the idea of more than 50% of NPCs dying is not a bad idea tho

my knowledge of GOT is just from the memes and spoilers I read on the internet. About the author I know almost nothing

if anything, GRRM might make From soft be a little more light hearted :v

the important characters who die in game of thrones die because they weren't actually the important characters in his story, but their deaths serve to drive the story arcs of the actually important characters forward

chaosghost: I feel that Miyazaki and GRRM duo will create a more depressing story but I welcome that if it turns out good. You know how much input GRRM has on the writing of GOT tv series?

Basically right up to the end of the fourth season iirc.

he even wrote episodes for it. But when the show overtook the books he left the show

oh so he isn't involve in season 8 at all?

I feel like Miyazaki is more bleak than GRRM. In GRRM the idea is that it's a fantasy series with people living real believable lives trying to survive and thrive against one another. the Soulsborne is all "welp the world has ended everyone's just waiting to die or are already dead"

his involvement afaik is that he made the mistake of telling the writers of GoT what the ending's main plot points would be

HAHAHAHA

so GoT was like "oh shit we should go for those plot points even though we don't know how to make it there in a satisfying way"

and this video just made me unlike GRRM a little George RR Martin on Tolkien's Biggest Mistake

regardless... I am less skeptical now. my stupid mistake is that I associate him too much to the fate of GOT series hahahaha

a Miyazaki/Tolkien collab might be great. maybe in another universe

basically the problem was the adaptation removed a subplot involving the so called "Fake Aegon" who is supposedly the long lost son of the heroic/wifenapping Rhaegar Targaryan. If Daenerys had a rival pretender to the throne with an on paper stronger claim than hers then her whole "imma burn everything" might have gone down better

targaryen*

chaosghost: damn sounds like it could have gone down better

especially since Varys in the books has been grooming Faegon the entire time

and Tyrion has met Faegon and they actually bond a little, and he hasn't met Dany in the books yet.

basically the theories is that Dany's entire court is in danger of just leaving her to support Faegon

Anyway. That's more the GRRM thing. Characters will have to be deep and have their own motivations so maybe NPCs will be doing their own thing more in Elden Ring than in previous games

unreliable quest givers and having to choose between rival NPCs might be a thing shrug

chaosghost: rival NPCs is already a thing in DS3 iirc there's one rivalry, a blue and red covenant. If you ranked up in one covenant the other NPC will leave.

yeah but now you can distinguish them better than "blue and red" cuz they'll have motivations and shit