What are some other games based on books and literature? What are some examples of games done well based on this? Any books you'd like a vidya adaptation of?
Vidya based on books and literature
Bentley Reed
Jack Hall
I never got around to reading it, though.
Nicholas Evans
pretty good adaptation of the story and they made the good ending extremely hard to get which fits the story. Harlan ellison even voices AM in this.
the old neuromancer dos game is also pretty good for its time
Nicholas Brooks
The Mistborn, they could do a lot of cool gameplay Mechanics, or they could just fuck it up and it be uninspired and dumb.
Asher Smith
I mean, I gotta name the obvious ones.
Zachary Torres
I tried reading these and they're such generic fantasy I had to stop
Kayden Thompson
How are they generic? They're polar opposites of Tolkien.
What did you read before Witcher that was like it?
Jaxson Morales
Wyatt Ortiz
This kills the witcherfags
Eli Adams
>generic Tolkien fantasy that has been copied by everyone and their mother thousand times over and over
Thanks for proving my point
Jeremiah Ramirez
Games based on books was really common when you go back 20 years. There's been tons of shit based on HP Lovecraft's work, Castlevania was born from borrowing from classic horror literature, Ubisoft's Tom Clancy universe was based on books, Half Life was based on a Stephen King story, dozens of Sherlock Holmes games, Dune got a game, I could sit here all day and list games based on books. This is something that only stopped happening because the video game market changed. The people who played games also used to read books. That's not true anymore.
Kevin Green
>Castlevania was born from borrowing from classic horror literature
Haha no, it's a Hammer Horror ripoff.
Juan Morales
The witcher cuck just copied all the east European fairy tales and added edgy language and sword fights
Austin Phillips
Hammer Horror is adaptations of books, user.
Joseph Watson
Confirmed for both not reading the books beyond the first two short story collections (which were just collections of short stories that were from his early days of writing mini stories for newspapers) and being underage. Throw in some more buzzwords too for good measure.
Camden Baker
Notoriously unfaithful and "shlock" adaptations with shitload of even more shlock sequels.
And Castlevania is specifically based on the Hammer Horror designs/versions and not original source materials.
Jason Ward
Well this is because games (specially PC games) were for nerds who were obsessed with sci-fi, fantasy and played D&D and shit like that. There's some really comfy games to be found there.
Jaxson Lee
Imagine defending somebody elses creation this vehemently
It's so easy to spot people who have done absolutely nothing with their lives because they latch onto the accomplishments of others and defend them as if they were their own
Ethan Mitchell
Keep moving the goalpost.
Carson Powell
>OH SHIT IM LOSING AN ARGUMENT
>AHA LITTLE DOES HE KNOW I CAN PULL MY AD HOMINEM CARD
I can do it too, eat shit.
Adrian Adams
don't even know if this real but I love the old sci fi look
Adrian Bell
very different from the book tho
Landon Bennett
Actually that pollock hack decided to rip off Michael Moorcock instead.
Andrew James
Anthony White
Ah, vintage bait.
Josiah Gutierrez
>Humans
>Dwarves
>Elves
>Dragons
>Sorcery
I like the Witcher novels and the first two games are among my favourite RPGs but saying they're the opposite of Tolkein is fucking retarded