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kcroy posted:For all that I've poo poo on GRRM for Wildcards and that it's based on a RPG, My favorite Clancy book was Red Storm Rising, which was based on game play sessions from Harpoon. I never pictured Tom Clancy as a gamer. But I guess that's good my dad used to always read his books and he hated video games and rpgs.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:honestly i am kinda surprised they never pulled off a good GOT/ASoLaF game. the best i can think of is a mount and blade mod. they had a really meh DA type rpg i believe. i remember hearing rumors one of the big publishers had one in the works but its way to late now. Final Fantasy Tactics/Tactics Ogre is right there! Just make a game like set in the Blackfyre Rebellion!
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MonsieurChoc posted:Final Fantasy Tactics/Tactics Ogre is right there! It kills me that isometric story-heavy TRPGs never really became a thing.
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Gianthogweed posted:I never pictured Tom Clancy as a gamer. But I guess that's good my dad used to always read his books and he hated video games and rpgs. Wasn't the videogame though, although It did get years later adaptations. The super-groggy cardboard chits, maps and rolled dice Harpoon. I can totally see a still living/writing 2020 Clancy going nuts over Command: Modern Naval Air Operations though.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Final Fantasy Tactics/Tactics Ogre is right there! Just make a game like set in the Blackfyre Rebellion! You already sorta have your wish, ASOIAF and FFT are both inspired by the War of the Roses.
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checking this thread is like driving past an ex-girlfriends house at 2 am and realizing she moved years ago.
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[fred gwynne voice] Oh that thread? That's the ol' GRRM thread. Folks don't go around there no more. Folks say it's haunted.
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Hasselblad posted:He dead yet? Naw he’s finishing the book this year get hype
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We don't go to Grrmholm any more.
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Guy A. Person posted:Naw he’s finishing the book this year get hype "The book" You are not fooling me. 
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Feb 12, 2020 16:30
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Remember when he posted "the draft is coming" and it was about the NFL?
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"I have been writing up a storm!" - Notablog posts probably
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Soysaucebeast posted:I know there's a version of the last two combined called A Ball of Beasts. I keep meaning to re-read the series and finish with that, but I keep getting distracted before I get that far. Anyone know if that's any good? For a second reading it works relatively well but the books were 'designed' to be read one after the other, the combined reading doesn't really make a huge difference and ultimately even as a combined novel it's only 2/3rd of a finished product.
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Hasselblad posted:"I have been writing up a storm!" Literally writes the phrase "up a storm" on a napkin as a single tear rolls down his cheek
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I maintain the plot beats make reasonable sense and you can see how they’d have to work in the books without the TV changes.
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Feb 13, 2020 18:58
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Are all of the got HBO sequels dead yet?
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banned from Starbucks posted:Are all of the got HBO sequels dead yet? Yep. Season 8 sucked so hard it killed an HBO original series, two GoT spin-offs, a Star War trilogy, an Amazon show, a Netflix show, a ComicCon panel, several websites, and all interest in harassing GRRM to finish the books. No one has ever seen suck of that magnitude.
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A HORNY SWEARENGEN posted:Yep. It is known
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Truly a masterpiece. It’s incredible really.
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A HORNY SWEARENGEN posted:Yep. All those deaths and yet the GRRM still lives.
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No matter how great the plane ride is while in the air, it's always a lovely flight if you crash land at the end.
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hobbesmaster posted:I maintain the plot beats make reasonable sense and you can see how they’d have to work in the books without the TV changes. Oh definitely. But instead of feeling like a season of TV, it felt like running through checklist so all of the 'twists' fell completely flat and felt unearned. In 20 years when GRRM has died and Sanderson has finished the books, I'll still look forward to reading them, but that season of TV legit just killed any affection I had for the show.
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Sanderson isn't finishing poo poo.
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The Fire and Blood prequel is still in production, season 8 has not killed everything.
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chaosapiant posted:The Fire and Blood prequel is still in production, season 8 has not killed everything. I'my hype for Velaryon.
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TOOT BOOT posted:Sanderson isn't finishing poo poo. To be fair, neither is GRRM.
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chaosapiant posted:The Fire and Blood prequel is still in production, season 8 has not killed everything. Yeah, i googled it after reading that post and apparently it's coming out in 2022. Maybe you'll be able to create some nostalgia around the show, but what most people will remember is being pissed off at the ending.
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chaosapiant posted:season 8 has not killed everything. ..yet.
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The Witcher was good, and had Tits and Dragons.
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Klungar posted:The Witcher was good, and had Tits and Dragons. witcher books Theres only the one dragon games unless we see sasswhatever growing up edit: wait the games aren't licensed, rip the second spoiler hobbesmaster fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Feb 14, 2020 |
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hobbesmaster posted:witcher books Theres only the one dragon I’m talking show, I’ve only gotten through the two short story collections so far. I’ll take more tits over more dragons any day.
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Mr. Nemo posted:Yeah, i googled it after reading that post and apparently it's coming out in 2022. I like that some people will live with that disappointment everyday of their lives Khaleesi was the 549th most popular name for newborn girls in 2018, while Arya was the 119th most popular name.
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Soysaucebeast posted:Oh definitely. But instead of feeling like a season of TV, it felt like running through checklist so all of the 'twists' fell completely flat and felt unearned. In 20 years when GRRM has died and Sanderson has finished the books, I'll still look forward to reading them, but that season of TV legit just killed any affection I had for the show. So... Euron Greyjoy is a worldhopper, dragons are manifestations of Investiture similar to spren in the Stormlight books, and Varys actually gets all his information from Hoid (who disguises himself as Davos)?
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Gimmedaroot posted:Best Vietnam vet fantasy author I've read Glen Cook's The Black Company series. Big influence on GRRM, not really a kids fantasy series, and based on Cook's platoon in Vietnam. And it was completed. Honestly the Black Company books are very not good once you get past the Silver Spike, which cleanly wraps up the White Rose plotline. I think the first Taglios book is decent and then it goes off the rails because Cook leans way too heavily on the "Vietnam but with magic" analogies and then let's the whole Shadowlands/dimensional crossroads plot run way too long because he doesn't want to stop writing about his favorite characters. The prequel book that came out recently was well written but hurts the series overall. If the people making the Black Company tv show are smart they'll just adapt the White Rose books and then either end it or figure out a new direction to go in. I get why he wants to revisit it but the Black Company is a series that benefits from some mystique; the more he fills in the backstory the weaker the main books become, mainly because he hasn't really improved as a writer in the intervening years. Re: Wheel of Time - it's above average and influenced a lot of fantasy that came after it but there are some slogs and the dialogue/plotting never reaches GoT levels. There's no Ned Stark moment and no character as engaging as Tyrion, etc. But they're solid reads - I'm due for another re-read soon, especially with the adaptation on the way. Mat Cauthon fucked around with this message at 05:04 on Feb 15, 2020 |
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Mat Cauthon posted:Re: Wheel of Time - it's above average and influenced a lot of fantasy that came after it but there are some slogs and the dialogue/plotting never reaches GoT levels. There's no Ned Stark moment and no character as engaging as Tyrion, etc. But they're solid reads - I'm due for another re-read soon, especially with the adaptation on the way. WoT have some excellent and epic scenes, typically at the end of the books. For books in the middle part of the series, they could be a slog until the end and the explode in a massive epic ending, partly redeeming it.
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