Has there ever been a game directly based off of a book?
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i dont get why it doesn't count if it where a book first and then a movie than a game, a movie is likely to peak the interest of the public (because as we all know books where so 1940, now books are for teaching and making movie writers life easier) which will lead to game designers wanting to milk the cow and thats how we get games.
also how many of the elements from the book should be present in the game, if we can settle on simple things like plot tag lines the list would be close to every game ever.
but whit out having read the series of books "left behind" what i understood from critics and wikipedia the game of the same name is based on it and you play trough the story of the books in the game.
so in short ***** *****, whine whine, left behind : the game
also how many of the elements from the book should be present in the game, if we can settle on simple things like plot tag lines the list would be close to every game ever.
but whit out having read the series of books "left behind" what i understood from critics and wikipedia the game of the same name is based on it and you play trough the story of the books in the game.
so in short ***** *****, whine whine, left behind : the game
"Checks Wikipedia" Now that's an interesting fact. Seems Stalker was based both on Roadside Picnic and a film called Stalker which was also based on Roadside Picnic, which was subsequently novelised. Not sure how that works out but there you go.LimaBravo said:
"The Bard's Tale" was based on a specific tome of Orkney writings, a sort of collection in the mould of 'La Morte d'Artur.'
Incidentally, I believe there were a fair few such properties on the NES, though i'm damned if i can identify them [I was about 7 when i last saw any of the boxes].
Do text format RPGs count as books? There've been two movies of that type. One of them was even watchable [and i still have the first to cheer me up with Jeremy Irons when i'm unhappy]. Ditto for the horrible manglings that Vampire the Masquerade and Hunter the Reckoning suffered.
Incidentally, I believe there were a fair few such properties on the NES, though i'm damned if i can identify them [I was about 7 when i last saw any of the boxes].
Do text format RPGs count as books? There've been two movies of that type. One of them was even watchable [and i still have the first to cheer me up with Jeremy Irons when i'm unhappy]. Ditto for the horrible manglings that Vampire the Masquerade and Hunter the Reckoning suffered.
Ah, touche.
What about the Where's Waldo games? They weren't educational, and as a child I thought the idea was horrible, so how could they be marketed towards children?
What about the Where's Waldo games? They weren't educational, and as a child I thought the idea was horrible, so how could they be marketed towards children?
I suppose it makes things easier for the purposes of the thread. When you enter murky territory like LOTR games, you have to decide of the game was based primarily off the book or the movie version.swaki said:
Secondly, the purpose of the thread was to enquire if such games based solely off the books do exist, and means the OPer does not have to dredge through 10s and 10s of posts naming obvious ones like half the James Bond games etc etc.
The game "The Fellowship of the Ring" was actually based off the book instead of the movie. That and Dante's Inferno, but that game seems to be nothing like the original source material so I don't know. Another one I just thought of is "The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy". It is a very old text adventure game, similar to the likes of Zork.
true, which is why in my second part of the reply i try to know how much of the book must be present in the game, should it have the same basic story, young guy meeds older guy and old guy befriends young guy and they go into the woods together whit some other young guys to meet other older guys that can tell them where they should go next, or does the game need to be named after the book and all the npcs in the game needs to have the same names as the characters in the book.metagaia said:
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Cthulhu:_Dark_Corners_of_the_Earth] was based off of the short story The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft. It wasn't a very good game, and didn't follow very strictly to the story, but it had its moments.
Technically, they were all a single group's D&D sessions. One of the group was a writer who got their adventures (and several based on the world - Forgotten Realms) published. Technically, that means that the books came first in the franchise, because the Forgotten Realms books inspired the Forgotten Realms P&P RPG which in turn inspired the games.heniv181 said:
Me too; I actually saw my wife playing it the other day. Cute game, funny, but I don't think it's based on any one of the Discworld books in particular.MaxChaos said:
However, I do think that there was a Harry Potter game before the movies.
Also (they're really old) but there were a bunch of D&D games that were based on those Dragon Lance and Forgotten Realms books: Dark Queen of Kryn, Pools of Radiance.