Lord of the Rings & Hobbit CRPGs

[KeighnMcDeath]

By the fucking gods I don't see any on GOG and so few on STEAM. Have any of you gone through the list for PC - only and review them? I seear I had an action RPG you on win xp but forgot the name. I'm astounded, so few.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Do you mean the dos interplay one?

It's abandonware
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/jrr-tolkiens-the-lord-of-the-rings-vol-i-xy
also, check this out:
http://www.wonderland.cz/lotr/

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

No, it was in the 2000s. It could be Conquest or one of those other action ones like Return of the King. I guess these are more action than anything else. Looking at the mobygames list there are quite a few games.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

No, it was in the 2000s. It could be Conquest or one of those other action ones like Return of the King. I guess these are more action than anything else. Looking at the mobygames list there are quite a few games.

this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit_(2003_video_game)

 

[Dexter]

?

 

[luj1]

Fuck me that was a hard game

Dark souls hah

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Well, i recall one scenario you played gandolf. That's about it. So long ago. Bottom vid looks about right esp with the voice acting.

 

[KörangarTheMighty]

Might be The Third Age, though it wasn't on PC.

 

[deem]

Are there any good LoTR RPGs?

 

[JDR13]

Are there any good LoTR RPGs?

Unfortunately no. I had a bit of fun with LotR: War in the North, but that's more of a hack & slash beat 'em up than a real RPG.

 

[Great Deceiver]

War in the North was pretty fun - it was developed by Snowblind. Lore-wise it was very bad, though.

Been delisted from Steam, so I guess they want to force people to remove from inventory.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

War in the North was an atrocity.

 

[Great Deceiver]

I played it on release (granted, that was over a decade ago) and don't remember it being that bad. As far as Lord of the Rings games go, it certainly wasn't one of the worst ones.

 

[KörangarTheMighty]

War in the North was an atrocity.

Was it worse than The Third Age? I've owned WITN on Steam for years but haven't touched it yet. I liked the idea of it being divorced from the films and being set partly? up in Angmar.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

War in the North was an atrocity.

Was it worse than The Third Age? I've owned WITN on Steam for years but haven't touched it yet. I liked the idea of it being divorced from the films and being set partly? up in Angmar.

It's just a banal game. There's literally not a single thing that makes it stand out. Just linear popamole hack & slash with no soul.

Play Shadow of Mordor instead.

 

[Great Deceiver]

Just linear popamole hack & slash with no soul.

Play Shadow of Mordor instead.

 

[JDR13]

Makes sense that someone named Morgoth would be promoting Mordor.

 

[Gangrelrumbler]

They're probably unavailable/delisted due to license expiring, since new LoTR games are published by Warner. Same reason you can't buy Transformers Devastation and War for Cybertron anymore.

 

[Dorateen]

What would be grand is a cRPG adaptation of the One Ring tabletop material, allowing players to create their own characters to run in a Middle Earth setting. None of the pre-gen nonsense, "play as characters from the novels!"

 

[Trojan_generic]

There is also T.O.M.E. 2.3.5 (or 2.3.x) a roguelike called Tales of Middle Earth, that precedes Tales of Maj'Eyal 4.x; info here: https://forums.te4.org/viewforum.php?f=28
It is also about all the info that remains. There is a download link on the forums: https://forums.te4.org/viewtopic.php?p=92426
I have not seen any news about it, but I think the dev(s) noticed at some time (like 10 years ago?) that they cannot go on without a LOTR licence and then rewrote all old references to LOTR to create Maj'Eyal and added some graphics. This exists also for Android as 'Angband Variants' in the Play Store. It is a huge game, based on Angband, but with an interpretation of a Middle Earth world map and a plot.

 

[Chippy]

Not an RPG but LOTR: Battle for Middle Earth was always getting good reviews. I think the physical copy was stupid expensive on Amazon for a while, then it became unavailable. In the UK anyway. I missed it when it came out, but still waiting for GOG to do something. Nothing on Steam.

Edit: Before anyone says it's not an RPG; just F off. What is a RPG anyway.

 

[vota DC]

The Last days for mount and Blade was great too and Kingdom of Arda can be great, lotr has better strategy games than RPG.