Happy Friyay everyone!
Time for another Off-Topic Friday question!
If you could turn any book or movie into a video game, what would it be and what genre would you choose?
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For me, I’d love to see Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn book series as a game! Perhaps an open world action-RPG. Being able to utilise metals and face off against different allomancers, launching through the air across a dystopian world, mistcloak swooshing behind through the mist… oh I wish!
For anyone who loves a good fantasy book and hasn’t read this series - I highly recommend checking it out 
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Oh man, that’s an interesting question. I think I’ve always had this dream in the back of my head of making a Co-op RPG/action game based on Eragon / The Inheritance Cycle series of books.
The idea was to base it on the heyday of the Dragon Rider order, and the story would be about some new recruit and their young dragon. One player would design & play the Rider, the other would design & play the Dragon. Go through adventures, fight together, fly together, grow together, the works.
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Anything from Jakub Wędrowycz series.
I don’t think it’s very popular but here is a quick summary:
Jakub Wędrowycz is the protagonist of a number of short stories by Andrzej Pilipiuk, a Polish science fiction and fantasy writer. Wędrowycz is an elderly alcoholic, moonshine producer, poacher, amateur exorcist and fighter against all sorts of supernatural forces dwelling around his village, from aliens to vampires, demons and devils, as well as more mundane threats such as Russian mafia, policemen and tax inspectors.
The character has been described as a horrendous old boozer, a village exorcist, bootlegger and poacher, who scares others off with his looks, smell, and manners – or rather lack thereof. Due to some supernatural abilities, he also exterminates ghosts, vampires, zombies, and any other kinds of “paranormal vermin”. In his spare time, he lifts spells, undoes curses, sometimes even saving humanity.
The name “Jakub Wędrowycz” is a wordplay based on a literal translation of Johnnie Walker into Polish.
(I don’t own english version, so I had to translate on the spot - sorry).
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Ahaha wow this sounds hectic and intriguing, I’ll have to check it out. Based on your description I can see how it could make for an interesting video game given how many different themes and ideas are incorporated!
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I would like a horror game about Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park. I must stress that it needs to be based on the 1990 novel and not the 1993 film.
Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian is also a great novel but its adaptability is certainly… difficult.
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If by FS:
Warhammer fantasy: Dreadfleet, 5 Pirates (Empire, Sartosa, Dwarf Navy, High Elf and Araby) against hordes of the Dreadfleet (Vampire Count, Coast, Undead Skaven, Tomb King and Chaos Dwarf mercenaries)
DnD: maybe something about Drizzt Do’Urden and his companions
Otherwise, something by Terry Pratchett.
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I would love to see a game based on The Phantom of the Opera. A single player stealth game set in the Paris Opera. Or maybe a slower paced asymmetrical multiplayer gothic horror game, where one player plays as the Phantom who can use trap doors, short cuts, etc. All while the other players have to perform tasks to win. Maybe not the most original game concept, but I think it would work really well with the setting.
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If you’d humor me for a moment and invert the question, I think a MvC3 movie would be dope.
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