what the frick are these people thinking? why is this game being presented as some sort of masterpiece? this looks like absolute shit - like a budget title from some third world european shithole.
great companion piece for amazon's new LOTR series though
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People want to play as gandalf or aragorn not gollum
[screeches in Nazgûl]
Currently reading LotR and I'm at this part. Fantastic story but I'll admit the trekking parts filter me HARD.
Got those two on the list too but I think I'll take a short Tolkien break after I finish Return of the King and the trilogy indexes. I amassed a small book collection because I felt that I'd get tired of vidya eventually but I never thought it would be this fast.
I love the Lord of the Rings books, but I also have to admit I get filtered by them walking. People make fun of that chapter in one of the Song of Ice and Fire books where Martin takes almost 3 pages to describe the food on a banquet table. The walking sections in LotR are even more autistically detailed and, worse yet, boring, because you can barely even imagine what's being described. It's often just a bunch of cardinal directions and distances with their footpaths being described down to the type of dirt they're walking on. I know that's somewhat hyperbolic, but that stuff really does bore me to tears.
I need to concede I'm being undone my by own conceit - "my english is good, I can read the originals and so I don't have to worry about things being lost in translation" - and then I feel like mental midget whenever someone goes for a walk. As you say, I have a hard time trying to visualize what's happening (and for both good and bad, the Jackson movies will burn its imagery in your brain) but it's certainly not for a lack of description.
That said, there are some really cool details that I don't know if the movies touched like, when Frodo and Sam are trekking through Mordor, they go through a vale that has some life growing but everything is twisted and corrupted by Sauron's influence like the flies having the red eye mark on them - that shit was frickin' metal.
I find it really comfy the whole trekking bit from Rivendell to the mountains and wished that was longer
Frodo and Sam’s stuff isn’t as comfy though
then go play the PS2/gamecube games
these were fun as frick. Gimli OP.
I remember repeatedly losing to the gate trolls in the early 2000s when playing this at my friend's house.
I'm still pretty surprised these games haven't gotten touched up. Combat was top tier at the time, and works decently today.
Aragorn is boring as shit. Any of the Hobbits are hundreds of times more interesting than him. Aragorn is just a beneficiary of nepotism.
>tfw the movies treated Merry & Pippin as pure comic relief so illiterates don't realize they're major protagonists and accomplish way more than most of the characters the movie treats like heroes like Legolas.
They are the comic relief but the movies do go to far with it (ditto with Gimli). The bit in the end of Two Towers where they find the stash was just missing a freeze frame, rap music to start playing and a 'Executive Producer - Seth Rogen' message.
They're praised for their faithfulness but I'll be damned if the Jackson movies differ in a LOT of things and it kinda irks my tism when there's this idea that the content of books is too vast to include but the movies waste shitloads of screen time on made up drama that isn't in the books and needlessly lengthy fight scenes.
Oh, lighten up. The movies are different from the books obviously, but both are good for different reasonsl.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not that much of a Tolkien purist I like the Rankin/Bass Hobbit movie. but rewatching the trilogy I did find myself questioning some things and I feel they would be better without some of that made up stuff (some is admittedly good like the scene with Boromir sparing with Merry and Pippin) for the sake of keeping some things that, though minute, contextualize many events like Denethor showing the palantir or the hobbits getting the swords in the barrows which is what truly led to the Witch King's death.
bad taste homosexual hobbits are mostly boring save for when there's drama between their families
Aragorn fought countless battles, won wars, secured the land, befriended the elves and was a major part of the fellowship in the quest to destroy Sauron.
You know I think Gandalf is actually a type of Gollum
Frick outta here Zach
Shadows of Mordor was basically playing as a hybrid Gandalf/Aragorn
Is this a prank?
Yes. But prank on devs.
what's wrong with it
>embarrassing writing
>ugly character models
>janky animations
>inconsistent texture work
>an actual rip-off of that goblin stealth game Styx
>their big gameplay reveal is gollum throwing a rock and climbing on shit
but it's not even out yet
>UUUUHHHH IT'S NOT EVEN OUT YET HOW DO YOU KNOW IT'S SHIT COMING OUT OF THAT butthole
What Ganker considers shit past 2018 is nearly a recommendation if it isn't unanimous everywhere else outside the reddit and Californian circlejerk.
You have no idea what the writting is like
You can have an idea of what the writing is like from the trailer, yes.
I mean you just described every nintendo game....
what's right with it?
Quality.
Gollum doesn't look like the movie version which is the "true" Gollum in their mind. People can pretend that's not it but they're not fooling anyone
what coked up moron would think that playing as Gollum would be appealing to anybody? It's a disgusting little goblin, no one watched LOTR and went "dude I fricking loved Gollum, I identify with him, he's so fricking cool!!!"
I could imagine it could work out but for that it should be an extremely grimdark experience. Gollum is a deceiving little shit that only cares for the ring.
Men want to be him. Women want to be with him.
>He's a disgusting little goblin
I doubt he could carry a sprawling 80-hour open-world campaign with dialogue options to replay, skill points to farm, and bandit camps to clear. But it could be fun as a little 8-hour linear AA-style experience where Gollum goes on a low-stakes adventure. Portray a disgusting selfish villain as an endearing anti-hero by leaning into the inherent comedy of his existence, sort of like the Wario games.
I'm not defending the game as it is, but I don't think it's a terrible concept.
it's meant to cash in on the "goblin mode" that today's kids are always talking about.
Have you seen any western game lately? gollum looks "sexy" compared to the creatures on the games nowadays.
>pale moist skin
>patches of thin hair
>hunched back
>mental illness
Holy shit he is literally me
Looks WAY to clean. Gollum looks more like abandoned child and less like a adult, deformed creature hobbit-sized.
We want monke audience.
Laughing at all the people that were hype for this game until they saw the gameplay. What was anyone expecting from a Gollum game?
I like stealth games, so I'll DL it when it comes to game pass
It's weird that they would make a game about him. Tons of amazing characters to work with and they pick gollum...
No thanks
legit who on this earth asked for a game where they could play fricking gollum?
the western way, talk your way into greatness
Have I fricked up by starting with Silmarillion instead of LoTR? I'm really loving the whole thing.
I've read The Hobbit ages ago during high school
Nope, the lore is exceptional and you'll get more enjoyment out of LoTR because of it.
Awesome. Just got to the part there the noldor killed their Teleri bros and Fëanor burned the ships as a frick you to the other elves who talked shit behind his back.
Had to download a few maps and go back and forth to the glossary/elves tree because I keep forget which clan is which but shit is awesome and made me go back to reading since I'm going from massive burnout of life itself
Ya should reread the hobbity it can be done in two afternoons and it doesnt have any of the treking parts, it's a lot of fun tbh
Yes. You have to love LOTR in order to stay with the Silmarillion. That book is a slog and requires multiple reads. Read LOTR and then listen to Martin Shaw's Silmarillion. Then, read LOTR again.
>slog
but I'm enjoying it
Don't listen to that moron. I did the same as you after watching the films dozens of times.
Silmarillion gives you a lot of appreciation for the songs, poems and stories that get told throughout LOTR. Especially when you realise Arwen and Aragorn are technically distant cousins
I'm impressed by the whole inbreeding
Gollum looking like stacy's unborn fetus
>hate Gollum as a character
>hate prequels
>hate the visuals
I don't think they could have made this game more unappealing for me even if they tried.
>dude I fricking loved Gollum, I identify with him, he's so fricking cool!!!
indeed
The worst part is the voice acting imo
turns out this game is made by germans which does help explain why it's so fricking awful
i honestly can't think of a single thing germany has ever done right after ww2
We really can't into video games, the only good german games are Gothic 1 and 2
>the only good german games are Gothic 1 and 2
That's not true. When it comes to job simulators, the germans are true artists. If, after a long day of operating a forklift, you want to come home and play some Forklift Simulator, the germans have you covered.
Nobody buys that shit around here. The only popular game out of this series is that one farmer game. But that one is popular worldwide.
Our own gaming journalists regularly poke fun at those simulation games. Nobody knows why they're even produced.
The gothic series, the anno series?
Not black enough
>why is this game being presented as some sort of masterpiece?
Because with these low iq normie Black folk only graphics matter.
Doesn't matter if the game has a depth of a puddle, a shit story, israelites them out the ass with MTX. As long as it has good graphics so they can boast for some reason thats all that matters.
i love how they changed everything juuuuust enough to not pay royalties to the movie studio, lol
What the hell were they thinking by putting that action, fast-paced epic orchestral music (which feels extremely generic)
I won't comment on actual gameplay since game's not out
This game is literally only being made so we can all watch this man play it
Has he even mentioned it? Actually, I can't remember the last time I saw anyone mention this game before this thread.
shit, not gollem is the only 2022 game i'm exited for now
>Gollum: The Untold Story
Why can't these hack writers and producers understand that we don't need every little detail of every little character? We understand Gollum from the moment he's introduced in The Hobbit. We get his backstory in The Lord of the Rings. We don't need his "untold story" because he's not an interesting character. He serves only as a warning of long-term corruption from The Ring of Power.
And what's even going on in that screenshot? Are you actually forced to choose what the voice in Gollum's head is saying? What kind of bizarre nonsense is that? Dialogue choices for your schizo mind voice? Devs are out of their minds just as much as Gollum is apparently.
I think the idea looks more like a "what do you choose to do" thing, with one leading more to edgy gollum and the other being paragon pussy Smeagol
There'll probably be 2 endings, one where he's a prick and another where he's accepted back into the hobbit community somehow
Also, I'm no expert in LOTR but Gollum was alive because he had the ring a long time, right? Would Bilbo have lived forever if the ring hadn't been destroyed either, or do you have to hold onto it for long past your normal death age to be immortal?
The ring is described as 'stretching you out' more than immortality. Gollum had the ring for about 500 years and Bilbo had it for about 60 and was lamenting about how he felt unnaturally stretched out at the age of 111. Bilbo was also still alive at the end of the book which was about 20 years after giving the ring but was finally looking and acting like an old man so evidently the longer you are exposed to the ring the longer the stretching out affects you even if you no longer have it since Gollum was still scampering around in those long years after losing the ring..
Also don't forget that Bilbo gave it up willingly whereas Gollum was still under its spell
>And what's even going on in that screenshot? Are you actually forced to choose what the voice in Gollum's head is saying? What kind of bizarre nonsense is that? Dialogue choices for your schizo mind voice? Devs are out of their minds just as much as Gollum is apparently.
they shoulda just made the hobbit remastered
i'd play it if the gollum is a girl
This game still isn't out?
I remember it being hypered up like 10 years ago.
I assume it just came out and was shit and nobody cared.
>I remember it being hypered up like 10 years ago.
It was announced less than a year ago.
It may look like its been in development 15 years, but it started production in 2019
This was a moronic idea from the start I can't believe they wasted years making this piece of shit when it should have been rejected at the drawing board
this looks kino
>b-but I want to be le gandalf!
>b-but I want to kill le orcs!
theres hundreds of games in which you can do precisely that. Playing as the weak good for nothing ugly character that cant fight for shit is a change of pace, go play shadow of mordor 2 if you want to do something else
at least were getting LoTR games again (Shadow of War barely counts) even if they are soulless trash
The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria also looks like the most generis survival crafter shit yet, but at least the setting is interesting, Epic exclusive tho so ill pirate it i guess
what makes or breaks this LoTR resurgence is the pozzed amazon show, either we get pozzed Black elves and shit or people get interested in the books & movies and we get good shit again
its ofc gonna be the first one
looks like absolute dogshit. trash game. doa
>doa
well yeah of course, its epic exclusive
>at least were getting LoTR games again
No, shut the frick up. I'd rather have nothing than watch them desecrate Tolkien's work for a quick buck.
well
stop using the internet before 2nd September then anon
Oh you just posted a shit version of deep rock galactic
Why is there a Black person dwarf?
your mother looks like absolute shit, go play with that your mutt
Black person mutt thread, sage & report
If you want to play as a slimy c**t in a world where everyone's bigger and dumber than you I recommend the two Styx games, very solid stealth games, I recommend the Goblin difficulty for the full experience.
why does gollum look like monkey on this picture?
i don't want him to summon monkey's torture poster here
Who the frick thought that playing for unlikable character would attract people to buy the game?
/v/, tell me the last time you've actually seen a compelling vidya trailer!
>cinematic trailer
Oh boy id love to watch this on hulu. Oh its a video game? Could have fooled me.
you are in luck, there is a witcher series on netflix that i think is right up your alley
>Trailer looks bad
>"This game looks like shit"
>Trailer looks good
>"This is obviously super scripted/going to be downgraded heavily by launch"
I hate video games
NORF simulator
deep memes
i'm making a silmarillion inspired RPG by myself and always feel somewhat obliged to self-shill in tolkien threads... my apologies if you've seen it already.
play as an elf of the First Age, build your character in a classless system with tons of gear, explore the elven kingdoms and fight against all kinds of creatures of the Dark while searching for the sacred Silmaril *ahem* Pearl.
Will you meet the deadline for the demo.
I like it, very soulful.
Looks like mount and blade visually and that's a good thing
first trailers for Ghostwire looked really cool.
Shame the game turned out to be boring shit
Dawn of War 3. And we all know how that panned out. Holy frick the trailer was practically porn and they had to go and frick it up trying to be a MOBA.
Will never not bum me out.
so are there any upcoming LOTR games that are actually good?
what’s your dream Tolkien game?
>so are there any upcoming LOTR games that are actually good?
no
>what’s your dream Tolkien game?
hmmmm, i can think of 3
a standard isometric RPG with dice rolls about the fellowship throughout the book
a shadow of mordor style game where you play a actual Nazgul hounding the fellowship, nemesis system in full effect not just on random humans and uruks, but also on the fellowship where you could instead of killing Boromir fully scar and mindbreak him over time then use him to break Minas Tirith, etc
BFME3, but the scale would be much much larger and the dynamic unit responses and interactions that they touched on would be perfected in battles with thousands of units
maybe not such a huge focus on hero abilites
A total war style game but actually good
Check out War in Middle Earth.
>what’s your dream Tolkien game?
A good single player rpg set in Eriador. Just a few small settlements Bree, some parts of the Shire, and others you play as a Dunedain and travel around just seeing locations and going on quests keeping the roving bands of orcs and trolls at bay. Loads of lore and stories and stuff added in but nothing too big or important going on
It’d be like an Elder Scrolls game with better combat. Art style not like the Jackson movies and more like the artwork from before the movies came out
Honestly a non-buggy Elder Scrolls LOTR is my dream game. You'd have to make it so your character can't use magic or force the player to be one of the non-Saruman wizards which is why it will never happen because gamers need to pew pew with their fireballs but that's what I wan't
Death Stranding but you play as Sam
pic related is ..... still happening?
also I want vermintide 2 but lotr universe, would be straight bussin deadass no cap fr
whats the difference between the 2? goblins and orcs instead of rats and whatever the frick else you fight against? Their settings are too similar for there to be a competing game.
ur saying u wouldnt enjoy being aragorn cutting urukhai down on mission style first person action coop gameplay? With like trolls and nazgul bos, the possiblities are endless
how would that be any different than just modding VT2 for goblin/aragon skins?
npc tier reasoning, modding that much would be a different game lmao
sounds like the core gameplay would be identical and all you're sperging about is the models, which are easible moddable. At least far more easy to make the mods than make an entire game when one that does what you want already exists (VT2).
yeah dude, just change all the models, the animations, the sounds, the maps, the lore, the textures and the fonts and the abilities and thje everything lmao what the frick
Right because LOTR is infamous for goblins with gatling guns and fat wizards who teleport around summoning fartstorms
LOTRO but with an actual playerbase spread across 4 servers (Regular, RP, VIP Regular, VIP RP), and updated armor designs pre-Rohan
What the frick is even happening with that character model? He has a determined and courageous look on his face, his skin texture is partly smooth as a newborn baby and almost cartoon-ish, but also he's ugly and disgusting as frick at the same time.
Who are the hacks responsible for this dogshit art direction? If you're making a game about fricking GOLLUM of all things, you should at least commit yourselves to make it look as grim as possible, instead of this jarring middle ground of cute and fugly, it's like they're hoping of selling plushies of this garbage.
>it's like they're hoping of selling plushies of this garbage.
My man there is a very high chance that is the entire reason this game exists
Its a half-assed attempt to be their own thing and copy Peter Jackson.
Seems that way. Something different could have looked a lot better like a cel-shaded style mimicking old timey illustrations with faded colors like the works of John Tenniel or Arthur Rackham.
If there is no sex scene where Samwise is giving Gollum his raw and wriggling hobbit dick then its a shit game
>Schizo Simulator
I'll pass.
The trailer doesn't even show anything. I know that doesn't exactly inspire confidence but you'd have to actually see something being shit before you can call it shit.
who the frick ever thought anyone would want this? this is clearly for people who only say "smeagol" instead of Gollum. this is like if Star Wars made a Jar Jar game because they thought that's why people saw the movie. unbelievably out of touch and the result will be that investors believe that there aren't any more LotR fans.
Even the normies in the comments know that it looks like shit
Other than Gollum looking a little bit goofy I don't see what's so bad about it.
I just want a Ringwraith focused game where you are on the hunt.
great to hear, I hope you keep us posted when that drops.
sorry, attached wrong pic rel
i hope so anon.
everything in gamedev takes a long time
but i'm working really hard to have a closed demo release by christmas.
hoping for later next year for the full release.
I definitely will. i'll update the youtube and make shill threads about it closer to xmas.
What's with that VOICE
>daedelic entertainment
did anybody seriously expect anything more from this? They are literally a development mill that churns out only the most painfully mediocre shit. Their games are the video game equivalent of "straight to DVD" films.
>will never have a Hobbit or RotK game based on the Rankin Bass designs
I still prefer frog Gollum and lizardcat Smaug.
finally, a protagonist i can relate to
>LOTR game where you play as Gollum
Why not one why you play as the fat innkeeper at the Prancing Pony?
I would unironically like that more than a Gollum game. As infinitely stupid as it would be at least they could make it some kind of Inn management game
>Gollum walking sim
How do these ideas get approved lmao
fellow Gollum gays rise up
For all I know it could be a great stealth-adventure game but that trailer was dogshit. Poorly edited, weird tone, boring slices of gameplay just climbing and walking and doesn’t give you any reason to be excited.
the fact that this is the XBOX trailer. Looks like Switch graphics and I know this game will come out on the Switch but they will downgrade the switch graphics even more while this already looks like a switch game.
also stealth game based on LOTR where Gollum has a ring that makes him invisible so no one can see him. Sounds like a good idea...
>Press x to be tortured by nazgul
This game looks Mario in UE4 tier and Gollum looks like Greta Thunberg on meth.
I could do a better Gollum impression than that voice actor
>no Witch King of Angmar Overlord-style game with your own autistic band of orcs running around doing silly shenanigans
They should have paid for the movie resemblance. This looks like a chinese bootleg "from the producers who saw LOTR" even if its just another adaptation.
Same issue with Avengers game. You simply cant detach the realistic marvel models with how are they supposed to look in the mcu. Either you change the artstyle completely like Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 or you end with those uncanny abominations.
How about I shit in your mouth instead?
Id rather eat your shit than play this crap or the avengers game (or watch a marvel movie)
At least Peter Jackson didn't have Tom Bombadil
i look like that but fat
because lotr is popular and the garbage amazon show is coming out. gotta get those sales.
That was disappointing to see, games keep getting dumber and shittier
>why is this game being presented as some sort of masterpiece?
because it idolizes ugliness and goblin protagonists
This is the equivalent of Berserk finally getting a big budget game, but you play as Casca during her moron arc
wtf is berserk and who the frick is caska??
You have to go back
>whats berserk
A cuck manga it seems
That made more sense then I was expecting.
LOTR was able to remain pretty stable and unraped as an IP up until now when they realized its probably the last major franchise that hasn't been destroyed. The Amazon show is the tip of the iceberg, you will see a complete remake of all the LOTR movies (not books the exact movies) with Chris Hemsworth playing Aragorn and Tom Hiddleston playing Frodo and Gandalf played by Dwayne Johnson.
Here's your Gollum design bro
>untold story
We know everything there is to know about gollum's story
How does it manage to look so bad all around?
The models, the animations, the character designs, the voice acting...
It's official license, I would have expected shitty story in terms of modern politics, but with perfect visuals and sound design.
Why would I want to play a video game about myself?
that voice acting is horrible
I got to meet Elijah Wood and the other hobbit actors yesterday
Were they cool? Wood seems like a bro in real life from the little I've seen of him.
Not him but I have, was pretty chill no matter how tired or what anybody said to him, was an honor fist-bumping him.
Neal McDonough and Jason David Frank were easily the most chill and enthusiastic out of the actors I've met at cons, though everyone else was cool too.