/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.7417844]

What are your thoughts on Dear Esther? Is it /lit/ enough?

>I’ve begun my voyage in a paper boat without a bottom; I will fly to the moon in it. I have been folded along a crease in time, a weakness in the sheet of life. Now, you’ve settled on the opposite side of the paper to me; I can see your traces in the ink that soaks through the fibre, the pulped vegetation. When we become waterlogged, and the cage disintergrates, we will intermingle. When this paper aeroplane leaves the cliff edge, and carves parallel vapour trails in the dark, we will come together.

[Anonymous No.7417846]

>>7417844
Video games can never be literature

[Anonymous No.7417856]

Morrowind is the only patrician game, anyone who disagrees may as well get back to r/atheism

[Anonymous No.7417867]

>>7417844
>I’ve begun my voyage in a paper boat without a bottom; I will fly to the moon in it. I have been folded along a crease in time, a weakness in the sheet of life. Now, you’ve settled on the opposite side of the paper to me; I can see your traces in the ink that soaks through the fibre, the pulped vegetation. When we become waterlogged, and the cage disintergrates, we will intermingle. When this paper aeroplane leaves the cliff edge, and carves parallel vapour trails in the dark, we will come together.
Literally 2d4u word diarrhea

[Anonymous No.7417871]

>>7417844
>I’ve begun my voyage in a paper boat without a bottom; I will fly to the moon in it. I have been folded along a crease in time, a weakness in the sheet of life. Now, you’ve settled on the opposite side of the paper to me; I can see your traces in the ink that soaks through the fibre, the pulped vegetation. When we become waterlogged, and the cage disintergrates, we will intermingle. When this paper aeroplane leaves the cliff edge, and carves parallel vapour trails in the dark, we will come together.

Is this what video game nerds think poetry is like?

[Anonymous No.7417876]

it was a very tedious game. just walk walk walk around a rainy island with embarrassingly overwritten pretentious dialogue playing each time you hit a new area

[Anonymous No.7417877]

>>7417856
Behold the truth

[Anonymous No.7417896]

Cracked this game out of curiousity about what it offers. Stopped after 2-3 area visits. This game is really fucking boring, nothing happens at all!

[Singlet !6BXviBcNCA No.7417904]

>>7417844
>I’ve begun my voyage in a paper boat without a bottom; I will fly to the moon in it. I have been folded along a crease in time, a weakness in the sheet of life. Now, you’ve settled on the opposite side of the paper to me; I can see your traces in the ink that soaks through the fibre, the pulped vegetation. When we become waterlogged, and the cage disintergrates, we will intermingle. When this paper aeroplane leaves the cliff edge, and carves parallel vapour trails in the dark, we will come together.
How terribly saccharine, friend. Video games should stick to being video games

[Anonymous No.7417934]

>>7417876
I feel the same. A friend of mine seemed to think it was some bold experiment representing new possibilities for the medium. But it was just a bunch of nonsense dialogue. It seemed to be trying very hard to be explicitly profound, much in the way you'd expect someone to write poetry if they'd rarely ever read it. All this talk of grand universal concepts like life and time and love, with the particular relegated to the background.

I don't know what the fact that this game was highly praised by critics says for gaming culture. They seem to be infatuated with themselves yet they're desperately in need of the assurance that games are a respectable art form. Hence the proliferation of pretentious games with gimmicky, art school -esque formal "innovations."

[Anonymous No.7417944]

>>7417934
>Hence the proliferation of pretentious games with gimmicky, art school -esque formal "innovations."

Ironically, I think that the games that don't even attempt to be anything like a work of art are the greatest examples of art in video games. Something like Tetris or Super Mario Brothers are beautifully useless and devoid of meaning.

[Anonymous No.7418069]

>>7417856
/thread

[Anonymous No.7418093]

>>7417856
That would be Metroid Prime. Nice try, though.

[Anonymous No.7418095]

http://www.bartleby.com/108/17/1.html#S1

[Anonymous No.7418098]

>>7417934
The greatest video game "culture" has to offer is a edgy juvenile greek scam artist who wrote 800 aphorisms about pickup artists and misreadings of nietzsche and there's something terribly sad and banal about that

[Anonymous No.7418108]

>>7418098
epic lulz

[Anonymous No.7418110]

>>7418098
>forgetting about The Subspace Emissary's Worlds Conquest
>forgetting about ulillillia

[Anonymous No.7418117]

All I know is I shat myself when I first saw the Hooded man.

[Anonymous No.7418122]

>>7418093
*tips metroid*

[Anonymous No.7418129]

>>7418122
What did you just say to me, you little worm? You're mincemeat if you ever patronize me again, kiddo.

[Anonymous No.7418198]

>>7417856
try playing it again and reading the quest text.

actually... don't. don't make that mistake like I did.

[Anonymous No.7418207]

>>7417944
art made with the sole purpose of being art is gay i agree senpai

[Anonymous No.7418209]

>>7418207
forgot picture

[Anonymous No.7418212]

>>7418129
Don't threaten me. I'm being deadly serious.

[Anonymous No.7418231]

>>7418207
Is Nabokov gay?

[Anonymous No.7418239]

>>7417846
>Implying that the medium that combines music, writing, and film with added interactivity isn't a good way to tell a story

[Anonymous No.7418283]

most /lit/ game coming through
the sequel is a bit like Slaughterhouse-5 if Billy Pilgrim wasn't retarded

[Anonymous No.7418296]

>>7418239
>film with added interactivity

I feel a lot of these "art games" try to tackle the medium through this perspective, ending up with a boring on-rails game, that would be better as a film. Games should have engaging mechanics before trying to tell a story.

[Anonymous No.7418332]

>>7418283
this

[Anonymous No.7418743]

>>7417844
>the fibre, the pulped vegetation
Oh god I'm gonna *HUUUURF*

Let me try:
>Esther- your spirit echoes to me from all the points of the compass. Up through this paper-thin earth and down from the low heavens. Esther. I've turned my back on the world and pulled up that which anchors me to my sanity, letting my soul drift aimlessly out into the sea of your memory...

I dunno what this game is about so forgive me if Esther is a houseplant or some shit lol

[Anonymous No.7418813]

>>7417856

[Anonymous No.7418827]

To be fair, it doesn't sound far off from something Franzen would shit out

[Anonymous No.7418850]

>>7418283
do i need a handheld to play this?

[Anonymous No.7418853]

>>7417856
>>7417877
>>7418069
It's shitty fantasy shit you nerds

[Anonymous No.7418855]

>>7418296
i get the same feel, i'm interested in getting into really good and/or artful games that aren't just cutscenes.
Dark Souls is more or less perfect, any others?

[Anonymous No.7418857]

>>7417856
The only good game to ever exist has been DOOM

[Singlet !6BXviBcNCA No.7418858]

>>7418296
>Games should have engaging mechanics before trying to tell a story.
This. Gameplay first--all other shit second.

[Anonymous No.7418863]

>>7418283
>>7418332
anime shit

[Anonymous No.7418893]

I wanted the guy to shut the fuck up the whole time

[Anonymous No.7418911]

it's just a somewhat pretty walking simulator
the story is divorced from anything resembling consistency that it might as well be nonexistent
it's art for art's sake if anything

[Anonymous No.7418936]

That art game is boring and has bad writing. I prefer weird art games with funny writing, like Space Funeral.

[Anonymous No.7418997]

>>7418863
>implying decides quality of a game
plebeian detected

[Anonymous No.7419039]

just think, in a perfect world hotpockets would delete shit-threads like this and other shitposts that attract /v/eddit tourists

[Anonymous No.7419049]

>>7419039
*tips respectfully towards you* take my upvote