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scary ghost dog posted:talked about this earlier — The Witcher books are perfect It even has ASoIaF going on in the background and Geralt hates it so much.
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hobbesmaster posted:It even has ASoIaF going on in the background and Geralt hates it so much. Indeed, his least favorite episode is "portals and doublets". Geralt hates that episode.
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was just thinking about how elden ring is also never coming out
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Maybe someone should pitch GRRM a spinoff series, set in Westeros, that just so happens to take place right after ADWD
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TOOT BOOT posted:Maybe someone should pitch GRRM a spinoff series, set in Westeros, that just so happens to take place right after ADWD I've seen that spin off. It sucked.
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kalvanoo posted:is there a good fantasy series that just has good characters and a good story Chronicles of Amber. Earthsea.
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Cavelcade posted:A good example of this is FF7 vs FF13. The fact that FF13 needed a whole in game encyclopedia to explain poo poo is one of the reasons I gave up on the game.
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TeaJay posted:I just can't get into the modern FF games' aesthetics, I can't stand the generic anime look of the characters in 13 or 15. I have a friend who's really into JRPG's and he just says that FF15 is a good game but it's not a really good Final Fantasy game. It's been getting less and less of a fantasy game and more futuristic scifi since VI. But even the futuristic scifi elements are starting to disappear. I played a bit of XV for the first time a few weeks ago and it just straight up looked like current day rural America as interpreted by Japanese.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Chronicles of Amber. these seem cool thank you
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kalvanoo posted:these seem cool thank you ignoring my witcher suggestion???? very rude.
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Gianthogweed posted:It's been getting less and less of a fantasy game and more futuristic scifi since VI. But even the futuristic scifi elements are starting to disappear. I played a bit of XV for the first time a few weeks ago and it just straight up looked like current day rural America as interpreted by Japanese. VIII and XV have a lot in common aesthetically and in their world design. This isn't new for FF.
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kalvanoo posted:these seem cool thank you Start with Lord of Light if you like Sam you’ll like Corwin. Read Earthsea regardless.
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Gianthogweed posted:I played a bit of XV for the first time a few weeks ago and it just straight up looked like current day rural America as interpreted by Japanese. I was generally enjoying things right up until you complete the first real questline and you get a sudden plot bombardment, where they play what amounts to a trailer for the other game that they didn't make because they ran out of money and made this game instead. And then i realized that even at its best FF15 was going to be a profoundly broken experience, and i walked away.
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scary ghost dog posted:ignoring my witcher suggestion???? very rude. tv show was not for me
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kalvanoo posted:is there a good fantasy series that just has good characters and a good story NK Jemisin's stuff is by and large pretty great. The Broken Earth trilogy is what she's known for now but I think it's a bit uneven and harder to get into than her Hundred Thousand Kingdoms trilogy, so I'd recommend starting there. 100k has maybe one of the best endings to a series that I've ever read and I hope she revisits it in a short story or something one day. They both have great world building, pretty solid characters, and interesting takes on fantasy tropes. Also she manages to weave in "diversity" and social justice without it feeling shoehorned or pandering.
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kalvanoo posted:tv show was not for me Ok, and?
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kalvanoo posted:tv show was not for me i probably shouldnt attempt to argue with this logic, in this thread
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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn › ASoIaF: recommendations of completed books
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scary ghost dog posted:i probably shouldnt attempt to argue with this logic, in this thread 
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Just chiming in to say Malazan is crap. When trying to scratch that fantasy itch I enjoyed Jack Vance's Dying Earth. Getting lured in with quirky short stories worked well for me.
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Mat Cauthon posted:NK Jemisin's stuff is by and large pretty great. The Broken Earth trilogy is what she's known for now but I think it's a bit uneven and harder to get into than her Hundred Thousand Kingdoms trilogy, so I'd recommend starting there. 100k has maybe one of the best endings to a series that I've ever read and I hope she revisits it in a short story or something one day. I loved both trilogies immensely. I also just gobbled down Everfair which is another great bit of speculative fiction by a woman of color.
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GRRM's convention will be canceled and he'll self-isolate in a cabin on that island in New Zealand that exploded. The book will never come out.
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Ague Proof posted:GRRM's convention will be canceled and he'll self-isolate in a cabin on that island in New Zealand that exploded. The only real question is when won't the book come out, how many times won't the book come out, and when will he finally die so his spirit can be released, and then Sanderson can complete the book.
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pseudanonymous posted:The only real question is when won't the book come out, how many times won't the book come out, and when will he finally die so his spirit can be released, and then Sanderson can complete the book. Sanderson has better things to do than write TV show novelizations.
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Basileus777 posted:Sanderson has better things to do than write TV show novelizations. I'm assuming this means you've never actually tried to read any of his "work". Publishing the exhaustive backstories of RPG video games sans sans mechanics is hardly "better things".
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pseudanonymous posted:The only real question is when won't the book come out, how many times won't the book come out, and when will he finally die so his spirit can be released, and then Sanderson can complete the book. What is not coming out may never come out. Hasselblad fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Mar 9, 2020 |
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But rises shittier. And saltier.
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Lemony.
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lol it's doubtful there's enough people who want GRRM to finish this series at this point, much less someone else.
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Someone give GRRM coronavirus so we can end this charade.
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A HORNY SWEARENGEN posted:Someone give GRRM coronavirus so we can end this charade. If only it made one poo poo, and drink, and poo poo the more you drink, and the more one shits the thirstier one becomes.
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I genuinely have no idea why anyone would want Sanderson of all people to finish asoiaf.
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The Ninth Layer posted:I genuinely have no idea why anyone would want Sanderson of all people to finish asoiaf. because at this point we just like the abuse
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Liquid Communism posted:Too bad the characters aren't the audience. Though to be fair, I never really got lost reading Malazan-books, so the author maybe just really overestimated his audience? Anyway, the first one was kind of mediocre, but I managed to have enough fun reading it I eventually made my way through the entire series twice. On the other hand, I've read some of Kevin J. Anderson's books and liked them well enough, and people on this forum tend to go into this really off-putting rage whenever that guy comes up, so maybe I just have a weird taste and a really high bullshit-threshold? Also lately I learned that the Witcher books were written by a Polish author and are far better than the games' stories, so I'll probably get around to them at some point, now that I know that they aren't just video game novels
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Libluini posted:Also lately I learned that the Witcher books were written by a Polish author and are far better than the games' stories, so I'll probably get around to them at some point, now that I know that they aren't just video game novels I apologize if I offend anyone, as this is just my opinion, but I tried to read the Witcher books and I felt like I was listening to a 13 year old boy narrate himself playing a video game. It was painfully bad, and I couldn’t even finish the first book. It’s maybe one of 3 books in my life that I’ve started reading (out of hundreds) and didn’t finish.
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What were the others?
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RCarr posted:I apologize if I offend anyone, as this is just my opinion, but I tried to read the Witcher books and I felt like I was listening to a 13 year old boy narrate himself playing a video game. It was painfully bad, and I couldn’t even finish the first book. It’s maybe one of 3 books in my life that I’ve started reading (out of hundreds) and didn’t finish. Eh, it could easily be the quality of the translation causing this. I'll try our own translation (German) and see if I like it. If the first book isn't good, welp. You can't like everything. 
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Libluini posted:Eh, it could easily be the quality of the translation causing this. I'll try our own translation (German) and see if I like it. If the first book isn't good, welp. You can't like everything. I had kind of the opposite reaction. I tried starting in German, but switched to English, because the translation weirded me out. But maybe I'm just no longer familiar with German fantasy books.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:What were the others? Origin by Dan Brown, and I can’t remember the third.
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