>The protagonist of Max Brooks’ new fantasy novel doesn’t have a name, a gender or even normal human appendages. Instead of hands, the narrator has clumsy, flesh-toned cubes, just one more weird feature of the strange and unsettling world where the story unfolds, where everything — the sun, clouds, cows, mushrooms, watermelons — is composed of squares.
>“Minecraft: The Island,” which was released this month by the science fiction and fantasy publisher Del Rey, represents an unusual experiment in multiplatform brand extension. It marks the first officially sanctioned novel commissioned by Mojang, the Swedish game studio behind “Minecraft.”
>As product spinoffs go, a series of novels seems like a natural step for Mojang, which already has a wildly successful publishing line of gaming manuals. (A feature film is also in the works, at Warner Bros.) Since 2013, the children’s publisher Scholastic has published 10 “Minecraft” titles, which have 25 million copies in print.
>But commissioning a brand-approved “Minecraft” novel posed unique creative and commercial challenges. How do you create a story with a beginning, a middle and an end out of an open-ended game? And would gamers bother to pick up a nearly 300-page novel about “Minecraft,” when they could be spending their free time playing it?
>Brooks — a cheerful, enthusiastic paranoiac who is obsessed with survival strategies, zombies, apocalyptic scenarios and plagues — wrote the story as a first-person, Robinson Crusoe-esque narrative, featuring an initially hapless character who is stranded on a strange island and has to build shelter, find food, and fight off zombies and giant spiders, all features that exist in the game.
What game would make for a good book series?
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>>385560583
What the fuck happened to vidya?
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>>385560583
any game with an interesting world and rich lore to expand upon.
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>>385560759
Video games got novels before. Even Megaman 2 got one.
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>buy used console
>it's banned from online
What would you do?
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>>385560450
sell it on ebay for more than i bought it so that the next sucker can get scammed
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>>385560526
I'm a moral person though.
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>>385560450
I wouldn't buy a used console in the first place because who fucking knows what the previous owner did with it.
Last time someone near me bought a used PS3, it had a ton of cockroaches inside and there was a UMD stuck inside the bluray drive.
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I've played literally every wii-u game of decent quality except this one.
I've never played Xenoblade Chronicles on the wii either. Are either game worth playing?
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>>385560339
Nope and it looks like XC 2 is going to be even shittier
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you literally missed out on the best game on both the wii and the wiiu
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>>385560454
What a shame
Time to sell the Wii-U then I guess. IT was fun while it lasted.
A real let down since I got the console on release date for full price but whatever.
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"MUH CLASSIC SONIC IS BETTER THAN MODERN SONIC"
>play classic sonic
>go forward real fast
>run into a spike that I had no way of knowing it would pop up
>spike knocks me back 8 inches
>causing me to land on a spring which springs me into said spike again
>game over
Sonic was never good.
Can somebody please tell me the proper way to play this piece of trash? I feel like I wasted my money
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git gud
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>>385560012
YOU FRICKIN FRICK
WHEN WILL YOU LEARN
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Why does no one put effort in to game covers any more?
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>>385559620
art and style overall in all forms has gone more minimalist recently. This isn't necessarily not putting effort in it's just putting effort into different things, though I do agree game covers have gone downhill a bit as a whole
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Batman
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Author of this box art will never be known
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Left or Right?
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>>385559613
why is megaman so small in the N64 version?
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>>385559613
wait wtf
was megaman legends called megaman 64 on the n64?
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i'll take jaggies over blurry textures any day
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Wait I don't get it? Why was your relationship with whichever one of the girls in the team you romance, kept a secret? Why not just add some more dialogue?
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>>385559560
budget, mechanics
it's also possible that nips don't run around showing everyone how you're in relationship like people in normal countries do
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>>385559560
they didn't expect you to pick the worst girls
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>>385560895
It just bothered me that when there a question or a joke relating to having a gf or liking someone, your gf doesn't get some kind of expression or line i.e the Hawaii trip. Yes you get to go on a walk and have a romantic date but after that Riuji asks where you been and if you say "with someone" your gf doesn't say anything. Guess that's too much now that I think about it.
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>attack animal enemy from behind
>devs have actually taken the time to model an anus
>no genitalia
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>>385559502
>OwO what's this?
what games besides GTA even had genitals?
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>>385559649
Dante's Inferno
In all seriousness, how would you feel about a fighting game with real life celebrities as the main characters?
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>>385559496
doesn't Def Jam feature a bunch of Rappers or something?
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>>385559496
>Def Jam Brothers
the game Chad Daddy foresaw
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>>385559496
Like Celebrity Deathmatch? I guess it was ok back in the day.
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Why do normies hate this game so much?
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ultimate pleb filter
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>>385559474
only normalfags with no taste like you like this game
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Idk but I cant wait for TEW2, its killing me inside.
>dad walks in
>"Hey son, are you winning?"
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>"Wow Sly Cooper is fucking shit, Ratchet and Clank is better"
Shut up, dad.
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he'd probably just come in and molest me
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Sly and Carmelita are a cute couple
Which genre do you like better, Metroidvanias or Undervanias?
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Now anon you can't just make up a term and expect people to use it
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>>385559160
>This window will close in 3 seconds...
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>>385559160
Wouldn't it be Earthlikes?
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Golden Sun games are extremely overrated. There are better exclusive RPGs on Nintendo platforms, even on the GBA.
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>>385558697
This
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>>385558697
Same with OOT, Pokemon, Pikmin, etc.
It's just nostalgia.
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>over 18
>has an iPhone
>not playing Vikings
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>having an iPhone
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>>385558383
>owning apple products of any kind, for any reason
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The only iPhone game I play is Neko Atsume Kitty Collector.
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ITT: post one of your favorite games and the worst part of that game.
>the Modron Maze
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Deus Ex
>Oceanlab
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>>385558038
Worst part of Kyrandia 1.
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>>385558038
That's not Curst Prison