Only the first game has any elements from the movie in it, the games following it appear to be solely book inspired.noiseredux wrote:were the games pre-movie? The movie was 1984 I believe.Croooow! wrote:I'm surprised no one's mentioned Dune yet.
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Most of the Shin Megami Tensei series is based on a book called Digital Devil Story by Aya Nishitani. You can find an English translation of the book here:
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The Call of Cthulhu.
But thats a short story.
But thats a short story.
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The Parasite Eve game was actually a sequel to the book. So it's based on the same series, but it has it's own story.noiseredux wrote:Yes.toadhall wrote:Isn't Parasite Eve based on based on a book?
I've always found it quite interesting that they made a sequel to a book using a video game. Then they made a sequel to the game (which I have not played yet).
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StarShip Troopers: Terran Ascendancy is based off the Starship Troopers book.
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Gosh darn it you beat me to it.molotovwars wrote:What about all the Tom Clancy Rainbow Six games.
And don't anyone say that the game came out first. You know damn well they were supposed to come out simultaneously.
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The games came after the movie. Dune 2000 also has elements from the movie. There are no weirding modules in the books. The sonic attack tanks are based on those. The characters in the videos seem very similar to those of the first movie the same for Emperor. On another nothe House Ordos is a a made up house for the games. I love Dune. There's supposed to be a new version of the movie in the works.Croooow! wrote:Only the first game has any elements from the movie in it, the games following it appear to be solely book inspired.noiseredux wrote:were the games pre-movie? The movie was 1984 I believe.Croooow! wrote:I'm surprised no one's mentioned Dune yet.
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It's not even actually based on that short story, it's more loosely based on Shadow over Innsmouth. It's got a lot of other references to lovecraft mythos too..TheyCallMeTheSwede wrote:The Call of Cthulhu.
But thats a short story.


