Great Rune: Here's everything you need to know about FromSoftware's/ George RR Martin's rumoured open world game

Critically acclaimed author George RR Martin, most notably known for his book series Games of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire, recently wrote in his blog post regarding his upcoming book, the projects he has been working on, his opinion about the highly polarising Season 8 of Games of Thrones as well as revealed a tidbit that he's a "consultant on a Video Game out of Japan."

This information clashed with an early leak this year that Fromsoftware - the studio responsible for the likes of Dark Souls, Bloodborne and the most recent Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice has hired George RR Martin as one of the lead writers for their upcoming 'open world game'. As of now, more information has flourished in and we may have some concrete details as to what this exciting project is all about.

Here's everything you need to know about From Software's upcoming rumoured open world game:

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#1 It will feature a Norse setting

This information actually comes from an investigative report from Spawn Wave and Liam Robertson who went on to claim that the game is called Great Rune and features a Norse inspired open world setting.

The above information was also confirmed yesterday by VaatiVidya- a personality well known among the FromSoftware community, someone who's heavily in touch with everything going in and around the Souls community.

In his most recent video, he confirmed that he has known about this project for a couple of years now because of some insider connection he has.

With the recent God Of War going full Norse, and the upcoming Assassin's Creed game also reportedly is set during the Viking Era, it seems like an ongoing trend in the Industry lately to venture off into the Norse Mythology which is actually a good thing, since not much of this world has been explored in Video Games in the past.

#2 The game will feature Horseback riding

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For the first time in the history of Fromsoftware games, it seems the upcoming Great Rune will feature horseback riding as one of its key gameplay mechanics. This also points towards the scope of the world Fromsoftware is building for this game.

It actually indicates that the world we are going to dive in will notably be a lot bigger in size and scope than previous Fromsoftware titles such as Bloodborne or Sekiro and hence horse riding is a necessary addition to traversing this world.

Here's hoping that Horseback fighting will also be a thing in this game.

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#3 The game is not fully open world

Hold your horses. Even though the upcoming game features horseback riding and a huge world, the game might not be as open as let's say Red Dead Redemption or The Witcher 3.

This information comes from Antonio Fucito, who wrote on his Twitter account that the game is not fully open world, about which he can confirm. This is mainly because of the limitation of the engine FromSoftware has been using this current generation. However, they have modified the same for this upcoming game.

I can confirm it, a developer told me about this project MANY years ago. It may not be a “fully” Open World due to the limitations of the same (but improved) From Software engine.I’m not sure, instead, about “Great Rune” name. The codename for Bloodborne was, for example, SPRJ. https://t.co/8Mu9s6KpgR

— Antonio Fucito (@Tanzen) May 22, 2019

#4 Story

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The game will feature a Norse inspired setting as already mentioned. The game serves as a true successor to Dark Souls but will be vastly different from that. According to the leaked information, the game will make the player character traverse the different kingdoms, each of which is ruled by a different lord/king. The player character's role will be defeating each one of them which will grant them unique powers.

This feature very much resonates with the previous game designs of FromSoftware titles and it would be exciting to see how it's fleshed out in this one, considering George RR Martin's involvement may result in a heavy emphasis on lore and narrative.

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#5 Reveal coming at E3 2019

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice was revealed back at The Game Awards 2017 with a short teaser but actual gameplay was revealed back at Microsoft's E3 2018 conference. Something of similar scope can be expected this year, as well as Great Rune, is heavily rumoured to be announced at Microsoft's E3 2019 conference this year.

Fromsoftware earlier confirmed that they have two more projects in development aside Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice which released earlier this year. One of them is indeed Great Rune and other possibly Bloodborne 2?

Whatsoever be the case, fans are really excited for this incredible collaboration two masterminds- Hidetaka Miyazaki and George RR Martin. One can only imagine the scope and diversity of the world they are building together for the studio's next big game.

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Anyways what are your thoughts regarding this upcoming rumoured FromSoftware game? Are you excited about it? Or you are going to ignore this because it's a FromSoftware game after all? Tell us in the comments down below.

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