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Fanfictions That You Would Like To See Made Into Video Games?

meloa789

meloa789

Basically, what are the fanfictions that make you go "This should be a video game"? Also it would be better for you to state what genres they would be and the gameplay mechanics they would have (although it's up to you to do so)

My picks:

. LordLucan's "The Shape of Nightmares to Come" and "Age of Dusk" as an RTS akin to Dawn of War series, an RPG or TPS like Space Marine, encompassing the events within the stories.

. Several SIs. It could be a great opportunity to see one particular character starting from bottom with full knowledge of the setting he/she is in and becoming more powerful in the process. Interactions with other characters would be interesting.

. Pencils Down Death Rays Up. A combination between Mass Effect and World of Darkness not only by settings, but also by gameplay mechanics would be something I would like to see.

. Tales of the Cosmic Wars. It's open up to many genres, by the virtue of being a massive crossover fanfiction.

and many more.
 
Friendship is Optimal...
Maybe...

Does anyone hear have any objections to a benevolent AI overlord?
 
If you're going to do a pony fanfic, then choose the one that would be the most fun.

Fallout Equestria.

It's like regular Fallout, but with more, quicker, slower, flashier ways to die horribly! And the Deathclaw stand-ins know how to use guns. :V
 
Guardian by Black Dragon 6 seems like it would be a fairly amusing game to play.

I liked Dancing with Demons by Daystar Clarion when it was still a thing, but not sure how it would be translated into gameplay.

Chibi-Reaper's Naruto the Videogame would be amazingly meta, though he never got that far with it.

EDIT- Jeesus, looking at the dates on these things makes me feel old.
 
runeblue360 said:
As impossible as it would be, The Games We Play by Ryuugi over on Spacebattles.
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Might work. At least in RPGs, the protagonist is usually expected to be a Mary Sue.

Anyway, on topic: Sleeping with the Girls, old as it is, could be pretty cool to try to survive, considering that the protagonist is a baseline human surrounded by supernaturally empowered badasses, posthumans and gods. You can't win a fight, so your only hope lies in diplomacy: figure out what they want and use that to convince them to if not help you, then at least not kill you. And you also have to deal with the fact of a ticking clock: Sleepwalker needs to sleep, but only rarely actually gets to, his injuries don't heal as quickly as everyone else around him and food and water are still necessities. It would be a brutally difficult resource management game, but it could be pretty cool once you figure out how to survive.

Some of Hiver's older fics might work, too. Choose a standard preset Planeswalker or make your own, then try to survive among the Planes. How do you approach a problem? Do you help the mortals or enslave them, or do you just try to ignore them? If you choose to get involved in the local politics, what faction do you join, or do you try to start your own? I would imagine it as one of the old style RPGs, with choices and dialogue out the wazoo and with immense power available to the PC - but the emphasis isn't on the powers, but on what you do with them.

Also seconding Peptuck's fics. No Gods Only Guns, for example, could make a pretty cool Borderlands sequel with the protagonists traveling from planet to planet, looking for Eridian artefacts or hunting down bandit lords, taking missions from the governments, the corps or other, shadier groups while pursuing some greater, over-arching goal that I have yet to come up with, interspersed with explosive violence.
 
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