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When will they announce A Song of Ice and Fire Game?

Crazy00EyesCrazy00Eyes Member Posts: 91
in The Pub at MMORPG.COM

This has really been the most popular fantasy book series and television show for quite some time now, when are they going to make the game? 

 

It's the perfect setting for an MMO or RTS.  Facebook trash doesn't count!

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Played: Clan Lord, WoW, Matrix Online, LOTR:O, EVE, Tabula Rasa, Warhammer Online, Rift
Playing: Starcraft 2, Battlefield 3

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  • dzoni87dzoni87 Member Posts: 541

    No, just dont make it into MMO....

    RPG would be nice one, if it wasnt made out of TV series. Just sayin'

    Main MMO at the moment: Guild Wars 2
    Waiting for: Pathfinder Online

  • WolfynsongWolfynsong Member Posts: 237

    http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/790/Game-of-Thrones-Seven-Kingdoms.html

    Unless this is what you meant by "Facebook trash."  I'm not really read up on it.

  • WhiteLanternWhiteLantern Member RarePosts: 3,319
    Here's what you get so far.   

    I want a mmorpg where people have gone through misery, have gone through school stuff and actually have had sex even. -sagil

  • dzoni87dzoni87 Member Posts: 541
    Originally posted by Wolfynsong

    http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/790/Game-of-Thrones-Seven-Kingdoms.html

    Unless this is what you meant by "Facebook trash."  I'm not really read up on it.

    Noooo... this cant be :O

    Oh well... i still got Wheel of Time. And couple of "Rhapsody of Fire" albums :D

    Main MMO at the moment: Guild Wars 2
    Waiting for: Pathfinder Online

  • o2jplo2jpl Member Posts: 32

    The series has a great potential to be an MMO. If orginal bioware was around I'd have them make an RPG. I don't even know what company I would trust to make a GoT mmo.

    The market alone for GoT series is enough for a giant to hop on it and make profit. Quality of MMO does not even matter anymore as long as a profit can be made. Of course there are exceptions but, isn't profit the goal of creating any mmo?

    GoT has a great lore for an MMO.

  • Unknown
    Aren't there already two mediocre games based on that setting?
  • FrodoFraginsFrodoFragins Member EpicPosts: 6,057
    Games based on books often stink.  LOTRO was pretty good, but it had massive limitations due to the lore.  ASOIAF would be even more restricted with only playable humans and a lack of diverse enemies.  Plus the books themselves are highly political in nature with not a lot of battles.
  • QuirhidQuirhid Member UncommonPosts: 6,230
    I think there is an turn-based strategy game and an RPG already. The former looked quite horrible, the latter was no bad, but not very good either.

    I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been -Wayne Gretzky

  • o2jplo2jpl Member Posts: 32
    Originally posted by FrodoFragins
    Games based on books often stink.  LOTRO was pretty good, but it had massive limitations due to the lore.  ASOIAF would be even more restricted with only playable humans and a lack of diverse enemies.  Plus the books themselves are highly political in nature with not a lot of battles.

    The book themselves provide incredible amounts of lore and storyline. I don't see humans as the only choice to playable race as a problem because there are so many differnt kingdoms you can belong to or possibly even create your own. It could be played as a hybrid MMO. With themeparks missions etc . for NPC kingdoms and sandbox play for your own kingdom, crafting etc. Diverse enemies? The game has dragons, sea monsters, frost giants and huge amounts of enemies. Yet, the books hold detailed battles when they do, just because they are not  "... alot of battles" does not mean that an mmo with pvp would hold the same. Also, there are battles which have not been described but, mentioned which can be used for storyline.

  • QuicklyScottQuicklyScott Member Posts: 433
    The lore would make it an awesome RTS.

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  • fenistilfenistil Member Posts: 3,005
    Originally posted by Axxar
    Aren't there already two mediocre games based on that setting?

    Yeah, and medicore is being generous.

    There is also trash BigPoint browser mmo in the making.

  • MumboJumboMumboJumbo Member UncommonPosts: 3,219

    OP: This article was written for you! Worth reading the full article:-

    Gamasutra: Cable TV of Thrones: Why Game of Thrones Doesn't Work as a Game

    [...]

    It isn’t that turning Game of Thrones into a game can’t work, it’s just that there’s a mental gap in the way that it’s been done so far—a gap that seems destined to widen. The planned MMORPG, Game of Thrones: the Seven Kingdoms seems even less appropriate a direction to take. In an MMO, every player is created equal. Each class is balanced according to planned challenges. A player can improve their ability and standing by gaining a predictable resource (experience) through a predictable means (completing quests).

    One can rise in an MMO relatively easily. The conditions for getting better are flat and unchanging. That isn’t how Game of Thrones works in its other incarnations. Personal morality, bias, and tragedy muddies everything. Characters never know what to do, and they’re constantly left to make hard decisions with incomplete information against several competing groups—that is when they have enough autonomy to make a decision for themselves at all. [...]

    http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014633/Classic-Game-Postmortem

  • Unknown
    Betrayal at Krondor. Now that's an example of how to make a stellar game based on "a book."
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