Game News LOTR: The White Council announced

[Spazmo]

Oblivion was already a LOTR Morrowind, so I'm not quite sure how they'd go about making more LOTR. 200% more light bloom, perhaps.

 

[Mefi]

Oblivion was already a LOTR Morrowind, so I'm not quite sure how they'd go about making more LOTR. 200% more light bloom, perhaps.

Opening cut scene voiced by Sir Ian Mckellen with a brief cameo by Christopher Lee. Sean Bean is so passe.

 

[ad hominem]

Oblivion was already a LOTR Morrowind, so I'm not quite sure how they'd go about making more LOTR. 200% more light bloom, perhaps.

Opening cut scene voiced by Sir Ian Mckellen with a brief cameo by Christopher Lee. Sean Bean is so passe.

Nah. Give the main character big-ass Elijah Wood eyes and a fatty fat fatso sidekick.

 

[psycojester]

Personally i love that the press release describes it as being based on the "the New Line Cinema feature film trilogy that grossed more than $3 billion" now thats classic EA right there.

And i think we all know that "extremely talented and dedicated team" is EA code for sweatshop-code-gimps workinng 72 hour shifts

 

[Jaesun]

"stunning graphics and expansive environments, along with the freedom of movement demonstrates the innovation and quality of the next-generation RPG"

Thank GAWD EA KNOWS what makes a NEXT GENERATION RPG!

 

[Claw]

Always has. Can you become President of the Enclave and unleash the final destruction in Fallout 2?

No, but I can side with the master (more or less willingly) and tell him the location of Vault 13 in Fallout 1. Doom-Doom-Doom!

 

[Lumpy]

Players can choose their role as a man, an elf, a dwarf, or a hobbit. Each role’s destiny is to become a hero allied with the White Council, whose members include the famed characters Gandalf, Saruman, Galadriel, and Elrond.

In RPGs, you choose your destiny. In the Next Generation, destiny chooses you.

Always has. Can you become President of the Enclave and unleash the final destruction in Fallout 2?

Best you can do as an evil character is 'do nothing'.

There are no true 'open-ended' RPGs, if you want real meaningful alternative paths you have to srcipt them.

In Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion, you can join the Dark Brotherhood, and not give a fuck about the Main Quest. Also, in Daggerfall, the main quest can end in 6 ways. In Fallout 1 you can join the Master, or kill him because he threatens you, while still playing an immoral character. In Fallout -2, again, you can play an immoral character and still destroy the Enclave, because they want to kill you. You can't join them, because of the "you are mutated and they are extremly unreasonable LOL" F2 crap. You can do AoD's main quest in 3 ways and end it in 7 ways, I think.

 

[Zomg]

I'm looking forward to seeing the real throne of institutional blandness plus high production values drop the bomb on the RPG market, once and for all.

 

[LlamaGod]

in Arcanum you could go down the evil branch of the storyline once you get to the Dark Elf city and eventually end up killing all the 'good' guys in the Void and siding with Kerghan.

You get a pretty cool ending for that.

 

[4too]

RPG Codex Cosmology

RPG Codex Cosmology




So in the RPG Codex version of LOTR: RPG -- COD:

EA will be type cast as the dark uber evil force of fascist / socialist crony monopolistic, poopy game, capitalism,
that red eye in the sky, down wind of the big volcano, (trash burning power plant?)

Beth will be profiled as that "white' wizard in the tall proud 'ivory' tower, that was minting Nex Gen orcs in the basement. Holding back for the right, white, time to spew froth and impregnate M-iddle E-atth with fan boy progeny.

Up And Coming Independents to LARP out the grey wizard, elves, honkies, and half lings, ... to be named later,
(according to the latest RPG Codex statistical gesticulated ontology, ... a straw poll).



4too

 

[Gwendo]

You all don't even know how's the game, so just shut up for now.

 

[LlamaGod]

You all don't even know how's the game, so just shut up for now.

It's based off the movies, it's a piece of shit.

Simple as that.

 

[Mefi]

You all don't even know how's the game, so just shut up for now.

A combination of stunning graphics and expansive environments, along with the freedom of movement demonstrates the innovation and quality of the next-generation RPG, where players can create their own adventures.

Translation:

We're going to skullfuck a fantasy world which deserves far better just like we have been doing ever since we got the license.

 

[Nutcracker]

Lord of the Rings: The White Council

 

[glasnost]

LotR: RaHoWa would certainly turn heads in the electronics aisle.

 

[Whipporowill]

Well, apparently it's set 80 years before the Trilogy, and someone suggested approx 2 years after the Hobbit - during the fall of the necromancer (a k a Sauron in hiding) in Dol Guldur. Not the shabbiest choice of setting actually...

 

[kris]

Well, apparently it's set 80 years before the Trilogy, and someone suggested approx 2 years after the Hobbit - during the fall of the necromancer (a k a Sauron in hiding) in Dol Guldur. Not the shabbiest choice of setting actually...

funny then it is based on the movie. What do they take fromthe movies? the way the Orcs and trolls look?

 

[Gwendo]

I just hope it's a single-player RPG.

 

[Whipporowill]

funny then it is based on the movie. What do they take fromthe movies? the way the Orcs and trolls look?

According to the grey company website, it's based on Tolkien lore (EA have full custody of the rights - book and movies - these days). Of course they're likely to cram everything possible from the movies in there - most bigshots of the white council're in the movies after all. Elrond, Galadriel, Saruman and Gandalf. I wonder if Radagast will turn up...

Oh, and here's an official source if you still don't believe me:

The White Council is set approximately 80 years before the War of the Ring seen in Peter Jackson's movies, so this frees up the narrative.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/lotrwhit ... id=6154009

 

[Draugerruin]

I'm pretty sure they had those rights when they made Battle For Middle Earth 2 also. That's why there are dwarf armies and crap, and it still turned out to be a big peice of shit.

 

[Whipporowill]

I'm pretty sure they had those rights when they made Battle For Middle Earth 2 also. That's why there are dwarf armies and crap, and it still turned out to be a big peice of shit.

Agreed.

 

[Mefi]

Sod my original post.. I now know how Yossarian felt about the glue gun..

EA also showed off a trailer (narrated by what sounded like Ian McKellen in his Gandalf role again)... In addition to McKellen's Gandalf, familiar characters like Elrond, Galadriel, and Saruman were seen and/or heard--each voiced by Hugo Weaving, Cate Blanchett, and Christopher Lee, respectively, all speaking what seemed to be new dialogue.

http://uk.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/lotrwhite ... id=6154009

 

[kris]

Oh, and here's an official source if you still don't believe me:

Oh, I didn't question the validity of what you said. I questioned their general common sense, but if they have the books liscence too then it is another thing.

 

[Azarkon]

What do they take fromthe movies?

The hype, duh.

 

[GhanBuriGhan]

It would be great to have a nice open RPG in Middle Earth. But LOTR's success is likely a curse in this case - what are the chance they don't completely mainstream this one? Zilch.