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GameInformer Cover reveals Middle-earth: Shadow Of Mordor(PC/PS3/360/X1/PS4)/Monolith

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ReplacementPelican

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If this is open world then we have this game, The Witcher 3 and Dragon Age 3 as fantasy-based open world games.

Do you think the success of Skyrim is now evident?
 
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kaching

"GAF's biggest wanker"
Miletius said:
Get used to it. Cross gen is gonna be around for a while.
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Wasn't the point of my comment. I'm fine with it being cross-gen. It does however take a lot of wind out of the sails of their marketing rhetoric that it's proper "next-gen gameplay".
 
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Sn4ke_911

If I ever post something in Japanese which I don't understand, please BAN me.
gabbo said:
Why is that? I'm glad Warner Bros' hasn't closed them, even if their output isn't a continuous 1-NOLF/SHOGO/etc a generation.

Not sure I'm all that interested in non-canon LotR (seem like a wasted opportunity to use some of the lesser known stories), but I generally trust Monolith, so we'll see how it turns out.
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Cause i want them to bring Cate Archer back.
 
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Loxley

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I'm about as big a Tolkien fan as one could be, but I never understand the outrage over games like this.

They're basically just one-off "what if?" stories. Monolith aren't creating new canon with this, it's not the Star Wars EU. They're not re-writing Middle-Earth's history. I look at them the same way I look at one-offs in the comic book world, like Superman: Red Son.
 
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Htown

STOP SHITTING ON MY MOTHER'S HEADSTONE
ugh I just can't get past it

the glowing eyes, the bullshit reasoning for this protagonist to be MORE POWERFUL THAN ANYONE

gross

gross gross gross
 
F

FlyinJ

Douchebag. Yes, me.
I'm starting to think 3/4 of this thread thinks this is by the developer of Xenoblade.

The OP and thread title should really clarify that this isn't the case.
 
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DeadlyDanger

Neo Member
dmr87 said:
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...sounds rediculous.
 
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Altazor

Member
On one hand - Mordor before LOTR is an interesting setting and the Nemesis Engine sounds great (if pulled correctly). On the other hand - fused with a wraith? WTF is that shit doing in Middle-Earth?
 
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Ark

Member
I really enjoyed War in the North; I am definitely ready for a next-gen LoTR game. Hopefully there'll some element of good co-op or an online system similar to Destiny, but maybe that's asking just a little bit too much :(
 
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marrec

Banned
Loxley said:
I'm about as big a Tolkien fan as one could be, but I never understand the outrage over games like this.

They're basically just one-off "what if?" stories. Monolith aren't creating new canon with this, it's not the Star Wars EU. They're not re-writing Middle-Earth's history. I look at them the same way I look at one-offs in the comic book world, like Superman: Red Son.
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Don't we have established canon for the events that take place between The Hobbit and LOTR? This isn't a 'What If' but more of a 'Lets use this setting because we've paid a lot of money for the rights to it and Monolith isn't doing anything.'
 
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CloudWolf

Member
Htown said:
people can fuse with wraiths now?

also I'm pretty sure Mordor didn't suddenly become uninhabitable a few years before Lord of the Rings. Wiki tells me it was unconquerable since around the time of the ending of the Hobbit, and inhabited by tons of evil dudes even before that.
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Are you saying that the developers of this game didn't do any research at all in the Tolkien universe? What a surprise....

I really wish someone would make a Silmarillion game already.
 
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Loxley

Member
marrec said:
Don't we have established canon for the events that take place between The Hobbit and LOTR? This isn't a 'What If' but more of a 'Lets use this setting because we've paid a lot of money for the rights to it and Monolith isn't doing anything.'
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Sure we do, that's exactly why it's a "what if?". We already know what happens between the two stories, so seeing someone make up a story of their own is interesting to me since I have no idea what to expect.
 
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marrec

Banned
Loxley said:
Sure we do, that's exactly why it's a "what if?". We already know what happens between the two stories, so seeing someone make up a story of their own is interesting to me since I have no idea what to expect.
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Well, you can expect Sauron not to die.

Spoilers.
 
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Yoday

Member
This sounds promising, and I have been really wanting a new LotR game lately. I will be keeping a close eye on this one.
 
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Totobeni

An blind dancing ho
I think this is the last chance for Monolith. if it don't end well or sell well I can see WB killing the studio.
 
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NearRivers

Member
This is the first announced next-gen game that's really grabbed my attention, mostly due to the fact that it's a LotR game and the good ones are too few and far between. It's probably a bit optimistic to hope that they don't butcher the text, or even the films too much considering they have a half wraith guy waltzing into Mordor.
 
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A Serious Man

Member
Excited about this.

Except for the "Ranger fused with a Wraith" part. There are only nine Ringwraiths and they are all accounted for in LotR. Tim Turi must have meant some other sort of ghostly being because fusing a random ranger with one of the Nine is a pretty huge lore problem.
 
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peanutbutterlatte

Member
NearRivers said:
This is the first announced next-gen game that's really grabbed my attention, mostly due to the fact that it's a LotR game and the good ones are too few and far between. It's probably a bit optimistic to hope that they don't butcher the text, or even the films too much considering they have a guy waltzing into Mordor.
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... and they have a guy who his a Ranger crossed with a Wraith. I think even watching the films should allow you to know how fucking stupid that is.
 
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CrunchyFrog

Member
marrec said:
Don't we have established canon for the events that take place between The Hobbit and LOTR? This isn't a 'What If' but more of a 'Lets use this setting because we've paid a lot of money for the rights to it and Monolith isn't doing anything.'
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Calling Edmund Dantes!

But seriously, I think you'd have more trouble finding areas of Middle Earth lore that HAVEN'T been fleshed out officially in some way, especially events surrounding the War of the Ring. The Force Unleashed is really just oo apt a comparison, and my complaint isn't necessarily that it's veering off of established fiction but that the "fused with a wraith" macguffin just seems incredibly lazy and out of character with most of the rest of the Middle Earth universe. Wraith fusion isn't a thing in the Tolkien verse, it's like inventing Super Saiyan Alpha J Truxomogolagoly 3 in the DBZ universe (though GT basically did just that it wasn't based on the manga either so HAH)
 
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NearRivers

Member
MasterBalls said:
... and they have a guy who his a Ranger crossed with a Wraith. I think even watching the films should allow you to know how fucking stupid that is.
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Ahhh, I edited too slow. Yeah, I'm fully aware how ridiculous it is to expect something faithful. My fingers are crossed that it will at least be fun.
 
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