Winter Is Coming In These Game Of Thrones: Genesis Screens

14 responses to “Winter Is Coming In These Game Of Thrones: Genesis Screens”

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   jimu

   August 18, 2011 at 3:18 pm

   I was hoping for a Dragon Age style RPG with the title “Thrones” it already being a game and all…

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2. 

   Chazz

   August 18, 2011 at 3:25 pm

   How is taking a series of novels with an epic plot of deceipt and intrigue etc and then putting into the least plot-driven genre with rather outdated graphics a good idea?

   Seriously who at Cyanide green-lit this project?

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      Gladice

      August 18, 2011 at 3:31 pm

      I dunno, I was sceptical at first, but I think RTS would be a good fit for an ASOIAF game. There’s a lot of battle strategy in the second book. There’s also a Game of Thrones board game which sounds similar. Granted, the events of the game are based long before the events of the book, but still.

      But I’m totally with you on the graphics. They’re very dated, and the whole visual style seems horribly rushed and generic. Is the second screenshot meant to be the Red Keep? Blergh.

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         Steve

         August 19, 2011 at 12:07 am

         Only the second book has anything remotely resembling an RTS. It seems a poor fit to me, especially considering how much trouble GRRM goes to, to avoid focusing on battles. The later books in particular go out of their way to shoot down all the medieval battle tropes and stereotypes.

         *I would buy this game if it included the Book 4 tactic of smearing your archers’ arrows in shit and aiming at the enemy commander hoping he’d die from infection.

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   WOJAus

   August 18, 2011 at 3:29 pm

   sigh….looks terrible 🙁

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4. 

   xWisp

   August 18, 2011 at 3:46 pm

   This looks horrible. Not even close to what that series/story deserves

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5. 

   Franz

   August 18, 2011 at 4:16 pm

   Are they going to stay true to the books and tv show and use sex scenes to sell this too? they’d have to, otherwise it’ll be totally unrelated, they’ve really backed themselves into a corner here, rofl.
   (I have not read the books nor watched the tv show, but no one can escape the facts)

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   1. 

      Gladice

      August 18, 2011 at 4:35 pm

      A whoring minigame may just redeem this game.

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      Steve

      August 19, 2011 at 12:04 am

      FYI, the infamous ‘HBO sexposition’ is almost exclusively a television feature. While sex was indeed a large element in the books, it wasn’t ever brought to the forefront like it was in the show.

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   M1557

   August 18, 2011 at 4:41 pm

   Id like to see a Game Of Thrones RPG.
   Ala oblivion style.

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   1. 

      McGarnical

      August 18, 2011 at 4:58 pm

      Me too. That’s pretty much always in the back of my head whenever I’m reading one of the novels. Skyrim mod?

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      AerintheADEQUATE

      August 18, 2011 at 11:37 pm

      This was what I was going to say… as it stands we’ll just have to pretend Dragon Age: Origins is ‘Game of Thrones: Take the Black: the Game’ ;-P

      That’s basically what it is, anyways

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7. 

   Bemused

   August 18, 2011 at 5:37 pm

   looks very Cyanide ala Blood Bowl

   all the wishing in the world wont make a beloved IP become a polished product via that development studio

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8. 

   jake

   August 19, 2011 at 10:22 am

   Wow, this looks shoddy.

   How about a one-on-one fighting game? You argue with your opponent for a awhile, then the game cuts away from the actual fight while a paragraph of text describes the epic throwdown and/or awkwardly worded sex scene?

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