| PullusPardus said:
Exactly, that's why I think adapting novels is a great thing. Imagine a game based on Jules Verne novels. And for crying out loud do not add a "twist" to it and make a shooter or zombie survival horror based as a "modern take" on the stories.. |
I don't think that's a good idea. Games can't even adapt films right yet. Adapting novels would be far more difficult since pacing is completely different and has to include gameplay. Since games haven't matured to a point where gameplay and story telling is one and the same yet, the contrast between the two would be jarring and wouldn't work.
Instread, what should happen is that novelists should start writing for video games. The gameplay would be sculpted to fit the scenario of the story, as opposed to how it is now where it's story cutscene, than gameplay, than story cutscene, than the same gameplay even though the plot has progressed, etc.
