>still no game about the greatest American novel ever
You telling me NO ONE wants to fight whales on a cool boat?

>>715742096 (OP)
>NO ONE wants to fight whales on a cool boat
No, we want to be whales and smash the shit out of seething old men.

>>715742096 (OP)
how do you defeat him?

>>715742290
low pull rates

...

>>715742096 (OP)
Honestly... no. I want to fight a lot of shit but a whale? No, what the fuck is wrong with you.

>>715742405
/thread

You can already see a modern-day Moby Dick on /v/ every day with schizos trying to defeat the janny.

>>715742096 (OP)
A whale hunting game would be pretty yikes considering several whale species are endangered

>>715742096 (OP)
>>still no game about the greatest American novel ever
How would you go about adapting The Sound and the Fury though? Would the first quarter of the game be played using only vibrations and sound perhaps?

>>715742405
>Call me Ishmael.
KINO

>>715742545
I take it you haven't actually read many novels

>>715742597
Faulkner absolutely mogs whoever your favorite author is, unless it’s Joyce.

>>715742096 (OP)
Who is your favorite Moby Dick character?

>>715742539
No worries, luckily you're not commiting whalocide by shooting at virtual pixels.

>>715742096 (OP)
CURSE YOU BAYLE

American novels are just "we are so cool when america had money and we had no real wars", "fuck slavery" and "suck the cock of the capitalists, they are better than you".
Anything american is good only for get a fire started.

>>715742096 (OP)
Not only is there a Moby Dick game it's a direct narrative sequel to the novel. It's a really cool management game, the "card/deck" is only for combat.
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/621220/Nantucket/
I do wish we had a good "boat" game with good fishing though. Sailwind is really cool but it's just making deliveries, the fishing sucks as it is right now.

>>715742539
Just make them alien/demon/ghost/evil whales

>>715742096 (OP)
Call me anon.

>>715742405
I never finished this shit. what's it to do with Moby-Dick besides the helicopter name?

>>715742096 (OP)
I reread this around when I was playing Return of the Obra Dinn, it was all kino.

>>715742872
I played this and I was constantly approached to have gay sex with my sailors or stumbling upon them having gay sex and I'm not kidding

Death stranding had the goo whales because kojima is a fucking hack.

>>715742290
Stab (at thee), possibly from the depths of Hell

>>715742096 (OP)
Only the first 20 and last 3 chapters are good. The 80 in the middle is boring nonsense.

>>715742096 (OP)
I wonder how many times over I could've read Moby Dick instead of the endless textwalls I've consumed over 4 years of genshin impact

I have a pretty good RPG idea I got from reading Moby Dick featuring Leviathan hunters in a Final Fantasy esque world.

>>715742096 (OP)
We already did that, it's called: Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag. Or Assassin's Creed 3: Rogue.

>>715742096 (OP)
There is a bunch a RPGs where you get shallowed by a whale
Does that count?

>>715743123
I don't remember that much buggery lmao. Did they add more or was I just ignoring it because Navy=gay in my head anyway?
>mfw I put my DICK in Moby

>>715742773
Which one is Starbuck? It's between Ahab, Starbuck and Queequeg. I like Ishmael but the guy's thought process and narration is so damned long winded at times

>>715743149
I never played any of his games but that sounds kino.

>>715743563
That's just Jonah and/or Pinocchio

>>715743605
No it's really not, trust me. Death stranding, storywise is a fraud.

>>715743671
Disney pinocchio, the real pinocchio get eaten by a shark because an italian knew a whale pose no danger to humans.

>>715742773
For me, it's Stubb

>>715742773
Wishbone.

>he never experienced true ludo
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/550860

>>715742405
it's a shame that Moby Dick was vastly too soulful and deep for kojima to begin to begin to understand

>>715743768
Lame. I bet those eye-ties didn't even give him a cool talking cricket friend. Based Disney ironing out and improving upon tired old stories

>>715742096 (OP)
>>715742821
VILE BAYLE
OOOOOUGGHH TERROR INCARNATE

SPLIT YOUR LUNGS WITH BLOOD AND THUNDER

>>715744117
WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITE WHALE

>>715742773
The Manxman

>>715743360
moby dick doesn't have cute anime girls to oogle at

>>715742773
The one and only.

>>715742096 (OP)
OMG It's a sperm whale xDD get it?? It's full of sperm! xD

>>715744061
Real pinocchio is basically the same story but with a lot of differences. Disney sugared it for children.
Stromboli (which was a silly name because stromboli it's a volcano in italy but in the real book he's called "the fire eater" basically) is more human and gentle, disney made him an antagonist for... reasons i guess. He's grumpy but he has good heart and teaches pinocchio some important lessons.
Cat and fox are real talking animals in the book, not furries.
In the book pinocchio kills the cricket with an hammer splatting him on a wall, because he was tired of his bullshit and the cricket returns later as a ghost and haunts him for a bit.
Geppetto is eaten by a shark, as i said, but in the book pinocchio has to save geppetto and take care of him for a long time, working for him and basically act like a real human, before his transformation. Also pinocchio around the first act gets arrested and beaten up by the carabinieri (italian police force),
In the first draft pinocchio in the end was killed by the cat and the fox, which hang him to a tree for all the shit he has done, but the author changed the morale and give him an happy ending.
I am italian btw.

>>715742096 (OP)
there's that subplot in Skies of Arcadia

>>715744657
Also pinocchio burns half of him at some point because he is a dumbass and he basically learn trough pain that is not invincible. Ah right also the fairy is a little girl not an adult woman and she doesn't act like a genie but she is an independent character that judges pinocchio's action. I don't remember exactly this part but it was implied she was kinda of a dead girl because they see her name on a tombstone but that's now something that eludes me.

why don't the whales just dive under the water? I thought they were supposed to be smart

>>715745119
Nigga you know whales are not fish right?

I was considering reading this book but hearing that a majority of the book is just whale facts turned me off.

>>715745320
that's just a meme. though the first chapter like that, cetology, is the great filter
in reality the majority is the narrator's long winded monologues, which you may or may not be interested in

>>715742773
Holy fuck bros I just had a genuis idea

It's moby dick adapted into a manga/anime but it's all anime girls

>>715745971
That's basically every yuri abusive story without a third wheel. Not really that original idea.

>>715742096 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpoAcXu65TM

>>715745971
Ishmael needs to be the one guy though to avoid yurishit overload. And because then the gay undertones with Queequeg suddenly become kinda hot. Tribal island tattooed princess harpooner waifu and soft nerdy narrator boy..

>>715746208
Ah, I love classic meme literature.

Fuck the whale, when are we getting a Captain Courageous game?

>>715742096 (OP)
>american literature
>great
(recommend me some)

>>715742539
>A whale hunting game would be pretty yikes considering several whale species are endangered
You can kill a plethora of endangered species in Far Cry games, the only real reason a whale hunting game would be met negatively would be because normalfags get their panties in a bunch when they see charismatic animals getting hurt. (Horses, dogs, etc.) But in any case Assassins Creed got away with including whaling as a minigame so who knows, it might be more possible than we think.

>>715746347
>to avoid yurishit overload
But why

>>715746685
Moby Dick, Blood Merdian, and some Hemmingway. And even then they're very... American

>>715746712
>normalfags get their panties in a bunch when they see charismatic animals getting hurt
If you don't feel the same, get help.

>>715742972
it's a primer for Death Stranding

Well you can fight a sand whale on a cool sand boat, at least

>whale meat doesnt even taste good
why do they still kill whales then?

>>715747268
>Don't care about eating pigs, cows, and chickens.
>Don't care about seeing fellow human beings get hurt, tortured, and die in media.
>But I need to start caring when le heckin wholesome pupperinos get hurt.
Nah, I think I'm fine with not having arbitrary lines with what I can and can't tolerate in fiction.

>>715745119
whales are basically giant ocean retards. They even make underwater retard sounds.
>mmmmeeeeeUUOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH
>uuuUUUUOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>715747972
No you are a pathetic edgelord or you lack basic human empathy. In both cases, the world will be a better place without you. If for you a dog and a pig is the same thing, yeah you have issues.

>>715745119
What the actual fuck happened here?

>>715748121
He's probably non-white, their brains are wired differently

>>715748167
Right those are american hours after all.

>>715747963
cultural retardation

>>715742773
shout out to my nigga fleece

what country do whales live in

Whales are mammals, So is your mom

>>715747963
Oil mostly, meat was a subproduct.

>>715748459
America.

>>715748134
If I had to guess, the whale has been dead for a while and the gasses from its innards decomposing caused it to float up to the surface and eventually explode, coincidentally as that boat was passing by.

>>715747963
They are big and intimidating, therefore we must engage in a fight to the death

>>715748134
Dead whales can bloat up with air and explode. Usually you see it with beached whales, but I guess this one died underwater, floated to the top, and then its guts burst out.

recommend me some ship games I've only played sunless sea, black flag, and that one poptropica island skullduggery.

>>715748134
When an animal die and its body starts decomposing, gas form inside its body
But for whales, it's A LOT of gas, which leads to its explosion

Radical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CLumsir34

>>715748134
it took "puking your guts out" a bit too literally

>>715746208
based oldfag mu kino

>>715748134
Never, and I mean NEVER, continue No Fap November onto the 1st of December.

>>715748939
Happens also to humans too btw. This is why a corpse can be found bloated.

>>715742096 (OP)
Great gasby or grapes is better.

>>715749713
>Great gasby
Utterly shit. The book is written by an egomaniac child. The book is a masturbatory piece over america and how is good to be american and the worship of the rich. Unless you are rich or american and you use it to fuel your ego, that book is shit.

>>715742539
The protagonist of Moby Dick is an asshole. As long as they make it clear that the protag is a shithead they're fine.

>>715749713
>grapes

>>715750917
I don't think you understood the book, try googling "Great Gatsby explained"

>>715742290
You can't. Ahab had a blood sacrifice powered harpoon that was cursed by the devil and he still got bodied

>>715751179
I understood it completely. The critique is not a critique when the only punishment gatsby recieve is by fate (an error) and all the other vile things he and his friend does remain unpiunished. No it's not a critique of the rich.

>>715745320
The whale facts are the best part

>>715751131
I should finish

>Nobody posted that Mastodon comic
I've been here way too fucking long.

>>715751353
just watch the movie

>By the merest chance the ship itself at last rescued him; but from that hour the little negro went about the deck an idiot; such, at least, they said he was. The sea had leeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God’s foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad. So man’s insanity is heaven’s sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.

>>715744859
this, soul

I'm a sailor irl.

>moby dick but it's an xcom game

Could it work?

>>715742096 (OP)
moby dick is dogshit

>>715742096 (OP)
DS1, DS2 is all about Moby dick

>>715751624
Is Brandy a fine girl?

>>715748134
here watch this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2CfYOJ5oxk

>>715748121
It's not being an edgelord to recognize that I don't need to take offense with fiction. Stop crying and shitting yourself over it.

>>715751353
were you not talking about grapes of wrath?!?! what other grape book is there???

>>715751624
What's your planet?

>>715745119
Is he ok?

>>715751370 c >>715746208

>>715743123
i can confirm this, once you give in its also a free source of morale boosts and monetary gain
you can also get syphillis from it but i cant remember if its got very mild effects or is piss easy to get rid of, either way its a trifle just like in the 1800s

>>715748134
didn't wait a full hour after a meal

>>715749713
>I haven't read a book past highschool

>>715744158
BREAK YOUR BACKS AND CRACK YOUR OARS, MEN

For me it's Cannery Row, the greatest American slice of life light novel ever written.

>>715742096 (OP)
im not a fan of moby dick
I HATE THAT FUCKING WHALE, HE TOOK MY LEG.
0/5

Can you really find one specific whale in the whole ocean by sailing around for long enough?

>>715746457
when I was a kid, I ended up watching the whole movie with Spencer Tracy and I cried like a little bitch at the ending.

>>715756361
I don't get it. Why is she brown?

>>715745119
>>715751917
Literally imagine the fucking smell. Good god.

>>715749045
This is still wild to me. What the FUCK were they expecting would happen here?
>wtf what went up came down???

Whales are fucking sick. They seem like fantasy creatures, but they're actually real and they're fucking insanely massive.

I want to become the whale.

It was a travesty in regards to the other aspects of the novel, but the only good interpretation of Ahab outside of it I've ever seen (though I suspect this was accidental) was in gachashit. Almost no one other Moby Dick related work captures Ahab's rebellion against the divine and proof that humans are undeserving of Eden, as they do not want to go back in the first place.

>Live in ocean for millions of years
>Still needs to breathe air
>Have to take a VERY deep breath and dive 80 000ft down to eat squid

Can someone actually explain why whales are the way they are? Doesn't make sense to me.

>>715757752
This guy has whale porn on his PC.

What if Moby was a female whale instead? Could the story still work?

>>715758205
>be fish
>go on land
>breath air
>return to water
>oh no i need air

>>715758205
Fish filter oxygen out of water with gills. Oxygen content at 80000ft is pretty low so deep sea fish as slow and retarded, easy prey. Highly oxygenated ballistic fucking missile from the surface world wrecks giant squid.

>>715758205
>Get out of water for some reason
>Go live on land for millions of years
>can't breathe in water anymore lmao
>Have to take a VERY deep breath and can only dive some couple of hundred meters
>Also have to go up VERY slowly or you die lol
Can someone actually explain why humans are the way they are? Doesn't make sense to me.

>>715758982
Humans don't live in the ocean, retard. Whales, in case you haven't noticed, do live in the ocean.
Why even have fucking lungs at that point? Are they stupid?

I think the Gregory Peck movie looks great and it has Orson Welles looking like a beached whale for the sermon at the beginning

>>715753883
IF YOU WISH TO PREVAIL

>>715751519
Kino. I used not to get this novel when I was much younger. I do now. Much like Ahab, I persist in a world surrounded by indestructible monsters that torment me without an end and I wish to be destroyed in my futile attempts at toppling them that they will never notice.

>>715742096 (OP)
A fair shame, and while different I really liked The Old Man and the Sea too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-45NTlgp-o

>>715744117
Waiting for this post.

WHITE WHALE
HOLY GRAIL

>>715742972
reference to a novel he too hasn't read. Prease undastanduu

>>715745320
its 10% shakespearean tragedy, 40% whale and whaling facts and 50% philosophical musing

>>715742096 (OP)
No.

>>715748134
certain things just explode sometimes

>>715742096 (OP)
My dream game has always been Monster Hunter but with a boat and crew.
Just fighting legendary and giant sea monsters, and famous ones too.
The Dog Faced shark, Moby Dick, Purple boy, The kraken, a legally distinct Sin from ff10, Orcas.
I wanna fuck up giant sea life so bad. I WANNA CARVE THEIR HIDES. I WANNA LUNGE MY HARPOON DEEP INTO THEIR FUCKING GUTS
I HATE THIS FUCKING TIMELINE, WHERE THE BEST MOBY DICK 'THINGS' IN VIDEO GAMES WERE FUCKING IGON, LIMBUS, AND MGS5 FOR 3 MINUTES.
GIVE ME WHALES DAMNIT
I WANT TO FUCKING FIGHT THEM

>>715742664
Nabokov OHKOs Faulkner easy.

>>715750917
Lil bro you know you have to be 18 to post here, right?

>>715758787
This anon gets it, sperm whales are literally ballistic missiles complete with built in sonar.

>>715742597
He said American, and Moby-Dick is rightly considered its literary champion.

POST THE MELVILLE LETTERS, LADS

>>715762329
You're thinking Joyce.

>>715762414
>he doesn't know about the Hawthorne correspondence
WHITE WHALE
HOLY
GRAIL

>>715762329
>this Hawthorne has dropped germinous seeds into my soul. He expands and deepens down...and further, shoots his strong New-England roots into the hot soil of my Southern soul.

>>715751519
it's crazy to think melville was 31 when he wrote this and i'm 32 and writing shit out like "i wish i could get shrunk and sat on by a giant loli"

>>715742290
Aim directly for his crooked brow, and look him straight in the eye

>>715742096 (OP)
MGSV

>>715762490
>The divine magnet is in you, and my magnet responds. Which is the biggest? A foolish question - they are One

And to think the only thing my 11th grade American lit class got out of this was Queequeg jokes

>>715757898
why did he do it?

>>715743929
what's the story, Wishbone?

Threadly reminder that whales speak to each other with a complex recursive language just like humans do and it's only a matter of time before we decode it.

>>715748121
go watch some videos of baby pigs and come back retard.

>>715742384
kek

>>715763039
>whales are probably extremely racist

reminder that not a single whale dies of old age. old whales die of drowning.

>>715742096 (OP)
>most boring book ever written
Nah. Amerishits can't write anything decent.

>>715748134
Nerve gas

>>715764105
old age is not a real way to die

>>715742096 (OP)
moby dick is the greatest novel ever written but its not really adaptable. and even if you did turn its essence into a videogame most gamers would hate it because most gamers are dopamine addict slop consumers who hate true art.

>>715762517
WHITE
WHALE

>>715746958
Most people aren't autogynephiles.

>>715742096 (OP)
It was cool until they started showing the black cabbie everywhere and had a whole rant about being a former slave. But glad to see burger-based nigger fatigue has been a thing for nearly two hundred years now.

>>715764105
We HAVE to save the old whales! I think some new tax is in order.

>>715765096
>fatigue
more like philia. It's not like an American work without constant obsession over darkies.

Why was Ahab so mad about the whale? It was self defense. He knew about the dangers of the job for sure.

>>715758205
It gets sillier when you realize the ancestors of all land dwelling animals came from the ocean. Cetaceans all returned BACK to the ocean millions of years later.

>>715764105
expand

there is an optional giant whale boss in DS2, just beat it yesterday - only 5.5% of players have beaten it so far so i guess not many people know about it. one of the characters is also heavily based on the story of Moby Dick. i also had no idea Pequod in MGSV was a reference to the book

>>715764508
This.
>people don't die of old age, they die of organ failure, cancer, or heart attacks

>>715742972
Revenge

>>715757349
I've smelled alive whale breath before and it's absolutely fucking rank because of how much lactic acid buildup they get while holding their breath

>>715766147
He was always an asshole. Animal fucked him up and he just couldn't let it go. Started projecting all sorts of insane shit onto the whale. Turned it into the personification of all his personal demons. Nursed that crazy illogical hate until it consumed him and drove him totally off the deep end, as it were. Then it was a matter of abusing his position to take others down with him, as questioning him makes you the enemy too

>>715766998
Anon, dying of old age is when the wear and tear on your body is at a point where illnesses that you would have recovered from in your youth ends up killing you. Most common "died of old age" illness is stuff like pneumonia.
Death from cancer has fuck all to do with age as you can be a baby and get fucked by it.
>>715766753
Old whales are either physically weakened or addled by their age and end up either not having the strength to surface or not realizing the amount of time required to get back up for a breath and end up drowning as a result.

>>715767201
The diet of sea life doesn’t help either.

>>715767689
>Death from cancer has fuck all to do with age as you can be a baby and get fucked by it.
All part of God’s plan to test the parents.

>>715750917
The Great Gatsby is about how you should never let women drive

>Shadow of the Colossus but on sea and less climbing
>You fight 16 or so mythical sea creatures on boat
>The sea is derelict with shipwrecks and some islands
Would you play this?

>>715768059
Yeah but realistically you couldn't get a big budget game with nice graphics that has content as sparse as SotC nowadays, it'd be filled with open world map bloat that completely ruins the mood.

>>715768223
True but assume it's an indie game I spent 4 years making.

>>715768059
Only if you get one of those old timey diving suits for a portion or two.

>>715768059
after Sea of Thieves and Skull&Bones? fuck no.

>>715768059
Sounds cool but is the combat based on a team of harpooners rowing out in small boats to engage the behemoth like in Moby Dick, or just one stubborn guy against a giant like in The Old Man and the Sea?

>>715768760
Former because I want the player to defeat the monsters and doing them justice with just one guy would be nigh-impossible.

>>715742096 (OP)
Because shit related to water is always unfun in vidya. Fishing, swimming, boating, etc.

WHITE WHALE
HOLY GRAAAAAIL

>>715770003
zora link

I had an English teacher in high school that proudly told the class that she never read Moby Dick because it was too boring.

>>715770760
did she have big boobs?

>>715770760
I can tell you're not much older than 18 if you think that's supposed to shock us. Teachers aren't pinnicles of knowledge or taste, they're just adults who entered a career of teaching kids

>>715770760
I had a teacher who read it yearly, he was such a fan. Him saying that is part of what convinced me to read it a few years later in college.

>>715742096 (OP)
I want to help Moby Dick by taking out the harpoons stuck on him.

>>715742290
WITH A HAIL OF HARPOONS!