Tell me right now what in your opinion would be the ultimate LOTR game
Return of The King on PS2
Animal Crossing-esque Shire simulator
>>333054039
OK you win
Lord of the Rings: Online with updated graphics, models and a buy to play payment method akin to Guild Wars.
Mount and Blade set during the war of the north. I just want to lead Noldor elves
>>333054676
I really try hard to enjoy the Last Days mod but it seems too weird to me.
Lord of the Rings: The Third Age
A walking simulator through beautiful New Zealand scenery, occasionally punctuated by small bouts of intense combat.
>>333053956
>play as Frodo
>need to destroy the ring
>pseudo open-world
>multiple paths to mordor
>start with fellowship companions but can find new ones along the way
>permanent deaths for party members
>>333054781
The more drastic the overhaul the more fucked the mod turns out.
Ultra-detailed Shire simulator. No violence or end goal but everything can be interacted with and your only goal is to be a Hobbit all fuckin day.
dragons crown style beat em up where 1-4 members of the fellowship follow the story all the way to mount doom
tangentially related to the thread
anybody ever notice how stuff like LOTR and the derivatives that came after all happen in the in universe age after the age of crazy magic shit but before a more modern era? Where's the modern / urban fantasy? where's the future / science fantasy?
Battle for Middle Earth 3 to be honest.
>>333053956
The world of Shadow of Mordor, scratch the lore raping ranger, scratch the elf shit.
You build and customize your own orc, skill trees and talents. Strong build with sword and axe, or ranged with bow and throwing spears, or stealthy with daggers,poison,traps.
You start out in a warband, overthrowing your chief and rising up in the ranks. You fight/murder/execute your rivals from other chieftans to upstarts in your own warband. You start a rebellion against sauron because you're a strong independent orc who dont need no sorcerer.
The game ends with a one on one with sauron, and he wrecks your shit.
except when you beat the game on its impossible difficulty and you get a cutscene of your scarred up brutally angry orc leading his host out of mordor.
Visual novel adaption of the book with SRPG battles.
War in the North was one of my all time favourite couch co op games.
A game avoiding the issue with LOTR setting game plots:
>Set it before, players will try messing with the timeline, e.g. trying to kill Bilbo in order to obtain the Ring
>Set it during, if they're not in the fellowship, players will try to intercept the Fellowship
>Set it after, the war is over, it's boring and there is nothing to do.
The problem with existing movie settings is that the audience has knowledge of the timeline.
>>333053956
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>Anonymous 04/03/16(Sun)11:12:12 No.3330
>huge open world
Choose one of the races of middle earth
>hobbits you get a sort of harvest moon simulator style game
>Men you get a big city/warfare simulator
>elves you get a sort of stealth/ranger simulator living in the woods and fighting orcs.
>dwarves you get a mining/building simulator
>All have various degrees of fighting, farming, smithing, etc...
>>333053956
an open world rpg with the whole middle earth
>>333056676
>>dwarves you get a mining/building simulator
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
I played a Warband mod and it's pretty much the best LOTR game i've played. So a polished, professionally made Warband / Action Strategy style game where you play a commander in the battle for middle earth.
>>333053956
I don't care what kind it is, another RTS, some action adventure, whatever, as long as it'sgood.
>>333056063
>what's Shadowrun
>what's WH40k
>what's Arcanum
etc
>>333056629
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jYRP1DOhrU
>>333053956
Static world Dwarf Fortress with some names changed around and the ability to pick any race.
>>333056629
In most games, plot-relevant NPCs are invincible. Personally I would just avoid the main plot. Shadows of Mordor had the right idea, have the story take place between the Hobbit and LotR, when Gondor is being invaded and monsters are crawling out of every hole between Angmar and Umbar. There's plenty of room for individual plotlines there which don't have to effect the overall war situation.
Alternatively, use Tolkien's incomplete idea for an LotR sequel. It's not like everything bad disappeared when Sauron died.
>I did begin a story placed about 100 years after the Downfall, but it proved both sinister and depressing. Since we are dealing with Men it is inevitable that we should be concerned with the most regrettable feature of their nature: their quick satiety with good. So that the people of Gondor in times of peace, justice and prosperity, would become discontented and restless — while the dynasts descended from Aragorn would become just kings and governors — like Denethor or worse. I found that even so early there was an outcrop of revolutionary plots, about a centre of secret Satanistic religion; while Gondorian boys were playing at being Orcs and going around doing damage. I could have written a 'thriller' about the plot and its discovery and overthrow — but it would have been just that. Not worth doing.
http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_New_Shadow
>>333053956
A game where you trek across middle earth exploring the locales with very minimal amounts of combat depending on the places you decided to fuck off too. Like obviously if you decided to go to Mirkwood there would probably be a lot of spiders that want to eat you.
THEY'RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD
THEY'RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD
THEY'RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD
GARD
G-G-G-GARD
>>333054960
>the most exciting rpg since final fantasy
>>333056886
Well give us the link faggot
>you will never smoke the finest weed in all the shire with your wizard friend
Why didn't Frodo just fly the Eagles to Mordor?
>>333057410
>>333057410
http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-last-days
You can also get it through steam workshop if you have a legit copy.
>>333057349
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE-1RPDqJAY
It's so fucking good
>>333057349
>>333057427
It doesn't have to be that way, there are plenty of wizards here and we are all your friend.
>>333057589
> May 11, 2006
>>333057589
>almost a decade ago
>>333057893
>>333057895
I didn't want to mention it to take from the good vibes the song gives.
>>333057516
Thank you very much
>>333057465
I think the idea is that everything's corruptible by the ring. The Eagles belong to manwe who is a valar, susceptible to the rings corruption, so the Eagles should be too, plus the nazgul would attack them
But I do believe that was Gandalf's intent but he fell to the balrog
it was already made
You could make many games in the Fourth Age centering on Aragorn's reign.
>>333056221
This shit sounded fucking good and better than the original up to the point where you rebel against Sauron.
I'd rather just raid and rape Elven territory
>>333056963
Shadow of Mordor is good. Doesn't stop it from being a shitty LotR game.
