What are some other games that completely ruin the original material

Final Fantasy.
Spirits Within was nothing like that teenage weebshit

I liked both Roadside Picnic and the STALKER games. They're different, but still very enjoyable

inspired by =/= based on

CoC crashes too often,what do?

>>386461253
witcher

You mean the book, or the movie.
Because the book is kinda shit anyway. Good idea, completely wasted.

I think that Stalker did actually understand the aesthetics of both the few good parts of the book and the entire movie surprisingly well, for a videogame. The story is actually terribly silly and the final reveal about the noosphere is absolutely fucking retarded, but it only makes up for about 5% of the story.
The way it works with the old Soviet Cold War Body Horror and the landscape and atmosphere is actually quite amazing. About as good as you could ever translate this material into a mainstream oriented game.

It would be nice to see a less shooting oriented version of Stalker though.

>>386462389
>Because the book is kinda shit anyway. Good idea, completely wasted.

yes, because you read the translated version you fucktard

So what's the deal with Roadside Picnic

>>386462470
>yes, because you read the translated version you fucktard
Yeah. One of the best translations available, too. Been praised by Russian linguists in particular for being very accurate and maintaining the spirit of the book. I do live in slavic country though, so our translations of other Slavic literature tends to be spot on.

The problem is not with the translation, kid. It's the fact that the absolute strongest element of the book, the Zone itself, gets about twelve pages. Rest is mostly Jetsons-like descriptions of cartoony future.
The other problem is that it's cheap. Based on a very cheap, very dishonest trick. Specifically the use of paradoxes and unwillingness to provide adequate descriptions. Invoking one's imagination, or providing paradoxical descriptions are all very fine, but this book MASSIVELY overuses them, to a point where it just becomes obnoxious and pretentious as hell. It's just very inelegant writing.

The final problem is the utter lack of actual conclusion.
Sure, the core idea is interesting. The notion of the Road Side Picknick, the idea of struggling to accept existence of something completely beyond or comprehension, is a neat one. But the actual story of Redrick and his cast, the ultimate concept of Wishgranter are completely vapid and devoid of actual fucking point. Especially the ending, which so PAINFULLY cheap and copout it's not even funny.

Stalker could have made for a fun little short story. The idea of the Zone, on the few rare occasions of it ACTUALLY BEING FUCKING DESCRIBED are evocative and beautiful. And the idea of the alien visit leaving in it's wake something so utterly out of our realm of comprehension - possibly by complete accident - is neat and could carry on a short story.

Rest of it is garbage though.

>>386464905
what a load of pretentious reddit-tier horseshit. all that rusty slavic water must be erroding your troglodyte brain

>>386461253
It should be stated that STALKER simply borrowed ideas from the movie and book, and was never claimed to be an adaptation of either.

>>386465184
Well, that is a very powerful and mature reaction to criticism. Hope your are proud of yourself. I mean: when somebody says something negative about something you like, you managed to argue with reddit and nationality!

I'm blown away!

>>386464905
Well written, and to the point. thanks.