Game of Thrones: Genesis screens actually have a throne

@sigma8 - I thought it was going to be some fan made pixelart.

@sigma8
Where's Phill Collins?

@sigma8 at least I'm not the only one

@Killface was here

Where's Peter Gabriel?

@b3n

Considering there's like one to two minutes of action during every 60 minutes of show.... Don't get your hopes up.

@whylekat

I take it you haven't read the books? The first book is the slowest book in terms of action.

@Vidikron

The series isn't action heavy, regardless. Plus, this game is called "Game of Thrones," meaning it will likely be set in that action-lacking first book.

I'm curious how they'll wring a strategy game out of a story that features one major battle.

@Rezai Almost same situation here, although I still have Knife of Dreams plus the other two out now to read. I kind of want to check out this series, but I just know it'll take me another three+ years before I ever finish reading them. :P

@Rezai

I abhor High Fantasy. With the exception of The Elder Scrolls, I have never been able to get into anything that even remotely includes dungeons and/or dragons. Or wizards. Or elves. Or any variation of the aforementioned.

But, due to a buddy pestering the shit out of me, I watched an episode of Game of Thrones last weekend.


I spent the rest of the weekend watching the whole goddamned season one episode after another. It's unspeakably excellent, opting to maintain the viewer's interest not through clichéd genre tropes, but rather through expertly crafted plot and character development.

In fact, one sub-plot in particular had me initially rolling my eyes so hard they damn near fell out of my head (Daenerys and the Dothraki). However, through top-notch storytelling, the narrative thread ended up being the most compelling aspect of the show by the season's finale (and that final shot???)

I can't recommend Game of Thrones enough, especially to those who, like me, couldn't care less about the genre.


Oh, and Tyrion Lannister is King Shit of F*ck Mountain.

@(Unverified) ahhh so no explicit sex scenes every nineteen seconds ? ): I see

@Colorfuljosh not to say there isnt sex scenes in the book but i doubt it says anything about seeing a dudes weiner like in the show ... on 2 occasions.

@(Unverified)
No, this is an RTS set several hundred years before the first novel.

There is also an RPG in development.

@Peril
Stick to Harry Potter, that should be more your speed.

@Peril

Maybe if you didn't actually read the book, or you just couldn't keep up with what was happening. But one of the best scenes happens just before the 300 mark.

@Peril
It's amazing that someone could argue that the Song of Ice and Fire series is "too boring" and "nothing happens." I mean, it's just so blatant that you really have no idea what you're talking about. It's like someone saying Lord of the Rings sucks because it doesn't have any battles, or Chronicles of Narnia sucks because it isn't Christian enough.

@Peril

If you had stuck around for the first 3 books... nah, not that much happens then either. I think more happens in the first half of Dune than in this entire series.

I get it, the Imp loves prostitutes and brothels. I don't need to be reminded of that fact every time he says anything.

@(Unverified) BEcause I don't like something you did? Uh.

Read the Warded Man series. THAT'S a good fantasy series.

@gangcar
The Imp is barely the same character in the show, which is clearly all that you are familiar with.

@chargen

Haha, what? Almost every one of his chapters ends with him going "Oh, look there's a brothel! I love brothels because they're full of prostitutes. Did I forget to mention how much I love prostitutes or did you not pick up on that from the fact that every metaphor I use is either to related to whores or something about being a dwarf?"

@gangcar

Keep digging.

@gangcar

I'm calling bullshit. The first book had an epic ending, the second book had more wtf moments than the first. Haters gonna hate, but dumbasses are gonna be dumbasses.

@gangcar
shows how much you know, for the second book he stuck with only one prostitute and only talked of her. If youre gonna talk shit about a book at least know wtf youre talking about. Also he was engaged in two battles, pretty sure there are no brothels on a battlefield.