For all we know it might end up being something like...
A Song of Ice and Fire - Tales of a Hedge Knight
"Create your own vagabond knight and choose which side of the conflict to take. Will you side with the rebel Starks, the treasonous Lannisters or settle for the lawful King Stannis? Will you rise through the ranks after each battle and claim a place by your king's side? Or will your actions on the battlefield earn you mistrust and place you on the frontline of the next battle? Compete in tourneys to win your Lord's favour or choose your fighting style and become a heavily armed warrior or a lightly armoured outrider in dozens of large battles and hundreds of random encounters. One Realm, Five Kings, Total WAR.
Okay so I stole that last line from Medieval 2: Total War, but honestly I'd rather play that game than just play through the POV character's storylines.
Let's face it, those of you who say you actually want to BE the Imp. May I ask why, in a videogame? You can probably count the number of people the Imp kills in battle on two hands. Now obviously you can say "well it doesn't have to be ALL fighting" but really, most of it does. If you ship a game with 10% violence and 90% talking then people will complain. RPGs let you choose mostly but with Tyrion there would be no choice. And I certainly do not want to see a total disregard to the lore and see a game where you play as Tyrion or Jaime and you run around killing thousands of people and completing quests. It has to stick to the story, and we all know what happens to Tyrion and Jaime. They spend half their time in various captivity and most of the other half talking and scheming.
Another thing to remember is that the game will be shipped worldwide to a large audience. That means most of the people they will try and get to play it will not have read the series because the number of people who play video games and read the series will be too small an audience for them. Therefore it has to attract the people who just want to play a game and have never heard of ASOIAF. How can you attract them if you are just playing through Ned's chapters of AGOT, or even Arya's?
This is why I'm thinking we will only interact with the main characters, not play as them. I actually want this because I think it would be a MUCH better game. Playing as the Imp, Jaime, Ned, Arya, Sansa, Catelyn, Brienne, Cersei, Dany, even Jon, would NOT be interesting enough. Jon maybe but still, he kills very little people.
Of course, I could be wrong. But dammit if there is one thing I know its what makes a bad video game! I've played too many disappointments in my experience and a game centered around the POV character's of this book would be just that - a disappointment.
