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There are all sorts of video games based on movies. Not as much as in the movie tie-in golden age of the 00s when every kids movie and blockbuster had a lovely platformer attached to it. There are all movies and shows based on games. There are novelizations of video games and the extended universe of Halo and what not. But where are the video games based on books? I looked and it's mainly detective stories with the odd fantasy novel here and there. But what about the classics? Are there video games based on Middlemarch? Or great expectations? The brothers karamazov? It seems like a great way for me to experience these novels without having to read them something already done perfectly by the Nancy Drew games. With the explosion of indie games why haven't more developers taken advantage of these public domain properties?
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Actually there should be less videogames
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Jan 7, 2022 05:21
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Colonel Cancer posted:Actually there should be less videogames fewer*
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Jan 7, 2022 05:22
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It's pretty hard to wedge anime tits into literary classics like moby dick or mary shelley's frankenstein. My research indicates that anime tits are mandatory. I have no mouth and I must scream was a good game based on a book or at least a short story. No tits tho.
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Colonel Cancer posted:Actually there should be less videogames *Fewer. Read a book, nerd 
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bossy lady posted:It's pretty hard to wedge anime tits into literary classics like moby dick or mary shelley's frankenstein. My research indicates that anime tits are mandatory. Uhh Dante's inferno?
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bossy lady posted:It's pretty hard to wedge anime tits into literary classics like moby dick or mary shelley's frankenstein. My research indicates that anime tits are mandatory. I always wanted that game as a kid cuz of the sick boxart. Then I read the story. Then I played the game on my phone on a flight to China and enjoyed it! Ew, yellow!
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Jan 7, 2022 05:27
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i would play a game where you are the titular philosophical concept of the catcher in the rye, and you just have to stop kids from jumping off a cliff
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Jan 7, 2022 05:28
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Sid Vicious posted:i would play a game where you are the titular philosophical concept of the catcher in the rye, and you just have to stop kids from jumping off a cliff that's about never growing older though so you're doing it every time you play a video game.
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Jan 7, 2022 05:30
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:that's about never growing older though so you're doing it every time you play a video game. drat, does it also help with the physical aspect because my chest be hurtin
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bossy lady posted:It's pretty hard to wedge anime tits into literary classics like moby dick or mary shelley's frankenstein. My research indicates that anime tits are mandatory. what about Lady Chatterley's Lover? you play as the gardener or whatever he was Also there was a Dante's Inferno game recently but i didn't play it
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Jan 7, 2022 05:35
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:what about Lady Chatterley's Lover? Dantes Inferno came out over a decade ago
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Jan 7, 2022 05:39
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There are at least 32 videogames based on Lord of the Rings, OP. Some of them are older than the films.
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Jan 7, 2022 05:41
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Naturally one assumes it's simple a matter of money, OP. I've a great deal of difficulty imaging that there's enough crossover between the literate and the average videogame enthusiast for the endeavour to be financially sound.
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Jan 7, 2022 05:51
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just remembered Nation States, based on the book Jennifer Government. its one of those dumb browser based country simulators, but it should count. i remember people playing this in high school wtf its still up https://www.nationstates.net/
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Jan 7, 2022 06:06
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The best game of all time, STALKER, was based on the book Roadside Picnic. There ya go
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Jan 7, 2022 06:08
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half life 2 is basically 1984
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Jan 7, 2022 06:12
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It's a little known fact that the original Mario video game was based on a cheap romance novel where two Italian plumbers get hosed up on mushrooms and bone down with a princess who is obsessed with turtles and has like a hundred of all different types.
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Jan 7, 2022 06:16
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Make Albert Camus' L'Etranger into a first person shooter. Turn Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe into a Tetris clone The Thornbirds by Colleen Mcollough deserves to be a horror game. Or a bishibashi game. either would be fine. And topically, make The Art of the Deal, (which was written by some mushroom dicked, small handed failed steak salesman), into a fighting game.
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Jan 7, 2022 06:17
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we're still reading them. it takes time to read books and get the ideas for games. there are a lot of books out there and it turns out that most of them are very bad.
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Jan 7, 2022 06:18
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the dune game basically invented the modern rts, although its not exactly a direct adaptation of the book or anything like that
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Jan 7, 2022 06:20
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Squaresoft made a Tom Sawyer RPG way back in 89 Also there's an ok indie platformer based on Great Gatsby, but it's a flash game and good luck dealing with that.
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Jan 7, 2022 06:24
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public libraries lend out video games now, confirming what i've always known to be true. video games are books.
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Jan 7, 2022 06:25
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blu-rays are also books by the same principle
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Left hand of darkness battle royale
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:There are all sorts of video games based on movies. Not as much as in the movie tie-in golden age of the 00s when every kids movie and blockbuster had a lovely platformer attached to it. There are all movies and shows based on games. There are novelizations of video games and the extended universe of Halo and what not. But where are the video games based on books? for being only 60 years old video games are doing very good.
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Also OP, you are forgetting all the games made about that classic American art form, comic BOOKS.
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All the Names point and click adventure, as narrated by Kelsey Grammer
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Brothers Karamazov coop shooter!
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:I looked and it's mainly detective stories with the odd fantasy novel here and there. But what about the classics? journey to the west, water margin, and romance of the three kingdoms are all literary classics and and they all have multiple video games based on them, the latter probably more than any other book. well except maybe tolkein also, while none of them are popular, there are many video games based on the bible Earwicker fucked around with this message at 06:39 on Jan 7, 2022 |
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The Jungle meat packing plant manager
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I would play a game based on Dream of the Ball Turret Gunner where you get to hose blood out of shattered ball turrets.
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there is also a whole book>game>book ecosystem called tom clancy, who was once a human being and who now exists as a brand. rainbow six was an actual book written by tom clancy. then there was a video game initially loosely based on that book but then it turned into a big series. then there were other video game franchises under the tom clancy name that started out as games first - ghost recon, splinter cell, the division - which were not based on books, but now there are books based on those games. and these books are not written by tom clancy, who is now dead btw, but they still have tom clancy's name on them. now he is the ultimate ghost writer, in the sense that he is literally a ghost, and still authoring books - all thanks to the magic of video games Earwicker fucked around with this message at 06:54 on Jan 7, 2022 |
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what about suikoden op
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why aren't there more (good) books based on video games? I read a Halo book once and it sucked poo poo, but like dead space martyr is really loving good for even just a sci fi horror novel on it's own I think I tried reading a final fantasy book once and got bored
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Montague Tigg posted:why aren't there more (good) books based on video games? I read a Halo book once and it sucked poo poo, but like dead space martyr is really loving good for even just a sci fi horror novel on it's own Read Blaster Master!
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Michael Jackson's Moonwalker, OP
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Earwicker posted:
Virginia Andrews already did this, and she didn't need video games to do it. She used the power of incest and abused children.
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kntfkr posted:Read Blaster Master! the only place I can find it is on amazon for $23, is it actually good? that was my favorite game when I was like 7
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