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9218824 No.9218824[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

Has /lit/ played Planescape: Torment? The writing here is honestly better than 99.9 percent of the shit youll stumble across in a library. Id definitely rank this in the actually good fantasy category with works like Book of the New Sun

>> No.9218845

>/v/ reads a videogame once

>> No.9218870
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9218870

>>9218845
Thanks for proving you havent actually played Torment. I normally play games because theyre the complete opposite of reading books, getting to appreciate the mechanics, graphics, audio etc etc. Torment surprised me with how it basically is a book with shitty gameplay, and an actually good book at that. Pic related is also from one of "these" games that curbstomps basically every not-godtier fantasy work.

>> No.9218888

>>9218824
Well yeah sure, but only because the shit you stumble across in a library is -- shit.

It's not up there with BotNS, but it is a game with an actually good story. And the gameplay is its CYOA-ness, btw, not the combat (some people actually liked the combat, apparently).

>> No.9218896

>>9218888
I will say that's a fucking good cover though. Way braver than any of the shit you normally see.

>> No.9218897
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9218897

I used to think that Soul Reaver's writing was the shit but I'm not sure anymore.

>> No.9218898

>>9218870
I played Planescape when I was 14 or so, just like all other infinity engine games and both Fallouts. I'm so sorry you never grew out of digital toys.

>> No.9218900

>>9218824
>better than 99.9 percent of the shit youll stumble across in a library
Yes, better than the shit YOU will stumble across in the sort of library you're liable to frequent. Much better. And for all that, it is still bad writing.

>> No.9218904

>>9218898
>/v/irgin tries to fit in

>> No.9218906

>>9218898
Why would I want to "grow out" of any medium? How pretentious can you be?

>>9218900
>And for all that, it is still bad writing.

explain

>> No.9218921

>>9218900
Ironically this post reads exactly like the sort of thing the Nameless One would say.
>>9218906
The prose is pretty bad. It's what you'd expect from any genre book -- compare it to BotNS (with its good prose) and you'll see what I mean. The rest is decent IMO -- not comparable to the Western Canon, obviously, and that is a valid thing to compare it to, BUT it is an actual story with actual themes and actual value.

>> No.9218924

>>9218904
>meme arrows
>>9218906
I did not seek to stop enjoying videogames, it's just so happens that at some point most people stop finding pixelated monsters amusing. The umbrella term for it is 'growing up'

>> No.9218931

>>9218924
>it's just so happens
>it's
We're telling you to lurk more.

>> No.9218950

>>9218888
>BotNS
Buns of the North Star?

>> No.9218973

>>9218950
>/a/ reads an anime once