Thread 715351757

Guess long truly doesn't equal good

Sad that Pillars of Eternity isn't here. Love that game but good god does it have way too much fucking text. Wouldn't be surprised if it's above Disco Elysium.

I'm going to ignore the OP bait and instead address the graph.
cRPGs have a lot of dialogue you never see because it branches. When you read LOTR you read every single word. cRPGs also include a lot of extra content that isn't a part of the main story. And then on top of that cRPGs are longer than most novels because they are bigger projects with multiple writers involved. IIRC the novelization of Torment is around 1000 pages and only covers the essentials of the story. But then consider this: books are like $10 while games are $70.

>>715351757 (OP)
Bg3 has like 170h of spoken text. How's that equal to bg2?

just read a book then lol

A game shouldn't need more than ~50 words that are not part of its UI

>>715351937
I completly stopped reaching into people souls after trying it a few times.
What a yapping fest.

>>715352941
Which one?
No seriously I need recommendations

>>715353060
Go play Atari then fucking niggerboomer

>>715353186
You aren't interacting with gold plated name tag NPCs, are you anon?
Those are kickstarter backers with gay ass OC backstories

>>715353251
What are you in the market for? What have you read before, and what did you like/dislike about those previous books?

>>715351757 (OP)
>Fallout 1 is longer than your average novel
/lit/ bros we can't stop losing

>>715353251
Bumping because I need recommendations too

>>715355776
Then fucking gives us something to work with you moron. There are literally millions upon millions of great books been made over the last few centuries, covering an insanely wide scale of genres, tones, styles, formats etc.. It's literally the most varied and diverse narrative medium ever known to mankind.

What you do like. What are you interested in. Nobody who actually reads regularly can give you a generic book recommendation based off nothing, everyone with few brain-cells remaining has developed their own specific niche of interests, which have very limited likelyhood of intersecting with other people's preference.

You need to say what you are into to allow people to narrow down their recommendations.

>>715353251
>>715355776
Random recs
> The book with no name
Trashy, about Shaolin monks and vampires and cowboys and others running around and killing eachother.
> Gone with the Wind
Most realistic presentation of female psychology, and the Civil war stuff is cool.
>Catch 22
If you've never read a book before, it's a great place to start. Dark comedy about the absurdity of war.
>

>>715356035
not him but give me some cringekino, genre/era/length doesn't matter as long as it isn't drama/romance

>>715356685
>not him but give me some cringekino
I'm sorry and I don't want to sound like an absolute dick, but I don't speak zoomzoom. What the fuck does "cringekino" mean? Works extremely focused on evoking sense of embarrassment and awkwardness, alla the Czech New Wave Cinema (can't really think of an equivalent in books, outside of some very, very niche titles from my home country)?

Or is it deliberately schlocky and B'grade genere fiction works, the whole call-back to dime novels and "new weird" fiction in the US?

I'm genuinely trying to be as helpful as I can, I'm just struggling with your language.

>>715356556
>If you've never read a book before, it's a great place to start.
Actually Catch 22 is a pretty fucking terrible place to start if you never read a book, given that it requires a fair amount of understanding of non-literal devices. Most people these days tend to understand literary realism as the default way to communicate stories in non-children-oriented fiction, which makes the surrealism and absurdity of Catch 22 often very confusing.
The book is also very, very poorly paced and becomes tedious if you don't already have patience and the ability to anticipate where it all leads to. The entire middle of the book is pretty fucking bad. The beginning and end make up for it in the grand scheme of things, but I don't think setting people with little reading experience with a book that completely loses track of what it is trying to do for like 1/3rd of it's running length is a good idea.