Video Game Adaptation In the Works For A Song of Fire and Ice

On Wednesday, French game development studio Cyanide announced that they will be working with George R. R. Martin to bring his popular fantasy series, A Song of Fire and Ice, to the realm of video games. The press release implies that there will be more than one game, and the games will come out for PCs and "next-gen consoles." Apparently an HBO television series is in the works as well, in addition to board and card games related to the books.

You mean "A Song of Ice and Fire", right?

[The_mad_linguist]

Or is this one of those Chinese knockoffs, like "backstroke of the west" or "Harry potter and the big Funnel"?

Subgames?

[mcnazar]

Will there be sub-games/mini-games for the following:

* Braid pulling.
* Adjusting ones dress.
* Complex embroidery design? Maybe have a web portal where other players can design complex dresses. Dress design will be rated by the length and detail of descriptions (minimum description 3000 words or one chapter). MMO even?

Excellent franchise to choose as both the TV series and games can produce multitudes of series/upgrades with no conclusion to plot or story.

A Tip for anyone contemplating reading the whole series. After book three, skip every twenty pages.

Re:I would prefer...

[Kranerian]

How do you think us Wheel of Time fans feel?

Song Of Fire ...

[ghillo]

It is Duke Nukem Forever among the fantasy cycles.
If you don't count The Wheel of Time, but that's quite different story.

Re:Noo!!!

[fractoid]

I still lol'd. And I'd modify your tip to "after book three, skip every 20 pages or so, after book 5 skip to book 8 (was that the one where they, um, without spoilers I can say 'did the very important thing at the evil place which fixed something important'?) and then to book 11.

Re:Noo!!!

[mcnazar]

Book 8?.. Hmm... not sure. Was that the one where 800 pages were dedicated to progressing the story 20 minutes? You know... where they nuked the ...very bad.. place? Then did book nine move the story along another 10 minutes?

Thankfully its all a blur.

Re:*sigh*

[ThisIsForReal]

That means it's being developed for the Playstation 4 and the Xbox 720, and perhaps the Wii 2.0, unless by "next generation" they mean the devices that came out 3-4 years ago.

Re:Noo!!!

[fractoid]

Nope, book 9 was back to petticoats and stamping one's tiny delicate feet. I hear that book 11 actually has some plotline. (I stopped reading after I bought book 10, took a 4-hour flight to a conference and an 8-hour flight back, tyvm jetstream, and still couldn't get more than a couple of hundred pages into it.

You just got my hopes up.

[igorthefiend]

I thought you meant an adaptation of 16-bit platformer Fire & Ice... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oRAaI5HrDw [youtube.com]

Re:I would prefer...

[geminidomino]

... if George R.R. Martin would just finish writing the damn series!!!

Are you sure you'd be happy with it if it came prematurely? Mostly Harmless comes to mind. Summary: Random chaotic shit, and everyone dies at the end.

HEY! Spoiler-tags motherfucker! ;)

Re:I would prefer...

[drinkypoo]

But when did you last read something where even the author dies before the grand climax?

I don't know, but Atlas Shrugged was clearly an attempt to kill the reader.

Re:The books suck

[Sloppy]

You are seeing a statue inside the marble block. The actual plot is that pretty much everyone is getting raped, maimed, or killed.

Re:The books suck

[geminidomino]

"Murphy's Law of George R.R. Martin":
If you like a character, that character will be maimed, raped, and/or killed in the next book. There are no exceptions.

Yes there are. I liked a character that didn't even survive the FIRST book!

Re:You are the main character of the game

[geminidomino]

Shit. I'm not paying $60 for a game where I survive 10 minutes...