If it was such a good book series how come it never got any video games?

Like every longrunning fantasy series, it gets worse as it goes on. I liked it.

Me on the left.

It would have been if it had fucking ended instead of being drawn out to 20 books

>tfw no FPS where you shoot balefire at opponents and the game keeps track of all events and constantly rewinds and re-rewinds the game state relative to the time being erased

I can't imagine how confusing it would be to properly program it, but it would be amazing.

Yeah well, if this book is so fucking great why doesn't it have a game yet?

Please make a game, somebody.

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That's partly due to the author's Alzheimers kicking in halfway through the series

IIRC he got pressured to string along the series by his wife, who was also his publisher.
Then the agent orange caught up to him and he died of cancer before he could actually finish it.

Sell me on this series

Just like discworld?

It's a very "infamous" novel, I would compare it to Malazan but you get introduced gradually to the setting through more generic plotlines instead of being thrown in at the deep end. So it sounds quite formidable but it's actually very easy to get into since it starts like a generic "call to adventure" but then expands in scope massively in each book.

The worldbuilding is immense, the magic system is pretty complex and there are like a billion characters. It's also famous for the fact that Jordan has a hard time getting on with things, and whilst his writing is excellent the series does...drag on in the latter half of the series. Braids get tugged, skirts get smoothed.

That, and of course one of its biggest themes is the relationship between men and women. Some would say its depiction of gender relations is pretty narrow and based on caricatures, though others would say it captures the essence of conflict between the sexes, it's really up to you. One might see it as a very "feminist" setting whilst others would say it spends most of the time ridiculing the idea of women in power. Mostly it lets you make your own mind up, which is what makes it interesting.

So does it have no real ending? That's depressing

No it ended...........after 14 books.....all of which are 6 inches thick

high fantasy autism on the level of Tolkien worldbuilding

great execution, awesome settings, but a lot of talking and politicking, kings and knights fighting over suits of ancient magic infused armor, niggas using magic to carve cities into mountains

>song of ice and fire
if he will ever finish his fucking books what a fucking hack him and pattrick rothfuss

I'm in the 30s of this book and it's great. perrin trying to glass the knight was Chad as fuck

Pratchett's Alzheimer's was a physical variant not mental. The last few were so off kilter because they were almost certainly at least partially ghostwritten.
I'm also almost convinced that Pratchett wrote in a deliberate
>looks directly at the camera
moment in Wintersmith to let people know

The book Is trash,wot never was good.

first book was the worst for me, slow start nothing really happens until the end and the constent running from the trolics was just not engaging

talking about first books yo FUCK THE HOBBIT

I like it, but it's a bit like a Marvel movie. Kind of formulaic, and more spectacle than substance.

WoT is underrated. Too many plebs write it off as simple good-vs-evil schlock when the protagonist is a mentally ill death machine who spends the entire second half of the series on a downward spiral into violent insanity.

The Hobbit is top tier, heretic.
Thorin's deathbed in particular.

its also worth picking up that Brandon sanders is a top tier author with updates on book progress yearly updated time lines and is super vocal with his fans.
>if you hate his style then oh well.

It really isn't. Worst kind of lazy Tolkien re-write with weird hangups about girls. Pretty much straight trash.

Others might have been more explicit, but I've rarely seen an author give so few fucks about shoving his magical realm into everything.

>what if I made every girl an insufferable cunt
>and then had some weird bdsm and other fetishes shoved in everywhere
Still probably not as bad as what he did to Perrin, in all honesty.

>one of its biggest themes is the relationship between men and women. Some would say its depiction of gender relations is pretty narrow and based on caricatures, though others would say it captures the essence of conflict between the sexes, it's really up to you. One might see it as a very "feminist" setting whilst others would say it spends most of the time ridiculing the idea of women in power. Mostly it lets you make your own mind up, which is what makes it interesting.

this right here is the best part in my opinion it captures the idea that each sex looks at the other like idiots, and feel their values are meaningless compared to their own. and it does it in a way that it isn't even trying to send a message other then we are different

Fuckin' newfags.

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It's been a while since my last read through, but I get really nostalgic about the sense of mystery early in the series. And EotW had Shadar Logoth, Myrddraal were a threat, and I liked the journeys while the party was split up.
That's the best part of the later books. Although, Sage Rand is just as good, I think.

ironically the series was finished by the writer of this book. Brandon Sanderson was a long time fan of Jordan's who's Widowed wife contacted Sanderson to finish the series with all the notes and information left behind. close friend of mine didn't even realize it was written by a different person until after i told him

Is that Jerry Seinfield in the left?

Because the cast would just be niggerfied like it was in the show.

Yes in the later book it just feels more engaging its possible its because you have become more invested at that point or its because as the reader you just know whats at stake .

This would make a great souls type game.

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Maybe i'll reread book one

just stop.

thecla was asking for it

>Is it really that good?

No.

"its a good smelling turd"

Very few fantasy novels and series are worth your time and WOT is not one of them.

Imagine not being able to understand basic themes

*dies in ur path*

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does anyone remember the name of this schlock fantasy series that had some mercenary hero who was a cuck with a prositute gf? the only other thing I can remember about it was that one of the antagonists was a princess who had a chastity belt but was actually a slut mage.

>*tugs braid*
>*straightens skirt*
>*puts arms under her breasts*
In your path

Also the premise for the series is the peak of absurdity. The savior of the world is a fucking ginger?

In your path

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>game spinoff of a novel series that later gets a novelization

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and which are?

Read almost all the books in this thread and liked them in their own right
Nothing compares to Malazan, not even close
Midnight Tides is on my lap right now, pls no bully or spoil

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Didn't really enjoy Malazan all that much except for Coltaine's story.

>niggas really read non-tolkien fantasy books

waste of time. 0 good ones exist, honest opinion

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It’s not good it’s shit.

Black Company

Coltaine and the Chain of Dogs is something that'll live on in me for years to come
That and Itkovian
jesus fuck Itkovian

>Midnight Tides

Enjoy the funniest duo in the entire series.

Bro, these books are full of political intrigue, a lot of magic, some decent world building, and a fair bit of nudity (much of it ritualistic). But you come for the badass use of magic at the hands of a madman destined to save the world: the Dragon Reborn. Enough detail that there were a couple of encyclopedias written to keep track of details (first one is best; includes a lot of unique lore). Did I mention that this isnt a Medieval fantasy but is more comparable to the period at which we developed artillery (so it is unique in that regard)?

Yes, pick up the Wheel of Time. Just know that Book 1 had Jordan limited a lot by his publisher, Tor, who were afraid to try anything that wasnt basically a redo of Lord of the Rings (look for the parallels). Book 2 is when he take the sprinkling of lore and world building in Book 1 and runs with it.

Bonus points: the series is complete.

It's got the perfect type of lore for a Souls game.

Because fantasy series in general are garbage.

This book was a trip.

There are 14, 15 if you include the prequel (read that one after Book 4- it provides an interlude at a good time in the story and builds well on the motivation of an important character in Book 5 without spoiling anything). Still, your point is made: this many novels is not for everyone.

Agreed. Though I still feel like Mat Cauthon was dragged, kicking and screaming, into adventure. He really just wanted to be a drunken loser in a bar somewhere, but the world wouldn't let him.

There was one, as others have said. Unfortunately it is not canon, directly contradicting major events even in the early books. Devs got a primer on the way magic works and the bare bones of the setting. Bare bones. They made a plot off of that alone.

I read most of those novels but stopped around book 9 or 10 I think. I got so pissed that there were like two books in a row with none of the main characters.

Mistborn chads when's our game?

Certainly explains all of the sales and commendations by well-known authors.

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a nigga named ROBERT

This specific setting takes place in an under the sea type setting, except instead of being underwater, there's a giant magical storm that passes the same direction with a semi-random timing. There are giant crustaceans that people hunt for the giant crystals found inside. Much of the flora in the setting developed a way to deal with the storm, like a type of grass that retracts into the ground.
The setting also contains physical manifestations of ideas known as spren, and certain types of spren can make a bond with emotionally damaged humans to give them 2 powers based on 10 swords forged by the creator of the world in the past. Each of the 10 main types of spren has an ideal, and going against that ideal causes you to lose your powers, making the people who bond with spren (surgebinders) akin to paladins.
The setting also has magic swords that cut through anything nonliving, and sever the spirit form of the living, which causes permanent pyralisis in the limb cut (or kills the person and burns their eyes out if it cuts the spine). To counteract this, there are extremely heavy suits of armor that are basically robotic exoskeleton super suits, that resist the blades, but crack and break from repeated strikes.
All of the magic in the setting (for the most part) runs off stormlight, which comes from the magical storm, filling any crystals (like the ones in the giant crustaceans) left out in one.
There's 3 main characters: a betrayed slave, a traumatized lady student, and a war hero getting old.
The next book in the series is due this year, and Brandon Sanderson is pretty good at pushing out books. The Stormlight Archive takes place in the collective literary universe known as the Cosmere (all written by Brandon Sanderson), though most of the series are entire solar systems and thousands of years apart.