Should've happened years ago, probably.

There are a ton of decent fantasy IPs they could turn into games.
Malazan Book of the Fallen, even something like The Black Company or Aspect Emperor or Book of the New Sun could be adapted in some way.

>>732184802
The last thing I want to play is some shit with millennial marvel funko pop writing. Brandon Sanderson can fuck right off.

>>732184802
Isn't the protagonist a cute barefoot girl? Fund it

>>732184802
Do I think it will happen? More likely now that the TV deal is in play.
Oddly enough, Kingdoms of Amalur made for pretty good Mistborn larping.

>>732184881
I think he should've been named Brandon Blanderson because of how bland and censored his writing is but he is definitely not a Marvel chungus style writer. He's better than that.

His aversion to violence and gore is the real problem. Not to mention sex.
He's a Mormon after all so everything is very PG.

>>732184927
Mistborn & Stormlight Archives are literally all violence, and have considerable 'gore'. Fuck you talking bout

>>732185041
I've only read his attempt to finish Wheel of Time and those 3 books are such sanitized trash that I never read any of his own stuff.

>>732184927
>but he is definitely not a Marvel chungus style writer
He literally turned The Stormlight Archive into "Avengers but fantasy". It made me want to shove pencils into my eyes. And to think The Way of Kings was good. I didn't bother to continue reading it past the third book.

I kind of hated mistborn, loved the idea of hereditary super suits in stormlight archives though. I also liked the bridge guy thing but it gets old and none of the characters really gripped me.

I'd be okay with it being in the universe, but Vin is super fucking boring and I'm tired of Kelsier's shit. Let me play some rando mistborn and I'd be happy. Or maybe just a mistling/twinborn instead of full mistborn because some of the metals do OP shit or stuff that doesn't translate to games well.

>>732184802
Brandon Sanderson is an embarrassment to mankind.
>>732184927
>but he is definitely not a Marvel chungus style writer
He totally is though, especially in his newer shit.

>>732184802
is this some kind of knock off Game of Thrones?

>>732184927
You should read not really Wind and Truth. Heckin' wholesome chungus Reddit has poisoned his mind so now he's been trying to shoehorn sex stuff in his books and it's infinitely more cringe than just avoiding it altogether. In the newest Stormlight, Lift constantly talks about wanting dick, Maya calls Adolin a slut, there's a sex scene between Adolin and Shallan, not to mention literal faggotry.

>>732185301
No, it's quite the opposite

It's very clean where GoT is very dirty. Where GoT makes magic very vague and mystical, Sanderson is a "systems" guy who likes magic being way more fleshed out.
>>732185359
Yeah I haven't read his recent stuff so even hearing this shocks me

>>732185301
Not remotely. GRRM's gimmick is edginess, with violence, sex, and murder, where his real passion is the political angle. Sanderson's super chaste and less violent because he's a Mormon, where his passion is "grounded" magic systems and listening to retarded faggot redditors who corrupted him a la Wormtongue.

>>732184802
>AAA
They never learn, do they? They see the AAA market is crashing yet they want to keep blowing money on this shit. These retards need to give up on AAA. It's like they can only remember the PS3 and Xbox 360 generation and nothing else before.

>>732185359
He might be trying to demonstrate chops for more adult themes in hopes that once George R. R. Martin inevitably croaks without finishing ASOIAF, he will be picked to finish it. I have no comment on whether he's been successful at it, as I have no interest in whatever he's writing these days.

>>732185569
No way he'd get chosen over someone like Joe Abercromie. Despite his new books being dogshit, I still consider myself a Sanderson fan and there are few authors I'd want to take over ASOIAF less.

>>732185569
Did he ruin Wheels of time when the authors croaked
gg

>>732185359
Sanderson's entire career has been about trying to get super rich and make himself into a JK Rowling or GRRM type success story.

Everything he writes is derivative, trend-chasing slop but he's usually too late to the party to be relevant and has never managed to succeed to the level he aspires.

>>732184802
>Mistborn
is it any good to begin with

>>732185219
It'd be kinda cool if it was set during Era 2, since I really liked that setting. I wonder if doing something like VtM disciplines would work for a Mistborn character. You could utilize every metal, but the ones you choose to enhance would be better than the others. A game like that would have to feature multiple methods of accomplishing your objectives simply due to the variety of abilities at your fingertips, provided you've got the metals for them.

>>732184802
>Didn't the Witcher author sold off his rights to CDPR and hated what his series has become?
Only because he realised in hindsight that he could have gotten a lot more money for the dea.
In fact, CDPR actually offered to give him more money at first, but he declined, because "video games are just a dumb fad"

He has "nice things" to say about Netflix Witcher because they threw a fat stack of money in his stupid face.

>>732185664
You could rightfully argue Stormlight is basically super hero shit, but what trends was he chasing for older things like Warbreaker & Elantris? Or short stories like the Emperor's Soul or the one about the tavern in the forest.

And it seems like he is getting quite rich. I'm not sure when the transition between "moderately well known fantasy writer" to "the current biggest writer in fantasy", but that seems to be the case. I blame lazy cunts like GRRM, Scott Lynch, Rothfuss, etc for long ass hiatuses.

>>732185832
He's getting author rich but he's not GRRM or Rowling rich which is what he aspires to.

The reason Sanderson is so successful is because he's so prolific. He is a writing machine who just puts out a ton of material, way faster than his peers.

>>732185871
I didn't look super into it, but I think he's putting out far less the next few years. I don't think I realized he plans on putting SA on hold until like 2031. That means I have 5 years of "I'm his therapist" living rent free in my fucking mind.

>>732185951
https://winteriscoming.net/brandon-sanderson-will-write-screenplay-for-apple-tv-mistborn-movie

>”I will be writing the Mistborn screenplay myself over the next 5 months, as my full time work. Goal is for a theatrical Mistborn, then Stormlight show after. Focus on doing it carefully and right.”
>”I promise not to get too distracted to do books. However, if I want this done right, I need to give some real attention and heart to it now."

He wants to go the grrm route, if it hits he will never write again

>>732185804
>He has
He had
I think he much like everybody else hates the Netflix show now once the showrunners ditched his ass to do whatever they want with it.
Sapkowski is a moron.

>>732185951
Sanderson' plan is the definition of hubris, he has legitimately planned book releases until 2050 and beyond.

It'll never be completed

>>732184802
who and what? sounds like a fake name and a fake fantasy franchise someone would mention in a Disney channel sitcom.

>IM ZANE
>IM INSANE
>FROM EARTH

Has anyone read any of these books:
>Blacktongue Thief
>Six of Crows
>Gutter Prayer
>Low Town
>Justice of Kings
>Traitor's Blade

I've read a lot of the current fantasy shit from the regular "big" authors so I asked Chat GPT for suggestions and that's what it shat out. I already read Blacktongue's Thief, which I found kinda middling. I just found out it's written by the Between Two Fires guy, which I mostly liked but you needed a PhD in the French history to really get it.

>>732184927
He doesn't write sex because I think he wants his books to be young adult in content but adult in length. And there is some sex, Adolin and Shallan get it on in book 5 to set up her being stuck in Shadesmar while pregnant.

>>732184802
From what I’ve read, the reason he could never get anything off the ground was because he wanted Rowling level control to avoid an absolute butchering most book adaptions get, which was vindicated pretty well when he couldn’t do anything to stop WoT being murdered under threat of disparagement lawsuits.
Sadly if stormlight is any indication, he waited far too long and his spark simply stagnated. Him keeping control is a downside in my eyes now.

The mistborn world's powers are pretty shit until the sequel books where some people have access to different systems.
In the main books Vin mostly dunks on mistings because they have 1 power and she's in creative mode.

How many books away are we from Adolin and Kaladin fucking their spren? Both seem extremely horny in this last book.

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>>732185832
The theory that Rothfuss stopped writing because he stole the entire manuscript and ran out of material before the end will never stops being funny.

>>732185301
No, by pure synchronicity he wrote the plot of Gurren Lagann and published it first.

>>732185721
It's decent IIRC, it feels more grounded than his recent works.

>>732187284
I mean, something is definitely up. Unless I'm mistaken, he said he had all three books done/mostly done right when the first one came out. But reading both books, it's very apparent there's way too many lose ends and plot points to resolve in one more book. I can't believe he completely fleeced Reddit with the charity chapter shit, which gives credence to him just stealing it.

>>732186592
>Him keeping control is a downside in my eyes now.
I'm kinda worried about this. Like he was already talking about making Ham a girl IIRC

That said I'm still keeping up with Mistborn because I like that he's advancing the timeline and technology level in his universe while still keeping the same magic system. I always liked urban fantasy and science fantasy more than classic fantasy anyways.

>>732184843
How would you make a BotNS game thoughbeitalgo?

>>732184802
Did his writing get worse? Feels like all his beginnging books are awesome and then it drops off.

>>732184927
>but he is definitely not a Marvel chungus style writer. He's better than that.
Rhythm of War is one of the worst books ever written, even post-Endgame Marvel slop is better

>>732189401
Yes, without a doubt.
He always had a prose that is more utilitarian than flowery, but that was fine, since it didn't take away from what was happening in the story (but it didn't elevate it either). There was still a sense of gravitas. In recent years (I'd say since ~2020) he's gotten worse in different ways
>Lack of editors (or having yes-men for editors, which amounts to the same thing), who can't encourage him to pull his writing up when he's pushing it down. So for example in book 1 you'd have a prince calling his father "Father" and in book 5 he'd call him "Dad", you'd have a lot of those paragraphs that are just one sentence of few words, and italics everywhere, both being cheap ways to visually show that the sentence / word is important rather than just making it obvious that it is important with the proper setup and choice of words.
>Listening to much to his hardcore fans who are really into the minutias of the universe he created (particularly the magic systems, of course), so to please them he's starting to get more and more technicals as the books come along, to the extent he's sacrificing characters moments to explain how time magic creates redshift because light diffracts weirdly in time bubbles. Yes it's probably accurate but save that shit for an extra science book or something

I stopped reading Stormlight after Oathbringer. I hated Shallan’s whole thing and apparently it’s just as present in RoW.

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>>732184802
>Didn't the Witcher author sold off his rights to CDPR and hated what his series has become? As well as not earning a single cent off of it?
that's entirely on him. He didn't believe the games would make any money at all so he took about $150k and told them to fuck off. They offered him royalties multiple times but he always insisted on one time lump sum.
Then when the game made hundreds of millions he dedicated the rest of his life to seething about it. It's pure poetry and some sort of metaphor for human arrogance.

>>732184802
>Do you think it will happen?
No, because he's so autistic that working with him won't work out.

>>732190164
>I'd say since ~2020
His long-time editor retired before Rhythm of War. Whoever got the job afterwards is clearly incapable of saying ''no''.

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>>732184802
Mormon Plant.

>>732184802
How would you even make the powers work? You'd need to balance it around basically being able to fling yourself around like spiderman but without the ability to take a hit without burning pewter. Plus you'd need to be able to direct which way you're push/pulling and that sounds like a real pain in the ass.

>>732184802
Who's Ian Brandon Anderson?

>>732184802
What I don't understand is why he's trying to force Mistborn into a feature length movie? It's going to flop, no two ways about it. As a TV show it would at least stand a chance.

>>732185721
Not if you like happy or satisfying endings. Lots of suffering with an extra helping of suffering on top.

>>732184802
Didn't this guy throw a hissy fit because fromsoftware went to the Fatman for elden ring's story instead of his literally who YA novel ass?

>>732188960
I'm kinda glad honestly. I lost interest almost the instant that tree that controls fate or some shit showed up. If the future can be predicted so accurately then what's the fucking point?

>>732185721
It had a decent twist but apart from that that it meanders most of the time. The 2nd book is especially cringe with a character that's pretty much Coldsteel the hedgehog

>>732190418
It wasn't their fault. They couldn't escape the fatman's gravitational field.

>>732190418
God I hope they troll him more and reject his dumb ass again since Miyazaki is still looking for more writers to work with.

you guys know these books are for children, right?

>>732184802
He should be grateful if a studio like Questline or Tactical Adventures is interested in making a Mistborn game....... for him to insist on a AAA studio is pure foolishness. AAA studios could be making Baldur's Gate 4 but don't want to, why would they want to make a Mistborn game?

>>732184802
His writing is best suited to indie and shilled by ecelebs by this point. That will save him so much embarrassment and money at least and he can get a movie pitch chance with Markiplier.

>>732190550
I know
>t. Skyward enjoyer

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>>732190418
Why is he so desperate for validation? Isn't he a successful author already? Does he need to be more famous to get a planet?

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>>732190526
They can't troll him because i don't think they're even aware of his existence
Also Fromsoftware's brutal, grimdark stories and world are complete anathema to the redditry he writes so i don't know what he was expecting

>>732190587
Why would they make a game in which some famous external writer has full control? It would be Ken Levine on steroids.

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>>732190245
Do you know Witcher schools are retconned now? Yeah, Sapkowski REALLY hates what CDPR did.

>>732190587
I'm going to guess it's the same argument as to why he doesn't want an animated adaptation of Stormlight
>Cartoons / AA game only appeal to existing fans of the franchise and won't bring in new fans
I don't 100% disagree

>>732184802
I'm reading through Way of Kings right now and my God is Shallan just a disaster. Her story started so promising and then went right into the pits with her Young Adult tier of dreaming for the monk. He is so dreamy, he looks cool, should i be with him teehee... Its awful and its such a stark contrast to what Kaladin and Dalinar have to through that i am wondering if its done deliberately to make people hate her character

>>732190623
Because it's not just one guy. It's a cabal of Mormon writers under his name. It must be expensive to finance so he's trying to grab any deal he can

>>732184927
The bridgerunning part in Stormlight Archives is pure unfiltered kino.

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>>732184802
>we've reached a point when mistborn is getting a movie AND big budget game
fucking kill me

>>732190665
>Also Fromsoftware's brutal, grimdark stories and world are complete anathema to the redditry he writes
Honestly no it's about the same level on either side

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>>732190623
He wants to shill his garbage absolutely everywhere, probably because Mormons think like germs and need to spread everywhere
He even got some no name studio to make a DND clone TTRPG of his setting (and I'm gonna have to play it....)

>>732190767
Imagine the chimp out if they flop. Who would he blame it on?

It was in Rhythm of War that I realized
>his smart characters aren't smart, they're just more powerful and can be assholes without repercussion
>his witty characters aren't witty, they're just more powerful and can be assholes without repercussion
>etc.
Him trying to make Jasnah into a machiavellian manipulator is so fucking cringe

>>732190767
If anything I'm shocked it didn't happen sooner. Sanderson does pump out books, though.

What an entitled shill. lmao.

>>732185083
>I've only read his attempt to finish Wheel of Time
That's a bad first impression because he was being "careful" with how to end a series that wasn't his.

>>732190845
He wants full creative control that's why
Not many studios will give him that
Apple who take massive losses and gives massive budgets on their TV show was able to, but not many after them

Pluribus was 15milly an ep and that's from the G man

>>732185041
>Mistborn
>Stormlight
>considerable gore
you're not a serious person

Is this /lit/'s lolcow?

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>>732190729
I'm telling you like right now, with no spoiler : speedread the Shallan chapters. All of them. If something interesting is going on you will know and you can slow down then, but the amount of WORDS you need to get through when you could read about Based Kaladin or Dalinar (or hell, even Szeth) is not worth it if you have to pay attention.

>>732189327
Not that anon but make it a disco elysium-like

>>732190887
God those traveling scenes were so good I'd watch him traverse the Pluribus world as a series

>>732185083
Wheel of Time is poor man's One Piece in any case

>>732190940
/lit/ is their own lolcow

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>>732190729
If you find yourself not liking Way of Kings just bounce. Series gets so much worse.

>>732190992
I really enjoy it but those are just fucking speed bumps.

>>732190164
That behaviour reminds me of the type of really shit litrpg author who insists on shoving skill descriptions in every goddamn page.

This guy can only write one story, if you read one of his books you have read them all

I can't enjoy his slop. Mistborn sounds like a meme in the making.

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>>732184843
>even something like The Black Company
To this day Myth and Battle Brothers are still the closest we'll ever get to TBC. One for spot-on atmosphere and story, and other for managing your mercenary company.

>>732190451
> The 2nd book is especially cringe with a character that's pretty much Coldsteel the hedgehog
I remember that one being particular bizarre after it turned out his schizophrenic intrusive thoughts, and Vin being the sole exception to them, was just the evil god just fucking with him for the fun of it
May as well have named him Wimp Lo and be done with it

>>732190992
>Way of Kings
Good everywhere except the Shallan chapters and the flashbacks
>Words of Radiance
Good everywhere except the Shallan chapters, which are now also the flashback so it's a little bit less good than Way of Kings but you can still speedread
>Oathbringer
Pvre Kino...except the Shallan chapters
>Rythm of War
Shitty unless you're a magic system autist. Kaladin's plotline is great though and the ending is decent
>Wind of Truth
Bad, nothing to save except mmmmmmaybe the Adolin plotline. Only read it out of sheer inertia.

>Sanderslop is getting adapted
>No one picking up Tad Williams kino
We're in purgatory

>>732190940
There are plenty of lolcow authors, but he isn’t one of them. He’s past his prime and probably very close to his Icarus moment, but he’s not there yet.
Personally I’d choose Scalzi, or if you want a truly failed author you can follow the antics of OnA’s prized pig Patrick “Rick” Tomlinson

>>732191245
Good, I enjoyed flower war and I don’t want anyone ruining it for me.

>>732186326
Largely all millennial tier post-Whedon slop and poorly disguised smut.

>>732190940
If you have not read sword of truth you are not allowed to discuss fantasy lolcows.

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>>732191683
>But stand. Kaladin. DID.

>>732184802
I don't get what niggas love so much about this guy or his series.

>>732185476
>listening to retarded faggot redditors who corrupted him a la Wormtongue.
?

>>732191860
Oh you know, the usual
>You know what people really want to read about? Gay romance.

>>732191683
If a man can’t discuss moral clarity or the demon chicken, they have no business discussing literary cows, it’s true.

>>732191860
Sanderson had a (now deleted) blog post saying he wouldn't touch gay or transgender stuff, saying he was iffy on them due to his religion.

His latest works now have full blown support. The constant AMAs he has on Reddit had a bunch of LGBT redditors saying they would LOVE to see this or that in his works. It looks like he's finally cracked.

>>732191804
I love that line. You can tell just how BADASS it sounded in Sanderson's mind only to be mocked by everyone.

>>732191683
I do love it when Le Sword man uses his sword to split the timeline into real world (bad people) and magic world (real people)

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>>732184843
>The Black Company
Garrett would be way easier. It basically already exists. Actually I wonder if one was inspired by the other.

>>732191950
it's just authors aligning with whatever is perceived as a popular topic. practically everything published these days has some sort of lgbtq tag, for example.

>>732184802
>Didn't the Witcher author sold off his rights to CDPR
Yeah he did, they offered him a cut of the game's sales or something and he declined, took a one-time payment instead because he thought it would fail catastrophically.
>and hated what his series has become
Nah he just got incredibly asspained that it was a huge success and he wasn't getting a cut, even though it was his dumbass decision to refuse a cut in the first place. IIRC CDPR gave him some more money at a later point or something.

>>732192014
Was that before Tattoo man and the machine that tells bad prophecies, or was it after "oops, witches erased my girlfriend from history"?

>>732191950
It was such a breath of fresh air when one author I follow said in response to a question about the subject
>they’re wizards, they have bigger problems to focus on
And actually stuck to it

>>732191940
for me its the book where MC is captured by magic communists and forced to work in a stone quarry, and defeats the communists by making a statue of his wife that is so beautiful it turns all of the communist villagers into willing serfs who name her as their mistress and queen and therefore the MC as their master and king. it was very heroic and good and morally compelling.

He can't get a pitch since most game devs are woke demons or part of the jew liberal cabal. They'll ridicule anyone who is believes in Christ and his morals.

>>732192030
Most of the publishing decrees are for the low level authors who have no choice but to cave or eat shit.
Sanderson is big enough that he could easily ignore those mandates if he felt like it. The guy literally sells more than every fantasy diversity hire in the industry by himself, and that’s not hyperbole. Hell, he probably sells more in one year than the Hugobait hires ever will.
Jim Butcher’s latest books have absolutely no traces of it beyond his ever present Amazon fetish that predates the mandates, and he was gone for long enough that the difference would be stark enough to instantly spot.

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>>732192023
I'd be shocked if they weren't. Garrett PI started in the late '80s giving it a decade headstart. Fun fact: Pratchett himself played and really liked Discworld Noir.

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Tangentially related, whatever happened to that TMNT: Last Ronin game that was in development?
Mite b cool.

>>732191950
What's wild is that he still donates heavily to the Mormon Church but apparently it's okay for redditors?

>>732192291
Sanderson sells a lot, he's big in his industry. But he has zero sway in any industry outside that.
He doesn't have any TV shows, or movies, or games. And that's where the BIG money is, not books.
He's been pushing for years to break out of books, I have no doubt he would completely throw his morals and style away just to get greenlit somewhere.

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>>732192339
I forgot about this
Last I saw it had no dev/publisher

Now it has Black Forest Games and THQ Nodric

Epic was originally supposed to make the game plus a full-feature movie rendered in Unreal, but then it never happened for reasons. Probably because Tim wanted to make the metaverse instead of wasting time on things people were interested in.

>>732185382
>It's very clean
Hard pass, thanks for the warning

What would it even be about? Anime battles or rooftops that take half a chapter?

>>732192448
Ah, I assumed you were talking about publisher pressure rather than his personal quest for external validation.

>>732191950
Oh so it's the same shit as everything else now, thanks for saving me so much time, I almost started reading him.

>>732192339
I still don't understand how they landed on who they did to be the last survivor

Spoilers, obviously

>>732185083
So shut the fuck up then. WoT is unreadeable slop.

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>>732191136
>mfw dude comes out with a sequel 25 years later
Even crazier he already did that once before with Dread Empire.

>>732184927
>He's better than that.
I've only read mistborne 1-3 but his character doesn't feel consistent in what info they retain or they are supposed to be retarded. The prose is bland as you said.

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>>732192539
Half the game is dancing at balls and flirting with cute noble boys.

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>Mogs your epic fantasy

>>732192652
>The books are pretty much already finished and will be published in a regular manner
>He's 80+ btw
It's crazy this doesn't make retards like Rothfuss catch even more shit retroactively.
I'm waiting for the quadrilogy to be fully published, hope Lady and Croaker get to plap for eternity

>>732192679
Can't we instead flirt with cute petite barefoot metalmancers or whatever it was called?

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>>732188960
He lied, his published revealed he brought her basically an empty manuscript of b2 where most chapters were "something happens".
He then proceeded to grift millions of dollars in "charity" like the kike he is. God, I hate Rothfuss.

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>>732184802
Talk shit about Sanderson and his quality, but the man writes. Remember when he put out four surprise novels on top of everything else?

>>732192743
No. You are forced to fall in love with the first Noble Vin meets, who's the son of noble Hitler. He makes her wet because he says he reads books.

>>732192838
>straight up plagiarizes FFX
>his fans eat it up
bravo Brandon

>>732192696
Wow that's some bad cover art. Did the guy who made the original ones die?

>>732192838
good thing about sanderson is you don't have to wait for the books or wonder if he'll ever finish his series. on the flipside it's all slop.

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>>732192882
Josh Kirby died like, 25 years ago, dude.

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>>732192882
Nah I just grabbed it because I think the MC has a potato face in the original cover

>>732192916
Sometimes slop is good. I'm enjoying the hell out of Dungeon Crawler Carl while travelling. 10+ hour flights are a bitch and this helps.

>>732192969
F

>>732192696
Love me some Terry Pratchett.

>>732192984
I love Kidby's Discworld art, but sometimes his faces are Frieren's head meme tier.

>>732192984
TRVE
MORMON
WAIF

>>732193013
There’s degrees of slop. Personally I’ve got time for it if I can tell the author actually wants people, actual people, to enjoy it.
I remember reading one Capeshit book on a flight, and was startled by the central theme primarily being about the importance of fatherhood and consequences despite the blurb raising more red flags than a Chinese parade.

>-born
can people stop naming shit like this

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>>732192652
I was surprised to find how divisive Cook's writing is. People love or hate it, and despite being one of the key authors of dark/military fantasy he never really attained much recognition.

>>732193684
He's too kino for the modern readers who need everything explained to them

>>732193684
With some writers you can tell they're writing with the left hand while jacking off. Cook and whoever wrote Powder Mage books especially.

>>732193684
That's because only the second book is good.

>>732193828
With the wintery city and the undead, right? Fuck me, I barely remeber anything.

>>732185083
Do you mean he should've written them less sanitized than Jordan, because the violence levels and sex (fade-to-black) are the same.

>>732193825
I’m convinced the powder mage author posts here.
Redhead magic lolis aren’t exactly common material

>>732194228
I dropped it after he mentioned rape three times in the first three chapters. Degenerate kike shit.

>>732192969
>Ephebians and Tsortians have a battle comprised entirely of wooden horses
Never gets old

>>732193684
I read the first Garrett book and almost dropped him as an author entirely.
I don't know if it's on purpose but he writes about things that he made up in his head as if they should be obvious to the reader, when in fact they have no idea what's happening. Someone described it as reading something where every other 2 pages are glued together or missing. Also a lot of important events are delivered by offhand remarks or innuendo so you have to pay attention to catch them and then wonder if it meant what it said or if he was making a joke.
He toned it down in later entries so I assume he was aware of it.

>>732192151
I’ll always be baffled by the sheer ego the guy has. I get that he was well aware of the Del Ray mandates due to his first book being a textbook example of it, and the second he could branch out into what he wanted to write he could say his was different to the tidal wave of derivatives that cancerous company published, but how the fuck he got the idea he had somehow ascended fantasy as a genre is beyond me.

>>732192880
Which one was rip off of ffX?
i didn't read any of them

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Don't look.

>>732195886
Yumi and the nightmare painter

>>732196045
>41 million
>for something that will have operational costs of about 10-15
living the goddamn dream

>>732184802
BRANDO
SANDO

mistborn
red rising
sun eater
the holy trinity of YA fantasy fiction

>>732197323
>sun eater
Genuinely unreadable plagiarism. Makes Mistborn and Red Rising look like high literature in comparison

>>732197363
Sun Eater is interesting to people who haven't read any other SF in their life. It gets better later on, but no one sane should read two books before "it gets good".

>>732197363
Yeah I tried the first book and all I could see was a poor Dune rip off. I've heard it gets better though

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>>732197323
>red rising
My wife, Mustang

Unironically enjoy Robin Hobb more and that's a woman.

>>732196093
>>732196045
When you're an author that has a dedicated fan base like him, you just shit money. It helps that he's incredibly efficient with his book releases. He releases at least one a year. Something fat fuck gurm could try doing

>>732197441
>>732197445
I got up to 30% of book 2 and it was still the same slop
>not-lightsabers
>not-mentats
>no likeable characters (no personalities on them either)
>MC used as mouthpiece on Ruocchio's opinions of women, prostitution, religion
I'd say it can't get much worse and pathetic, but someone told me he unironically glazes Jordan Peterson as a great thinker in later books

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>>732197518
>It helps that he's incredibly efficient with his book releases. He releases at least one a year.
he's every publishing house's wet dream. imagine being DAW, signing up rothfuss and then fucker can't deliver on the third book.

>>732184802
He probably won't find anyone giving him fu creative control if he doesn't pay for it himself. If he gives up full control, it will be a modern audience game. Let's hope it's playable. I feel like it's the wrong time in history to make media if you don't keep full control over it.

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>>732197620
>signing up rothfuss and then fucker can't deliver on the third book.
Every time I hear that name I think of when he put out a job advert for a slave

>>732197625
The pendulum has swung. I find that the age of wokeness is almost over at least in video games. Shit like concord or highguard is mostly the result of long development cycles. No one wants to take the risk of having their games review bombed on Steam anymore

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>>732197910
Some will still carry the banner of shit.

>>732197712
Does he just not want to do anything in life? What the fuck am I reading here

>>732198007
Divorced man crash out

>>732197712
I wonder what the pay was, does he provide a place to stay? From what I read you're on call 24/7 most likely. Did he find a chump?

>>732197518
Any professional author should aim for around 100k published words per year on average

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>>732197591
I find it interesting that Ruocchio didn't write anything before Sun Eater. He only edited some other works, and then got immediately picked up by a publisher for his series. Someone like Ryan Cahill like a far more authentic case as his The Bound and The Broken started out self-published.

>>732184843
>Malazan Book of the Fallen
Good fucking luck

>>732198275
I tried reading this and it's bottom of the barrel slop too. Doesn't even have enough to it to be guilty pleasure. Same goes for the Quaintrell dude

>>732198365
It's basically a Sun Eater fantasy equivalent focused on the dragon rider fantasy. it supposedly also gets better.

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>>732198206
How does 0 words a year sound?

>>732198402
Ruocchio has a decent grasp of prose at least, Cahill writes like a grade schooler

>>732184802
Skyward-themed Colony Wars reboot...
Please...
That's all I'm asking for

>>732198454
there won't be more novels until he dies and his assistants finish the damn thing. mark my words.

>>732198454
WITH ENDLESS OPTIONS FOR RENEWAL

>>732197712
>Yeah, do my kids homework for me too and book my haircuts
lmao what a fucking bum

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>>732184802
This thread is a reminder that with the entirety of 80+ years of genre fiction at your disposal, why the fuck would you pick up a new series until it's mostly done/complete? Go read one of the hundreds of series that are just waiting for you.

>>732198584
I recall that he’s trying to finish the side books or something like that. At least we’ll have enough material for the Dunk tv show and Fire & Blood 2. He’s basically given up on the main books at this point

I started reading Kate Daniels as guilty pleasure but the authors are now unironically my favorite in the Urban Fantasy genre.

>>732198275
I am sick of these generic book names and covers

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>>732199108
Agreed.

>>732198350
The writing and worldbuilding is already video game tier lmao, it's a perfect fit.

>>732184802
Did MC fuck his Navi yet?

Ive been reading the ultimate litrp slop and enjoying myself. The wandering inn

>>732190992
Good god the first part of that book was pure drag. Felt like literally nothing was happening. Glad I didn't continue after finishing it

>>732199472
I read he who fights monsters and primal hunter on a 24h flight, and it only just struck me that Jason and Jake are the Virgin and Chad of litrpg protagonists.

Honestly a Mistborn game would be a fun Prototype/Infamous-esque action game. I'd love to have the push-pull abilities and just slingshot myself around a city.

>>732199626
I see it as a Dishonored clone and the book already has that vibe anyway

>>732185653
Not like Wheel of Time was ever great, I mean it was better than most but I wouldn't call it great personally. One can only read so many description of dresses, hairstyles, jewelry and carpets before getting bored out of his mind.

>>732184802
>AAA
It's going to be some liveservice hero shooter game, isn't it?

>>732199737
WoT got sabotaged by his wife persuading him to string it along for the sales.
If he’d been more concise he probably could have finished it before he died, and definitely would have bypassed the great slog

>>732187284
>pic
Why does reading this cuck shit whenever its posted always make me irrationally angry?

>>732200010
because you still have healthy testosterone levels and a functioning brain unlike NTRniggers and redditfags

>>732200010
Because you put yourself in the shoes of the author reading over what he just wrote, and you think to yourself
>how the fuck would anyone let their editor see this, let alone publish it?

>>732199812
I'm rereading it now because I hate myself and I'm stuck on the last 20% of Knife of Dreams for like three weeks already. My eyes are rolling to the back of my skull whenever it's Elayne's or Perrin's chapter again. Also people get kidnapped way more than I remember, it's almost comical at this point.
>mfw somehow didn't remember Ogier were a thing at all, in my head it was Moiraine who lead the group through the Ways in book 1

>>732200229
>Skip Elayne chapters
>Skip Egwene chapters
>Skip Perrin chapters
Fixed it for you

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> /vlit thread
> Amber not mentioned
Absolutely plebeian

>>732200302
I kinda like Egwene. She's kinda of a shit person - overambitious, scheming, bitchy, manipulative and controlling (so, a very model of a modern Aes Sedai) but she at least gets shit done without too much whining.

How do you find new books to read without having to get recommendations from other people?

>>732200664
I was neutral on Egwene until she was so jealous of Nynaeve she sabotaged her testing and acted high and mighty after the fact.
RJ's Nynaeve would've decked Egwene right then and there instead of accepting it like Sanderson's did

>>732184802
I feel like it won't be any different this time around. AAA gaming is trending downward and with how much control he seems to want over these licenses, I think most studios will just pass.

Not to mention, Sanderson might be moving into really shitty territory. Wind and Truth was awful and some of his public statements make me think he's going woke.

>>732200696
Well recs from people are the best way to find out things but you can go into a book shop and have a look. You can also use something like goodreads. Log every book you read and it generates things you may like based on what you've read

>more yummy reddit sanderslop
Wake me up when we get an Inchoroi rapestrategy game like Sengoku Rance.

>>732200696
Getting recommendations from people who share your taste in books is usually a good choice. People who read Sanderson tend to recommend books on the same level as Mistborn or Stormlight. People who read Gene Wolfe usually recommend books comparable to Book of the New Sun. You might not step far outside your comfort zone but it’s a safe bet

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>duuude if something isn't edgy, dark and people don't die a lot then it can't be good!!

God I hate edge lords

>>732200721
At least she gets a happy ending

>>732184802
I would only do it if Brandon himself is allowed to have zero involvement or input on the project.

>>732192578
It's because he's who you least expect and the further one to be that kind of character.

>the age of Brandon slop adaptions is about to be thrown at use with this and apple buying the right to the storm light series

Jesus

>>732202272
Bound to have happened sooner or later.

>>732202272
Given the absolute state of recent adaptions, it’s more likely that they’ll kneecap his books

>>732202336
>>732202508
Can't wait for forced representation!!!

We need a Soulsborne Mistborn game right?

>>732184802
Isn't he known as one of the best writers of all time? I have never read anything from him. Is Mistborn good?

>>732203234
He's good. I wouldn't go that far.

>>732202272
It's going to fall apart before it ever gets off the ground, anon. Sanderson is already going full retard and insisting on Mistborn as a theatrical release.
I'm more interested if Red Rising is picked up by anyone, that shit could be slam dunk TV show

>>732184802
I actually kind of like Mistborn but fucking hell the dialogue was cringe and I had this image in my mind of a cheap tv show when imagining what it would look like if it ever got a live action adaptation

>>732203282
It's just what I have heard, not my own opinion of course. Like I said I haven't read anything of his yet

>>732203156
>soulslike
>for a series where the action is primarily about movement and athletics
By Allah behave yourself or get a taste of my shoe

>>732203234
Mistborn is enjoyable but snobby 4channers act like it's the worst thing ever written because it's not a 400 year old classic

>>732203234
Is the sloppiest writer in existence, perfect for AAA, completely safe and politically correct

>>732203370
The first book was the best and it was steady downhill from there.

>>732203234
>Isn't he known as one of the best writers of all time?
Are the writers J.K. Rowling?

>>732203234
Mistborn is consistently mediocre until the point when multiple plot twists retroactively make it good. I'm not joking.

Brandon is gonna be very hands on with all his projects like Oda is with One Piece, if he wants these things to work out for him

>>732203234
No.
His primary strengths are making non derivative worlds and his prolific nature, both of which are standout qualities in a genre heavily infected by copycats and lazy assholes.
In terms of technical skill I’d honestly put him on the level of the average self published fantasy writer.

>>732203483
I never liked Harry Potter. The novels bored me, I just couldn't get into them.

>>732203521
>Hand on with his P....
sounds homosexual as fuck

Thank's for the books /v/, need something to read while waiting for 1.0.0 of the Black Reliquary, since i read all Gotrek and Felix and 3/4 Cain books.

>>732184802
>(Which he now has for the tv/movie side of things, with the deal he signed with Apple)
I'm relieved to hear it. I remember him trying to defend Amazon's version of Wheel of Time and he sounded like his wife was being held at gunpoint on the other side of the camera.

I just read webnovel slop these days

>>732203959
I'd rather live in the world where Sanderson's series was fucked over, than remember Amazon's WoT.

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>Thread full of bookreaders
But videogames are just a better medium. Imagine staring at fucking paper past high school.

>>732204194
Video games """stories"""" are stinking dog shit outside of rare exceptions

>>732203960
I wish so many of them weren’t goddamn litrpgs. I don’t mind the ones that are just using the genre to trick people into reading shit they otherwise never would, but knock off light novel/manga ones can fuck right off

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>>732200468
I guess people actually can suspend their disbelief to the point of accepting cars in fantasy novels. I need to read the rest of that series one day.

>>732204194
First of all, someone can enjoy both of these media at the same time. And most of the time, a book is a better format for telling a complex story unless you count visual novels as video games

>>732204823
Anon... it's fucking words, and yeah you can visualize it in your head but without motion or even pictures it's hard. Entertainment is meant to relax you not work your brain. Vidya already has wildly different opinions depending on who you talk to but books are an impossible thing to discuss on an objective level if everyone has different "third eye" visions of the story. Fuck that.

>>732199108
Blame readers for buying them

>>732204617
True 90% of them are unreadable trash

>>732204931
If your favorite authors are good enough, words can convey emotions just as well as images or music. Personally I don’t find visualizing things to be that difficult. And it’s not like every book demands that much attention from the reader

>>732184881
The one thing Sanderson does well is write fight scenes. Anyone can world build and write complicated magic systems. Nips do it all the time. It takes some effort to write a coherent fight scene that's both exciting and clear as to what is actually happening.
Because of that, I would actually be kind of excited for a Mistborn vidya specifically, because it's clear what the fights are supposed to be like, and pushing and pulling an ingot of iron to splatter their brains is fucking cool.

>>732184802
based randy sandyson

>>732204931
>it's fucking words, and yeah you can visualize it in your head but without motion or even pictures it's hard
this is only a matter of practice.
brainrotted generations and onward find it hard because they never do it.
read 2-3 books, and your brain will turn the pictures into mental movies without effort.

>>732205402
>this is only a matter of practice.
It's not. I read 30ish books a year and see nothing in my head when I read

>>732205731
skill issue

>>732205731
you are probably the fifth guy of that apple meme

>>732205731
>I read 30ish books a year and see nothing in my head when I read
Are you autistic? Why are you also reading a book if you cannot visualise it in your head? That is the joy of reading.

>>732184802
Damn, would’ve been a good fit for Monolith

>>732205892
>Why are you also reading a book if you cannot visualise it in your head?
To enjoy the story and characters? I'll be honest, you sound way more autistic by taking the time to actually map and chart everything inside your head

>>732205957
>by taking the time to actually map and chart everything inside your head
I do not take the time to map and chart things in my head. It happens naturally and at the point of reading. When something is described I can see it in my head. You are a soulless husk.

>>732206012
>When something is described I can see it in my head.
Sounds like autism to me, I'm sorry anon

Way to take the bait, retards.

>>732206508
Took no bait at all, stlaker
Enjoy prison.

>>732205731
I don't believe you

>>732206568
>>732205892
>>732205883
>>732205840
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

>>732190912
Mistborn has people with nails in their eyes and bodies who tear people apart. Sanderson might not spend 5 lages on it at a time but the 1st book alone has a few scenes with people being mulched into nothing or ripped apart and found afterwards.

>>732206612
Yeah that's a thing that doesn't exist

>>732184802
>Do you think it will happen?
They will make MC black and lesbian.

>>732185804
Witcher games made the franchise famous. It would have died in obscurity like so many other good fantasy worlds do. He's a cunt and should be thankful for CDPR making him famous.

>>732207625
You’re thinking too small.
The Lord ruler will be a fucking white male, the original hero of ages was a strong black woman, and the betrayal was due to jealousy that accidentally clashed with Ruin’s plans, not as a last ditch attempt to avoid his trap.

>>732184802
How would the gameplay even work? I could get behind a Wax and Wayne game though

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>>732204194
>hurr durr you cant enjoy 2 things at the same time
skill issue

>>732184802
Are Ian Brandon Sanderson's books even good?

>>732209836
Dunno who Ian Brandon Sanderson is but Brandon Sandersons books are enjoyable. They’re not fine art, and don’t pretend to be, but they’re good novels with better worldbuilding

>>732209836
The general consensus is that they’re fine popcorn books until around book 3-4 of stormlight, whereupon they drop off a cliff

I think wax and wayne would translate to videogame form much better than og mistborn

>>732210695
I would never consciously put someone through Wayne's character

>>732210826
The story is more pulpy, but Waynes timestop power would be fun for a beat em up style combat system. Aslo the guns, of course. From what I remember the first book reads like an openworld game already

>>732208407
I think the translation of the last wish did pretty well, well enough to get the rest lined up for translation, but it would have been a niche series at best

>>732192838
But were they actually good? No. From my shit memory, I think Tress was pretty good except Hoid was insufferable. I feel bad for anyone who attempted to read Sunlit Man without their PhD in the Cosmere and the pacing was weird. Frugal Wizard bland and forgettable and Yumi is the worst thing Sanderson has ever written, even worse than Elantris. How the fuck he got away with a book where 85% of the content is stacking rocks and taking baths is beyond me.

You guys remember that time where Rothfuss stole $700k from a charity and the only thing he's """written""" in over a decade was a rewrite of a story from 2014, where the only notable changes was adding gay sex and magical potions to make you a tranny?

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Mistborn? Oh right, the Fortnite guy!

>>732198719
As long as you aren't suggest people read all the Realm of the Elderlings. Absolutely fucking skip the Rain Wild shit. It's nonsensically the longest of her arcs and the vast majority of those books are dedicated to Big Al's Big Gay Boat Ride. I know they/thems got triggered by Fitz' reaction to the Fool being a homo, but goddamn did she over correct.

>>732214514
I forgot that Mistborn will be footfags favorite thing

Does Wheel of Time mark the POV for each chapter? I read like half the books many, many years ago, but I hate Rand and all his chapters were boring dogshit. Can I just read the cursed luck guy, wolf guy, and maybe the bards POVs and get their full story? Obviously I'll miss the overall narrative, but I don't care.

>>732214514
I don't play the game, but isn't this actually a really rare skin that only came back once or twice? I know I've asked about it before in Fortnite threads.

>>732214990
Rand's PoVs get better right around the half of the series.

>>732189327
CRPG, TellTale type game, plenty of options that could be kino

Brandon Sanderson is / was alright, but child molesting redditors convinced him to pozz his books up and theyre really starting to suck ass. He focuses on gay sex garbage and "minorities" too much. He's too nice to tell the leftoids to fuck off

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Reminder that the Cosmere will never be completed, and his writing was in disarray long before anything regarding his editor retiring.

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>>732198350
I just want a game with dinosaurs with swords for hands.

Is that too much to ask for? Actually it's probably in Turok

>>732215292
100%. The last Stormlight was genuinely fucking terrible. I can't remember a single redeeming thing off the top of my head. I guess I liked Adolin's chapters? On the other hand, it also had forced homo interspecies relationships, the cringiest lines ever written, the bulk of the book was flashbacks, but maybe not, he recycled the shard combination shit from Mistborn, character assassination of Szeth, etc.

>>732215295
Pretty excited to read Dragonsteel book 5 in 2072 to find out who/what Adonalsium was finally. Just a scant 46 more years, bros!

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>>732216089
>>732215295
I unironically believe he’ll finish them though.

>>732184802
>Western trash

>>732216294
Chances are that someone has already ghostwritten that and dream, and is only waiting to “discover” the manuscript after he dies.
The publisher has got to be absolutely livid that he hasn’t written a single word that wasn’t cut from dance

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>>732216089
I used to be excited to learn about the Thing that Killed Adonalsium. Now I don't care lol

>>732193684
He fucked his writing when he started to compare things with others that not belong to his fantasy setting like "machineguns".

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>barely disguised /lit/ thread
hello /lit/ then would you recommend other books like older pulp fiction as a game adaptation. It seems that Brandon Sanderson would already perpetuate bad, moder, joss wheadon writing

I got introduced to Michael Moorcock ever since the /snk/ threads and its been in my readinglist

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>>732218145
>would you recommend other books like older pulp fiction as a game adaptation
I've been shilling for A Night In The Lonesome October adaptation but no luck.

>>732203234
He's no stephen king or mark twain.

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>>732185087
>I didn't bother to continue reading it past the third book
Smart, very smart.

>>732218714
And thank Christ for that.

You'd think Sanderson would translate to games well since his only notable contribution is worldbuilding

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>books run out of gas after the first couple
many such cases

>>732219461
The first was mid but readable, the rest just plain bad and the ending of the third ensures I'll not read any more.

>>732219461
He really ought to have written a straight heist book for the sequel.
I don't know what he was smoking when he decided to rehash another scheme gets derailed and they end up with fuck all plot

WE ARE THE MIST BORN
OUR AIDS IS AIR BORNE

>>732216697
I couldn't agree more with this person. I noticed in recent books his magic shit is essentially science at this point yes, I know the "sufficiently advanced technology" shit, which I don't like. I remember it being almost unbearable in Sunlit Man. And yes, give me my fucking Warbreaker sequel. I doubt I'll like it as well since there's no Lightsong, but I thought it was a pretty great novel, especially for being one of his earliest.

>>732219461
Like Rothfuss, the woman the protagonist pines for is the worst piece of shit character in the entire franchise, which ruins things. I recently read the """short story""" Lynch put out in some magazine, but it was basically just Locke doing part time work at a bar. I do love the world and I wish this faggot would release Thorn of Emberlain sometime this decade.

>>732220597
That's why only the first two books are good, she's not in them

>>732220478
>Warbreaker sequel
never, now that whatshisface and sword are shown to be on Roshar

>>732184802
He and everyone else will be dissapointed I'm sure.

>>732206064
You obviously only have a partially working brain. (Not the same guy, btw. Just also pointing out that you're a retarded NPC)

>>732203234
no, he is great at world building, to sum it up

>>732203234
>Is Mistborn good?
I liked the first book well enough. The second book I finished. I haven't bothered to start the third in two years now.

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>>732184802
>>732184927
>he is definitely not a Marvel chungus style writer. He's better than that.

>>732221706
Honestly the third book is way better than the second

>>732184802
Are these guy’s books litrpg?

>>732218827
That’s the face people make when they pretend they understood book 3’s ending but didn’t want to admit they skimmed half of it.

>>732214990
No they don't. But most of them are condensed together in a row.
Rand gets better as the story progresses. He's unfortunately mostly political chapters for a long time around the middle of the series. His woe is me attitude also gets called out and fixed.
I wouldn't recommend trying that. While the characters are separated for a long time ago their stories are interrelated. Missing one character's POV will leave you completely unable to understand what's going on in your favourite's chapters eventually. Characters meet each other and you get both sides of their interactions pretty frequently. Or events described in one POV are important but not retread for another POV.
It's just not readable like that. But every character improves or gets a good change as the story goes. Even Nynaeve (tugs braid). Well everyone except Egwene, she remains a bitch throughout.

>>732222143
No, one of the things going for them is that they're among the least derivative contemporary fantasy books.
That said, the average litrpg writer probably has comparable writing skills when the genre isn't hamstringing them

>>732198350
>>732184843
It exists, it's called Dominions and even has the T'lan in it as summons

>>732193147
>Frieren's head meme tier
nobody understands you

>>732190912
doesn't vin chop elind's dad in half with a big fucking metal guts sword?

>>732223975
Yes, someone gets bisected vertically but I'm not sure who.

>>732223975
>>732224009
that was about the most GAR moment in the entire trilogy

>>732224009
there was also a scene in the third book where they're creating a hemalurgist by hammering a pig metal stake through an allomancer's chest straight through into the heart of the inquisitor underneath
it's not like it was SAW or anything but at least in mistborn it never felt like sanderson shied away from gory scenes

>>732221784
What the fuck

>>732222143
They are one step removed basically. Prose is about on the level st least

His Brandon's stuff better than New Sun?

>>732185219
What do you dislike about those two?

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Which sci fi novel do I want to read next?

>>732225023
Vin had zero personality at all. She like a fucking blank slate the entire series. Kelsier is good, but the whole "secret puppetmaster of everything with the Ghostbloods" shit is starting to get old.

>>732222384
NTA but I'm in the middle of the sixth book right now and I can feel my eyes glaze over every time it's a nynaeve or elayne POV chapter, the urge to skip them is almost unbearable

>>732225682
blindsight
then its side-quel echopraxia + the related blindopraxia short stories
the culture is fun but consider phlebas was a poor introduction

Why does nobody actually write fantasy like Tolkien anyways? Everyone always says "Tolkien copy this, Tolkien copy that" but out of all the fantasy I've read, they don't copy anything really. Even superficially. Everyone makes annoying shitty books that might as well take place in modern San Francisco based on behavior and dialect, the blending of sci fi tech into everything, the anime fights, the extreme gore; none of that is Tolkien. In fact you'd be hard pressed to find any notable fantasy books releaaed the last ten years that even have your typical Elves, Dwarves and Orcs in a medieval fantasy setting.

Is anything recent from Mark Lawrence good? I know his name is usually thrown out for modern fantasy writers. I read the series with the edgelord kid that got ruined by the "teehee, it's a bomb. Get it, it's the real world!" shit and I read the ninja nun book but don't remember too much.

>>732225843
We can't do it anymore. We've lost the technology to do it.

>>732225983
I have read The Book That Wouldn't Burn and The Book That Broke the World (the third I'll pick up when it comes out in my country). Pretty good stuff, even if I liked the second book less than I liked the first (mostly) due to the "middle book of a trilogy" syndrome where nothing much happens.