Do you read books based on games?

[Vault101]

you know, some games have spin off novels/adaptations and such

so do you read them? are they any good or justgenerally bad? and do you think that stuff is "canon" or can be disregarded if you choose?

Ive heard about certain ones being really really bad..while I cant remember specifially it seems most of those ones are RPG's...which is kind of understandable if it takes the story in a direction different to what you played, and of coarse changes the main charchter

for my birthday today (20! wooo) I got the assasins creed novels (the first one "secret crusade" and "revelations") I was curious to see if they were any good, and not some horrible fanfiction

Ive read a bit of the first one...unliek games and movies its kind of hard to judge but I am enjoying it so far more or less (I guess I wouldnt call it a literary classic though)

 

[ChaosEternal]

All the time. I personally love all of Blizzard's books. All if them are getting pretty beaten because I have read them so many times. I love all the extra lore they add. I am the kind of guy who talks to everybody and reads everything in a game, so lore + good full-length story + good writer + interesting game universe = Pure Joy. Also, happy 20th Birthday!

 

[-Adracko-]

I love the Elder Scrolls lore and have been wanting to pick up The Infernal City. Just puttin that out there

 

[MercurySteam]

The Gears of War novels are actually very well written. Same goes for some of the Halo books.

 

[TheRussian]

A couple of Halo books were good, especially when they gave some backstory to Master Chief.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

Very rarely. I find that novels based on video games tend to be horrible. I am proven right most of the time. I read the Dragon Age books and Mass Effect books and could barely get through them. On the other hand, I read The Elder Scrolls books Infernal City and Lord of Souls and they were quite good.

 

[chaosyoshimage]

I have the first three Halo novels, but never read them since I tried the game and couldn't stand it. I do want to read the Mass Effect comics/books. I have the first 8 digitally since Dark Horse gave them away for free one day. I might read them when I get my Kindle Fire and DH releases their Android app (It's coming soon apparently). I really want to read the new Star Wars novel about Revan (From KotOR), so I guess that kinda counts. Also, I read a decent amount of Pokemon manga as a kid.

Now, movie tie-ins, that's a different story, Timothy Zahn's Thrawn trilogy is almost better than the films (Well, definitely better than the prequels, but that goes without saying), and the same writer wrote a Terminator Salvation prequel that was way better than the crappy movie.

 

[Wieke]

I've read the mass effect books. The first one was okay, but the last two were quite cool. Will certainly read the fourth one.

Spoiler: Description of what I found cool (not really spoilery, this is just to be sure).

The first one basically covers Captain Andersson's attempt at becoming a spectre and his clash with saren.
The second one had a good portion play out on a quarian ship and showed how their society works. The third one had a first hand account of the indoctrination/cyberization process by reaper tech.

 

[Vault101]

All the time. I personally love all of Blizzard's books. All if them are getting pretty beaten because I have read them so many times. I love all the extra lore they add. I am the kind of guy who talks to everybody and reads everything in a game, so lore + good full-length story + good writer + interesting game universe = Pure Joy. Also, happy 20th Birthday!

thanks!

anyway, I havent previously looked up the assasins creed book, I want to be able to judge for myself

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I haven't yet. I like to keep the universes I explore in game/film and the ones I imagine through the medium of text separate. I'm weird like that.

 

[Drunkbot]

Yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_of_Power

Stop judging me.

 

[Worgen]

I've read a few, the doom books were kind of cool, a book came with my copy of stone keep and it was really good.

 

[Vault101]

I've read a few, the doom books were kind of cool, a book came with my copy of stone keep and it was really good.

they had books based on "doom" 0_o

well you learn somthing new every day

 

[Chalacachaca]

Guilty of reading the first three Mass Effect novels and Assassin's Creed: The Fall (although that's a comic book).

 

[Crimson King]

I've read most of the Halo books. Can't complain. I'm really interested in checking out the Myst book, which is a massive tome that I suspect is merely a novelisation of the first three games.
Oh and I endorse avoiding the Elder Scrolls books if you don't constantly dream of Cyrodil.

 

[Vault101]

Yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_of_Power

Stop judging me.

dude...seriously?

nah its ok..I read those goosebumps "choose yoru own adventure" for a while

 

[springheeljack]

I read allot of the halo books
I thought they were good
so yeah...

 

[mysecondlife]

I recently read Star Wars The Old Republic: Revan, which is about Revan's story during the events of KOTOR 2 and afterwards.

my final opinion: WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP. It felt like I got slapped in the face after it said "are you happy now?"