George R.R. Martin on Elden Ring: 'My Work on it was Actually Done Years Ago' - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 July 2021 / 1,856 Views
Publisher Bandai Namco and developer FromSoftware during Summer Game Fest Kickoff Live! earlier this month released a gameplay trailer for Elden Ring, as well as announcing the game will launch for the Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on January 21, 2022.
George R.R. Martin, the Game of Thrones author, did some of the writing for Elden Ring, as well as helping build the world.
Martin visited Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism recently where he spot with local news station WWTW about his career and Elden Ring. He did say his work on the game finished years ago.
"The game is called the Elden Ring and it's a sequel to a video game that came out a few years ago called Dark Souls," Martin said during the interview which was transcribed by Eurogamer. "My work on it was actually done years ago. These games, they're like movies, they take a long time to develop.
"Basically they wanted a world created to set the game in, they wanted worldbuilding."
Martin added that he "worked up a fairly detailed background." After that From Software "took it from there."
"They would come in periodically and show me some monsters they designed or the latest special effects... but the game has been very slowly developing and now it's coming out in January, I believe," Martin said. "I'll be as excited as anybody else to see it."
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"Oh that", "I finished that years ago, no problem" George proudly stated.
...then when asked "What about the Winds of Winter?" George rushed out at a sprint.
I’m currently working in the theory that his version will never be released, but you may get A Girl in the Spider’s Web situation.
I hope not, but the same thing happened with the Wheel of Time Series.
I hope not as well, but its been ten years since book five and details are still so thin on the ground.
It’s definitely more an if rather than a when.
He is afraid of releasing. After so much hype it becomes impossible to live up to the hype. Like Chinese Democracy.
Conversely, given the TV finished a few years ago now I think a much of the hype will have ebbed away now, especially compared to the hype there would have been had he released it during the show’s run and even more so if it had been before season 6 aired.
A lot of people who may have previously been interested will now have moved on and won’t care to come back.
The night is dark and full of terror.
The book will be out before beyond good and evil 2 ever releases.
Is there actually a coherent story and a plot of some kind in this game? If so, I might check it out.
Game of thrones × dark souls of course it's going to be a good combo!
Haha!
I love that he thinks Dark Souls came out "a few years ago" and that Elden Ring is a sequel... unless it secretly is?!
I wouldn't go that far. He thinks DS is a few years old when it came out almost a decade ago and he doesn't seem to know it had sequels, so he clearly knows very little about the series.
Alternatively, he thinks 2011 was only a few years ago, which is why he hasn't felt pressured to finish writing his book.
Haha true! Maybe he experiences time at a faster rate than the rest of us lol
He is a tree
"Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak"
Haha he totally is! It would be amazing if he started reciting that quote every time someone asks him when the book will be out.
There is a fan theory that connects Souls and Bloodborne worlds. It is intriguing, but there is no confirmation for it. I suspect FromSoftware enjoy creating these vague connections between their games. And it seems Elden Ring will be no different.
Yeah they love to create complex lore and world building so there will probably be some connections.
