Novels based on video games.

Gandalph

I got really into the Baldurs Gate game series and then found out there was a series of Forgotten Realms books that followed the likes of heroes such as Dritz O' Duarden (lol at spelling) from the game. I ordered about 10 of them on Ebay and never read any of them...sorry, pointless post but just what I know of book/games haha

nesf

Gandalph wrote: »

I got really into the Baldurs Gate game series and then found out there was a series of Forgotten Realms books that followed the likes of heroes such as Dritz O' Duarden (lol at spelling) from the game. I ordered about 10 of them on Ebay and never read any of them...sorry, pointless post but just what I know of book/games haha

Dritz isn't from the game, he's a lot older than that.

Gandalph

Damn those Elves and their long life spans

nesf

Gandalph wrote: »

Damn those Elves and their long life spans

He's Drow, don't call him an elf, he may stab you.

Potatoeman

Vegeta wrote: »

Don't get me wrong, they are fantastic books but just found it hard to love them. Funnily it's characters like Karsa who were easy to remember but it was all the human soldiers who kinda had a grey man thing going on for me. So many of them I found it hard to distinguish who was who at time

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Yeah many of the army guys are forgetable but it makes up for it with some really great characters Beak, Rake, Karsa, Tehol amd Bug there are loads of interesting characters.

Temptamperu

I liked the few elder scrolls books that came out.

Sand

sin0city wrote: »

If OP likes the Dragon Age world and lore as well as the Mass Effect series, there are a number of books set in that world written by David Gaider. The first two are prequels to the events in Origins.

http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Age:_The_Stolen_Throne

http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Age:_The_Calling

Asunder is set three years after the events of Dragon Age II.

http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Age:_Asunder

There's a new one coming out this year too and it's written by Patrick Weekes, who is a senior writer at BioWare. It's called The Masked Empire.

http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Age:_The_Masked_Empire

I haven't read any of them myself but I plan to get into them before Inquisition comes out. I love the Dragon Age World and lore.

I've read The Stolen Throne a couple of years ago when DAO first came out. I wasn't terribly impressed tbh - decent airplane/train read, no more than that. There was one powerful scene early in the book, and the rest was essentially read like Gaider showing off the DAO world with an extended roadtrip advertising the game with fairly wooden characters. If it was a movie Maric would have been played by Hayden Christensen. I didn't regret the money or time I spent on it but I never bothered picking up any of the others.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Sand wrote: »

If it was a movie Maric would have been played by Hayden Christensen.