/lit/ - Literature

gamers rise up

Video games are fucking shit because the stories are usually a snorefest, and you have to do repetitious grind to unlock further into the game, rinse and repeat. With a movie, you'll get 2 hours of straight, continuously progressing entertainment and it doesn't feel as much as a waste of time as video games.
Prove me wrong.

>>12050040
>I've never played atmospheric video games

>books are superior to moobies and bideogaems because I get to use my imaginashun!

>>12050038
>gaymers rise up

>>12050040
I wish videogames had no story. At all.

>>12050040
You're absolutely right. The stories of the best games pale in comparison with the stories of the best books and movies.

>>12050040
t.neverplayedFallout 1,2, or New Vegas

>>12050052
That actually sounds like a legitimate reason, although movies are superior to video games.

>>12050033
Books and movies are superior to video games because [opinion]

>>12050069
They are, though. You should be banished from the merry lands of /lit/ if you think otherwise, you /v/ermin.

>>12050148
Books have better story but terrible gameplay

Depends. Games have their own merits.
It's like saying paintings are better than books because they have colours. I mean, sure but that 's a weird statement.

>>12050040
If having to spend little time with a thing is a positive maybe that thing isn't very good.

>>12050033
>books aren't interactive

>>12050281
Semantics. You know exactly what I mean.

>>12050148
>merry lands of /lit/

>>12050040
play some strategy faggot

>>12050292
>

Books have limitations as a medium.

>no soundtrack
>action scenes almost always suck
>no cinematography and the benefits it brings

The only benefit literature has over other mediums is that there’s no upward limit in length.

>>12050360
Why would you need a soundtrack in a book? kek you faggots are funny sometimes.

>>12050369
A good soundtrack enhances games and movies, books would benefit from that too.

>>12050360
Those are features, not limitations.

Books is for nerds. Games are for virgin dorks. And yet movies are for cool, hip film student types. What gives?

I suppose you can be a sophisticated and stylish literati but the stereotype is of a hunched over dweeby little twerp .

sometimes i'm in the mood for a book
sometimes i'm in the mood for a game
sometimes i'm in the mood to have no mood

Recommend some games with stories conceive "in a vacuum." By this I mean not vague rehashings of the plots in classic books or the inspired result of tendentious readings of 19th century phil

>>12050411
>And yet movies are for cool, hip film student types.
That's exactly the demographic of Marvel movies.

>>12050425
>conceived, not "conceive"

>>12050411
Music is for Chad,
And movies are for Brad,
But dogshit belongs on /lit/
Because they don't realize that reading books is just a fad

>>12050425
Limbo

>women are superior to books and movies because they're interactive and fun.

>>12050437
>Music is for Chad,
Anthony Fantano is a chad kek

>And movies are for Brad,
Chris Stuckmann is a brad

>Because they don't realize that reading books is just a fad
Reading is more natural than playing games and watching movies.

Books started thousands of years ago. Movies started late 1800s. Video games just started and it's already passing those media. Everything you can do in a book or movie, a video game can do better.

>>12050447
Anon thought he could best me with some prose,
And his point well made he did suppose,
But in a game of rhyme, his act was a crime
For on what basis he thinks- no one knows

>>12050033
wrong

>>12050033
IMO there is nothing more interactive than a book. It forces the reader to engage directly with the words and construct the world (in fiction) and the argument (in non-fiction) in their mind.

Only autist play video games.

>>12050458
>Everything you can do in a book or movie, a video game can do better.
Not really. Games don't do introspective well, they're very surface level toys.

The only good games are Tekken 3 for multi player and Doom Plutonia 2 for single player. Eat SHIT.

>>12050477
You people realize there's like a million different genres of video games? Text-based video games exist; this defeats your whole argument.

>>12050445

underrated

>>12050487
>Games don't do introspective well
How exactly? I think video games could be more introspective. You just have to program a video game around it, and there's less limitations than a book.

>>12050490
>Text-based video games exist
And they're nothing more than transvestites. A retarded hybrid that means absolutly nothing.

> this defeats your whole argument.
Those games make up like less than 1% of all games. His argument remains.

this is video game art:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/303210/The_Beginners_Guide/

>>12050489

PLUTONIA 2! The quality AND quantity of combat in any one of its 32 levels far surpasses the combat in any one FPS game, and the maximalist levels alone put the whole genre to shame, the whole game putting other Doom games to shame as well.

>>12050514
>How exactly? I think video games could be more introspective.

Those games would be very bad games, because by definition games are about actions, not inner thoughts.

>>12050517
You said nothing of substance.
>A retarded hybrid that means absolutly nothing.
This is just namecalling. Not an argument whatsoever. It doesn't matter if 1% of video video games are text, because we're arguing about the media itself. If video games had thousands of years in history, expect more than anything a book could provide.

>>12050531
>by definition games are about actions, not inner thoughts.
Give me a source to this definition, including the not inner thoughts part.

>>12050411
nerds don't really exist anymore

I really am looking forward to a literary visual novel by some lunatic pioneer, but it might be just an impossibility with the creators and studios having to adhere to the commercial chains imposed upon them by the gaming industry. Books will suffice my longing anyway, but a man can dream...

>>12050606
>literary visual novel
So, a comic?

>>12050559
Name one game that is as instrospective as Ulysses, The Sound and the Fury, or The Waves.

>>12050033
Said no one ever. What is the point of this thread?

>>12050656
Like I said: books have thousands of years of rich tradition, so obviously they'll have an advantage when looking at specific works. Though, Spec Ops The Line is an example of an introspective video game. What video games have is the greater potential; surpassing Ulysses is a matter of time. I can imagine an existential VR game being created by a great artist in the future.