ITT: Books that should be adapted into video games.
>>320456931
Cryptonomicon
One third Hacker: Duality, one third WW2 stealth shooting game, one third dating sim.
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>>320457109
Which is serious? Which is shitpost?
The world may never know
memes aside, theres:
The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman (FPS/ Squad based tactical like DoW 2)
Armor, by John Steakly (FPS/ Depression simulator)
Honor Harrington series, by David Weber (Space Fleet RTS)
Redwall series, Brian Jacques (classic RPG)
The Prince of Nothing series, by R. Scott Bakker (medieval combat sim like M&B: Warband)
>>320456931
Are you for real
This would be horrendous
>>320456931
I was offhandedly thinking the same thing today. My thought is that it would be some Telltale shit. Also, fuck you.
Anyone ever read the Deltora series?
That.
Journey to the West
>>320457995
>The Forever War
>Squad based tactical
Yes. Just get Firaxis to do it, even if it's just an X-Com spin off.
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>>320457995
>Redwall
Came here to post this.
>>320460735
>excellent taste
what genre though?
pls no open world rpg Skymeme shit
>>320460691
>Firaxis
has potential, can be so much better than X-Com though in scale
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>>320461031
Great minds, senpai
especially the legend of luke or salamandastron
>tfw you will never be a fuckhuge badger absolutely wrecking shit in a berserker rage
>>320456931
Explain how it would be anything other than a walking simulator, did you even read the book?
>>320461452
>they make you play out the part where you beat the dog to death
>it takes like ten in game minutes
>they use real dog sounds
feels bad, man.
>>320461564
Fuck man a well-done Redwall RPG would be GOAT. Just imagine all the shit you could do:
>be an otter and travel the ocean taking down slavers and pirates
>be a hare and train with your bros to be the elite boxing squad to defend the badger lord
>be a squirrel ranger and defend your tribe from raiders using guerrilla tactics
>be a shrew and travel through the Mossflower rivers, defending local settlements and making a name for yourself
The possibilities are endless. Also, a cooking/crafting system would be awesome. A Redwall game without crazy food would be a shitty one.
Although the Last of Us is pretty much this, The Road has a chance at being more tense and interesting.
>>320461802
>kill ants.
>KILL ANTS.
Dark Tower series
Wheel of Time series
Dark Tower would be an action rpg.
Wheel of Time could be open world rpg or mmo. I was thinking like mount and blade, but you could be a wizard and shit. Or have your own army of wizards n shit.
>>320461348
I dunno, maybe something done in the style of Mount&Blade or Total War.
>>320457995
>Prince of Nothing
>Not an Arx Fatalis-like magic simulator
It's like you don't even want to stop the Consult
The Martian was pretty bad, but the concept could work as a game
>>320456931
Literally Xenosaga episode 3.
The Zarathustra is the entire point of the game.
An interactive Library of Babel in a 3D environment. Obviously would have no real gameplay or story but interesting as a sort of interactive art piece.
>>320461927
I imagine it would be like Dynasty Warriors. But with guns. And blood, crying, screaming, and begging god for mercy.
>when the ants burst into the compound during the press release
>>320456931
Civilization: Animal Farm
Mistborn
>cool as fuck magic system with a built in resource mechanic
>that ties into a fast, unique movement system
>setting is pretty neat, lends itself well to videogame locations
>story is already pretty videogame-y, YA fantasy style themes will be well received by gamers
>its apparently already being made
>was supposed to release in 2013, then 2015, now fall 2016
>this is what the developer's website looks like
Worry
>>320461942
Wheel of Time actually got an FPS that also had some neat turret defense sections. Was based on some story set 150 years before the books, and had the unfortunate timing of releasing around the same time as System Shock 2 and Unreal Tournament.
Look that shit up, it's surprisingly faithful to the source material.
>>320462092
>stopping the consult
>not joining the consult, fuck eyes who needs them
pleb taste, desu senpaitchi
or alternatively, a non-men agent, fucking bitches and filling them with your black seed
>>320462590
Doesn't seem to me like it would work as a game.
>>320461348
Something like a cross between Mount and Blade and Kingdom Under Fire.
Bully-esque Harry Potter game
>>320462732
>being cursed with eternal damnation
>not joining with the Gods
White-Luck 4 lyfe
>>320461809
>the food
fuck a videogame, we need to make a fucking Redwall recipe book
Not this story in particular, but something with Felix Gomez. It'd be a traditional point and click graphic adventure but with some minigames, kinda like SNATCHER.
>>320462924
http://www.redwall.net/kitchen/
>that 90s era website
ctrl+f darktower zero results
Even the author considers the game to be vaporware at this point.
>>320463115
Maybe you should've put a space there, buddy
>>320461942
Lord of the Ice Garden
The gameplay would literally be Dark Souls mixed with Metal Gear Rising. I wish those books would get a fucking English translation already so they can get some Witcher-tier love.
>>320463115
>combining two words
>surprised when there is no result
Natural selection hard at work.
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>>320462768
>Mount & Blade style
muh dick, yass
what are the factions though?
... Can you become a general? do you have to go through some harrowing death that kills you, but gives you a badass power and nickname?
>fuck every whore in depraved ways until one kills you
>forever known as The Pimper
>>320456931
>end of the chapter
>i have finally become the Thus Spoke Zarathustra
wow, really freddy?
>>320463114
>http://www.redwall.net/kitchen/
Holy fuck its real
i love you
>>320463251
>Edgedancers
I shouldn't have laughed at that as hard as I did
Malazan Book of the Fallen would make some great games, the magic system is top tier and lots of fun places to explore.
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>>320463251
Skyacebreakers master r
>>320463519
Only if these guys play a part in making the OST
>>320463525
>Skyacebreakers
Are you okay, lil' anon?
>>320461897
The Road's language is too poetic to be translated into a game
>>320463115
Playing as an unnamed gunslinger (or one of the exiles that have failed the training and fled) during the fall of Gilead would be great.
>>320456931
That's like making Plato's Apology into a game. It'd just be a walking sim where you drop knowledge bombs on people.
Unless it's a Bayonetta-style CAG with Camel, Lion, and Baby-themed bosses.
>>320464172
That already exists, it's called Tropico.
>>320460735
Ask and though shall receive... sort of.
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/maps-564/black-company-beta-v1-5-a-80860/?prev=of%3Drating%26t%3D43%26r%3D20%26d%3Dlist%26page%3D2
Why is the one link on the hive that's always ridiculous?
It's essentially black flag but with a crew management system
>>320464961
Good god my grammar.
But set in the Vietnam war this time instead of Dubai.
>sitting on a gunboat getting shot up
>go back to the FOB and get high
>get high again
>patrol outside the wire
>frag your CO
>white phosphorousit aint me on repeat for the whole game
It would be a grimdark action RPG a la Dark Souls with more emphasis on characters than world. Instead of being 1v1 it would have bigger battles, multiplayer could be kinda like what For Honor will try to do where players control a hero who fights alongside an army of bots.
Magic would actually be balanced because if the spell fails you get violently torn apart by whatever you tried to conjure. Also NG+ would have a lore explanation.
The metamorphosis, as a wacky physics-based bug simator
>>320463519
There's so many different ways you could take it, and I can't decide what I'd rather play.
>Shareholder for the Trygalle Trade Guild
>new recruit to a veteren company
>mercenary that gets caught up in whatever shit the game's plot is
>Agent of some government with your own agenda
I feel like the play shouldn't be able to use magic though. It would be impossible to do it justice as a gameplay element. Obviously it needs to be an important part of the game, but it would probably be best if the only magic users were npcs. That also means you can use Otataral as a "fuck wizards" tool
>>320464396
I would totally play a japanese action game where they did the bible thing with TSZ and just ripped off all the nietzschean imagery and put it into the game. There's quite a lot of characters as well so there's a lot to draw from.
>the soothsayer
>the old sorcerer
>the last pope
>the two kings
>zarathustras shadow
>the leech-bleeder
>the ugliest human
>the voluntary beggar
>the higher man
and that's just the final book out of four
Forgetting everything else, just adapting the clusterfuck of a house into some kind of game
It would not really involve much, just a dungeon crawl maybe but managing supplies and mental health with the goal of just getting as far as you can
>>320465591
>And that's just the final book out of four
Gee maybe it's because everyone he met during the other books are in his cave. Well other than his nameless and faceless apprentices.
>>320465941
Yes.
>play as both Johnny and Will
>Johnny sections involve exploring LA and picking up clues/crosschecking footnotes in the Navidson record
>may also include dating sim portion
>Will sections involve recruiting people to explore the maze (both are randomized to some extent)
>Clues/footnotes you find in LA appear in Will sections and vice versa, building off each other
The actual exploration of the maze could involve anything from JRPG random encounters with hallucinations to physics/platforming puzzles. If it were purely based off the book it might be rather boring.
>>320466031
Also it could have easter eggs like being able to read Kotaku articles/tumblr posts complaining about how un-PC the game is as a throwback to the book's academic satire
>>320465943
Not zarathustras ape, not the line-dancer, not the dwarf, not the old woman, not the holy man from the beginning, not the rabble and scum and herd, not the state, not the pale criminal... Some of these aren't really characters he meets, but none of them really are characters as in persons.
this thread is so meta
>>320464961
I already played that campaign, it was what got me into the series in the first place.
>>320465573
>Shareholder in Trygalle Trade Guild
>personally beat the odds and survive several trips to win your fortune, but get to watch your fellows not be so lucky
>every Shareholder is unique and has brief character development over 2-3 trips, but if they die en route they're just gone and you get to watch a fresh-faced rookie strap himself in next, talking about how he's gonna help his ma move out of the city 'cause she's really too old to still be working so hard but there's just no money
>eventually become conductor and hire all personnel, choose trade routes and which warrens to travel through
>eventually plot, like Omtose Phellack is taking over warrens and you have to kill a jaghut or something
>>320456931
The Dinotopia series. Anyone else remember those? That island was fucking awesome
>>320456931
>no blood meridian
Do you guys even /lit/
>>320465941
Rereading this right now, one of my favorite books. Good choice
>>320467821
Would you say it's worth twenty bucks?
>>320467821
>>320467896
this guy >>320465941 here, I had put it down for a while but need to finish it, I got about 2/3 through
it's definitely worth the $13 or so I spent for it, if only for the unique layout
>>320467896
I'm probably not the best person to ask since I buy a book if it looks interesting whatever the price. That being said, totally worth the twenty bucks. It's quite an experience.
>>320467738
Is this book worth reading? I read one of his books. I believe it was called the Lone Road or something, personally was disappointed with it.
>>320465081
But heart or darkness isn't set in Vietnam in the first place.
>>320468157
It's pretty stellar, to say the least.the ending and the violence would be great for a video game. Similar to madworld
>>320468445
Don't worry anon they'll make one after the movie.[Spoiler] ;_; [/spoiler]
I think it could work as an RTS, or even as an RPGI just want the bad taste of SoM out of my mouth
>>320467738
>implying you could get away with making a Blood Meridian game in this day and age
even if it did get made it would get butchered so as to not offend people
This could have been a great MMO or something. Either set in the Age of Legends, or post-Rand.
>>320469974
It wouldn't work, at least not as one cohesive game, it would have to be broken into many different games, of different genres. Example: the beginning of the Ainur would be a rythm game, the creation of middle earth and the journey of the elves a god game not very different from Godus, the sieges of Angband rts and so on.
>>320469049
That's not what he said.
>set in Vietnam instead of Dubai this time
Meaning adapt Heart of Darkness to the Vietnam war (a la Apocalypse Now), instead of putting it in Dubai like Spec Ops did
>>320468445
WHITE OVER RED
THUS WILLS GOD EVERNever. Fucking. Ever. I just want to waist-high-cover-shooter my way past the Crimson King then erase his shit ;_;
>>320460434
There's an animu about it
>>320456931
ITT: OPs that should be stoned to death for having no idea what they are talking about.
>>320465081
This is a game already, spec ops the line.
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>>320456931
The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson, with Autodesk (AutoCAD, 3DS Max, Maya) as the developer. You have to geometry on the other guy before he geometries on you.
Thinking of Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn (imperial or wild west) and Stormlight Archive would porbably not make bad games, and they might appeal to people who aren't engineers in a way the Rithmatist would not. definitly both as RPGs of one sort or another. Mistborn might play something like a more complicated Dishonored?
>>320463405
Don't worry anon, they are well known little shits.
>>320467674
I want to go to cyberpunk Atlantis and enjoy dank sun stones.
>>320461897
So basically fallout with no retro futuristic themes or goofy shit and just grimy depressing shit? I can dig it.
>>320463519
An rts with gods and politics is how I'd so it.
And every solider has a personality.
telltalehyperion cantos
>>320456931
it has already been adapted anon
>>320467738
I'd probably play it. There's sure as hell enough room to work with there.Wonder how you'd handle the Judge though.
Not a book but does hellsing count? It could be a great game the anime and ost are great. You could play the best vampire since castlevania alucard.
>>320462590
All I want from BotNS is the setting.
The setting is fucking amazing.
>>320475780
That's why he said
>But set in the Vietnam war this time instead of Dubai.
the illuminatus trilogy would make for such a kickass vidya. basically Deus Ex meets God Hand meets LA Noire meets Bloodborne meets Cho Aniki meets Jazzpunk meets LSD meets Katamari Damacy
>>320482508
forget pik
