back the last 3 commas probably wouldn’t be there
>>724558632American Truck Simulator
>>724556575I've been playing as him in Hunt: Showdown since I got the skin.
>>724558865You are really stumping me.
>>724559046Mario paint
>>724558596>inspired by black soulsShan't be playing.
>>724559127I'm gonna keep trying
>>724558660I just opened to a random page and theres a total of 4 commas on both pages.
DUDE BOOKS LMAO
>>724559773Touhou
>>724559535do grown men seriously read shit like this?
Obligatory Bakkerpost
>>724556852>soulslike>fight giantsSoulslikes are terrible for giant enemy fights. Poking somethings ankles while pressing the iframes button any time it has a spaz attack is boring.
>>724560017grown men love reading good books aye
>>724558080not enough niggers
>>724560053whats the inchoroi thing?
>>724560208EvE online already exists.
>>724556575
>>724560131I'm sorry anon but just dumping 50 different story lines at once is not enough to be considered good.
>>724559946shit you're right
>>724560259in the books?Ancient sex aliens who fucked around so hard they're Damned by God for all eternity, and dedicated their entire lives to staving off death for long enough to avoid an afterlife of eternal torture in hellTechnomagical body modification has turned them into giant man-faced bat-dragon things with big cocks and pheromones that turn even the straightest of men gay for their unholy hogsIt's a good read
>>724560563That sounds dumb and retarded
>>724560563Oh it looked like a dude having his head bitten by another thing. It isn't 2 dudes?
>>724556575new vegas bounties did this already
>>724560457didn't happenread his friend's books
>>724560670They've got a lizard face and inside the lizard face is a human face>>724560645no u
>>724559773>>724559946>>724560484>the whole point is how there's nothing but retarded things everywhere, and the only thing you need to know is how to dodge these things, the rest of your actions and knowledge contribute virtually nothingYep, accurate.
Nice thread and all but what about some games you couldn't make into games
>>724560017its worldbuilding slop not even stitched together properly because the author cant come up with overarching narrative or good characters. Like lovecraft's short stories and novellas but those actually have a common theme
>>724560278Shit, you're right
>>724560832An Opus Magnum-like
>>724560053Is this the fantasy author obsessed with gay rape or is that someone else?
>>724556575Why is this the only book consistently mentioned here. Maybe Trevor was right.
>>724559563there are games that tell the story of your peoples' plight on the train tracks as well, Sanjeet
>>724560053What book? The Second Apocalypse
>>724561304No, that's the one70% of our PoV characters in the series are either raped, rapists, or bothIt's one of the best things I've ever readNo homo
>>724561472there's a youtube video essay about it
The virgin >>724558080 vs the chadAh, blood meridian, Monsieur? That novel is the sark and chaparral of literature, the filament whereon rode the remuda of highbrow, corraled out of some destitute hacienda upon the arroyo, quirting and splurting with main and with pyrolatrous coagulate of lobated grandiloquence. Our eyes rode over the pages, monsieur, of that slatribed azotea like argonauts of suttee, juzgados of swole, bights and systoles of walleyed and tyrolean and carbolic and tectite and scurvid and querent and creosote and scapular malpais and shellalagh. We scalped, monsieur, the gantlet of its esker and led our naked bodies into the rebozos of its mennonite and siliceous fauna, wallowing in the jasper and the carnelian like archimandrites, teamsters, combers of cassinette scoria, centroids of holothurian chancre, with pizzles of enfiladed indigo panic grass in the saltbush of our vigas, true commodores of the written page, rebuses, monsieur, we were the mygale spiders too and the devonian and debouched pulque that settled on the frizzen studebakers, listening the wolves howling in the desert while we saw the judge rise out of a thicket of corbelled arches, whinstone, cairn, cholla, lemurs, femurs, leantos, moonblanched nacre, uncottered fistulas of groaning osnaburg and kelp, isomers of fluepipe and halms awap of griddle, guisado, piloncillo.
>>724561607Why is tanned man sad?
>>724560053>>724561607Where do I start?
>>724557467/threadsome faggot also spams this on /tv/
>>724561727>no mention of recursion and spark/light imagery Nah
>>724558632death stranding
Not sure how you'd adapt it
>>724559535I read 10,000 pages of this shit and the only good book was Deadhouse Gates. You spend 1,000 pages of each book with OCs bumbling around and hope they run into each other in the chaotic shitfuck climax. That's how each book works, and some characters don't actually do anything for like 3,000 pages. Anomander Rake and Kallor are cool though.
>>724559535I read the first book. It was interesting. Can totally be made into a game, something like Baldur's Gate/Dragon Age: Origins, except you have a party of 8-or-so members, with 8 or more that are interchangable (due to personal quests, or need to guard/infiltrate/recover from injury/trade/etc).It would be a good game if done right.
Anything can be adapted if you aren't beholden to shareholders and w*men.
>>724562194TRVTHNVKE
>>724560457NTA. How hard can it be to track a bunch of different storylines in the book? Or everything needs to be one and super-railroaded because people who "read" have low attention span and dont remember what is it that they have read just the previous day?
>>724561996Cross of something between Spelunky anf Darkest Dungeon. You set up a basecamp at the foot of the door and send expeditions inside, to find loot and fight minotaurs and such.
>>724560017>>724561024I thought it was a good series, probably one of my top among Book of the New Sun and Hyperion/Fall of Hyperion. Couldn't care less about the spin-offs and books by the other author though. What do you edgy tryhards suggest? I need a new series to read.>inb4 DuneThat was straight garbage, I'd rather read Twilight.
>>724560682Yup. And it did it quite nicely too.
>>724562313Have you tried reading Dune while also being heterosexual?
>>724562313Do you mind a little YA? Garth Nix's sabriel has a unique world and twist on the necromancer
>>724556575I've done worse shit in Rimworld.
>>724562313>one of my top among Book of the New Sun and Hyperion/Fall of HyperionGood man.>That was straight garbageHave no opinion on that because i've yet to read it (its right there on my table ffs, just cannot bring myself to read it).
This is the only genuinely impossible one.
>>724560563I thought it was theor touch which made people cum, it's kind of OP if they can do that through pheromones
Mogged by ZETTEL'S TRAUM tbqhwydesu
>>724561996this would unironically be a huge hit since everybody seems to be in love with SCP and "Liminal Space" horror stuff these daysPeople would be all over it. 4 hour gay analysis from YouTubers without real jobs
>>724562380What do you like about Dune so much? The prose itself is mediocre. The main ideas of manipulating cultures ahead of time is interesting but lost on the audience and even the author at times.>>724561996Speaking of books for homosexuals and women. Obviously, it would be a Wii game with all the gimmicks possible. Maybe he would have actually gotten to do his 20 books for The Familiar if more than reddit cared for his gimmick.
>>724562273>600+ characters>a bunchever heard of quality over quantity? KEK malazan fanboys when Lazeem Ryzzlordrass shows up 5 books later
>>724562758>>724562657
>>724562657>Finnegans Wake
>>724556852Such a shitty design for the cover, and I don't mean art.
>>724561996This is one with metafiction and living house?
>>724562967>>724562657Tell me about this book. I was planning on reading it
This couldn't be adapted but for a completely different reason these days
>>724560416>HP Lovecraft's Warrior CatsWhat a fucking gay book.
>>724561812The Darkness That Comes Before, the first book in the Prince of Nothing trilogyThat trilogy has a sequel series called the Aspect Emperor tetrologyFirst series is a political thriller, in much the same way Game of Thrones is a fantasy version of the War of the Roses, Prince of Nothing is a fantasy version of the Crusades, in a way>>724561796Because he's a sad profligate who doesn't understand that Truth Shines
>>724563068less "stream-of-consciousness" and more "stream-of-dreams". equally captivating and incomprehensible. would recommend reading ulysses first (and portrait)
>>724563068It's literally a stroke simulator.
>>724562657>wakeSo Finnegan died and his family and people he knew or who knew him are mourning? And its a retelling of his life by those who knew him?
>>724563126The cats show up for like one chapter.
>>724562313Foundryside.
>>724563208Accidentally put a pic of Latro in the Mist because I meant to do a post about it lelLatro would be a role playing game where your dialogue options assume you have no idea what's going on day to day.
>>724562889>annihilationAnything to do with a recent movie of the same title?
>>72456292560 characters/book is not that bad. A good chunk of them is great too. Some exist so that he could simply deliver a theme since he has a lot of things to talk about
>>724563208what's wrong with that? it makes perfect sense to me. it just flows in a way of someone's thought rather than a structured and intentional waythat's pretty cool actually. maybe i should read it
>>724563091Recceter
>"Sorry kid, but we just can't stop this raid until you've raped 5 apaches, come back when you've done this."
>>724563427I responded to my post above because I got distracted making a post about a different book. Finnegans Wake is completely unreadable.
>>724563427that excerpt is not from finnegans wakethis is (picking at random):I Knew I'd Got it in Me so Thit settles That, Thonderbalt CaptainSmeth and La Belle Sauvage Pocahonteuse, Way for Wet WeekWelikin's Douchka Marianne, The Last of the Fingallians, It WasMe Egged Him on to the Stork Exchange and Lent my DutifulFace to His Customs, Chee Chee Cheels on their China Miction,Pickedmeup Peters, Lumptytumtumpty had a Big Fall, PimpimpPimpimp, Measly Ventures of Two Lice and the Fall of Fruit,The Fokes Family Interior, If my Spreadeagles Wasn't so TightI'd Loosen my Cursits on that Bunch of Maggiestraps, AlloloshaPopofetts and Howke Cotchme Eye, Seen Aples and Thin Dyed,i big U to Beleaves from Love and Mother, Fine's Fault was noFelon, Exat Delvin Renter Life, The Flash that Flies from Vuggy'sEyes has Set Me Hair On Fire, His is the House that Malt Made,Divine Views from Back to the Front, Abe to Sare Stood IcykNeuter till Brahm Taulked Him Common Sex, A Nibble at EveWill That Bowal Relieve, Allfor Guineas, Sounds and Compliments
>>724562925>KEK>strawmanPlease fuck off you drooling retard. You can barely keep track of 1 character - yourself. Thank you for proving me right on the point.
>working at an extra credit thing for a class, off-campus>fat girl comes up>starts talking it up a bit>turns out she goes to my uni, and is also there for extra credit, lower my guard>"what are you studying anon">"double major Computer Science / English or Philosophy, I have to decide soon">she lights up a bit>”wow I love english!">”yeah kinda clicked later on for me, I spend all my time in the library now">she starts looking a bit intimidated>I smell a pleb who doesn't spend 8 hours a day reading and writing like I do>”who are your favorite authors?">"hmm"... I look off into the distance with that Joyce look of "man I hate niggers and Jesuits">she starts trembling, expecting something "patrician" like vonnegut>”I have recently reread the entirety of Joyce's works, though I am reading Finnegans Wake a few pages a day supplemented by multiple essaybooks, annotations, and my current studies of latin, greek, and gaeilge. I am a huge fan of William Gaddis, especially The Recognitions. Nathan Hawthorne is my 19th century man, though. All of these guys are on the 7th floor of the library, though I have to go down to the 6th to get french literature, Milton, Shakespeare, etc. Also, Brion Gysin is pretty-">she is basically about to cry>she starts undressing and while she's fat honestly I'd hit it, maybe even in front of everyone>she's straddling the table, there's a metal bar sticking out and she's just stuffing it inside of her, about to commit sudoku the ladylike way from my sheer power of libraryness>"I'm almost finished Proust in the original--">she is squirting and fondling herself, reciting a pleb poem by TS Eliot or some shit>"-- and I can read the entire Bible, New and Old testaments, in the original.">she explodes into a million pieces>de chunks in de hayloft>make a note of the event and get back to analyzing Whoroscope by Beckett translated half into Swahili and half into proto-Cuneiformic Irish
>>724563468Reccetear is about running a successful business, not scamming investors in a string of pump and dump schemes.
>>724563358the movie was based on the bookKind ofIt was based on what the director remembered from reading the book years agoSo it's adapted from the parts he remembered, with stuff he made up to fill in the gaps from what he rememberedI'd hate it more if he didn't do a pretty good job with the movie, it's an interesting enough way to do it to where both versions of the story are pretty good, and different enough that both are worth going through
>>724562857>What do you like about Dune so muchThe scale of the setting is small, but without compromising the fantastical nature of it. The central conflict is believable. Truly alien concepts are worked in slowly, which made me read as much to see how Arrakis functions as to see what becomes of Paul. Speaking of which - a ton of thought was put into Arrakis by way of its history, climate, and cultures. Herbert's stilted prose, possibly unintentionally, adds a sort of Biblical air to everything; you could almost imagine you're reading text that's been translated from a different language. This fits well with one of the central themes of the story, which is a deconstruction of messianic archetypes and of the Platonic idea of the Philosopher Kings.You should approach it like you would Greek myth more than anything. Personally, I think the series peaks at God-Emperor of Dune.That said, try Between two Fires, Blindsight (this one's free online), and/or the Red Rising series.
>>724563345Was about to say… that’s not the wake
>>724563208>mgq thread derails
McCarthy would've been a legend if he committed to writing interesting westerns instead of getting carried away with his pseudery. As it stands the only thing that could get him to write one was turning it into anti-American polemic.
>>724563649Ok, so... Stalker or Atomfall.Its not that hard to adapt.Its just that i watched the movie recently and it was an interesting take, and it would totally work as a setting for a videogame like Stalker/Fallout/Atomfall.
>>724563618somehow i've never seen this pasta before
>>724557256Check out gate zero
>>724556575>Buy book>Don't read it lmao
>>724563234They are there for a while and return at the end to save the day.
>>724563575I’m trying James, I really am, all I know is that H.C.E is the reincarnation of Finnegan after the fall (Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk)
>>724556575>The final boss would be a bathroom encounter that results in you getting butt-raped to death.
>>724563803There really is no way looking at actual american history in honest manner without it being "anti-american" to the snowflakes.
>>724556575Disco Elysium but make it The Brothers Karamazov. It'd work perfectly.Blood Meridian could be a Rockstar game. RDR2 already has some of the beats. Get Tom Cruise to play Glanton and Woody Harrelson on stilts to mocap the Judge and you're set.Make an underwater exploration game based on The Temple by HP Lovecraft.
>>724563828the parts of Annihilation that were lost in adaptation is the zone they go into is also this cognitohazard, and through her internal dialogue you can see her slowly getting affected by whatever force is at work, which is is where most of the subtle horror elements come fromWhich would be hard to do in an adaptation into a non-literary medium
>>724563889No, Nodens saves the day at the end by waking Randolph up before he arrives at Azathoth's court.I don't remember the kitties being particularly prevalent but it has been a while
>>724563835>See qtπ girl reading Infinite Jest at college>Walk up to her>"So you like DFW huh?">"Yes, he's brilliant!" she responds, clearly excited>Decide to engage her in an intelligent literary discussion>"Did you know that he killed himself because he hadn't any talent?">"E-excuse me?" (she is clearly impressed by my expertise)>"He can't write, he can't think; there's no discernible talent">"Ooo-kay..." she says and turns back to her book>I tear it from her hands and launch it across the room with all my strength>"Why don't you read some real literature instead?">"What the hell!?">"I recommend Hemmingway. Now there's a man's man">"I don't like Hemingway!">"Hemmingway," I correct her. "It has two m's">She collects her book from where it lies three metres away and storms off, completely defeated by my insoluble logic>I open my laptop>That feel when no gfYeah I haven’t used /lit/ in a while since no one reads there anymore.
>>724564210/lit/ is the best its ever been. 40 threads on philosophy for pseuds is better than fiction for babies and if you disagree you're a hylic or something
>>724563602>can't articulate a single well written character out of 600>strawmanLMAO someone went to reddit school of debate. Try reading a good book
>>724564153So... hallucinations and warping of reality? Thats Stalker 2 at some points in the storyline. And Metro. So yeah, doable. Except the issue is: does the game need to be a story-heavy railroaded experience OR a more sandboxy-freeroam?
>>724563618If this is the type of pastas /lit/ puts out they are criminally underrated.
>>724562889Annihilation was alright but Authority is the worst book I've ever read
>>72455657599.9% Fiction literature is overrated pretentious shit. The remaining 0.1% is simply entertaining at best but pseuds love to think wasting their lives on that shit (which is basically an archaic form of vidya/movies) makes them very intelligent and distinguished. Prove me wrong.
>>724563803Why are you people always such little bitches? You're even more fragile than the left.
>>724564402>Try reading a good bookLike?
>>724563468I just meant no game studio would touch a project attached to Donald Trump because it would basically be career suicide in today's climate.
>>724558080Too much punctuation means a massive loss in needed pretentiousness.
>>724564115>Implying only America has a sordid historyYou know all things considered what the Americans did to build its empire compared to people like the Belgiums and the English, America was very tame and gentle handed.
>>724564462>"Are you looking for anything?">"Yes, please show me where you keep your Wallace">"Wallace? like David FOSTER Wallace? Whoa, cool, I thought you were gonna ask for that Steve Jobs biography or something. Yeah man, Infinite Jest's right over here.>She hands me a copy of Infinite Jest>her: "So you like Wallace huh, yeah me too, have you read Brief --">I hold up a single open hand while she is speaking, immediately silencing her, then turn to a random page in the book>I smile quietly to myself as I read the entire page, occasionally snorting cryptically>After finishing the page I close the book and hand it back to her, still smiling>Me: "He's terrible, isn't he? Absolutely awful. Put that book back and please show me your Joyce">She puts back Infinite Jest with an alarmed look on her face, then takes me to the Joyce section of the librairie>Her: "Joyce? Yeah I read part of Dubliners in my 400-level community college English class. Do you, uh, d-do you think he's good--">"Read this">I have shoved Finnegans Wake under her nose>"Out loud">her: "ba...babba......bababadgharf....bababagargrfap-->I rip the book out of her hands and stare directly into her eyes>me: "Completely wrong, it's bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoor-denenthurnuk. bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoor-denenthurnuk is portmanteau of various thunder-related words from languages all across the globe; in this context it represents Eve's tragic fall to Satan and the subsequent collapse of Eden. It is perhaps the single most important, emotive, and creative word ever spoken in the entire history of human speech, literally transcending language, and you cannot even read it.">I throw Finnegans Wake in her face and inform the store manager that he has hired an illiterate>I leave the store with a copy of Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception under my coat, unpaid for
>>724564369Fiction is mostly dreck, agreed, I still enjoy some prose and poetry though, as for philosophy… who gets discussed the most? Is it still Hegel?
>>724564803Nietzsche and Jordan Peterson
The greatest book of all time could never be adapted into a video game.
>>724564507intelligence is a spook; the most common perception of an "intelligent person" is just a guy whom knows a lot of big words and can speak them without stuttering much. you can teach most parrots to do this. we arbitrarily decided that reading big schmancy books that no one sane gives a fuck about make you a genuinely superior human being back when literacy was confined to the upper-class, and this perception has not been meaningfully challenged since. that said, if you can't even pass the bare-minimum bar of having a vocabulary that reaches beyond "glizzy," you are probably a dumbass, so it all kind of evens out
>>724564803Damn, people haven't progressed mentally since the 80s. Not one bit.
>>724564925>whom for whostopped reading here. kill yourself posthaste
>>724564786FUCKING FUNNYROO! Joyce, Blake, Shakespeare, Pound and Rabelais are the only good prose/poetry writers ever by the way.
>>724564741Honestly not really I agree with the other anon. Look at the very beginning. Only a few short years after the revolutionary army. Shay and whiskey rebellions. Founded on the same exact common war cry of “no taxation without representation”. They were former soldiers of the continental army who had fought against the British and were now being killed by the “brothers” they fought with. It’s some sick shit. A classic example of those who actually believe the message were first against the wall.
>>724564995its okay bro grammer can't hurt you
>>724564861>DFW Make like David and kill yourself
>>724564925>>724564995This is actually a good example of a bot talking to itself
>>724564925>t. low iq
>>72456497350s*
BLOOD MERIDIAN: A TELLTALE GAME
>>724564741Manifest destiny was a bunch of old world rejects roaming the wilderness, raping and cannibalizing everything they could catch like animals.
>>724565316Take your schizophrenia medicine NOW!!!
>>724557526There are dictionary programs, and others have been mentioned, but I'd also loke to put in Mario/Mavis Beacon/etc Teaches Typing, Typing of the Dead, and Crypmaster.
>>724564925>so it all kind of evens outStopped reading there
>>724565316>>724565347you can be salty that reading dostoyevsky got you no bitches, but you know i'm right. there's no meaningful metric by which you can consider a professor of literature more intelligent than your average car mechanic by virtue of their job alone, despite the former necessarily being better-read, more eloquent, and better-regarded by society at large. IQ tests only really measure how well you perform on IQ tests; they can tell you're retarded if you drool on the instrument and that you're probably good at other things if you're really good at manipulating it, and that's about it. you could accomplish the same thing with a rubik's cube.
>>724565306Nice opinion, did you get it from Sam Hyde?
>>724564507I agree. This is why I read philosophy exclusively (skim through 20 pages without understanding anything and never touch the PDF again)
>blood muhredditanSuttree is his one decent book, and it’s not even that good
>>724566140>reading dostoyevsky got you no bitchesYou could just read it beacause he's a good writer.>you can consider a professor of literature more intelligent than your average car mechanicMet few of the former, and quite a lot of the latter, anecdotal evidence suggests that car mechanics on average are more intelligent.
Any of you read mysteries? Apparently "And then there were none is solvable"
>>724566276I'm no intellectual, I just like a strong villain.
>>724566331I just read Ring, it was pretty good. Plenty different enough from the film adaptation to stay interesting.
Blud Meriddyahh book
>>724566331I like mysteries, but they are sometimes annoying as shit since their solution is entirely dependant on the author's whim. It's basically as hit and miss as point and click adventure games.
>>724566171>opinionWhere did I state an opinion? I merely suggested that you kill yourself.Oh yeah and New Sincerity is fucking gay.
>>724566331Yeah sure anon try Umineko that’s a good mystery! :)
>>724556575it's so funny how this became every meatheaded gym bro's favourite book because some youtuber told them to read it
>>724564210Unlike /v/ where no one plays?
>>724564786>I throw Finnegans Wake in her face and inform the store manager that he has hired an illiterateKEK
>>724566783Please don't do this. Save yourself
>>724567063Are there even any good mystery VNs?
I would like to see how a computer game would convey Kant’s doctrine of the synthetic and analytic unity of apperception from the Transcendental Analytic, the analytic I can see being easier considering it relies on subsuming properties of an object into yourself, but synthetic unity, that is, transcendental apperception, which is the combination of presentations given in thought alone to the “I”, so that the identical self knows that it is them thinking, would be quite a challenge to present to one’s eyes in the form of digital audiovisual media.
>>724559251Shadows of Doubt
>>724567208Yeah anon, Umineko! It’s better than any book mentioned in this thread (according to its fanbase)
>>724566783I like Umineko but Ryukushi is full of shot for implying it's solvable without Answer arc episodes
Give me a good fantasy book rec /v/
>>724566549Agatha Cristie's stuff follows rules for fair play mysteries for the most part
>>724567605It’s fun but fucking juvenile same as Higurashi and Rose Gun Days
>>724567624what kind of fantasy are you looking for
>>724567302Gemini explain
Kneel
>>724564407Not so much hallucinations, it's more overtly subtle, changing her perspective, desires, morality and outlook on things. How she refers to things and concepts, how she treats certain creatures or lives, that sort of thing.Though I'd say it'd be less possible to do a railroaded story experience, it'd be much more suited for free roam survival horror with a slow, unavoidable, hidden corruption timer that's impossible to avoid, once you've it it, it's game over and you have to start another game. Maybe you can leave a cache of your intel and equipment behind at certain spots, and then when you're too far gone it's game over and you can send in another agent and retrieve stuff from a previous game, though the map would have to shift between each iteration, maybe procedurally generated
>>724563575>>724563929trying to make sense of that really does feel like a dream
>>724567890Posting about this shit should be rewarded with a permban from /lit/. It's a cancer upon the board
>>724568429I bet some jap in the ps1 era would have found a way to make it, faithfully too and fun
>>724564507I'm a PhD scientist who's worked at top universities and I read fiction. I'm more intelligent than you are. If all you do is read philosophy, you aren't intelligent.
>>724556575I've killed the judge in New Vegas bounties and killed him again on that talking dog/gnome mod that was made recently.
>>724568429>>724568591Open World racing game with ambient spundtrack. Everytime you break a speed record or perform a new trick a passage from the book is narrated while you fly to next checkpoint and break your limit again. Game ends the same as book. Entire length is 4-6 hours max
>>724567735from YA-adult. You can genre of fantasy is acceptable like gothic,horror,high,low, etc
>>724566708you're a faggot
Lord of the Mysteries,it's impossible to translate the magical action to a gameplay systemand if it wasn't, it would be be horribly imbalanced>hurr durr, I stole your turn, powers, allies, inventory, quest journal, alt-clt-del button presses, OS and videocard>don't bother checking your irl bank account, save yourself the distress and just kys
>>724556575the simpsons: hit & run
>>724569748Pretty goodMaybe not exactly a race system but more of a free roaming like Tony Hawk (lel) but flying
>>724567736Imagine a red table, now consider its universal properties, in this case its “redness” and its “rectangularity” these two properties are not connected, but in the case of this singular object, they are. We must then synthesize the two properties in order to give ourselves a representation that is truly OURs, that is analytic unity, we need our self and identical self (the synthesis of the two properties) for the representations (the red rectangular table) to be in anyway meaningful to us, otherwise it is not ours,Synthetic unity goes further, in the sense that there is no object of experience in question, purely a priori thought, we need to recognise that we are a thinking being that we refer to ourselves as “I” for us to conjure any judgement or simply understanding “I think”. With the combination of the manifold (see his table of judgements and categories for more on this) being the representation that follows the “I think”. Well, imagine a game studio implementing this visually into a game, how can one visualise something that exists in a different faculty than the one sensibility belongs to?Does that clear it up for you? I’m thinking about this while I type so it’s an exercise for me too.
>>724560861I miss when PS1 demakes seemed like they might start becoming a thing
>>724562647>(its right there on my table ffs, just cannot bring myself to read it).It took me over a decade from buying a copy to actually reading Dune. It was mediocre as fuck. Your body is probably just rejecting it preemptively to save your time. >>724563685Have you read Wolfe's Book of the New Sun? It's basically everything you just said but actually good. I'll check out your recommendations despite disagreeing on Dune.
>>724560416>unknown cat ass
The best I could come up with is a combination of Obra Dinn and KidPix, where you can just freely move around predefined settings, characters, and events and eventually just accepts a random one as the correct series of events.
>>724563685Is DUNC just Star Wars for big boys?
>>724567302Something like Talos Principle.
>>724571992Not that anon but no, maybe the prequel fanfics made by Herbert's son which are still fun reads, the originals are almost 100% political intrigue with some drops of sci-fi action mixed
>>724567968Good concept. I think that Prey (Typhon) Moonfall has something like that - you have like 6 characters and each can do certain things, and you can make path with one or another for other chars. I have not yet played it, but i like the concept.
>>724571992ehi always thought of it as sci-fi's LOTR
>>724566042basedspace travel will be fun
>>724560017Brandon Sanderson's dialogue and prose makes a Marvel fan blush
>>724567890Boohoo existing is pain, kill yourself then. You South African charlatan
>>724572086That has nothing to do with transcendental idealism though…
>>724571992It's closer to high art than it is pop fiction, but Herbert was genuinely kind of a shite writer on a technical level, so you don't really tend to get that impression while reading it. He gets better as the series goes on, and he gets more comfortable expressing his insane ideas.
>>724564210>>"I don't like Hemingway!">>"Hemmingway," I correct her. "It has two m's"
>>724573251this can't be real
>>724558080And then the old man farted and sharted amongst the crowd for the poultry had been made sour amongst his innards wafting the disagreeable odor into the mass the prevailing wind of ill omen Faces darkened not the least as darkened as the last spark of joy was extinguished Wasn’t fore long rowdy laughs turned into silent accusations a live crowd into a dead one it’s as if it’s ever been here that familiar phrase was apt enoughFixed
>>724569808Lesbian necromancers in space.It's very witty with a dash of insanity.
>>724573836Looks gay and trans
>>724573571yeah, there is a longer form explanation that if you are a fan of what Brandon is doing makes it "ok" but really he just should've wrote something better and not put himself in this situation in the first place by using "out of setting" language>explanation proper belowis that BS has different worlds at different tech and sociocultural points; one character who had been from a realm with Therapy/Mental Healthcare perspectives sends Kaladin (one of the MC's) on a blind mission to help quell Szeth's (another characters) trauma and past. So Kaladin proclaims he's Szeth's "therapist" in a moment that BS HAD to know reads more corny than epic. Wind and Truth was his 5th Book and tonewise was supposed to serve as a "first arc finale" but there are moments like this that rightfully got panned /endrant
>>724573836XD
>>724564786>>724564210>>724563618This sounds all sounds like the same person just walking around being a based chud KEK
>>724556575>Reddit meridian
>>724563091Trump could easily brand business sims and tycoons after himself and they would probably sell
Can you imagine?
>>724556575How do I write a book? Not like literal 'how do i write' but more in the vein of how to do I get the creative spark to then start laying out one? I've been writing professionally for the past year now and want to get into writing fiction for myself, but making the leap from AP style to creative is not easy for me.
well?
>>724574860sorry but there is no videogame about writing a book
>>724575058this is so kafka bisque
>>724575490>kafka bisqueRecipe?
>>724574860the unfortunate reality of writing fiction is that the ideas that comprise a work almost always arise from interactions with other living people. as such, there will never be a Great NEET Novel. if you want to have ideas with which to write, you should get out more
>>724575587I am disappointed to report that there are cockroach soups, but I will not post any image of them here out of respect for everyone here
>>724575629Less ideas being the issue and a combination of my interests and excitement with it. I can write little prompt style ideas, but I never feel overly enthused with them to the point of wanting to act. I actually had a more solid idea recently that I didn't go with because after mulling the core theme around I realized it didn't make sense in the genre and was hacky.
>>724562889>>724562889I thought these were alternative covers so I went looking for them only go find out these editions don’t exist
>>724575853Thank you for your service.
>>724563879>Buy book>Don't read it I've done that with Dune, sure it looks cool on my shelf but fuck that noise
>>724577459>bought House of Leaves because a lot of horror shit i like is inspired by itIt's just been sitting on my bedside table for a few months now.
>>724556575Just fucking wait and see.t.hat guy from /vg/
>>724574731qrd?
>>724576315its called writing it down and redrafting it hammering out ideas and any logical inconsistancys and character both adding stuff and remove based off the context of the story you want to write.It's writing 101 that holllywood faggots and zoomers can't get into because it actually requires putting in effort and having sustained attention to do, drawing from inspiration and ideas in RL.
>>724559773not compsci but are there are any good books related to i.t
>>724578398I'm a retard who was just doing the actual writing process but felt like a retard because I didn't have 'the idea' immediately. Fuck my life I'm dumb as shit.
>>724578695Anon. Its ok to not have the idea. Redrafts are there to help you develop some. It's a free workshop where you can fuck up, restructure, read, see fuck up ,restructre, read, I want to change this, Rewrite , read, O h I have an idea that would make sense, rewrite, read. Just start by writing the initial idea no matter how cringe and go from there. This is such a golden ticket that I don't understand why a lot of people just don't try because it helps you explore
Why does /lit/ suck now? The infinite jest posters are gone and it's just gay and boring unfunny teens. Why does /v/ have these off topic rapefugee threads
>Going around Victorian London and murdering women and dropping redpills about how all the country’s monuments are phallic shaped because the ancient Brits worshipped penisesWould be pretty cool
>>724579157Bitterness, irony, and spite won bigly. Nobody wants to discuss serious literary fiction that they actually enjoy anymore - the decline in IJ discussion/reception is a pretty good indicator of this sort of thing. Sad
>>724579284>Alan MooreNo way fag>>724579157Infinite Jest may be a meme, but it’s definitely the book that defined /lit/ whether they like that fact or not
>>724577459Dune's pretty good though
>>724579157The younger generation is reading and writing less for fun and those who are reading are ingesting BookTok slop.
Has /v/ ever published a book?
>>724556575>>724561472>>724561701I sincerely despise how much of the internet is just mindless NPC faggot filth pointlessly regurgitating whatever FOTM garbage is there.Some shittube goy slop video essay shitter makes some dumbass video and we keep getting bunch of BS off topic threads no one asked for about it.Or some shitty meme trends of Tik Tok one day and you see the same song and clip repeated ad nauseam everywhere.Or some gay e-celeb drama on twitch and a dozen threads pop up quickly here.Like what the fuck is the point now? This thread could have as well been generated by AI or whatever. Am I talking with anons or Youtube/Tiktok/twitch/reddit/whatever the fuck algorithm?I wish I wasn't schizoid so that I could focus on real life instead of worthless shit in the modern internet.
>>724579157>make a thread about a book I enjoyed>thread dies in <5 replies of shitposting>"fine, I'll just enter someone else's thread">make an effortpost>thread diesAll you have these days is empty shitposting from people who asked ChatGPT for a book summary.
>>724556575Blindsight.
>>724563068Just listen to 10 seconds of the audiobook to get a sense of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HgCjtd2iPU
>longer than the Illiad>and the Odyssey>combined>twiceA Rostam game would be fuckin' sick.
>>724563068And, speaking anent Tiberias and other incestuish salacities among gerontophils, a word of warning about the tenderloined passion hinted at. Some softnosed peruser might mayhem take it up erogenously as the usual case of spoons, prostituta in herba plus dinky pinks deliberatively summersaulting off her bisexycle, at the main entrance of curate’s perpetual soutane suit with her one to see and awoh! who picks her up as gingerly as any balmbearer would to feel whereupon the virgin was most hurt and nicely asking: whyre have you been so grace a mauling and where were you chaste me child? Be who, farther potential? and so wider but we grisly old Sykos who have done our unsmiling bit on ’alices, when they were yung and easily freudened, in the penumbra of the procuring room and what oracular comepression we have had apply to them! could (did we care to sell our feebought silence in camera) tell our very moistnostrilled one that father in such virgated contexts is not always that undemonstrative relative (often held up to our contumacy) who settles our hashbill for us and what an innocent allabroad’s adverb such as Michaelly looks like can be suggestive of under the pudendascope and, finally, what a neurasthene nympholept, endocrinepineal typus, of inverted parentage with a prepossessing drauma present in her past and a priapic urge for congress with agnates before cognates fundamentally is feeling for under her lubricitous meiosis when she refers with liking to some feeler she fancie’s face.
>>724579157Lit is a female dominated hobby and men don't read as much as they use to which is depressing as shit.
>>724581242Yeah but they don’t read real literature, mostly YA shit or trendy pop psychologists, or Marx.
>>724581242/lit/ died the same day Harold Bloom did, there was literally nothing to hold back the usual snake oil peddlers that destroy everything.
>>724556575I was going to put Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but I remember there was a point-and-click adventure game that had the same sort of humour.
>>724577749I'd highly recommend you give it a go. I usually read slowly, but I finished House of Leaves in a week.>>724581242I have a few friends who read, and it's mostly modern fantasy and sci-fi fiction. I felt like a sperg asking their thoughts on things like The Grapes of Wrath. The women I know read romance.
>>724582312I used to think that he was a liar, a pseud, even a retard, but with every book that I read he seems more and more like the last person to have actually known anything about literature
>>724569808between two fires by christopher buehlman for some medieval horror
ngl bros i only read fiction lol. hard scifi and campy monster and post apoc books. never touched any classics because i feel im too retarded for them
>metel gear, silent hill, and that oene commie game fans are the most obnoxious videogame fan bases because they are so high oon their own farts they spam their garbage on /lit/ all the time >mcarthy fanboys are the most obnixious book fanbase because they spame their shit all over /v/ and /tv/ we've come full circle
>>724559251Hotline Miami
>>724556575You can do this in dwarf fortress
>>724570836I don't.I had someone unironically tell me "I don't need to play Bloodborne, I already played the PSX version".
>>724559251Persona
not impossible but it would be pretty neat i think
>>724586225You, are a retard anon, follow the thread please.
>>724567880This book was made to be adapted into a survival exploration game are you kidding? It has a plot twist based on the main character finding old notes scattered around a huge environment. It's practically a video game already.
Not surprised this board jerks off over fantasy slop at all.
>>724556575How come "regular" books don't keep my attention like chinese cultivation novels?
>>724556575I feel like that's most books that aren't sci-fi, fantasy, or thrillers.
>>724579157I'm still here
>>724562992>judging a book by it's cover
>>724567890This guy's whole life is a humiliation ritual
>>724556575Blood Meridian is easily adaptable. You just ride around and kill Indians and Mexicans and turn their scalps in for gamer points and then the climax is a Mr X face off with the Judge with a timeskip and a brutal outhouse buttfucking after watching a midget prostitute and a bear dance
>>724556575Its theme got loosely adapted into a manga though
How would (you) adapt this novel into a video game
>>724563345>Latro in the MistSoldier of the mist could work as a game with an extensive journal system where what you write or omit conditions future interactions. Either that or a Memento style narrative where you start in the last chapter with a summary of the previous plot and have to make decisions based on that with lots of twists between chapters.
>>724589774This but unironically. A cover is meant to catch your interest so that you pick a book over all the gorillions of the other books in existence. If a book has a dogshit cover, it has already fucked up at the most crucial step for a book getting read (selection).
We need a Shakespeare Soulslike so bad. Imagine Juliet and Lady Macbeth activating Romeo’s and Macbeth’s second phases.
>>724590232Bring back MW2 XBL lobbies
>>724590347That’s just the most retarded argument I’ve ever read.
>>724556575I'm glad you enjoyed wendigoon's book
>>724567208Kara no Shoujo (don't play the sequels).
>>724591831Cope
>>724556575Kenshi
How would one adapt Mein Kampf?
>>724559251
>>724591884I find it very amusing that people who previously had their little circlejerk over blood meridian… a book that was always a bit of a meme yet many considered it to be the greatest thing ever conceived by man. But it became an even bigger meme with that video and now you have 14 year olds on tiktok obsessed with judge holden, sure they may not have read the book but that’s what makes it more amusing.
>>724592154So that's the real reason why women pick the bear. Suddently it all makes sense
imagine a game where you have a flash back in the middle of a flashback and you have no idea what anything is until the end of the gamealternatively its just a game where a black kid tortures a retard.
>>724577991It's basically if the bnwo blacked psyop shit that trash posts was realyt peepo get flung into the far future where the world is ruled by blacks because yt nuked eachother to death and only Africa survived and recognized north America, niggers enslave all of the remaining whites they find that survived nuclear armageddon and castrate them all
>>724596559>recognizedrecolonized*
>>724580776
>>724564786>>724564210>>724563618>4chan pasta made by book readersamazing
Suttree is the superior Mccarthy book
>>724567624The Bandit King
>>724562992why? I thought Penguin Classic covers were universally loved
>>724556575Blood Meridian would be easier to adapt into a video game than into almost any other medium.
What's the vidya equivalent?
>>724556575Probably Gravity's Rainbow.
bump
>>724577459I bought the Penguin Classics clothbound version of The Iliad because it looks cool but now that I've done the research on the different translations I wish I got a different one.
>>724600043It's not the translation by that woman is it?
>>724600194No, that's the newest one. But I read that the one I have is closer to that modernized style than the original.
>>724563803Not shying away from brutality doesn't equal a moral repudiation. The sort of men who build civilisation are barbarous, it's the way of things.
>>724590232Pokemon A-Z
>>724558080>more than one sentence>any commaslove mccarthy, but his works are best experienced as audiobooks
>>724562657Just some generate some AI sloppa.
>>724599370mass effect
>>724563575finnegan's only makes sense to me when i'm drunk which i guess makes sense since it was written by an irishmancan't make heads nor tails of it while sober, but if i'm sufficiently intoxicated, i can't explain the meaning of each line, i just kind of get it (or get something from it, anyway)
>>724556575none
>>724599370Caves of Qud
