/lit/ - Literature

>>17124512
This is actually one of my fave games.
It has surprisingly deep gameplay for an RPG.

>>17124512
Xenogears Perfect Works

>Don't say Ready Player One FFS

>>17124512
obviously this

>>17125543
Idk why but I want to say The Odyssey

>>17125574
I admire your post for its allusive nature, but get out

Based but I believe this was the most decent JRPGs out there because it did not suddenly jump the shark halfway through.

>>17124512

>>17124890
I was also going to post this one

>>17124890
Heart of Darkness

>>17125611
Mahabarata

Xenoblade 2 is my favorite game

Why so many JRPG chads ITT? Get a life you fucking nerds.
Xenoblade X seems like a tough one to rec lit to.

what books feel like bashing your head against the wall repeatedly

help me bros this game is digital crack.

>>17125740
Oh shit that's a clever pick. Would've gone with something Sci-fi though

>>17125533
No thanks Nietzsche is gay as fuck.

I don't play videogames.

>>17127868
Anything by Lovecraft

I liked playing twilight princess when I was a kid.

will we get the 'videogames and anime' posting banned from this board one day?

>>17124512
You're not a child anymore anon

>>17127985
When this site is shut down.

>>17124512
Quintessentially American book that satirizes the breadth of 21st century culture please

>>17127863
Nature and Selected Essays

>>17127990
Okay, and?

Dark Souls 3

I read books like an adult. Video games are for children.

>>17125634
Antkind by Kaufman

>>17128058
IJ or Fight Club

Not the entire franchise, 2 specifically

>>17126864
Field and Wave Electromagnetics -David Cheng

>>17128099
Alice in Wonderland
The Book of the New Sun
HP Lovecraft


If you like the "hidden lore" then check out Iceberg Theory writers such as Hemingway and Carver. If you like bleak pessimism, McCarthy and Ligotti might be worth a look. I don't read much horror but I imagine there's a lot of horror novelists who write DS-esq novels.

>>17127892
Infinite Jest.

>>17125573
Anything by Philip K. Dick.

>>17125517
Jack Reacher.

>>17127876
yeah that's what's so great about him

>>17124512
I just wanted to say that I had an epiphany today, Murakami is to literature what the Yakuza series is to vidya. The games and his works are all pretty same-y, so whether or not you enjoy them depends on if that overrides your experience of them or you find the earnest nature of the works and the small details that separate them endearing.

>>17128301
See >>17128212

>>17128304
The Luzhin Defense

>>17128318
The Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost.

>>17128295
The Da Vinci Code

>>17128318
>>17128301
black company

>>17128375
is that carentan? i lost a few teen years to that map on PC

>>17128391
me too. what makes it so good?

>>17128400
something about the flow, the spawn points moved perfectly to make everything a complete shitshow but without neverending bottlenecks. i always played on max servers so it was just a haze of grenade spam and spawnkilling. i only played k98 default (not sniper) because i was a little tryhard.

fuck this brings back memories i wasn't expecting to have even retained. i remember playing chateau, and brecourt. i remember playing the CS1.6 knockoff gameplay mode on depot and harbor. i remember hating playing stalingrad, because it encouraged shitty players to camp, but it made it fun to clear them out of the opposing houses. i just barely remember rocket, and how it was one-sided (or something?) because it was a shooting gallery for one team in the initial 30 seconds?

crazy, i remember the exact feeling of all of them, not just thinking about them but being there. i wish i understood this feeling, i never get why nostalgia feels like it's always just out of reach. maybe for other people it isn't, but for me it's like it's just close enough to be tantalizing but too far to actually hold onto, and the more you try to hold the more it slips away.

similar memories with DOD, which nobody remembers or reminisces about. just felt a feeling i haven't felt since i was probably 14, the feeling of getting too far into the axis spawn and knowing you were going to die eventually but could bushwhack them for at least one spawn cycle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqa5A0obreA

>>17124966
Conan the Barbarian - Robert E Howard

>>17125647
Cats Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut

>>17127981
Northern Lights - Philip Pullman

>>17128148
Forever War - Joe Hadelman

>>17127863
The collected works of Neal Stephenson, but especially Cryptonomicon.

You might say the book has nothing to do with industry, and you'd be right, that's not why I'm recommending it - it's because it and Factorio both give you an intensely pleasurable sense of autism.

The atmosphere this game gave off was captivating.

Is there a better post apocalyptic world than the one in Fallout NV? Can any book or movie compare?

>>17128530
A Canticle for Leibowitz

>>17128535
Extremely this. It's one of those post-apocalyptic works where if any part of it feels even remotely cliched, it's because everyone has been copying A Canticle for Leibowitz since its publication.

>>17128527
Have you considered Roadside Picnic

>>17124512

>>17128575
The plague by Albert Camus.

>>17125573
Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling
>>17128375
Band of Brothers. E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
>>17128575
Anything by Kafka

But don't recommend any Ian Fleming.

>>17124512

>>17124512

>>17128686
Hostess: First Time Feminization by D.L. Savage

>>17124890
Ready player two

>>17125543
For whom the bell tolls

>>17128676
The Road

>entry level books
>entry level vidya
hissssssssss

>>17128715
Oh fuck you

hey im that anon that postted factorio. my other favs are zachtronic games. any recs for this ?

>>17128780
I wasn't kidding about the Neal Stephenson recommendation and the Cryptonomicon.

But I'll also add in Greg Egan as another good author to pursue

I really like American Truck Simulator as a chill-out game, especially before going to bed. I'll put some music on the radio and spend a good half hour obeying the traffic laws, it's really quite calming.

How can I get that in literary form?

YU-NO

>>17128545
I've heard it's very different, but i'll probably read it eventually. The game was very good at transporting you and making you feel as a part of the zone, the swamps, the howling and the distant echoes of screams together with the eminent buzzing of anomalies at first unsettle you, but eventually become sort of comforting in their own way. The contrast between the areas reclaimed by nature and the zone's very own ecosystem and those man made relicts long abandoned, such as the underground laboratories and the old soviet style buildings, the solitude and danger looming around every corner contrasted with the relative safety and warmth of a friendly campfire with that old tingling string guitar playing, it all ties into this strangely beautiful, yet dangerous world that leaves it's mark on you.

>>17124512
my favorite game as a kid. I genuinely feel like I have an intuition for the game mechanics when I play it as an adult now.

>>17128737
autism: the reply

>>17128099
>>17128301
>>17128686
The Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton

>>17128630
The Fortunate Fall by Raphael Carter

>>17128737
>And then I’ll complain about the problem instead of doing anything about it! Yes!

>>17129043
The first game is a rip-off of The Road so you might as well read that.

>>17128436
I sunk a good 750-1000 hours into DOD. Sneaking through buildings to get to the other side of the map on Avalanche... my heartrate would always skyrocket once I got inside the enemy base.

>>17128949
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.

>>17128945
There are a collection of HP Lovecraft audiobooks you might like. They are read by Wayne June, the narrator from Darkest Dungeon.

>>17128918
What you're describing is mindlessness. Which is hard to find in literature. (Even straight forward literature such as Hemingway still requires you to pay attention.)

You might want to look at modern popfiction best sellers, straight-forward genre fiction, or possibly even comic books if you want that same "stop focusing and let the author tell me what to do" feeling.

>>17124890
Ready Player One
>>17128304
Through the Looking-Glass
>>17128575
The Doomed City
>>17128630
Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace

>>17128897
noted anon thanks

Let's do it

>>17124512

>>17130212
Sahara by Clive Cussler. Also all the rest of the novels in the dirk pitt series by the same author.

Enough of the baby shit. Let's get real vidya in this thread.

>>17128500
>>17128148

You gotta read that shit, Forever war's so fucking good

>>17124512

How can literature even compete

>>17124512

>>17131122
And please don't say lovercraft or dracula

>>17130170
Harry Potter and The Cursed Child

>>17131133
It's hard to recommend much else when the lovecraft mythos was one of the biggest inspirations.

>>17131140
Iliad.

>>17131140
The Iliad

>>17131153
I know but what I really want is a recommendation with the same feel as the pic I posted (It doesn't have to be a book, any sort of media would do)

>>17131195
Arsene Lupin gentleman thief.

>>17125610
Is the 3ds version good?

>>17131388
My Miserable Life as an Asian Boy Growing up in America: Humiliation, forced feminization, forced homosexuality, castration, brainwashing, slavery, solitary confinement, despair by Ling Anderson

>>17131388
pic related

>>17131388
Do androids dream of electric sheep.

>>17131415
kek

>>17131122
bloodborne?

>>17124512
Fuck off you worthless faggot.

>>17131487
yep, but I want something that captures the feel of the pic

This thread screams reddit. What are the mods fucking doing?

>>17128812
Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin

>>17128676

>>17130753
>>17131490
I was Earthbound first. But whatever, where's our suggestions!!!

>>17132094
Blindsight by Peter Watts.

Ghost of Tsushima

>>17124512
Hotline Miami

>83 unique posters

>>17124512
Geuss you could say I want a comfy and exciting journey

Just for keks

>>17130667
naked lunch

>>17132198
patriotism by mishima

>>17131569
man wtf, seems like there's so much I missed on my first run. I only used the axe and I didn't have any of those cool outfits and weapons in that pic. Idk how to even get that doll outfit. I was so disappointed when gherman chopped my head off and the credits started rolling. I was like really, that's it? I'm guessing this is one of those games that you have to replay over and over again to truly "get it".

Good luck.

>>17132220
Hunter S Thompson maybe

>>17128676
>17128676
Thanks for posting this. Never played this game, probably never will but the cover art astounded me so much I looked it up and learned from wikipedia it was influenced by an Italian artist, Giorgio de Chirico. These are exactly the kind of landscapes I adore, dark, empty, ancient, beautifuel. So thanks for helping me unintentionally I love stuff like this!

>>17133865
The death of bunny munroe.

>>17128304
https://www.amazon.com/Grand-Strategy-John-Lewis-Gaddis/dp/1594203512

>>17125543
Florida Roadkill

>>17128672
https://www.amazon.com/The-House-Rothschild-Prophets-1798-1848/dp/0140240845

>>17130795
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6378795-siege

>>17128979
Street of crocodiles

>>17129025
Roadside picnic is a must, after that watch the tarkovski film

>>17130753
>>17131490
>>17132025
The Thomas Pynchon short story "The Secret Interrogation"

>>17135269
Integration*
pls excuse me

>>17133676
You are missing out man, that snowy area is the best in the game

>>17134963

>>17128812

Anything for Metroid?

>>17124890
Something star wars.

>>17127892
that's one you fucking retard

>>17128954
Made in Abyss manga or IT

Inb4 LOTR
>>17126864
Ulysses
>>17127892
The Pale King

>>17130729
bumping for this

>>17130753
>>17130753
stephen king's IT

>>17135990
Ender's Game


Requesting lit for pic related, both The Journey and The Answer. Could be separate books.

>>17131429
Synopsis sounds cool, thanks

>>17131388
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera.

>>17131596
Masturbating with cunny threads, obviously.

>>17124512

>>17124890
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

>>17134648
No problem, for what it’s worth if you ever get the chance to play it do so (if you are a fan of video games) it is a puzzle thriller game with a simplistic minimalist story and a gorgeous setting. The graphics are a bit dated but if that doesn’t bother you you’ll have a blast. Enjoy your art (I recommend an artist named Vladmir Kush)

>>17131557
A canticle for leibowitz

>>17124512
Game was a snooze fest, returned it

>>17131596
Experten that you get some good recommendations. Reddit only knows Gaiman and Steinbock.

I think threads like this don't work very well because everyone is trying to find literary (in the sense of 'proper literature') equivalents to these games, and for most of them there really aren't any. If there's anything similar out there, they're going to be sci-fi, fantasy, or other genre works. But this board is too scared of looking dumb to read or recommend anything like that.

>>17131122
Any weird fiction short story collection by Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, M. R. James, Robert W. Chambers, William Hope Hodgson, E. F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen, August Derleth, Frank Belknap Long, and so on *sniffs* and for more modern stuff, look for Bruno Shulz, Jean Ray, Hanns Heinz Ewers, T. E. D. Klein, Robert Aickman, Ray Campbell, Daphne du Maurier, Charles Beaumont, Richard Matheson, Laird Barron, John Langan, Thomas Ligotti, Jon Padgett, Jeff Vandermeer, etc.

If you want novels and novellas:

The Night Land - William Hope Hodgson
A Voyage to Arcturus - David Lindsay
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath - H. P. Lovecraft
The Great God Pan - Arthur Machen
The Wendigo - Algernon Blackwood
The Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe
The Terror - Dan Simmons
The fisherman - John Langan

If you want the easy way: Look for The Weird, an anthology of 110 weird fiction short stories edited by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer.

Also read Supernatural Horror in Literarure by H. P. Lovecraft if you want more weird reads and authors.

>>17136261
bumpin for this and majora

>>17128676
SoTC was better.

>>17136591
>>17136591
One is a puzzle platformer game, the other an action adventure game. Pears and oranges aren't the same.

>>17136561
The Iron Dragon's Daughter

>>17129244
But modern popfiction best sellers and genre fiction all strive for action and suspense, which are the exact opposite of what I want.

>>17128565
+1

I am a fucking brainlet and will probably not stand anything you'll suggest

>>17132997
Catch 22

>>17128169
kek

>>17136534
tales of the otori
samurai becomes assassin

This thread is awful and you're all a bunch of manchildren now rec me some shit for best vidya

>>17135588
how do I access that shit? Is it part of the dlc?

>>17134963
Lolita

>>17124512
The Deep by John Crowley

>>17124966
Universal Baseball Association

>>17125573
The Diamond Age

>>17125634
Ice by Anna Kavan

>>17127863
The Cyberiad

>>17128301
Book of the New Sun

>>17128686
Viriconium

>>17129117
Black Leopard, Red Wolf

>>17131490
Illuminatus! Trilogy

The only rec I've gotten is a book I've already read.