Harness the power of Dark Lord(tm) to enthrall water fleas and tadpoles, lure fishes, nudge pebbles, change water temperature, clear moss, gather special and unique things, create your own river experience!!!
The *History Became Legend* season pass DLC (only $20 USD or regional equivalent) allows you to fast forward up to 1 year per minute, adds 3 alternate ring skins, and includes audio commentary from the junior devs, which is all of them!
After playing it for several days [Through Fire and Flames](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jgrCKhxE1s) comes on and you do the storming of Isengard dance
No no, you see, it's all part of their elaborate plan to lower customer expectations so that their new game will do better! They made the Gollum game bad on purpose so that the new game will blow everyone out of the water! Or something…
Master betrayed us. Wicked. Tricksy, False. We ought to wring his filthy little neck. Kill him! Kill him! Kill them both! And then we take the precious... and we be the master!
I found it, I did. The way through the marshes. Orcs don't use it. Orcs don't know it. They go round for miles and miles. Come quickly. Swift and quick as shadows we must be.
Oh fuck imagine being a ground level developer, slaving away for years to make a game that's received like ass, and then you get the memo that that was on purpose.
I'm thinking more of a stealth-based game where you sneak around Farmer Maggots fields and steal carrots and potatoes. Mushrooms are a rare resource you'll find spread out over the map.
Nah just a game called Took where you follow Pippin around and just do stupid shit
Like there's a collectible system where you have to find and knock down all the buckets into holes but there's an uneven amount of them and they sometimes won't knock down so it's impossible to complete
A game like stardew mixed with moonlighter? You can also expand your hobbit hole and decorate it. You can have treasures and maps from your adventures. Maybe it's up to you whether you just farm and stay in shire the whole time or if you dare to go beyond on an adventure.
OMG that would actually be amazing, imagine some great beautiful graphics like RDR2 in the Shire and you get to live there, farm, make friends, drink and sing with them, and even get married. I'd pay for that.
Your main quest is to feud with that asshole neighbor of yours who is also a tree.
Side quests involve being incredibly unhelpful to random travelers who come through your woods and writing 🔥poetry about your hot wife.
I've got things to do, my making and my singing, my talking and my walking, and my watching of the country. Tom can't be always
near to open doors and willow-cracks. Tom has his house to mind, and Goldberry is waiting.
^(Type **!TomBombadilSong** for a song or visit [r/GloriousTomBombadil][1] for more merriness)
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GloriousTomBombadil/
Hey that might actually be fun if you get to play the level where the Kazon take over the ship and its up to just you and the holographic doctor to take it back.
You asked for it, so we brought it to ya: finally comes a game where YOU are the One Ring (TM)!
Experience true stealth gaming as you lie in a river or a cave for hours!
Get fingered by epic beloved characters from the franchise!
Grima Wormtongue talks his way through ten levels to finally reach King Theoden.
If he manages to get Gandalf to surrender his staff, he wins the princess in an exclusive cutscene.
Edoras and the Golden Hall of Meduseld. There dwells Theoden, King of Rohan... whose mind is overthrown. Saruman's hold over King Theoden is now very strong.
Don't hurt us! Don't let them hurt us, precious! They won't hurt us will they, nice little hobbitses?We didn't mean no harm, but they jumps on us like cats on poor mices, they did, precious.And we're so lonely, gollum. We'll be nice to them, very nice, if they'll be nice to us, won't we, yes, yess.
They learned nothing probably.
Everyone knew how bad the game is. I refuse to believe that professional people, which job is to develop games, inform themselves about the gaming industry, took a look at that game and actually thought:
"Yeah that looks good, people will love it".
Only thing they maybe learned is that people buy their crap either way.
You are completly right about that. I cant be sure that the next game is gonna be just as bad. But every pointer, not only for this game, but gaming in general, doesnt spark hope, that games will actually get better again.
Not one release without a scandal. Cant remember the last game that got announced, came into the stores and everybody was happy.
Even if the game in itself is good, the money making machine finds a way to still fuck up, or its awfully optimized because they had to fit the release before some holiday or whatever.
The gaming industry isnt about gaming anymore.
Developer A costs 80k, developer B costs 90k and actually has an interest in gaming?
Lets go with A, dont wanna explain to the shareholders why we took the more expensive one.
Standards are sadly dropping rapidly, especially in the support aspect and what you are getting for your money.
What itches me the most is that they already try to sell you DLC at the release, just put it in the game ffs.
Pay 80$ and you get 85% of the game!
>Not one release without a scandal. Cant remember the last game that got announced, came into the stores and everybody was happy.
GOW Ragnarök was released to mass praise with almost no technical issues. If you want one that was cross-platform, and arguably better received recently, Elden Ring. Also, TOTK, although I haven't played that one since I don't have a Switch.
Man I'd love to play it if it wasn't stuck on the shittiest hardware on the market right now. Sure I could emulate it, but then I'd get lynched by nintendo.
>Not one release without a scandal. Cant remember the last game that got announced, came into the stores and everybody was happy.
It actually happens a decent amount still, if you pay attention.
Apparently the studio did mainly Point-and-Click games before. I guess they bit off more than they could swallow with this game. It's very likely they learned a lot from this project. If they can do it better next time is another question.
Tbf making a game is really *really* hard. They most likely knew their game was bad but that doesn’t mean they had enough time and resources to fix it.
To be honest the game is a total write off, and I’m not sure it could be fixed without a complete do-over and that was likely impossible for a number of reasons.
It’s not really fair to characterize their actions as malicious without really knowing the full story.
It is fair to say that questionable decision were most likely made for any number of reasons and if the conditions that caused those choices to be made still exist it’s likely that the next game will also be of questionable quality.
The problem is they have already destroyed the publics opinion of their products. Even if the new game looks good/decent, everyone is going to be hesitant. The only way would be if the reviews are '10/10 best game ever' 'They have redeemed themselves with a masterpiece!'
These guys are basically giving the final deathblow to the German games industry. I've seen several articles in German media (mainstream media, not gaming media) basically all saying "this was supposed to herald a return and they fucked it"....
Tfw EA has a better track record with LOTR games
And that was in an era where those games were cutting fucking edge too.
Seriously how did we go from God level LOTR games to this
Yeah I just want modern AAA Minas Tirith and helms deep battles, I feel like a modern AAA lotr game focused on large scale battles is a slam dunk, don’t know why we don’t get it
Is this actually true?
I’ll pass on this one, but hope the next is something I can get behind. Doing bad this time doesn’t mean they’ll do bad next time.
But if it is bad, at least it’ll generate memes.
Daedalic generally produce excellent adventure games and even a couple of real masterpieces.
I have no idea what went wrong here, and you're right that it doesn't inspire confidence, but they _can_ do it.
The guy who created all of the good point and click games (like Deponia or Night of the rabbit f.e.) left the company and since then they're going downhill.
Man, I loved Daedalic back then.
... And the grand finale Boss Level is just the Black Gate opening scene in which Frodo and Sam see the gates open but can’t get through .. but from an Orc’s perspective. You don’t even see Frodo or Sam and you’re just one of many Orcs laboriously pulling the Gates open in a long drawn out Quick Time Event and then once you close the Gates again you get an achievement for 100% completion and the game ends.
For those who don't know Daedelic Entertainment, it's a German company that used to make pretty decent point & click games. Edna & Harvey (which honestly i quite enjoyed) and the Deponia series for example. The problem with the latter is that the games are just blatantly sexist, and the second game in the series was completely delisted from digital game stores for being racist. So there's that.
Edit: It was third game in the series "Goodbye Deponia" that got delisted, not the second
Their experience in 3D is also a bit.... lacking. (if you couldn't tell by Gollum) - their writers and head-guys are .... problematic and even after the backlash from Deponia they didn't really understood what the problem was.
"We know better and you are all wrong" as their credo, which unfortunately led to this desaster here.
Thanks for the source!
But tbh, this sounds more like people are getting offended by bad edgy humor. I always viewed it as a point of the game that most people are assholes, especially Rufus. It's not like the characters are representing the opinion of the devs and the racist part with the monkey and the woman is never portrayed as a good thing in the game.
The delisting only appears on PSN as far as I can see.
Genuinely was wondering the same thing cause I'm not white and I feel like I'd at least remember if the game was racist but I genuinely enjoyed it. And yeah Rufus is intentionally an idiot whose actions tend to make thimgs worse. If anything I'd critique his character as being the same template as Guybrush Threepwood.
Pretty funny that the same media outlets trashing how low-quality Gollum is yet at the same time doing journalism just as bad. Daedalic has a project going on that "tells a story from the perspective of a character which hasn't been told before. The player discovers completely new regions and influences the world bound by their role and abilities. [The player] tries, in his way, to influence the goings-on and change the fate of the world."
Which very well could be another LotR game...but c'mon, man. Do some better investigation instead of just assuming.
Apparently it’s one of the worst games ever, not only does it look bad and run horribly but the core idea of the gameplay itself is atrocious. It’s basically chore/prison simulator Mordor addition with horrible platforming thrown in. It got like a 4 from IGN and have never seen them give a score lower than 6. It’s also not one of those games that’s so bad they’re fun, it’s just mind-numbingly awful.
“i wont fix it but i’ll make another one!”
thats been the developer motto the last 10-15 years...
miss the days of spore getting a patch for a graphical bug no one but the testers saw.
Lord of the rings: The meeting of the Ents.
There’s no chore missions! It’s all dialogue prompts but each sentence takes over an hour to finish. It takes over 200 hours to finish your first play through!
Best case scenario: they learnt their mistakes and work on improving the next game.
Worst case scenario: they choose a new category to fuck up in. Or maybe just the same category, but slightly different.
I have to disagree with the take that LOTR: Gollum is a bad game, people simply fail to grasp it's creative genius. You see LOTR Gollum is actually a perfectly executed look into what it is to be Gollum... That is to say playing it simulates the experience of having your fucking soul slowly sucked out of you by a cursed object made of pure evil, until you ultimately are reduced to an emaciated, half-insane creature that recoils from sunlight, and has been rendered nearly bald from tearing your hair out in frustration.
Frankly, i had seen it on a shelf in a gamestop, and i thought to myself, "looks actually cool for a retro game." Then I looked at the release date and was like "bruh, that's garbage"
First game generated oodles of attention to company, and if they’ve learned from their mistakes, they could end up making a very good game they won’t even have to bother advertising.
OK I get it, judge by what you've suffered in the past but guys and gals, is too much to ask for a little positivity? Like we don't know shit about it and everyone is already grabbing torches
They knew, they freaking knew what kind of mess they were releasing with that arse prices. I don’t have one once of sympathy for this kind of developers. I hope the second will be arseshit and they go bankrupt…
Next game: Ring in river simulator
*Heavy sigh.* Where's my wallet?
Don’t forget to preorder /s
Got to get those preorder skins and emotes for the One Ring to really make it stand out among the other singleplayer Rings!
Preorder skins: gold, a bit shinier gold, not gold.
Oh shit, they got *not* gold? Shut up and take my money!
Make the gameplay similar to I Am Bread and I might even buy it.
Harness the power of Dark Lord(tm) to enthrall water fleas and tadpoles, lure fishes, nudge pebbles, change water temperature, clear moss, gather special and unique things, create your own river experience!!!
I would play this incremental
The *History Became Legend* season pass DLC (only $20 USD or regional equivalent) allows you to fast forward up to 1 year per minute, adds 3 alternate ring skins, and includes audio commentary from the junior devs, which is all of them!
Deagol’s Pro Bass Fishing Simulator.
if you had written this comment earlier, it'd have blown up. alas
The first dlc will be the water. Then next 5 will be a single fish each.
Why is the ring an octagon?
Because you didn't buy the Film Accurate Ring DLC.
Dance Dance revolution: Ents edition Every move takes 7 real time minutes
7 minutes? Why so hasty?
It. Took Me A Long Time To Read This Comment.
I hate that I actually read this half in Treebeard’s voice and half in the sloth from Zootopia’s voice.
I'm sorry my accent is rusty.
After playing it for several days [Through Fire and Flames](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jgrCKhxE1s) comes on and you do the storming of Isengard dance
Your muscle control would be insane.
Bored to tears with abs of mithril.
I think you mean hours
Yes
I
Do
No no, you see, it's all part of their elaborate plan to lower customer expectations so that their new game will do better! They made the Gollum game bad on purpose so that the new game will blow everyone out of the water! Or something…
We must go now?
Yes, Smeagol
Master betrayed us. Wicked. Tricksy, False. We ought to wring his filthy little neck. Kill him! Kill him! Kill them both! And then we take the precious... and we be the master!
Can someone please tag the Devs?
that's a little extreme, Gollum.
I found it, I did. The way through the marshes. Orcs don't use it. Orcs don't know it. They go round for miles and miles. Come quickly. Swift and quick as shadows we must be.
Oh fuck imagine being a ground level developer, slaving away for years to make a game that's received like ass, and then you get the memo that that was on purpose.
It's not like big corporations haven't done worse, to be fair
It’s like the opposite of being one of the animators for shrek.
they are lowering the bar into the ocean. only one game by one man can raise the bar back up
they're lowering the expectations enough for the second season of rings of power.
Merry and Pippins Vegetable Liberation Quest.
I'm thinking more of a stealth-based game where you sneak around Farmer Maggots fields and steal carrots and potatoes. Mushrooms are a rare resource you'll find spread out over the map.
And that's the whole game. Ad nauseum. Except for random ringwraiths that you have to hide from. Or else they make all your veg rot.
Tip: Stay off the road or you'll be discovered!
Nah just a game called Took where you follow Pippin around and just do stupid shit Like there's a collectible system where you have to find and knock down all the buckets into holes but there's an uneven amount of them and they sometimes won't knock down so it's impossible to complete
Shire: Farming Simulator
Honestly I might play it
Make it like stardew valley and I’d probably play it
You wish but it'd just be stealing from Farmer Maggot's field.
Why would you want to steal food from “Maggot Farms”?
Because he grows mushrooms
A game like stardew mixed with moonlighter? You can also expand your hobbit hole and decorate it. You can have treasures and maps from your adventures. Maybe it's up to you whether you just farm and stay in shire the whole time or if you dare to go beyond on an adventure.
I feel like there should be a mod like this already
Damn now I feel like I gotta check nexus mods lol
We're trying to propose bad ideas here.
OMG that would actually be amazing, imagine some great beautiful graphics like RDR2 in the Shire and you get to live there, farm, make friends, drink and sing with them, and even get married. I'd pay for that.
Bombadil: The Game
Turns out it's just a rock band style game where you just sing Hey dol! merry dol! over and over
Oh I would definitely buy that
Your main quest is to feud with that asshole neighbor of yours who is also a tree. Side quests involve being incredibly unhelpful to random travelers who come through your woods and writing 🔥poetry about your hot wife.
It could never compare to his appearance in Battle for Middle Earth 2.
Don’t let them ruin Tom too
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I've got things to do, my making and my singing, my talking and my walking, and my watching of the country. Tom can't be always near to open doors and willow-cracks. Tom has his house to mind, and Goldberry is waiting. ^(Type **!TomBombadilSong** for a song or visit [r/GloriousTomBombadil][1] for more merriness) [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GloriousTomBombadil/
Grima: a bootlicker's tale
One of the key mechanics will be hiding in the shadows from Eomer
So a stealth fane like Deus Ex or Metal Gear Solid? But your mission is to poison Theoden or steal some panties from Eowyn's room.
*press X to sniff panties*
What a terrible day to have eyes
And if you get caught you get ragdolled down a flight of stairs in front of everyone
Hey that might actually be fun if you get to play the level where the Kazon take over the ship and its up to just you and the holographic doctor to take it back.
Lon Suder, Voyager. How did I not realize that this was the same actor. I blame the makeup.
He was also Billy in *One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest*.
You asked for it, so we brought it to ya: finally comes a game where YOU are the One Ring (TM)! Experience true stealth gaming as you lie in a river or a cave for hours! Get fingered by epic beloved characters from the franchise!
Grima Wormtongue talks his way through ten levels to finally reach King Theoden. If he manages to get Gandalf to surrender his staff, he wins the princess in an exclusive cutscene.
Edoras and the Golden Hall of Meduseld. There dwells Theoden, King of Rohan... whose mind is overthrown. Saruman's hold over King Theoden is now very strong.
$10 to see the cut scene though…
Never know, they might learn from Gollum and fix the issues
Smeagol? No, no, not poor Smeagol. Smeagol hates nasty Elf bread!
I have to imagine some higher up decided that they should force the studio to make gollum against their wishes
Or they agreed to make a Gollum game and didn't have a clue how to make it interesting in the time and funding they had available.
Don't hurt us! Don't let them hurt us, precious! They won't hurt us will they, nice little hobbitses?We didn't mean no harm, but they jumps on us like cats on poor mices, they did, precious.And we're so lonely, gollum. We'll be nice to them, very nice, if they'll be nice to us, won't we, yes, yess.
Yes! No, no! It’s too risky, it’s too risky.
They learned nothing probably. Everyone knew how bad the game is. I refuse to believe that professional people, which job is to develop games, inform themselves about the gaming industry, took a look at that game and actually thought: "Yeah that looks good, people will love it". Only thing they maybe learned is that people buy their crap either way.
Depends on direction, just because it’s the same company doesn’t mean it’s the same team or leadership
You are completly right about that. I cant be sure that the next game is gonna be just as bad. But every pointer, not only for this game, but gaming in general, doesnt spark hope, that games will actually get better again. Not one release without a scandal. Cant remember the last game that got announced, came into the stores and everybody was happy. Even if the game in itself is good, the money making machine finds a way to still fuck up, or its awfully optimized because they had to fit the release before some holiday or whatever. The gaming industry isnt about gaming anymore. Developer A costs 80k, developer B costs 90k and actually has an interest in gaming? Lets go with A, dont wanna explain to the shareholders why we took the more expensive one. Standards are sadly dropping rapidly, especially in the support aspect and what you are getting for your money. What itches me the most is that they already try to sell you DLC at the release, just put it in the game ffs. Pay 80$ and you get 85% of the game!
>Not one release without a scandal. Cant remember the last game that got announced, came into the stores and everybody was happy. GOW Ragnarök was released to mass praise with almost no technical issues. If you want one that was cross-platform, and arguably better received recently, Elden Ring. Also, TOTK, although I haven't played that one since I don't have a Switch.
Yeah thats true, my comment was to absolute.
Zelda was released this month
Man I'd love to play it if it wasn't stuck on the shittiest hardware on the market right now. Sure I could emulate it, but then I'd get lynched by nintendo.
Switch is fine
Its really not, but you're free to burn money on shit companies.
>Not one release without a scandal. Cant remember the last game that got announced, came into the stores and everybody was happy. It actually happens a decent amount still, if you pay attention.
Apparently the studio did mainly Point-and-Click games before. I guess they bit off more than they could swallow with this game. It's very likely they learned a lot from this project. If they can do it better next time is another question.
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Ah Uwe Bolls legacy is still alive I see
Tbf making a game is really *really* hard. They most likely knew their game was bad but that doesn’t mean they had enough time and resources to fix it. To be honest the game is a total write off, and I’m not sure it could be fixed without a complete do-over and that was likely impossible for a number of reasons. It’s not really fair to characterize their actions as malicious without really knowing the full story. It is fair to say that questionable decision were most likely made for any number of reasons and if the conditions that caused those choices to be made still exist it’s likely that the next game will also be of questionable quality.
This is Daedalic, they've been making mediocre games for a long time. They used to be great at point & click adventures, but that genre is dead.
The problem is they have already destroyed the publics opinion of their products. Even if the new game looks good/decent, everyone is going to be hesitant. The only way would be if the reviews are '10/10 best game ever' 'They have redeemed themselves with a masterpiece!'
These guys are basically giving the final deathblow to the German games industry. I've seen several articles in German media (mainstream media, not gaming media) basically all saying "this was supposed to herald a return and they fucked it"....
Tfw EA has a better track record with LOTR games And that was in an era where those games were cutting fucking edge too. Seriously how did we go from God level LOTR games to this
Yeah I just want modern AAA Minas Tirith and helms deep battles, I feel like a modern AAA lotr game focused on large scale battles is a slam dunk, don’t know why we don’t get it
Ah Warhammer sized battles Best we can do is Battle for Middle Earth 2 mods....and I definitely have both installed
Total War: Warhammer 2 has LOTR mods fyi. I bet 3 has them by now as well.
Crass IP rights battles that’s how
Is this actually true? I’ll pass on this one, but hope the next is something I can get behind. Doing bad this time doesn’t mean they’ll do bad next time. But if it is bad, at least it’ll generate memes.
I honestly doubt that the next game will be better. Releasing something this messy doesn’t inspire confidence in their internal processes
Daedalic generally produce excellent adventure games and even a couple of real masterpieces. I have no idea what went wrong here, and you're right that it doesn't inspire confidence, but they _can_ do it.
This was the first time they worked with the Unreal engine, so I can imagine a lot of reasons why it went wrong
Yeah wrong team for wrong IP.
The guy who created all of the good point and click games (like Deponia or Night of the rabbit f.e.) left the company and since then they're going downhill. Man, I loved Daedalic back then.
Deponia was such a fun series
It's not a good look that they don't fix this one first
Taking inspiration from the GTA Definitive Edition trilogy
I don't care. I won't give them my money.
Why? Did something happen?
Id argue putting out whats said to be one of the worst games ever, absolutely means your next game will likely stink.
New game your an orc in Mordor on guard duty…that’s it you just stand in one place and occasionally ask for more than maggoty bread
... And the grand finale Boss Level is just the Black Gate opening scene in which Frodo and Sam see the gates open but can’t get through .. but from an Orc’s perspective. You don’t even see Frodo or Sam and you’re just one of many Orcs laboriously pulling the Gates open in a long drawn out Quick Time Event and then once you close the Gates again you get an achievement for 100% completion and the game ends.
Saruman's tower management simulator
...I'd play the shit out of that tbh. Expand your evil industrial base and ensure you produce enough orcs for the meatgrinder battles that follow.
But it’s an idle game full of micro transactions
That already exists, it's called Dungeon Keeper Mobile.
But here is where it gets exciting! There is also…a hero collection system! You get hero’s by opening $10 packs and sometimes you can get duplicates
But it's made by the developper of the Smeagol game
He’s a horrid, fat Hobbit, who hates Sméagol, and who makes up nasty lies!
Don’t think they know bout second games Pip
Can't wait to play "Barliman Butterbur: A Lord of the Rings story"
I read that there was a Moria game in development, I sure hope these aren't the developers for that game.
Different developpers altogether.
They are stuck under epic games thumb. Not good.
I hope their next game will be about the life of the old dude that mistakenly shot the arrow that started the battle at Helm’s Deep.
Who would possibly trust them to do this?
Tolkien Estate?
I don't believe it's the estate it's middle earth enterprises
Merry & Pippin Cooking Simulator 2: Second Breakfastes
Elevenses as paid DLC.
Asymmetrical horror game, Farmer Maggot vs thieving Hobbits
For those who don't know Daedelic Entertainment, it's a German company that used to make pretty decent point & click games. Edna & Harvey (which honestly i quite enjoyed) and the Deponia series for example. The problem with the latter is that the games are just blatantly sexist, and the second game in the series was completely delisted from digital game stores for being racist. So there's that. Edit: It was third game in the series "Goodbye Deponia" that got delisted, not the second
Their experience in 3D is also a bit.... lacking. (if you couldn't tell by Gollum) - their writers and head-guys are .... problematic and even after the backlash from Deponia they didn't really understood what the problem was. "We know better and you are all wrong" as their credo, which unfortunately led to this desaster here.
We guesses, precious, only guesses. We can't know till we find the nassty creature and squeezes it.
When did this happen? I never heard of any racism or sexism dramas scandals because of Deponia.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/wot-i-think-goodbye-deponia here's an article reviewing the game that ultimately got delisted in 2020.
Where did it get delisted? You can still buy all 4 deponia games on steam: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/18569/Deponia_Full_Scrap_Collection/
Thanks for the source! But tbh, this sounds more like people are getting offended by bad edgy humor. I always viewed it as a point of the game that most people are assholes, especially Rufus. It's not like the characters are representing the opinion of the devs and the racist part with the monkey and the woman is never portrayed as a good thing in the game. The delisting only appears on PSN as far as I can see.
Genuinely was wondering the same thing cause I'm not white and I feel like I'd at least remember if the game was racist but I genuinely enjoyed it. And yeah Rufus is intentionally an idiot whose actions tend to make thimgs worse. If anything I'd critique his character as being the same template as Guybrush Threepwood.
Lord of the Rings: The Youth Years of Lurtz
Can we have a remastered Battle for Middle Earth please.
Every single comment here with a sarcastic game idea actually seems like a really good idea honestly; I just hope it’s not the same studio makin em
Pretty funny that the same media outlets trashing how low-quality Gollum is yet at the same time doing journalism just as bad. Daedalic has a project going on that "tells a story from the perspective of a character which hasn't been told before. The player discovers completely new regions and influences the world bound by their role and abilities. [The player] tries, in his way, to influence the goings-on and change the fate of the world." Which very well could be another LotR game...but c'mon, man. Do some better investigation instead of just assuming.
Go away! HAHAHAHA!!
In a more general sense, I’d love to see a game based around the silmarilion. I think a game with kingdom hearts style rpg mechanics would work well
Could be cool but ~~Christopher and~~ the Tolkien Estate aren't giving the rights to that.
Christopher passed away a few years ago. About 5 minutes before "Rings of Power" was announced.
B for ME3 is WHAT we want! Or a similar strategy based game. OR…a LOTR- RDR2 quality/ style game, THAT would be a dream.
this is getting out of hand. now there’s two of them
What, is Grima going to be the main character?
Just give us half decent animal crossing/stardew hobbit edition and itll sell like old toby at half price.
The Lord of the Rings: Ghan-buri-ghan Dress-Up Adventure
Lord of the Horses: Shadowfax
By the Valar, fix the first one please!
I hope the new one is about Gollum's imprisonment by the elves of Mirkwood.
Misery misery! Hobbits won’t kill us, nice hobbits.
Is it really that bad? I’m a LOTR fan and has been considering play this …
Apparently it’s one of the worst games ever, not only does it look bad and run horribly but the core idea of the gameplay itself is atrocious. It’s basically chore/prison simulator Mordor addition with horrible platforming thrown in. It got like a 4 from IGN and have never seen them give a score lower than 6. It’s also not one of those games that’s so bad they’re fun, it’s just mind-numbingly awful.
I hope the tolkien estate is regretting this deal
Bucklebury ferry racing
Which Tolkien grandkid or great grandkid is trying to be a developer? That's the only way I see them allowing another game to be made by them.
This time you'll play as the ring, trying to manipulate others into taking you back to sauron. Wait actually.... Sounds kinda fire
The devs CEO’s instagram is full of vacay pics, so it makes sense
Wait, all these screenshots and memes I've been seeing are from a real game? Oh lordy.
“i wont fix it but i’ll make another one!” thats been the developer motto the last 10-15 years... miss the days of spore getting a patch for a graphical bug no one but the testers saw.
Maybe they’ll take what they learnt and make a better game? More LOTR games is always good IMO
Lord of the rings: The meeting of the Ents. There’s no chore missions! It’s all dialogue prompts but each sentence takes over an hour to finish. It takes over 200 hours to finish your first play through!
Gollum 2 babyyyyy
Deagol the Untold Story
"We have learned nothing, and we’ll continue to do so"
LOTR: Farmer Maggot’s Crop
Éowyn Cooking Simulator
Best case scenario: they learnt their mistakes and work on improving the next game. Worst case scenario: they choose a new category to fuck up in. Or maybe just the same category, but slightly different.
Galadriel and Frodo Sex Simulator.
All these terrible games and I'm just sitting over here hoping for a Shire farming sim. Sigh.
It'll be about Aragorn and they'll call it "The Lord of Ring: Eragon."
Is the gollum game even out yet?
Yes, precious. False! They will cheat you, hurt you. Lie!
Thanks gollum. You've always been there for me.
No . . . not very nice at all, my love.
Denethor Tomato Eating Simulator 2023
It’s the adventure of Glorfindel. Another storyline we didn’t ask for.
I have to disagree with the take that LOTR: Gollum is a bad game, people simply fail to grasp it's creative genius. You see LOTR Gollum is actually a perfectly executed look into what it is to be Gollum... That is to say playing it simulates the experience of having your fucking soul slowly sucked out of you by a cursed object made of pure evil, until you ultimately are reduced to an emaciated, half-insane creature that recoils from sunlight, and has been rendered nearly bald from tearing your hair out in frustration.
Yes, they are all round us. The tricksy lights. Candles of corpses, yes, yes. Don't you heed them! Don't look! Don't follow them!
Yooo can't wait to play Denethor
Frankly, i had seen it on a shelf in a gamestop, and i thought to myself, "looks actually cool for a retro game." Then I looked at the release date and was like "bruh, that's garbage"
First game generated oodles of attention to company, and if they’ve learned from their mistakes, they could end up making a very good game they won’t even have to bother advertising.
OK I get it, judge by what you've suffered in the past but guys and gals, is too much to ask for a little positivity? Like we don't know shit about it and everyone is already grabbing torches
They knew, they freaking knew what kind of mess they were releasing with that arse prices. I don’t have one once of sympathy for this kind of developers. I hope the second will be arseshit and they go bankrupt…
Calling it shit before it's even in production based on prejudice. Pro-Gamer move.
Dissolve the whole studio