Tolkien Games in the works

[Throntar]

Hmmm...interesting story...

http://www.gamespydaily.com/news/fullstory.asp?id=1718

This will be a *huge* challenge for Sierra. If they do well with it, it could make them for years to come...however, if they gaffe it could sink them with gamers forever. As Tolkien is near and dear to many CRPG gamer's hearts...they ought to tread lightly.

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Now where did I leave that doughnut?!

[MILAMBER]

Sierra has come too close to crossing too many lines in my opinion. Tribes2 was released as a retail beta. That is inexcusable.

If they do right by Tolkein though, I might re-evaluate my opinion.

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[Tancred]

If Sierra can manage to make a game worse than Interplay's INCREDIBLY horrid Lord of the Rings series (very, very unlikely) or the Super Nintendo Lord of the Rings, then they truly deserve to be suffocated in a room full of dung and bleach, burned whilst barely alive and then have their blackened bones hung in chains above Balliol College, Oxford University.
Here's hoping, eh? Not that I'm putting pressure on Sierra, or anything.

Tancred

"I'm sorry, Master, I can't go adventuring roight now. Moi Gaffer's lost his reading glasses down a cave full of monsters."
- Sam Gamgee, in the SNES LotR game

they have loads of Tolkien games that have gone before at

www.theunderdogs.org

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[Fljotsdale]

Tancred? That CAN'T be true! The Sam Gamgee remark from Nintendo's LotR. It just CAN'T be true! Nonononononononooooo! Can ANY game creator be so CRASS!? Please tell me it was a joke!

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Fljotsdale

[Tancred]

Originally posted by Fljotsdale: Tancred? That CAN'T be true! The Sam Gamgee remark from Nintendo's LotR. It just CAN'T be true! Nonononononononooooo! Can ANY game creator be so CRASS!? Please tell me it was a joke!

(through gritted teeth) I'm... not... joking! (FLASHBACKS)

Tancred

Playing the PC version... ah, great stuff. The saved game function didn't work, so I played the game for 72 hours straight. I wanted NO reason for me to ever pick it up again. I still haven't fully recovered.

[Davros]

Umm Dramnek-Ulk,

Where's my prize??? I did it, and first go too - don't know why I was silly enough to try, but it wasn't as hard as it seemed - mind you anothre 2 lines would have been too much I think.


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Nordom, cousin to Davros

[Staralfur]

Hmmmmm. Mixed feelings.

Could be a great game(s). But somehow I still feel the whole thing is a bit of a rip off, why try to take such a famous story and put it into something it was never meant to be?
I think I might just settle for the book on it's own. I have my own thoughts (as anyone else does) on what middle earth is like, and can imagine it better than a computer screen could ever show it. I am pretty much happy with it that way, and I'm not sure I want to sacrafice them just to play a game (or to watch a film for that matter). It could do the book justice, but they're going to have to try very hard to keep the richness of the story there, and not cover up short comings with eye candy and the like.

Anyway, we'll see...

PS. Is the picture on the website from the game, or somewhere else.

[This message has been edited by Staralfur (edited 05-03-2001).]

[Throntar]

Originally posted by Staralfur: Hmmmmm. Mixed feelings. Could be a great game(s). But somehow I still feel the whole thing is a bit of a rip off, why try to take such a famous story and put it into something it was never meant to be? I think I might just settle for the book on it's own. I have my own thoughts (as anyone else does) on what middle earth is like, and can imagine it better than a computer screen could ever show it. I am pretty much happy with it that way, and I'm not sure I want to sacrafice them just to play a game (or to watch a film for that matter). It could do the book justice, but they're going to have to try very hard to keep the richness of the story there, and not cover up short comings with eye candy and the like. Anyway, we'll see... PS. Is the picture on the website from the game, or somewhere else. [This message has been edited by Staralfur (edited 05-03-2001).]

I don't think that the idea is to create a Lord of the Rings CRPG. I think what is happening is Sierra is going to begin creating CRPGs in the Realm of Middle Earth...similar to how BG2 takes place on the world of Toril in Faerun.

I think the picture is from the animated LoTR movie, but I'm not sure...



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Now where did I leave that doughnut?!

[RudeDawg]

Correct me if I'm wrong...
I read about this on another article, but I can't find it.
One company has the liscence to make a console game based on the book, and another has the the liscence to base a console game on the movie. Two others have liscences to repeat the procedure for PC-based games, and two others to make card or RPGs.


That's just wrong.
His family is selling out his life's work. That's wrong.


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The RudeDawg
Known in these Forgotten Realms as Perin LightEyes
and my girlfriends, Pamila and Phil