Video Game Novels

[Scum Of Orion]

I've been reading a backlog of novels based off my favorite video games that I bought while I was a teen but didn't have time to read through them. It's funny looking at the Venn diagram of nerdy gamers and nerdy readers and how its basically a circle.
I recently read Bioshock Rapture and was surprised at how good of a novel it was on its own. Serving as a prequel to Bioshock 1 and putting in post release setup for 2 it fills gaps between both games, while also metaphorically and literally laying the foundations for Rapture. You get a true sense of the city as it was, and how it fell into horror. It's also just a really good dystopian political thriller and I was disappointed by the lack of an ending until I remembered a minute after that the ending is Bioshock 1 and 2, which I'm now rebuying and replaying.
What are some of your favorite video game novelizations or books set in a games universe?

 

[Nidstang]

Star Wars: Dark Forces has novelizations (they are really trade-style comic books in size, but it's all prose with some illustrations - not actually comics) which are cool. They're the only Kyle Katarn focused stories in the entirety of the old EU too.

 

[Skeleben]

I read a few of the Assassins Creed novels. I remember thinking Assassins Creed 4: Black Flag was a really kickass read. I was like 12 when I read it so maybe it doesn't hold up now haha, but I got a lot out of it. It covered a shit ton of events from before the game starts, which was really cool to read because it actually gave a lot of context to some dialogue exchanges in the game. It even goes beyond where the game ends which is a pleasant surprise, for like 40 more pages! Edward's my personal favourite AC protagonist, and I remember the book did a really awesome job tackling all the challenges of living at sea, and what being stuck on a boat for months at a time entailed. I think I also read the Assassins Creed 1 novel, but from memory it was a little bland and was mostly a one-for-one remake of the game story.

 

[Scum Of Orion]

Star Wars: Dark Forces has novelizations (they are really trade-style comic books in size, but it's all prose with some illustrations - not actually comics) which are cool. They're the only Kyle Katarn focused stories in the entirety of the old EU too.

I need those books.
I could've sworn he was more prominent, but it's been a while since I read my EU. Still cool that Dark Forces had a novel, though Star Wars was the big innovator in making heaps of novels for a brand AFAIK.
Maybe I should've included retro movie novels in the post, that and reread Zahn's Thrawn books.

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I read a few of the Assassins Creed novels. I remember thinking Assassins Creed 4: Black Flag was a really kickass read. I was like 12 when I read it so maybe it doesn't hold up now haha, but I got a lot out of it. It covered a shit ton of events from before the game starts, which was really cool to read because it actually gave a lot of context to some dialogue exchanges in the game. It even goes beyond where the game ends which is a pleasant surprise, for like 40 more pages! Edward's my personal favourite AC protagonist, and I remember the book did a really awesome job tackling all the challenges of living at sea, and what being stuck on a boat for months at a time entailed. I think I also read the Assassins Creed 1 novel, but from memory it was a little bland and was mostly a one-for-one remake of the game story.

I heard Assassin's Creed's books can go hard but that black flag novel sounds right up my alley. Love books about naval life and its challenges.
I heard 3's novel Forsaken reframes the whole story, its all of 3 from Haytham's perspective. I need to hunt it down too.

 

[sandogma]

I only read the first two books many years ago.

 

[Nidstang]

I need those books.
I could've sworn he was more prominent, but it's been a while since I read my EU. Still cool that Dark Forces had a novel, though Star Wars was the big innovator in making heaps of novels for a brand AFAIK.
Maybe I should've included retro movie novels in the post, that and reread Zahn's Thrawn books.

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Kyle makes some appearances in other books, but he's never a main character outside of Dark Forces/Jedi Knight. There are three books that roughly cover the events from the games, with some extra stuff.

I love the old EU.

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Also the early Warcraft books are pretty cool.

 

[Scum Of Orion]

I only read the first two books many years ago.
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The only doom book I've read is the comic

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But I do own the like 3 of the doom books, I really need to burn through my backlog and find out about this Flynn Taggart guy

 

[Raziya The Seeker]

I had this, once upon a time.

Found it in my grandma's book collection, probably from my uncle when he was a kid. Got that and The Pigman by Paul Zindel, because Mom wanted me to read a real book. Both were fun. Other than that, never read any other books based off video games.

 

[TotzOnGaming]

Dunno if this counts but the last I've read recently was the Lost Sword Prequel to Ys IX.

 

[LiberoVulpes]

I highly recommend the Republic Commando novels.

 

[SolemnlyDoc]

The books accompanying the Division games are pretty good.

 

[happymasksalesman]

I've been reading a backlog of novels based off my favorite video games that I bought while I was a teen but didn't have time to read through them. It's funny looking at the Venn diagram of nerdy gamers and nerdy readers and how its basically a circle.
I recently read Bioshock Rapture and was surprised at how good of a novel it was on its own. Serving as a prequel to Bioshock 1 and putting in post release setup for 2 it fills gaps between both games, while also metaphorically and literally laying the foundations for Rapture. You get a true sense of the city as it was, and how it fell into horror. It's also just a really good dystopian political thriller and I was disappointed by the lack of an ending until I remembered a minute after that the ending is Bioshock 1 and 2, which I'm now rebuying and replaying.
What are some of your favorite video game novelizations or books set in a games universe?
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I read undertale comics and majora's mask manga lately. They were so good.

 

[DunkeyKong]

Metroid manga, it's pretty good

Also, damn I hate Ridley

 

[fake-kun]

 

[Asian girls lover]

 

[Advil Lavs]

This might sound dumb, but...

I bought this book when I was 11 probably and I really liked it. I've read it a long time ago, and not in English but I'm still sure I would like it. And maybe you will to, I dunno.