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Shadow of Mordor deserves more attention. Come in and be hyped with me.
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BrassDragon
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There's more than enough Monolith can do to expand the franchise without going into a different epoch. I pitched a Shadow of Angmar idea upthread but you could also go with Mirkwood/Dol Guldur which will be something audiences are familiar with thanks to The Hobbit movies... or maybe go up against the fallen Corsairs along the coast of Umbar...
The setting is huge and as long as they keep the wraith-powers, the protagonist could be a new 'Grave'Walker' every time.
The setting is huge and as long as they keep the wraith-powers, the protagonist could be a new 'Grave'Walker' every time.
Edmond Dantès
Dantès the White
Indeed. But Christopher has his reasons; primarily his closeness to the material. He has spent his retirement consolidating, editing, adding to and publishing his father's unpublished work. Thus his attachment and concerns are understandable. There is at least some hope that his successor (if not covenanted) may be more sympathetic.
Statue of Limitation
Member
Is anyone else finding it weird that Wargs and Trolls have been replaced with suspiciously similar substitutes?
Its got to be something to do with the rights and estates, why else you change them to non-canon versions of the creatures.
And no, I don't expect them to be in the game and we just haven't seen them.
Its got to be something to do with the rights and estates, why else you change them to non-canon versions of the creatures.
And no, I don't expect them to be in the game and we just haven't seen them.
Brian Griffin
Member
1080p and 60fps on PS4 is what they are aiming for and judging by all the live demos done on PS4 it looks like they've hit it. I've watched almost all the live streams and haven't seen anything that would suggest otherwise. Also I assume Xbone runs great but they haven't mentioned it specifically for some reason.
Edmond Dantès
Dantès the White
The game and film licenses are seperate entities granted to WB by Middle-earth Enterprises (the owner of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings' I.Ps, purchased previously from UA who originally purchased the rights from J.R.R Tolkien himself). The licences will of course differ considering the two mediums but exclusivity of characters doesn't seem likely.
The Tolkien Estate has no say on such matters. The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are beyond their control.
Statue of Limitation
Member
Edmond Dantès;131201387 said:
Does it not strike you as odd? If I'm right there wont be any trolls in the game, but Graugs which were introduced in LOTR online I think.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Doesn't seem like people about to spend 60 duckets would ignore negative reviews because they came out on Fri.
SmoothRunningGun
Member
Tempting...I wish there were some early reviews.
Yup. You simply can't compare review releases to political PR moves.
Anyway it seems that they're releasing Thursday morning now, so the point is [even more] moot.
SJRB
Gold Member
There's like 4 hours of gameplay available on youtube, what difference does a review make?
A day earlier now? Interesting.
Seems to be. Check post #1795.
Edmond Dantès
Dantès the White
It does seems strange that one licence would restrict the other in its usage considering both Monolith and New Line are part of WB. The LEGO LOTR game made use of Wargs and that comes under the banner of the very same game licence.
Monolith have their reasons of course, but prima facie, there doesn't seem to be a legal restriction.
SmoothRunningGun
Member
Doesn't tell you how much content there is or the overall quality of the game so a review makes a big difference to me. You are free to spend your money as you please.
BrassDragon
Member
Edmond Dantès;131205458 said:
Maybe it's done for lore reasons; wargs are sentient with a language of their own and trolls have their own culture. Instead of 'dumbing down' these two creatures to fit the gameplay needs, Monolith just invented two new creatures that behave in ways that won't upset the loreheads.
Tinfoilhatsron
Banned
Mine says 6 days....
Anyone playing the final ps4 build, is there tearing or not? Looking at the last twitch demo I see some and I just want to make sure it is not the video encoding. Sadly I am really susceptive to screan tearing.
Community manager says no tearing in the release build + v-sync activated.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=130194947&postcount=1125
ubersticky
Member
are there any recently gameplay vids that shows off how awesome this game is?
ive only seen a few vids and it looks boring to me but it's been a while and i wanna be hyped for this game.
ive only seen a few vids and it looks boring to me but it's been a while and i wanna be hyped for this game.
NemesisPrime
Banned
TBH no way I can play this game... as a Tolkien fan.
The Dear Leader
Banned
I'm a Tolkien fan as well and I'm can't for this game, it doesn't have to be 100% lore accurate to be a great Lord of the Rings game, the developers creative freedom trumps lore accuracy to me in this game.
NemesisPrime
Banned
Well not for me... they just stuck on the LotR license to get more sales. Next time they can call it "Grand Theft Wight" or something like that and I will play it. Now I am not touching it at all.
But let's go back to our scheduled program : SPIDERWATCH
LOOK HERE ! at 0:26, left side of the camp fire. YES it is most definitely a SPIDER.
Probably not the biggest and ugliest one a lord of the ring games has in store though but I'm pretty sure it's the first one we see ;_;
Plus it's like in tall grass and everything. ugh.
LOOK HERE ! at 0:26, left side of the camp fire. YES it is most definitely a SPIDER.
Probably not the biggest and ugliest one a lord of the ring games has in store though but I'm pretty sure it's the first one we see ;_;
Plus it's like in tall grass and everything. ugh.
Edmond Dantès;131205458 said:
I cannot get into too much detail about this issue but there seems to be a legal reason for this. As I understood it, there seem to be different rights for the names and the looks/visuals of those creatures and they are not allowed to use both of those at the same time. Basically, they cannot call them wargs and trolls if they look like the ones from the movies.
Edmond Dantès
Dantès the White
That is very interesting. It seems to imply the following; if Monolith were producing an official tie-in of The Hobbit trilogy there would be no restriction on character nomenclature usage, but because Shadow of Mordor is unrelated to the films (which seemingly take precedence) certain aspects of the intellectual property are therefore off limits.
If so, that may interfere somewhat with future sequels.
BabyFaceKillah
Member
they might have a marketing deal with Sony.
They do, but so did Destiny and they were open about those kind of questions when asked.
Just wait until the 25th and check whether or not some publication got the Xbone version or wait until the Digital Foundry Face-Off that will probably come around (or on) release day. (They had plenty of time to prepare the PS4 part in advance.)
Messofanego
Banned
LurkerPrime
Member
I'd like to see more LotR games and stuff too, but when a big franchise is a success companies begin to have difficulty discerning "what is good for the franchise" versus "what is good for the pocketbook." So while it's a bit of a bummer, I think the mystique and reverence people have for LotR would be shaken if it were mindlesssly taken and manipulated by companies. Especially when considering original stories set in the universe.
Yeah, I know, it could be set in a separate canon universe or something, but misuse and neglect would ultimately dilute the whole property. LotR seems special to me, like something that should be preserved - it's a a valuable antique, not a cheap toy.
Fantastic, thank you.
What a Jiraculous find.
Any idea when it expires?
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Out a week on Friday here in the UK, if FIFA wasn't out (Getting it tomorrow off US store) I'd get this from the US store too to play it earlier, but I can wait the extra 3 days. Hyped as hell for it though, hope Mordor is interesting to explore, thats my big worry.
Don't miss it, you can use it as many times as you want until 4pm UTC on Friday 26th September.
tryagainlater
Member
Watching the twitch stream now. I probably won't be able to get this game till the end of October but it looks great. Looking forward to playing.
Bought! Thx man.
The Cool One
Member
after that 30 minute polygon video i can say i'm hyped
I wont be able to get this game for a couple of months at least, hopefully its half price on the black friday!!
DomsPlaying
Member
I am not into LOTR or its lore at all but I have seen previews for this game and am very intrigued. Primarily bc of its combat and the Nemesis system. If I want to play something in between or after Destiny, this is on the short list. Nice thread btw!
Aspirations26
Member
Thanks for this, I decided to get it. I was following this game for a bit, reading this thread made me purchase it. Getting a little bored of destiny now, so I'll start playing this when it comes out.
Char Aznable
Member
There is probably a big difference in resolution between the two versions, and if they aren't under a lot of pressure to disclose the resolution on XB1, then why would they bring it up or even comment on it?
RadioactiveLobster
Member
Tonight's the last night of my humble thread before Levyne's OT goes up for this awesome looking game. I'm surprised and elated the thread got this big. It may not be huge, but it certainly got the game some attention, which is what I set out to do!
Thanks for joining in the hype, everyone, and I'll join you all in the OT!
Thanks for joining in the hype, everyone, and I'll join you all in the OT!