Books you would like to see adapted into video games
Read this back in elementary, it could work as a budget game. Plot is that some military dude is after a group of physic friends because he needs them to jew the government into giving him money. Cud work.
>>315603316
How the fuck would that work
>>315603316
Neither books nor films adapt well into video games, because the latter is an interactive medium, and the former are very linear and strictly follow the plot.
Do you really want more "cinematic" bullshit in your vidya, OP?
Why do books need adaptations at all? Can't you enjoy the source material in its original form?
Not to be confused with the underrated Necrovision.
>>315603762
this, it's why i pretty much just reread the bible :)))
>>315603598
you couldn't adapt the whole book but sections from it could work more or less
>>315603316
>i havn't read the book
there no way it could work out as vidya
>>315603690
>cinematic=bad
>>315603316
>>315603690
Mostly true, but it can be done. Look at Goldeneye N64 for example.
not quite a book, but
wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Colder_War
The aftermath of WW2 and the Cold War set in a resurfacing Lovecraftian nightmare, with proxy wars being fought with cultists, shoggoth-bioweapons, recovered Elder tech, and worse things.
Dunno how many times I've pimped this series on 4chan but zero-gravity swashbuckling seems cool as hell
>>315603889
Cinematic = on rails = control being taken away from the player.
Yes, yes it is bad for video games.
Moby dick
I either want a) a whale hunting game where you can both manage your crew and also partake in hunts or b) a game where the sole objective is to find and kill one arch nemesis, you can only find him through contextual clues and all that, he gets stronger the longer it takes you to find him and kill him, and the map is huge interactive
Game of Thrones RPG
Game of Thrones RPG
Game of Thrones RPG
>>315603690
I disagree, but the books have to have very solid world building which is almost always lacking in most books. Far too many books favour 'character progression' and 'plot' over setting which tends to make easier and better vidya adaptations. It's disgusting.
>>315603316
I always thought some kind of 1984 stealh game could work
>>315603316
That's just the LotR bible, every LotR game would count as implementing that.
>>315603316
But that already exists
>http://www.amirrorclear.net/flowers/game/sil/
>>315603980
The first one would miss the point of the novel so I think the Moby Dicktective game would be better
>>315603810
Like LOTR?
>>315604042
well if you aren't going for the plot of 1984 and just use its world for the game, it's basically a hitman game with a different premise
Fantasy series about a human assassin/low level crime boss in a world filled with magical non-humans who live over 1,000 years.
Lots of the early novels are centered around him being hired to assassinate someone important.
Most novels take place in the sprawling capital city, but commonly available teleportation spells allow travel to far off locations including an ostentatious castle in the sky that throws never ending parties.
Two different types of magic - one that all in the empire can use, and one that's unique to humans
15+ books worth of material and lore to mine.
>>315603993
Would rather have a ASOIAF rpg based entirely off the book with no ties to the shitty show.
...although there's kinda too many 'survival' games out as it is.
>>315603993
Hello Reddit!
if this faggot ever finishes the last book
>>315603316
Every chapter would take at the very least a year to develop unless they got a band of developers from all over the world develop parts of it and release it under one banner
>>315603316
Wheel of Time would be fantastic and probably impossibleunless you count the MUD
>>315604395
What does Reddit have to do with anything?
>>315604442
Would indeed be fantastic if they managed to make a decent western RPG kind of game, but what we got instead was a mediocre FPS/RPG type deal with decent multiplayer back in 1999
>>315603993
I changed my mind, fuck RPG.
Game of Thrones strategy game where you take control of one of the houses and can simulate your own story.
Make a story where the North conquers the Lannisters. Make one the Iron Islands somehow kick everyone's ass. Random events occur like White Walkers and at some point every time Dany invades with dragons and shit. There would be a good in depth diplomacy system. Fuck I would buy that game.
>>315604518
Nothing, he is just acting elitist because he is a contrarian loser
>>315604518
>Implying GoT isn't literally Reddit
>Implying the only reason he didn't post in here is to vent his passive aggressive butthurt at Tolkien
>>315604603
Just go play the Crusader Kings GoT mod. It's pretty much exactly what you described.
There have already been some Conan video games but I want more!
>>315604325
They could make something good in such an in depth universe, with lots to work with.
>>315604603
CK II mod
>buying games
Wasn't there an old pc game for this?
>>315604518
Because Reddit has a powerful "what can I do to make myslef interesting to other people?" mentality a lot of shows that become popular with reddit for such reasons are hated here.
>>315604539
>one shitty game 16 years ago
>one shitty series that aired its pilot in the middle of the night on an infomercial channel
Being a WoT fan is suffering.
>>315603518
they'd have to do the first book beforehand
haven't you read hidden talents? it's better
>>315604442
>>315604539
I WANT THIS WITH SOME KIND OF INTRICATE "WEAVING" SYSTEM FOR MAGIC SO BADLY
you could do it with two sticks or godawful motion controls, it would be amazing if it was like magicka on crack with expansive discoverable power interactions
>>315604681
Shout out to the Mount & Blade mod as well. Those will be the best we ever get for games for this series.
>>315604554
What genre of game could it even be though? In my mind I'm envisioning something like The Simpsons: Hit 'n Run
>>315604778
>>315604807
>Being a WoT fan is suffering.
It sure is, anon.
>I WANT THIS WITH SOME KIND OF INTRICATE "WEAVING" SYSTEM FOR MAGIC SO BADLY
that sounds fucking amazing actually, if pulled off correctly.
The Guns of the South. An alternate history where modern white nationalists from South Africa time-travel to the American Civil War and give M16s to the Confederates so they easily win.
>>315604951
I used to fantasize about that, and how it could work in this newfangled 3D shit on my n64... I was a dumb kid
>>315604778
there was a series? what?
>>315604554
Do you seriously think you're not already playing it?
>>315605050
There was a pilot because the fags who bought the rights to a series were running out of time to make it so they just threw some piece of shit together to extend those rights and aired it in the middle of the night on an infomercial channel without advertising it at all. Now those same fags are sewing Jordan's wife because she was rightfully pissed about what they did.
http://io9.com/the-real-story-about-that-wheel-of-time-pilot-that-aire-1684773094
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvNYIEN1vIg
>>315605232
oh my god what the fuck this is awful I had no ideathank youthis is seriously worse than getting firefly'd
>>315604759
Yes, it was an rts . Atleast the one I played was.
>>315604759
There was an RPG and a RTS that I know of.
>>315605232
suing*
>>315604807
Based in the Age of Legends, so they don't have to drag that god awful plot over 10 more games then it should be like RJ did.
Still a good read though.
Age of legends would make for a fantastic story with all those ter'angrel or whatever the fuck they are called and battles and armies and shit.
>>315603316
>>315604951
Magicka is like weaving.
>>315605614
lol
>>315605551
>>315605551
>>315605614
Not so much want to see as I want to see it done properly whenever they finally release it. The magic system has so much potential for fun gameplay.
>>315605482
yeah I could do without that setting, I really enjoyed the books but it was... tedious, at times
either setting it in the age of legends or whatever comes after the series ends would be god-tier, when there are more artifacts (ter'angreal, that's right) and prominent power users - like you could still maintain some of the characteristic political complexities and large-scale battles
>>315605570
reading these books at a young age and playing things like quest 64 gave me an eternal hardon for permutation-based magic systems, the more complex the better... magicka scratched that itch to an extent, but I'd love to see something with mind-numbingly expansive possibilities based on things like relative position and formation of "threads" for a few basic elements
>>315605790
Oh please no. I'm still hurting over the Developer he has making the current Mistborn game in development.
I want a penguin game
>>315604634
Good news friend!
>>315605845
Age of legends is the time before the world ends and the power is tainted and shit.
I guess you could say it starts again after it though because wheels and shit....
>>315605849
Yes please. I'd settle for Malazan if Black Company isn't an option.
>>315605790
>magic system
lay it on me, what's that shit comprise?
a visual novel with rng fuckery
>>315605790
>>315605867
Here you go. A picture of their company's home page.
I'm looking forward to the quality game they will no doubt produce, just like every single one of their other titles.
>>315603316
Also a live action film.
>>315605551
Making a game about the most evil man to ever live doesn't seem like a very good idea.
>>315606332
>hitler
>the most evil man to ever live
history is replete with figures who did worse
>>315606105
It's not complicated but it is detailed. Basically power comes from consuming metal powder. It sounds more absurd then it is in the books.
There are another 2 magic systems as well but I won;t explain them. It follows a similar theme.
>>315606482
neat, I love systems like that
>>315606332
Didn't Stalin have a higher concentration camp kill count?
>>315606105
It's called allomancy. Basically a full allomancer can ingest one of several metals and gain the powers of that metal for a period of time. The powers are fairly simple over all, but they allow for all kinds of crazy implementations, like using the push and pull powers to basically fly around by pushing and pulling on the different metals around the city.
>>315606541
Don't forget Mao, who arguably got a higher kill count than Hitler OR Stalin.
:^D
>>315606571
2007 calleddecent b8 m8
>>315606369
fund it
>>315606541
>>315606451
He's probobally Israeli.
>>315606332
Stop using Hollywood as a reference. Nobody is the cartoon villian you just described. Literally grow up faggot.
>>315606616
There's nothing b8 about wanting a video-game about DEEP and THOUGHT PROVOKING objectivist arguments :DDDDD
1200 pages can't be wrong!
>>315606571
go to bed Quentin
>>315604362
This is the only 'stuck in the wilderness' book I liked as a young kid. After reading Hatchet I tried other titles but they weren't as fun to read.
>>315606746
I use Ayn Rand as a test for chat censors in new games I try outnone of them ever censor it, and that is a crime
>>315606571
>press x to be a greedy asshole
>>315606807
I actually did read Atlas Shrugged.As a reader I've never felt more insulted. As a story, it's mediocre at best, but as a philosophy... well, let us just say it's not complex enough to warrant TWELVE HUNDRED FUCKING PAGES.
>>315603316
The Dark Tower series
>>315606254
But isn't the entire point that it'll be a VN where the choices are replaced with RNG, so you'll never actually do anything.
>>315606932
Fallout New Vegas
>>315606746
>>315606915
Christ, I literally cannot imagine reading anything 1200 pages long besides biography, epic, and education.
>>315606571
Imagine if a whole generation of impressionable young teens were able to consume objectivism with an easily digestible format like vidya.
It would be a social blight, but an interesting one
>>315606932
I've read the first book and it was really dull.
Does it get better?
>>315606932
Maybe if they pretend the last 8 books didn't happen and keep it just to the first one or two.
Saying that series kept going downhill as it went is an understatement but it started off fantastic and interesting
>>315607008
Like, I'll happily read something that's long but this really took the piss, especially when the primary message is DUDE GREED LMAO.That's a gross simplification, but it's not crazy far off.
>>315607063
That's a good point. The fact that this book is in such a daunting format means that we won't breed a generation of young objectivists. I imagine it would be like the way teenagers handle atheism, only an few hundred orders of magnitude worse.I'd love to see that.
>>315605790
This but it's probably impossible, the best case scenario for a game would be to limit you being a twinborn or metalborn instead of mistborn which is outright broken
>>315603316
I dunno, the Silmarillion is more like setting material explained throught short stories.
I don't see how it would work.
>>315607008The wheel of time in the post earlier is 11,308 pages long. About 4,000,000 words.
>>315604442
>>315606571
never read Atlas Shrugged, but read Fountain Head.
its just Rand's hatred for beta mama's boys, and love for her ideal of a man, which happens to be an emotionless men who will destroy buildings out of spite. Oh and she wants to be raped by the perfect man to seem taboo among her higher class friends
But only the first part. That was the best part of the book.
A denmark turned world-refugee-dumping-ground where all the unwanted children are left abandoned in old city to survive on their own.
"Families" (gangs) of children fighting each other for food and turf. You start out as a toddler and have to scavenge for food while trying to avoid bigger kids. Then when you are old enough you can try and join a Family or stay on your own as a scavenger. When your older you can become the head of a Family or a Bully (mercenary/pirate).
>>315603316
>tfw Eragon could have been an amazing video game
>instead we get a shitty isometric beat em up based on the movie
>>315606550
it's like they designed it for a game
>>315607008
I read Stephen King's IT which was about 1100 pages. It was really good.That scene where all the kids run a train on Bev was hot
>>315607123
yeah, it starts getting really wacky from 3/4 onward
maybe the stand would be better
>>315606550
>>315607443
It's almost like it was written by Ulillillia.
I want to sail sky ships and/or explore the deepwoods
>>315607253
They could do it easily but would have to limit the flexibility of the magic presented in the books.
For example you could only fly/jump at pre determined spots, pull/push specific enemies who just happen to be weak to it, tineye to listen to conversations and advance plot, etc. It would be an abomination but not impossible.
A twin born game might be alright. Here's hoping for the sci-fi futuristic trilogy getting a cyberpunk video game adaptation.
>>315606932
The Stand was a terrible movie, but Randall Flagg is the only demon/warlock worthy of wearing denim and buttons.
>>315607556
>>315606291
I'm afraid to learn more
>>315607417
Nepotism the book series, why even mention it?
>>315603993
>>315604325
This. Something like The Witcher, except with ASOIAF. The universe is gigantic; the possibilities would be nearly endless.
>/v/ only reads children's books
figures
>>315607610
Oh fuck what was the name of these books? I read the shit out of them in middle school.
>>315603690
What if you were only allowed to play as the winning side in battles and couldn't kill any named characters who don't die in story.
Redwall
>>315608185
do you want furries? because that's how you get furries
>>315606332
somebody call /pol/ we need their help
>>315607072
King says it's the worse of the series.
>>315608083
The Edge Chronicles. They were among my favorite fantasy books as a kid, alongside the Bartimaeus books.
>>315608215
Console exclusive; at least they can't mod it.
>>315608287
some saving gracebut I'm not gonna lie, I read and enjoyed some of those books as a kid, yet I somehow emerged without developing a complex for anthropomorphized animals
>>315603316
Memearillion
>>315603518
True Memes
>>315603730
Memoscope
>>315603792
The Memes of the Dragon
>>315603913
Lucifers Memes
>>315603963
Meme of Memes
>>315604238
The truth
>>315604268
Memeg
>>315604291
Le Meme D'Arthur
>>315604362
Memhet
>>315604442
'Eye of the Meme', 'The Great Meme', 'The Meme Reborn', 'The Meme Rising', 'The Memes of Heaven', 'Lord of Memes', 'The Meme of Swords', 'The Meme of Daggers', 'Memers Heart', 'Crossroads of Memelight', 'Knife of Memes', 'The Gathering Memes', 'Towers of Memememe', 'A Memeory of Light'.
>>315604554
A Conferederacy of Memers
>>315604634
The Memyssey
>>315604683
Meme Crash
>>315604721
Meme Tales
>>315604759
Meme
>>315604961
The Memes of the South
>>315605013
Meme Company
>>315608371
I meme'd
>>315608371
Rather dank, brah
It would be like Dark Souls except only two people could actually beat it
>>315606951
Maybe you get to set up the choices.
The whole point of rolling the dice is determineing what choices the dice will roll on.
So maybe when the game presents you with a choice, it will give you a slew of things on how to handle the situation. And from those you choose what options you roll for or something.
>>315608371
>knife of memes
bruh
fuck all this injecting zombies in to classics.
lets just turn them into anime visual novels
>>315608719
Hmm.. maybe 'Meme of Dreams' would have been better familia
>>315608279
Fuck King. He wrong himself into the fucking book's plot, killed himself and thought it was a brilliant storytelling.
So once again. Fuck what King thinks.
>>315608769
no, this was an affirmative use of bruh, as in you are killing me, brethren
>>315608371
>Meme Tales
Weird Tales was just the name of the pulp magazine not the actual stories inside.
>>315606719
Are you seriously suggesting that the Nazis weren't cartoonishly evil? Six million dead aside, have you even read what other outlandishly cruel shit they did?
>>315609075
Did they ever strap prisoners to death machines, monologue about their plans and the futility of resistance and then leave before the person died because they had something more important to do?
>>315604951
>>315604778
>Being a WoT fan is suffering.
thats an understatement.
>>315604661
GoT has been a staple of /tg/ discussion for several years, fuck off.
>>315609075
>6 million
Have you? How come anytime people talk about the people that died in nazi concentration camps they only count the jews? You know less than half the people that died in those camps were jewish right?
>>315609206
[TUGS BRAID INTERNALLY]
>>315609190
I honestly wouldn't even be surprised.
I really want a good Discworld RPG kind of thing. I think it would be fucking awesome to have Ankh-Morpork as full-size sandbox city that you can fully explore as the wretched hive it is. I would love it if the plot was that you were joining the Watch and just had to deal with day-to-day bullshit, but it would also be cool if you could join the Thieves/Assassins/Seamstress Guilds and basically have the opportunity to fuck around with the whole city.
THE FATE OF US ALL
LIES DEEP IN THE DARK
>>315609230
Riiiiight. The difference though, retard, is that the Jews were the only group to be intentionally systematiclly exterminated in an attempt to wipe their entire race from the face of the planet. The poles cannot exactly say the same. The Jews were the primary victims of gassings too.
>>315609190
>Do you expect me to give you my jew gold?
>No Mr. Heeb I expect you to die! *evil laugh*
>>315609409
Doesn't change the fact no one ever talks about the other 8+ million non jewish prisoners that died.
>>315604721
>Weii-d tales
Who chose that font
>>315609206
The best part is he has 3 love interests, can't decide and says fuck it I'll just have them all.
He didn't do romance very well that ol' Jordan.
>>315609190
This sort of happened when they declared war on the Soviets.
>>315607550
that scene was weird as fuck
>>315609206
Wait, so who's post is this?
>>315609206
Looks like it's written by some angry teenage misogynist.
>>315609536
It was the 30s. Who knows what they we thinking.
GUYS
WHAT WAS THAT BOOK ABOUT A BROTHER AND SISTER GOING ON SOME CRAZY ADVENTURE WITH MINIATURE ALIEN GUYS THAT IMPLANTED MODULES OR SOMETHING IN THEM
ONE GUY SACRIFICED HIMSELF AND DIED, HE WAS A LIZARDMAN I THINK
THEY LIVED ON THEIR UNCLES FARM OR SOMETHING ABOUT "Old Seldom" or "Great Seldom" or something was the name of the land PLEASE HELP ME I NEED TO REREAD THAT BOOK
This scene. Thats about it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7nq-r7QWW0
>>315609492
Because there's rarely any reason to. The extermination of the Jews were the most uniquely evil thing they did, so naturally they jump to that. The only people who ever go "b-but but but..." are usually people who try to minimize the sufferings of the Jewish people because of some ideological agenda that they are pushing.
>>315609576
>the Hyperion duology is one of my most favorite books ever
>all other Simmons' books are shit
How's that even possible for the same mind produce such drastically different results in writing?
>>315609720
>The extermination of the Jews were the most uniquely evil thing they did
It single noteworthy thing the germans ever did really.
![the_kingkiller_chronicle_one_and_two[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Xp16Qo5.jpg "the_kingkiller_chronicle_one_and_two[1].jpg")
what about this, being an artificer and making weird shit with Sygaldry or just plain Sympathy.
>>315607830
>being of a lordly caliber is bad
>I want to read about dirty peasants
>>315609679
>>315609586
not mine
>>315609206
The fact that this fucking hack calls anyone else longwinded fucking blows my mind. He literally can't write half a sentence about why he hates Jordan without spiraling into unrelated metaphors and cloying attempts at humor.
RJ did soooo many things wrong with WoT, however literally none of them are listed in that image.
>>315609638
it was written by a suffering fan
>>315608756
I'd love Dune done in visual novel form, ideally with the art quality of ef/eden*. The size of the VN would be fucking massive though.
>>315609684
>>315606932
>>315609930
I genuinely think it's too unique to it's medium. I feel like the game would get weighed down by the frame story whereas it informs and amplifies the story in written form.
>>315610081
I don't know what that is, but I love it already.
>>315610059
It was written by a pedantic twat with an inflated ego and a twelve year old's sense of humor.
>>315609492
Not a single Jew was gassed in Nazi Germany.
>>315610081
>Stalin apologists
EБAHЫЙ CTЫД
>>315610173
Only for the setting, anon. The plot itself can't fucking be adapted to any other medium.
>>315610329
I agree, no dev would ever get shit right
>>315607123
Disagree. Books 1, 3, 4 are all godly. Theres peppering of brilliance throughout the others...but i concede that the narrative started off doing one thing then haphazardly leapt off a building.
Tl;dr you couldnt adapt it without it infringing on sooooo many existing ips
>>315610412
I'd love to see some kind of mechanic where you can, from time to time, harvest the Alzabo essence and then cannibalize some corpse.
>>315610491
we can only hope. maybe we can get a MUD or something
>>315609638
Jordan is clearly the misogynist
>>315609206
ok this levels SOME valid criticisms, but it's seriously hypocritical and juvenile... the book series was good, fite me
>>315610491
Flowey?
>>315609934
I'm not being a /lit/fag and berating you for liking genre titles, I'm just pointing out that the Eragon series was pretty poorly written and was only published because the author knew the publisher personally.
If it wasn't for that the series would be relatively obscure paperback garbage, it only sold because of publishing power and a nice harry potter tier cover.
>>315610173
I see this and other dying earth series posed on /v/ all the time.
What's with /v/ and the genre?
>it's a space rastafarian level
>>315611820
As the don or based sancho?I want to read this book again
>>315604683
Frankly I'm shocked that no one has adapted this book into another medium.
It'd be perfect for it.
Hell, it hits its diversity quota in its main character alone.
>>315611220
doesn't /lit/ just hate all genre fiction.
>>315611220
I swear the publishers were his parents or some shit?
>>315611442
its science fiction and fantasy blended together. pretty niche but cool to read. also its got a lot of unearthly names in it so that might turn you off
>>315604683
>>315612029
but we already have second life :^)
>>315611903
Sancho Panza all the way, is the GOAT.
>>315612626
>>315612827
Here, let me help you out there.
>>315612946
Thanks, I was looking for this webm, but the new archive is too young.
