/lit/ - Literature

I no longer need to bring a book around with me ever since I bought a Kindle and can now read everything on the Kindle app.

>>17632337
the best film will never surpass a good novel. Videogames can tell a good story, but they will never be through gameplay alone, it will borrow either from film (cutscenes) or from literature (text). The closest you can get to tell a story through the "unique characteristics of the medium" is environmental storytelling, but even one could argue that it borrows from visual arts and film. You can't tell a story through mechanics alone, but you can use mechanics to help further a story. You have a game like Hades, but you don't play it for 20 hours to learn what Camus is saying in an essay that you can read in 2, you play it because it's fun.
Personally, I don't see we will see some very good and original stories in games any time soon. Why? Because potential mechanics are finite as they boil down to: "defeat X", "Solve Y", "do Z". Look at all the good stories in games, the ones that are furthered by the gameplay mechanics and you will see that they are strikingly similar. In RPGs, you start out as a little shit and then gather enough resources to defeat BigEvil that was advertised in the beginning. The most interesting genre to appear in recent years where the roguelike games, and most of their stories are a rehashing of Camus' Abusrdism. Sure there are games with very interesting stories, like Dishonered, but the best parts are told through text, not gameplay or cutscenes.

>>16889415
nice dubs

>>16352940
20th century was a little different from 19th due industrialization rolling out fully. 19th century only saw glimpses of that.
The bigger problem is that there is no current frontier to expand on, and all ideologies that exist are entrenched hard. The 20th century even saw Communism uprooted and tossed out in the USSR, as the state collapsed around a lack of will to keep on going.

But we are also early in the 21st century. We don't know how much glory there will be until we reach the 2050s.

Grass+beer or red wine is my go to for uncovering imagery. Writing on mid doses of psychedelics can be extremely benificial on a myriad of different levels if you can manage it.

>>8921046
>he actually believes this

>>8695756
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>>6769607
>>6769642
How did the universe come into being?

>The Good, the Bad, and the Smug