Who the hell reads novels of video games? The stories in the AC games are dull enough

3 IS and has always been wasted potential

Who the hell read novel?
Who the hell read?

>tfw you can complete a 100 hour game but can barely keep your attention after reading a page of a book

It depends on the source material. Most of the time, the books for a seies are extra lore that covers stuff that wasn't present in the games

we no read
we Yea Forums we can no read no play games
games banable ofence

Yeah but are these novelists actually into the games? I don't think I could read something that's just been sent to someone because he's good at writing stories.

Books don't have flashing lights that make your brain go :O

Who the hell reads an image board about video games? The stories in the video games are dull enough.

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Why does brain like flashing lights?

>Who the hell reads novels of video games?
The same people who play AC games.
Retards who literally can't eat shit fast enough.

Ubi also makes tons of comics for their games too. Must at least break even, I can't imagine a multinational corporation just doing these for fun.

>literally a wall of text
Dropped

Me, at least two books every month since I was 16yo.

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I have a novel of a board game. It came with the box for free. I think it's rotting in some box somewhere.

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>at library seeing if they have any good movies or games in
>decide to check out novels
>this was pretty much every one of them
"If I wanted a good story I'd read a book."
No you wouldn't.

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uh oh

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oh no no no

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snake, what are you doing

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VIDEO GAMES

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vore is such a dumb fetish

you have to read the books and comics if you care about the plot. that's where minerva, the big bad from 2-4, was killed off-screen.

>Majority of players picked the dude
>Book is about the chick

I know right? Even Ubisoft wasn't expecting it

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Monkey brain has evolved to find the easiest resources with the least effort, because it's efficient when living in the wild like we used to. Nowadays when most of the population's basic needs are easily met we start to consume in excess because our monkey brains are still on jungle mode, it still thinks every resource is scarce so it gets us to consume as much as possible. Same reason people get fat or addicted to drugs. Video games have trained your monkey brain to see them as an endless source of dopamine, and so your monkey brain says "hey go play with magic lights happy box again" whenever you try to do anything that doesn't reward as much dopamine as video games, thus preventing you from concentrating on your book. Stopping video games all together for about a week will make your attention span go back to normal and you'll be able to read books again.

Books are too cinematic these days.

I'm a dude and I picked Kassandra. Shes nice.

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have my gold good sir
you've'st earned it :))))))))

The Halo books can be fun, or at least the first 4 are.
Gears of War is written by Karen Traviss most of the time, so they suck by default.
Ass creed books are just fucking garbo, though.

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But I rarely if ever play video games anymore due to not finding them fun anymore for the lat 5 years. My attention span is still shit and I get extremely easily bored of literally everything. Luckily I never take drugs or alcohol so don't need to worry about addiction to them.

Every fan of Halo ever

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too many qtes

anyone smart

But you aren't smart

Daily reminder that short stories are the peak of the written form. If you can't be concise with your writing then you may as well not even bother.

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I dont understand how people read novels. Like I get reading major works. I understand reading one or two over a year. But beyond that, how do people have the patience to spend all their free time reading shit someone else made up? How do you sit there turning page after page of someone else's pretend time in written form?

And then you have the fags that honestly believe they are intelligent because they are "well read", as if your hours wasted on fiction are useful for anything but trivia. At least people that watch movies are only wasting a couple of hours of their life. Book fags on the other hand waste hundreds of hours. Its bizzare.

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First and Third Halo novels we're great military sci-fi.

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Is there even a market for short stories in the west? The Japanese have light novels, but their reading market is completely different.

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I don’t get it, what’s so bad about this?

Is this a pasta?

Of course, normal functioning males don’t play as females in video games unless they’re forced too. Men that choose to play the female option instead of male are sissy’s and most likely closet trannies.

>ln
>short
that shit gets serialized and runs longer than harry potter

It still pains me 7 years later
>the frontier is barren emptiness, barely any interesting geography besides the cliff edges you cross after you leave your village
>need a particular animal pelt? Go right here to this exact spot where it will always spawn immediately.
>Assassin recruits will all these interesting and unique abilities but the mission structure (main or otherwise) gives you 0 opportunity or need to ever use them
>Assassin contracts are literally just NPCs walking alone unguarded and unaware of you
>combat is so degradingly easy, a full firing line of muskets isn't even enough damage to kill you
>you need to reach sequence 9 and then play 3 hours of fetch quests to unlock the 2nd pistol holster
>the bow doesn't even kill most guards, it will just knock them forward and alert them

Pulps used be huge, and you can still find literary publications that publish short stories. Plus writers don't have a problem releasing collections every now and then.

>diablo 3 had a prequel novel starring deckard cain who died a really lazy death 1/4 into the game

He uses real, really, and very too much

>Assassin recruits will all these interesting and unique abilities but the mission structure (main or otherwise) gives you 0 opportunity or need to ever use them
True, but the forts were fun to do if you had them escort you in as a prisoner
>the bow doesn't even kill most guards, it will just knock them forward and alert them
They must've changed it in the remaster, but the bow is very useful now. Couldn't wait to upgrade my quiver.

>how do people have the patience to spend all their free time reading shit someone else made up?

This is the most autistic argument ever. Do you refuse to play videogames because someone else wrote them?

Already more interesting that anything Villeneuve has shit out.

>All those shit, garbage boot licker authors that cry about LOTR because it wasn't diverse enough.
The Tie Fight wibbly wobbly herkily jerkily, my next book as fart pornery, through the air.

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Anyone ever read the novels that inspired the MegaTen franchise?

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i got a book of starcraft by christie golden, and it's an absolute drivel. i'm an esl and i could write a better story, and she didn't even had to figure it out, the story is right there. it's so so SO bad. the only redeeming quality is i got it for free and got a bunch of progamer signatures in it.

Dunno about AC, but i like the halo books, i always liked the setting so they are a nice way to see more of it.

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This.
youtube.com/watch?v=H6d79JHh3cU

There are people who unironically think AC has good writting
Probably people who never read a book that wasnt based on a video game, but still, they exist.

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stories in video games are retarded and only fags play them for the writing

>Video game book
>extremely important story development is in it
>a character dies in it never to be mentioned again in the main series
>the writer is a contractor who barely gives a shit about the series

>can't play dressup with Kassandra
What's the point.

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I remember reading the first 2 Mass Effect books and pic related. Quite enjoyable stuff

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I only read because it feels less passive and I cannot stand watching actors.

Well aren't you a smug cunt. There's literally nothing wrong with reading fiction, if you're gonna be too good for that you certainly shouldn't be playing videogames either.

Are they available in English in any form?

He probably thinks he's a genius for reading Malcolm Gladwell and Scott Adams. Militant non-fiction readers are always shockingly stupid.

I tried this book but something about it was so oddly written that I couldn't get past the first few chapters.

I actually agree with you. While part of me misses reading since I did it a lot when younger, I just can't justify reading for entertainment when there are so many better forms of pure entertainment as well as ways of simply finding information online. The only reason I can even understand reading physical books these days are for the convenience of very information-dense books compiled by experts that would be too inconvenient in a digital format like a PDF. Like let's say on a specific topic about computer security where the information exists online, but not so concentrated and easy to reference.

I'm convinced no book that's purely some fiction story couldn't be translated with a competent enough team with basically 0 loss of content to a well made TV Show.

>with a competent enough team with basically 0 loss of content to a well made TV Show.

When that ever actually happens, let us know.

>Incoherent sentence structure.
>Random words are Capitalized???
>Missing and incorrect grammar.

Jesus Christ. How did this even get published?

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Legitimately reads like a short attempt at writing a story while you are learning English (as a second language). Most of the meaning is there but there's some glaring issues that makes it clear it's a one-shot attempt by some bored schoolkid turning in an assignment of a made-up story intro.

But apparently that's good enough quality to get published, so what do I know?

Understandable. The weird writing style is exactly what kept me going and check out the authors other books though.
Second Dead space novel is garbage however.

too bad thats not fiction.

>I'm convinced no book that's purely some fiction story couldn't be translated with a competent enough team with basically 0 loss of content to a well made TV Show
it absolutely could. thing is televised media is inherently superior to print, despite what book fags will tell you. you can convey much more information on film (scenery, atmosphere, emotion, physical appearance), and in a shorter time, than an author can in a written description. the only reason this doesnt usually happen is because tv shows are expensive and cut corners with the source material

>thing is televised media is inherently superior to print
>the only reason this doesnt usually happen is because tv shows are expensive and cut corners with the source material

I think he means it has more potential. In theory there could be a 100% translation of the written material into a video format with even more added. In reality even for a TV show that would require a lot of dedication and understanding of the source material, while also prioritizing fidelity over just making an entertaining thing that makes money, which I'm sure is not the goal of most TV shows. So the potential is there, but there's no real incentive to do that conversion faithfully.

>tfw Lord of the Clans
I'll never use the word comfy to describe anything except reading that book first time during late nights with insomnia

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Every game should have shanties
youtu.be/9RsGRFBqN14

Then its not inherently superior. It may do things well, even better than prose, but the fact that such concessions like budget and time restraints exist means that it would never truly supplant books. In fact trying to make an either/or style situation between the two mediums is retarded.

>prose
lol

Is the XCOM novel any good? I have the TES ones by the same author and the writing's pretty bland so far but on the other hand XCOM's pretty cool

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Warcraft novels are quite good, if you like the Warcraft universe...

Mass Effect Revelation was a good book