RedDeadRockstar324 Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Just wondering as far as games that are also Books go, which ones you guys think are the best? I’d say Assassins Creed games, Halo Games, and maybe even Star Wars. Also Resident Evil has books too!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zello Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 (edited) Metro 2033 and The Witcher Edited May 11, 2020 by Zello Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slappy212 Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 The Witcher, Hands down. It's not even close. Zello, LittleBlueTroll and Ivan1997GTA 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander S Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 Erm, OP, you do realise you're talking about three different things, right? 1. Books that got game adaptations/spin-offs* (The Witcher) 2. Games that got book adaptations/spin-offs (Assassin's Creed) 3. TV shows/films that got both book and game adaptations/spin-offs (Star Wars) *I'm not going to even start splitting hairs over 'spin-offs that treat the source material as canon' (most Star Wars games) and 'adaptations that rework the source material' (The Witcher)... On balance, I'd have to say that The Witcher III is probably the overall best game based on a Netflix series. Dryspace 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarshDanni Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 Here's something not mainstream lads, "Roadside Picnic". Now y'all probably be like 'the fresh hell is this?'. Well pleb, it's a book written in 1971 that basically made the S.T.A.L.K.E.R series. Although the game is not word for word recreation of the book it's still loosely based (the theme, the world and such). Now if you haven't go out and play the damn game. Blyat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dryspace Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 On 5/10/2020 at 3:14 PM, RedDeadRockstar324 said: Just wondering as far as games that are also Books go, which ones you guys think are the best? Your title concerns videogames that are based on books, but I don't believe that any of the examples you give are based on books. Since you're wanting us to list what we think are the best, the only example I can think of at the moment is The Witcher series. I've enjoyed a couple playthroughs of Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened and Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis, but they have their share of issues. One game that I wasn't impressed with but want to try again is the Text Adventure The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, as it is one of my favorite reads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trip Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Nancy Drew. My crappy games at MyCrappyGames.com Free copy of Save The Puppies and Kittens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Pink Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 As pointed out by a few here, the title was misleading, so I fixed it. On topic, I can't say what games have a good adaptation. I've never read any books based on videogame source material. I've never done the reverse either. But Metro sounds like I could enjoy it. I enjoyed the games. So, I think I could enjoy the book. I like the setting. Could possibly try Halo too. But I prefer more personal stories and interpersonal relationship stories, personal struggles than the grand Halo stories about interplanetary races/species on a large scale. The scale gets too big and I can't relate. I like the Halo setting and the world but I need a more honed-in human story. 𝙼𝚄𝚂𝙸𝙲 𝙽𝙾𝙽 𝚂𝚃𝙾𝙿 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RARusk Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 If we're going by a single book then I would say that Red Storm Rising is one of the best sub simulation games to come out for the Commodore 64, Amiga, and PC in the late '80s. "One day I will think of this as just another job. After all, this is what I do." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trip Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 So is it books based on games or games based on books? I will say I've been tempted to read Metro. Books based on "stuff" usually aren't by relatively known authors. That makes me nervous. Reading takes time so I need the author to keep me there. The way the story is told needs to be better than the story...ya know. My crappy games at MyCrappyGames.com Free copy of Save The Puppies and Kittens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cutter De Blanc Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 I liked the Worlds of Power books by F.X. Nine when I was a little kid. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_of_Power Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K^2 Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Not in terms of quality adaptation, but notable mention for a combo, there were talks of making a STALKER TV show based on STALKER books based on STALKER games which are inspired by Stalker film which is loosely based on a Roadside Picnic novel. Appropriate to the topic, both STALKER video games and Roadside Picnic novel are really good, but they got extremely little in common. Strugatsky brothers are basically Soviet equivalent of Phillip K. Dick. They inspired many film adaptations of their works, but the ones that are actually good are so loosely based on the books that it's more of a theme than anything, and then you take a game that's mostly just inspired by such a film and there are bare traces of original material left. Still, both are good, and I would recommend both. I would only recommend the film Stalker if you know who Tarkovsky is, you know what you're getting yourself into, and you still want to do that to yourself. Prior to filing a bug against any of my code, please consider this response to common concerns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dryspace Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 On 7/18/2020 at 1:06 PM, trip said: So is it books based on games or games based on books? Your guess is as good as mine. I'm even more confused than I was before, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Failed Again Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 (edited) Aliens Vs Predator Games based on Movies--lol Alien is a 1979 science-fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon. Based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, this one Edited July 31, 2020 by Failed Again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SageFan Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 The Witcher not only perfectly adapted it's source material, but improved upon it in many aspects. While the Sapowski novels are well regarded within fantasy literature, it never had too much of a unique identity. While I'm not going to say it's outright plagiarism (frankly because I believe that it's not the case), it's indisputable that the Witcher books were almost too similar to Moorcock's Elric series for comfort. The Witcher as a game franchise not only has a unique identity but doesn't lose anything in the translation process. Metro 2033 was faithful but a lot of what made the book so gripping was lost in the games. I get the feeling that Metro is more of an action series than horror. Maybe it's because I played it on the spartan mode and not the survivalist one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliamCanfield Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 (edited) On 7/18/2020 at 11:06 PM, trip said: So is it books based on games or games based on books? I will say I've been tempted to read Metro. Books based on "stuff" usually aren't by relatively known authors. That makes me nervous. Reading takes time so I need the author to keep me there. The way the story is told needs to be better than the story...ya know. I agree with you, reading takes time. But the knowledge that it gives is very valuable to me. It's a pity that I have so little time to read books now. I'm preparing for graduation, and I spend a lot of time writing my thesis. https://www.topwritersreview.com/reviews/kibin/ here is a review of the service that helps me with this. I hope to finish soon and have more time to read. Edited June 21, 2021 by WilliamCanfield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matrelith Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 The first three Mass Effect books are pretty solid, Revelation, Ascension and Retribution. They're set before ME1, ME2 and ME3 respectively. They give some entertaining backstory to characters like Anderson, Saren and Kahlee Sanders. The fourth one, Deception, is ass though. It contained so many lore breaking faults (it had a different writer) that it has been deemed non-canon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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