So what did George RR Martin write exactly?

[crazycupmuffin]

I can't even tell if their is an actual story. All I know is i'm some bloke that wants to be king. That's literally all my knowledge.
The game is amazing. But the story telling is rubbish so far.

[Broso]

You must be new to Souls games.

[Ahoge-dono]

That there's a lady, that wears a thong...... and she sleeps with dying people. There's this witch, but one of her followers want to give her potion so that he and the tarnished can use her as a "puppet."

Honestly, I wouldn't be able to recognize George RR Martin's writing contribution. My assumption he's a bit of a horndog? Yes? No?

[dande48]

George RR Martin wrote the PR for the game. As far as I can tell, that's it. The man doesn't even like video games, and has no intention of playing Elden Ring.

[秋]

Originally posted by Ahoge-dono:

That there's a lady, that wears a thong...... and she sleeps with dying people. There's this witch, but one of her followers want to give her potion so that he and the tarnished can use her as a "puppet."

Honestly, I wouldn't be able to recognize George RR Martin's writing contribution. My assumption he's a bit of a horndog? Yes? No?

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[psilocybe]

He wasn't involved with writing any of the in-game dialog.

He acted as a consultant...

Basically, he wrote the history of the world, everything that happened up to the point the player begins their journey. FROMSOFT wrote everything about the ingame plot

[eniohideカルロス]

There are lots of papers telling the story, but you have to purchase then.... I think this papers maybe scrolls? Are writed by him... well, who knows...

[Tiolazo]

Changed the name from Souls to Runes

[Nonomori]

Actually Ive been asking the same thing. There is pretty much no story, which is pretty common for a From game. However with Martin being involved I thought this game was going to, you know, actually have an engaging story with characters and side quests and things to keep you engaged in what you are doing, but sadly there isn't and it really makes me question what Martin actually did at all. The very very very little bit of story there actually is is fed to you either incredibly slowly, or insanely cryptically, or is just straight up nonsense. And it's so far and few between that a lot of the time I forget there's any direction at all.

So yeah, maybe introducing Martin was just a marketing feature after all.

[Belbe's Phyrexian Toy Collection]

nothing lol

[crazycupmuffin]

Weird way to market a videogame. They pushed his name for years, so much in the build up to the game.

[Nerevar]

pretty sure dung eater was georges new masterpiece of art.....

[Reifam]

Originally posted by crazycupmuffin:

I can't even tell if their is an actual story. All I know is i'm some bloke that wants to be king. That's literally all my knowledge.
The game is amazing. But the story telling is rubbish so far.

You're not gonna get a linear narrative campaign plot like in most RPGs in a FromSoft game. I mean there's the general goal of becoming Elden Lord, but the rest is told through item descriptions and environmental details. Very nontraditional storytelling where you enter into a broken world and have to pick up the pieces. That's how Dark Souls games were, and it's much the same here.

[Sabaithal]

Here's what I got.

There was this big seal, the Elden ring, that was broken, and a bunch of powerful people took pieces of it.

And you are trying to get the pieced back because...???

[TheLastDesperado]

Apparently he wrote the basics of the backstory. And it kind of shows with the related characters with similar names aspect and the various competing factions.

Also I get the feeling that a lot of the writing on the sword graves might have been him.

[Demonik]

Dont underestimate George R R Martin

The game wouldnt be nearly as good without him