Is Bethesda working on a Game of Thrones video game?

[David Matthews]

There have been several attempts at a Game of Thrones video game. Cyanide Studios and Focus Home Interactive released a Game of Thrones RPG in 2012. Telltale Games has a version of Game of Thrones that utilizes its signature choose-your-own-adventure style gameplay and who could forget the excellent mod for Crusader Kings II?

It now appears that Bethesda, the famed developer behind the Elder Scrolls and Fallout series, could be working on its own adaptation of the popular HBO title.

First spotted by NeoGAF, there appears to be a landing page on Target's website that shows a primarily blank page, save for the words "Bethesda: Game of Thrones". The page is still there as of this publication.

It almost seems fitting for Bethesda to make a Game of Thrones video game. The studio is well known for fantasy role playing with its Elder Scrolls series. Dragons, feuds and medieval settings are the norm in the fantasy world of Tamriel. The irony is that Bethesda almost made a game set in Westeros, the fictional continent that most of Game of Thrones takes place on.

According to a 2011 interview with Electronic Gaming Monthly, Todd Howard, executive director of Skyrim, said, “people in our studio liked [A Game of Thrones], and it seeped in a bit to what we were doing. We were actually asked a while ago to turn those books into games.”

It seems that George R.R. Martin's novels may have had a big influence on the development of Skyrim. If anything, Bethesda making a Game of Thrones adaptation brings everything full circle. While it is certainly possible that the listing on Target is a mistake (or we're being trolled), giving Bethesda the reins to the beloved series seems within the realm of possibility.

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[mcborge]

I hope it isn't just an Elder scrolls clone. I also hope they don't water down the mature content just to get a lower age rating to sell more copies.

 

[Steed]

Lets just hope its not an online fail like ESO. As much ESO is good and playable, the idea of an endless online game just doesnt appeal to a lot of us. If I am going to sink a large amount of time into a game, I need to know that it will eventually reach completetion. Right now ESO is so bad(Good?) that I could literally play it for the rest of my life and never finish it. That makes the whole MMO idea suck for people like me.

 

[Kibaruk]

I can't think of a GoT game, at least not a single player one, for as much fantasy as it is. I do however believe an MMO game could make sense, just can't see how it could be made, players are lords and houses come together to fight for the iron throne... that could be huge, in a eve-sandbox-style.

 

[Misagt]

Personally I wouldn't be interested in this game. It's low fantasy that just revolves around the lowest of lows in regards to what is humanity. I don't see how this will translate into a good game. I think there are better IP's out that to build a game around over GoT.

 

[Kibaruk]

Personally I wouldn't be interested in this game. It's low fantasy that just revolves around the lowest of lows in regards to what is humanity. I don't see how this will translate into a good game. I think there are better IP's out that to build a game around over GoT.

Think of Crusader Kings, on a MMORPG.

 

[Misagt]

Think of Crusader Kings, on a MMORPG.

If it's along the lines of Crusader Kings it could be good. Thanks for pointing that out.

 

[Kibaruk]

If it's along the lines of Crusader Kings it could be good. Thanks for pointing that out.

I'm not sure if it's going that way, what I was talking about is what I could imagine it being about.