>ITT: Books that would make a great video game

>>375518196
Just about done reading this. I agree wholeheartedly.

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>>375518196
This would be a great book if it was just about Kaladin. Le quirky headstrong young girl and 'muh honor' old man are seriously shit characters. I hate this new trend in fantasy for ramming your book full of characters and shitty politics just so you can pad it out to 1k words a book in you twelve-volume saga.

>>375518196
that bitch in the library is boring as fuck

Fuck everyone but Kaladin.
I only care about Kaladin.

Damn you asshole stop making this a multi-character series.

Fuck Shallan.
Dalinar is okay. So is his son.
But Kaladin is who I want the story to focus on.

>>375518436
>'muh honor' old man are seriously shit characters
Dalinar was great you fag.
I agree on Shallan though

>>375518561
>book one focuses on Kaladin
>book two focuses on Shallan
>book 3 is gonna focus on Dalinar.

>>375518196
I've been finished with the first half. Does it get good at some point ?
So far it is boring and generic fantasy story#2711

>>375518736
You are just getting to the good stuff.

>>375518725
Fucking Demon Cycle ruined the entire fantasygenre storytelling.

>>375518725
Dalinar is alright.
>>375518736
Drop it now. These books are low-depth entertainment.

Mistborn would be a great game.
The Reckoners saga would be a great movie series as well as a good game.

>>375518848
I'll take your word for it.
The bridgeruns and hunt were the best parts.
I don't want to read anymore of >muh books and strong Jasnah

>>375519049
>I don't want to read anymore of >muh books and strong Jasnah
I'm sorry that does not get better before book 2, and still then she is pretty boring.

>>375519138
>pepe.jpg
Gonna finish the first one and never start the second one if that is the case.

>>375519049
>strong Jasnah
You're like me. Bridge parts are great.

But the second book is going to focus on Jasnah and Shallan.
Sorry. But Kaladin does get a hype moment in the second book as well.

>>375518736
It's Sanderson. What the fuck did you expect?

The man literally built his career off boring and generic fantasy stories with somewhat interesting magic systems.

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This maybe. I feel like it may have to be very cinematic.

>>375518643
He was okay yeah, it's just that his arc was so fuckin' predictable in this new age of edgy as fuck fantasy. Only at the very end where he managed to not die and still showed respect to his old friend did I find it vaguely interesting - I would have been seriously pissed if it had just been Ned Stark 2.0.

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>>375519281
I have high hopes for Oathbringer though.
I really liked Dalinar parts.
>>375519361
Sanderson does great worldbuilding and magic system but pretty bad at characters.

>>375519361
What's a good fantasy book then?

>>375518196
>Giant swords with no collision detection
>Giant monsters

It's begging for a MH spinoff.

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This setting is practically designed to be a 4x strategy game.

>>375519480
>Bad at characters
His writing style is also not that good. It's average.

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what's some fantasy that actually focuses on building interesting, relatable characters? pic not related

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How about this ?
Could be an amazing RTS in which you are forced to learn about the 13 lections by doing campaign missions. In each chapter you have to use one of the chapters to its fullest potential in order to win.

If nothing else, there is a lot of variety in it.

>>375519396
when the persona 5 trailer was first shown this book was all i could think about

>>375518196
Literally every Brandon Sanderson book.

The man is a fucking machine.

>>375519742

Yeah, I was kind of imagining the gameplay would be this cross between Persona and maybe like some stealth elements or the platforming and cinematic nature of Uncharted.

Also, WHERE'S MY FOURTH BOOK LYNCH, REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Just give me Mana Khemia 3 set in this universe and we'd be set

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>>375518196
>nothing but post-modernist garbage ITT

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The Novels may be junk food, but they'd make a good RTS series.

What was the name of that book series with a wandering gunslinger in a world where magic was a thing?

>>375519651
>pic not related.
I read through those books. Kind of enjoyed them.
But the MC sucks. He's a mary sue. Everyone who hates on the MC is also a caricature (the teacher, and that teachers's favorite).

Also the second book with the sex goddess was stupid.

>>375519935
yeah because I need my taste in novels validated by a frogposter

>>375519935
Go back to /lit/ and read infinite jest you fag

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The Black Company

Books of the North only though.

>>375518196
Moash did nothing wrong.

A videogame set on Arrakis would have potential.

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Could be a really cool adventure game.

>>375519958
The Dark Tower?

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This series would be so easy to adapt into a game since it's already structured so similarly to one. It has levels, mid-bosses, unique weapons you obtain each time you defeat a boss etc. The books are obviously aimed at a younger audience though.

>>375519958
Dark Tower

>>375520000
>Also the second book with the sex goddess was stupid.
It really was, wasn't it ?
It was such a contrast to the his story, where it focuses on the character instead of constantly SAVE THE WORLD MUTHAFUCKA !! and then he pulls this shit.

>>375519651
>Kvothe
ahhahahaahahahah

>>375520054

I really want to like The Black Company but I'm having a really hard time doing it. Am I doing something wrong? Like the story is interesting when you look at it as a whole, but after the first however many hundred pages of the first book it just felt like it was dragging. I liked what was happening, when I think of the story in my head I think it's cool, but the way its presented feels so slow and boring. The writing seems odd to me and the characters almost feel like they don't have real personalities.

>>375520140
There are already several Dune games. The father of the RTS genre was a Dune game.

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>>375518196

>>375520000
The MC is fucking god-awful, a self-insert of the worst variety. Inifintely intelligent, strong, dexterous, charming, can do no wrong, etc. You nailed it on the head with the antagonists. I liked his prose but that's about all I can say. I had to drop it halfway through the second book. Also, I had to avert my eyes during every fucking romance scene, you'd figure the author had never had a conversation with a human woman before.

Really don't get the praise for those books. Is it the cool magic system?

>>375520283
He said pic not related.

>>375520343
Try to think of it through Croaker's perspective. He's the Annalist and he's writing down stuff about the people he works with everyday. Their personalities will start to show, the second book especially.

I hate to say, "just stick with it" but Cook hit his mark with the second book.

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VN, anyone?

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>>375518196
I always wanted this series to be a game every since I was little. It had an anime series for some reason but since then nobody has touched it and I think that's a lot of wasted potential there

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>>375520503
>John Green

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this would make a great point and klick adventure

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>>375520503
>John Green book

>/v/
>reading
Lmao

>>375520558
Just play Zelda. The author said that she was inspired to write the series after watching her kids play Zelda

>>375520402
>>375520402
>Really don't get the praise for those books. Is it the cool magic system?

It literally is aimed at teenage boys. It is the literary equivalent of fast food.

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Also, I think these books already have a text based game too.

>>375520713
I read books now and then or listen to audio book versions while I make money drawing titties.

>>375520494

I kind of approach it with that attitude that I'm reading someone else's account, and that did help as I was reading through the first book, but I still feel there are other stories out there that do that same sort of perspective better. I will take your word for it, though. I have the omnibus edition or whatever that has like the first 3 books in it, so I plan to at least finish that entire volume. Here's hoping I start to enjoy it more.

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Would be a nice 2D game

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Oh boy, a /vlit/ thread

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>>375520558
>for some reason
Because a bunch of movie and tv studios wanted to adapt it, but the author knew they would gut the show. So she gave it to an anime company instead.

>>375520820
I think the second book starts getting it right because you see Marron Shed go through a great character arc. One problem I had with the first book was Cook's tendency to make a place sound storied by giving it an important name and not expand upon it.

The dark elf would made a good hack and slash game

>>375520825
Botanicula and Samorost 3 kinda remind me of Eric Carle's books.

>>375520343
>the black company
>dragging

nigga, what? one of major complaints about the black company is that cook writes in a too truncated style with bare minimum descriptions.

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*tips fedora*

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>>375520671
10 years ago you faggots loved this book. Don't try to act like you weren't all edgy teenagers at one point.

Here. I fixed it.

>>375519884
i really need to buckle down and read the rest of the trilogy, i just can't stand his prose - does it ever get better?
>1st book, spend a couple pages giving you the dimensions of the burrows under the graveyard
>2nd book starts giving you the dimensions of a tower

I should just drink some coffee and power through it but ugh

>>375520739
I love Zelda but the story in Zelda was never particularly strong plus I wanna have another adventure style narrative to help fill in the gaps plus the gems on the belt would make for some really cool buffs or mechanics for solving puzzles

>>375520986
It's called SMT

>>375520402
On the topic of prose, did anyone else feel something weird while reading the second book? I clearly remember a part when Kvothe ate laced candy or some shit and the whole chapter just read differently, like the author got someone else to write it for him. It wasn't the only instance of this, but it's the one I can recall.

>>375520054
Myth 1 and 2 are essentially Black Company games with their serial number removed. But yes, I would like a proper a adaptation. No idea what genre, though.

>ARDATH, YOU BITCH

>>375520865
Really? I had no idea, I actually really enjoyed the anime series.

>>375520998
I was an edgy faggot at one point but that doesn't make it okay for one person to be one now.

I don't know anything about this book, what's the triggering about it.

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This would literally be the best Shooter in a long time.


I know that Helldivers exist, but that one focuses on the movie, not the book. It's like saying Left 4 dead was inspired by the War Z.


Just do a huge Mousou-Style campaign where you drop in and fight off anything with legs on, in my firebomb-throwing exoskeleton.
This would be fun as fuck in coop

I'm should make use of my local library.

>>375521110
that and the entire segment with kvothe shagging that sex spirit were just filled with meter to give you that sense of magical realism

as bad as the characters and plot were in book 2 the prose was top notch

>>375521180
Here you go.
>The series was produced by Genco and the animation production at OLM and SKY Perfect Well Think. Rodda was originally approached with many film offers, but it was only this studio that promised to not change the story. The first episode was aired on January 6, 2007 in Japan.
There was an interview with her about it I read a few months ago, but I'm not gonna look for it.

>>375521225
>Just do a huge Mousou-Style campaign where you drop in and fight off anything with legs on, in my firebomb-throwing exoskeleton.

You're literally just describing the Earth Defence Force games

>>375521261
Don't bother. No matter what you read, everyone else is going to call you pleb for it anyways.

>>375521172
I had heard Myth was basically a Black Company game. Tyranny was also heavily inspired by Black Company.

>Those scenes where Soulcatcher is trying to get into Croaker's pants

>>375521195
bandwagon hate on john green. this was his first book (and his best) but the rest of his books are just copy-paste from this one and thus he's been outed as a talentless hack

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Need some good cyberpunk books like Neuromancer and snowcrash

>>375521225
Earth Defense Force

>he doesn't like Dalinar

UNITE THEM

>>375521110
I noticed that too. Editor missed a spot? Writing while jacked on prescription drugs? Outsourcing?

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>>375518196
Something that would basically have zero chance of being properly adapted in any other form. Stuff like Malazan, Book of the New Sun and Horus Heresy specifically.

>>375521363
Oh shit, you're right.
Later then

>>375521421
People also hate Green because he's an obnoxious SJW, but what author isn't nowadays.

>>375521419
Tyranny was shamelessly lifting from TBC, but I guess most people never actually read the latter so they wouldn't get it anyway.

>>375520972

Sorry, I meant dragging in the sense that I was having a hard time reading through it because I wasn't engaged by it. You're right, the descriptions are often bare minimum. I think I personally am just not a fan of the writing style, but like I said I still think it's very well written.

>>375518436
Kaladin is way more sue than Shallan is any day.

Shallan screws up a lot and makes mistakes and is only really skilled in a few areas.

Kaladin is fucking perfect tactician/solider/leader/surgeon who never makes mistakes but has bad luck instead and just slams his fists screaming "IT NEVER GETS ANY EASIER, TAKE ME INSTEAD" melodrama every time any random person dies.

Still love the books but Kaladin is by far the weakest character. Get the "muh women characters" stick out of your ass.

>>375521481
Horus Heresy does have a few video games. Whether or not they're good is another story.

>>375521430
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is another obvious cyberpunk classic

>>375521351
Thanks senpai, I really liked how well the anime handled the story. Would've loved to have seen them adapt the 2 sequel series though, I'd also kinda of like to see the dub that they did reworked because it was kinda bad

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>>375520402

>Also, I had to avert my eyes during every fucking romance scene, you'd figure the author had never had a conversation with a human woman before.

Which just makes this bit all the more hilarious:

>In high-school Pat was something of a class clown. His hobbies included reading a novel or two a day and giving relationship advice to all his friends despite the fact that he had never so much as kissed a girl. He also role-played and wrote terrible stories about elves. He was pretty much a geek.

>For the next seven years Pat studied anthropology, philosophy, eastern religions, history, alchemy, parapsychology, literature, and writing. He studied six different martial arts, practiced improv comedy, learned how to pick locks, and became a skilled lover of women. He also began writing a satirical advice column which he continues to this day: The College Survivial Guide. Through all of this he continued to work on his novel.

>Now Pat teaches half-time at his old school as an assistant-sub-lecturer. He is underpaid but generally left alone to do as he sees fit with his classes. He is advisor for the college feminists, the fencing club, and, oddly enough, a sorority. He still roll-plays occasionally, but now he does it in an extremely sophisticated, debonair way.

>>375520175
Since the theme park fell through, and the movie was only ever a CIA plot to scam the Iranians, a video game would have to do.

"The fit hit the Shan."

>>375521593
Oh of course it was. The Voices of Nerat was basically Soulcatcher but male.

>>375521456
To this day, I don't even know how Kvothe ate the candy in the first place. Did his eebul rival poison the whole fucking candy stand just because he knew it was in Kvothe's way to the university and that he may get a craving and buy one?

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>>375521624
I don't think they have anything to do with the storyline of the novels, though. I mean adapting that or at least working around it considering there are so many stories and arcs going on.

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>>375519954
Awkward virginal war hero commands spaceships to victory, surrounded by women who grow to want his dick? Sounds like a VN.

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>>375520054

I bet you're looking forward to that TV adaptation with Goyer.

>>375518196
literally the only sanderson book I didn't finish

it's incredibly boring and obnoxious as hell

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>>375518196
perdido street station. there's some freaky shit going on in that book but it's a really good read.

>>375521935
Haven't heard anything about it.

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>>375521646
The japanese version actually had some names in there, and I don't think I'd like to see the sequel series. I remember Dragons just being love triangle bullshit between Leif, Jasmine and some new girl because Jasmine never told Leif anything important.
Granted, the japanese voice actress for Jasmine would be perfect at delivering that, but it'd just be lame to watch. I don't even remember Shadowlands.

>>375522013

http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/841117-david-goyer-and-eliza-dushku-developing-the-black-company-books-for-television

Mastering the Art of French Cooking.

Mortal Engines series.

>>375522052
Well, thanks for the amazing news anon. If we're lucky, it'll turn out pretty good. And that is a big if.

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>>375519954
I read this. Fun and enjoyable space opera, definitely could make nice RTS, also mechanics (starships flying, using weapons) described in these books is what space RTS should focus on


>>375518196
this is what CDPR should have had their next game based on instead of cyberpunk 2077

>>375521031

I can't promise his prose improves any. Really what I've enjoyed most about is just the characters and seeing the large plots unfold. If you're having trouble because of the prose I'm not going to sit here and promise you it will get better. Personally I didn't mind it, but I completely understand what you mean.

The whole "pirate adventure" part of the second book felt unneeded and a bit out of place, though it did have its moments. Really my favorite part of the second book was all about trying to steal the money from what's his face in his tower. The 3rd books "big heist" is a really interesting idea that I really enjoyed, I loved seeing how Locke and Jean approached it. The big "twist" to the end of the plot was kind of eh, but still cool. The ending of the 3rd story REALLY makes you want the 4th, as it's a major cliffhanger that you really want resolved. The worst part about the 3rd book are the flashback chapters though, it's just a story about the Gentleman Bastards putting on a play in a different city. I understand its importance in the story as a whole, but it feels like you could have skipped 80% of those chapters and been completely fine.

>>375522000
You even have an honest to god party of murderhobos/PCs show up at the end.

>>375519396
>lies of locke lamorra
I WAS PROMISED FANTASY HEISTS AND THIEVERY

INSTEAD IT'S THE CHOSEN ONE GENERIC FANTASY SHIT ALL OVER AGAIN

biggest disappointment I've read in a long long while. Only City of Thieves was remotely interesting.

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>>375521225

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>>375521697
>and giving relationship advice to all his friends despite the fact that he had never so much as kissed a girl
>He studied six different martial arts, practiced improv comedy, learned how to pick locks, and became a skilled lover of women.

this is the best shit I've read all day

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>still no Earthsea video game

I don't give a shit about the books, I just want this fucking setting. Let me study magic on Roke Island.

>>375522102

>amazing news

Do you honestly believe this has any chance of being good? Look who they got to play the Lady.

>>375519480
>but pretty bad at characters
Mistborn had amazing characters.

Okay, maybe not amazing, but great.

>>375522013
> David Goyer and Eliza Dushku developing The Black Company books as new TV series
>Eliza Dushku

I'd take Eva Green as the Lady, but eh.

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>>375522000
>Perdido Street Station

>>375522253
Fuck no. That's why I said it was a pretty big if. I haven't seen her work before but I am willing to bet money she can't pull off The Lady.

If nothing else, the series will get more attention.

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>>375522245

And he wrote this:

>None were good enough for her, so I held them in contempt and hated them. They in turn hated and feared me.

>But we were pleasant to each other. Always pleasant. It was a game of sorts. He would invite me to sit, and I would buy him a drink. The three of us would talk, and his eyes would slowly grow dark as he watched her smile toward me. His mouth would narrow as he listened to the laughter that leapt from her as I joked, spun stories, sang...

>They would always react the same way, trying to prove ownership of her in small ways. Holding her hand, a kiss, a too-casual touch along her shoulder.

>They clung to her with desperate determination. Some of them merely resented my presence, saw me as a rival. But others had a frightened knowledge buried deep behind their eyes from the beginning. They knew she was leaving, and they didn't know why. So they clutched at her like shipwrecked sailors, clinging to the rocks despite the fact that they are being battered to death against them. I almost felt sorry for them. Almost.

>So they hated me, and it shone in their eyes when Denna wasn't looking. I would offer to buy another round of drinks, but he would insist, and I would graciously accept, and thank him, and smile.

>I have known her longer, my smile said. True, you have been inside the circle of her arms, tasted her mouth, felt the warmth of her, and that is something I have never had. But there is a part of her that is only for me. You cannot touch it, no matter how hard you might try. And after she has left you I will still be here, making her laugh. My light shining in her. I will still be here long after she has forgotten your name.

>>375522046
Shadowlands was pretty intense and that's what I loved about it, the only reason I'd want to see dragons is for the conclusion of it because that ending was pretty great. I don't remember exactly what happened but I remember Leif thinking he was poisoned and was gonna die which was pretty cool. Talking about this makes me want to buy the book set

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>>375521697
is rothfuss actually kovthe?

>>375522190
I wish the entire MYSTERY with Yagharek wasn't so obvious from the moment he describes it. Also, Isaac fucked him over.

>>375522418

Yep. It's his self-insert.

The whole things like bad fanfiction.

>>375521697
How does one become a skilled lover of women?

>>375522408
>felt the warmth of her, and that is something I have never had
Sides = in orbit.

>>375522525
You level up dext and agi to unlock the stretchability perk

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I'd play the fuck out of it

>>375521481
>Malazan

I have no idea why Malazan is so often overlooked when it's actually one of the modern fantasy works. Maybe because the first book is so dense for new readers?

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>>375522408
I haven't even read this book, but holy fuck.

>>375518196
On the topic of literature, how do you prevent your writing from sounding/reading like fanfiction?

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>>375522408
>I almost felt sorry for them. Almost.

I remember getting to this part and having to put down the book for a few hours. You could tell this was written by a guy with no friends in high school.

Just incredible. What would compel a person to put something like that in a book, then fucking publish it?

>>375522751
>TFW the mouse game in development isn't even close and never will be
I forgot the name it was so disappointing.

>>375522751
There was some indie game in development which was inspired by Redwall but I dunno what happened to it.

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>>375520972
Speaking of Cook I'd like his other season to get adapted. Garrett P.I. is Discworld Noir meets The Wolf Among Us and would make for an excellent adventure series.

>>375522787

Don't ever try to sound cool or deep because it will never come off as either.

>>375522408
>Making your own fantasy insert a cuck

Makes me miss pulpy power fantasies like Conan

>>375522781
It's not terrible, honestly, but definitely has cringeworthy terrible moments.

>>375522787
Read more so you learn how to express yourself in a more exact and eloquent manner. Most fan fiction basically sounds like it was written by people who barely finished highschool or are on that level mentally.

>>375518196
I don't get the magic system here.

Can someone explain in simpler words.

>/lit/ is that way

>>375521430
>good cyberpunk books like Neuromancer and snowcrash
Daemon and FreedomTM by Daniel Suarez

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>>375523078

>Conan

Literally nothing will ever compare to this:

>"Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars– Nemedia, Ophir, Brythunia, Hyperborea, Zamora with its dark-haired women and towers of spider-haunted mystery, Zingara with its chivalry, Koth that bordered on the pastoral lands of Shem, Stygia with its shadow-guarded tombs, Hyrkania whose riders wore steel and silk and gold. But the proudest kingdom of the world was Aquilonia, reigning supreme in the dreaming west. Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet." –The Nemedian Chronicles.

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I want a game GoT game that is sort of like Shadow of Mordor. Except not open world and no tower capturing shit.

You play as a Ranger of the Night Watch North of the wall. You start off fighting wildlings but later on you have to team up with them to defeat the white walkers.

>>375522787
learn japanese and try to publish over there. most light novels are fan fiction level of quality.

>>375522214
>I WAS PROMISED FANTASY HEISTS AND THIEVERY

How is that not exactly what was delivered? I guess the second book kind of strays from that but you can't just keep repeating the heist plot three times over

>INSTEAD IT'S THE CHOSEN ONE GENERIC FANTASY SHIT ALL OVER AGAIN

Yeah the reincarnation stuff was an asspull

>Only City of Thieves was remotely interesting.

Do you mean Republic of Thieves? Because that's where all that CHOSEN ONE shit happens

>>375522787
Know your writing sucks, and accept it. Focus on your characters more than anything else. Read. Read a lot. Read stuff besides fantasy. Also, read your stuff out loud.

>>375522787
I assume you're writing a fantasy story? An easy way is to just avoid making your character the chosen one.

>>375523173
>Not liking some of the best threads on /v/
Civilized off-topic is always good.
>>375522098
Also this.
Hester had a hard life.

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>>375523305
>Also, read your stuff out loud.

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>>375518196
I tried to read mistborn a few weeks ago. Is all of Sanderson's stuff this shit or is it just a one off?

Pic related is my choice. Operation flashpoint and World in Conflict were great. I want more cold war gone hot scenarios.

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>>375518196

Looking for good recommendations in terms of sci-fi/fantasy

Enjoyed Sanderson books as well as name of the win series. Any suggestions?

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>>375521935
>>375522052
this book series would make for a legit awesome TV show

2nd Game of Thrones

>>375519935
Well to be fair, its not like The Great Gatsby or Faulkners corncobby Chronicles can in any way translate to Videogames

>>375523418
They recently tried to kickstart an Apocalypse Now game. Dunno if it met it's funding though

>>375518196
tbump

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forget the 40k universe where's my necromunda game

>>375522214
>>375523275
both fucking wrong
first book is fucking great
book 2 is terrible
book 3 is a return to form ignoring the joke reincarnation bullshit,

>>375522773
because fantasy is kinda in a rough spot right now with young adult drivel monopolizing everything. just look at top lists in the last five years.

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>read nothing but classic literature
/v/ is manchildren stronghold for sure

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>just finished this series last night

Really enjoyed it. Not sure how it would translate to a video game, but it might be cool I guess.

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Gaiman books seem to have the same pacing as a movie, I could imagine it working for games too

>tfw no blade itself game made by rocksteady

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Entirety of Ring of Fire starting with 1632. Series so fucking complicated with so many side stories and entries that author himself has a recommended reading order on his website.

>The series is set in 17th-century Europe, in which the small fictional town of Grantville, West Virginia, in the year 2000 was sent to the past in central Germany in the year 1631, during the Thirty Years' War.

>>375518196
Powder mage series, shoot people with a Q.T side kick.

>>375523245
Read ruby throne

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>>375523840
I love gaiman but they tried to make coraline a game and fucked it.

>>375518196
Well, it certainly didn't make a great book.
I got one signed when I went to get the last TWoT book, but I couldn't be bothered to actually read the whole thing.
Shit story, shit characters, shit everything. Crayfish monsters seemed like a cool concept though.

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Why does /v/ have the best book threads?

>>375523794

>weebfag reaction image
>phoneposter

Kill yourself, faggot.

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>>375523794
>>read nothing but classic literature
>makoto

opinion discarded

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>>375523794
>he didn't read classical works when he was in highschool and college

I have no idea why that even a bragging right. I had mandatory reading and essays throughout pretty much my entire compulsory education.

>>375523796
>Not sure how it would translate to a video game
see
>>375524027

>>375520283
>Kvothe
Like Quote Haha you get cuz he tells a story haha aint i Pat Rothfuss lover of Women pretty clever

>>375523275
First book falls apart as far as heisting goes fairly early on and turns into two of the characters being on the run constantly.

Second book is all Pirates!

And all that chosen one shit in Republic of Thieves was already plenty apparent in the first book, at least that's how I feel in hindsight about it.

Also I fucking loathe the flashbacks. They are the only fun and interesting parts because they actually deal with conning and scamming, but goddamnit they should have been their own series. Having them as flashbacks and interludes absolutely butchers the pacing.

I love what the books could have been and I keep reading them because they are never quite bad enough to make me quit.

>>375524079
The worldbuilding and magic system is great though

>>375522214
Try
>The Redemption of Althalus

>>375523796
People will bitch about Vlora non stop.

>>375524127
golden rule: off-topic /v/ is best /v/

>>375523662
I wish red seas over red skies was never created.

What the fuck was he thinking?

>>375523480
Fantasy:
Assassin's Apprentice-Robin Hobb
Tigana or Lions of Al-Rassan-Guy Gavriel Kay
Chronicles of Amber-Roger Zelazny
The Once and Future King-T.H. White

Scifi
Hyperion-Dan Simmons
A Fire Upon the Deep-Vernor Vinge

>>375518196
Is Kaladin a nigger?

>>375524243
That's like saying a game is shit, but has great lore.
It doesn't matter if the core content is trash.

>>375522787
Give your characters flaws. Note that being an immortal half-demon isn't a flaw, being prideful or arrogant is. The key is that the flaw must work against the character. Having them be arrogant and then have everything go according to keikaku defeats the purpose.

Don't write like you're trying to wow the reader with every sentence. Sometimes a scene is just a scene, and it doesn't need twelve paragraphs and a thesaurus to describe.

Actually plan out your story to create consistency. I once read a Deus Ex/Mass Effect crossover that had been written over five years and it fucking showed how the author just inserted whatever game he was playing at the time into the plot to create a tangled mess of a setting.

>>375523245
>Really want an rpg set in Hyborian Age
>get a sand minecraft instead.

God dammit.

The Pilgrim's Progress might make an interesting platformer, or something like Journey, but much, much more wordy.

>>375523245
Conan is still some of my favorite stuff I've read. It's a shame they don't write actual sword and sorcery stuff anymore. Closest we get is some grimdark stuff, but it's not the same.

>>375524262
>google it
>David and Leigh Eddings
FUCK YEAH
>investigate further
>realize I've already read it, but didn't know the English title
sadfrog.tiff

Great book though, read it 2 or 3 times.

>>375524375
>That's like saying a game is shit, but has great lore.
It does.
See Torment and Risen

>>375524519
Good man. Too bad there's little else of that kind.

>>375524168
This. Makoto reads manga as well.

>>375524357
Nah, he is a mulatto bastard.
It is said his father is a bright eye and his mother a dark eye. Which is code for black and white skin.

THere is even a part in which is said "the dark-eyes should rule over the bright-eyes instead of the current ruling system, but they won't let you tell that, Danilary ou fucking bitch"

>>375523480
>Looking for good recommendations in terms of sci-fi/fantasy
Foundation by Asimov

ALWAYS relevant

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>>375524168
>>375524135
Makoto is amazing girl. She reads good literature not fantasy adventures like you faggots.
>>375524170
>not being STEM patrician
kys

>>375523794
>Implying I'm not reading War and Peace as well as fantasy and Stephen King.

Only dickheads read a single genre.

>>375524420

Conan Exiles?

>>375524474
Where would one start with Conan if they're interested in the book series?

>not fluent enough in english to properly enjoy some books due to the prose
>translations are absolute dogshit
fuck

>>375524235
>Having them as flashbacks and interludes absolutely butchers the pacing.

Not everything needs to follow a linear progression of events. The play in the third book was a neat vehicle to deliver on its themes.

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>>375524343
>Hyperion-Dan Simmons

god the third act of the second book was embarrassing

Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds in the style of Star Control 2 would be pretty cool

>>375524745

Conan Chronicles/The Complete Tales.

>>375524270
>Cucked a national hero and still gets Olem to fall for her despite the fact he should be smarter

Vlora a SHIT.

>>375524343
Hey thanks anon, I appreciate it. I dont know why I've held off so long on reading Hyperion. Is the first book the only decent one or is it worth diving into the whole series?

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>>375524474
If you like Conan you might want to check out Kane. I imagine there are more of these similar works, but considering how they were published and never received much prominence some might be lost.

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>>375523794
Yare Yare Daze

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>>375524745
Start at the beginning. You can get all of the original stories in one book.

Shames he ruins everything by the end of the second book. He's like an American Nasu with how he treats "death". He dropped the ball on the last Reckoners book too.

>>375521387
Who would? The workers at the library?

>>375518196
I would like to see a game based on one of the old Conan novels(or at least keeping to their tone). I'm thinking something kind of like Souls, but stage-based, and a more forgiving health situation(i.e. no getting shanked to shit and dying within two seconds of a fight starting - though by all means include a high difficulty mode where many connecting strikes are crippling or lethal, to both the player and enemies).

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>>375521481
>mfw Itkovian

>>375524745
Pick up the three books by Del Ray. They're less altered than some of the others out there, as I understand it. Half of the shit people give Howard is because other people fucked with his stuff.

Don't try to read them in any chronological order. Conan stories are fundamentally self contained adventures.

>>375522751
Ghost of a tale
Still in dev, but updated fairly recently

>>375523796
the first book of the sequel trilogy just came out last month, but it's got vlora as one of the main characters
you should go ahead and read the shadow campaigns too
basically the same shit but with less magic and more guns

>>375524884
Personally, I'd stop with book 2.

>>375524745
There was a three-volume set of the original Howard stories: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian, The Bloody Crown of Conan, The Conquering Sword of Conan. Read these before readying any other interpretations.

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>>375523794
Agree

>>375518196

Not a book, but: Lankhmar from the Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser stories. Just a game set in a traditional, dark fantasy setting. That could be cool.

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I need fantasy with a character-driven story, as opposed to a plot-driven one. I am so ludicrously tired of "you are the chosen one, now go get the macguffin" stories. I just want well-constructed characters.

Recommendations?

>>375523267
That would actually be pretty rad, I'd love to explore all of the areas north of the wall

>>375525268

That's pretty much what A Song of Ice and Fire is known for.

They should make a game about The Dwarves. I like the armor guy and the one eye dwarf and the sassy actor who bamboozled the Orcs with costumes.

>>375525424
what's the point of reading the book when you have already seen the series?

>>375525268
Tigana
Assassin's Apprentice.

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>>375525268
>I am so ludicrously tired of "you are the chosen one, now go get the macguffin" stories


The problem with fantasy is that it always devolves into that if a series goes on for long enough since it's the only way for an author to up the ante.
My advice is never read past the second book in any given series.

>>375525508
>they literally did.

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>>375523141
You make magic by making contracts with magical multidimensional critters called spren. Its a symbiotic relationship where you get magic powers and the spren stops being retarded. But if the spren is bad you get turned into a bad guy.

>>375525508
They released a The Dwarves game only recently It's shit though

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>>375525885
>shadow's edge
this can't be real

>>375526129

They're not awful but they are exactly as edgy as you think they are.

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>>375525885
F-forgive me

>>375524773

Use that as a way to learn more English. Read books you want to, and if you don't understand certain things, use that as an opportunity to expand your knowledge of the language.

>>375525168
Yeah, I'm probably going to go to the bookstore to pick that up today. Not excited about that element, but eh, maybe it will be OK.

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>>375525885
I used to love this absolute tripe. God it's awful, published purely because of nepotism.

>>375520054
I really liked how books undermine the idea of an apparent Gary Stu like Raven despite how he appears to be one at first.

>>375525957
>Tfw the author was working on 2 new books 12 years ago & no news since.

Please tell me what happens to Tobo!

Any genre fiction that isn't Gormenghast and The Book of the New Sun is absolute dreck. Don't even bother reading anything beyond those two.

>>375526406
I think one script got stolen or something and he hasn't really commented since. In essence, it would've been set a long ago after the series had ended and would be more or less unrelated.

>>375526379
"'Sorry,' apologized Brom"

>>375526248

Except this was a good book.

>>375520846
Back off nerd, /lit/ is /fit/'s girl.

>>375526379
Even when I was a kid, I got like 20 pages into this and put it back down. Really didn't understand how so many people were into it.

I worked in the school library and I was so tired of looking at that cunt's face every day

>>375526379
Legit no idea how people could read that. Even as a 10 year old I knew it was garbage.

>>375525628
Yeah, this is the real reason why the pulp stories back in the day hold up as well as they do, IMO. Your typical Conan story had lower stakes than "EPIC FANTASY TRILOGY 3000", but they were much more varied.

>>375525893
I'm talking about the different kinds of magic used,

>>375525628
>The problem with fantasy is that it always devolves into that if a series goes on for long enough since it's the only way for an author to up the ante.
It never happened in Discworld though

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>>375518196
Honestly as a sci-fi rpg or something the setting of this book could be pretty damn good, the entire trilogy i mean.

>>375526379
Yeah I remember this shit. It only gets worse as you continue the series. This little faggot begins a fucking philosophical analogy between dwarves (redneck, inbred creationists) and elves (good looking, smart evolutionists who know everything). It's so fucking heavy handed even when I was a 16 year old hardcore atheistfag I cringed.

>>375526560
It's basically the plot of Star Wars but with dragons so it's easy to see why a kid might like it.

>>375525885

I really enjoyed these when I was about 19 or so, even though I knew they were trash at the time. It's just of like eating shitty fast food for a while.

His other series about the Color Benders or whatever is pretty cool though. Still a bit "edgy teenager" kind of bullshit, but a huge improvement, and the magic system is really interesting at least.

>>375525268
First few Dragon Riders of Pern are pretty good.

>>375526679
>ignoring the 4th book
so did I

>>375526679
>the entire trilogy
You had me until here. Fuck Absolution Gap.

>>375526406
>Caring about Tobo

I didn't like the idea of a mage more powerful than Lady tbqh.

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>>375526530
>/fit/
>having a girl

>>375526379
Imagine how depressing it would be to try to make it as a fantasy author and then have this literal shit blow up like it did for no apparent reason.

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>>375518196
Should have already happened

>>375526815
*waifu

>>375525885
>MC cucks love interest with a titty ninja
>In the other series the MC cucks the love interest with a titty colorbender
Both may be mediocre but they cater to my fetish

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I can't decide if these are good or bad.

>>375523141
>>375526675
10 major forces
>adhesion
>gravitation
>division
>abrasion
>progression
>illumination
>transformation
>transportation
>cohesion
>tension

each force combines with exactly 2 others to make different kinds of magic. each one in the list combines with the one above and below it with tension and adhesion also combining.

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>>375520054
>Books of the North only though.

Agree. Silver Spike was an amazing sendoff and fanboys don't like it because of what it did to their waifu White Rose.

>finally seems like a sensible wizard is going to take over
>gets killed in his only big scene

Shit sucks. I'm actually surprised it took someone so long to realize that hey, maybe no one trusts us wizards because we're being dicks all the time who torment others and go back on our word. Sometimes just being honest and fair is the best way to handle things.

>>375526924
That's because it already has
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu4n5YXPaMQ

>>375526878
it was the first book that made me think "wow, most of this genre is garbage, huh"

didn't it even get a movie too?

>>375518196
The Mistborn magic system is basically meant for a video game.
I wish The Witcher game hadn't been so faithful to the books and went with something similar.
Casting spells without a mana bar, and instead using whatever is in your bag, is a neat concept. Makes money much more valuable, as it often is useless in games.

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Audiobooks count?

>>375526763
I'll be honest, i didn't know there was a 4th book.

>>375526765
What's wrong with Absolution Gap? It's been a while since i read it so i don't remember much of it.

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>>375518196
Not too sure about that, feels like you just enjoyed the book and felt like making this thread so you threw it out there

>tfw reading Stormlight Archives made you crave more fantasy but everything else feels shitty in comparison

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A-am I the only one that liked those?

>>375527093
>didn't it even get a movie too?
Yes.

>>375526812
I don't think he was, some jew/gypsy/gook prophecy notwithstanding. It was more a case of "who the fuck is even left to be a major player?" in general.

>>375527093
Yes, though I don't think it was very successful

>>375527016
Someone recommenended them to me and after 3 chapters of the first book it was too edgy for me
Does it get better?

>>375520054
Nobody could answer me this question in the last thread so I'll give it another go
What were the glittering stones? They seem so important but I could never figure out if they were anything more than fancy stones

>>375527060
I have Silver Spike but still need to read it. Been trying to get back to Ciaphas Cain and reading ROTK.

>>375527016
I remember someone explaining this to me and it sounded like the edgiest book to ever exist and shit only happened because it was cool and edgy.

>>375527162
A lot of people consider it King's best work and it's receiving a film adaptation this year.

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This would make a great game. I could see it playing similar to Oddworld, Stranger's Wrath, but with a more serious tone and less wacky technology.

>>375527016
First book was alright
2nd book wasn't
third book was shit

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>>375525885
This one
The magic system is interesting enough but most of the rest is women fanfiction tier

>>375527178
I suppose, but I felt like Tobo was being really built up to be the best mage who ever was.

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>>375520503
>John Green

If you want to play something like gone home again sure.

>>375527234
It's never stated, but I assume they were from somewhere else just like pretty much everything on the Plain of Fear because Father Tree was doing shit.

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>>375527016
Read the whole thing. I really couldn't either, to be honest. There's some really cool shit at play with the post-apocolyptic fantasy world in our world stuff, but Jorg can be cringy as fuck sometimes.

The follow up series had less cool moments, but was a bit more even overall.

>>375527060
If this got you disappointed, you should read Abercrombie's The Heroes. Its the punchline there.

>>375527128
it's set up at the end, the villain goes from this threat to the whole galaxy / the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy [look, the Wolves were malfunctioning and even at the point of time of the book there was a better than small chance they wouldn't shut down after the galactic collision], to a doctor who flavor of the week villain in the form of the malfunctioning terraforming machines that were changing the composition of stars

that shit doesn't make no goddamn sense

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>>375527093
Yes, and even a shitty video game.

>>375523517
I'd play an Absalom Absalom game

>>375527528
No, not the standing stones, although those ones were also pretty cool. I'm talking about the glittering stones on the plain of glittering stones in the south

>>375527212
>>375527253

Ok I'm going to spoil the ending of the first book for you, so just skip this paragraph if you care, even though it's really not a big spoiler (which is why I'm not bothering to spoiler it). He was being influenced by a spellcaster for the last several years to be insane and act incredibly violent, to further that spellcaster and his Lord's goals. He was a puppet being used by someone else. In the second book he's always second guessing his actions and wondering if they're really his own choices, and begins to show more compassion and be less edgy.

Yes the MC comes off as super edgy, and the first book kind of it, but part of the idea is that the MC is a sociopath, and I think the author actually does a good job of portraying that in the stories, once you realize the twist at the end of the first book. The second and third books are definitely much better in terms of "edgyness," and it's not needlessly edgy like The Night Angel by Brent Weeks, as seen above.

Also the setting is really cool, and some of the side characters are pretty enjoyable.

>>375527469
what is the gravity's rainbow of video games

>>375527083
Oh shit

Too bad about it being a text adventure. Seems kind of pointless when, you know, it's based off a fucking book.

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>>375527762

>>375527569

Mark Lawrence is such a weird author. He has some really good ideas and I enjoy a lot of what goes on in his books, but every time I finish one of his books I'm always like "so did I enjoy that or not?" It's hard to tell, but I still read all 6 of those books, so I guess I must have enjoyed it a decent bit.

Ogniem I mieczem. Fuck you I don't trust Turks to make a game of it, rather trust Russians with it. Fucking roaches.

>>375527128
>What's wrong with Absolution Gap?
I didn't like where Reynolds took the plot/characters. Hated that some of the characters were killed off between books, and Greenfly felt like a massive "Fuck You". Yes I read Galactic North.

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>>375527929
>Ogniem I mieczem

At least there's a TV series.

>>375527929
The Mount&Blade mod was made by poles and ukrainians, you fucking shit.
Besides, nobody outside of your shothole cares, so it won't get remade.

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I could just fucking imagine a Temeraire video game: sky combat, political intrigue, fuck I want this so badly.

>>375528194
It was pretty important turning point in eastern european history, if you don't care you're a cyka blyat.

how do i write a book

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Pretty much any Cain book would be a lot of fun. You could even make it play like a TellTale multiple choice episodic story and it would still be good.

I'd also be down to play from Jurgen's perspective.

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>tfw ive never liked reading novels because of all the trash i was forced to read in school for book reports

>>375518196
>reading mormon propaganda

>>375527014

Could you go a bit more into detail?

>>375520278
>Fifteen hours

meh, typical grimdark.

at least go with The Armor of Contempt. The IG planetary assault chapters are the beatifully written in a kind of "staring into bright blue eyes of a pretty boy as he bleeds out from an abdominal gunshot wound" way

>>375528460
>Only option when playing as Jurgen is to fucking gun it when driving

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>>375521481
>Malazan
>by From Software

>>375527912
Yeah, I'm trying to decide if I'm going to be a taker on his new thing. Might pass as it's a chick assassin who goes to assassin school. Knowing Mark Lawrence, he probably does some stuff with it that make it better than it sounds on paper, but it kind of sounds like he's just trying to bait the people who didn't like his stuff previously in and that's kinda lame.

>>375528517
Some novels are crazy good

>>375528391
>its important part of an unimportant area's unimportant history

Oh wow its fucking nothing.

>>375522408
Is it really a self-insert though? I thought the whole point of the story was that Kvothe is a very talented idiot. He's been brought up in a troupe and has a very theatrical, dramatical view of life. You can see it in his relationship with Denna, and his friends point out that their affair is plain stupid.
This whole thing is probably a big build-up of Denna betraying him in the third book where his idiocity finally pays off.

>>375528460

When I started reading your post I thought you wanted it to be like a FPS, and I thought that would feel way to weird. But the idea of a TellTale style game would be amazing for this, I think.

>>375528427
Start with a cool ending and work backwards.

Write a complete draft.

Now throw it out and write it again.

Now you have a book.

>>375528550
Nah, he gets plenty of action making Tanna, eating sandwiches and wielding his melta. Quite apart from positioning his aura of course. Which since he doesn't know it exists would be a fun mechanic.

>Really want to stand next to the psyker
>Game keeps putting obstacles in your way
>have to figure out how to get Jurgen into position to save Cain

>>375528716
>>Is it really a self-insert though?
Just read those fucking Felurian chapters.

>>375528427
By writing short stories first. You can find a ton of more specialized places online that will give you better feedback.

>>375528556

Everything he writes sounds super edgy and bad on paper but usually plays out pretty well, all things considered. I'm going to give it a try and see how it goes, but I'm not really going in with any real hype or expectations.

>>375528675
Yeah you say that to the timeline where the west is turkic mohameddan pedophile worshipers when Polish lost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75zmIj_4LFQ
Yeah you live in a world without our unimportant crap and see how far you go