What video games are based on tabletop RPGs?

[Sunnyvale]

There's Shadowrun, Magic (if that counts), a post-apocolyptic PC game whose name eludes me (early 2000's), and a good number of 80's D&D knock offs for the PC's of the day. Mechwarrior too, and seems like I heard of a Vampire the Masquerade and a Gamma World PC game, but I dunno for sure. The good ones, IMO ( and I haven't played D&D online) are the PC Forgotten Realms/Baldur's Gate series. Good stuff there, for ports of an RPG. But seriously, a pen-n-paper RPG is so far removed from any video game it's not fair to call even the FF series RPG's. What role exactly does one play in those games? They're strategy games, with a fantasy bent.

Edit: After a bit o Google, I got more info. Fallout IMO is based on Gamma World, just as the movie Jonny Mnemonic was based on Shadowrun. That's the PC game whose name eluded me.

[NerdXCrewWill]

Edit: After a bit o Google, I got more info. Fallout IMO is based on Gamma World, just as the movie Jonny Mnemonic was based on Shadowrun. That's the PC game whose name eluded me.

Johnny Mnemonic is actually my favorite movie of all time. It's based on a story by William Gibson that predates Shadowrun by 8 years.

Fallout obviously took a great deal of influence from Wasteland. I think it's much more likely that the creators were more familiar with Wasteland, as Fallout is so markedly similar, than Gamma World. Wasteland, however, was most likely influenced by Gamma World.

[Sunnyvale]

Johnny Mnemonic is actually my favorite movie of all time. It's based on a story by William Gibson that predates Shadowrun by 8 years.

Fallout obviously took a great deal of influence from Wasteland. I think it's much more likely that the creators were more familiar with Wasteland, as Fallout is so markedly similar, than Gamma World. Wasteland, however, was most likely influenced by Gamma World.

Wow, I didn't know Shadowrun was the plagarist!

[Blitzwing256]

heroscape for nes was original a board game

[Kitsune Sniper]

Wow, I didn't know Shadowrun was the plagarist!

Oh yeah. I read Gibson's Neuromancer and was shocked by how much stuff was lifted in Shadowrun. Though to be fair, Gibson created the basis for cyberpunk genre as a whole.

There's lots of Dungeons and Dragons PC games...

http://www.gog.com/en/mix/rpgs

There's nine at GOG.

[Berserker]

I think this is an interesting question because you can look at it two ways: games that feature the same worlds and rules as tabletop RPGs, which are relatively easy to find, and games that offer the same sense of possibility that tabletop RPGs - at their best - have, which are much rarer.

You hint that you're looking more for the first category, so I can suggest plenty of games like Baldur's Gate and the like, but it might be worth giving some thought to the second.