what if square enix made a malazan game?

[fourmonty]

but stylized it final fantasy style \o/

 

[MDGeistsfavMC5song]

I had no idea what "malazan" was and had to look it up... thanks for teaching me something new!.. as for your post I have no idea, as per previous sentence..

 

[DinoRexMax DinoRexMax]

but stylized it final fantasy style \o/

Buddy, the Final Fantasy brand has become so diluted, you're gonna have to be more specific...

 

[Graw]

Well as far as I know the Malazan books were based on the author and his buddy's D&D campaign and they did start to get pretty ridiculous around the 5th book in a way that would probably fit well with a jrpg. I couldn't finish the series. It got so dumb it was like reading about a bunch of superheroes. It's another series on the pile that made me give up on those long ass fantasy series in general. That was the worst trend to ever happen to fantasy books. Endless series of 1000 page books with a glossary the size of a normal book at the end. I blame Tor. They just kept pumping them out for years and years.

 

[fourmonty]

Buddy, the Final Fantasy brand has become so diluted, you're gonna have to be more specific...

ff12 artstyle? i like ivalice

 

[DinoRexMax DinoRexMax]

ff12 artstyle? i like ivalice

I also like Ivalice.

You're alright @fourmonty

 

[fourmonty]

I also like Ivalice.

You're alright @fourmonty

ffta, if only it was remade/merged with ffta2 quality & gameplay, or if the ffta2 characters/models were modded out, with better writing & story.

 

[PhaseJump]

Square Enix doesn't have the talent or skill to adapt it properly. It's too much for them or Hollywood to adapt without butchering it.

Well as far as I know the Malazan books were based on the author and his buddy's D&D campaign and they did start to get pretty ridiculous around the 5th book in a way that would probably fit well with a jrpg. I couldn't finish the series. It got so dumb it was like reading about a bunch of superheroes. It's another series on the pile that made me give up on those long ass fantasy series in general. That was the worst trend to ever happen to fantasy books. Endless series of 1000 page books with a glossary the size of a normal book at the end. I blame Tor. They just kept pumping them out for years and years.

Not D&D. It was a GURPS campaign setting that they picked up and turned into a failed movie script pitch. Erikson expanded that into the novel Gardens of the Moon, and eventually ran with more of it for 5 novels before Esslemont started getting his own series in the same shared universe published.

Between the two of them, they have created dozens of works. 2 complete main novel series, prequel trilogies and sequel trilogies with stylistic changes to the writing, and comedic novellas focused on the travelling necromancer side characters everybody liked. Everything spanning thousands of years of history.

Outside of Middle Earth, the series is untouchable for mature high fantasy world building. Both authors are archeologists, and aren't actually stupid when it comes to slowly approaching narratives and characters, their motivations, what they show or tell you from their perspective, whether true or not.

It's the most dense, master class fantasy work since LOTR and there is still more coming. That is down to Erikson material more than Esslemont, but he's above average in his own right.

The most damning thing about the series is how dense and inaccesible it is. Up front, you have no handholding. You take the ride. You don't begin to understand what's actually going on or how the world works until you have read multiple books that span multiple narratives with different characters on different continents.

A Song of Ice and Fire was an easy to read fantasy behemoth as it came along, like Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn before it, but it was never finished and probably never will be thanks to HBO money and old man GRRM being distracted by wealth, food products, his own nihilist inability to write heroic endings. A Game of Thrones and 2 sequels were good, ending at a breaking point for a time skip that never happened. The rest so far is a roll of toilet paper by comparison.

Malazan is already done, meandering in the fringe spinoff extra stuff, and in a hundred years people will look back at the whole thing for what it is. Something Tolkien would likely have been impressed by.

 

[Graw]

The most damning thing about the series is how dense and inaccesible it is. Up front, you have no handholding. You take the ride. You don't begin to understand what's actually going on or how the world works until you have read multiple books that span multiple narratives with different characters on different continents.

I mean. It's not really that deep or hard to follow. Books 1 & 3 are about one set of characters. Books 2 & 4 are about different but related characters. I mean book two starts off with a dude being eaten alive by flies. It's not like it doesn't suck you in right away. Book 5 starts off a new plot thread. Book 6 starts bringing everyone together. The first four books were fine. The fifth book is where it started getting dumb and a lot of the mature character building he'd been doing in the earlier books were cast aside for silly super hero esque powers and character deaths for the sake of it.

A Song of Ice and Fire was an easy to read fantasy behemoth as it came along, like Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn before it, but it was never finished and probably never will be thanks to HBO money and old man GRRM being distracted by wealth, food products, his own nihilist inability to write heroic endings. A Game of Thrones and 2 sequels were good, ending at a breaking point for a time skip that never happened. The rest so far is a roll of toilet paper by comparison.

A Song of Ice and Fire is a political drama disguised as a fantasy series. I've never watched the show but I made it up to the part in the books where the gimp dude's dad kills his whore and I couldn't handle it any more. I'd already read two and a half books about some incestuous rich people. I didn't feel like reading more.

Malazan is already done, meandering in the fringe spinoff extra stuff, and in a hundred years people will look back at the whole thing for what it is. Something Tolkien would likely have been impressed by.

I haven't really paid much attention to it since I stopped reading the series. There was only 6 main books and prequel his buddy had written at that time. I have no idea how many books there are now.

 

[CraigJarrett]

Personally I think they need to make another wrestling game

 

[fourmonty]

i dropped malazan already ._.

 

[PhaseJump]

i dropped malazan already ._.

It's a massive commitment.

 

[NeonKnights]

I also had to look up Malazan.
Guess I was wrong about it being some sort of foreign fruit spread.

 

[fourmonty]

new narrator (book4+) could not carry, had to drudge/skip through audiobook 2/3

just skim the compendium & call it a day

https://highnessatharva.github.io/Malazan-Compendium/#prologue-1

 

[PhaseJump]

And you thought Square Enix could handle it.

 

[werewolfx]

16 is what happens when Yoshi P watched Game of Thrones. Probably not the best idea for them to adapt western styles.

 

[MDGeistsfavMC5song]

Personally I think they need to make another wrestling game

what was their last wrestling game? was it a Human production? or ya know the greatest wrestling game ever outside of Pro Wrestling on the NES known as Konami's Rumble Roses..