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

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

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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...
 
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Sethbacca said:
This is what happens when franchise rights are bought by investment firms and shit.
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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.
 
Man I can't wait to play an open world collect-athon with a square jawed Galadriel.


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Hopefully another LOTR RTS game. War of the Ring.

Maybe it will take place in the rich universe of the Rings of Power.
 
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.
 
Give me a LOTR game that plays like Dragon's Dogma and I'll cum buy your game.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Heisenberg007 said:
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!
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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.
 
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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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.
 
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.

Men_in_Boxes said:
I'm so f***ing in if it's an Extraction Shooter.
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You go into the Pits of hell and extract rare, legendary or exotic Lord Rings. Amazon gonna make it canon also.
 
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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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