Are you excited for his upcoming AAA Mistborn game? Although Moonbreaker didn't sell amazingly, the game itself is actually quite good and well reviewed by actual players. In any case, it should be better than the normie bait slop that George Martin "contributed" to Elden Ring (nothing).
When will this fat fuck finish winds of winter
>>729552683>winds of winterConsidering he's old and making hollywood money? Never.
>>729552331I don't read books by mormons, lolberts, or Peter Watts
>>729552331No, fantasyslop is for impotent "men"
>>729552331If it's made by modern sanderson it will be riddled with they/thems, marvel-esque quips, deus ex machinas, and "references" that only his entirely devoted fans will understand.
>>729552834which part of blindsight made you drop it?
>>729552331>are you excited for the literary equivalent of the MCU shitting out his own game?
>>729552878To be clear, these are all problems with modern sanderson, in addition to the problems he's had all along
>>729552331I ways thought that Mistborn would lend itself well to a Dishonored style game so if he does that I'll be optimistic
>>729552683Never, he just tweets about NFL stats. Imagine ever caring or even giving money to that fat retard. Even more pathetic is how using his name as /v/ bait to worship Elden Ring worked.
>>729552943>a shared universe is just like my mahvel movies!
>writes a god awful wheel of time book that ruins half the characters>then defends the god awful amazon adaption of the wheel of time booksHe's a hack and a sellout
>>729552874souls is the greatest game of all timekys
>>729552834>lolbertshey, The Tery was cool
>>729552874GIve me the source mod anon please.
>>729553137/lit/ has a GRRM general and some of them get out of their cages to shit up other threads about how GRRM is the greatest author everquite tiresome
>>729552331Nah. I've been following his Cosmere since around 2010 and I've long lost interest in the overall thing nowadays and over the recent years.
>>729553202He has LITERALLY said he wants to be the stan lee of books
>>729553594Is that you, the OG Cosmereposter?Grim if so
He literally cannot be worse than the current game industry writers. In fact, he isn't.
>>729553726Lol probably so. He is never going to finish the Cosmere, and they're tainted with a number of his bad writing practices.
>>729552939How much "my self-diagnosed mental illness is my superpower" can you take
>>729553829if we're talking about vidya, thats what can help. its a collaborative effort, so if something is too stupid, they can suggest changes or give motivation.
>>729553861oh so you missed the entire point of the book
>>729553071>modern sandersonWhat is the first modern sanderson book?I really enjoyed Elantris, but I don't like the they/thems bullshit that's been plaguing games, so I'm looking to read his books before these issues becomes unbearable
>Get recommended 'The Way of Kings' by normie friend>Read it>It's absolute genuine shitIs Brandon Sanderson the perfect author for the midwit bell curve?
>>729553594I'm similar. I checked out mainly due to Stormlight going downhill, and Branderson becoming increasingly pozzed.
>>729553861babbys first hard scifi?>>729553961I've seen Mistborn (as a video game concept) become vaporware on three separate occasions. Maybe the might of Brandon is strong enough now to force the creation of the game.>>729554086Stormlight sure was a stinker.
>>729554041So is Harry Potter, and the game did well.So is Game of Thrones, and Elden Ring did well.
>>729552331Fuck is a Mistborn?
>>729552331Should I give Sanderson a third try? I thought he really fumbled the last books of Wheel of Time, though he got better after his first entry. I picked up "Way of Kings" but dropped it pretty quick because of how "anime fight scene" things felt (had this problem with his Perrin scenes in WOT). I still see people going on about Mistborn or Cosmere or Stormlight all the time, so do you anons recommend any Sanderson starting point?
>>729555664Nah.
>>729552331No. After Wind and Truth i have no hope in anything this retard makes. Stormlight fell off a fucking cliff. Fuck sandershit.
>>729552939>Right angles don't occur in nature and make vampires go epilepticThe most fedora tier shit put in print
>>729555664Way of Kings was the peak of stormlight so no. It gets progressively worse. First 2 stormlight books were really good. Sanderson has only gotten worse with time. Avoid. Avoid. FUCKING avoid.
>hatersSeethe. Seethe and dilate.
>>729555664>"anime fight scene" things feltwhat does this mean?
>>729553594Everything I know about Sanderson is from a friend listening to the books on tape with me and the car, and from the RPG based on it that he bought, and from everything I have heard and just looking at the art for the game, it seems like the lamest shit ever, absolutely antithetical to what kind of fantasy I enjoy, felt very YA to me
>>729556021*in the car
>>729556000If you read it you would understandSanderson writes Mormon anime (and that's a good thing)
>>729556021What kind of fantasy do you enjoy, anon?
>>729556168I read the first three mistborn books and still feel the need to askall the allomancy fights didn't feel especially different from other fantasy fight scenes I read except maybe a bit too autistically detailed in certain parts.well except towards the end of the story when vin is literally channeling god-powers but I can't imagine the majority of Sanderson fight scene happen on that kind of powerlevelso yeah genuinely curious since those are the only books of his I've read
>>729556021You're on /v/, nigger. Stop acting like you have high brow taste in anything.
>>729555814>fedoraOh no it's new and retarded.>>729556021His Cosmere (connected worlds, NOT a multiverse) is/was very realized but over time factors like him constantly taking "breaks" away from Cosmere to write other standalone books became a major obstacle in his completing his life's work. Like we've been waiting for certain promised sequels since the late 2000s that he keeps putting off 20 years later. He wants to turn his Cosmere into a brand which sure changed his approach in my opinion as well.The Cosmere takes place in a dwarf galaxy post-Shattering; that is, after the 'god' Adonalsium was Shattered into 16 Shards (most held by a mortal Vessel). Every novel usually involved a Shard. Mistborn's planet and people were literally created by the two Shards involved, Ruin and Preservation. There's a Shard going around killing others and most the others are scared of him. Anyway, it was a cool concept but stretched on way too long. Brandon has done lots and lots and lots of Q&As so we've had lots and lots and lots of random trivia about the overall background lore this entire time and he gets stingy over random shit. Like IIRC knowing the real reason Kelsier's (Mistborn character) wife died is STILL a "read and find out" 20+ years later. Or was it if she was still alive? Oh well.It's like Kingdom Hearts. You just wait so fucking long that you stop caring.
>>729552331>Mormon who supplicates to the woke mob and hamfisted gays in his novels to appease themNo thanks!
>>729556338I don't know how to explain it but his writing feels very "anime" and reminiscent of chuuni anime/VNs.I'm not even the original poster who was complaining about the anime, I simply feel the same way.
>>729556445he only does it because if he doesn't, the books don't sell = starvebut now that he's doing better and now that the cultural atmosphere has changed, he will go back to his earlier writing style. we are so back
>mass market paperbacks literally died todayEbooks it is then
>>729552331I'm reading the 2nd Mistborn and it's pretty good, fun times, my first thought with the power system is it'd really fit an immersive sim set in Lutahdel, shame no one makes those nowadays.>he normie bait slop that George Martin "contributed" to Elden Ring (nothing).C'mon man you're just being facetious or you never read any of his shit if you can't see his influence in the backstory lore.
>>729555773>Stormlight fell off a cliffThe first novel was a one-thousand-page prologue.
>>729552331The personification of the collapse of western fantasy.
>>729556338There's a lot more flying around in stormlight, that's about it
>>729556604>he only does it because if he doesn't, the books don't sellcome on, now>he will go back to his earlier writing styledepends. he's a supreme redditor. has the zeitgeist of reddit undergone any major changes recently?
>>729556660Paperbacks are still around. It's those super cheap short, fat "airport novel" paperbacks that died. The tall, thin (and a bit more expensive) paperbacks you get online and at most proper bookstores are still around.
>>729557153It's definitely not as compelling as the first one so far, but I'm enjoying the Elend becoming a king plot and the politicking around the city siege.
>>729556660>>729557163Basically, left is still around, right is likely gone forever.
>>729552331This fat fuck piece of shit fucked an entire genre and also fucked The Wheel of Time, i could not care less for a game of this fucking retard slopshit pseudofantasy and his self insert characters.
>>729552943I've only read the first Mistborn book but this is accurate. It's so bland and uninspired, and the cardboard cut-out characters make Marvel-esque quips and such. It isn't so terrible but it didn't encourage me to read anything else of his.
>>729557332I prefer the right, even if it's arguably less aestheticTrades are too annoying to carry around and hold
>>729552331I blame Brandon Sanderson for bullshit like this.
I enjoy Sanderson but I always temper expectations and don't over commit.
>>729557528
I find bizarre how the average Redditor is so harsh towards stuff like Harry Potter and yet praises absolute shlock like these Sanderson books, to the pointing of ranking #1 Fantasy series some years ago.https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/11mvwsa/rfantasy_top_novels_2023_results/The average /v/ermin is not much better to be fair, they think something like Persona 5 has better writing than HP kek.
>>729557758>Sanderson over TolkienHoly mother of mercy
>>729557528Warhammer Fantasy literally got turned into this cosmic bullshit where the old gods that were based on pagan mythology were gotten rid of and replaced by former mortals who absorbed all of a specific wind of magic and became an incarnate god of that type of magic who rules over his own little section of the cosmos defined by that type of magic..
i have literally never heard anyone talk about this guy unless they were making a joke at his expense
If theres something good about him, he's prolific and he gets shit done when he says he will. Can't say that for many other authors.
>>729557758I think we both know the reason they hate Harry Potter nowIf the "you shouldn't like thing because it's problematic" tactic doesn't work then they start calling it bad instead
The writing in some parts of his last book was unironically comparable to DA Veilguard. He went turbo woke hugbox mode for some reason. Guess this is what happens when you think your whole audience is composed by Redditors or something like that.
>>729558329Is he wrong?
I enjoyed the Mistborn books well enough when I read them 15 years ago but not enough to want to read some 10+ book series from him. Can't understand being obsessed with him for decades.
>>729557602>and stuck the landing.Because Jordan had most the ending already plotted out before he died.
>>729558540>reading a book every few years is obsessed
>>729558329The male reader with standards is deadFantasy novels are now for women and manchildren
>>729552331isn't he a woketard faggot?
read malazan
>>729558329He says in an interview that he uses IA on his new books. Sanderfuckers burn in hell.
>>729558540I've been listening to Stormlight while at work and I think that's just what his writing is. Something light and easy to digest. Shit that doesn't need your full attention for. I feel a lot of the hate towards him come from his obnoxious fanbase acting like his popcorn flick writing is redefining the genre.
>>729558792>IAESL detected, opinion discarded
>>729558585I mean it shouldn't be but the way his fans talk about him I don't think they're reading much else in the meantime.
not forgiving you for what you did to WOT, m*rmon
>>729557758they hate HP not because the books are bad thoughthey hate the author
>>729559478>Kingkiller ChronicleGod that series was ass.
>>729556021Its very nu magic the gathering adjacent
how would a Book of the New Sun game work?
>>729559592Soulsbourne vagueness, 4 acts following Sev's journey. Quick time events but gameplay like KH2, each act around 20 hours in length
>>729552331This fatso looks like Pillars of Eternity but much worst.
Remember when you criticize popular writers - which is fair - that you could also write something people would like.So get to it. Even if I am a hypocrite as I am playing warhammer instead of writing
>>729558778I read the first 100 pages and nothing about it was really gripping.
>>729559796Which Warhammer, anon?
>>729559796Yeah legit a lot of writing criticism would be more nuanced if the people saying it had actually attempted to write fiction. Shit's hard.
>>729552331Stormlight was fun for a while but book 5 was baaad. Sanderson is getting western writer brainworms and trying to subvert expectations while shoehorning in more and more crap about mental illness; which would be fine if he could write it well at all. He's usually pretty good at setting a bunch of balls rolling and then bringing everything together for a climatic resolution so I'm not sure how he fucked up so badly concluding his flagship series.
>>729552331This mufugguh done better job at imventing kfc than writinf booksAll of them are the sameAll of them are ya fanfic-tier trash that killed literature
>>729552331I tried to get into it, but it just feels like more woke bullshit. I might still try the game tho.
>>729560552the entire series is about the mental illnesses and how the characters deal with them and he does a pretty good job with it
why do western author love subverting the trope so much? Sometimes i just need big fight in my ending
>>729560552>>729560776>more crap about mental illness>the entire series is about the mental illnesses and how the characters deal with them
>>729560904well no one's forcing you to read it
>>729560326Astragoth zoo-a-hooo Warhammer 3>>729560351I generally criticize the writer's behavior more than the prose, with caveating that prose issues I'll raise are just personal preferences. Like I dislike Moorcock for his whininess about tolkien, but I also could not get into his writing because it was first person for some of the stories. Similarly Clark Ashton Smith is really talented (was, he's dead for what 80 years or somethjing?), but I found him a little too purple prosey - even though I am VERY guilty of that myself.Frankly the funny thing is I don't really like my own writing. There'll be bits where I am proud about a great line or whatever but I am not sure I'd want to read a book I wrote though that may be the bashfulness of it being my own writing. I know that people enjoy my writing a lot, so I think there'll be an audience for it. But competition is thick for romantasy
>>729560957On the contrary, I'm forcing him to read it.
>>729560957Mental illness, foundational dramas and some falsehood that a character believes is true and has to get to grips that it isn't is basically all modern fantasy slop in a nutshell.
>>729561427I think you might be stupid.
>>729561173I used to write just straight up pulpy fantasy/sci Fi and nobody gave a shit. I switched to Literotica and people were beating down my door to pay me
>>729560776I mean, he usually handles it pretty well but book 5 just felt bad. Nothing happens for thousands of pages, kaladin and szeth fly around the countryside having soup and talking about their feelings, rlain and renarin talk about being gay, shallan exists. We spend a lot of time in flashbacks that don't really tell us anything too new or interesting. Adolin's chapters are fine. The ending is eeeeeeeh and a lot of it is predicated on a single diabolus ex machina instead of something more interesting.
>>729561502At the end of the day everyone cooms. So you found fanbase/customers via literotica? Do commissioned stories or have a patreon or something?
>>729553993>yes the aliens can do things that inherently require cognitive understanding, but they are not actually sapient I swear!!
>>729556660what happened?
>>729557702this looks like it was based on mtg
>>729561497If there's a story about a quest for a magic sword, then the story should be about the quest for a magic sword. It shouldn't be a character drama about how magic swords make the characters feel or how magic swords affect the relationships of the characters with each other. Too much fiction has become character dramas transplanted into some arbitrary setting.
>>729558778For the last time, NO
>>729561789But it's not a story about a quest for a magic swordIt's a story of how the characters cope with their own issues as well as the larger issues in the world and the magic shit is a backdrop to support that storyIf you want LOTR and heckin comfy adventure fantasy just say that
>>729560552>he made me wait this long for the szeth book>his writing got so irredeemably shit in the meantime that even I can't read itI'm starting to understand the concept of hate.
We are never ever getting GOAT adaptations for these and I'm glad
>>729561892That was just an example of a typical fantasy story.Fantasy should be fantasy. It should not be yet more character drama bullshit wearing fantasy's skin.
We'll always have those first two stormlight books at least
>>729561972Why is it not fantasy? What makes fantasy and character dramas mutually exclusive?
>>729562039Because fantasy is about quests and fantastical worlds. It is not about character drama.
>>729562171Oh so you're retarded
>>729562171Holy shit what a brainlet
>>729561682Watts' whole thesis for blindsight and echopraxia is that consciousness served a purpose for a time but life is constantly trying to evolve past it. The vampires, the aliens, and the hive minds are all running rings around the baseline humans the whole series and they're all not exactly conscious as we would understand it. Humans have to mutilate themselves with cybernetics and genemods to even get close to the intelligence and capabilities of the superminds, while a newborn alien can instinctively learn how to hide from sight by moving only during the saccadic motion of your eyes.For examples in the real world, see LLM-based AI which is most definitely not conscious but is more capable in some ways than many people, and the minimal energy utilization theory of cognitive science, which in it's simplest form states that your brain really hates thinking because it's energy intensive and will do its best to think as little as possible, as much of the time as possible.
>this threadImagine unironically reading fantasy or other genre slop as an adult lmao. And just talking about it openly, too. Just embarrassing.
>>729560552I think there's been enough criticism online delivered to him, even in places like reddit where he can do no wrong and people scream that they love gay stuff and post threads saying Sanderson is bad because he isn't communist or anti-monarchist enough, that he might scale back some of the tranny and fag stuff in his later books. How he wrote that stuff in Stormlight 5 has been one of the most common criticisms I've seen that gets a lot of upvotes/retweets/whatever and is both well-reasoned and not simply "SANDERSON IS WOKE NOW" ragebait bullshit.I could be wrong though, and he may continue to double down on it. If that's the case, I foresee him losing a lot of the popularity he's gained over the years as Stormlight fails to deliver on hype because he's too busy trying to write characters he doesn't really care about passionately and just wants to include for "representation" to a few of his readers.
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>>729557369>This fat fuck piece of shit fucked an entire genreno, women didthey the reason every book needs a female mc, a gay, etc
>>729562264>tries to act high and mighty about genre>on a board dedicated to even worse slop
>>729562321Women are the only people reading books, pandering to them is smart and basic capitalism. If only you weren't buying harem litrpg isekai garbage.
>>729562264lotr is the best literary piece and it's a fantasy bookmidwit cope
>>729553861>>729554278>this is also the entire premise of dune
>>729562321women are by far the largest consumers of literature
>To that end, I’ve started talking to some AAA developers.wow that's it? he started talking this week about it. wow it's even less than elder scrolls 6
>>729562374>lotr is the best literary piece
>>729562264>moralfagging on 4chan
>>729562398Only four books, the two last ones are about femdom sex, even with kids.
>>729562408>literatureYou can not call literature to garbage, saar.
>>729562469He is right, though.
>>729562692You have not read a book since highschool. No, comics and manga don't count retard.
>>729562736I do not read manga or comics, piece of shit. But surely you do, small fatso.
Either stop giving the guy (you)s or stop talking to yourself like a schizo
>>729552331Fuck this faggot i hope he gets that amazon show he wants and it gets monkey paw'd
>>729562469BRANDON, YOUR BOOKS ARE SHIT, EVEN THE LAST THREE OF WoT ARE HOT GARBAGE WITH GAY CHARACTERS, SELF INSERTING YOURSELF REMOVING PROTAGONISM TO LOGHAIN, YOU FAT FUCK.
>>729562736All that newfag can do is bring up ASOIAF. Of course it hasn't read.
>>729562838you're projecting, aren't you anon?
I'm more of Joe Abercrombie kinda guy
>>729562190>>729562204that's right sister, romantasy is a hecking vaild genre!
>>729563227>>729563280You still have an appointment with Don Quixote.
>>729562886>amazon show he wantsHas he said anything like that? When I've seen him talk about a potential Mistborn movie, he's been very consistent about saying he won't do it unless he can basically get it set in stone that he can write the screenplay himself and have final say on what gets made. I figure if he lets a series get made of anything, he'd have similar rules if not actually writing the screenplay himself.They did that kind of thing for JK Rowling, so it isn't completely impossible. While Sanderson's books aren't Harry Potter level of popular, he's also a much better businessman than Rowling and has managed his little empire very well so far, getting him a lot of deals and shit that other authors have no chance of getting.
>>729563331Which harem litrpg is your favorite anon?
>>729557376The cut companion we a female halfling werewolf, not the Tiefling you are likely thinking of.
>>729563331Yep
>>729562886The only reason there hasn't been a bunch of shows already is because he refuses to go through with any of the deals that don't give him the control to prevent that exact thing
>>729559592It exists and its called caves of qud
A mistborn game would be sick if it was a good character action game, so theres a zero percent chance it would actually be a good game.
>>729563458I wish we got her
>>729552331I gave the first mistborn book multiple chances but I just couldn't get into it.I want to call it dogshit but I can't since I haven't finished it.
>>729552331magic system
Now /v/ will have no idea who to like
>>729552331Once upon a time I would have been. However now? No. After the TTRPG he made ended up being D&D but with star wars force dice and the writing in book 4 just not feeling like his own actual writing and more like a committee puppetting him to say things I don't want him to touch Mistborn ever again I think.Fuck now I'm kinda sad.
>>729557528>>729557702behold
>>729559478Did that cuck ever put out book 3, or did he kill himself after book 2
Why does every sanderson novel generally revolve around the characters "sitting" in different locations? This is most apparent in Rhythm of War, is he just lazy?
Wind and Truth has killed the Cosmere with it's therapist crap.Mistborn was only good for the 1st arc.change my mind.
>>729562190>>729562204Okay, so let's take an old sci-fi novel like Rendezvous with Rama. It's about a gigantic alien spaceship that is found flying through our solar system. The characters in this story are astronauts exploring the spaceship. These astronauts are treated as consummate professionals who never display mental issues or have drama with each other of any sort. In fact, we don't pry too deep into any of them, nor do they change all that much. This is because, you see, that is is not their purpose. Their purpose in the story is to be the vehicle through which we experience and explore the spaceship. There was a sequel series which tried to add in soap opera bullshit between the astronauts as a driver of the plot, and they are highly controversial and widely maligned for having done this.Yet, I would argue that if it was published today, it would be the *first* book that people would claim was poorly written and the sequel series would be pointed at as a great improvement, simply because it added in character drama.Why is this? By and at large, I feel that this is because there has been a push to make literature (and all media, honestly) appeal more to women. There are tons of old classic, super influential books that would be maligned as "poorly written" today, simply because they are not character dramas. Men like stories that are about the thing itself. If, once gain, you have a quest for the magic sword, men generally prefer the novel to be about the quest for the magic sword itself. Women, on the other hand, generally prefer these character dramas, where something like a quest for a magic sword is merely a backdrop on the character drama.It is fine for there to be women's media, but I would prefer for women's media to stay in its lane and not to start taking over other genres. The number of men who read any kind of fiction has absolutely crashed over the last decades, and I think the fact that everything is this crap now is largely to blame.
>>729565043does't he basically do litrpg under the hood? he's a d&d numbersfag.
>>729552331mistborn was really shit I thought, so no. I'm not convinced this guy is a very good writer
>>729565312Nah I agree with you.
>>729565676I refuse to believe this because of how the Cosmere TTRPG ended up turning out.
>>729565313The push is really just that women are more consumers than men. With sometimes dumb suits thinking they can make women consume in an industry/medium/IP that they would never be interested in, but it's less a conspiracy and moredolla dolla bills.>The number of men who read any kind of fiction has absolutely crashed over the last decades, and I think the fact that everything is this crap now is largely to blame.I wonder if this is chicken and the egg. Did men crash out (Reading more nonfiction, history, not books at all) and the collapse happened? Or did the collapse happen and men dipped out?
>>729558778Malazan would unironically be incredible as a video game. If only because you could cram all the lore and backstory you could ever read in some sort of codex to read fill out.
>>729565889Lemme rephrase, it is a conspiracy - for money. And I guess it had been an ideological conspiracy too, but it often just feels more prosaic that women are more consumerist and so they will get more of the audience attention. If I were writing I'd be better positioned to profit if my book was about werewolf admirals and bonny lasses than if it was generation-kill-but-ancient-Rome.
>>729565312Mistborn is the Pillars of Eternity of fantasy novels. A really cool dark fantasy world that the creators then set out to utterly destroy leading up to them basically nuking the setting entirely, and after they nuked the setting, the new stuff they try to put out feels like its in an entirely different world.The "Wax and Wayne" novels don't even feel like Mistborn. They're Wild West lawman detectives with Lore of Metal powers with some hamfisted references to the original trilogy.
>>729552331Fuck Sanderson, when are we going to get a book from the GOAT himself? I NEED to play as a dinosaur with swords for hands.
>>729565849The TTRPG is good, though. It's like if 5e actually did what everyone pretends it does instead of being a lobotomized system holding onto decades of baggage and cultural inertia
>>729566192he said he’s aiming to finish Walk in Shadow by spring 2026, so a mid-2027 release would be optimistic if we’re lucky. The 3rd witness book will probably come out next year since he’s already finished it
>>729565312Sando has 5 more books to write. Wind and Truth got the worst reception and reviews of all the other full-length Stormlight novels (check goodreads scores if you don't believe me). He knows he's gotta get back on track and write a banger with book 6. He's said before that the stories he most wants to tell (like Taln's) are in books 6-10. Trust the plan.Mistborn, you're correct. Books 2 and 3 are nowhere near as good, but only have cool moments like Vin wielding an oversized koloss sword like she's in a Japanese action game. The Wax and Wayne series is nowhere near as good, and was originally going to be one short book until Sanderson got carried away. I don't think it really deserves to be compared to Mistborn era 1, as Sanderson himself doesn't really consider it to be worthy of that. There's going to be another era of Mistborn that will be the true sequel to era 1.Although if Ghostbloods isn't good, I think Sanderson's going to get labeled as being in a "slump" by critics and fans alike, and probably will see a big loss in popularity while younger writers overtake him. I hope that doesn't happen, but we'll see. Either way, I think Stormlight will be okay either way.
>>729566338It's really just been Stormlight, all of his secret project stand alone books were some of his best ones, with the exception of the one that's based off a wind and truth plot point
>>729553219>then defends the god awful amazon adaption of the wheel of time booksYeah I dropped him like a sack of potatoes when he did that.He wasn't my favorite author by a longshot before his comments but that adaptation was straight up sacrilege.
>>729566480What was his defense? I'm genuinely wondering because my understanding was that he didn't like the show but just didn't want to say too much publicly because it would be bad business.
>>729566192I just finished his Aspect Emperor stuff. He better write more because if that is the ending, what a fucking blueball.
>>729566572I don't know, I looked it up but I could only find him criticizing it. Maybe that guy was just full of shit.
>>729552331You're a simpleton and didn't see Elden Ring fluff as a tribute to Roger Zelazny because you're like, 21 at best and underage at worst.
>>729566590wrong author bro
>>729566590>>729566192nevermind, I got Erikson and Bakker confused. Fucking Canadians.
>>729552874But enough blogposting about yourself, Anon.
>>729552331Is this the Bamco game they talked about a few years ago? Is it confirmed to be Mistborn?
>>729566329It shouldn't have been a 5e variant at all. If you're going to just copy an existing system d20 is the worst one to fucking copy3d6 >>>>>>>>>>> d20.
>>729566846I'd be very surprised if Sanderson went with Japanese studios for his eventual game(s). He had a working relationship with Epic Games and has other connects with American studios already.
>>729557965The irony that they switched from focusing on a single nation the size of Montana to this "infinite cosmos" made the setting feel significantly smaller.Just like in 40k, when you focus on godlike beings and sideline literally everybody else into significance, you also remove agency, and movement from everyone else. suddenly the world is frozen until 1 out of the 8 named characters does something. It's fucking boring. Whereas in WHF a single story of 2 people slaying a troll feels big, describing a city and unveiling a secret rat man plot is interesting. There's no room for those stories when godds walk among men and regularly move mountains.
>>729562263>baby reads first sci fi book and defends it with his life
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>>729552331Horrible writer. Complete lack of self-awareness to call GRRM "normie bait slop" while posting onions incarnate normalnigger YA bubblegum writing.
>>729565313I repeat: you are retarded
No he pushes his religious beliefs into his writing far too heavily, he's a baby Jordan, and Jordan wasn't great either.
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>>729561943The average person couldn't handle the kino of fighting baldanders
>>729552331Sanderson is slop by definition. This board's getting more retarded by the day.
>>729562264He says on a video game board. Astound lack of self-awareness, LOL.
>>729562264>Imagine unironically reading fantasy or other genre slop>genre slopSorry I was reading about something actually interesting instead of a book about a multi-generational Chicano family's struggle for identity or a book about a struggling author's struggle with substance abuse while he tries to raise his autistic daughter to help her realize her dreams of being an artist while also having an on-again off-again abusive relationship with his ex-wife.Unfortunately, when I was a kid, Geordi La Forge told me that I could go anywhere and do anything, just take a look, it's in a book, Reading Rainbow, and so I feel no compulsion to read any "literary fiction" schlock because I can indeed go anywhere and do anything when I read a book, and I would rather go anywhere or do anything else than that.
>>729552331Didn't know there was one, but it could be pretty good. I don't like his writing style really (I do like some of his characters) and only read his books when I want some easy reading and don't have any better ideas, but I do think Mistborn could translate very well to a video game.
>>729569303ok manchild
>>729569426Better a manchild than a midwit trying too hard to impress other midwits.
>>729552331I've read mistborne and hated everything except for the magic system.Dialogue felt stilted and the characters seemed to act inconsistent with their established personalities. Either they were written to be stupid or Brandon is, guess which one I'm leaning towards.
>>729554278Is that Elden Ring fanart or a ripoff? I remember Brandon being assblasted about ER lol
>>729554909Harry Potter is a children's book lmao
>>729569631>elden ring invented fat people
>>729569731Godskins, ya dingus
>>729554041The Way of Kings is legitimately a 1000 page prologue. I do not know why people fall over themselves in praise of it.I do have two theories, though:1) Decent fantasy worldbuilding and genuinely fantastical worlds are becoming rarer in modern fantasy so people absolutely shat themselves when one did (I wouldn't actually know for this one, since I don't read much modern fantasy, but it's a hunch I get from people constantly praising the worldbuilding)2) People like this character drama shit so much that they're contented to have nothing but a whole fucking book of it, and are okay if it doesn't even have an actual plot until the very end, where the plot of the book series is revealed as a twist.
>>729569782Those are the same character, not twoThey wrap cords around themselves and then use tension to shrink into the form on the bottom, becoming much denser and harder to damage
>>729552331the only Sanderson I've read was his contribution to Wheel of Time. it was good and I like him
>>729555814you got memed my friend. this is an issue we all run into reading fiction that has been hugely influential. Peter Watts invented this trope and it was novel at the time. hacks co-opted it and ran it into the ground.
>subject: Brandon SandersonThat's not video games!
>>729552683imagine if Martin's estate actually tapped him to though, would be legendary
>>729570210How do they tense up the cord? Clench cheeks?
>>729569303Based post
>>729569686if you looked, you'd find that most Harry Potter fans are _actually_ adults
>>729554024I don't know if it's the first, but Oathbringer has a really dumb>by the way, there are gays in this fantasy world and they're accepted by everyone :)scene, so it's definitely part of the "modern" era.
>>729562263they hated him because he spoke the truthit's funny to me that Watts is a garden variety shitlib but the logical conclusion of his message in echo praxia is basically scientific racism. it seems like he never followed his own thesis backwards at all.
>>729554024I would say that Rythm of War is the first book that genuinely felt like it was written for the part of his audience that really really gets into the minutias of his magic systems.
>>729570598Yeah, we've grown old. I read HP when they came out, I was the same age as Harry so it was kinda kino. Genuinely got me into reading. Pretty late but my family didn't read at allStill, those are children's books.
>>729552331i am excited to die of natiral causes before this fat retard finishes his book series
I only read the first three mistborn books way back in my teens. I can only remember fragments of the plot now, but I think I enjoyed them. The powers of a mistborn would lend themselves well to a BamHam style game.
>>729570325shut up unc
>>729552331Rhythm of War is one of the worst books I've ever read
>>729561732They're replacing rotating book racks in grocery stores with manga.
>>729566338>>729566447The underlying problem with Stormlight is that he went into it with the decision to write an epic fantasy that's 10 books long. Even though he doesn't even remotely have content for 10 books.
>>729570601Man I wish we could have some investigative journalist really dig in on why he dropped the ball recently
>>729571861His editor retired after Oathbringer, the new one obviously has no mental capability to say no. Rhythm of War and Winds and Truth are absolute monstrosities, with the worst prose he's ever turned in and the most dogshit story development possible
>>729553594>Renarin's flashback>Lift flashback>Literally who flashbackHuh? wtf is that?
I've been reading the first mistborn trilogy and was thinking that it'd be easy to make movies out of it, not really videogames. the system seems like it's gonna be too hard to implement in a way that feels complete, satisfying and with enough freedom for the player
>>729571930would be fun to get an interview with the retired editor then, but>mormonnot gonna happen
>>729566761>>729552874Reina doesn't look like that in game
>>729571143I thought Mistborn was pretty good.
>>729571143>>729574418the dramatized Graphic Audio adaptation is one i come back to quite regularlyit works really well
>>729552331>AAA Mistborn game? They are still making that?
>>729557332so the opposite of the comicbook industry then were that the bigger format is dying, but smaller digest-sized paperbacks are popular
>>729557965GW creators were probably more inspired by Planescape and cosmic D&D than Sanderson
>>729565313One of the most important and influential scifi novels of all time, Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon, doesn't contain a single named character.
>>729575116Does Planescape have incarnate gods of particular forms of magic?
