Cyanide secures exclusive rights for a Song of Ice and Fire game(s).

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Cyanide, an independent French studio made up of former Ubisoft employees who got some recent attention for working on the new Blood Bowl game, have managed to get their mitts on exclusive rights for creating PC and console games set in the ASOIAF universe.

According to their press release, they're collaborating with Martin (OLOL GET MORE HOBBIES YOU FAT FUCK) and a game is already in development.

That's pretty much all the info right now. There are a few "We're honoured to be working with Mr. Martin, etc." quotes in the press release, but nothing about what the games will be. Although, they're promising twists that will keep even series fans interested, so who knows what they're aiming for.

Anyway, who wants to see what? I know ASOIAF has been turned into a Risk-like board game, and there's a pnp RPG as well. Cyanide has made a lot of sports sims, so maybe they'd start with some sort of turn-based strategy game or something along the lines of the Total War series, which would be decent enough, but probably won't have anything besides the license to sell it.

Jamie Lannister, the Early Years? Some sort of RPG reworking of the books?

One thing's for sure: If they release the Joffrey Killing Simulator, I will buy 4 copies.

Press release.

Burtletoy

I pretty much bought Mount & Blade when I learned that there was ASOIAF mod for it. I should really try playing that game sometime.

Bursar

Your men have pillaged and raped a village.
+3 Morale

GameGrrl

I want a 2D fighter based on the IP.

A Song of Ice and Fire: Tournament Fighters

You could pit Jaime Lannister vs. Bronn

Rob Stark vs. Loras Tyrell

Arthur Dayne vs Barristan the Bold

Pancake

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One thing's for sure: If they release the Joffrey Killing Simulator, I will buy 4 copies.

Probably even better. It's a vivisection simulator. You get to cut open a pregnant cat.

JAEF

Hmm. I'm not sure what to expect.. Ned and Robert team up to beat down an endless stream of thugs in the castle dungeons?

I will reserve judgment until it is clear that these games don't shit all over the rich tapestry they've been given.

Doronron

Cyanide is responsible for Loki. It's not a stellar Diablo clone, but it did have a few gameplay features I'd like to see propagate, and it did action RPG carnage pretty well.

Havelock

So...does this mean Martin's done with A Dance With Dragons?

Burtletoy

Havelock wrote: »

So...does this mean Martin's done with A Dance With Dragons?

Ha.

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Havelock wrote: »

So...does this mean Martin's done with A Dance With Dragons?

Ahahahahahhahaha.

:<

Cherrn

Ideally I'd want this to be a strategy/sim-type game. With adventure and RPG elements. Maybe like a western fantasy version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. 'Cause the license is rather wasted on a third person action game, as far as I'm concerned.

Pancake

Cherrn wrote: »

Ideally I'd want this to be a strategy/sim-type game. With adventure and RPG elements. Maybe like a western fantasy version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. 'Cause the license is rather wasted on a third person action game, as far as I'm concerned.

No, ideally, it would be a modern Crusader Kings.

Cherrn

Isn't that pretty much what I'm describing, though? I guess Crusader Kings is a bit more hardcore strategy, but the idea's the same.

I would like to be able to play as every little miniscule lord on Westeros.

Pancake

Cherrn wrote: »

Isn't that pretty much what I'm describing, though? I guess Crusader Kings is a bit more hardcore strategy, but the idea's the same.

I would like to be able to play as every little miniscule lord on Westeros.

I don't know, the only Romance of the Three Kingdoms I've played was the latest, which, I assume, is missing a lot of the political stuff.

Crusader Kings, though, especially with the expansion, can delve very, very deeply into politics and allows the player to scheme, come up with elaborate plots, and backstab their neighbors, sometimes literally.

It would seem to be perfect considering the nature of the books, especially the earlier ones.

Cristo

Something a la Total War but with a RPG twist to it (e.g. you get to choose a specific general from an army and build him up etc.) would be cool or a 3rd Person action RPG in the same vein as Mass Effect. Perhaps you can't choose any of the characters portrayed in the books, but you have to create your own character and then basically roam the land as a freerider perhaps? And then following what storylines happen to be occurring in your vicinity be it Jaime, Arya, Cately, Brienne etc.

Paradiso

GameGrrl wrote: »

I want a 2D fighter based on the IP.

A Song of Ice and Fire: Tournament Fighters

You could pit Rob Stark vs. Joffrey Baratheon

Ser Dontos vs a Cask of Wine

Gregor Clegane vs All Living Things

Fixed that for you.

I'm gleeful at the thought of ASoIF game, but I fear a strategic one, a la Total War, is the only way to go. As much as I'd love to get down and dirty in an RPG--and believe me, I would--I'm afraid an Elder Scrolls type just couldn't do it justice.

KalTorak

Come on; it's totally going to be one of those hentai adventure games where you choose who to bang first and then what positions.

Will you have rough forced medieval sex with...
...your wife?
...your twin sister?
...your other sister?
...your wife's sister?
...the nearest village?

Now that's replayability.

Cristo

Paradiso wrote: »

I'm gleeful at the thought of ASoIF game, but I fear a strategic one, a la Total War, is the only way to go. As much as I'd love to get down and dirty in an RPG--and believe me, I would--I'm afraid an Elder Scrolls type just couldn't do it justice.

I think that if done correctly, then a Mass Effect/Elder Scrolls type game could be very good.

Robman

This game is going to be a pile of dogshit and we're all going to be angry that it was ever attempted.

I can't wait to see how hard the gaming industry gets fucked over after angry moms ignorantly buy a game rated Adults Only that includes rape, torture, and ludicrously graphic violence for their ten year old kids.

I mean seriously what the fuck are they going to do. Every chapter in George RR Martin has someone getting cut up like a bitch, set on fire, raped, or otherwise dealt with in a manner not in accordance with How To Win Friends and Influence People. I don't want to play a rape simulator, tyvm.

Pancake

Robman wrote: »

This game is going to be a pile of dogshit and we're all going to be angry that it was ever attempted.

I can't wait to see how hard the gaming industry gets fucked over after angry moms ignorantly buy a game rated Adults Only that includes rape, torture, and ludicrously graphic violence for their ten year old kids.

I mean seriously what the fuck are they going to do. Every chapter in George RR Martin has someone getting cut up like a bitch, set on fire, raped, or otherwise dealt with in a manner not in accordance with How To Win Friends and Influence People. I don't want to play a rape simulator, tyvm.

Yes, this is quite obviously what the game will be like.

They cannot do anything else with it or tone anything down.

Robman

Pancake wrote: »

Robman wrote: »

This game is going to be a pile of dogshit and we're all going to be angry that it was ever attempted.

I can't wait to see how hard the gaming industry gets fucked over after angry moms ignorantly buy a game rated Adults Only that includes rape, torture, and ludicrously graphic violence for their ten year old kids.

I mean seriously what the fuck are they going to do. Every chapter in George RR Martin has someone getting cut up like a bitch, set on fire, raped, or otherwise dealt with in a manner not in accordance with How To Win Friends and Influence People. I don't want to play a rape simulator, tyvm.

Yes, this is quite obviously what the game will be like.

They cannot do anything else with it or tone anything down.

What game setting will that be, then? A gentle melody of cold and heat? Not every IP can support a game. Hopefully these guys bought the rights for pennies to keep them wrapped up, and are going to pull a surprise reveal.

Death Cab For Albie

I'm so glad fat ass Martin has more things to work on now instead of finishing the mother effing series.

Death Cab For Albie

Oh and if they are going to make the games, i'd like to see it done Kingdom Under Fire style

edit: scratch that, i'd rather see it done like a Bioware RPG. But that is too much to ask.

Robman

Death Cab For Albie wrote: »

I'm so glad fat ass Martin has more things to work on now instead of finishing the mother effing series.

He's going to pull a Robert Jordan and die on the shitter. Some author is going to come along and read the manuscript and say what the fuck was this retard thinking? and rewrite it into a semi-coherent bookend.

Which the studio will split into three parts.

And we're all going to buy it.

Burn in hell, Robert Jordan.

Death Cab For Albie

Robman wrote: »

Death Cab For Albie wrote: »

I'm so glad fat ass Martin has more things to work on now instead of finishing the mother effing series.

He's going to pull a Robert Jordan and die on the shitter. Some author is going to come along and read the manuscript and say what the fuck was this retard thinking? and rewrite it into a semi-coherent bookend.

Which the studio will split into three parts.

And we're all going to buy it.

Burn in hell, Robert Jordan.

I'm going to finish it, and you can rest assured that cyborgs and tentacle rape will find their way into Westeros.

Drovek

Guys, we know it's just going to be a collection of minigames...


But seriously: Total War style game? With Politics? (Well, more like: RPG-style politics... with dialogues and stuff). I've dreamed of this shit.

darksteel

Ideally, this would be a crazy cross between the politicking and grand strategic management of Crusader Kings/Europa Universalis and the large scale tactical field battles of Total War (ideally Medieval: Total War). If this is achieved, all my dicks, etc...

Lucky Cynic

I am not so sure of Cyanide... They just seem a bit too small time for me. Yes yes, they are making blood bowl, but do they really have the monies to make a great Song of Ice and Fire game?

Now what would be great is if they made a Total War sort of set of scenarios. Okay, heres your units, all set up, Go to war! And then all the fluff can be done through cutscenes in between.

Pancake

Lucky Cynic wrote: »

I am not so sure of Cyanide... They just seem a bit too small time for me. Yes yes, they are making blood bowl, but do they really have the monies to make a great Song of Ice and Fire game?

Now what would be great is if they made a Total War sort of set of scenarios. Okay, heres your units, all set up, Go to war! And then all the fluff can be done through cutscenes in between.

And then it would turn out like Warhammer: Mark of Chaos because no one but Creative Assembly seems to be able to reproduce the fun of Total War combat because there's always something wrong about it.

MinionOfCthulhu

Robman wrote: »

Pancake wrote: »

Robman wrote: »

This game is going to be a pile of dogshit and we're all going to be angry that it was ever attempted.

I can't wait to see how hard the gaming industry gets fucked over after angry moms ignorantly buy a game rated Adults Only that includes rape, torture, and ludicrously graphic violence for their ten year old kids.

I mean seriously what the fuck are they going to do. Every chapter in George RR Martin has someone getting cut up like a bitch, set on fire, raped, or otherwise dealt with in a manner not in accordance with How To Win Friends and Influence People. I don't want to play a rape simulator, tyvm.

Yes, this is quite obviously what the game will be like.

They cannot do anything else with it or tone anything down.

What game setting will that be, then? A gentle melody of cold and heat? Not every IP can support a game. Hopefully these guys bought the rights for pennies to keep them wrapped up, and are going to pull a surprise reveal.

Not every IP can support a game, but developers will be damned if they don't try to shoehorn in something.
See: Dante's Inferno.

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No, you're wrong. I watched an interview with the developers and they said Dante's Inferno was totally faithful to the source material, that they weren't just cashing in on the name for some generic action game.

ASOIAF sure doesn't need a game, and I don't see a story-driven one ever working out well, but the setting is an obvious choice for fantasy battles. I'm just interested in how they're going to actually apply the license in any meaningful way.

MinionOfCthulhu

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No, you're wrong. I watched an interview with the developers and they said Dante's Inferno was totally faithful to the source material, that they weren't just cashing in on the name for some generic action game.

You're right, I'm totally wrong. I remember in Dante Alighieri's original poem when Dante killed Death, took his scythe, and carved a gore-spattered road through the Nine Circles in an action-packed adventure.

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Dude, Dante was a poetry writing faggot and he wishes he could have written something half as awesome as that game will be.

PMAvers

Dear Cyanide:



See that right there?

Make a electronic version of it (with the expansions as DLC if you must), and I'm there day one.

TurnpikeLad

Hmm, this could work really well as a Jagged Alliance / FFT type game.

Raiden333

You'd think that 3D Realms would have been the perfect choice for the Ice and Fire games...

GoodOmens

They're going to need a cute, cartoonish mascot, like Sonic. I propose Tyrion.

Leitner

I would kill for a game with some good deep political backstabbing and scheming.

Stormgale

GoodOmens wrote: »

They're going to need a cute, cartoonish mascot, like Sonic. I propose Tyrion.

Nah Joff, hes so adorable

(Plus all the Beat up the mascot flash games would be sos satisfying)

Tamin

At the risk of being a broken record: this will end in tears.

Ah_Pook

Raiden333 wrote: »

You'd think that 3D Realms would have been the perfect choice for the Ice and Fire games...

well played.



i will obviously check this out when/if it comes out, but it seems like hard license to do well. not really expecting much but who knows.