I think it can work very well as a video game if it’s done correctly. It needs to be about movement. If it’s made kind of like Spider-Man was it might have a chance. If it has that type of movement and weight to it I could see it working. It’d be super easy to screw it up though.

Mechanically, it would make a great hack and slash like Devil May Cry.

It could also be fun if done well like The Witcher.

Sadly, for every success like The Witcher, there are 20 Wheel of Time games.

Could be fun. I just desperately want an animated adaptation of the Stormlight Archives. Mistborn would be a killer three season animated show too.

I’m sure it’ll have the “not like the other girls” protagonist who is smoking hot and doesn’t know it, but will it also retain the cringey dialogue and cliché teenage love triangle of the book? Those are the most important elements of that literary slopfest. It could truly become the next Marvel franchise.

Not sure if I want this. Like others are saying, you have to have great freedom of movement, and it can’t be sloppy. Think about the allomancer rail systems Kelsier and the others used. Metal spires that go from city to city that they can hop along. You would have to be able to do this effortlessly for it to work. Our girl (I forget her name, sorry) had to learn how to do all that, but that would be the worst part of the game. The game needs to assume you know what you’re doing and err on the side of caution. Basically seamless hand holding.

I’d much rather it be a series (on HBO or the like). The actual metal jumping and whatnot is not the most interesting thing about this world.

It seems like we just need to look at games that have fantastical and parkour based movement — Mirror’s Edge, Assassin’s Creed series, Cyberpunk, Hogwarts Legacy, the recent Jedi games with that guy from Shameless — to see how this could work. And others. But for a lot of those games, the movement becomes one of the most important things. You focus on how cool it is to get around. Oh and all those games have a sense or scan feature, so you get all that, and it’s not really what you want to play.

Better to watch it as a series IMO.

Never heard of it before though I’m interested in adaptations of books but that’s more in hopes of ones I like getting something

A few years ago I’d have wanted a series too. Now? You get to choose HBO, Netflix, or Amazon. All three have a better chance at fucking up an IP than doing right by them at this point.

I think small(er) studio gaming is at a really good place where they can punch above their weight right now.

Maybe I’m just a pessimist, but I think there’s a better chance of us getting a pleasant surprise from a video game than a TV show now.

Plenty of people love Sanderson and Mistborn, no need to yuck somebody else’s yum.

All of the Cosmere adaptations should be animated. There’s nothing more jarring than seeing actors age 10 years between 10 episode seasons.

I know it because its the reason jordans wife chose him to complete the wheel of time series. Never read it myself but it would be on the list if I start reading a lot again which I thought was unlikely two decades ago but with enshitification I am moving to less and less tech.

Lots of people love AI too, but that doesn’t make Midjourney an artist. Liking the taste of slop doesn’t make it not slop.

Most of his books are written like he’s pretty desperate for someone to make a video game adaptation. The metal (“fuel”) and “classes” in Mistborn, the way weapons work in the Cytoverse, etc., etc., it all seems specifically designed for a game adaptation.

Hopefully Mistborn goes to a studio that knows what they’re doing and the gameplay is actually fun!

God forbid teenage girls have someone they can look up to in Fantasy in SciFi! Oh, the horror!

Now that you mention it, a Mistborn’s Pushing and Pulling could move around a lot like Spider-Man. Pewter and tin for Spider-strength and Spider-Sense. Soothing and Rioting can work as dialog options or like Repels in the overworld.

With a proper stat tree I think it could work.

Fair.

Maybe it would be better to have a Mistborn game that takes place in the Mistborn universe than a retelling of Vin’s story, or Kelsier’s. Maybe another attempted coup on the Lord Ruler, or something set after the events of the first book but before the end of the third one. Trying to avoid spoilers but if you’ve read them, you know the events I’m speaking of. Sanderson kind of boxed in when a game could reasonably take place. No one seriously attempted to take on the Lord Ruler before Kelsier (the first time, when he was thrown in the mines) and after the third book… why, you might as well just go the Wax & Wayne era (which might be better, have kind of a Dishonoured kind of setting). Maybe an original story in the W&W era.

Somewhere between Spiderman and Arkham Asylum style games would really work really well.

The setting of the first book was very cloak and dagger with lots of similarly and overly powered opponents.

Book 2 and 3 got turned on thier head and you’d probably want to slowly adapt towards Prototype or inFamous as the setting loses its cloak and dagger story elements.

Then it’s a good thing you don’t have to play it if the game ever comes out, huh? And believe it or not but you also don’t need to be an asshole about other people enjoying something. There are a lot of objective downsides to AI, but an IP you don’t like is just something for you to ignore. The horror.

This is an odd card to play here because the protagonist only comes to value her appearance by seeing it through the lens of the male gaze. Ursula LeGuin or Becky Chambers would be far better places to look in that respect.

I don’t remember the appearance of either Vin or Spensa being in any way an important or even relevant piece of the stories.

The entirety of the focus was on what the girls were doing, not how they looked.

A book series so poorly written, you’ll never believe the author did so on purpose.