/lit/ - Literature

>>10982238
>girard didn't live to see the era of videogames

chalk this up as being another dumb thing i say. obviously he *did* live to see it, he just didn't write about it. the same goes for baudrillard as well. he lived it, he just didn't spend a lot of time writing about it.

but games are mos def the texts to be used today, i think, if you're looking to write those papers.

>>10982253
pic rel is obviously a personal choice but it is beautiful. for one thing it's a complete labor of love, a bunch of guys got together and made a completely free mega-remake of U5 on the dungeon siege engine. i love me some ultima but it's definitely one of those things where either you will dig it or you won't.

there's a reason people hype planescape, i'd check that out. again, there's lots of long dialogue and stuff. if that's your thing you will like it, if not you won't.

fallout 2. it's an old game now and has Old Game stuff going on in it. but for all that it's fucking brilliant also.

i mean these are games that i think contain within them some pretty cogent arguments for playing games (since you may have to explain later on that, you know, you're doing it for philosophy reasons...). obviously you should read books, do your homework, exercise, eat vegetables, blah blah.

but those three are all pretty good. they're all slow and provide pretty slow-drip dopamine hits. my steam library will tell me that i've put far more hours into games that are just 100% mashing the Pleasure Button ad infinitum. but generally speaking i would say i racked up the most time playing games like that because i was achingly fucking depressed.

when i'm not looking for pure escapism, i recommend games that have some more lit-crit value, such as those above. there are others i'm probably forgetting, but those three are all good, for various reasons.