Why weren't there more games based on Dune?

Why weren't there more games based on Dune?

Other urls found in this thread:

youtube.com/watch?v=8CWLx_RgisM
youtube.com/watch?v=tz8UBhofNOU
twitter.com/NSFWRedditGif

>99% of the map is desert
Sounds exciting

Sounds comfy

Dune has had a relatively small cultural impact.

Not really a great game material.

Objectively wrong.

It's a deeply uncomfortable, largely powerless existence for individuals. Strategy gaming is the best option, and that's already been done enough. Deserts of Kharak, had it done phenomenally well, might have.

I don't know if Denis Villenue or however you say his name is still going to make the film after 2049 didn't make big money, but if that happens we might see something. I'd rather not, honestly. It just goes to mediocrity and shit too quickly after the first book.

Perfect Dune game already happened
youtube.com/watch?v=8CWLx_RgisM

AC Origins managed to make it cool.

it is not actually a very interesting setting

>cultural impact
The books certainly did, but it didn't have plebified action movies like LOTR to get the kind of impact you have on mind.

As a package. Tons of works stole shamelessly from Dune, though.

HAHAHAHAHHA
it's difficult to write for and implement a lot of the core concepts like prescience and after children of dune it goes strange and departs form the dessert stuff and it would be impossible to set it anywhere in the that timefame without retconning stuff.
also majorly this, you're either practically a god by human standards or no one.

That one porn game is a 10/10

which one?

Star Citizen did it

please buy my game

This, has there been more content yet?

>hundreds of thematic worlds connected by portals
>several unique factions and religions to choose
>time travel
>respawn mechanic (cruciforms)
>final boss is a giant spiky monster that teleports behind you
Tell me Hyperion world wouldn't make an awesome RPG experience

because it's a work tied directly into its story. what we got with "what if" and closer adaptation are about the best you can hope for.

>dat feel when game is a genre defying title made before genre were crystallized the way they are today
It's like a strategy meets adventure meets VN meets management game, all with an outstanding soundtrack.

Behind the Dune

this thread is about Dune, asshole

I've read the Dune books, but I really don't understand the appeal. I read it because I am a fan of the genre; I admit it's a good book, but not really enjoyable to me.

I'd love a modern version of that
Why don't we get creative games like that anymore?

It costs money, usually better to just do one or two things and do them well.

I love how your mom and dad need to remind you that they're your mom and dad

AC Origins is like 50% desert

There are also caves and stuff

Because Dune2000 was perfect.

Just started playing Mad Max. Holy shit it's beautiful.I'm at 20 hours and still halfway through.

toxic worlds like giedi prime lush worlds like caladan giant spaceships the size of cities
there's definitely enough to work with.

Mars: War Logs has you fight a dune worm.

It's been perfected

underrated game

Every other sci-fi game which features desert (and some which don't) do.

Have you played Super Dune 2?

There's that one streamer bait survival trash game that would have a fuck huge worm jump out and insta kill you if you didn't move. I forgot the name of it, it sucked anyways

>giant worm = dune
I hate this meme

Bunch of unimaginative idiots in here, arrakis isn't the only fucking planet in dune you know

Make it about walking without rhythm and maybe we can talk.

>every media item that had a worm on the cover sold more
it's almost like they did it themselves

Most of the first Star Wars movie is based of the dune books.

dune is still better

We know so little of those you might as well have a game set in an original universe at that point.

How about we talk about why we haven't had a Grand Strategy based on Foundation yet?

some dude is currently making a porn game based on it bro. What more do u want?

It is the principle planet though. Most are barely touched on and the rest are just boring planets like ours. Like that Military planet that pumps out Super soldiers. What do we know about it besides it houses prisons and is so shit most people do not see the age of 18?

>We know so little of those you might as well have a game set in an original universe at that point.
I love that this and dune were like a year apart and basically about the same kinda thing.

Deserts are underutilized as game settings.
Everybody always jerks off over the cinematic forest shot but a well-designed desert level is where it's fuckin' at.

I think HBO is developing a TV series, don't know how they'll keep up interest when it's 90% talking though.

>girl tries to strike up a conversation
>what?
>s-stop talking
Was he /ourguy/ ?

I fucking loved dune strategy games. They are still charming games.

Remake when?!

Salusa Secundus
we know it's barren and has a major lack of natural resources and hospitable weather and has hazardous plants like shigawire vines. It's basically a wasteland.

I agree, We really need more games with nicely done Deserts. People also need to know that there is more to a desert than just dunes. The are "rocky" Deserts too.
IIRC that was canceled and if they did do it they would probably fuck up the Foundations whole fucking philosophy.

There are planets in dune other than dune
Plus, in the story dune eventually gets terraformed into having plants and water

It's had 5 video games. Thats pretty fucking generous all things considered.

I'm not a brainlet, but Children of Dune confused me. I got the ocerall plot, but there was too much metaphysical and future divining
So the reason Leto was able to "ascend" was because the Preacher was afraid of abandoning his humanity to bind with the sandtrout/worms, right? He only then joins up with Leto to confront Alia, but wouldn't he have seen that with his foresight before he was blinded? It's a shame how he just was offed by a nameless priest while the perspective was at a vatange point.

not sure if you saw but
stop talking is not in quotations so it's an action not something you say.

I think I also just hate forests because of how overdone they are.
More deserts, more legit oceans, no more forests or "tropical" islands

>better to just do one or two things and do them well.

It'd be nice if more people would at least attempt to reach this high

he foresaw his Leto becoming the worm and it terrified him though his prescience he has saw the same possibility for himself but he chose not to take it. He foresaw his own death but chose not to avert it. His wife is dead his daughter is a monster and soon to be dead and his son is going to become the greatest one. I believe he just wanted to die.

Still no decent mods though. Fug.

Would a Grand Strategy game set in the Dune universe be good?

Paul compares precognition to looking at a landscape IIRC - you can't see beyond certain knolls. But yeah, he was afraid of making the move Leto did. And he couldn't foresee what Leto will do because the way it works in Dune you can't predict actions of other prophets.

sister*

Because books are fucking gay and games based on them are always shit.
Go back to /lit/

...

pic related is salt
sometimes it's covered by a thin film of highly relfective water
Since the ground is so salty though, you cant drink the water

...

Dune invented modern sci-fi.

Also consider northrend and skyrim
Both manage to keep the general theme of cold place, but they have enough fun with it for players not to get bored

This one isnt really a desert, but it's close enough for me

>you cant predict actions of other prophets
Okay, that clears up what I thought was a lot of issues
Still, I still don't entirely get how Leto joined with the sandtrout. It was their first physical appearance in the series, and he just absorbs them onto his skin to become a god. Was it just because of his spice oversaturation in addition to his prescience of the outcome?

this is what I imagined the one valley of museum fremen looking like the one in god emperor

>Why weren't there more games based on Dune?
reddit

what about reddit

I blame reddit

I thought it had to do with his specific body chemistry/make up that allowed him to bond with the sandtrout.

I also always thought that Paul saw the Golden Path too, but that it repulsed him so much that he chose physical and psychic blindness to it. He wasn't aware that he'd actually have children.

I honestly don't recall if there's ever the exact explanation, however you have to remember that even an average BG witch possesses an incredible amount of control over her body, allowing her to change poisonous substance into a drug.

That fucking music, man.

youtube.com/watch?v=tz8UBhofNOU

How is that porn game coming along?

RTS is dead and modern gamers don't read books.

I just want a modern RPG set in a huge desert. :(

Hopefully ES6 is in Hammerfell. kms otherwise

Star Wars is Dune for retards

for retards and children

only first two books were good

they're in the original dune and it does explain a lot about their life cycle in the appendixes related to the ecology of dune. The trout don't avoid water they encapsulate it and their bodies eventually fuse to make a sandworm. Leto tricked them into think he was water and had enough spice essence in his blood that they stayed. Also the spice allowed him to regulate even the smallest chemical processes in his body.

>ES6
>RPG

Hahahahah

the setting is great but Dan Simmons can never write a good story for his settings.

>HAHAHAHA
>look how contrarian I am!

The first one was a pretty good read, the next ones were quite odd, and I was told to run and never read the other 57 books of the universe

how would that even work though? I mean if you want to keep the premise of Foundation intact there's you're either playing as a faction destined to win or as one destined to lose so you cannot do a traditional grand strategy game out of it.

The first foundation meant jack shit iirc.

I fucking love deserts, one of the few things dragon age inquisition got right were the desert maps.

Dune is not game friendly I guess? Can't imagine dune RPG. Only RTSor BF style game at best

sure the second foundation was keeping things on track, but you cannot really oppose them either since they are essentially the illuminati on steroids.

Well OP, how would a Dune game look like in your mind?

Yeah, but you could just say that the way the events are going are the way they want it to go. They don't physically exert there force at all.

After a brief look, it seems to be similar to the first Dune game and seems to stay truer to the books than the later games aesthetics wise.
Not gonna pay a penny for that shit anyway as the art looks ehh at best and I don't want to ruin my image of my favourite book series.

>dune
is great mandatory reading
>dark messiah
is where the headgames stuff begins if you like it stay if you don't stop reading here
>children of dude
more headgames less about ecology more about politics
>god emperor of dune
borderline insane ramblings based on frank herbert's political convictions but nonetheless a fun read
>heratics
Frank's topic has changed from politics to sex dune dies
>chapter house
better head games lot of ghola stuff probably more satisfying to read than the last two less insane political stuff.

everything until Frank died is good, fucking sucks that his last book was the one that actually ended on a kind of cliffhanger the bastard.