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[Draugoth]

"Sources close to the game tell Insider Gaming that a new title is set to be, at least partially, funded by the Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO). This funding should roughly equate to $100 million, give or take, the sources say."

 

[diffusionx]

LOTR is now officially a slop franchise like everything else under the sun. Totally grim.

 

[Topher]

Gollum 2 confirmed

 

[archangelmorph]

What kind of shitty social-media-era announcement is this?

literally zero information.

I mean who's the blummin' developer?

 

[Guilty_AI]

Gollum 2 confirmed

I was too late

 

[stn]

If it was an open-world RPG like Elder Scrolls, I'd be interested. But I have no faith in that happening.

 

[KungFucius]

LOTR is now officially a slop franchise like everything else under the sun. Totally grim.

Pay 400 million for franchise rights, license out the rights to devs that devalue your fucking purchase. Seems like a great strategy.

 

[Sethbacca]

LOTR is now officially a slop franchise like everything else under the sun. Totally grim.

This is what happens when franchise rights are bought by investment firms and shit.

 

[Heisenberg007]

How hard it is to give us an open-world LOTR RPG in the veins of The Witcher 3?

Do it, make it great, and you have my money!

 

[Woopah]

There's a lot of potential, but there's no reason to be optimistic currently with so little information.

 

[Scrawnton]

BOTW clone set in Middle Earth please.

 

[GrayDock]

Just remake/remaster the PS2 one's - profit.

 

[MDSLKTR]

It's time to revive it

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Thread 'The Lord of the Rings: White Council cancelled?'

Jan 6, 2007

And so the Breaking of the Fellowship happens after all, or so says yet another anonymous source anyway. In any case, anonymous or not, 1UP has received word that EA is cancelling one of their more ambitious projects, The Lord of the Rings: The White Council (a.k.a., Project Gray Company).

We're also very tempted to believe this, considering that there has been absolutely no update on the game since it was first announced in July of 2006. We've tried checking the official website for updates on the title as well...

• Mau ®

 

[Fake]

Probably Rings of Power the game.

 

[Sticks]

 

[diffusionx]

This is what happens when franchise rights are bought by investment firms and shit.

It's what happens when, one, the franchise rights are held by people who don't give a shit about it and just see it as cash flow or an "intellectual property asset", and two, the IP laws allow for franchise rights to be held long enough for that they pass to people who don't give a shit about it. LOTR should have entered public domain 20-30 years ago.

 

[RagnarokIV]

The Sharia Lawd of the Rings

 

[Fbh]

No horse parkour no buy

 

[calico]

Exp33 but LOTR

 

[rodrigolfp]

BFME 3 \o/

 

[Plague Doctor]

Man I can't wait to play an open world collect-athon with a square jawed Galadriel.


LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT'SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

 

[AJUMP23]

Hopefully another LOTR RTS game. War of the Ring.

Maybe it will take place in the rich universe of the Rings of Power.

 

[tusharngf]

BFME 3 \o/

Literally the best series in the franchise. Give us middle Earth game.

 

[acm2000]

hope its as good as the gollum game

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Gandalf The White

 

[deriks]

No horse parkour no buy

A director allowing this kind of thing...

 

[VulcanRaven]

Just use the movie license and make open-world Middle-earth.

 

[Hollowpoint5557]

Amazon torched any hype I have for any LotR product going forward. The trilogy and the books remain the only LotR media I give a shit about.

 

[Physiognomonics]

This franchise could make a perfect Diablo-like IP. It's not like Blizzard already stole every material they could from Tolkien with WoW and Diablo.

 

[Arachnid]

I miss the Nemesis system.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Give me a LOTR game that plays like Dragon's Dogma and I'll cum buy your game.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Gollum vs King Kong

 

[Xtib81]

I've been begging for a fucking AAA Lotr for ages. Just go the witcher route in the Lotr universe and watch it print money, just like Hogwarts did.

 

[Markio128]

Mid-Earth.

Seriously though, how we haven't had a top tier game based on the books/films is beyond me.

The Hobbit text adventure is the only decent one I can think of.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Exp33 but LOTR

Been meaning to check out The Third Age for a while, looks cool.

 

[Xtib81]

How hard it is to give us an open-world LOTR RPG in the veins of The Witcher 3?

Do it, make it great, and you have my money!

For real though, I've been scratching my head for 20 years wondering why it has not happened yet. If done right, that's the kind of game that would sell tens of millions of copies.

 

[Markio128]

I've been begging for a fucking AAA Lotr for ages. Just go the witcher route in the Lotr universe and watch it print money, just like Hogwarts did.

The problem with it being open-world is that it would be almost impossible to follow the journey of the books, unless it was just based around some other random protagonist, which doesn't sound that appealing to me. I think it would need to be a linear game, but with a few larger areas.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

I'm so f***ing in if it's an Extraction Shooter.

 

[Shubh_C63]

They can't make a Witcher 3 scale LOTR (let alone hoping to compete with Witcher 4), so it is going to be mid from the get go.

Just slap Arkham combat in there and give me Shadow of Mordor 3. Hell I'll take the remake at this point.

Maybe more like Game Of Thones Kingsroad.

I'm so f***ing in if it's an Extraction Shooter.

You go into the Pits of hell and extract rare, legendary or exotic Lord Rings. Amazon gonna make it canon also.

 

[Kikorin]

I hope is based on the awesome Prime Video series and not the outdated and problematic books.

 

[VulcanRaven]

Gollum vs King Kong

That would be epic

 

[Melfice7]

Wasnt rings of power and gollum enough torture?

 

[bbeach123]

Cast it into the fire if it has anything to do with the Rings of Power.

 

[kpopSuperstar]

No horse parkour no buy

 

[simpatico]

There's not a single developer I can think of who I'd trust it to. Honestly it's not as rich of an IP as they think. The magic was the storytelling in the trilogy. The lore itself is rather vanilla. Especially to audiences who haven't read the books and gotten immersed in it. It will come off as very vanilla actually.

 

[JimmyRustler]

Another money laundering scheme incoming.

 

[Danjin44]

As if game being high budget = quality game.

 

[calico]

Been meaning to check out The Third Age for a while, looks cool.

It was great

 

[BouncyFrag]

Gollum vs King Kong

With Galactus and Unicron dlc.

 

[Madflavor]

You can't buy quality.