/lit/ - Literature

>>12438337
The Metal Gear Solid Saga in the following Order
>3, 2, 1 (in no particular order)
>Peace Walker
>Power Gap
>Another power gap
>MGS 5
>Dog Shit
>Metal Gear Solid 4

Ico and The Witness.

I give film threads a pass because /tv/ is cancer, but there are no /lit/ video games

>>12438337
MUMMY

which garden hose is /lit/, /lit/?

>>12438399
>plebs on my board

>>12438337
Books for the feeling of UNLIMITED POWER?

What does lit think about the way the story gets told in Dark Souls?

>>12438424
Terrible.

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>>12438402
>kreiaposting occurs on every board
the future is bright

>>12438424
I'd like the story if it wasn't mostly westaboo nonsense, though the themes are pretty great. Every medium should play to its strengths; exploration and interaction are key in video games, and Dark Souls does them well.

Games aren't /lit/.

>>12438402
tfw no kreia mommy

>>12438359
>>3
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BRA-PAP PAP PAP PAPAP

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>>12438402
Can i marry her?

Considering how much board jerks off the medical age, I’m surprisef no one posted pic related

>>12438462
>medical age

>nothing but kotorfags
The absolute state of this pseud board.

>>12438493
Most overrated pretentious “indie” (made on a budget of millions) game ever

>>12438526
>overrated
>pretentious
One can tell you were born about the same year it was made.

>>12438359
Rising revengance is the best metal gear game.

>>12438526
>famously self-financed single-dev game
>budget of millions
Well, shouldn't expect someone who posts shooters in a /lit/ thread to have over 80 IQ.

>>12438564
I was exaggerating

>>12438337

Alan Wake

>>12438582
>tweed jacket with elbow pads

>>12438424
I really like it, probably my favorite game. Regardless of how people shit on aspects of it, the game was incredibly good at making me feel the things it wanted me to feel in subtle ways and making me seek things out to know more about what was going on.
The persistent mistrust you end up having of every single one of the few npcs you meet is good too, the way everyone clearly wants something and would gladly take advantage of you to get it. I like the theory that everyone isn't actually giving you a creepy laugh as soon as they stop talking, but you hear that because you're close to going hollow.

>>12438573
Claiming something diametrically opposed to reality is not exaggerating, reddit. Go back to your /v/irgin cuckshed.

>>12438337
Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross

>>12438411
they are zoomer enough to not member that,
that being said kotor2 might be a good followup after abu nameless al updatemyjournalee

First we have to narrow it down, to be /lit/ there has to be some sort of story or character development over time. So multiplayer games like tf2 or DOTA are out of the picture. Next is the issue of balance between gameplay and narration. Games like persona 5 have a garbage combat system that makes getting through the 90 hours of game a slog when the rest of the game does a great job building a world and characters to the generic archetype. Then you have games on the other side of the spectrum where the gameplay is engaging, fluid, and fun, so at that point the plot turns into the cutscene or the “walking around slowly as the characters talk and you can’t do anything” type situations. These games struggle with merging the mediums together and it’s apparent. Then we have games with multiple endings where your choices determine where things go, the choose your own adventure style game. These are important to the medium because the one thing games do and other mediums don’t is player interaction. The problem here is that most games take a black or white style to writing, which makes things predictable and binary. We saw this in mass effect and others. But why make 10 dramatically different games? The majority of the population isn’t gonna play to completion and the budget gets bigger and bigger. The Stanley parable makes this joke well. Unless you’re gonna jerk off to every ending of bible black, it seems annoyingly repetitive to have to work for those alternative 100% true endings.

The point is that games suck and are generally a cash grab that operate out of a history of competition and challenge as opposed to other mediums that have had thousands of years to progress and change and perfect. The little indie developer that’s good at programming, design, and asset creation is probably not also going to be the same guy who was going to write the next great American novel. Eventually there will be someone like that and it will be the perfect union, but until then enjoy ur codblops and asscreed.

>>12438424
Its pretty good,reminds me of Lord Dunsany

>>12438591

It's a literary game. You literally collect manuscript pages that you can read.

>>12438359
>in the following order
>in no particular order

>>12438606
>. Games like persona 5 have a garbage combat system that makes getting through the 90 hours of game a slog when the rest of the game does a great job building a world and characters to the generic archetype

Otherway around. The gameplay is pretty fun. The writing is awful, like basically every Atlus game.

It's like the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, only better.

>>12438337
Alan Wake was pretty good as far psedo-Lynchian pulp horror stories go
Fallout and Fallout New Vegas are similarly pulpy but feel more like McCarthy
The Metro Series, but that's based on a novel series
The Witcher games for the same reason
Nothing really, though.

Games are so hard to execute with any kind of gravitas or artistic/narrative conviction that it's nearly impossible to find any large scale game that doesn't feel silly at times. The interactivity of a 3D game just offers the player too many opportunities to undercut dramatic moments or tension. Resident Evil 7 is pretty scary at times, but the second you stop suspending your disbelief by walking into a chair to see if you can knock it over it becomes a joke, or just a game at best. That's why a lot of the most emotionally effective games are ones like Limbo, which deliberately restrict your freedom. This happened a lot in Red Dead 2 and God of War this past year. Long cutscenes broken up by narrow combat/puzzling areas form the structure of the narrative, but while you're not involved in the narrative the game will let you be goofy and inquisitive. It's not really a good medium for literary artwork

>>12438616
A poset with a set as the largest element, brainlet.

>>12438337
Super Mario Bros.

>>12438619
And just like murikami, I enjoyed one iteration but won’t be reading any of his other books. Being over exposed to a medium or author, at least for me, detracts from making it special. I haven’t watched anime seriously in more than a decade, so the exposure of persona 5 was a fun nostalgia romp around all the tropes. GET IT TOGETHER JOKER.

The only reply is Lost Odyssey. I cried reading the short stories. A powerful game.

>>12438606
>tfw we will never get a truly /lit/ game on the scale of a Homeric epic where every piece of dialogue is sung in verse.

There are not truly /lit/ videogames. Games are at best on the level of LOTR.

>>12438411
This is the best written game I've ever played. Shame that the gameplay itself is pretty shite.

The Void is legitimately a piece of art.

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Nein

>>12438722
Doki doki literature club. The Stanley parable. Stardew valley.

Kane and Lynch 2.

>>12438758
>Stardew valley

I wish it didn't look like generic shit. I really badly want a farming and hunting game that matches the beauty of the national parks.

>>12438758
>weebsual novella
>chores simulator
>/lit/

>>12438767

*BLOCKS YOUR PATH*

>>12438337
The right answer is none.

>>12438758
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA BRUH LOOK A THIS DUDE OHNONONONONONO

>>12438770
My point was that there are games that aren’t just the hero’s journey.

>>12438337
ive been replaying the halo series and i think as far as sci fi goes it's a pretty well written series

>>12438958

>no kentucky route zero
>no alt-indie walking sims
>no text adventures
all of you are fucking plebs. I'm extremely dissapointed /lit/

>>12438958

The real question is: Are visual novels books or games?

>>12439040
>no alt-indie walking sims
Thanks reddit,very cool!

>>12439040
But those are all shit from literary standpoint.

Metal Gear is such a great series

>>12438359

thankfully this good post was made

>>12438616

you just need to think that way to appreciate metal gear solid. like a weird AI is talking to you through the game and it's like a talking parody of itself, except it's not, and also it will deposit Literature for precisely 10 years later in your life

>>12438958

Disgaea 1

Thief The Dark Project.

I am legitimately surprised that no one has mentioned any game in the trilogy yet.

>>12438493
That's a nice game and there's a princess in it too.

>>12438337

Last of us

>>12438526
This is just GTA missions pack

Fallout was partially inspired by A Canticle for Leibowitz.

>>12438594
I think that's literal exaggeration but okay.

>>12439431
Weakest form of affecting intellectualism. Name drop and then just copy-paste some encyclopedia-tier one sentence summation of the work/author you're namedropping. Fallout New Vegas did the same thing when Caesar name drops Hegel.
This is why video games are terrible.

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>>12439370
Not really lit

>>12439493
But Caesar's entire operation is essentially based on Hegelian dialectics. He doesn't have to mention the guy's name every time he speaks about his plans or motivations.

>>12439233
I don't mean shit like Home Alone or whatever that gay lesbian fanfic was, I mean shit like Kitty Horrorshow or Goblet Grotto.

>>12438402
https://youtu.be/-Z0S0Z8lUTg

>>12439431
This is the problem though. It can't be good on it's own. Even when it's decent it's almost always lifted off some other shit, it's never truly original or interesting.

Also no mention of Failbetter Games or Alexis Kennedy? All of you are just rehashing the /r/games best-of charts. This is embarassing as shit desu.

>>12439686
>expecting anyone to know the names of his shitty gay shit for shit eaters
No, thanks, we don't like shit here.

>>12439686
Space Funeral is more lit than GG desu

>>12439715
t. playing the fast food equivalent of games

>>12439724
I actually haven't played that yet, as I generally dislike the jap RPGs and don't really care about them. Should I give it a try even if I've never played a JRPG?

>>12439747
Not him but you'll probably get bored quickly. If you really want to try /lit/-tier j RPGs, you should play the Mother series instead, especially Earthbound

>>12439732
>t. eating the diarrhea equivalent of games
Still not your coprophiliac community, bubba.

>>12438337
Baldur Gate Saga
Icewind Dale Saga
Planescape Torment
unironically Pillars of Eternity 1
Original Sin 1 and 2
Divine Divinity Saga
Drakenguard Saga
Nier
Nier Automata
Persona Saga
Shin Megami Tensei Saga
unironically Undertale
Resident Evil 1 - 6 is a good action flick
Silent Hill Saga
Hitman Saga
Splinter Cell Saga
Dragon Age 1 and Inquisition
Final Fantasy (but depends on your taste)

>>12439788
/lit/ tier jrpg is an oxymoron
>>12439790
fuck off neo-lit gaylord.

>>12438785
these, and don't forget Fez.

>>12438391
I could never get into the witness because it was so frustrating to solve for a retard like me
What did you enjoy most?

>>12439799
>vidya gayman
>calling anyone neo-anything on other boards
The /v/irgin
He destroyed his board
No
NO
The /v/irgin is here

Based thread.

Grandma Nietzsche Gang

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>>12439199
The more interactive and complex mimigames with fail states , there are in a VN, the closer it is to games on the hypothetical continumm between literature and games. Little busters with baseball and that one VN with Ainu-themed dog people, Utawarenomono, or something, has tactical skirmish combat, are good examples.

>>12438958
M’nwah

>>12439794
>splinter cell
just replace that jingoistic clancy nonesense with Metal Gear and you're alright

Videogames are anti-/lot/ by nature. That being said, there are some good ones.

>>12438758
*vomits inexternally*

>>12438337
any Bethesda RPG mates
barring maybe Fallout 76, but they have a pretty good track record with RPGs that aside

>>12439794
How's high school going son?

Video games are just low-culture but plenty of great writers were interested in low culture.

Pynchon even alludes to Kojima
“Only the framing material," Lucas demurely, "obvious influences, Neo-Tokyo from Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Metal Gear Solid by Hideo Kojima, or as he's known in my crib, God.”