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[antitrop]

Be that surprise AAA game that becomes a GOTY contender like Wolfie.

I love emergent shit, this could beat Far Cry 4 in that aspect. Don't let me down, Hell Hawk!

Everything is a GOTY contender in 2014. It's the Wild Card year.

 

[TheDanger]

Boromir at the council meeting said one does not simply walk into Mordor which became a popular meme a few years ago.

Ahhh, I know that quote of course, cheers.

 

[The Dear Leader]

I almost installed LOTR War in the North today, but thought better of it, the waiting game is killing me.

 

[Tsukumo]

BTW, here you can see Talion's companion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqv8N-Te1oQ#t=38

 

[Yoday]

Great OT, love the title. The countdown continues on my PSN preorder.

 

[DrBo42]

Nice OT. Pumped.

 

[WARP10CK]

Everything is a GOTY contender in 2014. It's the Wild Card year.

Where is this from ??

 

[Josh with a J]

^ It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

 

[M.W.]

Where is this from ??

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

 

[antitrop]

Where is this from ??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h00BsIpwC6Q

 

[Messofanego]

Everything is a GOTY contender in 2014. It's the Wild Card year.

Haha yup! Wildcard, bitches!

 

[DukeBobby]

Very nice OT.

I'm really looking forward to this now. That twitch footage definitely sold me.

 

[DrBo42]

Another video via Playstation some may have missed. Dude goes after a Warchief without clearing any bodyguards or getting intel on the guards and pays the price.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx8pkh_ba7A

Some PC challenge mode footage here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE65ZyJTTDI&list=UUnzdJzUGJ1PpdFJKiKUFy6g

 

[Kvik]

Loved the OT, totally hyped for the game! Between Destiny, Wasteland 2 and this one, I'll have my weekends sorted!

 

[Sora_N]

This will be the game I hope is cheap by Christmas lol

 

[DieH@rd]

Liam O'Brien is Gollum? Nice!

 

[BrassDragon]

GJ on the OT.

"I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me.

A day may come when the genius of Monolith fails, when we forsake our ports and break all bonds of compatibility, but it is not this day.

This day we hype!

By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you 'buy, Men of the GAF!'"

 

[Jira]

wat?

im pretty sure monolith are working on the pc version...

To clarify:

There's a PC version, then an XB1 version, then a PS4 version all made by Monolith. The 360/PS3 versions are stripped down and done by another studio.

 

[hesido]

I think they'll remove head assplodes in Europe. TLoU, I'm looking at you. They should put in a "glitch" in games that turn these stuff on, for poor fellas in Europe because we need them head-asplodes.

 

[air jordans for dogs]

I think they'll remove head assplodes in Europe. TLoU, I'm looking at you. They should put in a "glitch" in games that turn these stuff on, for poor fellas in Europe because we need them head-asplodes.

Isn't it only Germany that has this assplode facism?

 

[Krappadizzle]

GJ on the OT.

"I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me.

A day may come when the genius of Monolith fails, when we forsake our ports and break all bonds of compatibility, but it is not this day.

This day we hype!



By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you 'buy, Men of the GAF!'"

And my Axe! Wait. Did I do it right?

 

[BouncyFrag]

*enters OT*

It begins.

 

[eizarus]

I was already sold on this, but reading the lore in the OT (great work by the way, I'm way too excited for this now.

Spoiler

My first post on GAF!

 

[Krappadizzle]

I was already sold on this, but reading the lore in the OT (great work by the way, I'm way too excited for this now.

Spoiler

My first post on GAF!

Welcome bud! Stay outta Off topic side for a while and you'll do fine here.


I myself have been catching up on lore in anticipation and couldn't be more excited. It seems such a no-brainer that a game like this should have already taken place and it looks so damn good.

 

[Slixshot]

Hahaha that OT is great

 

[Wattie1980]

so pumped for this.please be good,oh please be good.

 

[neorej]

One thing I'd like to see explained by LotR-lore experts;
I see Uruks in the game, I thought they were created by Sauruman during the timespan between the start of Frodo's travels and Sauruman's demise at the hands of the Ents. Or did Sauruman and Sauron's alliance start much earlier and did they start their Uruk-production earlier in secrecy?

 

[Suzzopher]

One thing I'd like to see explained by LotR-lore experts;
I see Uruks in the game, I thought they were created by Sauruman during the timespan between the start of Frodo's travels and Sauruman's demise at the hands of the Ents. Or did Sauruman and Sauron's alliance start much earlier and did they start their Uruk-production earlier in secrecy?

Sauron bred them first, but then Sauruman bred his own.

 

[Xando]

Great OT.

So happy its finally here, hoping this can be LOTRs Arkham Asylum (loved that game).

 

[Facism]

I really want to get on this but my pc specs fail me. I meet the recommended requirements om everything but cpu, which doesn't even meet the minimum lol. Only 3.1ghz.

 

[The Dear Leader]

I really want to get on this but my pc specs fail me. I meet the recommended requirements om everything but cpu, which doesn't even meet the minimum lol. Only 3.1ghz.

Overclock it yo.

 

[illmatic24]

This looks so damn good. A month ago, I hadn't seen much of the game and I didn't care about it at all. Now after watching various videos since then, I cannot wait for it to come out. It looks so fun. Gonna go pre-order it today to get the bonus stuff.

 

[coredecepts]

Can someone explain the thread title? I've seen all the movies multiple times, but I'm drawing a blank right now.

 

[Rootbeer]

PC version is so cheap I really want to go that way, but my PC barely tops the minimum, except ram and GPU where it is in between minimum and recommended. I'm not sure I want to risk it.

 

[Facism]

Overclock it yo.

It already is lol, from 2.8ghz. Can't get I higher without runtime issues. The joys of a 7 year old system that carried me through the gen no sweat.

 

[Suzzopher]

Can someone explain the thread title? I've seen all the movies multiple times, but I'm drawing a blank right now.

One does not simply walk into the thread and explain the title.

 

[BouncyFrag]

I've been able to ignore almost everything about this game other than looking for impressions of the game's quality. I'm a big LOTR fan and have read everything from the Silmirillion through to the Return of the King and beyond many times over and can't wait to find out what the devs put in from all of this source material. In terms of the games faithfulness to the books, I won't get bent out of shape if things get changed. If it can capture the vibe and spirit of Middle Earth as well as the LoTR movies did, I'll be grinning for months.

 

[The Dear Leader]

It already is lol, from 2.8ghz. Can't get I higher without runtime issues

That's a bummer.

 

[coredecepts]

One does not simply walk into the thread and explain the title.

Oh my goddd

Thank you.

 

[Alcoholikaust]

been hyped since it was announced-

put me on the Warg Hype Machine-

 

[BouncyFrag]

Spoiler

Awesome tag is awesome.

 

[coredecepts]

Really really hoping this game turned out well. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it reviews well across the board, because I want to play it asap. And I want to see it succeed. It has such cool ideas, and the fact that it's heavily systemic instead of scripted and railroaded like a lot of AAA games is pretty exciting.

 

[eizarus]

Welcome bud! Stay outta Off topic side for a while and you'll do fine here.


I myself have been catching up on lore in anticipation and couldn't be more excited. It seems such a no-brainer that a game like this should have already taken place and it looks so damn good.

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind Lol.

I'm hoping that if this does well, we can get a wider variety of stories in the Middle-Earth series. I think it would be great to play as one of the Maiar, or even Sauron when he was under Morgoth's command. It would be a nice change of pace to play as someone on the bad side, especially in a LotR game (though apparently Tolkien's heirs still hold the rights to The Silmarilion).

 

[Rootbeer]

It already is lol, from 2.8ghz. Can't get I higher without runtime issues. The joys of a 7 year old system that carried me through the gen no sweat.

Mine is about 6 years... i've upgraded the sound card and GPU once since building it. Man, time flies... it was a beast in its day

Building a new one in early 2015, just waiting on the next CPU refreshes which, admittedly, will probably have marginal gains but whatever. Time to save more.

But hey, this latest nvidia refresh saw some being more impressed than they were expecting. So maybe intel can knock it out of the park.

 

[majik13]

Glad this title was chosen. Hoping this game turns out good.

 

[BrassDragon]

One thing I'd like to see explained by LotR-lore experts;
I see Uruks in the game, I thought they were created by Sauruman during the timespan between the start of Frodo's travels and Sauruman's demise at the hands of the Ents. Or did Sauruman and Sauron's alliance start much earlier and did they start their Uruk-production earlier in secrecy?

'Uruk' is just the black speech word for Orc/Goblin, the elite ones used by Sauron are called 'Black Uruks'. When Saruman later bred more of these big dudes, they were known as 'Uruk-hai'.

 

[Lord Phol]

I'm hyped, games looks awesome! Good job on the OP!

 

[Battle300]

Anyone else getting this?

 

[Yoday]

I've been able to ignore almost everything about this game other than looking for impressions of the game's quality. I'm a big LOTR fan and have read everything from the Silmirillion through to the Return of the King and beyond many times over and can't wait to find out what the devs put in from all of this source material. In terms of the games faithfulness to the books, I won't get bent out of shape if things get changed. If it can capture the vibe and spirit of Middle Earth as well as the LoTR movies did, I'll be grinning for months.

That is a great way to go about it. Lore experts that get mad about this stuff are taking it way to seriously. You can appreciate and celebrate a fictional universe and still have fun with something that may take liberties with it as long as it respects the source material. The movies take nothing away from the books, and neither will any game.

 

[hesido]

Isn't it only Germany that has this assplode facism?

It's removed in TR [Turkey, not Tomb Raider, don't know about that] too. Does UK have'em?