Elden Ring is one of this year’s most awaited games, and it seems whoever sees even a bit of it walks away thoroughly impressed. This is the case with Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin who took to his personal blog to call the upcoming action RPG “incredible.”
He acknowledged the game has been in development for a long time now, describing how he “did [his] bit and handed off to [his] new friends in Japan” before “years passed.” He also talked about FromSoftware’s “groundbreaking stuff with gorgeous art” and how he helped with “just a bit of worldbuilding.”
A few years back, Hidetaka Miyazaki and his incredible team of game designers, the creators of the Dark Souls video game series, reached out from Japan to ask me to help them create the backstory and history for a new game they were working on.
George R.R. Martin
Thanks to Martin’s involvement in the project, we have grand, mythological heroes such as Godfrey in Elden Ring’s world. An offer like creating the lore and mythos for a world like the one we experience in Elden Ring is an offer very hard for a fantasy writer to give up. Martin might not write the in-game text, but the game’s history and backstory were, and the influence is evident.
In the blog post, he said that he does not have much experience playing video games, and even less when it comes to making them. He states he once played strategy games like Railroad Tycoon but was unfamiliar with FromSoftware’s work before this collaboration.
George R.R. Martin fans are hopeful that his writing will add more depth to Elden Ring. However, as was expected, some replies to his tweets openly questioned why the author was working on a video game instead of his next book.
Some even outright told him to get on with writing Winds of Winter, which has been in progress for nearly a decade now. But it’s nice to see Martin is just as excited as other gamers for Elden Ring.
About Elden Ring
Elden Ring is a major title released by FromSoftware in 2022, the developers of Demon’s Souls, Bloodborne, and the Dark Souls franchise. Set in the ‘Lands Between’, players are on a quest to repair the Elden Ring and become the new Elden Lord.
Shadow of the Erdtree is a full-fledged expansion for Elden Ring added in June 2024. It is a whole new map with new Weapons, Sorceries, Ashes, and Craftables. It is a challenging DLC and as players continue to explore the map, they find surprises and easter eggs left by the developers every day.
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