All the rest are just capeshit

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

>>24536337 (OP)
What about chess?
>inb4 not vidya
You only said "game", not "video game"

>>24536337 (OP)
this game rocks. i would also nominate Pathologic. both 1 and 2. its basically like playing a Platonov novel. bonus entertainment if you play the original version of Pathologic 1 with its shitty machine translation like in pic related

>>24536375
Pentiment is an actual book though and when you shift scenes you are turning a page, the player sits in the scribe’s stool

>>24536383
I love chess, although I’m not sure how it’s like literature, more like competitive complex puzzle solving where each player can modify the puzzle for the other with his move toward a solution

>>24536337 (OP)
You may as well include this too. It’s very text heavy that it’s basically a book.

>>24536414
OP specifically said that capeshit was annulled

>>24536393
very beautiful game that kind of does a good job curbing the frequent ludonarrative dissonance problem with

>>24536417
How is it capeshit?

>>24536421
with video games* fucks sake

>>24536423
just a generic DnD fantasy world with lots of text. nothing literary about its style or aesthetic.

>>24536348
This isn’t exactly /lit/ but it is easily as good as great cinema. Really better than any American war film

>>24536337 (OP)
>/lit/ game
>look inside
>picture book

>>24536440
Picture book where the pictures are in the style of an illuminated manuscript and takes place right after Luther write his 95 theses and where 99% of game play is dialogue and moral choices and the only stats you pick for your character are things like knowledge of Latin classics and theology and Aristotle

>>24536337 (OP)
A lot of point and click games told pretty great stories. I still remember The Dig blowing my mind selling that alien civilization and its mysteries (mind you I was like 11).
I played a game recently called Old Skies that’s about time travel and changing the past and it was really effective telling a story many have tried to tell about changing the past and the many branching options of a lifetime. Woman protag + gay shit so if you’re very chuddy you now have a content warning. You guys are into those.
There used to be a thriving multiple choice story scene online like 2000-2010 or so. I think it all died off though. Maybe they went on to make VNs or something? It’s really just an extension of the old gamebooks which largely sucked but had a few standouts. The big thing back then was being able to play in a fantasy setting you liked so Middle Earth had a bunch (not sure how/if they were licensed). More swords and sandals type ones were also popular.
I know it’s a meme at this point but Disco Elysium did something very interesting with the fractured self approach that takes a page out of the stream of consciousness tradition and does something that to my mind is more interesting by making them compete with each other.

Silent Hill 2 is another good one but it seems like an accident or lightning in a bottle because none of the others come close.

>>24536446
not mocking that game specifically, I'm sure it's fine. just saying

>>24536337 (OP)
is this an ad or should i buy it

>>24536449
It's on sale on steam right now. I'd say it's worth a try, especially if you're one of those people really into medieval/early renaissance Europe.

This is unironically the great american novel

>>24536448
The game has a lot of text, not speech, and the text is from the player’s perspective, handwritten, often with corrections. But the main character illuminates manuscripts

>>24536449
I just torrented it over Tor through pirate bay. ever buy games. But it is a solid play if you want a game that is just dialogue/ethical choices except for a bit of optimal gambling. It’s very engrossing but If you want a game that is about “playing” and “winning” then you won’t find it here

>>24536337 (OP)
Disco Elysium

>stands in your path
>mogs every detective /lit/.
>The creator of the game also wrote a book that acts as it's prequel.

>>24536625
>>24536673
Every /v/ thread for this game turns into political shitflinging, why can't people recognize beauty in art when it's right on their screen

>>24536673
>StAnds sholder to sholder in terms of lore,characters and ending with LOTR
>no other high fantasy franchise perfected the tolkienesque style of magic,world building,black and white morality (if only we consider this game as standalone ).
>became the Godfather of its own genre on gaming industry (giving birth to skyrim,baldur gate 3,divinity origin ,pillar of eternity.

>>24536676
Because it's obvious isn't it? /v/ is full of midwit subhuman species of animals to whom renaissance was just something that happened to other people. imagine being 20+ years old and still playing gaming ack!!

>>24536337 (OP)
Book of Hours

>>24536697
Meta /lit/

>>24536337 (OP)
Write 'n' fight?
Smite, maybe? Even though that one would count as capeslop

>>24536689
Dragon Age will never not make me want to scream in anger at what it has become.

>>24536337 (OP)
Halo 1 - 3 is lit

>>24536673
Only good post in this thread

>>24536337 (OP)
Shin Megami Tensei 3
>material world ends
>escape to a dimention made only of ideas
>you fight, befriend, and fuse "demons" which are all kind of mythological creatures. From angels to nordic gods to greek creatures to hindu to japanese. Anything really.
>you need to create a new material universe
>each human survivor has an unique philosophy of how this world should be
>kill the demiurge to create the world with your chosen philosophy
>also if you did everything perfectly you can also kill Lucipher and become the demon lord
It's pure kino.

>>24536673
wtf is this gay shit

>>24536724
Best game ever written.
Judging how every rec in this shit thread has been fucking kiddy games I doubt anyone here is old enough to have played it

>>24536673
Based

>>24536689
DAO is alright but suffers from being derivative of the Bioware formula. Like
>giving birth to ... baldur gate 3
Anon it already is plagiarizing the OG Baldur's Gate a bit too much.

>>24536742
chill retard. de is the most zoomer shit ever, they all jerk it off. have you played pathologic? or the tabletop rpg adaptations de is based on and parodies? no? shut the fuck up for one damn thread.

>>24536784
NTA but I played all of Pathologic and DE is better. Dybovski is a bit of a completely insufferable faggot desu.

>>24536790
I liked it too, I'm just tired of hearing people screech about it

>>24536337 (OP)
https://thecatamites.itch.io/anthology-of-the-killer

>>24536742
>Judging how every rec in this shit thread has been fucking kiddy games I doubt anyone here is old enough to have played it
>spec ops
>pathologic
>pillars of eternity
>chess
>silent hill 2
>kentucky route zero
>dragon age origins
>book of hours
>halo 1 - 3
>SMT 3
??????

>>24537068
these absolute babbys playing kiddie games. lol. play a mans game you dumb little babies

>>24536337 (OP)
Real /lit/chads don't need games as a substitute for literature, because we already have the thing itself and games as a narrative medium is just cope for midwits. That's why Battle Garegga is my favorite game.

>>24536348
Isn't this just Heart of Darkness in dubai?

better story than moby-dick btw.

>>24536337 (OP)
>NOOOOO, ITS THE HEGGIN EXPLOITATIVE CEO OF THE SMALL FAMILY MILL. WE MUST OVERTHROW THE FATCAT MILLER AN SIEZE THE MEANS OF BREAD PRODUCTION!!!

the BASIC req for good historical fiction is writing legacy conflicts with the same stakes/urgency as modern social issue + politics, but around topics of debate which we don't know/care about. doing the reverse is what hacks do, and it will only ever please room temp "but i didn't eat breakfast this morning" direction brained normans who can't think analogically.

>>24537220
There is no chad /lit/ users but i otherwise agree

>>24536673
Most overrated tripe I've ever played.
>It's deep because it uses three syllable words and has politics in it!

>>24537784
millers were famously exploitative cunts; they were the bottleneck through which all farming families had to pass to turn their wheat into flour

>>24537209
>play a mans game you dumb little babies
Such as?

>>24536337 (OP)
Thank you for reminding me to change my Steam review of this dull game from a hopeful thumbs up to a disappointed thumbs down. Shit is dull as fuck. Fuck Super Bunnyhop for pretending it's a masterpiece.
>>24537477
This one, however, is quite good

Some of the best storytelling in gaming comes from games with no text at all.

>>24538175
Ackchually, this game has easter egg obelisks with transliterated text

I really liked this one. It has more reading than gameplay in it.

>>24538155
Definitely not DE because that's a tranny game.

>>24536375
man that took me back

>>24537873
But I like politics and three syllable words.

>>24537117
Only correct answer. A beautiful reskin of 2nd Temple Judaism and modern Pentacostalism (same thing) all wrapped up into one.

>>24538373
>>24537117
Bethesda has always been slop

>>24536393
>>24536425
All right, you convinced me. It was 70 cents some hours ago when I bought it because of summer sale, right now it's $7.29

Any fans of Avernum ITT? These games are pretty much playable novels.

>>24538071
>exploitative
You can exploit peasants by limiting their access to land in a feudal society, but you cant exploit someone using the insane high technology of wood and stone. Especially not when you can get a hand millstone with two slabs of granite.

More proof commies will never be happy and would still be playing victims even in a flat subsistence hunter gatherer community.

>>24536337 (OP)

>>24536429
>literary
>defined by style or aesthetic
anon YOU are the capeshit

>>24536697
>>24538184
Sea was highpoint of AK games. Skies were a decline, and BoH hit the rock bottom.

>>24539797
Pretty sure he didn't work on skies

>>24538957
Fuck yea. Avernum. When they were the Exile series in the late 90s they were my jam since they ran on the family computer with no problem. Saved up my allowance to send in the money for the full game.

>>24537784
Buddy people did NOT like millers back in the day. There was even a saying "the miller's pig is always the fattest". He took 1/8th of what he milled and worked like a month a year just because he had a big wheel

>>24540652
People would understand this if they read the miller's tale from the Canterbury tales

>>24540243
>Saved up my allowance to send in the money for the full game.
Same except for me it was Avernum 6 in the early 2010s

I'm currently reading the silent hill 2 novelization since I don't have time and any interest to play the game.

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/2469215/1/Silent-Hill-2-Letter-From-Silent-Heaven

>>24537873
T. didnt actually play the game. The detective has a fully concrete and fleshed out past and the world he exists in has a detailed history that explains the tensions in the present where the story takes place. The /v/tards scream, not incorrectly, that its more of a book than a game and it its a decently entertaining story

>>24537873
I can’t believe the luke warm “everyone’s a retard” political commentary made people this defensive. Is it because you really identify as the idiot? It’s not even central to game. You don’t need to pick a side. What you do need is to confront the fractured psyche of the protagonist and weave together a picture of who he really is using only a string of lying aspects of the self. That’s the part that genuinely seems to filter people even though that IS the central mechanic of the game.
What the fuck do you think all that highbrow literature is trying to do anon? Have you read a book?

>>24538957
what about erin?

>>24541104
it's elin i think.

>>24536375
no I'm not, why would you lie to me?

>>24541132
>But I did have breakfast

>>24536337 (OP)
I have never heard of this. I thought disco elysium is pretty lit.

more IPL

All of you are pretentious faggot trannies with butt worms.

>>24539673
>You can exploit peasants by limiting their access to land in a feudal society, but you cant exploit someone using the insane high technology of wood and stone.
If you tie the latter to the former then yes, you absolutely can. Thirlage laws prevented peasants from operating their own handmills and required them to bring all of their grain to the miller. If you were found breaking this, your handmills could be legally broken.
Not to mention that operating handmills was exhausting beyond daily household use and it would have been impossible to grind *all* the grain necessary to pay their taxes in a feudal society.

>>24536673
Communist garbage.

>>24539873
He made the design document and a good number of original concepts, and then other faggots took it from there.

>>24541903
I'm an actual pretentious faggot tranny (without butt worms at the moment) and I'd hate to step into a room with these faggots. Maybe you should start playing videogames like them.

>>24540810
This is kind of like playing a video game of Inferno or Moby Dick rather than reading it. The medium is half the point since the game makes you feel like you’re experiencing the story

>>24541992
This.
What's more pathetic than playing videogames? reading about videogames.

>>24538957
geneforge 1 was the shit

where my liberal crime squadders at?
i'd say the infocom will always be the kings of literature games. maybe MAYBE muds, MUDs, rather.

>>24541810
Gigabased taste, anon. I hope ipl remakes it one day.

>>24537474
Only on a superficial level. That's just something parroted by gamers that don't read so they can sound smart

Cave Story
Bastion
Living with sister: monochrome fantasy (yes, it's incest)

>>24541026
That's the standard for an anime

>>24539797
You are so retarded it hurts.

>>24537477
I hated this tbqh, the gameplay felt like homework.