Game of Thrones to Become an Actual Game

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A company that's most known for making cycling managers and that new Blood Bowl game is making a game from a series of books that are based around people beating each-other to death...huh...

Blood Bowl is based on violence, they're not new to it.

 

[GrimTuesday]

Just a quick little note that it is a full series not a mini-series (I am very excited for it).

Man everything is just crazy today in the world of ASoIaF. First we get James Cosmo as The Old Bear Jeor Mormont, then a whole shitton of new cast members, and now this game. today has been an awesome day.

It may actually come out before the next book. How sad...

Hey, now lets not be a bunch of negative Nancys here. The book is somewhere in the neighborhood of 1400 pages.

But will there be rape?

That is an excellent question at the very least we know there is a strong likelihood of

Spoiler

TWINCEST.

 

[V8 Ninja]

A company that's most known for making cycling managers and that new Blood Bowl game is making a game from a series of books that are based around people beating each-other to death...huh...

Blood Bowl is based on violence, they're not new to it.

I know, it's just that the whole idea seems a bit odd to me. Turning a book into a game? I personally just find that a bit odd.

 

[Doc Theta Sigma]

*Begins shaking uncontrollably with excitement*

Oh... Oh god yes. Jesus, Allah, Buddha I love you all!

 

[ThaBenMan]

...dammit. I was hoping it'd be an RPG rather than an RTS. But, given the huge war taking place in the books, an RTS makes a lot of sense. Maybe I'll try it.

And I hate to be "that guy", but... it's A Song of Ice and Fire, not Fire and Ice.

 

[FloodOne]

As a fan of the books, let me say: mehhh. SoIaF has always been very plot and character driven, while the setting is rather bland generic fantasy stuff. While theoretically the game could end up with such a story, I find it very doubtful. Even if it is interesting, integrating with the books in a way that it isn't repeat is going to be such a clusterfuck, they might have well just created their own universe.

And how is the setting generic? There are no elves, nymphs, sorcerers (confirmed ones anyway), orcs, trolls, goblins or other Tolkien-esque recycled material. Hell, even the dragons are such a minimal role in the story, they might as well not exist.

Martin's series is a grittier, more realistic dark fantasy. And who else in mainstream literature has the stones to make characters pay with their lives when they make a bad decision?

 

[MrPatience]

I've been following this since GRR announced it on his website just over a year ago.
An RPG is an excellent idea, not so sure about an RTS, though.
And the obscure French game company owning the rights to the games worries me.

 

[unoleian]

As a fan of the books, let me say: mehhh. SoIaF has always been very plot and character driven, while the setting is rather bland generic fantasy stuff. While theoretically the game could end up with such a story, I find it very doubtful. Even if it is interesting, integrating with the books in a way that it isn't repeat is going to be such a clusterfuck, they might have well just created their own universe.

And how is the setting generic? There are no elves, nymphs, sorcerers (confirmed ones anyway), orcs, trolls, goblins or other Tolkien-esque recycled material. Hell, even the dragons are such a minimal role in the story, they might as well not exist.

Martin's series is a grittier, more realistic dark fantasy. And who else in mainstream literature has the stones to make characters pay with their lives when they make a bad decision?

Shit, it's hard to even call it fantasy. If it weren't for those wraithy-things, the baby dragons (which everyone thought were extinct or never existed at all), and the zombie-lady-person, it would almost be a quasi-alternate history! This Martin definitely picks and chooses his fantasy elements, and uses them sparingly. (And to great effect, I might add!)

 

[Korten12]

If there was ever a game that would want to make me upgrade my older PC, its this game. Loved the books, definitely getting this

I am guessing the books were good? The concept art looks great.

 

[unoleian]

If there was ever a game that would want to make me upgrade my older PC, its this game. Loved the books, definitely getting this

I am guessing the books were good? The concept art looks great.

The books are VERY good. They break almost all stereotypes/tropes of fantasy that you may have come to expect.

Very brutal, very unpredictable, very emotional. The moral of the story-- there are no heroes. Only people.

 

[Fire Daemon]

I just started reading the first one and I'm loving it but I can't really see how it'll translate into an RTS. Combat doesn't seem to be the focus and what Combat there is doesn't seem that far strung from actual medieval warfare, so why bother using the SoIaF license if what you're making is closer to realistic warfare? What I hope they do is make diplomacy and politics a large part of the game, maybe more important than the combat. That would suit the game a lot better.

I'm more interested in this RPG to be honest.

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

Let's hope they don't screw it up for the "Mainstream" audience... (i mean all those resolutions to make an RPG "light-er" etc).

 

[Mr Thin]

If there was ever a game that would want to make me upgrade my older PC, its this game. Loved the books, definitely getting this

I am guessing the books were good? The concept art looks great.

You have no god damn idea. They're worth dying for. Worth killing for.

...Worth going to hell for.

OT: I'm divided. On the one hand, I doubt anyone, let alone this company I've not even heard of, can do it justice.

On the other hand, I'll probably get this game no matter how good it turns out.

 

[Kavonde]

RTS? Really?

Not to whine, but man, these books needed to be made into an RPG or some kind of Romance of the Three Kingdoms 10-style RPG/empire building hybrid. Just focusing on individual battles really doesn't fit the series' tendency towards vast conspiracies and sweeping military campaigns.

Still, A Song of Ice and Fire needs all the love it can get. And it also needs ITS GORRAM AUTHOR TO STOP BLOGGING ABOUT HOCKEY AND FINISH A DANCE WITH DRAGONS. Grr.

But will there be rape?

Better question:

Spoiler

will there be brother-sister period incest on an altar?

EDIT: Okay, the more I think about an RotK10-style Song of Ice and Fire game, the more frustrated I become that they're not doing that. It seems so incredibly obvious, appropriate, and downright awesome to me. Then again, I firmly believe that RotK10 is sort of a base template for The Perfect Game to be built from.

 

[Dele]

I am surprised that no fan of the series has asked the most important question of them all. Can we beat the game by developing a strategy based on incesting and then sending our kids to be the heirs of an another noble house?

 

[veloper]

I love the books, but I expect the game to butcher the ip.
Not looking forward to this one.

 

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Game of Thrones to Become an Actual Game

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The Game of Thrones has been a game for ages, albeit a board game. Check out

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeksearch.php?action=search&objecttype=boardgame&q=thrones&B1=Go

for details of it and its numerous expansions.

 

[Meemaimoh]

This has so few ways to be good and so many ways to be terrible. I really do not have my hopes up for this one.

A shame. I've been a fan of the books since I was about 13. They're my favourites.

 

[Zenron]

I really loved the books, I'm just hoping they don't mess this up.