Another "Would it be a good adventure" thread: Dirk Pitt

[Hollister Man]

I know, I know.

It just popped into my head.  Im still regularly thinking about MoE Adventure, that Sliders suggestion I made, and actively working on DQ3, but I still like discussing ideas in case someone likes them as well.

I am a good writer, but I don't think I'm good enough to think up a Cussler-ish story, myself.  But I can imagine Dirk Pitt being an excellent character.  Perhaps a multi-character game with Rudy Gunn and Al Giordino?  Saving the world from a pack of American anti-Muslim terrorists and their half-assed genetic experiments?  lol  Anyway, I kind of wonder what Clive would think of a fangame?

For those of you who have not read them, some of my favorites are:

Inca Gold
Treasure
Blue Gold
Atlantis Found *excellent
Sahara

[m0ds]

To be perfectly honest, I don't have a clue what you're talking about...

[Hollister Man]

I guess he's not as popular as I'd like. 

Dirk Pitt is your general unassuming Director of Operations at the National Underwater Marine Agency.  He spends most of his time mapping seabeds, plotting the course of ancient rivers, discovering the source of groundwater contamination, and stopping plots for world domination.  They made a movie out of one of the Dirk Pitt books Raise the Titanic

So far he has found an american funded base on the moon, the archives of the Alexandrian Library, Atlantis, and other things, stopping lots of really mean bad guys in the process.  Such as a group of Nazi decendents preparing a new 'great flood' by breaking off a large section of the arctic ice shelf and causing a gravitational inversion.  A terrorist using small hydrogen bombs to aim tidal waves at cities around the world.  An african company using slave labor to dig tremendous tunnels in which to store nuclear and bioplogical hazardous wastes.  A Scandinavian corporate intent of dominating the worlds supply of fresh water and selling it to the highest bidder.

Does that tell you something?  He's kinda like Macguyver, he ends up in these positions by accident, but saves the day.

[Redwall]

The thing I don't like about the Pitt books is Pitt himself. The guy is Superman in disguise.

[Hollister Man]

So is Indy, though.  So are all the really cool characters.

By the way, you like the new Stargate series?  Noticed the Jaffa joke at the bottom. 

[Redwall]

Indy seems more human, somehow. He always seems in over his head, where Pitt always seems more like James Bond on steroids. I don't know, I guess he just rubs me the wrong way somehow. The plots themselves are pretty good. Loved the Fourth Empire thing.

Atlantis is pretty good, although I have my reservations about the Wraith.

[Alynn]

Yeah I just recently got into Dirk Pitt Read 2 books... I happened to like the one with the chinese smuggling ring can't remember the name of the book though... its the newest one I believe... Good stuff. But yeah, for a marine biologist, he sure does survive well

[Hollister Man]

That one was Flood Tide, that's not all that new.  Atlantis Found and Valhalla Rising are the newest ones.

I would assume that an ex-navy seal (I think) would survive slightly better than average.

Redwall has a point, though.  I agree that some of his luck is pretty unbelieveable.  And the fact that he stands on his head in the shower, that's just odd.  I think Cussler is giving Pitt a retirement finally, in the last book he got married and so did Al, I can't imagine him calling Giordino's wife and asking if he could come out and play.

[Redwall]

I read Atlantis Found about two years ago, so it can't be that new...?

Don't forget that Pitt's richer than God, too.

On the actual topic, I think they could make good adventures.

[Hollister Man]

I meant that those are the newest ones he has written for Pitt.  There's a 'new hero for the 21st century' that he wrote a few books for, Kurt Austin, but I don't like him as much.  All I meant was that Flood Tide isn't the newest one.