As a guy who not read the books and not played the games, it's more than rough to understand the story, if there is one!? Characters don't get really introduced, nobody knows where they come from or what is there story, the sceneries look cheap as well as the costumes and even the dialogues are pretty poor. It's like the producers said ''hey, let's copy as much as we can from GOT and let's see where it goes'' For me it's just another proof that you can't make a good series out of a computer game. I would really like to give it a higher rating but the first season don't deserve it!