Brandon Sanderson Is Close to Adapting Mistborn Into a Video Game
-
This is an odd card to play here because the protagonist only comes to value her appearance by seeing it through the lens of the male gaze. Ursula LeGuin or Becky Chambers would be far better places to look in that respect.
-
This post did not contain any content.
Brandon Sanderson Is Close to Adapting Mistborn Into a Video Game
Mistborn fans can look forward to a potential video game adaptation as author Brandon Sanderson discusses the project with Triple A studios.
VICE (www.vice.com)
A book series so poorly written, you’ll never believe the author did so on purpose.
-
Most of his books are written like he’s pretty desperate for someone to make a video game adaptation. The metal (“fuel”) and “classes” in Mistborn, the way weapons work in the Cytoverse, etc., etc., it all seems specifically designed for a game adaptation.
Hopefully Mistborn goes to a studio that knows what they’re doing and the gameplay is actually fun!
As I recall Brandon Sanderson plays a lot of games, especially tabletop ones, so this would make a lot of sense.
-
This is an odd card to play here because the protagonist only comes to value her appearance by seeing it through the lens of the male gaze. Ursula LeGuin or Becky Chambers would be far better places to look in that respect.
This is an odd card to play because she also murders a lot of people and mentally dominates an entire race.
I think, compared to these absolute crimes against humanity, that her journey to self-actualization seems an odd nit to pick.
-
Fair.
Maybe it would be better to have a Mistborn game that takes place in the Mistborn universe than a retelling of Vin’s story, or Kelsier’s. Maybe another attempted coup on the Lord Ruler, or something set after the events of the first book but before the end of the third one. Trying to avoid spoilers but if you’ve read them, you know the events I’m speaking of. Sanderson kind of boxed in when a game could reasonably take place. No one seriously attempted to take on the Lord Ruler before Kelsier (the first time, when he was thrown in the mines) and after the third book… why, you might as well just go the Wax & Wayne era (which might be better, have kind of a Dishonoured kind of setting). Maybe an original story in the W&W era.
Era 2 would be fun. You could have guns and/or the player be a misting/ferring/twinborn and then maybe have a quest happen where you become full mistborn.
Or you could do Era 1 but have the game set like 1000 years before Kelsier. Just say the events were suppressed by Rashek and the canton of Inquisition.
-
As I recall Brandon Sanderson plays a lot of games, especially tabletop ones, so this would make a lot of sense.
His writing group all but started as a DnD campaign.
-
This is an odd card to play here because the protagonist only comes to value her appearance by seeing it through the lens of the male gaze. Ursula LeGuin or Becky Chambers would be far better places to look in that respect.
She’s basically traumatized up until ::: spoiler Spoiler she sacrifices herself to kill the last living god in their world. :::
I don’t think she ever really does value her appearance like you assume. At most she realizes there’s more to life than survival, whether it’s because of her beau or not. He’s just one aspect she finds in life to make it worth living.
-
A book series so poorly written, you’ll never believe the author did so on purpose.
Huh? How you figure?
-
I know it because its the reason jordans wife chose him to complete the wheel of time series. Never read it myself but it would be on the list if I start reading a lot again which I thought was unlikely two decades ago but with enshitification I am moving to less and less tech.
Thought Robert Jordan chose Sanderson and that Sanderson spent time with Jordan discussing how he wanted it to end the series as well as explaining all the extensive notes he prepared for Sanderson.
-
This post did not contain any content.
Brandon Sanderson Is Close to Adapting Mistborn Into a Video Game
Mistborn fans can look forward to a potential video game adaptation as author Brandon Sanderson discusses the project with Triple A studios.
VICE (www.vice.com)
Please don’t suck
-
A book series so poorly written, you’ll never believe the author did so on purpose.
I feel like this is not the popular consensus…
Like… maybe some people aren’t a huge fan, but saying poorly written seems harsh. Maybe you just don’t like fantasy?
-
Huh? How you figure?
Some people just hate anything that’s popular. Most of them grow up at some point.
-
Somewhere between Spiderman and Arkham Asylum style games would really work really well.
The setting of the first book was very cloak and dagger with lots of similarly and overly powered opponents.
Book 2 and 3 got turned on thier head and you’d probably want to slowly adapt towards Prototype or inFamous as the setting loses its cloak and dagger story elements.
That’s a pretty classic game series progression though.
Looking at you, Assassin’s Creed and whatever it is you’re doing now with stat checks for shoving a knife in a dude’s neck
-
I feel like this is not the popular consensus…
Like… maybe some people aren’t a huge fan, but saying poorly written seems harsh. Maybe you just don’t like fantasy?
Not to speak of this particular series one way or the other but… Popular things can also be poorly written. Case and point: Harry Potter.
-
I feel like this is not the popular consensus…
Like… maybe some people aren’t a huge fan, but saying poorly written seems harsh. Maybe you just don’t like fantasy?
I’m not denying that Brandon Sanderson sells a lot of books, which is what those lists track. His aggressive mediocrity is, in many ways, precisely why he’s on those lists.
-
Not to speak of this particular series one way or the other but… Popular things can also be poorly written. Case and point: Harry Potter.
Regardless of how you feel about the author, Harry Potter is not poorly written.
-
I know it because its the reason jordans wife chose him to complete the wheel of time series. Never read it myself but it would be on the list if I start reading a lot again which I thought was unlikely two decades ago but with enshitification I am moving to less and less tech.
Jordan who? Jordan Holmes is more into dune than the wheel of time
-
Some people just hate anything that’s popular. Most of them grow up at some point.
Nah, I love lots of popular things. But I can also separate my personal enjoyment of something from its inherent quality.
Mistborn’s actual plot is fun! I enjoyed it. That said, the books are very poorly written. Everything from the characterization to the style is objectively bad. Brandon Sanderson is not intellectually gifted or well-read or emotionally intelligent, etc, and that impedes his writing ability.
Would you say “How I Met Your Mother” is some incredibly well written work of art? Come on, it’s one iota removed from fart jokes.
-
Nah, I love lots of popular things. But I can also separate my personal enjoyment of something from its inherent quality.
Mistborn’s actual plot is fun! I enjoyed it. That said, the books are very poorly written. Everything from the characterization to the style is objectively bad. Brandon Sanderson is not intellectually gifted or well-read or emotionally intelligent, etc, and that impedes his writing ability.
Would you say “How I Met Your Mother” is some incredibly well written work of art? Come on, it’s one iota removed from fart jokes.
You are just saying that it IS bad without offering any actual explanation.
How is it bad in your opinion, what specifically is an example of bad and why you think that way.
“Everything from the characterization to the style is objectively bad”
Is no different than saying “it’s bad” you offer nothing about your opinion other than how you feel about it, which you have already expressed and are just repeating yourself with more words.
If you don’t care to explain your opinion beyond stating what you’re opinion is then your opinion isn’t worth much to anyone else which makes your comment a waste of time and energy. A waste of your time and energy as well as everyone else’s
Perhaps you only wanted wanted attention though as your only motive which if it’s in fact what you wanted then congratulations on that
-
You are just saying that it IS bad without offering any actual explanation.
How is it bad in your opinion, what specifically is an example of bad and why you think that way.
“Everything from the characterization to the style is objectively bad”
Is no different than saying “it’s bad” you offer nothing about your opinion other than how you feel about it, which you have already expressed and are just repeating yourself with more words.
If you don’t care to explain your opinion beyond stating what you’re opinion is then your opinion isn’t worth much to anyone else which makes your comment a waste of time and energy. A waste of your time and energy as well as everyone else’s
Perhaps you only wanted wanted attention though as your only motive which if it’s in fact what you wanted then congratulations on that
Even if I explained in painstaking detail how Sanderson mixes metaphors or fumbles diction, what’s the point?
Honestly, go read a few thousand books, then revisit Mistborn and see for yourself. Or maybe make friends with a literature professor and ask them to explain it to you using tiny words.
