Best fictional worlds to make games from

[Liatach]

I'd like to know which fictional worlds from books people would most like to see games made from. I'm hoping this isn't a repeat thread as i'm still pretty new here, the quick search i did didn't throw up any likely titles.
My picks:
I. Asimov's Foundation sequence as a massive Civ style game
Neil Gaimans Sandman sequence as a classic adventure game
David Zindell's Neverness universe massive space rts or MMO
China Melville's Bas Lag- Twisted and awesome MMO or sandbox
Terry Pratchett's Discworld- Giant hilarious sandbox game, or MMO
F. Herbet's Dune MMO
U.K. LeGuin's Earthsea as an Oblivion like adventure
J.K. Rowling- Harry Potter deserves at least one good game, its had soooooo many bad ones.
Jeff Noon's Vurt world as an Oblivion/Max Payne like twisted adventure

i'm sure more will come to me but i'd love to see yours

 

[Altorin]

Truthfully, I like gameworlds crafted specifically for the game.

Games based on someone elses IP are usually god-awful, and if I had a favorite book series, I certainly wouldn't want some game developer wiping their ass with it.

 

[erasmusv]

Eventhough I can't think of everyone who could pull it off, I would love to see a game based on either the Wheel of Time or A Song of Ice and Fire.

But I also think that Altorin is right. Most games based on movies or books dosen't turn out that good.

 

[Lance Icarus]

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

 

[Mr Jack]

I think that the Alistair Reynolds novels would be amazing for big sci-fi rpgs.
Unusually deep science fiction a few hundred years down the line. Lots of really interesting planets and factions.

 

[DerGermanGuy]

Terry Pratchett's Discworld- Giant hilarious sandbox game, or MMO

I agree. There should be an MMO based on Discworld.

 

[vlanitak]

a game based on the Power of five books, that would be awesome!

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

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

Like this one?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game_andrew.shtml

 

[Lance Icarus]

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

Like this one?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game_andrew.shtml

Oh, I love that little flash game! Still, I meant a space sim, not an adventure game.

Still, I now have to play that game again. Curses!

 

[JaseMorris]

It's gotta be a Special Circumstances set game in Iain M Banks' Culture for me.

Or a Judge Dredd game that doesn't suck.

 

[asdfasdasdf]

Blade Runner/Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? would make a good setting. Don't think i've seen a half decent cyberpunk game since Deus Ex.

 

[Veylon]

Steven Brusts' Taltos Series as Assasination game or MMORPG

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

Terry Pratchett's Discworld- Giant hilarious sandbox game, or MMO

I agree. There should be an MMO based on Discworld.

There is a text-based MUD, but I assume that's not what you had in mind.

 

[SphericalGimp]

The Warhammer 40k universe. Dont jump for the reply button yet!

While dawn of war is a very fun game and captures the essence of the different races as well as the constant conflict inherent to the setting, I must say that they've never captured the truly dark and gothic side of it (people who read into the stuff about chaos and all the inquisitor backstory will know what I'm on about)

If you look at all the artwork and writing in the books, comics and concepts for 40k so much of it has a real gothic undertone that I personally think really set it apart from the much more clean cut sci-fi around, which is kind of the point really! Space cruisers that are built like cathedrals! Space marines having their weapons blessed! The xenophobic attitude to anything unhuman! All those things are what make 40k stand out against all the generic sci-fi out there!

Ahem, rant over (fanboy much?)

 

[Mr Jack]

It's gotta be a Special Circumstances set game in Iain M Banks' Culture for me.

Or a Judge Dredd game that doesn't suck.

That would be great. Banks books are probably the best sci-fi I have read. The scope of them is so much larger than most. He really builds another world, whereas so many just use our own society with lasers, no real innovation.

 

[Jamash]

I think a Mass Effect type game based on Brian Lumley's Cthulhu Cycle Deities books, with Titus Crow as Shepard, The Clock of Dreams as the Normandy, Ithaqua & Cthulhu as Soverign type characters, Elysia as the Citadel...