I have read the Mass Effect novels. The quality is pulp quality. The prose does its job and you're reading about shit you enjoy, so if you want to kill some time it's OK. Absolutely no literary merit whatsoever and I don't remember anything about the plot. They were by no means as atrocious as capeshit.
I've tried reading the novelization of MGS1 by Raymond Benson. It was terrible. Snake talks too much, best plot twist is spoiled right from the start, and there is just too many dry descriptions of what he is doing. The game hardly has great writing, but it makes up for it with great atmosphere. The book just shoots that atmosphere out the window.
I bought the first hardcover back when I was in HS. I was looking forward to the second half of the series, since I found Digital Devil Saga 2's plot weaker than the prequel's.
i've read a couple
a god of war one which was atrocious, dropped in after not many pages
and one based on battlefield 4 which was surprisingly not too bad for complete pulpy trash
The island was square. Or, rather, it was made of squares. Everything: sand, dirt, rocks, even those things I first thought were trees. Everything was a combination of cubes. “Okay,” I said, refusing to believe what I was seeing. “Just need a minute is all, just a minute.” Standing in waist-high water, breathing, blinking, I waited for my eyes to clear. I was sure that any minute, all those harsh right angles would return to soft, curvy normalness.
They didn’t.
“Gotta be that head wound,” I said, wading ashore. “No problem. Just make sure you’re not bleeding too bad and—”
Instinctively, my hand went up to find the supposed injury, and as it came up in front of my face, I gasped.
“Wha...?” There was a fleshy cube at the end of my rectangular arm, a cube that wouldn’t open no matter how hard I tried. “Where’s my hand!?” I shouted, my voice rising in panic.
Head swimming, throat closing, I looked nervously down at the rest of me.
Brick-shaped feet, rectangular legs, a shoebox-shaped torso, all covered in painted-on clothes.
“What’s wrong with me!?” I hollered to the empty beach.
“This isn’t real!” I screamed, running back and forth, trying to tear the painted clothes off my body.
Hyperventilating, I rushed back to the water, desperate for the calming reflection of my face. Nothing greeted me. “Where am I?” I shouted to the shimmering sea. “What is this place?”
I thought of the water, of how I’d woken up...but had I?
“This is a dream!” I said, relief breaking into my panicked voice, reaching for the only thing I could think of. “Of course!” And for a second I almost pulled myself together. “Just a crazy dream, and soon you’ll wake up and...”
And what? I tried to imagine waking up in my home, in my life, but it was all gone. I could remember the world, the real world of soft, round shapes, of people and houses and cars and lives. I just couldn’t remember me in it.
My vision narrowed as an invisible fist closed around my lungs. “Who am I?”
Tension pulsed up through the veins in my neck. I could feel the skin on my face, the roots of my teeth. Dizzy, nauseous, I staggered back against the base of the hill. What was my name? What did I look like? Was I old? Was I young?
Looking down at my boxy body, I couldn’t determine anything. Was I a man or a woman? Was I even human?
Why do they always draw people looking so hideous? The left one, especially in the middle panel, looks like its mother was drinking every day of the pregnancy.
nono you're wrong. I thought it was this or some other logical explanation like hugbox culture, but the truth is that leftists actually just hate beautiful things.
I was in 7th grade, so 13 years old, when I read a couple of assassins creed novels. they were actually just very descriptively gory and sexual. didn't add anything to ezio as a character.
that was 12 fricking years ago
I really liked one of the Starcraft novels as a teen - Speed of Darkness. It dealt with memory implantation, and being willing to sacrifice even for a society that one hates.
i've read a couple
a god of war one which was atrocious, dropped in after not many pages
and one based on battlefield 4 which was surprisingly not too bad for complete pulpy trash
They sell fanfiction at the book store these days? Maybe I should work on that epic poem on the fall of Gwyn and Anor Londo from Dark Souls that I was thinking about a year ago
The Dead Space and the Doom3 novels are surprisingly great. I'd recommend them to anybody, regardless if they play vidya or not. My favorite is Dead Space: Martyr, and Doom3 is sort of a slow burn. Book one is the lead-up and all the demon action is in book 2. That's not to say book 1 isn't good, it just blue balls you, so if you're interested, keep in mind to get both.
There are so many Halo novels, that they run the gambit, and I haven't read any since I was a teen, so I can't say more than that.
Resident Evil is entertaining, but, and I've said this before, the RE books, at least the first one, suffers from being TOO faithful to the games. Collecting medallions to escape a secret underground lab is all well and good in vidya, aber in a book...
Also, Max Brooks wrote a Minecraft book where the MC is actually a normal human that wakes up suddenly a square man in a square world, and has an existential crisis. I'm pretty sure he has a panic attack while punching a tree. I haven't read it, but it's been on my backlog for about 4 years now. Actually...
>surprisingly great
Anon you read a lot of this stuff... I'm not sure if you are trustworthy so I'm going to ask: how would you rate Patrick Rothfuss as a writer?
Only one I ever read was the Devil May Cry novel way back when it first came out. I remember liking it at the time but I was just a dumb teenager then so I don't know how it holds up. I was pleasantly surprised to see they actually made a few callbacks to it in DMC5.
I would say it holds up great, even the one for DMC2. Shame Bingo's DMC4 novel was never translated, this series has a split where if you want story you need supplementary material to the game.
Oh also the really oldschool 40k books are actually pretty IQfy. Inquisitor and Space Marine by Ian Watson were the first two Black Library books I think, and they have that sort of 2000AD vibe of the original 40k. Plus they have a bunch of non canon stuff like squats. (Gaymes Workshop rereleased them and edited all that stuff out.)
Deus Ex Novels are good. Icarus effect and the like.
Bioshock novel, Rapture, was awesome. It was like a prequel.
The SD Perry RE novels are super close to Capcom’s original plans for the games. They’re pulpy and silly, but so were the games. If you enjoyed classic RE, You may enjoy them.
The Horus Heresy novels (spin-off of 40k) are excellent, I haven’t read normal 40k books.
The splinter cell novels are ok. Wasn’t really impressed but they weren’t wastes of time either,
Yo shut up dawg why r you even here homie homie
I have read the Mass Effect novels. The quality is pulp quality. The prose does its job and you're reading about shit you enjoy, so if you want to kill some time it's OK. Absolutely no literary merit whatsoever and I don't remember anything about the plot. They were by no means as atrocious as capeshit.
I've tried reading the novelization of MGS1 by Raymond Benson. It was terrible. Snake talks too much, best plot twist is spoiled right from the start, and there is just too many dry descriptions of what he is doing. The game hardly has great writing, but it makes up for it with great atmosphere. The book just shoots that atmosphere out the window.
Quantum Devil Saga was a fun read. They'll never finish the translation, though.
I bought the first hardcover back when I was in HS. I was looking forward to the second half of the series, since I found Digital Devil Saga 2's plot weaker than the prequel's.
I saw some Assassin's Creed books in a bookstore recently, I wonder if they're any good.
I read one about the first game and it was a fun read. Nothing special though.
I read a Minecraft comic where the author felt the need to include child lesbians of color.
I read a few Warhammer 40k books which were decent, but I'm not invested enough and the writing wasn't anything else than okay. Prose was mediocre.
This is so fricking cringe. The fact that Minecraft has a comic. (Yeah the idpol bs too.)
Looks like you read the wrong comic bro
Was meant for
you're both wrong. This is from Max Brooks' book:
The island was square. Or, rather, it was made of squares. Everything: sand, dirt, rocks, even those things I first thought were trees. Everything was a combination of cubes. “Okay,” I said, refusing to believe what I was seeing. “Just need a minute is all, just a minute.” Standing in waist-high water, breathing, blinking, I waited for my eyes to clear. I was sure that any minute, all those harsh right angles would return to soft, curvy normalness.
They didn’t.
“Gotta be that head wound,” I said, wading ashore. “No problem. Just make sure you’re not bleeding too bad and—”
Instinctively, my hand went up to find the supposed injury, and as it came up in front of my face, I gasped.
“Wha...?” There was a fleshy cube at the end of my rectangular arm, a cube that wouldn’t open no matter how hard I tried. “Where’s my hand!?” I shouted, my voice rising in panic.
Head swimming, throat closing, I looked nervously down at the rest of me.
Brick-shaped feet, rectangular legs, a shoebox-shaped torso, all covered in painted-on clothes.
“What’s wrong with me!?” I hollered to the empty beach.
“This isn’t real!” I screamed, running back and forth, trying to tear the painted clothes off my body.
Hyperventilating, I rushed back to the water, desperate for the calming reflection of my face. Nothing greeted me. “Where am I?” I shouted to the shimmering sea. “What is this place?”
I thought of the water, of how I’d woken up...but had I?
“This is a dream!” I said, relief breaking into my panicked voice, reaching for the only thing I could think of. “Of course!” And for a second I almost pulled myself together. “Just a crazy dream, and soon you’ll wake up and...”
And what? I tried to imagine waking up in my home, in my life, but it was all gone. I could remember the world, the real world of soft, round shapes, of people and houses and cars and lives. I just couldn’t remember me in it.
My vision narrowed as an invisible fist closed around my lungs. “Who am I?”
Tension pulsed up through the veins in my neck. I could feel the skin on my face, the roots of my teeth. Dizzy, nauseous, I staggered back against the base of the hill. What was my name? What did I look like? Was I old? Was I young?
Looking down at my boxy body, I couldn’t determine anything. Was I a man or a woman? Was I even human?
“What am I?”
The thread snapped. My mind collapsed.
was this actually published? trees died for this?
Yes
Why do they always draw people looking so hideous? The left one, especially in the middle panel, looks like its mother was drinking every day of the pregnancy.
leftists actually hate beauty
Drawing beautiful people requires effort and lots of practice. Modern authors are too busy posting on social networks for that.
nono you're wrong. I thought it was this or some other logical explanation like hugbox culture, but the truth is that leftists actually just hate beautiful things.
I was in 7th grade, so 13 years old, when I read a couple of assassins creed novels. they were actually just very descriptively gory and sexual. didn't add anything to ezio as a character.
that was 12 fricking years ago
I really liked one of the Starcraft novels as a teen - Speed of Darkness. It dealt with memory implantation, and being willing to sacrifice even for a society that one hates.
i've read a couple
a god of war one which was atrocious, dropped in after not many pages
and one based on battlefield 4 which was surprisingly not too bad for complete pulpy trash
They sell fanfiction at the book store these days? Maybe I should work on that epic poem on the fall of Gwyn and Anor Londo from Dark Souls that I was thinking about a year ago
The Dead Space and the Doom3 novels are surprisingly great. I'd recommend them to anybody, regardless if they play vidya or not. My favorite is Dead Space: Martyr, and Doom3 is sort of a slow burn. Book one is the lead-up and all the demon action is in book 2. That's not to say book 1 isn't good, it just blue balls you, so if you're interested, keep in mind to get both.
There are so many Halo novels, that they run the gambit, and I haven't read any since I was a teen, so I can't say more than that.
Resident Evil is entertaining, but, and I've said this before, the RE books, at least the first one, suffers from being TOO faithful to the games. Collecting medallions to escape a secret underground lab is all well and good in vidya, aber in a book...
Also, Max Brooks wrote a Minecraft book where the MC is actually a normal human that wakes up suddenly a square man in a square world, and has an existential crisis. I'm pretty sure he has a panic attack while punching a tree. I haven't read it, but it's been on my backlog for about 4 years now. Actually...
>surprisingly great
Anon you read a lot of this stuff... I'm not sure if you are trustworthy so I'm going to ask: how would you rate Patrick Rothfuss as a writer?
absolute shit, I hate rothfuss and I'm actually offended you implied otherwise.
I am sorry for doubting you anon
Thank you.
I read Dante's Inferno and i was shocked at how different it was from the game.
har har
thank you, thank you. i try my best
Only one I ever read was the Devil May Cry novel way back when it first came out. I remember liking it at the time but I was just a dumb teenager then so I don't know how it holds up. I was pleasantly surprised to see they actually made a few callbacks to it in DMC5.
I would say it holds up great, even the one for DMC2. Shame Bingo's DMC4 novel was never translated, this series has a split where if you want story you need supplementary material to the game.
The early halo books were good
Peter Watts, a respected sci-fi author, wrote a Crysis novel
I started writing a Skyrim fanfic but never finished it.
I read one of the Warcraft novels when I was a teenager. It was okay.
Yeah I read an elder scrolls book, the infernal city. Not great. This was years ago though.
I've read about 7 books based on games. I liked almost all of them.
I enjoyed that one. Also all of Abnett's books and stories are kino
Oh also the really oldschool 40k books are actually pretty IQfy. Inquisitor and Space Marine by Ian Watson were the first two Black Library books I think, and they have that sort of 2000AD vibe of the original 40k. Plus they have a bunch of non canon stuff like squats. (Gaymes Workshop rereleased them and edited all that stuff out.)
Call of the Arcade was quite a mindfrick
What game is that based off of? Fat moron
Polybius
why would I read a book by some failed redd*tor who is barely literate himself?
You just made me look on archive.org and I came across this
https://archive.org/details/RetroGamingBooksFiction
these are unironically pretty good
They range to average to terrible.
Deus Ex Novels are good. Icarus effect and the like.
Bioshock novel, Rapture, was awesome. It was like a prequel.
The SD Perry RE novels are super close to Capcom’s original plans for the games. They’re pulpy and silly, but so were the games. If you enjoyed classic RE, You may enjoy them.
The Horus Heresy novels (spin-off of 40k) are excellent, I haven’t read normal 40k books.
The splinter cell novels are ok. Wasn’t really impressed but they weren’t wastes of time either,