KotOR Game Novelization

This has not been announced. I know that I would be interested in having the video game turned into a novel. I want to see if anyone else is interested, and hopefully build enough interest that Del Rey will consider this idea. I apologize if this is the wrong place or if it has already been posted.

 

I'm sure that you can find at least 20 fan fiction examples and according to Sturgeon's revalation there should be at least one which is as good as a publishable novel.

Or maybe I'm being incredibly naive.

Anyway, as the Baldur's Gate novelisation proved, this is a terrible idea.

 

Bah, who cares about Revan, we should have a Tag and Binks KotOR story, as they stumble throughout the entire KotOR game! Or better yet, show what Zayne's doing during the KotOR game! Though wait, that might spoil some things in the KotOR comics, unless the story is written Tag and Binks/Infinity style. Or Gryph's version of the game in his "memoirs" would probably be the best version.

 

Sturgeon provided a lower bound, not an upper one.

I haven't read them, but was the BG2 expansion one any better than the first two? (I'm wondering if author, not topic, is to blame...)

 

No.

A KotOR II novel would be great, however.

 

Novelisations of games and movies are almost always horrific to read. Don't expect quality because they're not designed for so. They're actually low budgeted to be that.

 

What, you didn't like Ruins of Dantooine?

 

QFT.

They usually turn out crap.

 

I'll have to agree. For the most part, everything was explained in the KotOR I video game. Plus, the KotOR comic book is slowly setting up all of the events that lead to KotOR I.

KotOR II however, was so rushed and we had 3 great Sith Lords that had so little detail....I'd be very interested in a novel that cleared alot of the mess the rushed video game gave us.

 

I'd be against a novelization of the actual events of the game in itself but maybe short stories of some of the characters would be nice, like of Jolee Bindo or Canderous Ordo before the events of KOTOR.

 

I'm saying, they're not designed to be good. Just a cheap read. Pubs spend little money on them.

 

Also, keep in mind the fact that if they make a novelisation based on the Kotor game, they'd have to come up with a name, face etc. for Revan, and that might make people a bit upset.

 

They already came up with a gender, which is the most game-defining characteristic for the character; name/face don't affect gameplay, but gender does. If anything was going to upset people, it was the gender lock.

 

Yeah, the people who would be upset have already been upset.

Some of them still are

 

You're not the only one.

 

This is a horrible idea on any number of levels. I could go into more depth, but given that lots of people have already pooh-poohed it and it's never going to happen anyway, I'm not going to bother.

 

Drew Karpyshyn, the guy who wrote the majority of KOTOR, says that it's a bad idea.

He cites that as part of the reasons his novelization of Baldur?s Gate II: Throne of Bhaal was underwhelming.

 

Thanks for dragging up the quote.

Game novelizations tend to be a bad idea, because game plots tend to function very differently than book plots - so do movie plots, for that matter. A really good example is the Halo novels - all of which are decent tie-in fiction except for the novel that tried to tell the story of the first game. Terrible. It couldn't really be otherwise. The first game has a great plot - but not one well-suited to a book.

The same thing goes for KotOR, either one of them. They have a massive amount of depth to them, far more than could be captured in a novel. A novel might be useful to explore other things related to the characters (though I'd really rather not see even that), but the games themselves should be well off limits for novels (and for that matter, the comics, though I love them).

- Keralys