New Lord of The Rings Game with $100m budget in development

Xtib81 said:
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.
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And the same for Game of Thrones - which I'm even more surprised about.

LOTR at least had some games. Game of Thrones basically had 0, despite being so immensely popular.
 
calico said:
Exp33 but LOTR

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This was already done on PS2;
LotR: The Third Age

Game is a straight up FFX clone, but better. Made by EA when they were still legit great game makers.

Just another notch against E33. A gentle reminder that E33 did nothing first, hence why does it get so much hype still?
 
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I don't believe in it anymore. Several franchises feel cursed, even though the potential is enormous. Roaming an open world as rich, vast, and coherent as Middle-Earth isn't something just anyone can pull off. And strangely, even though the character is key, there seems to be this urge to put Gollum in the spotlight, which absolutely didn't work in one of the worst-rated games ever. In any case, we won't get anything concrete… especially given the look of the rumors and the people who are supposedly developing it.
 
Team Skoda said:
This was already done on PS2;
LotR: The Third Age

Game is a straight up FFX clone, but better. Made by EA when they were still legit great game makers.

Just another notch against E33. A gentle reminder that E33 did nothing first, hence why does it get so much hype still?
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Third Age was what I had in mind. Except more like Exp33 and not 20 years old.

I'm not sure how anything you said is a notch against Exp33.
 
diffusionx said:
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"
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This part right here is the only way these firms see any of the properties they acquire. Just something to be exploited and enshittified until they dump it.

It's a fucking travesty for the people that actually enjoy the IP.
 
Xtib81 said:
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.
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Why this is so hard for some developers (I mean, investors and publishers) to understand boggles my mind.

Make it competent. A few little tricks to gameplay that make it unique to the IP (but really just a coat of paint on existing game mechanics in other games. Boom. You have a hit
 
Heisenberg007 said:
And the same for Game of Thrones - which I'm even more surprised about.

LOTR at least had some games. Game of Thrones basically had 0, despite being so immensely popular.
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Debatable.
I've read LOTR books, but never watched or read GoT, never felt even remotely interested and I know a few others like that.
 
I hope that it's not the one co-developed by Cristal Dynamics. If so then I hope they changed the story because if not then it will be Rings of Power once again.
 
calico said:
Third Age was what I had in mind. Except more like Exp33 and not 20 years old.

I'm not sure how anything you said is a notch against Exp33.
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The intent was more a jab at the folks who gush over E33 like it's the all fresh trailblazing RPG that "redefines the genre" and put it on a pillar like it's a game that no one has done before.

Otherwise, I would love to see a revamped version of The Third Age as well. Game was criminally underrated for it's time.
 
This is either a lot of money for an efficient, lean, talented team…and could be great, or it's not a lot of money for a bloated inefficient non talented publisher that will produce a pile of poop and everyone will think where the money went🤣
 
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KungFucius said:
Pay 400 million for franchise rights, license out the rights to devs that devalue your fucking purchase. Seems like a great strategy.
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It's also the current Tolkien family who don't really care as much about the IP as Tolkien himself and his son did and are just coasting on the generational wealth.
 
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The GoT RPG wasn't bad. That franchise is (now) at like 5% of what it could have been if it had been finished and finished well.
 
Raven117 said:
Why this is so hard for some developers (I mean, investors and publishers) to understand boggles my mind.

Make it competent. A few little tricks to gameplay that make it unique to the IP (but really just a coat of paint on existing game mechanics in other games. Boom. You have a hit
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Most fantasy games are derivative of LoTR and Middle-Earth anyway, to the extent that they've become a generic template (swords, elves, wizards, orcs, etc.).
 
simpatico said:
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.
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I've seen rumors that Warhorse would be the developers. After KCD2, i'm all in if this is true.
 
Lord of Rings is in such a "good" shape nowadays, can't wait for something akin to Rings of Power levels of garbage.
 
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How about just a game not involving any lords or any rings but just takes place in some small part of middle earth ( the world is so big a small part of the world could be massive and open) . No involvement with any big characters.....just a story unrelated with new characters that sticks to the world lore and feeling tolkien invented. ( ie tolkeins elves look like tolkiens elves and no super mega powers) . In the thousands of years of lore...theres thousands of small adventures that happened.
 
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Shadowplay1979 said:
How about just a game not involving any lords or any rings but just takes place in some small part of middle earth ( the world is so big a small part of the world could be massive and open) . No involvement with any big characters.....just a story unrelated with new characters that sticks to the world lore and feeling tolkien invented. ( ie tolkeins elves look like tolkiens elves and no super mega powers) . In the thousands of years of lore...theres thousands of small adventures that happened.
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This is what I want.
 
Does anyone under 35 even care about LotR? There's a smaller target audience for this than most people would think. The fans that do exist won't have any patience for slop. Just seems like a tough needle to thread at best.
 
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