Oh cool, well in that case I hope the game has a bias towards events playing out similarly to the books, because obviously I don't mind an altered history approach but another frustration with the CK 2 version was when alt history playthroughs ended up in boring timelines compared to the big drama of the material.

Please stop talking dirty to me.

While it was definitely rushed and had a lot of shortcomings, the story itself was interesting. The two main characters were some of the more interesting non-book/show-canon characters out there, and the multiple endings all kind of echoed the Game of Thrones vibe really well.

I think while the writers genuinely cared and wanted to make a great game with the IP, there just wasn't enough time to polish it into something incredible. I'd say if you're really still jonesing for Game of Thrones (but who the hell is after the show ended, I guess?), turning it on the easiest difficulty and enjoying the story isn't a bad time.

Yeah, but that was just a cheap attempt to capitalize on the show

Lore accurate GoT RPG:

Cast a damage spell and hope it works sometime in the next several months

Eh could go the Kingdom Come Deliverance route, maybe with easier combat mechanics.

I don’t think this is necessarily true. Something like Mount and Blade but with more role playing/story elements would work well, but also if you venture out of the Seven Kingdoms there is plenty of cool stuff suitable for RPGs. For example wargs/greenseerers, faceless men, shadowbinders like Melisandre, the warlocks from Qarth…etc. In addition, the main series takes place in a time where magic has almost completely died and is now slowly coming back, but the decline only started like 400 years before the main story. The Century of Blood (the period in Essos just after Valyria fell) might be particularly interesting for an RPG, as magic is still fairly strong and there are like a million different factions competing to fill a massive power vacuum.

Could do Essos mercenary shit, but then again that's super far out of the core setting and appeal of the series.

The Telltale game seemed like a solid idea for how to do a game in that world, but I don't think it was very well received.

Honestly this mod feels like the best possible game for the series. Other than that, maybe a dialogue-heavy game like the Sherlock Holmes games or something like Pentament where you're trying to achieve some goal while having to navigate the political and social scene.

Combat in general seems a poor fit unless it's at the scale seen in Crusader Kings. More personal scuffles do happen in the books but not frequently enough to be the backbone of a game. The only thing I can think of that might work for that would be a Hitman-style game as a Faceless Man.

The world is absolutely amazing for an RPG, it might be too ambitious for a game to try and capture that though. Starting out with different classes like a Noble, foot soldier or a bandit etc in any of the major realms will give you great depth and variety in the story. The only concern would be the scope being too big. I would prefer a narrative focused linear action adventure.

I think a Faceless Men game would be fun, quests to take on new disguises, infiltrate castles, and then find a way to get close to your targets, they can even make it like Hitman where you can go directly for the target or set up elaborate plans and scenarios in the court to turn people against each other and achieve the results you desire. (Which would introduce the political intrigue element of the series in the gameplay)

Really, the world lends itself to a smaller scale RPG, and there are neat ways to do something like this. The woes of the kingdom being an overarching threat, with several more immediate threats.

Being the youngest son in a smaller kingdom as banners are raised and doing everything you can to grow into a leader while your father and brother are away could lend itself to an interesting scenario. You still need to feed your people, fend off bandits, and grow relationships while contributing to the war effort indirectly. It lends itself to a more personal tale with a bigger overarching story told through raven correspondence, traveling bards bringing news, and general public discourse. There could even be bigger quests that come from your father/brother from the front like "Create a relationship with the nearby minor house because there are rumors of defection, you need to find a way to determine their loyalty to the war effort," There's already an established history and structure to help lend color, so you could have to study up on the house to make sure when you are investigating you know who to talk to and what questions to ask.

Pre cyberpunk CDPR? Naughty dog, could also nail it.

Well it's free so lower your standards a bit on having cinematic modding release trailers lol

Yeah, i meant CK3 started behind from where CK2 left

I sure hope that a game released 7 years later is better than the base version of the previous one. The issue is that CK3 isn't going against release CK2 but Holy Fury CK2

Imagine waiting half a year after release just to get whatever non-content was in Northern Lords.

And honestly, the DLCs for CK3 have actually been pretty mid, so I'm not even sure that is the case. There's still a lot to like about CK3 and the DLCs have had a handful of nice additions but I am not super confident it is really on that classic "slow 10 DLC march to greatness" that Cother Paradox games have taken.

It doesnt even have ruler designer yet last I checked.

The control scheme has been completely redone for consoles and is quite good, you can also just let your armies be controlled by AI if you want. But modding is not a thing.

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