1) Open world wouldn’t work. Some parts are MEANT to be mysterious/unknown.
2) Health bars and gamey combat would defeat the grit/lethality factor.
3) Spells aren’t something you can just do. Magic is basically alive/pricey.
4) Political intrigue/dialogue would probably take up the majority of the game.
5) The character you play will likely already be a part of pre-generated lore.
Yeah it would suck unless you actually know how the world works.
Man i love fantasy worlds that have a surface level semi-grounded "low magic" approach but juuuust underneath that surface is a ton of really esoteric black magic spooky kinda shit. Always so much fun to see those grounded characters take a stumble and accidentally take a peek behind the curtain. Wish GRRM would do more lore building of the weird places he left with names/general descriptors, although i worry he'd reveal too much and frick up the vibes. Alot of fantasy that takes this approach always rips the curtains down and makes shit boring.
Anyone else know any other fantasy series that take this world building approach and pull it off? Curious if i'm missing out on some good shit
Essos likely isn’t a rectangle. A satellite image would probably have it looking a lot larger/thicker. The map isn’t supposed to be accurate the further east you go. People conveniently forget this all the time to make fun of it.
Battle Brothers/Mount and Blade rip-off about mercs in Essos might work imo, granted it would need to have a good story hook like the rise of the Golden Company and subsequent Blackfyre shenanigans
Honestly ya mountain blade is probably the best game for it. Still wouldnt really work the way people want it to but its probably the best bet. Im kinda shocked given how huge it was at one point a real video game of it was never made.
What video game would even be made set in the ASOIAF world? The biggest drawing point of this series is its characters and story, which is something that's achieved in the Telltale game and CK2 AGOT (the latter being more successful at that).
Honestly ya mountain blade is probably the best game for it. Still wouldnt really work the way people want it to but its probably the best bet. Im kinda shocked given how huge it was at one point a real video game of it was never made.
the gor novels would be utterly impossible to adapt to a video game
Where does the series devolve into pornography it is known for? I've read the first 3 books and they had exactly 0 sex scenes and they seem to be a pulpy but not horrible Conan clone.
do you mean the mouth breathers on Ganker that always talk about "le fat pink mast", one line out of thousands of pages, and acting as if the whole series is like that? Because most people have not read the novels and only pretend they did
Does this map feel kind of eerie to anyone else? Like seeing an abandoned theme park or something. So much work and thought put into it for so little payoff, and now it's completely abandoned by its creator. Seems kind of weird that so many nerds still put so much effort into learning the intricacies of this fantasy world invented in the mind of someone who has abandoned it and no longer gives a shit about it.
We will never get stories to fully flesh out the history of Yi Ti. We will never get a sequel which describes the Shadow Lands beyond Asshai. The significance of Gods Eye will never be fully explained, the foreshadowing about it will never bear fruit. It has all been utterly abandoned while Fat George just counts his millions and lazes about. This map represents decades of wasted speculation by sweaty nerds over something the author never intended to deliver on.
>Seems kind of weird that so many nerds still put so much effort into learning the intricacies of this fantasy world invented in the mind of someone who has abandoned it and no longer gives a shit about it.
To this day I wonder what the fans of Rothfuss are thinking. >15 years ago said that his book is already written >organized a crowdfunding campaign >still hasn't released a single word of it and focuses on spinoffs
the lore is still pretty cool, how the none human history is basically like greek myths and the troyan wars or how there are experts form historians and poets between each chapter.
As a history fan I in general really like how most of the factions and evens are just real life historical things reused for the authors purposes.
The religous quotes feel very authentic due to it.
I also like how the conflict feels way more scary and apocalyptic then for example Lord of the Rings even through the scale is pretty much the same.
It has better sense of realism then most fantasy stories in that aspect.
my biggest problem is how the big battles often get summed up in a few sentences while we waste pages over the same inner conflcits and doubts over and over again
and how the alien faction acts and talks to much like humans and are almost saturday morning cartoon level of simplistic of just liking to rape and murder since it fun for them.
the dunyain faction honestly acts way more alien and creepy to me
The battles and history are easily the best parts of it. At least it is until the main character repels a cavalry charge by himself, or breaks the unbreakable siege just by being there.
>defeats the best known and most skilled swordsman in the setting without effort >easily manipulates everyone and always gets his way, every single time, no matter the situation >fights off multiple men on horses by himself, on foot >finds water in the desert just in time to get people through >gets beaten half to death and hung but survives, and that only makes him more powerful >breaks a siege conducted by a superior force with a bunch of starving people >all because 'he was trained in the monastery and repeated words in his head for two days'
It would have been fine if he was a master manipulator but had some weaknesses and had to rely on his followers for protection and menial tasks, but no, he also had to be a martial prodigy at the same time.
What are some book series that would make for fun game settings.
I think the edge is a great canidate.
Sky Pirates are fun, it has docents of unique and cool looking fantasy races and monsters, tons of potential for intrigue, several mysterious locations and the best thing is the series is famous for doing time jumps that drastically change the location, technology and political power structure
>no settings on the inside of a hollow planet
It seems like such an obvious twist, but all the closest examples that come to mind involve <discovering> the hollow earth, rather than starting there.
kys
murder in roleplay, as you can't have the one dying respawn and come back and take revenge
But they've made multiple video games.
And they were all wrong or flawed or just bad
All games are flawed.
The Xbox one was stupid
Telltale one was alright if you’re a show shitter
>he never played the board game video game
Casuals deserve the rope
Isnt it just Turkey without the main land? That said youre right.
>posting the edit
>Kong Hong
stand hong with kong?
>Lands of Sometimes Spring
Wat
What an awful map. Jesus Christ
10/10
>mysterios
>austrios
>Austrios
I could totally see GRRM take Australia, flip it upside down and call it that.
james sprunt community collAGE
Was it ever explained why this world had winters lasting 5 years?
Magic
The king in yellow is in this world and he has his own castle.
>Leng
>K'dath
latest „lore book“ also just straight up name dropped a good from the Elric series
We're not even going to get Winds of winter, are we
He will finish Winds but croak before Dream
1) Open world wouldn’t work. Some parts are MEANT to be mysterious/unknown.
2) Health bars and gamey combat would defeat the grit/lethality factor.
3) Spells aren’t something you can just do. Magic is basically alive/pricey.
4) Political intrigue/dialogue would probably take up the majority of the game.
5) The character you play will likely already be a part of pre-generated lore.
Yeah it would suck unless you actually know how the world works.
>Spells aren’t something you can just do.
Can’t Wargs control animals whenever they want?
Animals are still animals. Without a bond beforehand you are playing with fire / throwing meat to a river (who hates you)
throwing meat to a tiger*
Crusader Kings was perfect for this though
nah
>Crusader Kings
>Total War
/thread
Surprised we haven't gotten a Total War title yet.
Man i love fantasy worlds that have a surface level semi-grounded "low magic" approach but juuuust underneath that surface is a ton of really esoteric black magic spooky kinda shit. Always so much fun to see those grounded characters take a stumble and accidentally take a peek behind the curtain. Wish GRRM would do more lore building of the weird places he left with names/general descriptors, although i worry he'd reveal too much and frick up the vibes. Alot of fantasy that takes this approach always rips the curtains down and makes shit boring.
Anyone else know any other fantasy series that take this world building approach and pull it off? Curious if i'm missing out on some good shit
what's the point of the wall? To keep the winter out?
And make Santa Claus pay for it.
I don’t care that it’s 2 rectangles, planetos is a great setting
Essos likely isn’t a rectangle. A satellite image would probably have it looking a lot larger/thicker. The map isn’t supposed to be accurate the further east you go. People conveniently forget this all the time to make fun of it.
Battle Brothers/Mount and Blade rip-off about mercs in Essos might work imo, granted it would need to have a good story hook like the rise of the Golden Company and subsequent Blackfyre shenanigans
Honestly ya mountain blade is probably the best game for it. Still wouldnt really work the way people want it to but its probably the best bet. Im kinda shocked given how huge it was at one point a real video game of it was never made.
What video game would even be made set in the ASOIAF world? The biggest drawing point of this series is its characters and story, which is something that's achieved in the Telltale game and CK2 AGOT (the latter being more successful at that).
there's already 2 of the best
There are already multiple mods for Warband and TW im this setting.
>The Lands of Always Water
So basically gen 3 Pokemon.
So basically greece and turkey
It's perfect because games usually use square maps for optimization
How did Daenerys get to Qarth when it’s thousands of miles away from where she ended up at the end of aGoT and the surrounding area is a wasteland?
shh.. you're not supposed to point out that the writer is a hack.
Eagles.
the gor novels would be utterly impossible to adapt to a video game
forgot map
Where does the series devolve into pornography it is known for? I've read the first 3 books and they had exactly 0 sex scenes and they seem to be a pulpy but not horrible Conan clone.
i don't know i stopped reading at 4 i assume the role-players added most of the sex
"pornography it is known for"
do you mean the mouth breathers on Ganker that always talk about "le fat pink mast", one line out of thousands of pages, and acting as if the whole series is like that? Because most people have not read the novels and only pretend they did
We're talking about Gor which spawned its own BDSM sex cult you moron.
ya cause of lonely mouth breathers who read one thing and made it into something completely different
>A fricking rectangle
>make a dogshit setting
>impossible to adapt
I agree
Does this map feel kind of eerie to anyone else? Like seeing an abandoned theme park or something. So much work and thought put into it for so little payoff, and now it's completely abandoned by its creator. Seems kind of weird that so many nerds still put so much effort into learning the intricacies of this fantasy world invented in the mind of someone who has abandoned it and no longer gives a shit about it.
We will never get stories to fully flesh out the history of Yi Ti. We will never get a sequel which describes the Shadow Lands beyond Asshai. The significance of Gods Eye will never be fully explained, the foreshadowing about it will never bear fruit. It has all been utterly abandoned while Fat George just counts his millions and lazes about. This map represents decades of wasted speculation by sweaty nerds over something the author never intended to deliver on.
>Seems kind of weird that so many nerds still put so much effort into learning the intricacies of this fantasy world invented in the mind of someone who has abandoned it and no longer gives a shit about it.
To this day I wonder what the fans of Rothfuss are thinking.
>15 years ago said that his book is already written
>organized a crowdfunding campaign
>still hasn't released a single word of it and focuses on spinoffs
sir, your CK2?
What an awful, inorganic map with some of the most generic sounding locations I've heard in a long time. What is this from?
Game of thrones
dunno how it would even work
what is that from?
it has an inner sea so i am already interested
Riftwar saga, recommend big time.
>that right angle of landmass
God i hate game of throne's map so fricking much. Its like it got generated with a minecraft seed
>prince of nothing
I hated this book for its obnoxious mary sue protagonist and how every other secondary character is a self-pitying homosexual.
the lore is still pretty cool, how the none human history is basically like greek myths and the troyan wars or how there are experts form historians and poets between each chapter.
As a history fan I in general really like how most of the factions and evens are just real life historical things reused for the authors purposes.
The religous quotes feel very authentic due to it.
I also like how the conflict feels way more scary and apocalyptic then for example Lord of the Rings even through the scale is pretty much the same.
It has better sense of realism then most fantasy stories in that aspect.
my biggest problem is how the big battles often get summed up in a few sentences while we waste pages over the same inner conflcits and doubts over and over again
and how the alien faction acts and talks to much like humans and are almost saturday morning cartoon level of simplistic of just liking to rape and murder since it fun for them.
the dunyain faction honestly acts way more alien and creepy to me
The battles and history are easily the best parts of it. At least it is until the main character repels a cavalry charge by himself, or breaks the unbreakable siege just by being there.
>mary sue
Confirmed brainlet.
>defeats the best known and most skilled swordsman in the setting without effort
>easily manipulates everyone and always gets his way, every single time, no matter the situation
>fights off multiple men on horses by himself, on foot
>finds water in the desert just in time to get people through
>gets beaten half to death and hung but survives, and that only makes him more powerful
>breaks a siege conducted by a superior force with a bunch of starving people
>all because 'he was trained in the monastery and repeated words in his head for two days'
It would have been fine if he was a master manipulator but had some weaknesses and had to rely on his followers for protection and menial tasks, but no, he also had to be a martial prodigy at the same time.
What are some book series that would make for fun game settings.
I think the edge is a great canidate.
Sky Pirates are fun, it has docents of unique and cool looking fantasy races and monsters, tons of potential for intrigue, several mysterious locations and the best thing is the series is famous for doing time jumps that drastically change the location, technology and political power structure
Impossible to adapt into any medium.
why does it look like someone snapped a shot of some random clouds and traced them to make that?
Dunno, but that sounds like a good idea.
ok clown
>no settings on the inside of a hollow planet
It seems like such an obvious twist, but all the closest examples that come to mind involve <discovering> the hollow earth, rather than starting there.