Good news for fans of Westeros and its inhabitants -- not only does Cyanide have an RTS based on George R.R. Martin's fantasy series coming out, but apparently the Paris-based developer is also working on an RPG set in the world of the Song of Ice and Fire. French site FactorNews got a look at the game in development, and it sounds like just the thing to get your dire wolf howling.
The title is supposed to play out around the book's events rather than follow them, but still follows the conventions of seeing various points of view. Players will start out as a brother of the Night Watch up at the Wall, then move on to play as Alester Sarwyck, a Red Priest returning to the kingdom after being exiled for 15 years across the Narrow Sea. Gameplay is described as a mix of The Witcher and other pseudo-turn-based RPGs, with players choosing skills and directing traffic in the midst of real-time battle. Cyanide is aiming for a release on both PC and consoles.
It all sounds awesome -- but A Game of Thrones: The RPG (working title) isn't planned to see the light of day any time before Martin's Dance with Dragons hits bookstores. If Cyanide delivers everything it is promising in this preview, we'd be willing to pull a Jaime Lannister and kill a king just to get a copy of it.
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Posted: Mar 25th 2011 10:35PM iHavePants said
Getting the grim setting of this right is one thing, but having his armour completely rusted through? Kind of ridiculous and terrible.
By the sounds of things and the history of lead characters in this setting, the black brother's future doesn't bode too well.
By the sounds of things and the history of lead characters in this setting, the black brother's future doesn't bode too well.
Posted: Mar 25th 2011 10:44PM Chareth Cutestory said
I'll be astonished if this is anything more than a Baldur's Gate/Dragon Age clone.
I'd love to explore Westeros, but I have no interest in gathering five wolf pelts and killing the local mountain giant.
Understated fantasy elements don't strike me as "easy" to translate in to a video game. I mean, even Bioware's most talkative RPGs still have you cutting through constant swaths of enemies.
I'd love to explore Westeros, but I have no interest in gathering five wolf pelts and killing the local mountain giant.
Understated fantasy elements don't strike me as "easy" to translate in to a video game. I mean, even Bioware's most talkative RPGs still have you cutting through constant swaths of enemies.
Posted: Mar 25th 2011 11:18PM iHavePants said
@Chareth Cutestory
Yeah as much as I'd like to be excited for these games I'm certain they'll only use the setting as a backdrop for a bit of the ol' ultra violence. Though the books certainly contained action, very little focus or glorification was put upon it.
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Yeah as much as I'd like to be excited for these games I'm certain they'll only use the setting as a backdrop for a bit of the ol' ultra violence. Though the books certainly contained action, very little focus or glorification was put upon it.
Posted: Mar 25th 2011 11:21PM poronponporin said
I seriously can't imagine playing a spellcaster in this game. Most of the time we see magic in the book its incredibly understated and leaves us wondering if we saw any magic at all.
Posted: Mar 26th 2011 1:28AM muhitatsu said
Ugh, more spam. BTW guys, A Dance With Dragons will probably come out before this game, as the release date has been confirmed for about mid-July for that book. If they do it right, the game could be interesting, but without magic and dragons, I doubtful about how good a Song of Ice and Fire RPG could be...
Posted: Mar 26th 2011 2:41AM iHavePants said
@muhitatsu
"It all sounds awesome -- but A Game of Thrones: The RPG (working title) isn't planned to see the light of day any time before Martin's Dance with Dragons hits bookstores."
From the article.
Also alongside world events lately, that A Dance with Dragons and Duke Nukem Forever are coming out this year is a sure sign of the impending apocalypse.
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"It all sounds awesome -- but A Game of Thrones: The RPG (working title) isn't planned to see the light of day any time before Martin's Dance with Dragons hits bookstores."
From the article.
Also alongside world events lately, that A Dance with Dragons and Duke Nukem Forever are coming out this year is a sure sign of the impending apocalypse.
Posted: Mar 27th 2011 6:11AM Discotheque said
@iHavePants but duke nukem is a project from the 90s. George R R Martin was definitely trolling his fans by saying the book would come out in 2006. But that's still like waiting for a few minutes compared to the massive delays Duke Nukem has gone through.
Oh and also Hodor.
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Oh and also Hodor.
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