You can check out further details on Cyanide's official site for more details on the game, or check out two pieces of early concept art in the gallery below.
You can check out further details on Cyanide's official site for more details on the game, or check out two pieces of early concept art in the gallery below.
Reader Comments (25)
Posted: Jul 16th 2010 2:02PM Hyams said
Stark, Stark! For Winterfell!
Posted: Jul 17th 2010 10:01PM Mal F4cti0n said
@Hyams
Jon Stark joins the watch.
What was his brother's, or half-brother's, name who became king?
And when the heck is the next book coming out and WHAT is going on over the wall? The dead walking?
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Jon Stark joins the watch.
What was his brother's, or half-brother's, name who became king?
And when the heck is the next book coming out and WHAT is going on over the wall? The dead walking?
Posted: Jul 16th 2010 2:09PM Jerk Face said
I've tried to finish the first book in this series three separate times, and just can't get through it. I hear it gets so good by the end, but I can't seem to muscle past 350 or so without wanting to die! Great characters (all 6000 of them), interesting setting, insanely dry pacing!
Posted: Jul 16th 2010 2:23PM The Nth Doctor said
@Jerk Face The pacing (to me at least) improves vastly over time. Throughout the third book it seemed that almost every chapter ended with a WHAM moment.
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Posted: Jul 16th 2010 4:07PM tedknaz said
@Jerk Face I'm literally like 50 pages away from finishing the first book, stayed up until quarter to 2 last night. Shiz gets crazzzzy the last 150 pages of the book. It's definitely telling me: go and get ready to grab book 2. I'm with you, it seems like with the pacing that develops that far into the book that the story won't get anywhere, but it changes so quickly...
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Posted: Jul 16th 2010 4:13PM Jerk Face said
@Jerk Face
Ugh, I'm going to have to finish it now. Thanks, jerks!
The thing that makes the slow pace rough is that what's there is really good. The characters are all interesting, and you can just feel the good stuff over the horizon.. but it's just SO dry in the beginning. Even with the crazy shit that does happy (Bran's.. incident, for example) it's.. it's just so fleeting. Whenever the focus is back on Jon Snow I'm totally hooked and then it's back to Dragon Girl across the world and the wickedly-awkward details of her tribal chieftan-banging (awkward because I'm not sure George R. R. Martin actually has ever had sex - it's like the literary equivalent of that scene in the 40 Year Old Virgin where Steve Carrell's talking about boobs) and THEN it's over to horrendously dry courtroom bickering and it's just.. 'Hey look, there's a new video game I need to be playing suddenly'.
And now, thanks to you guys, I need to go pick it up and read 400 pages to get to the good parts. THANKS! : D
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Ugh, I'm going to have to finish it now. Thanks, jerks!
The thing that makes the slow pace rough is that what's there is really good. The characters are all interesting, and you can just feel the good stuff over the horizon.. but it's just SO dry in the beginning. Even with the crazy shit that does happy (Bran's.. incident, for example) it's.. it's just so fleeting. Whenever the focus is back on Jon Snow I'm totally hooked and then it's back to Dragon Girl across the world and the wickedly-awkward details of her tribal chieftan-banging (awkward because I'm not sure George R. R. Martin actually has ever had sex - it's like the literary equivalent of that scene in the 40 Year Old Virgin where Steve Carrell's talking about boobs) and THEN it's over to horrendously dry courtroom bickering and it's just.. 'Hey look, there's a new video game I need to be playing suddenly'.
And now, thanks to you guys, I need to go pick it up and read 400 pages to get to the good parts. THANKS! : D
Posted: Jul 16th 2010 5:53PM The Nth Doctor said
@Jerk Face A heads up: that kind of Boring character....boring character.....OMG IT'S A TYRION CHAPTER WOOO never really goes completely away, even if the pace in general does improve.
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Posted: Jul 16th 2010 2:14PM Soc said
the screenshot makes me want a new elder scrolls :(
"Aren't you the hero of Kvatch?"
"Aren't you the hero of Kvatch?"
Posted: Jul 16th 2010 2:19PM The Nth Doctor said
When you play the game of thrones, you either win or die.
Posted: Jul 16th 2010 2:20PM thegoogly said
Winter is coming.
Posted: Jul 16th 2010 2:22PM Vidikron said
Interesting. Hope they don't screw it up.
However, I'm more interested in HBO's miniseries adaptation of the first book.
However, I'm more interested in HBO's miniseries adaptation of the first book.
Posted: Jul 16th 2010 3:47PM Snow Leopard said
@Vidikron Yeah, me too. Fire and Ice basically feels like fantasy fiction made for HBO. Is this affiliated with that project at all or is it a different venture entirely?
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Posted: Jul 16th 2010 2:22PM Blif said
Posted: Jul 16th 2010 2:48PM The Nth Doctor said
I *really* can't see this measuring up. A series so consumed with constant failure and hopelessness can't be turned into a strategy game and retain any of the heart of the original.
Posted: Jul 16th 2010 4:21PM ascian said
First the TV series, now this. it's official, the book series is officially over. It's turning into a literary Duke Nukem Forever.
Posted: Jul 17th 2010 2:45AM ch3burashka said
Hey guys, have you heard of my new band, Cyanide? We just released our first album, A Song of Ice And Fire. It's pretty dope; you should check it out.
Posted: Jul 19th 2010 5:15AM Eighty said
when i picked up the first book i devoured it in about a week.
the classical fantasy style was just what i needed after reading a lot of fantasy 'lite' in the last few months.
after i finished the first book i went out and bought the next 3.. gotta say im on the 4th one now and shit is still crazy awesome.. like seriously awesome im very invested in the characters and he still manages to keep it fresh every book.
also the end of the first book WOW. still WOW
the classical fantasy style was just what i needed after reading a lot of fantasy 'lite' in the last few months.
after i finished the first book i went out and bought the next 3.. gotta say im on the 4th one now and shit is still crazy awesome.. like seriously awesome im very invested in the characters and he still manages to keep it fresh every book.
also the end of the first book WOW. still WOW
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