Novels that should be games.

[A Weary Exile]

After the success of basing Bioshock heavily on Atlas Shrugged I'm wondering what other novels would make great games. I would choose to base a game on Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, a man dealing with the intolerable guilt of murdering an innocent person seems like a good premise, or the complete antithesis of that The Stranger by Albert Camus where a man feels nothing for a senseless murder because he feels all human life is meaningless.

 

[HT_Black]

Fahrenheit 451, as interpreted by the Dante's Inferno development team. Time for some flamethrower and fireaxe massacres...

Or maybe we could use something like...mine?

 

[LongAndShort]

Just about anything by Matthew Reilly. He's not a great writer, but his plots and situations are fucking awesome. Running through the South American Jungle facing down neo-Nazis, terrorists, jaguar-men creatures and crocodiles, What's not to love?

 

[RomanLegacy]

Song of ice and fire seires. Some kind of political intrigue RTS hyprid crap would be awesome.

 

[Onichanbura]

John dies at the end-by David wong. The strangest book I've ever read.

 

[wikicated]

mtg ravnica block set or set after the last book it would proly be a mmorpg hmm also i would like all the races to be playable and player based economy i would be a goblin that sells charred meat from his cart on the side of the highway hmm

 

[TheLastCylon]

Animal Farm or Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell.

 

[A Weary Exile]

Bioshocked based on a book? So your saying System Shock 2 was based on Atlas Shrugged aswell?

No and if you're trying to be a smartass about Bioshock you're falling on deaf ears.

Andrew Ryan follows the philosiphy of Objectivsm put forth by the author Ayn Rand (Google it) in works such as "Anthem" "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" Rapture is built on this philosiphy, although they never outright say it.

"A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims."
-Ayn Rand

"Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth."
-Ayn Rand

 

[A Weary Exile]

Fahrenheit 451, as interpreted by the Dante's Inferno development team. Time for some flamethrower and fireaxe massacres...

Or maybe we could use something like...mine?

Nice choice, never read it but I've looked it up on the 'pedia before and it certainly would be interesting.

 

[A Weary Exile]

Another one: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

 

[Mosstromo]

Another one: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

In a way it has been done, since there was a game on Blade Runner circa 1995 or 1997.
Not precisely based on the book, just based on the film based on the book.

 

[Mosstromo]

Would you like to see Don Quijote of La Mancha done as a game? That one would be not bad at all.
Or any epic: The Iliad and the Odyssey; Rings of the Nibelungs; Grendel and Beo... oh, that is right, I forgot.
Also games based on Lankhmar would be nice (the world created by Fritz Leiber).
Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny. This one has really nice potential.
Maybe one based on a Viking Saga too? This list could get pretty enormous easily.

 

[ghalkhsdkssakgh]

World War Z / The Zombie Survival Guide (both by Max Brooks)

The Ragwitch by Garth Nix

Homer's Odessey

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

(Okay, that last one wasn't serious).

 

[Cowabungaa]

terry pratchett books

There are some point-and-click adventure games based on Discworld novels, don't know how many though.

World War Z / The Zombie Survival Guide (both by Max Brooks)

Ye gods, just think of playing through the Battle of Yonkers. Yes World War Z has potential.

 

[Shadowfaze]

i think thier should be a few more discworld games. they stopped making them, they were great!

 

[sov68n]

I was going to say Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising but then World in Conflict does a good job of the whole "World War III in Europe" thing sans the Seattle invasion.

 

[Latinidiot]

almost everything written by David Gemmel, especially Waylander

 

[StigmataDiaboli]

Give me an Andy McNab book redone by Infinity Ward!! Preferbly Bravo Two Zero. There you go, a new franchise is born! If Tom Clancy can do it by just researching the army and war, Andy McNab will be awesome as he's truly been there.

 

[TheFacelessOne]

Twilight!

Oh wait...

Okay, I got it this time.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell!

. . .

CRAP!

 

[Adam]

Lord of The Rings by J.R.R Tolkien.....oh wait.

On a serious not maybe the Black Magician trilogy by Trudi Canavan could be converted into an RPG, the plot is pretty solid and I do recommend the three books for any lovers of fantasy. You can get them all pretty cheap nowadays anyway.