Poll: Books that would make EPIC GAMES!!! (how would you rate mine?)
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Game of thrones did have a game.. it sucked ass. I'd kinda like to see a night angel trilogy game if it was done right. The guys that made the witcher series would be a great choice for that one.
Discworld has been said like twelve times, I'm gonna make it thirteen.
The Black Company books would also make a great game, I feel.
Glen Cook, epic dark fantasy. Follows a mercenary unit, wizards in the world are all violent psychopaths, great books.
The entire game could play like Space Marine did. It'd be awesome.
The Black Company books would also make a great game, I feel.
Glen Cook, epic dark fantasy. Follows a mercenary unit, wizards in the world are all violent psychopaths, great books.
The entire game could play like Space Marine did. It'd be awesome.
Either the Night Angel or Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks. So much fun magical possibilities.
Or This Alien Shore by C.S. Friedman for some good sci-fi rpg goodness.
The Coldfire trilogy, also by Friedman for some gothic horror action.
Or some H.P. Lovecraft.
Or This Alien Shore by C.S. Friedman for some good sci-fi rpg goodness.
The Coldfire trilogy, also by Friedman for some gothic horror action.
Or some H.P. Lovecraft.
A lot of the series'(es?) that Margaret Weis and/or Tracy Hickman have written could potentially make a good action-adventure game. I would love to see a modern Dragonlance video game because the universe is large, interesting, and has a decent history behind it. The last time they made one it was in a series of awful DOS games.
I second the notion of a Codex Alera or a Dresden Files game, since Jim Butcher novels are amazing.
I second the notion of a Codex Alera or a Dresden Files game, since Jim Butcher novels are amazing.
i've been daydreaming about that hogwarts game for YEARS. i wouldn't even fuckin mind grinding in that game (probably..maybe...JUST MAKE THE DAMN GAME.)BloatedGuppy said:
also, good choice on dresden files, could be VERY interesting depending on what they do with the lore/story.
Anything and everything written by Glen Cook ever wrote in the fantasy department, would be a awesome open-world RPG style game.
Steven Erikson's Mazalan Books of the Fallen would be a good open-world RPG as well.
Hey look at this! Another open-world RPG set in the books of Adrian Tchaikovsky, with his bug inspired races, and many different ways to play.
Steven Erikson's Mazalan Books of the Fallen would be a good open-world RPG as well.
Hey look at this! Another open-world RPG set in the books of Adrian Tchaikovsky, with his bug inspired races, and many different ways to play.
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b4k4 said:
This was the first thing that came to mind, but the second is the world of Midkemia/Tsurani that is the Rift War cycles by Raymond E. Feist. But we would have to completely ignore the Krondor games because they didn't do the series justice at all.iwinatlife said:
I'm seeing a game with a multi-main-character story where you have branches of the same story told simultaneously. The same type of storying telling environment could be done for WoT as well, and in fact would work really well there as well. I think the reason I like Feist so much is because rather than focusing so heavily on singular events with epic detail, the stories stretch lifetimes making the main character change based on the story being told rather than the same band or singular figure.
captcha: smart casual - Not what these games would be!
I think that the Nightside series by Simon R. Green would make for a good GTA / Saints Row type of sandbox.
For those of you who don't know, the Nightside takes place in a secret city under London. This titular Nightside is basically a lodestone to all sorts of monsters, magics, technologies, and even extra-dimensional beings. It's a dangerous place, but you can find just about anything there, not matter how strange or depraved.
Just thinking about the prospect of a game set in that world gets me excited. If you thought Saints Row was crazy, try to imagine the Nightside (or maybe don't, because it could blow your mind).
For those of you who don't know, the Nightside takes place in a secret city under London. This titular Nightside is basically a lodestone to all sorts of monsters, magics, technologies, and even extra-dimensional beings. It's a dangerous place, but you can find just about anything there, not matter how strange or depraved.
Just thinking about the prospect of a game set in that world gets me excited. If you thought Saints Row was crazy, try to imagine the Nightside (or maybe don't, because it could blow your mind).
The LOTR universe would offer material for many, many good and superb games.Glongpre said:
Too bad the movies made the franchise quite a bit toxic, with a cream filling of pus.
RE: OP:
I think pretty much any Clive Barker story/novel/book would make for excellent gaming.
Then again, I really liked both Undying and Jericho, despite their numerous issues. So I guess I'm obviously too warped to be part of any damn focus group or piece of the human target market pie.
You know, the funny thing is that I remember talking about the possibilities of a good Harry Potter RPG a while back.
My idea was this: create a character that enrolls into Hogwarts at the same time as Harry and the other main characters, but never really makes contact with them. They would be there for fan-service and maybe you can watch them do their thing at the crucial points of the story, but otherwise it would not be a "Harry Potter" story, it would be a "watching he events of the Harry Potter through the eyes of an unrelated character".
The gameplay aspect would have been a raising simulation type of deal. At the beginning you build up your character, including your origins (pureblood or muggleborn, early life, starting bonuses, etc.), choose your House, which decides your interaction with most of the cast, then you go through the school year while deciding what to focus on. Do you want to be good at academics? Become a Quiddich prodigy? Will you befriend other students, or would you focus on getting to the good side of the teachers? It would essentially be a time-management game at this point, where you have to make your priorities. In the meantime stuff happens in the background according to the books' scenario, and sometimes you might have to contribute to some solutions yourself. However, it would start out very simple and straightforward at first.
Then, as the story progresses, you would go through the next school year, and the next, and things would get more and more complicated. Sometimes you would need to take sides on inter-house conflicts, have your own adventures while exploring Hogwarts, collecting your own assortment of magical items, form lasting friendships and even romances, all the while still continually raising your stats and refining your character. Then, at the very end, the war breaks out and you have to choose a side, including option like hiding with your friends, running away, fighting other wizards, using the connections you have made during the years, etc. Practically, the entire game would be one huuuuge buildup for the final conflict where everything you do has some minor effect on how you would survive or even profit from the events of the books.
Now, all I need is several million dollars for the license and a talented team of developers and we are all set.
My idea was this: create a character that enrolls into Hogwarts at the same time as Harry and the other main characters, but never really makes contact with them. They would be there for fan-service and maybe you can watch them do their thing at the crucial points of the story, but otherwise it would not be a "Harry Potter" story, it would be a "watching he events of the Harry Potter through the eyes of an unrelated character".
The gameplay aspect would have been a raising simulation type of deal. At the beginning you build up your character, including your origins (pureblood or muggleborn, early life, starting bonuses, etc.), choose your House, which decides your interaction with most of the cast, then you go through the school year while deciding what to focus on. Do you want to be good at academics? Become a Quiddich prodigy? Will you befriend other students, or would you focus on getting to the good side of the teachers? It would essentially be a time-management game at this point, where you have to make your priorities. In the meantime stuff happens in the background according to the books' scenario, and sometimes you might have to contribute to some solutions yourself. However, it would start out very simple and straightforward at first.
Then, as the story progresses, you would go through the next school year, and the next, and things would get more and more complicated. Sometimes you would need to take sides on inter-house conflicts, have your own adventures while exploring Hogwarts, collecting your own assortment of magical items, form lasting friendships and even romances, all the while still continually raising your stats and refining your character. Then, at the very end, the war breaks out and you have to choose a side, including option like hiding with your friends, running away, fighting other wizards, using the connections you have made during the years, etc. Practically, the entire game would be one huuuuge buildup for the final conflict where everything you do has some minor effect on how you would survive or even profit from the events of the books.
Now, all I need is several million dollars for the license and a talented team of developers and we are all set.
I got this free when I bought A Dance of/with Dragons. I started reading it, but I found the protagonist very unlikeable. Does he get sympathetic later?SsilverR said:Do you know of any books that could be converted into sweeeeet games??
Mine is THIS EPIC SERIES!
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The King of thorns (prince of thorns) series by Mark Lawrence, If anyone here hasn't read it I reeeeally think you should head to your nearest book store lol
This alone would probably smash the gaming scene if it was well made.
Do any of you have any books you think would make epic games?
Mistborn could be awesome (And is happening for Next Gen)
A series set in the world of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series would be pretty awesome.
And, semiseriously, Space Captain Smith.
The Night Angel Trilogy would be fun
It's getting a prequal game with the story written by Brandan SandersonMatt Dellar said:
Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, a "greatest battles" series of 40K games would make me a happy camper. But since the first three books in the HH series are a great jumping off point for the whole series it's the logical place to start and has the benefit of telling a self contained story.Hawk of Battle said:
I'd pay $100 to play a competently made Moby Dick game.
Also, a stealth 1984 game would be neat.
Also, a stealth 1984 game would be neat.
Based on at least the first book of the Riverworld series, I could see it as a larger scale, lower-tech (no guns) take on Day-Z - a survival game where everyone starts with nothing, and if you die you go back to having nothing. There'd be a bit less combat, probably, more about rebuilding than the drive to obtain supplies, but it can probably go a lot farther than Day-Z with the material available to it - trades in the continuous action (...admittedly, I haven't played Day-Z, so this is just what I think the game is about; if it's not an accurate description, feel free to clarify) for a greater ability to build and explore.
Uh...to be honest, I have no idea what sort of game you could make out of the Thursday Next books (on the off chance anyone here has read them). Maybe an RPG sort of game like Mass Effect, where you can go to different book-worlds and kick ass and solve crimes and such? Would never happen because of copyright involving various works of fiction, but with all the literature in history available as hypothetical source material, the possibilities are...well, if not infinite, very close to it. Maybe a Kingdom Hearts sort of deal, jumping between radically different fictional worlds, but with everything tied into one central plot. I have no idea.
Speaking of Kingdom Hearts, it's probably the main reason why a Kingdom Keepers video game would never work - it kind of cornered the market on Disney characters in video games already (excepting Epic Mickey, anyway). But it could be an interesting game in the same vein, fighting off Disney villains in the parks. Not sure how it would work, but the idea, at least, is intriguing.
Uh...to be honest, I have no idea what sort of game you could make out of the Thursday Next books (on the off chance anyone here has read them). Maybe an RPG sort of game like Mass Effect, where you can go to different book-worlds and kick ass and solve crimes and such? Would never happen because of copyright involving various works of fiction, but with all the literature in history available as hypothetical source material, the possibilities are...well, if not infinite, very close to it. Maybe a Kingdom Hearts sort of deal, jumping between radically different fictional worlds, but with everything tied into one central plot. I have no idea.
Speaking of Kingdom Hearts, it's probably the main reason why a Kingdom Keepers video game would never work - it kind of cornered the market on Disney characters in video games already (excepting Epic Mickey, anyway). But it could be an interesting game in the same vein, fighting off Disney villains in the parks. Not sure how it would work, but the idea, at least, is intriguing.