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16184732 No.16184732 [Reply] [Original]

Why read a novel instead of playing a video game? Games provide a more immersive and engaging experience than any book ever could.

>> No.16184735

>>16184732
good

>> No.16184851
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>>16184732
Hold the fuck up.

There was a /lit/ anon here who was talking about how he played this strategy game set in ancient Greece, Italy, maybe anatolia too??... Part of the game was going to various regions and provinces on this map, that are named according to their classical greek and roman names. The anon was boasting about how he could read classical /lit/ without looking at a map and know exactly where everything was happening.

I NEED TO KNOW WHAT GAME THIS IS. AHH.

(For now I'm playing 0 AD and actually kind of fun Desu, but would like an immersive map that will teach me location names.)

>> No.16184868

>>16184851
Looks like Age of Empires 3

>> No.16184895

>>16184732
You want a /lit/ game?
>Minecraft
>Fallout 1
>go fuck yourself
>weeb trash
>just kys
>seethe, cope, dilate
>retvrn to /v/
>wanting to read or not a book is our pleb vs lit man filter
>watching Quentin's videos will make you more educated than vidya
>Witcher 3 (At least it will make you want to read the books afterward)
>Hypersphere: the video game
>The Sims 4
>not doki doki

>> No.16184903

>immersive
Perhaps, but you would have to be a brainlet to find them as stimulating.

>> No.16184931
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>>16184868
hmm.... I can't find an image of the map, I remember it was all green, and it had names of every little province and city in southern Europe listed in white. My guess is that you had to conquer these provinces one battle at a time... Maybe I'll never find it...

>> No.16184961

>>16184851
sounds like europa universalis or crusader kings. only reason i can locate wurttemberg, thuringen or schwaben on a map.

>> No.16184994

>>16184851
Was it Total War: Rome 1 or 2? Maybe Total War: Attila - Roman Empire is in there too.

>> No.16184998

>>16184732
The writing in the very best video games is utter doggerel compared to even mediocre novels.

>> No.16185038

>>16184961
Almost want to say it looks like Europa Universalis, but it's not exactly the same map that the dude included in his post.

>>16184994
It's not the same map as what the guy posted... although I would probably try one of these games if I can't figure out which game that anon posted.

I don't know for sure, but I feel like the provinces were much smaller on the map compared to the games you guys are posting about. Still cool to check out some RTS games, so thx.

>> No.16185409

>>16184732
No video game let's me step into the shoes of a high school filmfag incel autist whose sole purpose in life becomes to dick down his qt childhood bestfriend that grew up to be a carpetmuncher and wind up covering up a hate crime

>> No.16185643

>>16185038
The map in the guy's post is a screenshot of 0 AD (the filename is 0AD.jpg) which is what he said he's playing right now

>> No.16185655

>>16184732
ever writer for those games are “ideas guys” and have most likely never read any good fantasy literature making them shit stories

>> No.16185679

>>16184732
If a game has good writing then it's a bad game. Too many failed movie screenwriters in the gaming industry.

>> No.16185697

> Games provide a more immersive and engaging experience than any book ever could.
DOUBT

>> No.16185700

>>16184998
This

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>>16184961

Crusader Kings is post hellenistic, so its not that.

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>>16185643
I posted both of those posts. I'm referring to the map image I saw in a different thread, none of the suggested games have a map that looks like the map that I saw...

>> No.16185884

why not enjoy both? Both mediums are capable of things that can't be done as well by the other

>> No.16185893
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dis was good game.

>> No.16185900

>>16184732
That is just not something that interests me much. I even tried some when I was a kid but thought they were boring. I could ask you the same thing. How do you genuinely not get any joy out of Scheherazade's tales or from Bergman's questions of faith?

>> No.16185905
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>>16185795
Aleia Jacta (sic) Est has a reputation for being too autistic even for regular Grand Strategy folks.

>> No.16185917

>>16184851
Hegemony, maybe?

>> No.16185922

>>16185795
Oooh ok. Keep looking man you'll find it. Do you have the image the anon in the other thread posted?

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>>16185905
YES....

This is the Autism that I was looking for.

>>16185917
Wasn't the one I was thinking of in particular but looks neat.

>>16185922
I don't have the Image, but I think that >>16185905 this based anon just figured it out.

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>>16185905
Big TY btw anon. Super appreciate it, curious if you've played it and if you got a R8 for me.

>> No.16186018

>>16185905
>>16185991
Nice

>> No.16186070

>>16186001
>curious if you've played it and if you got a R8 for me.
It's on my list. Some claim it's a fantastic big brain strategy. They are usually the same kind of people who insult EU4 and CKII players for playing baby games. Conversely, players of mainstream Grand Strategy titles call the game a boring spreadsheet simulator that autistically concerns itself with every boring detail. Sound like fun.

If you don't pirate, you should know it's been in bundles, so you can trade for it / get it cheaply on grey market sites.

>> No.16186180

>>16185409
>What is The Last of Us II?

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>>16185991
Actually I fucked up. This turned up when I googled Alea Jacta Est, but the map is from EU4.

>> No.16186237

youre right, theyre both time wasters by and large, but books are generally of more value

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>>16186218
Oh okay gotcha, honestly the Autism simulator looks pretty based desu. will probs try out both of these bad boys, ty for the recs famalam.

>> No.16186299

>>16185409
lis

>> No.16186310

>>16184851
Might be Imperator: Rome.

>> No.16186330

>>16184732
Wish I could do that. I haven't played a single new game for the last four or five years, excluding some simple mobile stuff. A few days ago I tried playing Dungeon Keeper for the first time and it was just too chaotic and tiring. Turned it off after a quarter of an hour.

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>>16186330

>> No.16186492

>>16184732
Cuz a lot of games don't have the creative setting or characters that books do, and I can't look at the screen too long without feeling icky

>> No.16186543

>>16186396
hah, that's a pretty cute variant
the thing is, I absolutely enjoy literature, have friends and am studying something I (mostly) enjoy etc. etc. - but vidya just bores me

>> No.16186557

>>16184732
i press button

>> No.16186601

>>16185893
Fuck Dune.

>> No.16186610

>>16184732
Because I'm not 15 years old nor do I go on Reddit.

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>>16186543
lol glad you like it, that one cracks me the fuck up for some reason.

>> No.16186660

>>16186396
More people need dads like that

>> No.16186665
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>>16186601
Make sure you're on /tv/ when the Dune movie comes out, we are going to rip that reddit piece of onions trash to shreds. Gonna be good fun.

>> No.16186711

>>16185905
>playing Mughals
literally only good for baby's first WC