With the astounding success of The Witcher and Metro series it is a wonder that more books aren’t being adapted or continued in video game format. Here is a list of five books that would make great games.
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I can't fk with this list. They missed on alot of games probably before the writers times. Also I know people loved some portal but I was never a fan.
Tomb Raider 1
Driver 1
Abe’s Odyssey
FF6
King of Fighters 94
Mortal Kombat OG
LINK 2 the past
Street Fighter 2
Resident Evil 1
Infinite but not the first two games? Witcher 3 but not the first two games?? GTA V but not literally any of the games before it??? Portal 2 but not the first? Also if you're going to play Shadow of The Colossus play the remaster and not the remake. Can't say I disagree with the list but my man it's all over the place.
Awesome list! Hot take on Fear (and it's hard af expansion Persaus Mandate!) Bioshock Infinite is stellar, so is the Witcher 3 and you nailed it by having Ocarina of Time. So many fantastic games! Gotta play 'em all! Next one on my list is Prey after I beat Dead Space 2 and Splinter Cell Conviction.
Metro 2033 mechanics that would adapt perfectly to VR, and the upcoming Metro Awakening by Vertigo Games this year.
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Hideyuki Kikuchi's 'Vampire Hunter D' novels would make a great foundation for a Witcher/Bloodborne RPG hybrid - D is the perfect 'blank-slate' protaganist, plus his 'demon hand', half-vamp bloodlust and heat syndrome would make for a variety of interesting gameplay mechanics... The post-apocalyptic/sci-fi/fantas y setting has enough depth and complexity for any number of unique sidequests - many of which could be lifted from the books - and the world's gold-based economy could serve as a basis for upgrades/repairs to D's sword, armor, cyber-horse and such, whereas vampire blood could be a resource for levelling up his abilities.
Obviously CDPR would be my #1 choice, but they're gonna be busy with Cyberpunk (and it's all but guaranteed sequels) to ever get around to doing it... Platinum or Fromsoft would also make fine candidates - plus they're Japanese, which is always preferable with regards to anime-style games.
It amazes me that noone has ever attempted to do this (outside of an atrocious PS1 game), but there's currently an animated series in production - which will be based on the novels - so here's hoping someone from my aforementioned list of devs takes notice... done right, a game could be massively successful.
The Elric series by Michael Moorcock. All the Eternal Champion novels actually but the White Wolf Elric sits at the top followed by Corum and Urlik Skarsol.
The works of Phillip Dick or Harry Harrison, amongst many other Sci Fi authors, would be wonderful sources for game material.