For me I think Wheel of Time would be a great Skyrim type of open world game.
Ringworld
Number of the Beast by Heinlein
Still haven’t read Elric yet but it sounds like it would make a good game.
And out of left field…..UBIK by PkD
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Larry Correia's Monster Hunter International. It wouldn't even need an overarching story, although it could have one; what I'd really want is a massive series of individual monster hunting quests where a big part of the game is figuring out what kind of monster you're going to be fighting and what loadout you need for it. The monsters should have big physical advantages that can be largely obviated with the right gear and tactics.
Think like the best Witcher III sidequests but with modern armaments instead of sword oils.
I'd also love to see it as a management/strategy/tactics game, too, since the 'mercenary company' vibe would also fit controlling multiple soldiers.
Similar themes as you mentioned, with research and counters, but instead of Witcher-style adventure/action, go for turn-based or real-time strategy.
Like a supernatural Jagged Alliance? That could be great as well.
Exactly, that's a good way to put it!
Sign me up for Jagged Alliance with heavily armed monster hunting mercenary company.
Mistborn could be a cool game. I could see it as a Dishonored stealth type game or a Fallout type open world
Need to read that series.
Thanks, I gotta get back to that series. Adding it to my 'listen to while working' queue.
Considering it's what I'm currently listening to, Frontlines by Marko Kloos.
It's great, too, because it would be perfectly set up to be a sort of multi-genre strategy/action game. You've got space battles, air battles, ground battles. Could be singleplayer, traditional multiplayer, or even massively multiplayer, with largescale battles taking place galaxy-wide. Probably end up a little Planetside-like.
Correia's stuff is made for video games, too. Monster Hunter International and Grimnoir Chronicles would both be sick.
Urban fantasy would be fun, too. Dresden Files, or Alex Verus.
Modesitt or Sanderson would make for interesting RPGs, with their deep lore.
A Battle Angel Alita game would be awesome.
I still don’t get why people love Dresden files so much, it’s decent urban fantasy, but it’s 2000s leftist and the writer can’t help but be cringe about it a few times in every single book.
Because it's an actually good book about a wizard named Harry
Still girl bosses, still inept men, still virtue signaling, still leftist drivel inserted into every single book.
Hey, to each their own, but I don't know why some people insist on focusing on the negatives so hard.
It's got supernatural elements, and most (not all) girlbossing can be explained on that front. You've got otherworldy Faerie Queens, you've got valkyries, werewolves, vampires, sorceresses, and the like.
As for inept men, I'm not even sure who you mean. Harry fucks up sometimes, but it's usually because he's shoved in way over his head against incredibly powerful odds, and doing the best he can. He's also very strong himself, so needs that bit of balance from impossible choices and bad positions. You've got Knights of the Cross; divinely blessed soldiers of God. You've got supernatural hitmen. Ridiculously powerful old wizards.
It's just a high power level world in general, and you have competent men and very powerful women.
It’s woke-lite, the writer can’t go a book without talking about male chauvinism and at least 2 more cringe topics per book.
The girl cop is the most egregious one
You mean the knights where only one of three actually is a Christian? Those knights?
It’s early marvel humor levels and has decent world building, but it’s just as woke as the majority of shit out currently.
I don't feel the need to argue every point, and we've each made up our mind, but...
In my opinion it's really not woke-like, and as for chauvinism, it's never explicitly said it's bad. It's just pointing out that Harry is a bit old-fashioned.
Yup, she can be annoying, especially early on. But once everyone is more established, it gets a lot better, as I recall.
Fair enough, I'd sort of forgotten. Because the Christian Knight gets the most page time, and is the most badass and holy. And is a great character.
Again, to each their own.
The dude just make a republicans quip in the book I’m on and Harry full out lectures himself like a gender studies student about chauvinism. It’s woke lite being generous. It doesn’t have mass gay shit everywhere, but it’s still 2000s liberal and worse so than Harry Potter.
I’m 5 books in and it hasn’t gotten better
Most of that magic system could be made into a pretty sweet game. Would definitely enjoy something like that.
Hunt: Showdown is along the lines of Monster Hunter International if it's set in Bubba's time.
For urban fantasy, as long as you don't mind blending it with cyberpunk, there've been several fun Shadowrun games released over the years. Technically it's originally a tabletop RPG, but there were enough novels released that it should count for this thread and more games would be great.
Games based on the novels originally based on tabletop games, fucking meta
Jurassic Park. Yes I know there's already three dozen games from the movies, but I do mean from the book. There's some notable differences. A proper survival horror in the genre would be great.
Negima?! would make a good JRPG classic style game, but also could be a squad-style turn-based tactics with minimal adjustments, and there's not enough in that genre.
Villains By Necessity could actually be a Metroidvania, though a Metal Gear mostly-stealth action RPG could also work. Fun story about good winning everything so much, that the world could explode from noble-brightness, and the last handful of evils trying to bring literal darkness back in the world before all life is baked alive.
How about one that already exists, Shadows of the Empire?
I'll suggest a Star Wars bounty hunter game that's a mix of Mass Effect and No Man's Sky
Read the book a while back but never played the game. I need to
It was bad ass at the time, not sure how well it holds up. It would be a cool game to do again were the industry not so pozzed.
The Magic of Xanth By Piers Anthony
Chronicles of Narnia and maybe The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis, though the latter would probably have to be a sim of some sort... =/
I have some xanth books. Can they be read out of order?
yeah, each book is pretty self-contained. reading the earlier books fleshes things out a little bit, but the the later books will give you the cliff notes on the more relevant history.
be warned, however, the later in the series you get, the more extreme the concentration of puns, lol.
it started as straightforward fantasy, but over time evolved into something a lot more light-hearted.
I can see a WOT game where you play as an Ashaman but you have a taint meter and as it fills, weird shit just starts happening on screen.
Honorverse by David Weber.
Legacy of the Aldenata by John Ringo - fight the Posleen horde with infantry in powered armor.
Came here to post something about Ringo. Or any of the other Sad Puppies.
Honorverse had a shitty but fun mobile game at one point.
Would be a killer RTS
Zach Snyder's Rebel Moon saga.....no I'm just playing. I really mean Zach Snyder's Army of the Dead......no man still kidding
Ha!
The Peter Hamilton's Night's Dawn universe could actually make a pretty good sandbox Freelancer type game.
It's got a decently fleshed out empire balance of power, it's not hard sci fi so you can do gameplay over realism for travel/fight mechanics.
And it's got the reincarnated historical characters for normies to latch on to in the marketing as something recognizable. Missions smuggling super space-hooch for immortal Al Capone could end up just on the fun side of goofy.
I lost all interest in Game of Thrones/ASOIAF a long time ago sadly. But Memory, Sorrow and Thorn would be a great Witcher style game (maybe a mod?)
WW2 Germany where for once you're not killing German heroes for fun.
So Man in the High Castle. Or a prequel to that
Heroes Die.
Dystopian earth where 'actors' travel to an alternate fantasy world and broadcast their adventures for entertainment. Dual game modes where you are trying to manage your career on earth and run exciting adventures in the other world. The dimension hoping tech is obviously super expensive and controlled by the government so you'd have to thread the needle of doing what you're told or risk getting "cancelled."
You could make bad but exciting choices like murdering a king that would get you big ratings (in the story actors behaved so badly in the fantasy world that the term 'aktir' became synonymous with demons.) Anything sensational or exploitive would be worth big bucks but also make you tons of enemies and ramp up the difficulty of future adventures.
Couple ways to design the game, either create a new player character and just reference the book events, or play as Caine himself and go through his career up to the point of the books.
Edge of the galaxy: it could be like Star wars battlefront (original) had a baby with KOTOR.
I'm legitimately surprised there was never a proper Supernatural game. The series had more than enough material to work with to make some kind of a solid game. And the setting was open-ended enough for a lot of creative flexibility
Never thought of that. You could make a great open ended game or some sort of spinoff. What kind of game did they make since you said they didn’t do a proper one
I worded it that way under the assumption that there "might" have been a mobile game, since there usually seems to be a mobile game for just about every franchise out there.
And mobile games as a rule tend to suck so... I would've expected any such game to be terrible.
I didn't come across anything from searching though, which is even more surprising. Closest thing was a TTRPG. Oh, and a really suspicious looking Russian youtube channel with videos showcasing a really ghetto looking something.
I mean I'd get stabby for a proper Werewolf the Apocalypse game. Probably in the style of Hitman, huge aigular levels with 50 ways of approaching things, shifting between forms seamlessly as needed
Not sure what would be better, a Red Rising RTS or a Red Rising brawler shooter.
A Game of Thrones /Song of Ice and Fire, but in the style of the Witcher series.
I'd fucking love an open world Westeros, with the ability to engage in the politics and sharp decisions like The Witcher.
Not sure how the story would go given how the source material has many pov, but that's for game designers to figure out.
I’d love that too. But first I need George to finish. Also a DLC for Essos and Summer Isles
They made a WoT game ~20 years ago, but for some reason used the license to make a crappy FPS. Seeing it done right would be fun.
Also, we can always use more Discworld games.
I read a discworld book like 15 years ago and enjoyed it. I need to get the whole series.
Go for it, they're all pretty great and the author died before everything turned gay and woke. The two games aren't bad either, as long as you don't mind old style point and click adventure.
They adapted another story from that author right?
They're based on his books, yeah, and the author was directly involved in making the first game.
Kanye simulator: Escape the from the Nose tribe
Sun Eater series by Christopher Ruocchio.
I listened to first half of the audio book and read the summary, isn't it just gladiator in space
Not really, that section of the first book is pretty minor in the grand scheme of things. Each book is >500 pages and there are 6 out and the 7th to release soon.
I’d like to see a game set in Discworld.
Three body problem.
I'd imagine the whole dark forest of the galaxy feel with humanity starting around the beginning of their space exploration. The whole game would be a Homeworld style strategy game where you expand towards the stars, and you have to deal with various aliens at different stages of advancement. Pick the wrong place, and you get wiped.
That would be fun actually
Would enjoy a Stranger Things game. Something about being one of those helpless little kids, phasing between Hawkins and the upside down. Silent hill style (and I mean Classic silent hill ). Maybe they could get Kojima to do it, because some of the twisted shit that dude came up with for death stranding was truly unnerving.
It feels like it’s been a really long time since we had a true horror survival game.
I think something in the universe of the Darksword by Weis and Hickman would be interesting
What’s it about? Sounds interesting
A point and click adventure game based on Hyperion would be nice.
Ranger's Apprentice would work pretty well as a Mount & Blade style tactics game or a Shadow of Mordor style stealth game.
The Dragonback series would work well as an Elite Dangerous or No Man's Sky style intergalactic exploration game.