Telltale's A Game of Thrones to span multiple years and games
Telltale's partnership with HBO to make game adaptations will span multiple years and games, according to the official announcement.
Telltale recently confirmed it would be adapting the HBO show A Game of Thrones into an adventure game, with little more than a title to tease it. The official announcement shares a little more detail, including just how ambitious the episodic series will be.
Calling it a "multi-year, multi-title partnership" between Telltale and HBO's licensing department, the series will start in 2014. Similar to other Telltale games, it's planned for PC, Mac, consoles, and mobile devices. It's worth noting, again, that the game will be based on the TV series, rather than the original novels.
"Since the very beginning, Telltale's goal has been to work alongside the most talented and respected forces in entertainment, bringing their worlds to the interactive space as no other game studio can," said Telltale CEO Dan Connors, in the formal announcement. "Working with HBO to develop a new game series based on Game of Thrones is a natural fit for our studio. This partnership will create an experience that will captivate the huge, global Game of Thrones audience. It will put them in control of the epic stories of warfare, intrigue, violence and revenge that we know and love."
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Why not the books? That's the direction they chose with The Walking Dead and it was the right one. It won't be HBO's Game of Thrones if it doesn't have the actor's likeness and voices (and not JUST likeness with different voices which would suck hard).
I'd rather they did their own style, since it won't look realistic given it's telltale.-
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GRRM said that if the series isn't finished by him it won't be finished. He's not going to allow another author to complete it.
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Singing about wieners and flopping his dick around in front of little boys.
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Every game has been shit so far because they kept going with crappy developers until now.
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They'll still saddled with some crappy technology, unless Telltale finally overhauled all their shit.
I like most of Telltale's stuff, but man that engine just isn't very good. Fine for dialogue scenes and close ups, bad for any sort of vistas, complex animations, and scene transitions. It's real clunky and only looks good when the art they're using is highly stylized as seen in Walking Dead and Wolf Among Us, but even then there's plenty of rough edges that bring it down.
If they are going with HBO's interpretation instead of their own, I don't know how it's going to turn out well as a game and experience. I'm sure the writing will be okay, but I can picture the presentation being a big mess. Will be interested to see it motion.-
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I was only talking visual interpretation.
They would have to do side stories and other characters in the same world, right? There's no way they are going to just tell the same stuff again or let you reshape events that already happened. Not that that isn't possible but it would be super fucking lame if it is a rehash and you're going through the motions or super weird if it's alternate universe stuff.
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Because the "brand" of the HBO show is the one with high visibility & marketability right now.
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That's not usually how this kind of thing works. Think of the explosion of LOTR games & stuff in the early 2000s. They were all based on the film branding despite the books having existed for 50 years.
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