Poll: Books that would make EPIC GAMES!!! (how would you rate mine?)

[Bat Vader]

I think Neil Gaiman's American Gods could make a pretty epic simulation game if shown from the point of view from the Gods in the book. Like how Media has to control media, or the god of technology has to control technology and having diplomacy in there as well.

 

[Stephen Wo]

ASOIAF: Total War or Total War: Catan (heavier focus on economics and politics in the overworld map for Catan, but it could be cool).

I Am Legend as a Minecraft/non-shitty Survival Instinct hybrid set in the '70s like it was goddamn supposed to.

A new Dune real time tactics/turn based tactics game. We've been hard-pressed for our fix of Sardaukar and Harkonnens since the face-palm that was Emperor.

You could blend XCOM and the original Syndicate to make a cyberpunk corporate warfare game set in Will Gibson's Sprawl universe. That could be fun.

 

[hutchy27]

Game of Thrones
Lord of the Rings

So much great material to use. Lotr has a couple good games at best, they can do way better.

I meant books that haven't been used yet.

You said books that would make "EPIC" games, these books would if done right however the previous attempts in particular Game of thrones hasn't been.

One more thing that book seems interesting, I may pick if up after I have finished A song of ice and fire.

 

[Stephen Wo]

Oh, one more as inspired by one above. Sellswords of Westeros. Combat roguelike with a Sleeping Dogs-but-with-weapons combat system, randomly generated sellswords, and a system where you could advance your solitary sellsword into the leader of a military company and eventually a lord if you do well enough.

 

[Zac Jovanovic]

Or a Mistborn game with two timelines for the trilogy (or before it) and Alloy of Law.

http://www.mistborngame.com/

I'd rather have a properly done Mistborn movie series tbh.

I'd like to see a Total War-esque game set in the Wheel of Time universe, that could be fun.

 

[hutchy27]

Game of Thrones
Lord of the Rings

So much great material to use. Lotr has a couple good games at best, they can do way better.

This is the only Game of Thrones game that anyone will ever need.

Spoiler

What about people who aren't a fan of board games?

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

Game of Thrones
Lord of the Rings

So much great material to use. Lotr has a couple good games at best, they can do way better.

This is the only Game of Thrones game that anyone will ever need.

Spoiler

Does it incorporate vast amounts of political struggle, espionage and the stories of individuals? If it doesn't I spit on it, I want to be able to play Varys, for the good of the kingdom and all that jazz.

OT: There was a book I read, I think it was by a guy named Ian Rankin, I borrowed it from my parents so I'm not sure, but the story consisted of trying to discover a murderer that would send notes with a choice of action or inaction that would lead to a certain person's death. Along the lines of "Take this note to the police and X person dies, don't take it and Y person dies." I think that would make for an interesting game, so long as it was open world and interactive.

 

[Vale]

*epic voice man*
Coming this summer...
A videogame adaptation of the (in)famous book by Cormac McCarthy...
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West!
*that one scene with the dead babies*
You'll want to kill yourself!
*chugs whiskey, stumbles away*

 

[SonofaJohannes]

I think the Monster Blood Tattoo series would make a great game, or at least a great setting for a game. The Half-Continent is a really cool place, and I would love to play a game taking place there. It doesn't even need to be about the books' story, I would be perfectly fine with just playing some unnamed tetratologist. I'm thinking it could be sort of Monster Hunter-ish gameplay, only replace the oversized weapons with lightning bolts and and alchemy.

 

[Zac Jovanovic]

I just remembered another one.
Peter Brett's "Painted Man" or "Warded Man" (The Demon Cycle series) has a setting for an excellent action game or even an RPG.

 

[Diddy_Mao]

I'm gonna be "that guy" and say the first 3 books of the Horus Heresy as an action RPG.

Just playing through the exterminatus of Istvan would be worth the price of admission.

 

[Smashingpass]

I was thinking of a Cloud Atlas game the other day. Could play in a similar vain to 'Today I Die', though I'd hope it'd get more variation, and offer more replayability. Imagine starting the game as a Merchant in the Republic of Venice, then having the game palette/gender/age-swap you to a Vietnamese farmer during the attempted French colonization, then finally being changed to a bandit in post-apocalyptic Congo, with past choices altering whichever present you play in. Practically impossible, but cool-sounding nonetheless.

Game of Thrones
Lord of the Rings

So much great material to use. Lotr has a couple good games at best, they can do way better.

You might want to try the Game of Thrones mod for Crusader Kings II, and Lego Lord of the Rings (don't let the name put you off, how many games let you explore Middle-Earth as Tom Bombadil?) respectively.

 

[Lieju]

Clans of the Alphane Moon.

It has psychic hobos, sentient slimemolds that butt in your sex-life and an epic battle between an android and a spaceship. (Also a depressed man dressed as a bunny)
Also a woman whose job it is to bring people back to life with her time-rewinding powers, so you got that covered with an in-game explanation.

The Iliad and the Odyssey. It's perfect. They're the definition of epic. Plenty of boss fights all ready to go too.

Yes. I find it difficult to believe there isn't a game about that already...

 

[TrulyBritish]

Lord of the Rings

Better than Battle for Middle Earth? I doubt it.
I can't remember the name, but there's a series about cities that roam aroudn and eat other cities. That would be pretty cool.

Mortal Engines was the first book. Could be an interesting concept to base a game around I think, there's a fair bit of simple lore to go with it, and it has the apocalypse setting as well. Count me in as a vote for that.

 

[GabeZhul]

David Weber's Dahak Trilogy. Well, the first two books, really, as the third one is a different story from a generation later.

It has everything for an epic game. It could have two distinct halves: A Walking Dead type adventure mode and ridiculously high-scale and high-tech space battles! I mean, your flagship would be THE FRICKIN' MOON! And Dahak (aka. the sentient ship that is disguising itself as the moon) is not even the biggest of the Fourth Imperium's planetoid-type warships! You don't really get any more high-scale than that!

Even more importantly, the story has everything you can ask for: a relatable audience surrogate protagonist, great mysteries, awe-inspiring scale and technology, great characters, a romance-subplot that actually reaches its apext in the middle portion so it would take a back-seat to the awesome final battles, and the story has so many "OMG!" moments I didn't even bother to count...

 

[Zac Jovanovic]

You might want to try the Game of Thrones mod for Crusader Kings II, and Lego Lord of the Rings (don't let the name put you off, how many games let you explore Middle-Earth as Tom Bombadil?) respectively.

There's a pretty good GoT mod for Mount & Blade Warband too, it's called Clash of Kings.
I worked my way up as a mercenary for Riverrun, then I declared war on the Iron Islands, took one of their castles and made my own faction. Married Great Jon Umber's granddaughter to secure an alliance with the North and now I'm defending against the Lannisters and the Ironborn with the North and Riverlands on my side

 

[iwinatlife]

Id love a good RPG or RTS around Wheel of Time, Night angel Trilogy would make a stealth game i would actually try to play stealthy(versus my brawling mace weilding Ezio ,or my psychopathic Corvo). The Lightbringer Series looks like it could make an awesome RPG or possibly an intresting MMO

 

[Gatx]

Does it incorporate vast amounts of political struggle, espionage and the stories of individuals? If it doesn't I spit on it, I want to be able to play Varys, for the good of the kingdom and all that jazz.

OT: There was a book I read, I think it was by a guy named Ian Rankin, I borrowed it from my parents so I'm not sure, but the story consisted of trying to discover a murderer that would send notes with a choice of action or inaction that would lead to a certain person's death. Along the lines of "Take this note to the police and X person dies, don't take it and Y person dies." I think that would make for an interesting game, so long as it was open world and interactive.

There's plenty of political maneuvering, deceit, betrayal, and all that good stuff, but it's naturally occurring (and heavily encouraged by game mechanics) between you and the people you're sitting at the table with. There's plenty of stories to tell, but they'll be about how you narrowly snatched victory after being betrayed and ganged up on by everyone else, or how you snuck in a win by playing coy and letting everyone else fight amongst themselves. If you wanted character development and what not, there's, you know, books and a TV show.

 

[nevarran]

I think the Wool/Silo series could make for interesting atmosphere if done right.

Running up and down the stairs, boring...

Seriously, I would love to see the series as a game. It would be very difficult to make it right tho', very difficult.

 

[You Can't Take the Sky From Me]

I want an open world, Elder Scrolls style game based on Wheel of Time. Something set completely outside of the books` time line so that it can have an original story. With the well established magic and combat systems a huge, open, third-person game would be epic.