#George rr martin elden ring tv#

Most games give your character godlike auto-kill superpowers Souls games make you, the player, step up and do the work yourself. Your motor skills and muscle memory begin to work in unison, and even though you still die a lot, you begin to become a better player. Like Bill Murray knowing to avoid that puddle or punch Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day, you develop a routine. Every turn, every corner, every filthy alleyway becomes etched in your memory. This isn’t particularly kind, nor is it forgiving, but it does imbue the committed (or psychotic) player with an almost superhuman focus. If you die en route? The runes disappear forever. In order to become incrementally more powerful by levelling up or buying new gear, you kill bad guys, gaining “souls” - or runes, in Elden Ring. Every time you die, all your runes are dumped where you died, and every bad guy you already killed respawns, leaving you to sneak and stab your way back to your corpse to regain your lost progress. But if you possess the stamina, you can and will prevail. These games will kick the shit out of you. They’re named after Demon Souls and Dark Souls, the first two games from Miyazaki and FromSoftware, which quickly caught the attention of the gaming world. Martin but don’t play games, you’re probably wondering what Souls games are. And just like when two extremely complicated people with terrifying, warren-like brains hook up and have kids, this project was always going to be a a weird one. But the dialogue, plot, and in-game text are all the genius of FromSoftware.

Martin ended up creating the history of the fictional world of Elden Ring, filling out all corners of it in incredible detail.

He was offered a fascinating job: build a world for Miyazaki and co.

#George rr martin elden ring tv#

Not content with getting lapped by the TV show (or having it absolutely shit the bed once it ran out of source material to work with), George took a call from Miyazaki.

Martin - the one who keeps getting side-tracked while working on the sixth Game of Thrones novel.