Any games with really high, literary quality of writing? I'm not talking comic book, I mean deeply psychological or even operatic
Any games with really high, literary quality of writing?
Any games with really high, literary quality of writing? I'm not talking comic book, I mean deeply psychological or even operatic
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
It's a math simulator
Quite a good game tbh. Idk if the writing was literary, but the world was quite unique. It sucked me in
Baldurs gate 3
I haven't found anything else like pathologic 2.
Bachelor route never ever
Icepick is wrapping up an ARG they did with P2 kickstarters that diagetically talks about Bachelor backstory and such. Been p neat, they sent out train tickets and shit. Ain't no way it's not happening. Changeling never ever tho
Dear Esther
let me guess you're a first year college student
pretentious nonsense isn't literary writing
i am sorry for your Blackidification. just a word of advice, most whites secretly hate when you act anti-intelligently
Disco Elysium
>Lobotomy Corporation
Full of symbolism
>Disco Elysium
Decent prose
>Black Souls 2
Full of experimental literary techniques you'd usually see in modernist/postmodern novels. Prose is quite simple, sadly
I'd second Disco Elysium. Maybe Planescape: Torment if you can handle the jank, which you might, considering it's Pathologic we're speaking.
Black Souls 2 seems really interesting, some kind of auteur porn game. I'm definitely interested
That's pretty much what it is. It feels like some weird amateur arthouse film in video game format. It actually expects you to put in the effort to understand the game's story, since it's quite nonlinear. It's not spoonfed to you, you have to put things together yourself. I also recommend reading:
>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
>Through the Looking-Glass
>Hunting of the Snark
>some basic snippets of Lewis Carroll's biography
Since it relies heavily on intertextual elements. You can still understand the gist of the story even without it, but you'd miss some of the finer details and just how much of a love letter to Carroll's works this game is.
The only real downside to this series (apart from the fact that I prefer more lyrical, elaborate prose) is that you're pretty much required to beat Black Souls 1 first. It has its own specific charm, but its setting is also more generic and it's much worse as a game, both narratively and gameplay-wise. It only really picks up when you reach the "true" ending.
Blade Runner
The Last Express
NieR Replicant was pretty good and kinda felt like some theatrical fairy tale; I haven’t played Automata yet
Slay the Princess
Divinity Original Sin (Enhanced Edition).
I'm glad you asked
Max Payne 1 and 2?
Thought it said high literary quality of walking kek
your syphilitic brain was wrong again
I like reading a lot and there's no game that comes close to an actual book. Pathologic HD (not 2) probably comes the closest. Planescape doesn't even have good writing so I don't get why people mention it. Disco Elysium's writing isn't that good compared to actual literature. These are good games but if you've read seriously good books before you know there's no comparison
Of course nothing can compare to masterpieces of near-mythical masters like Milton, Melville, Mann or McCarthy. But I'd say some games are able to reach the level of some of the lesser classics and are definitely better than your average genre fiction.
In terms of writing = great characters, great plot, & great themes, there are definitely games out there like that (not enough though)
There has never been a game with really great prose though AFAIK. Not Disco, even though its prose is decent. Even in the world of books that skill is rare
Please release Bachelor be4fore WW3 drafts start
that really updated my journal