Question1, How does the fantasy genre relate to modern media such as video games?
First of all, Burn (2005) pointed that whether games influence books or the other way round is perhaps debatable in this case: Tolkien's stories also have maps, lists, puzzles and so on; The Lord of the Rings gave rise to one of the most popular of modern game-gennres, the RPG;
On the other hand, this kind of relate has been called as cross-media. As a popular fantasy book, The Lord of the Rings became popular movie around world. With a clearly, fully understanding of the background of a video game, became a good reason that people chose it.
Further more, the lists, maps and other means of puzzle-solving and game-survival that characterise in the books are alway in the games as well. In my opinion, it makes people feel familiar.
With my own experience, when I play the fantasy RPG (of course need read the fantasy first), I feel like it is real course everything ,everyone has in my mind. That is a special feeling differ from normal RPG and fantasy.
Burn, A. (2005). Potter Literacy from book to game and back again: literature, film, game and cross media literacy in papers, 14(3)
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