Best fictional worlds to make games from

[Jonathan Hexley]

Adventure/Action game based off of the Skulduggery Pleasant series.
Maybe have a free-roam environment, and have a story mode perhaps based off of the books. Or a new one.

 

[Gxas]

I'm thinking of the world from Ian Irvine's "The View for the Mirror" Series. Those were excellent books. Either that or a Call of Duty game based in Harry Turtledove's "Into the Darkness" Series.

 

[AlexanderAstartes]

I'd say A Song of Ice and Fire, but I'd be afraid of the inevitably bad game.

 

[Fightbulb]

Probably Warhammer 40.000, yeah. The world that the guys at Black Library are creating is amazingly massive and versatile, and seems perfect for an MMO, or a Mass Effect-esque RPG.

 

[CompanionCube]

The book "Enders game". Or the "The Supernaturalists", I know simple book but it's crying for a movie!

 

[maggosh]

What about the Soul Society from Bleach?

 

[Malk_Kontent]

There was a Blade Runner game, back in the Pentium I/Windows 95 era. Hell, there were a LOT of good games back then. Does anyone else miss games like the Tex Murphy series, or the Phantasmagoria games?

 

[Riley_Tahn]

Forgotten Realms.
Pure genius, that one is.

 

[superpoo92]

i know it not a book but a comic marvel zombies, it would be fucking awesome but if they do actually make it they will only fuck it up like in every marvel game or Stephen kings the mist that would be a good world for a game but it might be too much like silent hill

 

[OwenEdwards]

Discworld has three adventure games and a MUD, and those are the mediums in which it works, I suspect.

 

[Same River New Water]

Without a doubt, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.

[blockquote]Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest ************ in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.

Hiro used to feel that way, too, but then he ran into Raven.[/blockquote]

The hero-protagonist (whose name is Hiro Protagonist) is a badass samurai coder pizza deliverer in a dystopian future.

 

[Liatach]

Wow some great ideas have come up here, I had forgotten to come back and check on this as it took a while to get the first replies.

Ian M Banks = definite possibilities for a great games.

The Skulldugery Pleasants could be fun, especially if they did them before a movie is made.

Juandonde- i totally agree, the potter universe is far more interesting than the limited scope available to Harry as a character. massive sandbox is exactly what i would like to see, or if thats a bit too optimistic at least something of the scale of Bully.

Eggo= a good Dark Tower game would be dripping awesome and covered in Win flakes, though i fear we would just receive a generic distopian, western shooter.

Keep the idea's flowing, sounds like i need to read Ice & Fire
thanks

 

[crazy-j]

U.K. LeGuin's Earthsea as an Oblivion like adventure

omg yes that one!!!

 

[crazy-j]

actually i am not sure if this has been done but like a dragonlance MMO or RPG maybe?

 

[Chickenlittle]

Dragonlance, maybe. It might be difficult incorporating all the little parts to it, and shifting from perspective to perspective.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Can you imagine a space game based off Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Oh man, that would be something else.

Magerathea! It's Magerathea!

 

[ace_of_something]

stephen king's dark tower series

a survival horror?

 

[Chemotherapy]

I want to play a harry potter themed rpg in which you play as a random student at the school. There is so much potential for an AMAZING rpg in that school and you can choose to fight with harry or against him or something. Theres loads of directions you can take with that idea.

I know the title says fictional worlds but I saw this documentary once where they made an animation of Rome and the camera started off in the distance and you could see the entire city, then it zoomed in and you could see the crowded streets, shops, people, horses, etc. I think it would be amazing to make a GTA style game based on Rome.