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Posted January 17, 2009
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whodares2: Now I really, really feel shame for not knowing such and influential title. Even though I've only been PC gaming since '02 there is no excuse for that. :(
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Andy_Panthro: No need for shame! the fact you're here means you're interested, and theres no way that everyone knows about every game genres origins... I've been a PC gamer for about 20 years, so I've seen a lot come and go, but I'm sure there are things I won't have heard of!
I think in the case of Dune II, Westwood Studios followed up later with Command and Conquer, which has made more of a name for itself, especially with all the sequels. Basically though each version is an elaborate re-packaging of Dune II. (although the C&C games are now made by EA, which is a bit of a shame.)

It's kind of fitting in a sick and twisted way that EA is the one making/in charge of the C&C series. After all, what else have they been doing to the rest of the industry? That's right, commanding and conquering the hell out of it, unfortunately.
Posted January 18, 2009
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RafaelLopez: Dune had an old fairly obscure adventure title. You should be ashamed of not knowing Dune II though, which is the mother of modern 4X RTS! Very enjoyable.
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Fenixp: 4X = 4X games are a genre of strategy video game in which players control an empire and "eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate." ....

From the Wikipedia article I gather the Warcraft kind of game is no 4X, which probably makes me much like a donkey, mule, or some other dumb equine typing nonsense here. Still, I've always found this kind of game had those premises (explore the field, expand the home city, exploit the spice, exterminate the enemy).
That of course doesn't make me less equine in terms of game knowledge.
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Wishbone: The original Dune game wasn't that obscure, it was fairly well known. It was based more on the movie than the book, though, or at least it incorporated "weirding modules", which were unique to the movie.

Fairly obscure here in Brasil then. ;)
Post edited January 18, 2009 by RafaelLopez
Posted January 18, 2009
Books based on games: Those Halo novels, Gears novels, Starcraft novels, EndWar novels, Warcraft novels... shall I continue?
Games based on books aren't very common, since movies are based on books, then games just piggy-back on the film's distorted version of the IP. Unless it's LoTR games, I wouldn't touch any film-based IP game with a ten-foot pole.
Posted January 18, 2009
A few other games based on books:
Ringworld: Revenge of The Patriarch (1992)
Return to Ringworld (1994)
Both are (naturally) based on Larry Niven's Ringworld novels, although they use the setting, but not the plot or characters. Both games are point-n-click adventures. I've never played any of them, but they might be nice additions to the growing point-n-click catalogue here at GOG.
Posted January 18, 2009
There's also American McGee's Alice, loosely based on Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass.
Posted January 18, 2009
Rogue Trooper is based on the comics, but comics count as a book, so it's fair to say that it's an excellent game based on a book, and I hope it comes to GOG at some point.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is based on Roadside Picnic and Stalker, the film made of it, but someone mentioned that.
Planescape: Torment had a truly terrible novelisation which, among other things, gave the Nameless One a name.
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michaelleung: I wouldn't touch any film-based IP game with a ten-foot pole.

Riddick was much better than the film.
Posted January 18, 2009
The Darkness was based on a comic by the same name. The Darkness is one of my favorite games ever made. If Starbreeze doesn't make a sequel after they finish their remake of Riddick, I think I may go crazy.
Posted January 18, 2009
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msoya: Planescape: Torment had a truly terrible novelisation which, among other things, gave the Nameless One a name.

Well so did the game, you can find your true name at one point.
An interesting side note about names, if you used the name Adahn enough an actual Adahn appears, seeminly as a creation of your own willpower.
Posted January 18, 2009
Betrayal at Krondor was a really good game based on characters from the novels of Raymond Feist. I keep hoping GOG will pick that one up.
Post edited January 18, 2009 by Syme
Posted January 18, 2009
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream was a pretty solid, if ruthlessly sadistic, adventure game.
Posted January 18, 2009
Anybody know of this one game, I think it's called The Witcher. I heard it was based on a book. I'm not sure what that guy's deal is....is he a witch with an extra letter tacked on or is he a witch-killer (hence the er added to the witch)? Man, I just don't know....
Posted January 18, 2009
The Rainbow Six series was based off of the novel of the same name. Though I 'm not sure now if Endwar the game came first or the book? I know that Tom Clancy sold his name to Ubisoft allowing them to bring out games that he did not pen.
Has anyone played the Agatha Christie adventure games? Are they worth picking up?
Posted January 19, 2009
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JudasIscariot: Anybody know of this one game, I think it's called The Witcher. I heard it was based on a book. I'm not sure what that guy's deal is....is he a witch with an extra letter tacked on or is he a witch-killer (hence the er added to the witch)? Man, I just don't know....

have you heard the song "witchy woman" by the eagles?
well a witcher is what you would call a witchy man.
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