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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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.
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