Is middle earth a good setting for the video games?

Is middle earth a good setting for the video games?

Is it?

looks like a map of Turkey

Was it kino?

It would if it got the Total War treatment, goddamn. I'd love to play as the Noldor elves.

No.
Only for study.

there is a mod for that. For Rome Total War I think.

Lord of the Soy

It's for Medieval 2.

Yeah but they can't seem to make an actual good game set in middle earth.

those mountain ranges always looked fucking stupid to me, what was Tolkien thinking

but other than that, sure why not

Fucking this.

>actual deep RPG in Middle Earth literally never

Rpg is literally worst genre for the middle earth, because braindead retards like you can't play games where you isn't epic hero who kills dragons and shit and also grey morality
I personally blame obsidian and d&d
First Guilds wars/Dragon's Dogma online are the only rpg style games that could work

4th Age is Rome, 3th Age is Med II

Shadow of Mordor was pretty decent. I heard Shadow of War is solid you and you can ignore the lootboxes easily without making gameplay a pain, but I still wouldn't buy it out of principal.

>he doesn't understand that the age of mythology was real.
>he doesn't understand that the cradle of life aka the garden of eden was actually located northeast of the land we know of today as Turkey.

Its a great game but shits on the lore. Nemesis system is totally worth it though. Hours of fun.

Lemurian jew atlantean hollow earth ancient alien reptile detected.

That is Beleriand, not the Middle-Earth most would know of from Lord of the Rings. All of that is underwater by the end of the First Age due to a catacylsmic god-war.

Lotr games can only work as a backdrop to a strategy game with close to no story.
Anything else is just offensive stuff desired by turbonerds.

I thought it was surrounded by water, island like.

The MMO was pretty neat to explore in the early days. Not sure about now though.

>actually taking advantage of the franchise is just for nerds brah

Lego LOTR is a very fun game and not a strategy one. EA hack & slash were good too.

Get your greasy hands off lotr

no. Historical theme is where is at.

AAA game devs would not get the point and make generic trash like they did with the Mordor games.

>not get the point
And what's the point of middle earth?

LOTR is essentially written as mythology that wraps the fantastic events of the story in thousands of years of history and myth that provides context to the events of the characters that both fleshes out the world while giving it a sense of mystery. Tolken does this through poems, songs, artifacts of ancient empires, and the burden of bloodlines and ancestors on the characters. The Mordor games were a cynical cash grab tie-in that was a shallow hack and slash with a coat of paint from Weta Workshop, which the second game doubled-down on with the singleplayer loot box pay to win mechanic.

Probably trying to make it look like an oldschool map, honestly.

that would be Valinor. Beleriand got its shit kicked in due to Morgoth being a fuck

>Beleriand got its shit kicked in due to Morgoth being a fuck
Pretty sure Belerians sunk later because of elves

Tolkein had no fucking sense of simple geography. I'm sure I could put together a better map than
>LOL MORDOR IS SURROUNDED BY A PERFECT SQUARE OF MOUNTAINS

The thing that strikes me most about whole medieval fantasy stuff is that you do not see progress. Not on everyday, domestic life, not on technological, scientific side, not on economical side. You do not see any changes in society, governance or ideas, no revolutionary attitudes. It is stagnant. I wish to see progress in middle earth where trade-money and production relations change aswell as governing, when men and elves start to question rule of monarchs, revolts and unrests, civil wars and revolutions take place there. I would give so much to see a setting like that.

>Land
>Sink

Maybe game of thrones is more to your liking.

Just so you can watch your fantasy communism fail ONCE MORE?

Nuclear magic bombs
Middle earth generally feels like post apocalyptic world, especially during 3rd age, with half of civilized world laying in the ruins and being full of undead and not classified monsters

wat

it was written by a ww1 soldier afterall. Europe more or less fits that description at the time.

>reading A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War
>always wondered who put in the krauts the idea of the master race, eugenics and culling the weak and the unfit
>tfw anglo scholars and ((scientists))) were the ones that started pushing those ideas at the start of the century.
the eternal anglo strikes again

Except Middle Earth wasn't naturally formed it was literally hand crafted by the gods so of course it looks artificial. In the case of Mordor it was designed to be defensible by Morgoth.

Morgoth has nothing to do with Mordor

M&B: The Last Days is the only video game (well, mod) that does a decent job of capturing the feel of Tolkien's world

No, it was terrible
>he only video game (well, mod) that does a decent job of capturing the feel of Tolkien's world
That would be lotro before going f2p

Firstly
>Beleriand

MY most desired game would be some incredibly sophisticated strategy game for ME - both in terms of war, commerce, characters and their goals motivations.

If it could reasonably model what we know of the world, to me there are so many amazingly interesting what-if scenarios.

Being Fëanor and not succumbing to rashness and death just after starting your war, keeping the host of the Noldor together, how different would the world be if the full might of the Noldor were led by him against the hosts of Morgoth? And not meekly standing guard against Angband before the armies of darkness swarm forth.

Or maybe playing as any Elven Lord and allying yourself with Morgoth.

Trying to better manage the kingdoms of Arnor and Gondor, or just Gondor, not allowing evil to fester on the East of the Anduin.

Carving vast, impenetrable networks of fortresses as the Dwarves, becoming centres of trade, richness and commerce, riding forth to change the tide of battle or sitting tight through the millenia whilst the outside world changes.

Big pipe dream but yeah, there are so many possibilities I can't see myself ever getting bored.

yes, due to Morgoth being a fuck. every problem in ME stems from Melkor wanting to be better than Eru but he got butthurt because he couldn't find the Flame Imperishable so he fucked with the world for reasons

It was actually his son, Christopher, who drew the first map.

>MORGOTH A SHIT

Do you mean their unnatural shape?

Cause that was caused by Morgoth intentionally building the landscape to be an utter bitch to travel.

You will like Warhammer then

>Except Middle Earth wasn't naturally formed
according to christians neither was our earth

>therefore their design should be the same

Show me where Earth's geography was dictated by a cataclysmic battle between a cohort of divine beings in Christianity.

Not to mention the parts designed after the fact