Will video games ever have writing on par with books?

Is this really all I have to do for my book to be made into a movie? Make a bunch of random references? Because that's all it is.
>omg we need the key, but in order to get it we have to play a perfect game a pacman guies!
>omg now we have to go to bladerunner world XD

>>388444115
Considering shit like twilight and 50 shades exists, yes.

>there was so much blood the floor was slippery like an ice level
>the mario special stages all had silly names like tubular, this one was just called suffering
>then my girlfriend started choking up this horrible pudding-like glob that reminded me of the yellow devil from megaman

>>388444635
Is this actual text from the book?

>>388444415
Batman v Superman made 800 million in the box office.
Mummy (2017) made 405 million.
Even the emoji movie made double it's budget in the box office.
If you want to make a movie, make one that's filled with references or for the Chinese.

>>388444115
>what is Sunless Sea

Now, if only the game itself was even remotely good...
thank god mods exists

>>388444115

They already do, but few of them are better than bottom of the barrel genre fiction.

>>388444115
That book is reddit tier shit and relies on it's premise and pop culture to remain interesting.

>>388444115
no because writing has to serve gameplay which always ends up with inconsistencies and silliness
>"i was framed for killing a man!"
>kill 100 000 thousand civilians in the game just because

>>388444837
I'm going to then.
I'm going to write a book full of extremely esoteric game and anime and movie references and have no real plot.
It'll probably be out sometime 202X so look out for it.
I'll give a shout out to Koolkid87 in the movie/book

>>388444779
It's text from creepypasta stories. But this book and shitty horror fanfiction suffer from the exact same kind of writing.

>>388444115
Even if it was, you would not notice it.

Good writing in books is providing a plethora of non-visual information that set the tone acccompaning the visual descriptions, feeding your imagination as much as possible while still providing enough concrete information that you have more to go with than "a house, y´know, with people inside and stuff...".
A game is, among other things, a visual medium, which already bars the writing from having that aspect.

And lets get down to the nasty truth; tolkien, for example, has not written great characters or scenes, yet his writing is famous for exactly the information that games could not convey.

>>388444115
No, almost certainly not, and holy fuck that book was awful.

>>388445196
>esoteric
Won't work, has to be shallow enough to be normiefag friendly, but not too shallow or normiefags won't think they're special.

>>388444115
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiK2fhOY0nE
>hey guys remember Willy Wonka/Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
>hey guys remember The Iron Giant?

>>388444115
>le reference cultre: the book

Sonic Mania

>>388445412
Of course its going to be filled with those too. But every other line has to be an esoteric reference so that way hipsters can pretend they are that its too deep for anyone that wouldn't like it

Is this book just Spy Kids 3D?

>>388444115
Yeah, that book is shit and we already know it. You're not as clever as you think.

>>388444115
Most games have better writing than this shit.

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>>388444115
umm

>>388445459
I clapped when I saw The Iron Giant™!!

>>388445412
You actually don't need to worry about it being not too shallow because it'll just kill in the Chinese and poo in loo releases

>>388445901
I GO INTO THE MOVIE THEATER
I SEE THINGS I RECOGNIZE
I CLAPPED

>>388445459
pretty kino

>>388444115
God I hope not

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>>388444115
can't wait to hear this zinger in the theater

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>>388446285
but

Someone post the picture
You know the one

>>388446418
Tesla :P

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Books, you say?

>>388446604
The part where the author spergs out about 80's mecha anime?

>>388446418
This man is having a movie made out of his writings by fucking Steven Spielberg

>>388446604
how bout i post the obligatory video instead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfJRm0WssOE

>>388446418
But you can't knock protons off of atoms without completely changing the element
and hydrogen only has 1

>>388446510
>obvious influences, Neo-Tokyo from Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Metal Gear Solid by Hideo Kojima, or as he's known in my crib, God.”

What did Pinecone mean by this?

>>388445894
>>388446681
These.
Not better than books, but on par.

>>388446418
It's an historical fact that Newton was a sexless virgin autist for his entire life.

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>>388446510
DID YOU KNOW THAT THE WITNESS TOOK EIGHT YEARS TO MAKE!?

Epic Nerd Girl Porn
by Ernest Cline

I've noticed that there don't seem to be any porno movies that are made for guys like me.
All the porn I've come across
was targeted at beer-swilling sports watching jock morons
Oh, what are you watching... sports ball?
Le sigh.
You may have been all that in high school, but let's get one thing straight
out here in the real world, us nerds are in charge.

These hunks like stupid women
who have surgery because they're too stupid to think for themselves.
They're bimbos
plain and simple
and they're complete idiots
Absolute empty heads
They're objects
I can't get off to that because I respect women too much, even when they're FUCKING VAPID BITCHES WHO HAVE SEX WITH JOCKS.

But I NEED porn.
I need to rub my dick and imagine I'm rubbing it on a woman until I shoot out white cum.
But I need something better.
That's right motherfuckers - I'm talking about an epic nerd girl!

>>388447502
I want a real woman.
An epic nerd girl with scoliosis.
A girl who knows how to use a calculator or owns a calculator.
Super Mario Bros. The Legend of Zelda. Mega Man. Contra. The uh, the one where the kid puts bananas in his ears. Startropics. Donkey Kong. Sonic the Hedgehog. Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Sonic 3 & Knuckles. [sound of one guy in crowd going wooo yeah at sonic 3 & knuckles]

I'm talking about a porn flim where the girl wears GLASSES.

In my porn film there wouldn't even be sex.
The women would just say "There are 10 kinds of people in the world" and I would say "Huh ok go on" and they would say "People who understand binary and people who don't" and I would cum as soon as she said binary.
Imagine seeing a woman playing chess.
Imagine seeing a woman near a chess board.
Imagine a woman saying "Did you hear about the new Star Trek series?" I would jack off to her. Oh god, oh christ, say Star Trek again. I respect you so much unghhhhhhhhh

My name is Ernest Cline. I'm a Forty-Five-year-old author. I've watched every erotic film in existence, and I have never jerked off. There are MILLIONS of nerds just like me, and we're getting sick of people like you blaming your problems on us. Ignorance causes impotence, not nerd girls. Man up and take responsibility. We outnumber you, and the people that think like you. DON'T FUCK WITH US.

I want to fuck Hogarths mom.

>>388446804
I always crack at that stupid "Mon Mothma's back!" pun.

>>388447593
>>388447502
Fuck off with your fanfiction
We're trying to paraphrase Redlettermedia

>>388446510
He's right, it felt like the Witness took hot shit into my mouth just like in GR.

https://youtu.be/cp-WoKvWkcQ?t=2144
In case anyone wants a cliffnotes version of the book in the OP

>>388444579
I thunk anon meant good books.

>>388448134
no he didn't

I wish someone had just told me the truth right up front, as soon as I was old enough to understand it. I wish someone had just said: “Here’s the deal, Wade. You’re something called a ‘human being.’ That’s a really smart kind of animal. Like every other animal on this planet, we’re descended from a single-celled organism that lived millions of years ago. This happened by a process called evolution, and you’ll learn more about it But trust me, that’s really how we all got here. There’s proof of it everywhere, buried in the rocks. That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. “Oh, and by the way … there’s no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny. Also bullshit. Sorry, kid Deal with it.

>>388448134
Dude, this is a shitpost thread. The OP is openly mocked by people as being the book equivalent of an old man saying "I'm all about that rocking-and-rolling music!"

>>388448280
woah

>>388448358
That is a horrible description of what's wrong with that book.

>>388448280
*burp

>>388447502
>>388447593
Does this guy legitimately have autism?

any cod title
prove me wrong
protip; you can't

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>>388444115
No, for the same reason films and tv shows don't.

Video games are all about the visuals and telling the story through actions on the screen. CRPGs are different though, the could have writing as good as a book seen as the story is told mainly through text.

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In all honesty is the fear that this movie will increase the "LOL I'm a nerd too XDD" culture? Literally all anyone will see this movie for is to say "I get that refrence" when they shit from things like star wars or avengers.

>>388448660
What's a better description of the book, then?

>>388448280
>*UUURRRRRPPPPP* GOD'S NOT REAL MORTY *BRAAAAAAPPP*

>>388448875
writing is just a bastardization of the oral story form, so you know

>>388448918
Guy writes power fantasy fan fiction and somehow turns it into a real book.

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>>388446681
Divinity:Original Sin
Fallout 2

pure lito

>>388448875
No you fucking faggot they're about the GAMEPLAY

why the fuck do you think they're called video GAMES

cancer.

>>388449038
>people are still triggered over Rick & Morty

Americans were a mistake

>>388448280
you memers will shit on this but it's 100% accurate
you can't prove it wrong, so don't even try

>>388444115
no, because you'll always be biased.

>>388449158
Stop trying to fit in anon, you are embarrassing yourself.

>>388448918
It's a Bazinga-laden panderrama for people too retarded to notice that liking billion-dollar IPs doesn't make them special.
The author isn't an "old man" outsider precisely because he chose the most pedestrian shit imaginable to create a self identity (and book universe) out of.

>>388449158
And you can do whatever you want with the rest of the game, that's why they're called VIDEO games.

>>388449038
>hurr gods real cause god says so
Only Rick and Morty viewers could be this retarded.

How do we take back nerd culture?

>>388449129
>fallout 2 has better story than fallout 1
a reddit gold for you

>>388448280
I wish someone had just told me the truth right up front, as soon as I was old enough to understand it. I wish someone had just said: “Here’s the deal, Wade (Wilson). You’re something called a ‘human being.’ That’s a really smart kind of animal. Like every other animal on this animalplanet, we’re descended from a single-celled organism that lived millions of years ago. This happened by a process called evelution, and you’ll learn more about it But trust me, that’s really how we all got here. There’s proof of it everywhere, buried in the rocks and next to the Chronoplast. That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-saiyan dude named Goku who lives up on planet Namek? Total bullshit. The whole Goku thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. Saitama, the One-Punch man is the real hero. We made up the Goku guy. Like Rei and Asuka. “Oh, and by the way … there’s no Rei or Asuka. Also bullshit. Sorry, kid Deal with it.

>>388449483
yeah its called "faith" you godless heathen

>>388449606
I wish someone had just told me the truth right up front, (that war never changes) as soon as I was old enough to understand it. I wish someone had just said: “Here’s the deal, Wade (Wilson). You’re something called a ‘human bean.’ That’s a really smart kind of anmal. Like every other anmal on this animalplanet, we’re descended from a single-celled organism that lived millions of years ago. This happened by a process called evelution, and you’ll learn more about it But trust me, that’s really how we all got here. There’s proof of it everywhere, buried in the rocks and next to the Chronoplast. That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-saiyan dude named Goku who lives up on planet Namek? Total bullshit. The whole Goku thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. Saitama, the One-Punch man is the real hero. We made up the Goku guy. Like Rei and Asuka. “Oh, and by the way … there’s no Rei or Asuka. Also bullshit. Sorry, kid Deal with it.

>>388449640
No it's called 'jewish bullshit'

>>388449640
Not an argument.

>>388448889
>In all honesty is the fear that this movie will increase the "LOL I'm a nerd too XDD" culture?
Increase? The commercial nerd culture already prospered to the vilest extents at this point

Of course they can. The issue isn't that it's game but who it's being marketed to. This is the most typical response here on /v/ but it's all because of the normies. Yes there are some who like story, yes there are some who like to read, and yes not all of them are as braindead as all of us here make it seem. However the vast majority don't like to read when playing games, they don't pick up foreshadowing, and they don't like intermission-esque sequences in games because they can't just hack and slash enemies. The only way for a game to be on par with a book is if they don't pander to everyone but instead pander to a specific group. Basically make a fantasy game for fantasy fans. Not every gamer Only.Fantasy.Fans.

The whole business of making games enjoyable for everyone is what's killing vidya.

>>388445459
>halo AR

calling this a novel is very misleading, it's just a long list of pop culture references

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>this is what the average gamer look like according to Hollywood

What? The Last of Us and Walking Dead prove this

I liked the description of VR in that book but the rest was very cliche and lacking.

>>388449768
kk

>>388449848
yeah, no shit

I think you guys overestimate how good books typically are. Like there are some amazing books but is there is it really so extreme that you seriously think even the shitiest books are better then any game's story? Games are a younger, they have had some pretty good stories for the 50ish years they have existed. Maybe the best books are better but there probably exist some games better then a majority of books.

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>>388444115
Are there any other books that capture the same type of comfy treasure hunting/mystery type narrative?

I didn't really give a fuck about the whole "80s le retro pop culture XD" stuff, but I did find the actual Easter egg hunt to be pretty engaging and it left me wanting more of it.

Bonus points if's more about staying in one location getting comfy while solving the mystery.

>>388450164
>if i shit my way out of arguing I win

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>that bit where he goes "ANIME? I WATCHED *ALL* THE ANIME" and then namedrops like three of the most entry level normalfag tier saturday morning Fox Kids shit possible and that's it
fucking hell
is this what being offended feels like?

>>388450297
I'm just trying to help you anon

Guess what, your book will never be as profound as music.

I can say that because guess what, mediums are completely different from each other.

>>388444115

Hellgate london had some surprisingly good books

Why are my posts always ignored?

>>388447956

>>388450257
have you tried, oh, i dunno, the entire mystery genre?

try The Flanders Panel

Not really, since movies has not caught up to that either.

Besides it is hard to ask a video game to excel in something it is not in the first place. Once it realises that it can go on and improve aspects tied to it.

You know, I bought copies of The Iliad, The Odyssey, and Heart of Darkness the other day, and I've had a tab open on my phone for Mike Duncan podcasts.
And yet I haven't touched them because I'm too fucking busy watching Let's Play and TGWTG videos.

Can someone threaten me into reading one of them?

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>>388449640
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why the religious has never successfully countered any points made by anyone outside their circles. Because they're not operating on the same terms. While reasonable humans argue about things that can be proven and seen, religious people argue about the intangible, the mystery that only they know the answers to. You will reach a point when speaking with a religious person when they run out of excuses and so they have no choice but to fall back on the biggest excuse of all. Take it all on faith. Faith is the answer.
Faith doesn't hold water. There's a reason why religion is on the decline. It was always going to end this way.
Post as many pictures of fedoras, triblys and overweight men as you want, it's not going to convince anyone that your mythology is real.

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>>388446510
>Gravity's Memebow

The author is 45 right? I think he's just a old timey guy who thinks the jaded nature of the current generation. My father is 58, when he watches more modern shows that just denounce religion and shit he thinks it'sthe most breakthrough shit ever put on tv.

>>388450494
Every genre or media Cline rams into this shit book is like that though. It's nothing but entry level references to the most quotable lines in any game, movie, anime, whatever so people with only surface level experience with any or all of those things can feel included.

It's shallow trash but I would think including deep cut/esoteric references would be just as lazy and shitty.

>>388446036
IT BROKE NEW GROUND

>>388447956
>>388450701
I watched it, since I haven't the faintest clue on what the hell the book was about. It really does sound like a power-fantasy fan-fiction that seems to heavily rely on pop culture references of the 80's.

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>>388450956
hey, fuckhead

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>>388450923
READ THE FUCKING ILIAD OR I'LL RIP OFF YOUR HEAD AND SHIT DOWN YOUR NECK

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>>388450956
I don't need to post fedora macros to call you a fucking edgelord.

>>388450923
Iliad and Odyssey reads like an anime at points. Then again, you are clearly already pleb enough that you will stop at the glorious ship cataloging.

>>388451187
[crazy high-pitched laughter intensifies]

>>388450716
Apart from just being massive most of the mystery genre seems more focused on solving crime, which don't really give me that cozy feeling I want while curling up in my bed in the evening(well maybe not counting Sherlock Holmes). Which is why I was asking for recommendations.

The Flanders Panel sounds pretty sweet though. Thanks.

>>388450923
Maybe I'm a brainlet but I remember reading HoD my sophmore year of high school and all I remember is the section on the boat, there are some heads on spears, and the douchbag guy dies at the end. Need to reread it, I think I was too stupid and young to appreciate it.

/sffg/ please go back

>>>/lit/9939025

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>>388451165
i remember reading the back of it after my brother recommended i should read it, there was a quote from someone calling it the Big Bang Theory of novels.

well, they were right at least.

>>388451032
hot

>>388451379
>Iliad and Odyssey reads like an anime at points
A lot of mythology reads like anime. There were a lot of stories before Pax Romana that tried to excuse this and that happenstance of nature or politics by saying "god did it". Heck, the Book of Job in the fucking Bible is essentially one long argument about why humans suffer and what God's role is in that suffering.

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We posting Ready Player One?

>>388444115
Do visual novels count? Because the Zero Escape series is breddy gudd :DDDD

>>388451690
Speaking of Rome
Diomedes>Aeneas

>>388451739
Daily reminder that he later fights a giant EVE Online battle inside Spiderman's giant robot mecha.

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Because I'll post some fucking Ready Player One

>>388451739
BAZINGA

>>388451379
I've always thought it would be great if a good anime studio did an adaption of those. I'm suprised they don't do direct adaptations of Western legend, judging by the popularity of Megami Tensei and Fate they obviously enjoy our mythological characters.

>>388451261
He believed firmly in an afterlife, stating: "Of course this supposes that there are many relationships which today's science and received wisdom haven't any inkling of. But I am convinced of this [the afterlife], independently of any theology." It is "possible today to perceive, by pure reasoning" that it "is entirely consistent with known facts." "If the world is rationally constructed and has meaning, then there must be such a thing [as an afterlife]."

Just more speculation.

"I like Islam: it is a consistent [or consequential] idea of religion and open-minded"

Is he saying Islam is open minded? Maybe you could help me out with this one.

>>388451313
If basic reasoning and deduction skills make me an edgelord, then you might as well slap the label onto everyone. You probably would, too.

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>>388451739
I will have as much fun watching the movie, as I had reading the book, and there is nothing /tv/ can do about it.

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Uh huh huh huh, 80s am i right my fellow children

>>388452067
>#Imrational

>>388451928
Ship cataloging would be an amazing filler and Athena would be a cute loli warrior.

>>388451739
I fucking hated Firefly and it's shit ending.
Also what the fuck.
If I write a book can I just make a whole bunch of references to shit and not need permission to do that?

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>>388444115
Look, I'm glad people are excited to read stuff, but 'Ready Player One' is a few hundred pages of trash on par with reference-checking ""humor."" It's awful bait designed for 'us nerds amiritie?!'

>>388451856
>Mazinger Z
wtf I love this book now

>>388452082
That's fine, shit taste is a huge industry.

>>388452140
You actually did it, you madman.

>>388452115
>And of course, Kevin Smith
Jesus Christ, it's like it's a parody.

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>"I made my big entrance when I arrived in my flying DeLorean, which I'd obtained by completing a Back to the Future quest on the planet Zemeckis. The DeLorean came outfitted with a (nonfuctioning) flux capacitor, but I'd made several additions to its equipment and appearance. First, I'd installed an artificially intelligent onboard computer named KITT (purchased in an online auction) into the dashboard, along with a matching red Knight Rider scanner just above the DeLorean's grill. Then I'd outfitted the car with an oscillation overthruster, a device that allowed it to travel through solid matter. Finally, to complete my '80s super-vehicle theme, I'd slapped a Ghostbusters logo on each of the DeLorean's gull-wing doors, then added personalized plates that read ECTO-88."

>>388451856
Oh Lord, those pointless mecha references.
>Mazinger Z
>Gundam
>Raideen
>Mechagodzilla
>Eva
>Voltron
>not even Go-Lion
>Robotech
AND WE AT ROBOTECHX.COM ALL LAUGHING

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>>388452115
>no fucking Asimov in there

>tfw these days I pretty much only listen to audiobooks because it's cheaper

I feel like such a pleb. But it's pretty nice ritual to listen to a book for about an hour or half before bed and it's helped a lot with my sleeping issues.

Reminder that it's possible to not be cringey while making massive amounts of cultural references

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WgT9gy4zQA

>>388452115
And, of course, Kevin Smith.

>>388444924
No shit, that is literally the point of the book.

>>388452143
It could certainly be popular. Even without changing the story of the Iliad you already have
>hot girls
>manly 1v1 fights
>yaoi bait
>feels

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>>388452432
Relevant?

>>388446681
for me its the only game thta can be on par with books. obviously its not as good as top literature, but the matter disscused, the way the plot and dialogues are structured and the style are the highest quality you can ever get from gaming.

>>388452454
do you have an example?

>>388452151
If you don't hold any politically incorrect opinions, sure.

>>388452454
>not the ultimate orgy
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/330027

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>>388452067
hm, well lets see your rational proof God doesn't exist, hm?

>>388452717
ugh, umm isn't Orson Scott Card, like, a bigot?

>>388452532
Also fights against gods, I've heard people like that stuff.

>>388452717
It's like if you created a Mary Sue of nerddom.

>>388451739
>>388451856
>>388452115
>Every reference is italicized.
This pisses me off way more than it should.
There are much better ways to do this, you could easily say *model number* or just describe the details but instead you have to flat out say what it's from every single time and EMPHASIZE it just so people notice.
When did this book come out, mid 2000s?
Was the author so afraid that someone wouldn't get it or that readers are so opposed to looking something on the internet that they have to stop and tell the audience the origins of the reference?
I wouldn't be surprised if at least one or two ™ or ® are sprinkled in there.

>>388452883
I wonder how many ads you could stick onto it if you ran an Amazon textbot onto that book.

>>388452717
It reads like a wikipedia article of notable "80's" shit without any substance whatsoever.

>>388452883
You italicize titles in writing. That's how you make it clear that you're referring to a specific title.

>>388452883
Becaues the whole book is basically gear checking for total real geekz™!!

>>388452837
Probably. This is the guy who sat through a funeral of an asshole wife-beater and complained about his wife mourning for a fake version of him that she made up.

>>388452739
I'm not the one making the claim, only responding to the original one. Though you must already know this and are only baiting, the burden of proof lies with the claimant. If I say unicorns exist and offer no proof, there's no reason for anyone to believe me. Same goes for if I wanted to subjugate others to my will 2000 years ago so I wrote a book and claimed it was divinely inspired.

>>388452837
oh mah gawd, are you dissing on the man who wrote Ender's Game, one of the best military sci-fi novels of ALL TIME?

>>388452563
Maybe. I'll certainly save the picture it for a rainy day.

Just downloaded the Illiad though so I'm gonna give that a listen. Also have Treasure Island in the pipeline.

Free idea for /v/:

Write Ready Player One except it's all epic 90s kid references

Rake
in
the money

>>388453293
But we already have Tumblr.

>>388453219
except it's been proven, by godel, that any sufficiently advanced system of logic has truths for which there are no proofs, checkmate atheists

Are books even worthy of the pedestal they're put on or is it simply because they were here first?

>>388453408
Yes you nigger

>>388452717
>twelve hours a day, seven days a week
Did he sleep the extra 4 hours he has available?
Did he never pull all nighters?
Sounds lazy to me.

>>388453397
It doesn't work like that.

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>>388453408
Yes. Try reading a few sometime.

>>388444115
Not at this rate no.

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>>388453408
Are you saying you have never read a book?

Why do you think films, tv shows and vidya are made based on so many books?

>>388453408
Way back in the day? Yep, if you read the right ones.
Nowadays? God no

>>388453624
Dinosaur pls go.

>>388451739
Hey guys do you get my obscure tv show r e f e r e n c e?

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>>388444115
This thread reminds me of a quote by Flannery O'Connor:
>There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

>>388453624
I see /lit/ suffers from the same scourge of nostalgiafags as /v/ does.

>>388452717
God, what. You can cover all this shit in less than a year and cover it much better at that. Seems like someone just skimmed through wikipedia for some names. Also
>80's Pink Floyd
>80's Clash?
>SatMo cartoons
>80's shit series, yet no DocWho
Why in the holy goddamn fuck
How can the author be more pleb than a certified pleb
Why

>>388453860
Name some that came out in the last decade then.

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>>388453821
I like that.

>>388453860
Always remember that every board is to their topic like what /v/ is to video games.

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>>388444115
This book sounded pretty cringe, is it any good or worth a read? Or super over hyped by "le nerds"

>>388453408
Books, just like every other media, does and can portray things that others have a hard time doing.
There's books worth reading just like there's movies worth watching, just because it is a book though doesn't mean it's good.
People who read books full time these days treat it with like a sense of superiority or pretentiousness when in actuality it's just another way to experience a story.
If you have a hard time reading a book just listen to an audio book, no joke it's actually a lot of fun.

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>>388445459
>columbus Ohio
>rush
>using pop culture to relate to the audience
This gave me a good laugh

>>388451856
I CLAPPED

>>388454012
Anon, it's hot garbage. Just leave it at that.

>>388453293
Comix Zone but with Nickelodeon slime and more Xtreme talking animals

>>388454012
Read some of what's been posted in thread.
If you don't think its cringy somehow then you'll like it.

>>388454012
It's as shallow as it gets.

Plot is pure non-sense and it's just references all the way. Imagine a "serious" family guy movie, that's basically Ready Player One

>>388447437
>>388446418
also a historical fact that not only was einstein a pervert the likes of which are rarely seen he also slayed pussy on the regular

I dare (You) to write a paragraph of Ready Player One in the style of 2010s media.

>>388453905
Was Dr Who all that popular in America before the reboot?

>>388453293
>In my room situated on the eastern wall was a huge poster of a Super Nintendo Entertainment System, but even that paled in comparison to the bust of Will Smith from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air that stood surrounded by piles of VHS tapes from various Cartoon Network shows like Dexter's Laboratory and Johnny Bravo. The girl beside me cosplaying as Buffy the Vampire Slayer was amazed.
>"If you like this you should see my Windows 95 computer; I themed it too play the X-Files theme on startup." I said with a grin on my face.

If you want more of this novel help fund me on Kickstarter, I also have a Patreon you can support. Thanks.

>>388445459
Fuck looks cringe.

>>388451256
TL;DR
CEO in the future who loves the 80s makes meme virtual world with 80s shit, main character is a fat asshole who idolizes 80s man and loves the 80s more than him.
Fat asshole finds secret in virtual world, becomes famous, no longer fat, e-dates gamer grrrrl strong female, final battle is a clusterfuck of references, there is a reference every other sentence. If you made a drinking game out of every time you read a reference you would die of alcohol poisoning before you get a quarter of the way through.

The entire book boils down to the following.
>reference comes up
>MC spends a page and a half explaining this reference and how he's played/watched/read it a million times over

If you want a silly VR adventure go read Snow Crash, it doesn't take itself seriously

>>388454012
Never read it. Seriously it's shit. iF you want to read, start with the Iliad

>>388454303
No, not at all.

>>388453293
It'll be titled Ready Player Two, as a reference and nod to Ready Player One™ and it'll double as a very subtle wink that it is the second in the Ready Player™ Cinematic Universe.

The protagonist will be a strong gamer girl who lives in the edge of a gritty desert city, who constantly plays 90's games like Doom, Final Fantasy VII, Super Mario 64, Sonic the Hedgehog to escape her humdrum life. She comes upon a automaton who holds the map that leads her to the last stronghold of Gabe Newell, affectionately known as GabeN, who put in a final message that he has a completed copy of Half Life 3, the final installment for the Half Life series, and is willing to give it to the one who finds the map.

Meanwhile a giant mega-corporation styled after the 1995 film, Ghost in the Shell, is chasing down the automaton to get the missing map fragments so that they could get their hands on Half Life 3 and mercilessly turn it into a micro-transaction riddled game. (cont)

>>388444115
No because video game stories are normally based on shit films.

>>388453860
Yes, /lit/ calls the dinosaurs.

Everything is shit unless it is 50-100 years old to them.

>>388454459
>Snow Crash
took some getting used to the fact the main character is an unironic katana-carrying trenchcoat-wearing hacker weeblord named Hiro Protagonist but after that it was a pretty solid story. it might've been groundbreaking at the time but it's a bit dated with its perception of the internet.

suprisingly enough Neuromancer has aged better, probably because the writer knew fuckall about computers and thus didn't have to get bogged down in thinking about technical shit.

both are still pretty fun though.

>>388454762
>be right about something
>be called my favorite thing that ever existed for it
/lit/ sounds like my kind of place.

>>388455018
Kys

>>388454575
The corporation is willing to get their hands on the map and are willing to use military force to get the plans. The gamer girl then finds a band of resistance members who are fighting the power by pirating games and spreading them across the net.

There will be 90's references galore and it'll have an ending where the strong gamer girl meets up with an older gaunter looking GabeN, who looks at her silently, setting it up to the next installment of the Ready Player™ Cinematic Universe, Ready Player Three™.

>>388454864
All I can remember of it was that the spunky teenage girl got blacked by the huge old nigga antagonistic.

>>388452176
Fuck off back to your """high brow""" /lit/ nonsense

>>388455101
>not Ready Player™ 3

>>388455071
My name is Mike. I'm a man not a woman.

>>388455101
Will Ready Player™ Three have 2000's references?

>>388450494
>When the protag mentions he watched EVERY EPISODE of The A Team, Monty Python, and of course all the films of Kevin Smith

When someone here refers to something as "reddit", this book encompasses everything that insult is supposed to mean. The only way i've seen it described better is that 4chan is Beavis and Butthead, but Reddit is Stewart, the kid in the Winger shirt that would always try to hang out with them and be a part of their antics

>>388455142
She was kind of a slut though, nothing of value was lost.

>>388454864
>took some getting used to the fact the main character is an unironic katana-carrying trenchcoat-wearing hacker weeblord named Hiro Protagonist
I liked that because it was so amazingly self-aware. Like I said it didn't take itself seriously which is the beauty of something like this. It's kinda like if someone made an actual Coldsteel the edgehog game, it's self-aware enough you can realize it's poking fun at the stereotypical edgelord fedora wearing autists

>>388455376
thanks anon, I always wanted to call out people on what the fuck do they mean by this since everyone seems to have their own definition and thus it's completely meaningless, but this is a pretty valid comparison.

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>>388455169
>I enjoy shoveling shit in my mouth! Shove off!

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>>388455468
Oh yeah. I just remember being surprised by it. At least because in my mind the black character basically looked like Michael Clarke Duncan with a leather trenchcoat and the teenager like Jade from BGaE.

>>388455664
"reddit spacing" is something of a shitposting meme, but the attitudes and the way people talk and what is and isn't acceptable is an objective difference between the 2 sites. The upvote/downvote system and anyone being able to create their own subreddit has a lot to do with that

>>388455142
>>388455468
"kind of"

glad she wasn't a romantic interest

>>388454285
D3an3rys and Fur10sA descended from the sky to confront me. D3an3rys flew down on Mercy from overwatch's wings while Fur10sA had Pharah's jets, They wore black T-shirts with "Black Lives Matter" on them and had purple hair and red noses. "What are you doing here?" asked Fur10sA. I pulled a toothpick from my inventory and put it in my mouth, then i rested my Diamond pickaxe from Minecraft on my shoulder, looked her in the eye and said "I Drive."

>>388456257
I CLAPPED

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>>388444115
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/levar-burton-reads/e/51198324

Get ready for a neat concept and feels

>>388455367
That's right, anon. Ready Player™ Three would have references to the 2000's that only millennials will be able to fully appreciate, like Elder Scrolls Oblivion, the start of YouTube, I'm a firing my laser, Pitch Black, Epic Fail Guy, and so much more. In fact, the most astute 2000's nerd will be able to count all 2000 references we put in into Ready Player™ Three. What value!

And afterward, you could find out how the automaton was able to escape with the map to Gabe Newell with a gritty-techno standalone prequel movie, Power Glove™: A Ready Player™ Story.

>>388455192
Our committee approved focus group has found that while the 3 can serve as a wink and a nudge to how games were numbered back in the old days, the demographic that we are targeting will, no doubt, find it confusing and uncomfortable.

>>388453527
it does tho

>>388446510
imagine getting stuck in your late high school-early college pretentious phase and deciding you want to make a game that plays like Gravity's Rainbow

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Yeah it's cool that you Fucking Love Science and all that but the existence of the Semitic large g god doesn't actually matter one way or the other.

>>388454012
It's basically the nerd holy grail

>>388456721
whoa whoa whoa there friend, what the hell is this Epic Fail Guy? is that like knockoff Rage Face (FFFFFUUUUUUU guy for those of you who don't get the reference) or something? you're getting a little obscure for me.

>>388456257
10/10

>>388455717
well Gravity's Rainbow is pretty lit

>tfw fell for the meme and bought the book
I want to kill myself.

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>>388454080
>>388454193
>>388454203
These quotes are real? Jesus Christ it's cringy. I had a friend who liked the ROMANCE of it, but how is there even any in there? "She kissed me like Ramona Flowers kissed Scott Pilgrim. I had a Woody like Woody from toystory epic reference."

It's like worse than even the most hardcore jock sport shit.

>>388454303
I first heard about doctor who like 8 years ago, it had a small quirky girl thing in Canada. I only heard about it being talked about in a nerd store that was owned by a Brit, so he likely imported it, and sense then it aired over here sometimes. Now a days there's even a fucking house with a blue police box in it's front yard sadly.

>>388455169
I don't give a fuck if you're a poptimist or avant teen. The book sucks.

>>388452115
>scalzi

triggered

Daily reminder that If you don't reply to this comment your mother will die in her sleep

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>>388458356

>>388444115
This is a shite book that I sincerely regret wasting money on.

>>388455142
Raven was a big Aleutian guy not a black dude though. Think an eskimo but with slanty eyes.

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>>388452115
>And, of course, Kevin Smith.

so we hate Kevin Smith now?

>>388460374
Kevin Smith was mediocre at his best. Even then it was a case of right place at the right time.

>>388460374

Jersey Girl.

>>388460374
Dude, have you seen his podcasts? He's exactly the sort of person RLM was taking shots at with their Nerd Crew videos.

>>388452563
>History of Byzantium is a ripoff by some guy that follows History of Rome

Just like the east empire itself. AYOOOO

>>388462261
Ow the edge

>>388462969
ABSOLUTELY SCHISMATIC

>>388463319
It was the fucking Roman Empire, retard.

>>388454762
>Everything is shit unless it is 50-100 years old to them.

/v/ or its nearest equivalent is going to be like this one day. can you imagine it?
They still wouldn't have anything to say about half-life 3 :^)

>>388444115
Yes but there's no point because story isn't important in a game unless it's a VN. There's tons of great games with good writing that surpasses "books" anyway.

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>>388458356
haha epic! I get that reference!

>>388448134
Then why the fuck did he post Ready Player One?

>>388449850
Pretty much this

>>388464430
Because the guy you replied to is an idiot.

>>388445459
I remember Ultraman and the protag being chubby

Probably but it'll take a while, video games are still in their infancy, people have been writing fiction for thousands of years.

>>388452416
No Arthur C. Clarke either.
He's a pleb, did you actually expect him to read anything which isn't immediately accessible and entertaining?

>>388449038
But God is NOT real, or at the very least, we can't really prove he is.

>>388467851
>*Tips Indiana Jones' fedora from Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark

One of my favorite books that has to do with video games is Wolf in White Van.
(Granted it has more to do with table top rpgs than video games)

>>388450573
>Guess what
>liking the smell of your own farts this much
Guess what, you're a faggot

No, there's never been a single video game I've played that has moved me the way a good book has with its story alone. And frankly I don't want it to be any other way. Every medium has its strengths and weaknesses, hence when vidya tries to become more "cinematic" it's often garbage.

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>>388447698
>somebody on v actually read gr
Damn

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>>388451856
>>388451739
>>388452115
>>388446418
>>388447502
>>388447593
>>388444115
holy shit, that is awful
someone actually wrote "Reddit: the book"
I can't believe someone thinks knowing pop culture references and shoving them into a books makes you some kind of special, enlightened, and cultured person
Is it wrong that this makes me want to read the book though? Like I want to see the shit first hand and read it as it's so bad it's good?

>>388453408
My brain hurts when i have to pay attention

>>388453408
hell no, their time is up

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>>388446418
It IS pretty lame, but it's not wrong. I saw someone completely rip the book to shreds on twitter and all her followers agreeing, which made me realize two things:
a) These were thoughts I had myself as a teenager
b) Teens who are like how I was is getting bullied out of the video game hobby by the normies appropriating our culture

You'd think it would help, but just like how it was in the 90's, teens gotta hide their powerlevel or face the chance of being labeled as losers, mysogonists or nazies by the very people who claim to be "inclusive".

>>388444115
reddit player one has awful writing
refer to these pictures
https://boards.fireden.net/v/search/image/_ODhA4MvHx8v1vcjJIToLw/
http://archive.4plebs.org/tv/search/image/Iz7N0ORRMbYmDgZnVvjfyw/
https://boards.fireden.net/v/search/image/iJiS4ai70I1G-sedSjDryw/

>>388455376
>Beavis and Butthead
here's the thing tho
the people to who you would want to explain this are too young to have ever watched beavis and butthead