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[Topher]

Been reading the Horus Heresy books lately. After playing Space Marine 2, I would love to see an adaptation like that from Saber.

 

[balls of snow]

Misborn trilogy can be done I think at least the first book is set mostly in a city. Its pretty much a more advance Dishonored with its traversal magic system and the ending twist is Bioshock level of mindfuckery.

Another is Dresden files. Urban fantasy wizard solving supernatural cases in an open world Chicago. Thats sounds Witcher like and marketable.

 

[RoboFu]

What!? There is nothing in book but pages...

 

[Wildebeest]

They would have to be old books because novels are an almost dead format unless you want some womans romance fiction game.

 

[DrMano]

Hey, thank you! I appreciate that. No, not custom made, these belonged to a school, it was a set of 4+2, bought 4 of them in auction but couldn't get the others. Made of oak, down here in Argentina we call them "Thompson-style" since it's a copy of UK Harris Lebus' Thompson (which in time was a copy of the US Globe Wernicke modular bookshelf). I got one original Wernicke from 1910, one Lebus original from 1940 and 5 copies which cannot be adjusted. Always wanted to have a room with these bookshelves and enough books to fill them, unfortunately I work in IT so all of my books are inside a Kindle so I use them for glassware display, books and games. I got some collectibles but nowhere enough to fill one. I have seen some really nice reading chairs, however I haven't bought one yet. For the time being I got them in different rooms, eventually I want to setup a nice cozy reading spot.

Very nice going! I'll probably be heading down the rabbit hole of the history of these bookshelves now that you've introduced them to me dammit.
Will start setting budget aside since i want to get settled in the next 2-3 years to a more permanent spot, and when i do i don't want to skimp on my man cave

Thanks for sharing the picture with me. Hopefully we both can satisfactorily arrange our dwellings to our ideal likings sooner rather than later.

Also on the topic of novels: do you happen to use goodreads?

 

[Hudo]

Arthas' story in WarCraft 3 is basically Elric of Melnibone. Minus the incest.

 

[Davevil]

make a good game from Joe Dever's Lone Wolf

 

[Puscifer]

I meant to bump the thread for "The Invincible" a while back and highly recommend it. It's def a walking simulator for sure, but it's beautifully told. I immediately read the book afterwards and can't help but recommend both!

 

[amigastar]

I always wanted to play the Discworld Adventure games. I love the Discworld books.

 

[ReyBrujo]

Very nice going! I'll probably be heading down the rabbit hole of the history of these bookshelves now that you've introduced them to me dammit.
Will start setting budget aside since i want to get settled in the next 2-3 years to a more permanent spot, and when i do i don't want to skimp on my man cave

Thanks for sharing the picture with me. Hopefully we both can satisfactorily arrange our dwellings to our ideal likings sooner rather than later.

Also on the topic of novels: do you happen to use goodreads?

Hopefully you can also settle down and setup a really nice man cave as well!
And no, no Goodreads, it mostly didn't exist back when I used to heavily read (2000-2008), now I only read technical books. Incidentally I see bundle from Humble Bundle with some Dragonlance books, got most of them but a few of them I don't have, might pick it up just to check how the series was going.

 

[Zannegan]

NO! Please don't.
Things will just be changed for more modern audience.

Sanderson at least would be fine with that. Winds of Truth has the fingerprints of sensitivity readers all over it, and the series was starting to feel written by committee a book or two ago. His stuff is devolving into the perfect source material streaming fodder aimed at "modern audiences."

Damned if the man can't build a conflict and deliver a killer resolution though. I'll give him that.

 

[CoreyFlawless]

Money, Aaa games already cost a lot. Depends how much the book writer wants from them to use there story. Most now, wants a percentage of all sales. Even if it 10%. That shit adds up and cost a lot.

 

[Braag]

I've always wondered why movies adapt so many books, yet games always want to create their own original worlds.
It's a gamble I guess, for every "Mass Effect" you have an "Immortals of Aveum"

 

[Embearded]

Insomniac had tons of comic book material for SM2, yet they made us help a student set up his prom thing.

Some developers will fuck it up no matter the original material. Give Insomniac the Bible and they will make Jesus trans and Judas a white straight male with an all lives matter t shirt.

 

[BbMajor7th]

They're very different mediums - takes skill just to adapt a great novel.

That said, I do think more writers in the video game industry should be reading more widely - and living more widely. The lack of life experience and empathy really shines through in modern writing.

 

[Wildebeest]

I've always wondered why movies adapt so many books, yet games always want to create their own original worlds.
It's a gamble I guess, for every "Mass Effect" you have an "Immortals of Aveum"

You answered your own question. Games rarely create their own worlds. They take an established IP then make their own version of it so they don't have to pay very high IP licensing costs. Mass Effect is legally distant to Star Wars and Dragon Age is legally distant to Dungeons and Dragons. It is about the money, not creativity.

 

[Hudo]

make a good game from Joe Dever's Lone Wolf

That looks cool. Is this something like the Fighting Fantasy books?

 

[majestix1988]

Westerners suck on adapt things from books(now truly suck due those issues) mostly Europeans mostly good on it(witchers series) meanwhile japanese are the one who adapt it to games or such

 

[yogaflame]

A game base on Twilight and Hunger games? Im curious how it will turn out if it happens.

 

[DrMano]

Hopefully you can also settle down and setup a really nice man cave as well!
And no, no Goodreads, it mostly didn't exist back when I used to heavily read (2000-2008), now I only read technical books. Incidentally I see bundle from Humble Bundle with some Dragonlance books, got most of them but a few of them I don't have, might pick it up just to check how the series was going.

I have heard of Dragonlance but never read it myself. What is it about? Any good starting point?

 

[Zacfoldor]

I'll allow it:

or

I'd buy that for a ha'penny!

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

Yeah, a Mistborn action/RPG style game could be pretty nice with modern tech really.