Game of Thrones - Westeros Deserves Better @ Kotaku

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Kotaku's weekly RPG column expresses disappointment at the way the rights to A Game of Ice and Fire seem to have been handled. Here's a sample from Westeros Deserves Better From The Game of Thrones Video Games:

Aside from The Wall and King's Landing, you'll be spending most of your time in places either never or barely mentioned in the books, and aside from a few characters like Jeor Mormont and Varys, you'll be spending most of your time talking to people created solely for the game. You're also given a choice of two characters you get to play, and that's it. You're a Red Priest or a member of the Night's Watch.

You can't be a Hedge Knight, you can't be a bandit, you can't be a Bravoosi. You can't even choose your gender. Even by action RPG standards, and not true RPG standards, that's pretty damn limiting.

To me, that's like licensing a Star Wars game and then having the player manage the moisture farm next to Luke's on Tatooine. After Luke's already left. It's got almost nothing to do with the reasons I would want to play a game based on that property.​

 

What does he want? Kill the Lannisters himself?
Seems to me like a fanboy rant, which has next to nothing to do how good a game it will be.

 

Well, it's rather irrelevant how good the game is. The point is that, if a game is going to try to cash in on a franchise name, it should actually have something to do with the franchise.

 

Sure, but on the other hand I don't care much for games that just rehash the same plot as the movie and don't offer anything new. For example, I like Star Wars, but I'm sick of having to go to Tattooine every game.

I haven't played the game yet, so I can't really say how justified the criticism is. Still, just because it doesn't include all the people and places from the first book doesn't mean it's not true to the original.

 

Isn`t the game supposed to be set before the books\tv series?