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ITT: post a game, get a book recommendation.
You can also post a book and get a game recommendation, though this thread is focused on getting book recommendations.

I will start with Fallout New Vegas, and recommend myself Metro books series.

>> No.19608734

Someone will recommend you The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Don't read it, it's a steaming pile of shit

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>>19608702
Do something with this you freaks

>> No.19608764

Age of Empires II

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Hard mode, do not say Snow crash, nor neuromancer/Gibson stuff

>>19608702
A canticle for leibowitz
Damnation alley
Alas Babylon

>>19608734
Correct.

>>19608763
Hot Rod magazines

>>19608764
Churchills history of the English speaking people's

>> No.19608792

>>19608702
>New Vegas
Hegels "Philosophy of History"
>>19608764
Ernst Kantorowicz "Frederick the Great", Paul the Deacon "History of the Longobards", "Barbarians at the Wall", Warriors of the Steppe, John Julic Norwicks books on the Normans and Sicily, any good medieval book desu these are the last one I read

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>long intertwined stories with well written characters
>every single one dies in the end

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>> No.19608804

>>19608795
Roadside picnic

>> No.19608852

New Vegas is my favorite game and Blood Meridian is my favorite book so that might be worth considering. I don't think they're similar at all, though.
>>19608795
>>19608796
Infinite Jest

>> No.19608898

GTA SA
GTA VC
GTA III

>> No.19608907

>>19608795
i am waiting for the author's book in this universe to be translated into english

>> No.19608912

>>19608797
A history book, any history book really

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>>19608702
Y’all fucks need to read this series. While the first 2 books are stinky doo doo, the rest of the series is some of the best character writing I’ve read

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Something about a protagonist uses dreams as escapism and is slowly getting back to real world while recovering from a traumatizing event happened in the past

>> No.19608954

>>19608797
Spengler Decline of the West.

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Do visual novels count?

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>>19608702
Edward Abbey - Desert Solitaire

>>19608763
a 1960s USAF textbook about ICBMs

>>19608782
pic related

>>19608795
a gay porno mag

>>19608796
a trans gay porno mag

>>19608797
The Albigensian Crusades by Joseph Strayer

>>19608943
calvin and hobbes

>> No.19608983

>>19608702
if you are older than 17 and still playing video gamses, you are a faggot

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>>19608702
last time a thread like this i get banned

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>>19608983

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>> No.19609022

>>19608983
Dude, who gives a shit
> if you are older than 17 and still play with sticks, you are a faggot
> if you are older that 17 and still read off papyrus, you are a faggot
> if you are older than 17 and still read books, you are a faggot
> if you are older than 17 and still listen to that radio, you are a faggot
> if you are older than 17 and still watch tv, you are a faggot
> if you are older than 17 and still listen to your mp3, you are a faggot

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>>19608702

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>> No.19609045
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>> No.19609214

>>19608796
Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming

>> No.19609231

>28 replies
>8 recs including op to himself
Wow what a productive thread faggots

>> No.19609262

>>19608702
Desert Solitaire

>>19608898
>GTA SA
Westsiders by William Shaw

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>>19608702

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>> No.19609452

Worst thread I've seen in a while. Kudos in particular to the retards just posting games without recommending anything.

>> No.19609502

>>19608943
Look through doomer litcharts

>> No.19609751
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>>19608702
How about this?

>> No.19609772

>>19609452
I’m fucking disgusted and hope everyone in this thread is banned including me

>> No.19609779

>>19608943
A Bullet Throught Your Skull by Me

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Don't hate bro.

>> No.19609819

>>19608852
>New Vegas is my favorite game and Blood Meridian is my favorite book
Have you tried New Vegas Bounties? I was surprised at how many Blood Meridian references in that mod.

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I need some heccin explorinokino

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>> No.19610108

>>19609751
The Brothers Karamazov.

>> No.19610113
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>>19608796
>every single one dies in the end
Laughs in Biker

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>>19610113

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Hardmode: No Gene Wolfe books or anything related to communism / modern leftism

>> No.19610213

>>19610161
i dont know any games specifically like that but factorio can be pretty autistic

>> No.19610221

>>19608797
Augustus by John Williams

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>> No.19610267

>>19609815
it's ok bro,

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>>19608702

>> No.19610317

>>19608983
>if you are older than 17 and still playing video gamses
the hobbitses are still playing gamses with smeagol, yes, cruel hobbitses

>> No.19610508

>>19608797
The Accurses Kings - Maurice Duron

>> No.19610630
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Deus Ex
Battlefield: Bad Company
Half-Life
Far Cry: Primal
Bioshock: Infinite
Doom 3
Star Wars: KOTOR
Conker’s Bad Fur Day
Halo: ODST
Burger King: Sneak King
Unreal Tournament
Minecraft
Wii Sports
Among Us
Pong
Microsoft Solitaire

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Hard mode: not the official books
>>19609025
Genocidal Organ by Project Itoh, the anime movie adaptation was pretty good too.

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>>19608702
The Void by Ice Pick Lodge

>> No.19610924

>>19608797
“A History of the Crusades” by Joseph-Francis Michaud

>> No.19610929

>>19609023
“Neuromancer” by William Gibson

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for the love of god help me out.
Cruelty Squad as well if you don't know what this is

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>> No.19611186

>>19610317
keked

>> No.19611192

>>19608734
It's only shitty for a McCarthy novel, but it's still a fun read

>> No.19611249
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>> No.19611578

>>19610929
Thank you most kindly, I've read it three times.

>> No.19611624

>>19608797
One of the later volumes (III an after) Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

>> No.19611628

My pick is either The Music Machine or Furi.
>>19610248
>>19610861
I wish I wasn’t such a booklet. Both of these games can inspire some interesting recommendations, especially The Void.

>> No.19611965
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>>19608702
Alas Babylon

>>19608782
Accelerando

>>19608795
Ice

>>19608796
The Overstory

>>19608993
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

>>19609023
Jennifer Government

>>19609025
Mumbo Jumbo

>>19609390
The Cyberiad

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>>19609025

>> No.19612095

>>19608734
Filtered beyond belief.

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>> No.19612101

>vidya
>on the literature board
Why are you not showered with insults like the subhuman filth that you are? Bring that vacuous shit out of here, no one wants it. Also, kill yourself.

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Looking for noir books that are just like pic related

>> No.19612185

gta 4

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This is the only vidya I play. Anyone got anything this comfy in literary form?

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>>19612186
this should be good for someone like you

>> No.19612215

>>19612101
faggot

>> No.19612223

>>19609045
First thing that comes to mind would be some sort of experimental for its own sake sort of thing. Like oulipo. It's hard to map this to a place in literature but my thinking is that vib is such a joyful sidestep of basically everything going on in games, so that's broadly the sort of spirit I'd recommend in bookage. (also I know it wasn't the first rhythm game don't @ me)

>>19609949
I remember having a good time reading The Confident Hope of a Miracle after Uncharted 2 came out. I was a hapless teen at the time, however, so YMMV.

Reccing: Mother, Einhänder, Buck Bumble, FFX/FFX-2, and Lazy Jones.

>> No.19612226

>>19612203
Good book thanks, but I've already read it.

>> No.19612229

Also a reminder to all the haters: CUL8R. This is a fun thread. Go be unfun elsewhere.

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>>19609023

>> No.19612254

>>19612186
Cannery Row is comfy and non-threatening. Plus the northern beach aesthetic kinda goes with SV

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>>19608702

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>>19612186

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Finished the 36 lessons. Anything more like that?

>> No.19612350

>>19610630
Percy Jackson: The Lightning thief

>> No.19612465

>>19608980
Start with the greeks

>> No.19612529

>>19612186
Growth of the Soil

>> No.19612601

>>19610811
Foundation by Asimov
>>19612153
Dun by Douglas Winter
>>19612326
Fanged Noumena by you-know-who

>> No.19612606

>>19612601
*Run, my bad

>> No.19612658

>>19612215
Get the fuck out. /lit/ isn't for vidya brainlets like you.

>> No.19612697

>>19612350
>>19610630
Which one?

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>>19608702
What if I post this list? Are people here interested in these?

>> No.19612821

>>19612067
No, GR is mgs2

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>>19608702

>> No.19613016

>>19611965
>Accelerando
That actually sounds good. Thanks

>> No.19613222

>>19608797

A Distant Mirror by Tuchman

>> No.19613230

>>19608920

> "As of 2020, Butcher has written 17 novels set in the Dresden Files universe, plus a number of short stories..."

Fuck that

>> No.19613242

>>19612658
retard

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>>19608702
Half life 1

>> No.19613620

>>19608943
Dreams of a ridiculous man - Dostoevsky

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>>19609390

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>inb4 Hyperion

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>>19613391
Self-care guides
>>19613605
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm

>> No.19613662

>>19613357
Growth of the Soil

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>>19613660
Also

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>>19608702

>> No.19613727

>>19608734
Filtered

>> No.19613730

>>19612101
>Implying most literature isn't vacuous bullshit
I can tell you don't read a lot

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>>19613262

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>>19611965
>the Cyberiad
Based and Lempilled

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>> No.19615021

>>19608734
Fallout New Vegas is a pile of shit too, so it fits.

>> No.19615040

>>19613730
Sounds like /v/edditor cope. This is the same sort of person who says Dark Souls is their favorite piece of media and pretend they're not a mindless consumerist automaton by putting down artistic mediums to justify their own lack of taste.

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>> No.19615288

>>19615042
the bible

>> No.19615639

>>19615042
The Bibble

>> No.19615705

>>19615042
The Talmud

>> No.19615784

>>19611965
>>19613636
Thanks for the recommendations, I think I will enjoy both

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I know there are novels based on the series, but can you guys recommend something else

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>> No.19615945

>>19615914
The Lord of the Rings

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I’m mainly looking for some great psychological horror in this vein.

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>>19609290
The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth

>> No.19616038

>>19609751
seconding
>>19610108

>> No.19616051

>>19608963
No

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>>19608702

>> No.19616326

>>19608943
Number9Dream

>> No.19616367

>>19613262
Lonesome Dove
>>19613605
John Dies at the End
>>19615928
Spaceman Blues
>>19616003
Looking for Jake

>> No.19616427

>>19613660
>>19616367
Thanks anons

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>>19615914
ASOIAF

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Still the only game that actually managed to fuse storytelling and gameplay and did something unique with it than can't be sufficiently approximated in any other medium.

>> No.19617563

>>19615914
Wheel of Time.
And Thorn, Memory and Sorrow.

>> No.19617634

>>19612814
Post it man

>> No.19617878

>>19617548
Listen, I understand the concept of gameplay and story working together, but why do people act like it’s some rare quality in video games? Plenty of games pull it off. Some are more ambitious about it, but there are still lots that do it.
Let’s look at a recent, AAA example. RE2R. The story is about a desperate struggle to survive in a zombie infested police station, at least the first part it and the most iconic section of the game. Anyway, the gameplay ties in perfectly with the story. The gameplay makes you feel and experience the desperation and the struggle of the characters. It’s quite well done. At least during the RPD section, it dips in quality quite sharply once you get to the sewers.
But my point is, gameplay reinforcing and working with story isn’t as rare as you think. So to say that any specific game is the ONLY example of it happening is quite absurd.

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Fahrenheit?

>> No.19618263

>>19617548
is edith finch good? Is it worth getting?

>> No.19618270

>>19613660
Outer wilds was the best game I've played in years.