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Warner reveals Monolith's (FEAR dev) Guardians of Middle-Earth game
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SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
If you can light hobbits on fire with Sauron then it's GOTY material, as far as I'm concerned.
Femmeworth
Banned
Eh? Monolith Productions made F.E.A.R. 2, they just didn't make 3.
element
Member
F.E.A.R. 2 was Monolith, but not really the same team that made F.E.A.R. The team who made F.E.A.R. next game was Gotham City Impostors.
Ape Gone Insane
Member
Debut trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oghai6RO1J8
Gollum throwing rocks at Gandalf is just hilarious and Gimli seems to be channelling Thor. I'm actually curious though. It looks fun for casual play.
Gollum throwing rocks at Gandalf is just hilarious and Gimli seems to be channelling Thor. I'm actually curious though. It looks fun for casual play.
I agree with this, but without the sarcasm.
GCI's the most fun I've had with a multiplayer FPS this gen.
How can you get anything out of how it plays from a cg trailer?
Ape Gone Insane
Member
The premise sounds fun is what I should have said.*
Lactose_Intolerant
Member
That was a horrible trailer. Show gameplay, no one cares about your cg trailers. Especially when they are terrible.
k, just wonderin if youd seen some gameplay. im interested in seeing how they plan to do moba with a controller
pretty much
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
Gotham City Impostors is awesome!
I'm interested to see what they'll do with this.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
1997 Blood - AWESOME
1998 Get Medieval - Good
1998 Shogo - Good, unique
1998 Blood II - Okay
1999 Gruntz - Never played it
2000 Sanity: Aiken's Artifact - Good
2000 No One Lives Forever - AWESOME
2001 Aliens versus Predator 2 - Good
2002 No One Lives Forever 2 - AWESOME
2003 Tron 2.0 - Good
2003 Contract J.A.C.K. - Never played, got bad reviews
2005 The Matrix Online - A sign that they will fuck with Monolith, heard it was okay but NO THANKS
2005 F.E.A.R. - AWESOME
2005 Condemned - AWESOME
2008 Condemned 2 - AWESOME
2009 F.E.A.R. 2 - Good
2011 F.E.A.R. 3 moved to Day One, preparing to fuck with Monolith
2012 Gotham City Impostors - Officially fucking with Monolith
2012 Guardians of Middle-Earth - Continuing to fuck with Monolith
1998 Get Medieval - Good
1998 Shogo - Good, unique
1998 Blood II - Okay
1999 Gruntz - Never played it
2000 Sanity: Aiken's Artifact - Good
2000 No One Lives Forever - AWESOME
2001 Aliens versus Predator 2 - Good
2002 No One Lives Forever 2 - AWESOME
2003 Tron 2.0 - Good
2003 Contract J.A.C.K. - Never played, got bad reviews
2005 The Matrix Online - A sign that they will fuck with Monolith, heard it was okay but NO THANKS
2005 F.E.A.R. - AWESOME
2005 Condemned - AWESOME
2008 Condemned 2 - AWESOME
2009 F.E.A.R. 2 - Good
2011 F.E.A.R. 3 moved to Day One, preparing to fuck with Monolith
2012 Gotham City Impostors - Officially fucking with Monolith
2012 Guardians of Middle-Earth - Continuing to fuck with Monolith
MonolithAndy
Monolith Productions
Hey folks, worry not - we hear your calls for gameplay footage, and it's coming very, very soon.
Full disclosure: I'm the Community Manager at Monolith.
Full disclosure: I'm the Community Manager at Monolith.
It's still real to me, damn it.
Gotham City Impostors is actually pretty good. Otherwise I mostly agree.
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
Like E3 soon? Will it be playable?
Haunted
Member
Haven't you heard? Moba is a genre now, has been for a bit.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
element
Member
Monolith was never working on F.E.A.R. 3. F.E.A.R. 3 was actually F.E.A.R. 2 originally, as Vivendi owned the name and Monolith owned the characters and was working on Project Origin. When Activision/Vivendi happened, they sold off the F.E.A.R. trademark and development of their F.E.A.R. 2 (F.E.A.R. 3), Project Origin became F.E.A.R. 2, and F.E.A.R. 2 became F.E.A.R. 3. That gets confusing.
Hi Andy
Please kick Dayne.So...according to you...the "F.E.A.R. team" spent 6 years working on a downloadable $15 game.
Edit: And Gotham City haters back up. That game is fantastic.
Discotheque
Banned
Seeing Gollum attack Gandalf and bite him was pretty hilarious.
What a dumb idea for a game, and I hate how they used generic shitty trailer music for this when they had access to one of the GREATEST OSTs of ALL TIME.
Will pass, Lego LOTR seems more promising.
What a dumb idea for a game, and I hate how they used generic shitty trailer music for this when they had access to one of the GREATEST OSTs of ALL TIME.
Will pass, Lego LOTR seems more promising.
MonolithAndy
Monolith Productions
Yep! It's a MOBA. You'll see more exceptionally soon.
The kicking shall be attempted. He does play an awful lot of soccer, so it may not be in my best interest.Monolith was never working on F.E.A.R. 3. F.E.A.R. 3 was actually F.E.A.R. 2 originally, as Vivendi owned the name and Monolith owned the characters and was working on Project Origin. When Activision/Vivendi happened, they sold off the F.E.A.R. trademark and development of their F.E.A.R. 2 (F.E.A.R. 3), Project Origin became F.E.A.R. 2, and F.E.A.R. 2 became F.E.A.R. 3. That gets confusing.
Hi Andy
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
I am not hating on the gameplay design of GCI. I am saying the whole concept is completely absurd and I would much rather have Monolith demonstrating their original creative powers which nearly always resulted in something fresh, incredibly stylish, and solid in gameplay. Building a one-off big-license DD game around some stupid, unnecessary comic relief character in Dark Knight Returns just seems like a disrespectful mis-utilization of what I consider to be one of the most talented developers in the industry. If someone from Monolith wants to step up and say it was all their initiative I'll be here to go "WTF?" but until that happens I can only assume it's the higher ups fucking around with a group they don't rightly appreciate.
P.S. I abhor MOBA games.
P.S. I abhor MOBA games.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
What the utter fucking Hell is this shit, Monolith? First you ruined the Blood IP, and now you shit all over Tolkien's legendarium with this.. this.. filth. Jesus.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
lol Here comes Monolith's fan club. One of the few times I've seen a company get hated on for not making another first person shooter.
Hey, I'm all for first person shooters as long as they bring original ideas to the table. F.E.A.R. and Call of Duty are nothing alike, and its a bit disheartening to see one of the few creative studios that work in that genre making a licensed online battle arena game.
But, hey I concede that I shouldn't badmouth a game that I know next to nothing about.
Also, what is up with the surge of MOBAs?
Is this LOTR game is the only thing Monolith is working on? A simple yes/no is all I ask
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
Existing in pro competitions + One existing from a big name (Valve) = It is now something to try and cash in on
Do not underestimate the senseless copycat mindset of publishers.
People like this.
but... he looks like such a nice man.
Lactose_Intolerant
Member
They want that LoL $$$
Uh... Blood 2 was 14 years ago. How can you still be holding a grudge over that?
platypotamus
Member
He suffered a knee injury pretty recently. I can't remember which knee is the weak spot though...
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
So Andy should sweep the leg?
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Deleted member 81567
Unconfirmed Member
So this is what Monolith's up to.
brotkasten
Member
The only good Monolith around and they do some license crap. Hopefully it's to fund NOLF 3.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
As a console-primary gamer who has just touched on "MOBA" thanks to Awesomenauts and Super Monday Night Combat... this game sounds like a cool idea.
No matter if there are multiple big profile games like this on PC... we only really have 1 on console. Plenty of room for another. And a downloadable game, even! I personally like hearing that a talented dev is working on something that's NOT another FPS, y'know? I find I spend more and more time with the bitsized, refined downloadable games, and if this turns out to be one, it'll be very welcomed.
Glad to hear we'll see gameplay soon, too. If this all comes together well, I could see the game being a nice change of pace between the other more obvious "big-hits" at years end.
No matter if there are multiple big profile games like this on PC... we only really have 1 on console. Plenty of room for another. And a downloadable game, even! I personally like hearing that a talented dev is working on something that's NOT another FPS, y'know? I find I spend more and more time with the bitsized, refined downloadable games, and if this turns out to be one, it'll be very welcomed.
Glad to hear we'll see gameplay soon, too. If this all comes together well, I could see the game being a nice change of pace between the other more obvious "big-hits" at years end.
Mr_Appleby
Member
i don't know if this is sarcasm or what but that bit in the hobbit where bilbo fights thorin in the lake-town arena, then gandalf and all the other dwarves join in, that is totally the best bit.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
MOBA is not what you think it is.