Game of Thrones RPG

[Krynn72]

Its french, so you'll have to use a translator if you dont know how to read french. Otherwise theres screenshots to look at. Not much info in there anyways.
http://www.factornews.com/news-32888-Interview_Cyanide_Le_Trone_de_Fer.html

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

Reading the article it seems Oblivion/Risen/TW2'ish. Mo-Cap, various travel modes and some 3rd/1st person + RTS elements. Should be interesting to see how development continues and that I'm still able to read some French.

 

[Gargantou]

Aren't these the guys who did the most recent Blood Bowl computer-game?

Will be interesting to see how this turns out.

 

[Robbo]

I think I might just assume this is a crappy money grab and hope to be pleasantly surprised

 

[Lucid]

Eh, I don't think ASOIAF would work well as an RPG.

I always imagined it to be like Europa Universalis 3 mixed with the Total War games.

 

[MJ12]

I thought they were making a Game of Thrones RTS?

 

[ríomhaire]

This reminds me I must try the Wheel of Time FPS at some point.

 

[[Dragoon]]

I thought they were making a Game of Thrones RTS?

They're making both. Same studio.

I'm going to stick with "cautiously optimistic" for now, but I don't have particularly high hopes for either of the games.

 

[Krynn72]

The Bloodbowl game seemed pretty good, considering the limited scope of that IP. I too am cautiously optimistic about their two GoT games. It is reassuring however that they're doing both, since it means they're fully engrossed in the books, and not splitting their attention between several different IPs.

 

[[Dragoon]]

The Bloodbowl game seemed pretty good, considering the limited scope of that IP. I too am cautiously optimistic about their two GoT games. It is reassuring however that they're doing both, since it means they're fully engrossed in the books, and not splitting their attention between several different IPs.

The RPG at least is going with the look of the show. Not sure about the RTS. One of the more valid complaints I've heard about this is that it's unfortunate that they're going with the aesthetic feel of the show, which, while good, had to scale back on a lot of what's present in the books, both in detail and aesthetic grandness. This was a great opportunity to portray the aesthetic feel of the world as it is in the books, in all its over-sized, made-to-be-unfilmable glory. Instead it's just going to be a tie-in game for the series. This doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to be bad, but it certainly makes that cautious optimism a little harder to hold on to.

 

[knut]

i don't see the appeal in a RTS version of game of thrones. as fantastic as the books are it's kind of just... knights on horses and men with pykes, pretty standard and run of the mill chivalry affair which - though i'm not too well versed in the RTS world - i know for a fact is a dime a dozen. obviously all without the northmen aesthetic or the banners and crests of the lannisters or tullys and whathaveyou, but still just rows upon rows of foot soldiers crashing into each other, archers providing support and horseback riders landing crushing flanking attacks. isn't all of that like done already in rome total war and the various others?

unless i'm missing something unique about what might be under this specific RTS umbrella. either way, my recent love of the song of ice and fire books makes me more excited for skyrim if anything else, just because of that aesthetic and so that i can sort of try to imagine the world as being something out of the books and treat anyone i meet as disloyal and a treacherous backstabber.

 

[Krynn72]

I'd have more faith in the RTS being a good game, over the RPG. While, yes, the medieval technology is fairly standard for the genre, I think the setting puts it on a good standing. Hero units could be awesome, the subtle magic elements, the managing of territories and the depth of the Seven Kingdoms politics (used to get/maintain bannermen, etc), all sounds pretty good to me. If they get the gameplay right, and make themselves a competitor to, say, the Total War series, I'd buy that shit in a heart beat. I did so with the King Arthur RP Wargame, and that game is how I'm personally imagining a aSoIF strategy game being.

 

[knut]

yeah, i mean undoubtedly the setting is very appealing, i just dunno how far i'd be able to get invested in it, but then i've never really played much RTS outside of the old command and conquer/red alert games.

 

[Krynn72]

Considering I've bought every Total War game since Rome, just because of the settings, I'd say it goes pretty far for me.

 

[MJ12]

I think if it implemented Sid Meier/Civilization like elements I would be interested in the RTS for sure, but if it's just standard Total War stuff I can just buy the King Arthur game for like 7 bucks

The thought of a very adult RPG really appeals to me. For now though I think the closest we've come to a Game of Thrones type RPG is The Witcher 2, which I thought was fantastic. I think it's very possible that it could be good if implemented well.