Which video-games come close to the experience of a really good book?

Which video-games come close to the experience of a really good book?

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In all experience, Grand Theft Auto IV, because most of its story focuses on intimate character interactions rather than big obvious events. Dealing with Jamaican gangsters, the Irish mob (with a lot of allusions to the Troubles) and the like. There is also neat symbolism in a lot of the missions: there is one really cool museum shootout, where you have to shoot your way out under the sights of ancient egyptian artpieces, urns and dinosaur bones. There's also a bank heist titled "Three Leaf Clover", with the Irish mob, and I really love this name - A four leaf clover is special, but a three leaf is ordinary, and there's something tragic about it. One of the four of you gets killed in the heist, which is what the title is referencing.

GTA is probably the most literary series in the sense that it reflects our reality in an artful way.
Straight fantasy, I'd say Dark Souls or something.

Bioshock, of course

Portal 2 too, to a lesser extent

Half life 2 is really immersive

Planescape Torment is probably a bit obvious.

I'd say Lost Odyssey is pretty close. An enjoyable narrative with beautifully written short stories scattered throughout which actually pack a punch when you don't expect it. Genuinely cried reading one of the short stories in that game.

I think video games tend to offer more cinematic merit than literary merit though, especially those video games that focus on visual interactive experiences with a visual narrative, like Inside, Little Nightmares, Brothers, etc.

not really as good as a good book, more like good in a pulp story tier good, but i'd say Max Payne is more bookish than almost anything posted so far in this thread, except Planescape and maybe Bioshock

Visual novels, but they are mostly focused on romantic experiences.

The plot was generic as fuck. More like a ... comic

I feel left out for not having played video games even though I'm 32. Everyone seems to be doing it. I haven't played in 15 years or more, super nintendo. I'm thinking maybe I should buy a console.

Spec Ops: The Line
It touches on some of the themes of Heart of Darkness so it's not hard to see this one coming.

That's like consciously beginning to smoke cigarettes.

Zelda - Ocarina of Time, Super Ghosts n Ghouls or Super Mario World. "Pure gameplay" games are actually trully patrician. If Plato would live today he would detest "artsy" "games" but he would love some 2d platform games

>reading for the plot
the atmosphere was great

there are no great plots in games anyway, any "great" sci-fi or fantasy game plots are just playing with very well established structures straighforwardly. Take bioshock for example, you can summarize the plot in 4 sentences without losing anything of value, and yet the atmosphere was great and immersive

in fairness, Steins Gate is essential even if you don't care for the waifu laifu.

Open Letter was a-OK in a dumb way.

Danganropa is GOAT.

As opposed to unconsciously smoking cigarettes? Playing a game every other night for an hour or two is a good way to destress and have fun.

As long as you can afford it and there's enough on a system to interest you, go for it, buddy.

Although if you're more interested in casually dipping in your toe, I'd maybe suggest picking up a couple of cheap gems through GOG or Steam instead so you don't have to fork out 200 bucks for a games console you might not really want in the long run.

This guy's got it. A true video game is one that develops the player's skills while also exploring what the medium can offer, and although casual narrative based games are neato from time to time, it's really the well-designed, intuitive and well-developed gameplay that would stand the test of time.

The journey

That is a serious answer

dwarf fortress

KOTOR II

>As long as you can afford it and there's enough on a system to interest you, go for it, buddy.

>Although if you're more interested in casually dipping in your toe, I'd maybe suggest picking up a couple of cheap gems through GOG or Steam instead so you don't have to fork out 200 bucks for a games console you might not really want in the long run.
I only have a shit laptop. I tried cave story on it. Don't think it can handle much heavier games than that.

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Easy to run games like Cave Story are great, imo. I know they're memed a lot, but Undertale and Shovel Knight should be easy to run too if you're into those kind of games (retro art style, gameplay focus, somewhat atmospheric).

Although if you're still curious about consoles, my experience is that Microsoft often ports what's on the Xbone to PC eventually, PlayStation has a mix of weeb games and exclusive AAA games (the big budget ones), and Nintendo is currently standing well with their new system which only really has the new Zelda and a neat little fighting game on it (which will gradually build to a large distinctive library). I suppose I'm biased, but if I was a first time buyer, I'd be more tempted by Nintendo and Sony myself.

Although I suppose if you're on a budget, I believe Nintendo just re-released a physical SNES that contains a bundle of their classics on it. I'm tempted by it even though I know I could just emulate those games easily, but I always like the idea of being able to play multiplayer with a few friends when the opportunity arises. It's all up to you though, of course, I guess there's quite a bit to choose from.

I really truly can no longer enjoy fiction books. After an entire day of re-reading Harry Potter 3... I just can't. I no longer feel that hand that would pass the pages automatically with joy. I know do vidya, series, movies or even anime for fantasy, and read nonfiction just to learn something.
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I felt this way after reading The Martian and American Gods back to back. You kind of just need to delve into something light but actually enjoyable too. For me it was Alice in Wonderland/Through the looking Glass, followed by some short stories from Lovecraft and I had a little Steinbeck binge. Stuff that's easily accessible but worthwhile that helped me get back into enjoyable fiction. If you need a week or two though, take a break. Some books are exhausting because they're so shit.

Why? Dwarfs are stupid and the stories that are told about the game are mostly inventions of the players

MGS 2

A hundred times this. I've read Heart of Darkness 4 times for school and pleasure. I decided to try Spec Ops: The Line because I heard it followed the narrative style and shared similar concepts. I was surprised at just how well executed it was, and how it actually treads new ground in the "Heart of Darkness" colonial ethics discussion. Genuinely Veeky Forums game with way more going on than how it appears on the surface.

that's my favourite one, user

saying that, the loss of The Boss and Ocelot's nobility at the end of MGS3 probably has more moments to trigger one's sentimentality.

Deus Ex if you want some William Gibson Philip K Dick conspiratorial pulp fun.

Broken Sword 1, 2 and 3 if you want some pseudo-Sherlock Holmes and Treasure Island fun.

Total War series if you want to put The Gallic War to the test.

Age of Empires and Age of Mythology if you want to recreate the Iliad.

I want to recommend Diablo 2 and StarCraft too but I can't really think of a relatable context or any reason why they would be Veeky Forumserary. Just great vidya nonetheless.

90% of video games are really shallow and gay, does nothing more than stroke your child like fantasy/sci fi boner(ala warhammer 40k). But the few good ones

Red Dead Redemption
GTA 4
Transistor
Bioshock Infinite
The Last of Us
LA Noire

Those are really all I can think of that are really stylish and plot driven without sacrificing the game and becoming just an interactive movie(heavy rain)

Morrowind. It's more a work of literature than a video game.

Also Planescape Torment

Those are some alright suggestions, user, but for someone who defined video games as gay, I'm surprised you dared recommend to most homosexually and shittiest of video games: Bioshock Infinite. That's just being a bad citizen, user, please don't do it again.

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>Why? Dwarfs are stupid and the stories that are told about the game are mostly inventions of the players

My man if you haven't read the Boatmurdered saga you are in for a treat. DF succession games are pure awesomeness. Strongly recommended.

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I thought it's a really cool game and waaayyyyyy more atmospheric and has a lot of very interesting lore that could definitely be written into a book. Way more than the same games in its genre, Dishonored and the Fallout series.

Red Dead Redemption and L.A. Noire

To each their own, user, I must politely disagree but I can say I'm envious you enjoyed it more than myself for I really wished to enjoy Bioshock Infinite.

Real recommendations coming through. Most of the recommendations in this thread are embarrassing

Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines (With unofficial patch)
Pathologic HD
Fallout 2
Planescape: Torment
Beneath a Steel Sky
Catherine
999: 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors
Fallout: New Vegas
I have no mouth and I must scream
SOMA
System Shock 1 & 2
Morrowind
The World Ends With You
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

Good recommendations. You are a bit of a cunt though.

>recommending power of friendship edgy weebshit
>in any fucking position to call somebody else's taste shit

I like popcorn shit too user but I ain't gonna hold Transformers as a cinematic staple anytime soon.

Baldurs Gate 2
Silent Hill 2
Commandos 2

I think what makes it appealing for me is that it is not a very obnoxious game and it actually has well developed concepts(ie alternate/parallel universes). Unlike Dishonored: you are an assassin with supernatural powers who can summon rats and shit or Fallout: here's some communist robots, mutants and shit, eugh.

Not exactly a game,but an experience, the beginnings of what can be imagined using game engines to tell stories. Dear Esther...

youtu.be/hlGdbziSwEY

After growing up on games and reading literature, games can't compare. If you can tell me you would honestly read a script of a video game or movie and enjoy it as much as literature go right ahead, but it's not even a book at that point.
I think the real reason people like these types of threads is because they still value literature but they know their other interests aren't on the same level, so they try to get validation from others so they can feel secure about both reading some obscure spanish intellectual who fucked goats in the 1800s and playing porn games made by immature socially repressed japanese virgins.
Shouldn't everything be fair game at this point? This is a new age, you don't need to limit yourself to "important" things, everyone wants to do dumb things, why do games have to be important and poignant critics of social mores like literature can be?

The Fallout games are pretty literary, especially the old isometric ones(obviously because they mostly have text-based dialog).

The Stanley Parable

>999

Uchi is a complete hack

>why do games have to be important and poignant critics of social mores like literature can be?
nobody said that. i find it just interesting what games can affect you on the same level as books

It's still the worst bioshock

1 + 2 are much better

Games honestly are not the same as they were before (1990-early 2000s). It's evolving to be a way more respected medium much like movies. I see video games in the same light as movies, a lot of developers have really interesting stories that they'd like to tell. For example, Red Dead Redemption, The Last of Us or Spec ops the line. I don't really think you can judge a medium based on some of its offerings from >immature socially repressed japanese virgins. After all, Michael Bay still makes billions and 50 shades of Gray is still a hit.

>not a very obnoxious game
YOU COULD NOT BE MORE WRONG. I spent half of the time I was playing that game trying to kill Elizabeth, hoping at one point the game would actually let me do it. She was the most annoying sidekick. And the voice acted main character, his writing was terrible. That and the ending made no sense. Infinite a worst

Kentucky Route Zero

Even has some literary references, most notably Gabriel Garcia Marquez

None

It's never getting finished

Why/how

Firewatch
The Forest
Inside
Valiant Hearts

Honestly there are a lot of good story driven games that can be enjoyed like reading a book. Anyone who discredits it just because it's a digital medium honest are fun hating cunts and should honestly just fucking kill themselves.