Books to games
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Ill say it again cause a couple people already said it. The wheel of time series. yes i know they made a horrible fps based on it but thats in the past it can get better. like say an mmo like someone else said?i also wouldnt mind a general dragonlance mmo.or even a new cprpg.forgotten realms has its games. greyhawk had a game. its time for dragonlance. and it does fit this thread since it had a ton of books in it. hrms. the shanara series. a stragtegy war game maybe based off of michael moorcock's the warhound and the worlds pain perhaps?
game set in the same world as gene wolfs tales of a new sun series.rpg probably
game set in the same world as gene wolfs tales of a new sun series.rpg probably
I'd say that The Edge Chronicles series by Pauk Stewart and Chris Riddell ould make a great game. It's a fantasy book set in a weird universe where everbody lives on a plateaux over a bottomless pit and rocks float when cooled suficciently. This produces a wonderful level of weirdness.
Hving read some of the posts on this one, No the bible does not produce good games. It produces boring, frustrating and unescessary ones. I think that angry video game nerd thing had a nice rant on bible games recently, and if you can stand his nasal voice then it's worth a look.
EDIT: Ok, maybe bible games would be okay on Wii, but apart from that no other console ha the same level of gimmickiness
Hving read some of the posts on this one, No the bible does not produce good games. It produces boring, frustrating and unescessary ones. I think that angry video game nerd thing had a nice rant on bible games recently, and if you can stand his nasal voice then it's worth a look.
EDIT: Ok, maybe bible games would be okay on Wii, but apart from that no other console ha the same level of gimmickiness
Already been done, my freind. It was essential the card game, but fought in a fantasy world.DraconianKing said:
Also, maybe some sort of KOTOR like RPG based off the New Jedi Order books. You could be a junior Jedi fighting off the Yuuzahn Vong and the Peace Brigade.
There were several good games like:
I have no mouth and I must scream - with an extended interesting storyline
The Dark Eye - Beatifully directed adventure involving Poe's work
Stalker - loosely based on the great dark broody russian scifinovel "Roadside Picnic"
the ringworld adventures by Tsunami Games
Call of Chtulu: Dark Corners of The Earth - had some great Lovecraft moments
Here is a list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_games_based_on_books
I have no mouth and I must scream - with an extended interesting storyline
The Dark Eye - Beatifully directed adventure involving Poe's work
Stalker - loosely based on the great dark broody russian scifinovel "Roadside Picnic"
the ringworld adventures by Tsunami Games
Call of Chtulu: Dark Corners of The Earth - had some great Lovecraft moments
Here is a list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_games_based_on_books
First of all I think any game made from Robert Jordan's series would be horribly made (yes there could be a exception) but it would be a slight on his long efforts, and his life's work.
Secondly in the past I thought a game made of the age before the current age in the books would fare well with me, but I can't see anything great coming from that without Robert Jordan writting it himself. :'( I can hardly look forward to the final book.
RIP Robert Jordan I will miss your writing forever. -for you who didn't know.
Secondly in the past I thought a game made of the age before the current age in the books would fare well with me, but I can't see anything great coming from that without Robert Jordan writting it himself. :'( I can hardly look forward to the final book.
RIP Robert Jordan I will miss your writing forever. -for you who didn't know.
that could work, too wellKukul said:I'll probably be remembered as the guy who constatly bragged about how much he likes The Witcher, but I think they have the perfect formula:seydaman said:
1. Take existing books with interesting setting and characters.
2. Contact the author and have him write a game scenario for you.
3. ???
4. Profit
That way you can't know the ending or ***** about how they "ruined the book" while still beign able to make choices and enjoying a quality plot.
I hope they'll make The Witcher 2 soon. If Andrzej Sapkowski won't run out of ideas this game will kick so much ass now that they figured out what was wrong with the original Witcher (voice actors, loading times, combat, alchemy)
A RPG set in Netherwhere, the London under London. There just seems to be so much more to that book than was layed out that I really want to explore more.
Oh, and Sandman. Play as a dream or nightmare. Hell yeah!
Both of these have zero chance of happening. Like shit is Niel Gaiman going to develop for a game. Still, we can dream.
EDIT: How about Starter for Ten? It'd be hours of playing a game you can not win, because your shit and a looser. Then at the end you have to cheat to finish it, and the game will call you a looser anyway.
Hey, I loved that book, but it was so dam depressing while still being hilarious.
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Oh, and Sandman. Play as a dream or nightmare. Hell yeah!
Both of these have zero chance of happening. Like shit is Niel Gaiman going to develop for a game. Still, we can dream.
EDIT: How about Starter for Ten? It'd be hours of playing a game you can not win, because your shit and a looser. Then at the end you have to cheat to finish it, and the game will call you a looser anyway.
Hey, I loved that book, but it was so dam depressing while still being hilarious.
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This must be done!Milo42 said:
I can see it as an arcade game, or even a LBP type game. (Does LBP even HAVE a story?)Amarok said:
Mabybe, but it would have to be a puzzle or adventure game. That series isn't that much about fighting battles. The other thing is that Leguin has very few caucasians in her books as Earthsea is primarily a race similar in build and complexion to native americans; and you just know that the developers would make every character white as the day with American accents.Kukul said:
Robert Heinlein's Starship troopers (the book not the film), it would be like tribes (as it inspired it) but fighting walls of arachnids, jetting over them and flaming them.
The Forever war (by Joe Haldeman), could have some really weird game mechanic as a shooter, lock on turrets that you hold down a key to not fire and when you release it fires (your role is more to prevent them from overheating and melting), lasers with multiple setting (thick continues beams that last a moment to thousands of tiny ones fired like a machine gun), grenade launchers that can fire a close combat sharpenel that will kill everyone in like 2m but then turn in a harmless mist for some one out of the area.
Levels with varying gravity and dangerousness, like planets that are close to absolute zero in temp, shooting frozen ice would make it explode because of the huge change in temp.
The energy sphere, which teams would have to move to the enemies base to win, inside that sphere nothing can move faster then 17m/s (the suits are insulated so they don't instantly die as their atoms slow down), weapons like swords and bows with weighted arrows are used instead of high tech lasers.
The Forever war (by Joe Haldeman), could have some really weird game mechanic as a shooter, lock on turrets that you hold down a key to not fire and when you release it fires (your role is more to prevent them from overheating and melting), lasers with multiple setting (thick continues beams that last a moment to thousands of tiny ones fired like a machine gun), grenade launchers that can fire a close combat sharpenel that will kill everyone in like 2m but then turn in a harmless mist for some one out of the area.
Levels with varying gravity and dangerousness, like planets that are close to absolute zero in temp, shooting frozen ice would make it explode because of the huge change in temp.
The energy sphere, which teams would have to move to the enemies base to win, inside that sphere nothing can move faster then 17m/s (the suits are insulated so they don't instantly die as their atoms slow down), weapons like swords and bows with weighted arrows are used instead of high tech lasers.
Homer's Odyssey is they did it right.
also, a book based on Fight Club that is actually good, because the game based on the movie was crap
also, a book based on Fight Club that is actually good, because the game based on the movie was crap
There are a suprising number of games that have been made from the Bible (not suprisingly, none of them are any good and none of them were made recently to my knowledge).
The Harry Potter books have been bled to death in terms of what they can squeeze out of them for cash (movies, games, toys, lego games, lego, novelty brooms that were taken off the open market...the list goes on).
Sadly, most of the books that would make decent games have been made into movies (which have had games made of them).
A game based off of 'The Preacher' graphic novels would be interesting if done right, as would Watchmen or Spawn (he has had plenty of games made before but none of them have really ever been any good).
The Harry Potter books have been bled to death in terms of what they can squeeze out of them for cash (movies, games, toys, lego games, lego, novelty brooms that were taken off the open market...the list goes on).
Sadly, most of the books that would make decent games have been made into movies (which have had games made of them).
A game based off of 'The Preacher' graphic novels would be interesting if done right, as would Watchmen or Spawn (he has had plenty of games made before but none of them have really ever been any good).