Why hasn't there been any great LOTR games? The Fellowship of the Ring is the perfect journey story...

Why hasn't there been any great LOTR games? The Fellowship of the Ring is the perfect journey story, then the other books are the perfect epics with big battles.

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no great film adaptations, either

>my opinion is the only one that's valid

they were decent at condensing it as much as possible, and the visuals and music were top notch

kys yourself

Still waiting for a good LOTR book myself

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It isn't a good joke.

there's the bro-op one starring not-arwen, not-boromir and not-gimpli. that's great fun actually.

>epic

LotR isn't about being "epic". It's much more than that. Beauty and sadness, the bittersweet sense of loss of what once was, the longing for a home that you once had but which has been washed away by time. You might not want to experience all of your childhood again but what would you not give to relive just one of those sunny days when weight of the world was not so heavy on your shoulders?

Not LotR but Hobbit is a neat little adventure game with lots of comfiness

neither this is a good thread

>bro-op
do what

get lost

Dude go play Lotr Rotk GBA.
Two towers is also good.
Trust me on this. They have lasted me 12 years.

>LotR isn't about being "epic"
LotR is about many things.

eat a dick, bitchboy

>“Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”

ummm scuse me honey you forgot about tabletop gaming

youtube.com/watch?v=lXAvF9p8nmM&t=29s

You don't need these feels but here you go.

I think all of EA's LOTR games are good.
Fellowship of the Ring by Black Label and the Hobbit by Sierra were okay

what's the best lotr game on pc? I played the return of the king on ps2 and battle for middle earth 2 on pc. Only have a meh laptop right now though.

>"I never called Edith Luthien – but she was the source of the story that in time became the chief part of the Silmarillion. It was first conceived in a small woodland glade filled with hemlocks at Roos in Yorkshire (where I was for a brief time in command of an outpost of the Humber Garrison in 1917, and she was able to live with me for a while). In those days her hair was raven, her skin clear, her eyes brighter than you have seen them, and she could sing – and dance. But the story has gone crooked, & I am left, and I cannot plead before the inexorable Mandos."

>what is conquest
It's battlefront 2:LOTR

>Gandalf: This foe is beyond any of you. Time for Plan B.
>Frodo: What's Plan B?
>Gandalf: RUUUN!

cringed

Return of the King and Shadow of Mordor are great.

Cate Blanchett looks like such a little girl in that shot

LOTR is a shit series. it's about a person who wants to take an arbitrary ring that does nothing but make you disappear, and throw it into the fucking lava.

the side stories were cool and enjoyable, but side-stories aren't enough to carry a shitty main story. i hate the fact these movies were a big success

>Gandalf: This is the one ring, forged by the Dark Lord Sauron in the fires of Mount Doom, taken by Isildur...
>Frodo: Woah, in English this time.

christ jackson

The ring is an aimplifier. It makes you better at what you're already good at. Hobbits are naturally good at stealth and hiding so they become invisible.

Unfortunately this is not explained in the movies.

BFME1 has a really good single player campaign. Maybe you can also emulate the gamecube version of two towers and third age on dolphin?

>Play Now My Lord!

The ring's power is domination (the is also sentient)

‘Ai! ai!’ wailed Legolas. ‘A Balrog! A Balrog is come!’ Gimli stared with wide eyes. ‘Durin’s Bane!’ he cried, and letting his axe fall he covered his face.

‘A Balrog,’ muttered Gandalf. ‘Now I understand.’ He faltered and leaned heavily on his staff. ‘What an evil fortune! And I am already weary.’

The dark figure streaming with fire raced towards them. The orcs yelled and poured over the stone gangways. then Boromir raised his horn and blew. Loud the challenge rang and bellowed, like the shout of many throats under the cavernous roof. For a moment the orcs quailed and the fiery shadow halted. Then the echoes died as suddenly as a flame blown out by a dark wind, and the enemy advanced again.

‘Over the bridge!’ cried Gandalf, recalling his strength. ‘Fly! This is a foe beyond any of you. I must hold the narrow way. Fly!’ Aragorn and Boromir did not heed the command, but still held their ground, side by side, behind Gandalf at the far end of the bridge. The others halted just within the doorway at the hall’s end, and turned, unable to leave their leader to face the enemy alone.

i expect more from the "one ring to rule them all"

i know Sup Forums and Sup Forums are redit fuckbuddies but Sup Forums needs to leave

well, give it to Sauron and he becomes a shitload more powerful. He did make it for himself for that purpose.

Daily reminder that Elrond was there

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Gil-galad was an Elven-king.
Of him the harpers sadly sing;
the last whose realm was fair and free
between the Mountains and the Sea.

His sword was long, his lance was keen.
His shining helm afar was seen;
the countless stars of heaven's field
were mirrored in his silver shield.

But long ago he rode away,
and where he dwelleth none can say;
for into darkness fell his star
in Mordor where the shadows are.

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reminder

>we will never get a Silmarillion game

Shame. Lotta cool stuff in there.

BfME was great. I also played RotK on PC and loved it. There was also an RPG called the Third Age with a bunch of OCs that I remember being alright, if not incredibly difficult.

It's for the best.

they're talking about adding High Elves in Lord of the Rings Online, plus they're going to update the character models and perhaps update even more of the game now that the company working on it has gone independent, free of Warner Bros.

it's literally a historical outline and works better as lore for a third age game

Wait they own the license now? I was waiting for the game to go in the direction of SOE's game that got shut down because their license expired.

PS4 port when?

Yes and it was renewed
Daybreak is only a publisher and have no authority to shut it down

All Elrond had to do was shove Isil into the pit, that's all he had to do, one swift kick and all the bullshit could have been avoided.

This is why I hate elves.
Except for lewd.

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Wait wait what? Daybreak is the publisher?

lol

>tfw the best LotR game is LEGO Lord of the Rings

shadow of mordor was liquid shit

when bloodborne comes to PC

Isildur was his kin. You do know how kinslaying is not a good thing in Tolkien's mythology?

Kick a king into a volcano because he wanted to keep a gold ring he won...that's not going to create a political upheaval and start a war between elves and men of Gondor (which the elves can't win because of how crippled they are after the last alliance)

in the books they never even went near mount doom. mordor is much smaller in the movies

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you people forget that the dude just oneman-murdered fucking Sauron and was quite possibly the strongest mortal there
a shitter like Elrond would get FOOKEN REKT before he made a single step

so why do humans become homosexual

check and mate

It is the ring that rules all the other rings. That's what it means by 'rule them all'.

Don't you remember the whole spiel where Sauron seduces the rulers of men, dwarfs and elves to take the rings of power that me makes?

Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne.
One Ring to rule them all. One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

>elves
He never touched the elven rings.

>oneman-murdered fucking Sauron
It was a pretty lucky swing.

>he dude just oneman-murdered fucking Sauron
In all fairness, he just hit the right spot to lop off Sauron's hand, anyone could have done it with the same luck but that wouldn't have been conductive to the story if a no-name grunt gets the lucky blow in.

>oneman-murdered
nah, sauron was gangbanged by many soldiers and wrestled elendil and gil-galad to death before he fought isildur

Their track record is exaggerated. Even EQ2 is still active (as well as DCU) and LotR is a far bigger IP. SW Galaxies dropped because the license expired

Sauron was basically already knocked out by Elendil and Gil-galad. Isildur just gave him the coup de grâce by cutting off the Ring.

He helped make them. He was the one who taught them the craft in the first place.

I fucking hate this meme answer, read the god damn books you illiterate nigger.

>read books you illiterate
lol

well to do it correctly would take a dedicated Studio and have a development price tag that would make other big budget games look like they were financed by bake sales.
You would have to find a house that could do both RTS and RPG (Sam and Fagboys journey to the hole in the ground would be three games by itself)
There is just so much content and so many different themes turning them into a decent game would be astronomically difficult

Yes but he didn't make them.

'Ah, alas!' cried Glóin. 'When will the day come of our revenge? But still there are the Three. What of the Three Rings of the Elves? Very mighty Rings, it is said. Do not the Elf-lords keep them? Yet they too were made by the Dark Lord long ago. Are they idle? I see Elf-lords here. Will they not say?'
The Elves returned no answer. `Did you not hear me, Glóin?' said Elrond. `The Three were not made by Sauron, nor did he ever touch them. But of them it is not permitted to speak. So much only in this hour of doubt I may now say. They are not idle. But they were not made as weapons of war or conquest: that is not their power. Those who made them did not desire strength or domination or hoarded wealth, but understanding, making, and healing, to preserve all things unstained. These things the Elves of Middle-earth have in some measure gained, though with sorrow. But all that has been wrought by those who wield the Three will turn to their undoing, and their minds and hearts will become revealed to Sauron, if he regains the One. It would be better if the Three had never been. That is his purpose.'

It's like WoW and wouldn't work on console. I don't think any PS4 people would bother with it because of how old it is.

that may be true, but still better that getting smashed with other 50 schmucks, and he still was the one to do it, and king of men
elrond is just a bimbo, of course he didnt have the balls to try something

Fair enough, I see your point now. My apologies.

elaborate

I'm pretty sure Sauron made the one ring before he went to Numenor, so he'd still look attractive and not the evil looking overlord.

>atalantë is a Quenya word meaning "the downfallen", from the verb-root talat-.
>Atalantë was the name given to Númenor after its Downfall. Tolkien called it "a happy accident", because it invokes the name Atlantis.

Fucking really Tolkien?

LOTRO is still alive? Jesus I thought it had just faded into irrelevancy years ago

You really can't convey an epic story in 3-4 hours. Or even a 12 hour trilogy. GoT has been going for 6 seasons (like, 60 hours of runtime?) and still it had to cut half the stuff from the books.

LOTR movies did extremely well considering the time limitation they had.

must be because iirc 3 of the rings were given to numenorians and no way sauron could have forged any after being imprisoned

Sauron's power is also so exaggerated. What happened was all the splendor in Arda has been fading away so they're not as strong against him as the Numenoreans were. Sauron did everything he could to corrupt and debase his enemies as much as possible before attacking directly (like how he set up that Morgoth cult in Nemenor). Sauron was easily defeated by men and elves before then.

you underestimate the complexity of his artificial languages. it IS a happy accident

>complexity of his artificial languages

>so he'd still look attractive and not the evil looking overlord
Sauron lost ability to turn into attractive form after Numenor was finished by Eru. It has nothing to do with the Ring.

i was a bit facetious with the statement, seeing OP's pants-on-head retarded post.

p.s.
Still think that there's no great Hobbit adaptation, besides the cartoon.

Shit source material. I have never read anything cringier than LotR. The fanboys are even worse

>omg the tranny gave the dwarf three hairs instead of one, 3deep5u

>Sauron's power is also so exaggerated
It isn't. He was the most powerful maia before he forged the One Ring.

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it's still active, you can even find people to do entire raids with, and it will reach Mordor by the end of the year

>who is Eönwe

>steal wholesale from norse mythology
>inject your fanfic-tier garbage
>wa la

>I have never read anything cringier than LotR
I thought everyone had read Harry Potter.

There aren't power levels in this series, and there's nothing that claims that he was 'the most powerful' anything; he was defeated numerous times during the first and second ages, and he always operates from a distance. Morgoth was the only one who Tolkien described as having lots of power, which he abused and also lost.

>After the overthrow of Morgoth, Sauron approached Eönwë, the former second-in-command of the Dark Lord having been shocked into (temporary) repentance. Sauron apparently hoped to secure some kind of "amnesty" from Eönwë, but the latter was not authorized to pardon a Maia like himself, so he ordered Sauron to return to Valinor to be judged by the Valar. In the event, Sauron hid in Middle-earth when Eönwë departed.

>Harry Potter

Why would I read a book with such a lame-ass title?

You have no idea how hard it is for me to not give you a sarcastic imitation of the type of people who consider it some sort of magnum opus of political commentary and ethics right now.

Where are the "feels" in this video? All of his attempts at humor were awful too.