Post a game, get a book like it

[Anonymous No.14859008]

Also, is it possible for a well respected book to be written in the world of a video game? Or even a movie?

[Anonymous No.14859022]

>>14859008
A Canticle for Leibowitz

[Anonymous No.14859260]

>>14859008l
Undertale

[Anonymous No.14859361]

>Also, is it possible for a well respected book to be written in the world of a video game? Or even a movie?
Sure it's possible, but why wouldn't an author just make their own setting instead of being contained in one created by someone else?

[Anonymous No.14859412]

>>14859361
because they have can have interesting worlds or stories that might be enhanced by changing the medium. Same reason movies like to adapt books, basically.

[Anonymous No.14859418]

>>14859260
Paradise Lost

[Anonymous No.14859513]

Anything with a protagonist like Dagoth Ur?

[Anonymous No.14859538]

>>14859418
The Underground Man

[Anonymous No.14859543]

>>14859418
Notes from Underground

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[Anonymous No.14859603]

>>14859008
Blood's A Rover by Harlan Ellison
(or at least the novella part, "A Boy & His Dog")

[Anonymous No.14859626]

>>14859538
there are two novels by that name, which one?

[Anonymous No.14859632]

Grim Fandango?

[Anonymous No.14859969]

Mass Effect?

[Anonymous No.14859973]

>>14859969

[Anonymous No.14859974]

[Anonymous No.14859977]

>>14859008
Op
Like >>14859022
said read a canticle for Leibowitz
Also Alas Babylon and On the Beach (both deal with the aftermath where as Leibowitz is set way later on)

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[Anonymous No.14860024]

>>14859974
what's the gameplay? labyrinth mazes?

[Anonymous No.14860425]

I’m trying my best to find something like it and would massively appreciate decent suggestions.

[Anonymous No.14860481]

>>14859008
I always found Shadow of the Torturer very video-game like, really engrossing.

Also anything by Philip K Dick or Strugatski matches the feeling I get when play a good single player game (think Deus Ex)

I've also hear some Warhammer 40k novels are really really good.

>>14859513
no, but we have the Infernal City and Lord of Souls based in TES
and good music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR-K2rUP86M

[Anonymous No.14860499]

No way this is going to work but oh well....

I don't care as much about the fantasy or D&D aspect and like it more due the character being stuck in conflict between different fractions, and having a manipulative succubus in his head who doubles as the mentor and love interest. Bet it could work in a sci-fi scenario too with Xana being a voice over some brain-chip connection or some magical realism shit with possession.

[Anonymous No.14860518]

>>14860024
https://youtu.be/21Y-oOjuOVQ

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[Anonymous No.14860661]

>>14859969
>>14859973
Revelation Space. When I first read it I actually thought it was what inspired Mass Effect.

[Anonymous No.14860672]

>>14859022
The Earth Abides

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[Anonymous No.14860761]

>>14860747
That game is actually based on a Heart of Darkness.

[Anonymous No.14860790]

>>14860023
anabasis for one

[Anonymous No.14860877]

[Anonymous No.14860928]

Hard mode

[Anonymous No.14860942]

>>14859008

[Anonymous No.14860945]

>>14859008

[Anonymous No.14860968]

>>14860877
Satan Burger

[Anonymous No.14860976]

>>14860425
Lovecraft

[Anonymous No.14861000]

[Anonymous No.14861037]

?

[Anonymous No.14861052]

>>14860747
>>14860761
lets talk about how heart of darkness manifested into a film, apocalypse now, and a video game, spec ops, the line
>>14859008

[Anonymous No.14861255]

>>14860499

Hmmm. The only shit i can think of i dresden files i guess. For a few books in the series the ptotagonist has a angel / demon whispwring him shit in his head.

[Anonymous No.14861569]

>>14861255
Think it's the only one I recall too, though it just wasn't my cup of tea with the amount of fanservices and tropes, bet it'd work better as a fun tv series.

Though wonder why the gimmick seems relatively rare, it's such a fun one and can create easy extra conflict, bantz and used for infodumping too.

[Anonymous No.14861647]

>>14860945
any generic fantasy

[Anonymous No.14861721]

>>14861037
easy, portnoy's complaint

[Anonymous No.14862012]

>>14859977
alright, will do. I'll probably read Leibowitz first but I'll read On the Beach next.

[Anonymous No.14862148]

>>14859632
The glass key by Dashiell Hammett
>>14861000
Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman
>>14860942
Neuromancer by William Gibson
>>14860928
Amusing ourselves to death by Neil Portman

Is there any western book that captures the same feeling?

[Anonymous No.14862153]

>>14862148
Warlock and Butcher's Crossing.

[Anonymous No.14862158]

>>14862148
lonesome dove?

[Anonymous No.14862183]

I'm surprised this hasn't been posted. I would love to find something with a western aesthetic and eastern metaphysic.

[Anonymous No.14862498]

>>14859008
Something like this, or the sequel pls? Im almost to the point where I think I'll have to write my own story in order for there to be a book like system shock

[Anonymous No.14862513]

>>14860683
Chronicles of the crusades
by Jean de Joinville, Geoffrey de Villehardouin,

[Anonymous No.14862519]

>>14860481
>>14859513
Im pretty sure there are a couple of actual elder scrolls novels

[Anonymous No.14862550]

>>14859418
I really, really liked this game. I felt the main character to be very Pynchonesque. Especially Doc from Inherent Vice

[Anonymous No.14862564]

>>14860942
This game is really important to me. It's so clean, so simple, nothing else really matches it. Jennifer Government by Max Barry is a closer fit than Neuromancer; Mirror's Edge is barely cyberpunk. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville is like its opposite. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is slightly similar. I'd love nothing more than a good ME continuation story, unfortunately there isn't even any interesting fanfics

[Anonymous No.14863155]

Anyone know a book with the same feel as this?

[Anonymous No.14863179]

>inb4 it's already a book

[Anonymous No.14863477]

>>14863155
you have the same problem as me fren >>14862498

[Anonymous No.14863487]

>>14863179
Elric of Melnibone series

[Anonymous No.14863825]

>>14863487
Was going to post this top taste anon

[Anonymous No.14863971]

>>14860425
damn i'd love an answer to this. the dynamics of the island is so damn fascinating.

>>14860976
nothing lovecraftian about it besides the sea monsters

[Anonymous No.14864020]

>>14863487
>Arcanum
>Elric series
Absolutely Patrician.

[Anonymous No.14864021]

>>14860023
The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson

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[Anonymous No.14865195]

>>14864037
jung

[Anonymous No.14865297]

>>14861052
It's really amazing how one book has had so much influence on such different mediums. Only other similar thing I can think of is Roadside Picnic, although it's nowhere near as well known.

[Anonymous No.14865302]

>>14862148
True Grit

[Anonymous No.14865309]

>>14862183
Gormenghast. Maybe not the aesthetic/metaphysics aspect, but definitely what I think of when Dark Souls pops up.

[Anonymous No.14865333]

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[Anonymous No.14865492]

>>14861647
Lul fair enough
Was thinking something along the lines of the Templar/mage conflict, blood magic, demonic possession etc

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[Anonymous No.14865502]

>>14865309
Not sure about this one, nigger. I barely know what the game is about, but how can Gormenghast be in any way related to monster killing and generic fantasy shit?

[Anonymous No.14865505]

I don't like this thread

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[Anonymous No.14865692]

[Anonymous No.14866008]

I am looking mainly for the kingdom lost to an unstoppable horror, full of them sweet religious metaphors and stuff. Or maybe just the general feel and aesthetic

[Anonymous No.14866020]

>>14865692
Gravitys rainbow

[Anonymous No.14866126]

>>14866020
Actually haven't read it yet, thanks m8

[Anonymous No.14866137]

>>14860928
The Truck Book by Harry McNaught

[Anonymous No.14866273]

>>14865692
the forever war

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[Anonymous No.14866786]

>>14859008

[Anonymous No.14867048]

>>14865297
>>14861052

There's one you're forgetting sir, that I would argue has had similar sized impact on the world of media, that Heart of Darkness did, it came from the same time period, and it's not even a novel.

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell

Also, here's an all time classic for starters.

DOOM 1993-94
What book has writing as abstract yet completely functional and intuitive like DOOM's levels, faced paced action and demon/monster capping and slashing, and where the literary floor can drop out from beneath your feet, or elevate you away from all the madness below, or, bring you up out of the frying pan, and into the fire? What book can turn off the literary lights in the room, drop 3 major literary walls all around you, and release spawning hordes of demons from the holes behind the now non existent walls? How about where the shape of the play area can drastically change shape and elevation, many times in the course of a single level?

[Anonymous No.14867053]

>>14867048

[Anonymous No.14867069]

>>14867048
Ya should be a fucking vidya journalist, man. I never saw Doom in such a light.

[Anonymous No.14867077]

>>14867053

How about Deus Ex the game? Where a man with super powers (basically) unravels a monolithic conspiracy that rules the world in a form of govt (extremely based on factual history) best described as an "Occultocracy"?

Here's a tough one, how about Sim City 3000 or Cities Skylines?

[Anonymous No.14867089]

>>14859418
Truly a /lit/ game.
Slaughterhouse V.

[Anonymous No.14867090]

>>14867069
Thanks anon. I just don't have the energy or support or money, or... what's the opposite of 'too depressed'?

Even with technology literally thousands of times better, there is still no game that comes even close to matching the complete plasticity, variability, and abstract pureness of concept and design as DOOM

[Anonymous No.14867091]

>>14859418
Yiddish policemans union

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[Anonymous No.14867184]

>>14867108
obligatory response, the devs loved it so much they named a main character after the author. great taste btw.

[Anonymous No.14867209]

>inb4 it's already a book

[Anonymous No.14867231]

>>14859008
i found sorry please thank you by charles yu to be a really good book that plays a lot with sci fi/video games. also, a short story by grayson morley, brent, bandit king, is told from the perspective of the AI in a video game, which i thought was neat.

[Anonymous No.14867241]

The whole metro series

[Anonymous No.14867286]

>>14867241
Was a book before it was a game? Yes.

[Anonymous No.14867310]

>>14867241
try harder next time

[Anonymous No.14867513]

>>14867286
Yes

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[Anonymous No.14867579]

>>14859008
Anyone?
>>14862183
On The Genealogy of Morality.

[Anonymous No.14867584]

[Anonymous No.14867589]

Anything like silent hill plsss

[Anonymous No.14867606]

No, it doesn't have much in common with Alice in Wonderland.

[Anonymous No.14867696]

>>14867091
This looks like the one. Thank you.

[Anonymous No.14867724]

>>14862012
In case you don't know, Fallout 1 took direct inspiration from Leibowitz and On the Beach

[Anonymous No.14867749]

>>14859008
The Postman

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[Anonymous No.14867809]

Bioshock series?

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[Anonymous No.14868066]

>>14859008

[Anonymous No.14868231]

>>14867778
might makes right by ragnar redbeard

[Anonymous No.14868317]

>>14865430
rings of saturn

[Anonymous No.14868324]

>>14868066
based af

[Anonymous No.14868399]

>>14860499
but seriously maybe Arrival of the Missives, it has that succubus/mentor love interest

[Anonymous No.14868514]

>>14868399
Holy kek. Though I remember the spider/ud levels with limited antidote more than kicking around tbqh. Played last time with daggers, so it was easy enough to build up finishers.

>Arrival of the Missives
Sounds pretty cool, I should've read something published more recently too, so two birds with one stone and all. Thank you, anon! How did she squeeze the story into under 200 pages? The summary sounds like something that'd easy fill twice as many.

[Anonymous No.14868541]

>>14868066
Patrician

[Anonymous No.14868559]

>>14868514
When I played through it I remember kicking people a lot. Not far past the spider part you are scaling the side of a mountain there is a ton of potential to use the art of kicking

She writes to the point, never feels as if there is a lot of fluff, it all has purpose. Her other works are good too. They are short but don't feel short

[Anonymous No.14868571]

[Anonymous No.14868584]

Here's a tough one. I'm not sure if there are any books about an assassin that's actually about the intricacies of the job.

[Anonymous No.14868810]

>>14865502
Play the game and find out, retard.

[Anonymous No.14868894]

>>14860928
Under the Skin

[Anonymous No.14868902]

>>14868066
such awful graphics

[Anonymous No.14869069]

>>14867579
I really have no idea what to recommend, but that's an excellent game. Prince of Nothing perhaps?

[Anonymous No.14869119]

>>14867589
>silent

Silent Hill 2 was based on Crime and Punishment

Try reading, Bone White by Ronald Malfi

[Anonymous No.14869178]

Been going through the Kill The Past games lately and they are becoming some of my favorites.
Not many have played this one, it's a lot like a David Lynch film if it was focused on comedy.

[Anonymous No.14869534]

>>14863155
atlas shrugged

[Anonymous No.14869555]

>>14863487
not even gay and I would suck you holy fuck