Putting the 'role' back in role-playing games since 2002.
Donate to Codex
Good Old Games
  • Welcome to rpgcodex.net, a site dedicated to discussing computer based role-playing games in a free and open fashion. We're less strict than other forums, but please refer to the rules.

    "This message is awaiting moderator approval": All new users must pass through our moderation queue before they will be able to post normally. Until your account has "passed" your posts will only be visible to yourself (and moderators) until they are approved. Give us a week to get around to approving / deleting / ignoring your mundane opinion on crap before hassling us about it. Once you have passed the moderation period (think of it as a test), you will be able to post normally, just like all the other retards.

Information Dark Souls 2 and The Witcher Graphic Novels Announced

Crooked Bee

(no longer) a wide-wandering bee
Patron
Joined
Jan 27, 2010
Messages
15,048
Location
In quarantine
Codex 2013 Codex 2014 PC RPG Website of the Year, 2015 Codex 2016 - The Age of Grimoire MCA Serpent in the Staglands Dead State Divinity: Original Sin Project: Eternity Torment: Tides of Numenera Wasteland 2 Shadorwun: Hong Kong Divinity: Original Sin 2 BattleTech Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire
Tags: CD Projekt; Dark Souls 2; From Software; Namco Bandai; The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings; Witcher, The

Comic book adaptation of Dark Souls 2 and The Witcher have been announced at New York Comic Con. Forbes' Erik Kain reports:

From Software’s Dark Souls 2 is getting a free online graphic novel called Dark Souls 2: Into the Light. It’s being developed primarily for the internet, but certain editions of the game will come with a print copy, according to Namco Bandai. I’m intensely curious how Dark Souls, a game with few words and a very enigmatic storyline, will translate to the printed page. What new lore will we be privy to this coming January when the comic is slated to go online?

Into the Light is being written by Rob Williams and Andi Ewington, with illustrations by Simon Coleby.

The much wordier series The Witcher by CD Projekt RED, based on the books by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, should be an excellent fit for a comic book.

Truthfully, some portions of The Witcher 2 were told in a comic book style already, so this isn’t even that big of a step for Geralt of Rivia.

Dark Horse, the publishers of everything from Star Wars comics to Hellboy and Mass Effect are teaming up with the game developer on this one. The story is summed up as a new adventure of Geralt, so no rehash of the games or books:

“Traveling near the edge of the Black Forest, in the land of the Angren, monster hunter Geralt meets a widowed man whose dead and murderous wife resides in an eerie mansion known as the House of Glass, a place of endless rooms where horror waits around every corner. Geralt will have to use all his witcher prowess to solve the manor’s mystery and survive.”​

Check out Erik's article for some images.
 

toro

Arcane
Vatnik
Joined
Apr 14, 2009
Messages
14,087
Comic book adaptation is not a bad idea when it's done right. And the main requirement is that the story should be written by From Software and not by somebody else. Even more not by some mediocre writer of superheroes garbage.
 

ERYFKRAD

Barbarian
Patron
Joined
Sep 25, 2012
Messages
28,349
Strap Yourselves In Serpent in the Staglands Shadorwun: Hong Kong Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag. Pathfinder: Wrath I'm very into cock and ball torture I helped put crap in Monomyth
Is Dark Horse the name associated with the uniquely grotesque Mass Effect comic?
 
Joined
Sep 18, 2013
Messages
1,258
Meh. If only these were comic book format adventure games. Not comic book look in 3D eg. The Walking Dead game but actual comic books, except inventory, puzzles and CYA stuff.
 

Explorerbc

Arcane
Joined
Nov 22, 2012
Messages
1,170
There was a comic book called Reasons of State included with the Witcher 2, at least on gog, which I found pretty good. If the new ones are anything like it, I would definitely be interested in them.
 

ghostdog

Arcane
Patron
Joined
Dec 31, 2007
Messages
11,085
Bah, I just wish someone did a decent English translation of the witcher novels.
 

Gerrard

Arcane
Joined
Nov 5, 2007
Messages
12,016
I thought the ones that are released were decent? (Mind you I haven't actually read them).
They seem to be taking an awfully long time though.
 

As an Amazon Associate, rpgcodex.net earns from qualifying purchases.
Back
Top Bottom