My opinion is that they are both great games and deciding what you want out of them will be your determining factor. For me, I like the visuals and gameplay of SMVE slightly more than game GoT. So for a more casual player, I would say SMVE. However, if you want to go real deep on rules and strategy with a tournament mindset go with GoT. Also depends on what you have alongside it. If I had a ST in the lineup, that tips the scale to GoT as well because of the play similarities to SM.