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Videogame companies are now getting ideas of wanting to adapt literature into videogames. First we got Dante's Inferno, second will be Metro 2033, and Visceral is having ideas about wanting to turn even Macbeth into a videogame.

Since this is happening, I was wondering what literature you fellow gamers want to see adapted into a next gen game.

The Obsidian Trilogy, it could be an excellent game series if done by the right team.

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

TWILIGHT!

Originally posted by Ms.Marvel
TWILIGHT!

Why am I not surprised?

cause youre sexist >\

A Canterbury Tales Based racing game! Vrooooooom, vroooooooom, screeeeeeech!

Originally posted by Ms.Marvel
cause youre sexist >\

No I'm not.

^By denying it, you provide contradictory evidence against your case.

Originally posted by Nemesis X
Videogame companies are now getting ideas of wanting to adapt literature into videogames. First we got Dante's Inferno, second will be Metro 2033, and Visceral is having ideas about wanting to turn even Macbeth into a videogame.


Actually first we got Shadow Complex (Empire by Orson Scott Card) to my knowledge.

Why don't people just...I dunno, read the books...

books "are for hookers and fat people!"

World War Z

nice!

WWZ was an amazing book, but I don't really know if it would be a good game, it would just be an open world Dead Rising.

I'd love to see a X-Wing game set during the New Jedi Order's Yuzzhan Vong invasion, enough with the mediocre Star Wars games set in the same era over and over again!

Originally posted by Morridini

I'd love to see a X-Wing game set during the New Jedi Order's Yuzzhan Vong invasion, enough with the mediocre Star Wars games set in the same era over and over again!

And what era are you thinking of?

you know what vong are right?

hes thinking of the post new jedi order era..

Originally posted by Kazenji
And what era are you thinking of?

Well we got a hell of a lot of games set in the PT and OT era, and only KotOR taking place before and the Jedi Knight after, while the rest of the EU has a lot of good moments for games.

World War Z, it would make a sweet FPS.

EDIT:

Originally posted by BackFire
World War Z

BF beat me to it, FFFFFFUUUUUUU-

Originally posted by Ms.Marvel
you know what vong are right?


Of course but that was'nt the answer i was lookign for but eh Morrindi has answerd it

Originally posted by Scythe
World War Z, it would make a sweet FPS.


Getting into the FPS are we now?

Originally posted by Ms.Marvel
cause youre sexist >\

Ha, nice.

the animorphs series
dont ask me how it'll work though

Originally posted by Ms.Marvel
TWILIGHT!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xryMAprvY4o/ShOggykQa2I/AAAAAAAAANU/VWo9d3G9V4Y/s400/fantastic_four_slap.jpg

Originally posted by First_Tsurugi06
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20,000 leagues under the sea is really the only book that comes to mind at the moment. It seems that most of the best literary works suited for video games have already been tried in one form or another.

The Bartimaeus Trilogy and the Artemis Fowl series

not sure how artemis would work, as the climax's revolve around arty mind-f*cking everyone else in order to save the day

A Catcher in the Rye point and click adventure.

Originally posted by MadMel
the animorphs series
dont ask me how it'll work though

Yikes, haven't thought about those in years.... I've read all 50 books in fact.

That could work actualy, an action-adventure game where people had the Animorph abilities.

Originally posted by MadMel
not sure how artemis would work, as the climax's revolve around arty mind-f*cking everyone else in order to save the day
i can see you in the first one playing as one of the elves trying to get in/out of Arty's home
and have a mini-game with Mulch breaking into the basement and then playing dead
and of course you gotta have the boss battle with the troll alongside Butler

Originally posted by Morridini
Yikes, haven't thought about those in years.... I've read all 50 books in fact.

That could work actualy, an action-adventure game where people had the Animorph abilities.
i remember watching the tv series and the one alien guy trying to buy a stereo but got shut down cause he was all confuzzled on the slang terms or something

Originally posted by Kazenji
Actually first we got Shadow Complex (Empire by Orson Scott Card) to my knowledge.

Romance Of The Three Kingdoms/Dynasty Warriors came before Shadow Complex.

Originally posted by That ACDC Chick
i remember watching the tv series and the one alien guy trying to buy a stereo but got shut down cause he was all confuzzled on the slang terms or something
now now you mustn't swear
'animorphs tv series' is a serious taboo, due to its sheer failure

and its 54 books, not counting the spinoffs

Vampire hunter D...if they make it good...which they wouldn't/didn't

Edit: but to be fair, that was based off a movie, that was based off one of the books, but they didn't do the book justice in the movie imo.

Originally posted by Morridini
I'd love to see a X-Wing game set during the New Jedi Order's Yuzzhan Vong invasion, enough with the mediocre Star Wars games set in the same era over and over again!

Yes, so instead let's make a mediocre SW game set in a complete travesty of an era.

Seriously. I question the sanity of anyone who likes the NJO and after. Because it's just bad.

Originally posted by MadMel
the animorphs series
dont ask me how it'll work though

There actually were some Animorphs games. They weren't the greatest, but they were okay.

you mean those flash games on the animorphs website or actual games?

Originally posted by Wei Phoenix
Romance Of The Three Kingdoms/Dynasty Warriors came before Shadow Complex.

edit

A Song of Ice and Fire

Originally posted by MadMel
you mean those flash games on the animorphs website or actual games?

Some actual games. I still have one of them for the PS1.

they should redo the tv series, with some actual violence, accuracy and decent actors (the only good actor in the series was shawn ashmore, and even he did a bad job)
then make a next-gen game out of it

I think The Lost Years of Merlin series could make some good games. It might happen some day. T. A. Barron had something up on his website about talks for a movie some time ago, but I haven't checked in a long time.

watabout.... Treasure Island! except its not a story game, its like an open world where you do missions and shtuff

Originally posted by Ms.Marvel
books "are for hookers and fat people!"

That's not true, I read all the time and... oh, wait, I fall into the fat category... never mind...

I understand there is a game being worked on based on "Ender's Game"

And there are some book universes that a game would fit into nicely. For example: the Sword of Truth series, or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World could have some interesting settings for games.

I also think a Sherlock Holmes game, done in the style of Heavy Rain or Indigo Prophecy would be pretty neat too.

The Bible 131

Particularly anything that has to do with Samson.

And the game must be M rated, none of that crap they made for the NES.

There are tonnes of Sherlock games for PC. There's even one where he takes on Jack the Ripper.

Originally posted by MadMel
now now you mustn't swear
'animorphs tv series' is a serious taboo, due to its sheer failure

and its 54 books, not counting the spinoffs
i was little
i didnt know better

Carmilla or maybe a really incomprehensible rated AO adaptation of Naked Lunch.

Originally posted by Kero_Co
A Song of Ice and Fire

QFT

Homer's epic poems.

Originally posted by Joker1237
Homer's epic poems.
an Odyssey game would be majorly epic

KING LEAR!

If I even spelled that right.

How about a video game adaptation of a literary classic called Worlds of Power: Mega Man 2?

Just realized your avatar was a dude's head in a glass case...at first I always thought it was his reflection on shiny metal.

the Neverending Story!!!!!!

Originally posted by That ACDC Chick
an Odyssey game would be majorly epic

And the Iliad, I think the Iliad was better than the Odyssey myself, but I perfer to have them both made into games.

And I want the games to be true to the poems.

Don Quixote.

For the lulz.

some Shakespear would also be good

Hm.


Possibly a game based of Bram Stoker's Dracula (Not any of the movies). Maybe in the style of Heavy Rain.

theres already some bram stoker style dracula games

speaking of which - a twilight game would be nice, just so people can kick the series' popularity in the nuts..

Originally posted by MadMel
theres already some bram stoker style dracula games

speaking of which - a twilight game would be nice, just so people can kick the series' popularity in the nuts..

Were any of them halfway decent?

Cause the only Bram Stoker Dracula games I've seen were two on the Sega CD, one of which was a point and click, and the other was a piece of crap based off the movie.

I also highly doubt any of them were followed Heavy Rain's gameplay, like I suggested.

ulyses

no seriously, NO literature should be turned into games. its cheap. the excitement and pleasure of literature isnt in the cinematic sequence or the graphics or the in game music or how cool "dante alighiera" looks or how big of a weapon he has.

its like taking paradise lost and turning it into a button masher where the devil is a sephiroth type badass with a big sword who has super moves which he uses against the dark materials as they battle him and the kind of death metal that makes 14 year old kids think they are HARDCORE by listening to plays in the background {and eve wearing a bayonetta type dress looks on and sumtimes helps with acrobatic moves and martials arts}.

oh wait, they kind of did half of that in dante's inferno.

stupid bitches. what does it take to tell overgrown kids in the gaming and manga/anime industry to STOP taking ancient mythological/philosophical concepts and putting them in their medium in the cheapest and most whorishly simple ways to make 12 year old school boys go "man that is PROFOUND!!!!!!!!!" {a minute after they stop shouting at the tv after watching wwe".

oh wait, i actually do know of one that cud make half a decent game if the developers are not trying to cater to "hardcore kids".

sylmarrilon.

Originally posted by leonheartmm
ulyses

no seriously, NO literature should be turned into games. its cheap. the excitement and pleasure of literature isnt in the cinematic sequence or the graphics or the in game music or how cool "dante alighiera" looks or how big of a weapon he has.

its like taking paradise lost and turning it into a button masher where the devil is a sephiroth type badass with a big sword who has super moves which he uses against the dark materials as they battle him and the kind of death metal that makes 14 year old kids think they are HARDCORE by listening to plays in the background {and eve wearing a bayonetta type dress looks on and sumtimes helps with acrobatic moves and martials arts}.

oh wait, they kind of did half of that in dante's inferno.

stupid bitches. what does it take to tell overgrown kids in the gaming and manga/anime industry to STOP taking ancient mythological/philosophical concepts and putting them in their medium in the cheapest and most whorishly simple ways to make 12 year old school boys go "man that is PROFOUND!!!!!!!!!" {a minute after they stop shouting at the tv after watching wwe".

Not you again.....

Originally posted by Kazenji
Getting into the FPS are we now?

Not exactly, I try them out every now and then though. I just can't think how else WWZ would work except if it was FPS and maybe partly Survival Horror like Silent Hill. I'd like that very much.