Books that would make great video games

Epic of Gilgamesh

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I hope you mean the raging knight who comes in and fucks the lady dragon who secretly had a prosthetic penis the whole time

The closest thing I could think of is Artificial Academy.

Sweeney Todd made in a tycoon-style game. Manage your barbershop and neighboring pie shop but make sure not to let the secret out.

minus the cuckold author

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Revelations

The Martin Luther game would be about trying to make jews stop with their jewing. Unwinnable, but you get a better score the longer you keep it up.

This one would be about building a working economy out of the Wiemar republic. Think government simulator with a focus on policymaking.

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Fucking hardmode, man

You're not fooling me, CTR

nice try /int/

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Oh yeah I forgot about that shitshow Pilkey threw out just to pander to SJWs.

Nice try Patrick.

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Well not the book itself but I'd love taking the same scenario, but like on an other planet and solo TPS à la Dead Space. You'd gather clues about what happened to the crew while learning about the civilisation living here.

point & click adventure game would be better.

I've heard it said before and I agree this book would make a good game

The norwegian play based on a fairy tale, Peer Gynt.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_Gynt

Only one weapon.I'm sure i'd be a hit.

Don't forget about Bears and Tornado's. Tornado's are never done well in video games.

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You can basically this with Overgrowth, but the dev ended up being a SJWcuck when GG broke

The antagonist was pretty lame.

Nah, I don't think so. If this were a series of adaptations of the book series: everybody would have complained that all of the games were the exact same thing.

So it comes as no surprise why they never made a Redwall game in the first place.

Monster Hunter International

It would be like classic X-Com with lots of gun porn. You set up teams of hunters and get requests to kill monsters.

I was about to mention Overgrowth too but I would have gone onto say that the game will never be released. It was one of two forays into early access games (the other was Neo Scavenger, which is thankfully pretty okay but I was hoping for more). Never again. I guess it's what you get for consorting with one who consorts with beasts!

You forgot the pic of the book.

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Chronicles of the Black Company would make a nice setting for a game. Set during the end of the Domination era, you would be taking part in the campaign of the first White Rose. Waging a war against a bunch of wizards that are hundreds of years old, ridiculously powerful, yet so durable they can survive decapitation, with your only real weapon being a young girl that nullifies magic. Which is not really a weapon, but it does allow your guys to not die instantly when the Dominator looks at them funny.

I think this would be an interseting game. Have segments where its in first person and then go into a city building section with mix of first person for special missions. With all this shit going on, you have to make sure that all your comrades fear you.

I love these books and would like to see a game based on them. One where you're taken in as an orphan and trained under a grizzled ranger, gradually learning skills and given parts in his plans, then starting to take on more and more responsibility until you're coming up with your own plans and directing your followers on how to trap and trick bad guys, all the while being a master of stealth and long range combat with some knife fighting thrown in.

Good idea user, how would you incorporate the rangers friend, the one whos really good with the sword. Would you ignore him, or try to use him more as a piece to move the story ahead back at the castle.

What?! How did I never hear about this, since when?!

I want either a Sierra styled Fletch, the book already reads like an adventure game, anyway. Even if it follows the book beat for beat that'd be fine for having a puzzle where you fuck the wife of the man who's asked you to kill him so you get a piece of evidence you can use to delay the final villain long enough for him to die due to shenanigans. Or off of 'Confess, Fletch,' so I can punch Mr. "OI' SON DON'T YOU MAKE A MESS OF THE THINGS I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN DOING EVEN THOUGH WE JUST EXPLAINED I COULDN'T KNOW THEM, DID I BRING UP MY HOT WIFE AND TWO KIDS WHO PLAY MOZART BETTER THAN MOZART AND WHO'D GET GONORRHEA FER ME AND OH DON'T FORGET MY BEIN' TH' LITTLEST OIRISH IN HITLER'S GOOF TROUP AND GETTIN' ALL THE AUTOGRAPHS N' SECRET PLANS OF THEM NAZIS" Flynn.

Use him a "back at the castle" plot device when doing solo missions, and when together on missions use him as a decoy. So you send him in to attract the enemy knowing he can tank (some of) the damage, while you hide out in the shadows and have to kill as many enemies as you can while they're distracted by the big guy and before they can all rush him. Then later on you get your own apprentice to train as well and you can pull similar tricks with them.

Sounds good, wouldn't you want to be the distraction while your apprentice kills the enemies? You don't want your young ones killed off right from the get go.

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Yeah of course, playing up to the earlier tricks your mentor put you through as an apprentice when you did the same for him following passing your archery tests and shit. And depending on how well you choose and train your apprentice determines how fucked you are when you rely on them to cover you.

Go read Cage of Eden.

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Explain this.

Mount and Blade on camels.

Sounds like it would be a fun little stealth game with some intrigue in there.

To bad it will never happen

Is that a real book?

They already made a game from that book called Battleborn. Because it bombed.

is infinite jest any good or is it just over-hyped by memers?

thanks user, I forgot all about those

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Its an intersting read. You have to be a good reader to go through all those characters. If you had to make a game about it, it would be basicly ten imcomplete games, all different but connected in a shittiest way possible.

closest I've come to tons of characters is the malazan series with its "here's 20+ new characters + some time travel fuckery", is it dated or does it still hold up?

Katawa Shoujo

absofuckinglutely this
you'd basically run your own monster hunting outfit, going from a couple of dudes with fuddcannons and hand forged silver bullets to a large paramilitary organization outfitted with the latest and greatest in anti monster technology

you decide what gear to buy, what contracts to take, what recruits to hire and where to build outposts so you can station remote teams that will allow you to have a better chance of swooping in on a fat PUFF bounty before any other company can

shit would be the absolute dope to play

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games that ham-handedly cram MUH SYMBOLISM in your face and have really nothing else to them are a diamond dozen these days

That's one of my favorite short stories. Shame that because of the ending it'll never be shown on any media ever again

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I just finished the TV series like a month ago. I don't know how to feel about that shit.

I thought the film was great too, anyone else got a strong Metal Gear vibe from it?

He made the aryan kid a fag

The Book of Judges done as a hack and slash.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Just so we can have a sick motorcycle chase with raptors.

Just tell yourself it was cancelled at the end of season 4.

X-com style game where you are gestapo agents rounding up Jews. You can customize your headquarters to specialize in propaganda, weapons research, counter-espionage, and advanced detection.

This shit right here

I dunno, seems like the sort of thing that could only really be done properly (barring some next-generation large-scale immersive simulation stuff) as a tabletop RPG campaign.

Why even live. At least Overgrowth Alpha is still getting updates

Did somebody say "ZENIMAX"?

Space RTS never ever.

I have never heard of that series before, but going by the title and your game concept alone:

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The old man and the sea.
Realtime fishing game where you have to catch the biggest marlin, and the player (not the character) must develop a certain set of skills to accomplish this goal.
For example: To pull in the rope/to give rope the player must scroll the scrollwheel. If he scrolls too fast the rope will break. So the player must learn to see the maximum tension possible.
If he gives too much rope he will eventually run out. If the player scrolls too fast the actual hand of the player might cramp.
The journey can actually take days, so finding time to eat/shit/piss would be required.
Once the marlin gets close to the surface (actual fish AI mems here) the player must grab the harpoon and kill the marlin. You have only one shot. Miss the heart and lose your harpoon in the deep of the sea. Miss the heart and the marlin will dive down again, and possibly get mauled by sharks. After you have killed the marlin you have to navigate back to land using only the stars and the wind.
Something like desert bus simulator, but with an actual ending, actual skills and a lot longer.

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Be careful what you wish for.

Worst fucking ending to anything ever.

I think you're making this up and I want an archive link

archive.is/mxGXK

I didn't even want to honor Polygon with an archive, but I'm sad to report it is quite real fam.

Who's Chuck Tingle, do i even want to know?

Look at the second post in this thread you fucking moron

A goon who makes wacky e-books. It shouldn't come as a surprise that he'd be in bed with LW.

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So open world survival horror?
very few stories convert well to vidya

isn't that SmegmaKing?

Lol'd