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[hybrid_birth]

This looks wonderful.

 

[saintjules]

Do companies still want to make money?

Literally laughed out loud.

 

[FinalBossWithTheMostPower]

It's sad how Tolkien's IP is being whored out.

Rings of Power, then Gollum, now this.

Honestly, I'd have Ubisoft give open world Middle Earth a go.

It'd be infinitely more exciting than whatever this is or the next Assassin's Creed we're going to get.

 

[GymWolf]

More like tales of the shite.

 

[Dazraell]

Eh, idea itself is not that bad, but I really don't like how this game looks

 

[Hero of Spielberg]

Looks like shit but who am I kidding, I’ll still get it

 

[Mr Hyde]

It's pretty crazy that a massive IP like Lord of the Rings gets garbage games like this instead of a big AAA Fantasy RPG.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

At first I thought that this might be interesting until I saw the trailer. And this is coming from somebody who actually kind of likes the Gollun game.

 

[Holammer]

Great art direction!

I'm not the only one seeing this?

 

[RoadHazard]

Thought this was gonna be a Tales x LOTR crossover.

 

[Tertullian]

We've been living in hell since the moment Christopher Tolkien died.

 

[SJRB]

Disastrous.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Apart from questionable aesthetics and the fact this will run like ass on Switch - same with Gollum game, who thought this was a good idea?

Not playing as Aragorn, not another hack & slash game in the vein of PS2 games. No, what the world needs is Hobbit farming simulator?

 

[stickkidsam]

I’m reluctant to put faith into any new projects based on Tolkien. It’s frustrating to see something used as cosplay more often than it is lovingly adapted. Despite that, this certainly has some charm…

Great art direction!

…some charm.

 

[sigmaZ]

Ultimate Bandai anime crossover.

 

[stickkidsam]

I'm not the only one seeing this?

The King of Pop got done dirty lol

 

[FeralEcho]

Great art direction!

So nice to finally see a LOTR game where the two towers won and the Uruk-hai are now in control of the Shire,feasting at the Hobbit tables.

 

[Hugare]

One of the biggest IPs around and the idiots cant give it a proper budget to make a decent game.

LOTR feels wasted just like HP before Hogwarts Legacy. Last great game was during the PS2 era. Shadow of Mordor was meh.

 

[diffusionx]

It's pretty crazy that a massive IP like Lord of the Rings gets garbage games like this instead of a big AAA Fantasy RPG.

It's obvious at this point that whatever scumbags are in charge of the license these days, they do not give a shit and just see it as an ATM.

EA were much better stewards of this franchise:

 

[Jack Videogames]

Looks dated as fuck. Like a Dreamlight Valley with half the budget. And Dreamlight Valley isn't exactly Cyberpunk 2077.

It sorta looks like one of these MMOS that sprouted during the 2010s ready to kill WoW and went f2p in a month