/lit/ - Literature

This, becuase Ayn Rand!

Book: the video game

>>2026917
I started playing the game and stopped halfway many months ago, and I have never read the book. Which do you think I should do next: read the book or play the game from scratch?

>>2026965

The book is complete shit.

Play the game.

>>2026965
Get the mod which lets you increase the resolution.

Before that mod, I found the game unplayable as the resolution was way too small and I didn't have any comfortable overview on the world around. After the mod: Awesome.

>>2026965
The game repudiates the book. It's basically a big "fuck you" to Ayn Rand and objectivism, so reading it isn't essential.

>>2026982
Which game do you mean? Bioshock or Planescap:Torment?

>>2026917
Fuck yes.

Planescape: Torment and Baldur's Gate.

Pic Related: HEYA IT'S ME IMOEN

>>2026983
My bad, I thought you were referring to Bioshock.

Top-down Zeldas, Banjo-Kazooie/Tooie, and Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee/Exoddus are the games that have appealed the most to me. I also play a lot of Team Fortress 2.

Zelda, cs 1.6, sc2

>>2026991
>sc2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlc0S8LLtsg

And let us not forget Arcanum

>>2026998
How big is the map? Is it linear?

Mass Effect 1. Not 2.

>>2027014

Yeah, this. ME1 had a great story.

>>2027003

The game world is huge. Fast travel is a must. I've played through the game three times and have yet to find every nook and cranny. The story is not a railroad, per say, but you do have to jump through some hoops. If you really want, you can just say 'fuck it' and do your own thing.
Magic... technology... It's all good.
The game is cheap and on GoG.

Pic related; essentially my second character.

star trek online.

http://www.notdoppler.com/mobydick-thevideogame.php

What are you, reader, but a loose fish, and a fast fish too?

WELL AT THE MOMENT I AM PLAYING FALLOUT 3

ONCE I FINISH WITH THIS PLAY THROUGH I MAY FINALLY BOTHER UP PLAYING MASS EFFECT 2 AGAIN, I STOPPED PLAYING AFTER ABOUT 5 HOURS OF IT. JUST DIDN'T HAVE THE SAME FEEL AS THE FIRST

NEXT TIME I RERUN FALLOUT I WILL BE PURE EVIL, THEN ONCE I'M DONE MAYBE GOTY FALLOUT VEGAS WILL BE OUT

>>2026998
Is it still buggy as hell?

The Great Gatsby for the NES.

http://greatgatsbygame.com/

>>2026917
MY BROTHER GOT THAT WHEN IT FIRST CAME OUT AND I TOTALLY WTF'D AT THE TALKING SKULL

>You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded front door.
>There is a small mailbox here.

not gonna bother. giant turd that begs to be read not because of its content

>>2027055
The GoG version is very stable. I only had it crash once.

>>2027057
Morte is a bro.

Somebody on here recommended Yume Nikki... I'm pretty glad they did, and so I pass on the favor.

Also, Emperor: Battle for dune is kinda fun

My favourite talking skull. (For all you old guys)

Limbo

This new captcha is an instrument for wasting human time, not using it.

>>2027054
New Vegas will never get a GOTY because it was never a GOTY like 3, despite the fact that it's much, much more fun and more intelligently designed. Once you play New Vegas you'll never be able to go back to 3.
Protip, accuracy outside of VATS is determined solely by the weapon's skill, its strength requirement, and its condition, so there's no bullshit wide spread at level 8 like in 3.
I made a beeline for Lincoln's rifle and when I got it I was all -fuck yeah it's in perfect condition my small guns skill is 100 I exceed the strength req time to snipe some bitches- but I could barely hit things farther than shotgun range, at that point I just quit and stopped playing. That was a game-breaker for me.

>>2027054
Yeah, I'm playing Fallout 3 as well and it's good times.
Mass Effect 2 is good times as well. I prefer vastly prefer ME2 to ME though myself.

Even though they are latched onto by some of the worst human beings on the internet, I am quite fond of the Portal games.

Also, Beyond Good & Evil. It's one of those games that artsy faggots toss around when they want to talk about strong female characterization in gaming, but it's really just a 3D Zelda clone at it's heart. It's a shame though, because the sci-fi setting is actually quite interesting, like something you would find in a French comic book.

>>2027092
Strong female character? Play Metroid. Super and Prime are masterpieces, avoid Other M at all costs.

>>2027080
Monkey Island. Hell yes.

>>2026917
I really really really really really really want that game

Ninja Gaiden I & II

>Random literary references that have nothing to do with anything in the game. AWWWWWW YEAAAAHHHH!

The Longest Journey
and its sequel, Dreamfall

>>2027083
>>2027085
I'VE NEVER REALLY PLANNED NON-LINEAR OPEN ENDED GAMES BEFORE, AND FALLOUT 3 JUST HAS SO MUCH TO OFFER

I'VE LOOKED ONLINE FOR KIND OF DEDICATED "MUST DO" THINGS FOR EVIL KARMAS, BUT OTHER THAN "KILL, BLOW UP MEGATON, STEAL ETC" THERE ISN'T THAT MUCH OUT THERE

>>2027105
It is on GoG.com for 10 bucks. It's patched to run on new systems.

>>2027110
muh nigga. Making an account just for this.

>>2027115
They gave me 3 free games when I joined.

Also, nab Outcast if you can. It's a Stargate-esque first/third person shooter with RPG elements. Excellent story, universe, voice-acting and score.

Europa Universalis 2 is great if you alter the text files to remove badboy completely.

>>2027109
I suggest you look up Morrowind. It's Oblivion's predecessor and F3 is "Oblivion with Guns". The setting and the atmosphere are excellent, and the metaphysics, based in Gnosticism and Mesopotamian mythology, are really something else. It's available as a single iso on /rs/, along with its expansions, Tribunal and Bloodmoon (it's generally agreed that they aren't worth the HD space).

Just remember to go to the elder scrolls wiki and download the unofficial bug patch, Bethesda's Gamebyro is a buggy piece of shit.

>>2027056
My good man, this is simply the best thing I've seen on the internet in a good stout while. My thanks are in hand.

>>2027056
This isn't about a magician at all...

>>2027135
YEAH MY BROTHER HAD MORROWIND ON HIS PC YEARS AGO. I LOVE RIDING THE BIG FLEAS THE MOST.

THEN YEARS LATER WHEN I PLAYED OBLIVION, IT FELT COMPLETELY DULLED DOWN TO BETTER SUIT THE GROWING MARKET, KIND OF LIKE ME2

>>2027072
I just wish I didn't feel so empty.

>>2027155
*it.
I wish it didn't feel so empty.
But I felt so empty after the end. Goddammit.

DotA and Civ III.

/v/irgin here. You guys have some pretty good taste, however generic it may be.

Except for you:
>>2027082
You are a faggot

>>2027185
Then give us some more obscure shit, douchefag.

>>2026890
I loved Myst, I even read one of them spin off books back in the day, i was 11. Never played the sequels.

>>2027185
Everywhere you go, obscurity is somehow a status symbol.

>>2027193
You shoulda said
>cave story, bro

Everyone here should play Braid if you haven't. It's an excellent old school type platformer that deals with altering the flow of time in really unique ways. It also has something of a "hidden" story presented in a really interesting way that lends itself to a lot of contemplation even after you've finished it. It's short but very memorable and also has fantastic music.

I got it on steam for like 4 bucks or something. Very highly recommended.

>>2027230
That /v/-tard is gonna unload on your pretentious suggestion, if he comes back.

1) Planescape Torment, Baldur's Gate 2, Arcanum.
>mfw Infinity Engine + D&D + multiple-choice dialogs
2) Morrowind. Countless hours. I read all the books.
3) Deus Ex and Vampire The Masquerade - Bloodlines. God yes.

Here are mine

These

Not sure if it quite has as much text as planescape though

Minish Cap was dope. Also, this game is really engaging: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/575956

>>2027359
Was waiting for someone to mention Pathologic. It'd probably be easier to get a thread going here about it than on /v/, ironically.

Also, I'm pretty sure it has more text than PS:T. Don't forget that it has three narratives.

>>2027554
but to understand Klara's you really have to speak Russian

>>2027559
I actually started an edit of Klara's story a few days ago. I'm certainly going to need plenty of help from the Russian speaker on the translation project. I'm only through day one, and I've already run into a bunch of puns and sayings that make no sense in English. Beyond those, it's basically just a matter of cleaning up grammar and fixing phrases to make them sound more like English and less like moonspeak.

>>2027569
I remember the first one you hit is big Vlad. He's like 'excuse the pun' and I am all, '...yeah'
As far as I know, the translation project hasn't been touched in many months, which is a shame.
Anyway, if you didn't do a scalpel only run as the Bachelor (except when shooting albino in the face) you don't know shit about interactive literature

>>2027580
>scalpel only run
oh god kill me now

But yeah, I'm kind of going off and doing this translation on my own. The translation project, in all its small fits of activity, have barely finished anything. I've only been working a couple of days and I've got a twelth of Klara's story finished. It's just a matter of sitting down and editing--there's no real need to retranslate the whole thing.

And you pretty much have to parse what you're reading in your head in order for anything to make sense with the Devotress. Since I was already doing the work whether I wanted to or not, I figured I'd take a little more time and make things easier for others.

Missile Command has one of the greatest stories ever told in video games.

>Great
Zelda OoT, Gothic, Shadow of the Colossus, Silent Hill 2, Loom, Monkey Island 1-3, Fallout 1, Final Fantasy 4-9, Suikoden 2

>Good
Zelda MM, Planescape Torment, Shadowgate 64, Blade Runner, Longest Journey, Gothic 2 + NotR, Arcanum, Max Payne 2, Shadowrun Snes, I have no Mouth and I must Scream

I installed Vampire Bloodlines: The Masquerade yesterday.

I must say I am more than pleased with the writing and especially the voice acting in this game.

Compared to other games of that period it has godlike voice acting.

I recommend you pirate it.

>>2027587
Is that a picture of Dankosvky shooting the Albino in the face? Glorious. I would pay much for an odong plushie.

Are you going to sumbit your translation to the Ice Pick forums. It would definitely come in handy since I'm only a few days into Klara's story.

>>2027598
I will, but you'll probably be finished faster than me. Med school's a time eater, and plus playing + editing takes longer than merely playing. Plus, I have to wait on TheLxR to fix all the broken links to the dialogue files.

You guys should check out Daniel Benmergui. He experiments with interactive poetry and storytelling.

You probably have already played the interactive poem Today I Die: http://www.ludomancy.com/games/today.php

>>2027604
ah well, it will be a good excuse to go back to it

>>2027605

>Interactive poetry

Steps in the wrong direction.

>>2027612
>I don't have the patience to play a 5 minute flash game, therefore this concept is invalid

>>2027622

I'm not saying it's invalid, I just think using games to make interactive forms of other media is a waste of the medium.

>>2027605
I enjoyed that. Everyday the Same Dream was okay and I quite liked The Majesty of Colours
Alight(in dreams) is also kinda cool.

>>2027624
Would poetry using the interactive elements of games similarly be a waster of the medium?

Shock Troopers, The Last Blade, SFIII: Third Strike, Europa Universalis 3, Jagged Alliance 2 (1.13), Quake 3 Arena, Tony Hawk's Underground, Deus Ex, Fallout 2, Baldur's Gate 2, Dwarf Fortress,

currently playing Fallout: New Vegas, Stalker - Call of Pripyat and E.V.E. - Divine Cybermancy

>>2027080
that fucking skull, man. it's a shame they didn't keep with the 2d art style

>>2027634
Excellent taste in vidya for a troll.

Also, what are your thoughts on E.Y.E? The feature list makes it sound like they're trying to ape Deus Ex (a very good thing), but the warhammer nerd fanfiction vibe I'm getting from the setting gives me pause

'nother /v/irgin here. you guys have good tastes.

>>2027642
>Also, what are your thoughts on E.Y.E?
I've only tooled around with it for a while with an incredibly dumb character build. My initial impression is that the really convoluted interface could have been streamlined in a much more neat way, although I'd need to play it through a few times and really put an effort into hotkeying and so forth to get a good impression of how it works when you're very familiar with the system.

It seems like it has the potential to be a decent game with the capacity for rich challenge that allows for multiple and differing levels of play, although from what I've played (maybe 4 levels) they all seem to play out more or less the same way; you get spotted and mobbed (they respawn according to difficulty setting). maybe it plays a little differently if you work hard with the stealth aspect but it doesn't seem as though much effort was put into designing the levels in such a way to reward a stealth build very much. So I don't know, it looks on paper like you have a variety of playstyles to go through the game with but it's such a straightforward game through level and enemy design that there's no great reason or reward to take up the different approaches.

>>2027669

Some points on the aesthetic; the dialogue is utterly atrocious and the product of a non-english translator, space marines are solemn, you'll get into conversations with rappers, the quality of your own responses are all over the place'; the dialogue is just terrible.

The level design varies; some of it blows such as in an early level where you fight looters and can't see past 5 feet because of this bullshit green mist they put in the level. Other parts are nicely done; there's an apartment complex section designed in a tone that reminds me of Blade Runner. The game in general is a mixed bag, you've got eastern leanings, space marine and chaos demon shit, cyberpunk stuff; there's lore stuff you can read, it wasn't really my focus though.

>The feature list makes it sound like they're trying to ape Deus Ex
Well, to me Deus Ex was not so much a great rpg insofar as features are concerned (system shock 2 has a great number of similar mechanics); the elasticity and richness of its plot (instantiated through play) as a roleplaying game are the key merits of the game. So far I haven't had any similar experiences in E.V.E.; it's all pretty much go to x and hack/kill y and two-second kill or save or make some retarded comment conversations.

>>2027624
>>2027624
>>2027624

My Literary Sciences course disagrees.

>>2027671
>>2027669

Wow, I didn't know you had time to play video games with all the dick sucking.

>>2027671
Thanks for the report. Guess I'll wait a little while to give it a shot, or at least till I can get a group to coop it with. Apt points about deus ex and games like it, too.

Shadow of the Colossus
Xenogears
Myst
Zelda, esp. LttP, OoT and Four Swords if you have enough GBAs
Armored Core to fuel my Asperger's
Minecraft likewise
Silent Hill 2

"Bound only by the paper–thin wrapper of mortality, a soul here lies, struggling to be free. And so it shall, thanks to a bowl of bad gazpacho, and a man named… Calavera."

How has the mother series not been mentioned on here yet?

This, along with the Metal Gear Series (probably my favorite series, actually, when push comes to shove), basically were the trailblazers for postmodernism in videogames.

....and still some of the only games to use postmodernist themes effectively

I played some of Mario Galaxy 2

>>2028851
sorry for accidentally checking spoiler image, it is not a spoiler image, chaps.

>>2027107
>mfw they haven't continued the story yet

Bastards, all of them.


As for me,

Resident Evil (pre-RE 4)
Half-Life series
DotA (3rd world poorfag)
Command and Conquer games

and more recently, Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Good games like

Bioshock
CS Source
Starcraft 2
Anno 1404
Sid Meier's Colonization

Metal Gear Solid is my favorite series. Metal Gear Solid for the PS1 still remains the best game i ever played. I'm really anal for innovation. Less for the kinect bullshit but more so for different art styles and game play elements, or new stories. I don't really dig Uncharted even though i acknowledge them as great games. It's not my thing. I just want something new.

Innovation isn't the only thing. If a game does it's style of game play extremely well and I'm having fun. That is perfectly fine. My most anticipated games this year do just that (Twisted Metal, Dead Souls etc etc) but I'm not much of a gamer anymore. It left me a long time ago and while i still follow up on news. I don't really enjoy many games.

Wow, life story post wtf.

Final Fantasy VII

I must've completed it about 5 times, but I think gaming is mostly a nostalgia thing.

Best fucking atmosphere in any game I-ve played yet.

kongregate.com/games/Leviathan278/terminal-velocity-prototype

>>2026890
Ico, MGS series, Silent Hill Series, Beyond Good and Evil, every Lucas Arts adventure game that run on Scumm or GrimE.