That feel when you spend the whole month playing videogames instead of reading

how was it?

i was pretty shocked when i realized just how many people on Veeky Forums dont actuallyread

I used to. Now I just read plot summaries on Wikipedia.

I've been playing a lot of video games lately. I only had a Wii last generation so the PS4 is a brand new experience for me. I'm trying to play games that will convince me that video games are great art. I'm playing The Last of Us and this is the game that really did it for me. Video games can be art. I just finished the part where Joel dies. I didn't see it coming. I guess I play as Ellie now. Anyway, after I beat this game I'll get back to reading more.

Veeky Forums used to be good.

You and play critically just as you read critically
and it is worthwhile
the only problem is the established "greats" are usually just middling AAA games

what games bro

I've been watching movies lately because I'm too lazy to read. Criterion collection on Hulu is addicting.

I just watched Rivette's Out 1 over the course of two days. Quite the experience.

>TFW been reading awesome books in bed for hours before I go to sleep
'Tis a great feeling

2 months for me, at least I beat Deus-Ex for the first time.

I also put off going to the gym for the first time because I am a pussy and don't really know what to do my first time.

But you know what, fuck everything. I am going to fucking READ tonight, all week, and every week after.

I am going to fucking read 70 pages+ every fucking day, I am gonna DO THIS SHIT.

I am going to read starting strength and I am going to go to sign up at the gym I am going to fucking do this shit.

Does anybody believe in me?

I need at least one user to believe in me, I need someone to not let down. Even if it's some random fucking stranger.

I believe in you OP, you can throw off this filthy videogame and procrastination habit. It's fucking cancer. There are only about 20 good games worth playing in this world.

Honestly some games are actually good and worth your time just as much as reading a book
Most acclaimed CRPGs are as good as the best fantasy novels and some (Planescape Torment) are better than most fantasy novels
There's no shame in playing System Shock 2 or Deus Ex for a few hours instead of reading no matter how neckbeardish it sounds

The last book I finished that wasn't for school was Dragon Age:The Masked Empire
I read half of American gods and then I got distracted last summer and I tried again recently and same thing happened
I want to read because when I get into it it's so rewarding and as a kid I read so much but I can't recreate that and it's so depressing

I kind of have the opposite problem
I'm not reading all that much but when I play vidya it's usually some rouge lite like spelunky or rouge legacy
I have deus ex and system shock 2 and I know there supposed to prove that video games cam be taken as seriously as any other form of media but I'm too dumb to get into them because of the archaic ass controls and i want to so bad just to experience this influential ass piece of media but it's hard man

Video games are like reading if books burned holes in your eyes over time.

You're a self defined scrub get good or go casual
I'll bet you read easy books too

I believe you can do it! I went to the gym this morning with my dad after not going for a week and a half. I also started reading again! Wake up and seize the day

Is game of thrones and American gods easy??

I have the opposite problem. I'm losing most of my friends because I can't enjoy video games anymore. Every time someone forces me to play some with them, all I can think about is how I'm wasting my time when I could be reading and can never just get into them like I could before. Maybe its ultimately for the best, but maybe its better to have friends and waste time than to be a well-read antisocial loser.

Bought a PS4 last december, played it constantly for a few months and now I barely touch it at this point, might try to sell it eventually.
Reading is ultimately more gratifying imo, even if videogames are more immediately enjoyable.

I think I'm going to go play Battlefront or something now, fuck you for reminding me vidya exists.

>Sour gummy worms
That triggers me more than the fact that you haven't even read 50 pages a day.

Manchildren, FUCK OFF.

Start stretching your hip flexors and groin now, because there's a medium chance you will injure yourself going from sedentary to squatting three times a week.
Mainly the top and bottom in pic related.

Sometimes it is not bad to take a break from reading and do something else. I've also played a lot of video games over the past few weeks. Been working on my MA thesis so I've been reading and writing all day. At the end of the day, I sometimes just want to relax and play games. But lately, I started craving for a good book again.

I dont enjoy playing videogames anymore :/

I can always sleep really quickly after reading as well.

Ye it's all about balance and not letting them dominate what you do all the time. Second Planescape torment, as good as most books I fucking loved it.

It was actually pretty decent until the end. The atmosphere in the book was a really dreary and depressing one. It follows elves who've lost everything, following Illidan to the Black Temple in order to learn from it.

The trials they go through to become Demon Hunters are actually really horrific. A lot of them simply go insane and start rambling, and some even sneak out while others are sleeping, to slit throats. The main character, Vandel, gets a bunch of tattoos and then they become painful for him, so he starts taking a scalpel and slicing the flesh that has the tattoos right off him, and almost bleeds out and dies.

Illidan does a lot of heinous, dark shit but he is extremely effective. He uses the souls of about a couple hundred soldiers (who were Outland citizens cobbled together by Maiev) to power a gate into a demon world, so he can exterminate it.

And the the end is basically Blizzard intervening and making the author write about an encounter with an "Elder Naaru" and Illidan where the naaru explains that Illidan is the golden destiny child who is fated to end the Burning Legion and shows him a vision of him being a Paladin or some shit. It was fucking awful.

no I used to play all the time and have lost interest in most games. when I hang out with my friends they all just want to play overwatch or smash or something and I don't feel like sitting there and watching them play but I'd rather be hanging with friends than be by myself

those fucking jeans and heeled shoes what the shit

Try pathologic instead. It has much more reading and unanswered for mysterious setting. Couldn't recommend more for any Veeky Forums being.

Share the gummy worms bro

Anyway I'm pretty satisfied with the amount of time I spend reading (2 or 3 novels / month in addition to poetry and journalism). I could always increase that, but I work and have other hobbies I need to balance alongside lit. I play video games pretty intermittently so that never cuts into my reading time.

Except that never happens? Why do you sound so genuine if you're baiting?

This. Anyone who doesn't accept that the Veeky Forums shitpost is of equal literary value to the poem or novel needs to get their head out of the sand and get with the times.

I hate how Tao The Ching is so quotable and yet the impression you get from just reading quotes is so misleading. Kind of like Nietzsche.
To be fair, I think this is actually quoted quite nicely, but it still kind of seems like worthless chinese mysticist "wisdom" when you just put it like that, where it's really much more.

I love sour gummy worms too!

>that feel when you've spent approximately the last 4 years shitposting

You can do both. Been playing Dark Souls and reading Ligotti. Good pairing.

get a job

I had a thought. What if recommended reading books would be recreated as visual novels? The sight and sound definitely draws more attention and emotion than just plain text does. It could be used to teach children to handle longer texts. To not cripple imagination completely the visual style could omit details, forcing the imagination to fill in the gaps.
These would be aimed at those who suck at reading or has problems focusing, so reading pace shouldn't be a huge issue.

iktfb...iktf...

you'll live forever, user

>Why are we still here? Just to suffer?
pls no

>for the banter

>The Last of Us

haha pleb

>arthouse video games

Has /v/ gone too far?

In such a prolific industry, it seems inevitable that something approaching art would appear. These are the diamonds in the rough, the things worth keeping.

I would replace "OFF" with Dark Souls or Bloodborne though.

Those are just action games, there's nothing art about them, let alone Art.

>Majoras mask

Shit. Now i remember why i loved vidya when i was a kid.

because you were a kid

>tfw you've spent the whole month reading instead of looking for a job

This and prolly the edgyness of MMs gameplay

When entry level is the only level

>tfw iktf but with the last two months

Man Last of Us is such pleb tier for video game art, it's wannabe cinema that does nothing to advance the artistry unique to the medium. If you want real game art here are some recs:
Shadow of the Colossus and ICO
Silent Hill 2
Dark Souls Trilogy
Fez
Hyper Light Drifter
Super Metroid
Illusion of Gaia
Cave Story (mainly just for ushering in video game auteurship)
Fallout New Vegas (with mods)

Oh and Baldurs Gate 2 and Planescape.

>mainly just for ushering in video game auteurship

That's such bullshit.

>Fez

Really, it seemed just another platformer game for me.

This. Reading The Name of the Rose while playing Anno 1404 is the best

You can play video games critically like you can dive into the shallow end of the pool.

Meant to reply to

Is there a prior single creator game with so strong an aesthetic?

There is much below the surface. Like a full half of the game. There's just as many hidden cubes that must be found by deciphering and riddle solving after all the platforming ones are done. There's some good articles about the community that developed to solve the game. Crazy stuff like finding the images hidden in the soundtrack.
Course all that would mean nothing if it wasn't good. But it's very good. Very very good.
Too bad Phil Fish is made of egg shells.

>artistry unique to the medium

i hate this shit

The last thing I saw was Joel falling off the horse after getting impaled, Ellie trying to get him up, and Joel not moving. Then it cuts to winter and I'm playing as Ellie. That's when I quit. I guess I was wrong in my assumption. I'm going to play more tonight.