I'm looking for a game similar to The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. It can be related in terms of the far future setting, unreliable narrator (not sure how that would work in a game), how you piece the larger story together mostly by yourself (like Dark Souls), or just the general vibe.
It doesn't just have to be TBOTNS, as long as it feels like Gene Wolfe I'll be happy.
I've played a lot of games since I'm a nolifer. If you are going to recommend something I would prefer an indie/underground/cult classic kind of thing. That doesn't mean to not say a game that's relatively popular, as long as it's not Dark Souls - I've played all From Software titles multiple times.
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Age of Decadence has that post-apocalypse vibe, and a story you have to figure out. Pathfinder Wotr’s ending is similar in that regard
Thanks for reply.
Age of Decadence looks extremely interesting, and I plan on buying it once I get home and get some rest.
Do you happen to know anything else I can play after so I can set up a waiting list? wwwwwwwwww
I admit that i got filtered by the book of new sun so i don’t know what classifies as weird in that regard, but Neverwinter nights(both 1 and 2, hordes of undersark and Mask of the betrayer)second expansion felt pretty pseud. There is also Dark sun: shattered lands, it’s a post apocalyptic desert setting, but I haven’t played it myself so can’t exactly recommend it
I've played the free MMO Neverwinter and I enjoyed it. Never realized there was an "older version" (if you could say that) of it.
Quick question: Am I right in assuming that there is a mode where you can play entirely single player?
Anon, Neverwinter nights is a singleplayer game. Whatever you do don't play the campaign named "The wailing death".
>he can't have infinite stats 24/7
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No Wailing Death, yes sir yes sir
Oh, you're the japanese bro from the other thread on Ganker, congratulations, your thread was legendary. Gene Wolfe is criminally underrated outside of/lit/, and it's always good to see people talking about his works
link to the thread cuz sounds cool
Im not sure why people always get told to stay away from the basic NWN ca,campaign at this point.
Its not that bad. If you keep in mind that the basic story campaign is essentially a showcase for the Aurora Toolset you can squeeze some hours of fun out of it.
Personally, doing a play through with a monk was some of the most fun Ive had while playing NWN.
If you play NWN, check out the swordflight campaign.
I havn't played an rpg yet with the same vibes, the games that come closest are pathologic and eye divine cybermancy because BotNS is mostly defined for me just by how weird it is before it eventually makes sense. Also I recommend Northern Journey, even if it is a different kind of weird.
Maybe Torment Tides of Numenera, while it is worse than PST it is also weirder in a Wolfian sense.
Pathologic, E.Y.E.: Divine Cybermancy, and Northern Journey all look very BotNS weird and I am very excited to try all 3!
I've played both Torments and agree with you on both fronts ^ㅂ^
Northern Journey is fricking great
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Silk is Caldé!
not vidya but worlds without number is a tabletop rpg that is basically botns: the game.
>unreliable narrator (not sure how that would work in a game)
By limiting acces to world lore and scientific knowledge.
Severian isn't "unreliable" because he's dishonest, but because he's led a sheltered life and doesn't always understand what's happening.
that plus women
>Severian isn't "unreliable" because he's dishonest
IIRC he is sometimes dishonest.
He doesn't mention that Thecla used to try to scratch his face off until Agia does the same thing to him just before he's going to execute her brother. So when was Thecla clawing his face?
Before she was tortured and was apparently having consensual sex with him? Or the single day he spent with her after she was electrified and was a suicidal zombie?
I can't remember all the things, but in between his insistences he remembers everything in detail he often fails to mention important facts but also claims he can't fricking remember something.
>Or the single day he spent with her after she was electrified and was a suicidal zombie?
This.
Thecla is described as obsessively clawing her own face. So it's not a surprise that she'd have tried to scratch Severian too.
Red rogue has a bit of mystery to it. Not sci-fi but dark fantasy like Elric.
maybe smt 4?
I'd say planescape torment, but still very very different
Yeah, Planescape: Torment is probably the closest to BotNS. Planescape is about the discovery of self and righting past wrongs (or not). Severian's journey in many ways is also a discovery of self, although it's much more than that as well, a path guided by external forces he does not understand.
Arcanum: of steam works and magica obscura.
It’s pretty old though.
Age of Decadence.
and its' sequel Colony Ship
how popular is gene wolfe over in japan?
does it get any confusing when translating certain old words or phrases to japanese.
Take this with a grain of salt, as I don’t know Japanese but I was curious about this so I spent some time awhile back searching around. Impression I got is I don’t think he’s huge but I think it got a good translation and sold okay. There’s releases with cover art by Amano and Takeshi Obata. There’s an interview I can’t track down but have seen many reference where apparently Hidetaka Miyazaki name drops it. (Though the fact I can’t find it may means it’s fake).
I also wonder if it was an influence on vampire Hunter D at all - or at least just Bloodlust. The JP translation came out fairly early, in the mid 80s.
Romancing Saga 3 is kind of bewildering and full of disorienting tangents that leave you at least somewhat unsure of whats going on at any given time. I was too smoothbrained for book of the new sun and kind of bailed at the end of claw of the concilliator. I just kind of accepted that it was something about some guy who ate a women he executed and apparently loved, before going on to rape somebody and have her memories. I mean, if there's more to it that that I got filtered.
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devs are communists so don't feel bad when you pirate
Neverwinter Nights 1
funny enough it reminds me of xenogears
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Don't be mean
Dark Souls.
reminds me more of bloodborne imo
Caves of Qud
Steve Jackson's Sorcery! is less dark but the gameplay of a long journey with small strange encounters and art along the way reminded me of BOTNS.
Numenera's setting is clearly inspired but is otherwise unrelated. Nothing else is even that close.
Directly inspired? Seem that Numenera and Caves of Qud are the only ones. BOTNS will be always tricky to nail because Wolfe was, simply put, a genious, and a fair deal of the spirit of those stories is purely based around his treatment of language and prose. He reminds me of Borges and some other south american writers from the magic realism movement.
Tides of Numenera and Morrowind
Caves of Qud is the closest that there is to what you want. I wouldn't recommend Numenera because most of the game is reading lore dumps and the writing is wretched. You won't get the Gene Wolfe scratch here.
Xenosaga maybe
just finished Shadow of the Torturer and reading it was a blast
Disco Elysium
Try Fortnite.
I think its what you're looking for.
Try the Geneforge series and Tormentum. I haven't played these yet, but from the aesthetics they might be what you're looking for. Thanks for this thread OP, it's a breath of fresh air on this board. I love to see Wolfe getting recognized.
You won't get a game with writing as good as books, simple as.