Whats the videogame equivalent to this? Something that was made with complete love and devotion to the medium, by people of talent and sincerity. Something that will stand the test of time forever as the pinnacle of everything it stands for.

>>712478002 (OP)
Tears of the Kingdom

The LOTR movies are decent fun but the books are horrendous. I can only imagine enjoying them if you're a stoner or you just cant get enough of genealogies and bad poetry.

Ocarina of Time

Elden Ring is the closest I can think of, but The Lord of the Rings are arguably the greatest movies ever made, and there really isn't a game equivalent.

Outer Wilds

No More Heroes trilogy

>>712478250
I don't mind the books too much but I also don't get that much enjoyment out of the actual writing style. It's mostly the lore that's interesting. Like the timeline at the back of Return of the King is possibly my favourite part of the trilogy.

>>712478002 (OP)
Metroid Prime trilogy actually fits this well.

>MP1 // Fellowship
Perfect. Objectively the best pacing and best of the trilogy. Personally you can like any of the trilogy but under scrutiny this is the one with the least flaws.

>MP2 // Two Towers
A sharp turn from the previous entry that is slower and more methodical. The 'dark horse' of the trilogy.

>MP3 // Return of the King
Bombastic, action packed, insane production values. Should for all reason and purpose lose the soul of its predecessors but still manages to hold it close to the chest despite the intense ride. Has plenty of flaws but is still a respectable sendoff to the trilogy.

Which means MP4 will be The Hobbit.

>>712478250
Imagine being this shade of brown

>>712478250

>>712478585
It's a solid trilogy, but the behind the scenes are a little different. While there's still a 'lightning in a bottle' element to LOTR, it was very clearly planned throughout, with years of pre-production alone. Halo on the other hand was just barely slapped together, the first two games in particular going through pretty rushed developments.

OUTER WILDS

>>712478002 (OP)
Those movies are nothing more than corporate slop that disrespected Tolkien's works. You only like them because they came out when you were young and impressionable.

>>712478002 (OP)
Some of the games for the movies are really good, though I wouldn't say anything of them match their origin movies in anything but plot.

>>712478250
(You)

>>712478002 (OP)
Without a doubt metal gear solid. 1 2 and 3 are masterpieces.

>>712480405
>>712480986
>>712481869
>>712488468
>mmm i love bait!

>>712478002 (OP)

>>712478250
yeah I agree sort of.
the books are hit and miss, like some chapters are fucking amazing while others are just dozens of pages of nothing really happening.
like the Council of Elrond is probably the highlight of the books.

when it comes to the movies, they're pretty faithful and very soulful adaptations, but the 3rd movie kind of sucks because it breaks Rule 1 of ending a movie ie: end it within 5min of the climax.
While the book is way worse at this, the movie sort of farts around for 30min longer than it really needed to.

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>>712478002 (OP)
aoe2 or homm3
completely timeless

>>712478002 (OP)
>Whats the videogame equivalent to this?
Ninja Gaiden Black

>>712478002 (OP)
Games made before 2010, before leftroon and fujoshit pozz infested studios.

>>712486359

>>712478002 (OP)
Elden Ring

>>712478002 (OP)
I'm not sure. It's something I've wondered about too
One that really stood out to me as feeling like a Tolkien adventure was Dragon's Dogma 1

>>712490414
Elden Ring was certainly an epic adventure, but it was very lonely

>>712478002 (OP)
Breath of the Wild

>>712478002 (OP)
MGS 1, 2, and 3

>>712491093
Man, it'd be cool if there was a darker, more mature Zelda with an art style like princess mononoke

>>712488389
but they didn't disrespect anything

>>712480497
>MP4 will be The Hobbit
WAKE ME UP

>>712478002 (OP)
homm3, aoe2 or diablo2

people posting fromslop, mgs or other gookshit need to go back

>>712494806
Redpill me on homm3

>>712478592
actually a really good answer

>>712490351
>huge successes
Why do turn-troons always exaggerate? Let me know when a turn-based game is doing Elden Ring numbers, then we can talk about success.

>>712488807
This, unreal tournament99, and age of empires 2

>>712495293
It's the best game ever made. Play the OG with a widescreen patch, not the remaster. Forget the expansion pack

>>712478002 (OP)
Bloodborne, Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, Halo.

>>712478002 (OP)
>timeless classic
>universally loved

it's the witcher 3, and you know it

>>712478002 (OP)
I will day on this hill that The Breaking of the Fellowship is one of the most complex songs ever written
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fowHzOH9rqk&ab_channel=HowardShore-Topic

It's so fucking atmospheric, ethereal, emotional and heroic and the same time. How the fuck did Howard Shore managed to do it?

>>712488810
>it breaks Rule 1 of ending a movie ie: end it within 5min of the climax
I hate movies that end too quickly and I loved how long it was for LotR. My only wish is that it was even longer and they covered the futures of other characters like Gimli.

>>712497767
Witcher 3's combat sucks

>>712478002 (OP)
Grandia.

>>712478250
The only thing I hated in the books was Tolkien needing to snub in his insufferable christfag shit. I can respect the morality behind it that drove him to write such works but the constant
>erm ackshually God DOES exist
shit started to feel obnoxious.

>um actually no the ring doesn't fall in because of the trials and sacrifices of two humble people, God pushed Gollum in
>um actually no I can't really decide if orcs are ontologically evil or not because everyone no matter how evil needs to be redeemable because God said so, disregard their love for sadism and the amount of blood they've spilled

>>712498123
no it doesnt

>>712478002 (OP)
Seriously why hasn't anyone made an open world LOTR RPG that isn't an MMO? Last halfway decent one was that Fellowship of the Ring game from 2002. Shadow of Mordor doesn't count, you played a named voiced character instead of choosing your own class and race

>>712478259
tpbp

>>712498353
I'll be a little more fair
>Fighting monsters
It's ok
>Fighting Humans
sucks

>>712498460
but those 3v1 ambushes in the tight alleys of novigrad are great

>>712478250
>LOTR movies are decent fun but the books are horrendous
This is the biggest lie this anon has told today, but not his last

>>712498538
It reminds me of Aas Creed too much.

>>712478002 (OP)
these games kicked ass

>>712478105
lol, lmao even

>>712498678
this but gamecube, the first two weren't fantastic but return of the king holy shit. playing that minas tirith courtyard level for hours.

>>712478002 (OP)
BG3

>>712478002 (OP)
look at the brainrot in this thread immediately man
anyone givign you an answer that isn't between the late 80s and the mid 2000s at the absolute latest, and that's pushing it, is a liar or has genuinely garbage taste and is unable to recognise passion
like some dude saying elden ring. the game is fine, but it is not a game made with passion or filled with passion absolutely fucking anywhere within it, clown take

>>712478002 (OP)
Baldur's Gate 1 and 2

>>712478002 (OP)
Where were you 20 years ago?

>>712499358
>Look at how cool and smart I am, I shit on everyone elses answers and call them stupid but offer none of my own (because that would expose me to counter-criticism, and ruin my delusions of being better than everyone else)

>>712499358
Most of /v/ is anti-Tolkien now and I doubt a majority have even opened or seen a physical book.

>>712478002 (OP)
Astlibra Revisions

>>712491561
Twilight Princess, you dummy

>>712478002 (OP)
Age of Wonders 1.

>>712478002 (OP)
It's always a little sad to think we're never getting anything like this again

>>712499780
What do you mean Amazon has the rights we can get LOTR adjacent bullshit forever!

>>712499837
lol
lmao

>>712499780
dogshit extremely slow boring boomslop that's confusing as shit?

>>712499875
There's nothing wrong with the movies, you just have ADD. Take your adderall, then watch them.

>>712499875
I was going to say low quality bait but you immediately hooked a retard

>>712478002 (OP)
>Something that was made with complete love and devotion to the medium, by people of talent and sincerity.
This didn't happen.
While Jackson did like the books he was not an expert on them, nor did love them like the other 99997 people who made the movie possible (excluding Alan Lee and John Howe). It's a deeply commercial product.
The only differente to the slop that gets made nowadays is that the people were skilled at their craft and did their fucking job. Nowadays they just phone it in.

>>712499875
Wtf do you zoomers even have that remotely compares to lotr? Avengers Endgame? I legit dont even know.

>>712500172
Jackson did at least have the humility to listen to the people who liked the books.

I don't like The Lord of the Rings books outside of select chapters but The Hobbit fucks.

>>712478002 (OP)
Plants vs Zombies

>>712500412
Yes. He did his job.
No modern director is going to spend year or months studying a book to translate it to cinema.
Nowadays they put in some niggers and girlbosses and call it a day.

>>712500506
Directors don't really do their jobs anymore I guess is the point.

>>712500172
the entire lotr cast was filled with people who were devoted to the books and the author's vision. Christopher Lee PERSONALLY KNEW Tolkien

>>712500172
Anon, they aren't phoning it in, that's the best they can do now.

>>712478002 (OP)
that dante's inferno game
a chimp adaptation for shit sucking flyover 360 millennials

>>712478002 (OP)
Lord of the Rings: War in the North

>>712478002 (OP)
The real and only answer

>>712500576
Tolkien commented when he was still alive that Lee was his personal inspiration for the character of Gandalf, which always struck me as weird since he agreed to portray Saruman instead.

>>712500595
Nah, no way.
Even a midwit director can appear competent if he surrounds himself with a good team.
If you look at something like GoT Season 8, made in 2019, you'll realize nothing is made with a modicum or care. Even the most basic aspects of filmaking got fucked just because they could not care.

>>712500856
I will never understand how GoT became so popular when it is just edgelord fantasy with lots of misery mixed in and dumb political relations. George R.R. Martin seems like a really disgusting person and the antithesis of someone like Tolkien.

>>712500824
Gandalf is generally a lot more of a hardass and more enigmatic and brooding in the books, seeming more like nobility of some sort. In the movies he's more fun loving especially in the first movie and is pretty much a glorified homeless man.

>>712500824
Lee just had the perfect face for a villain in his old age

>>712500963
I know, I just mean that if I was in Lee's shoes I would have fought hard to be cast as Gandalf. You are the real life inspiration for the character, at the perfect age to play him and it will likely be your last opportunity to do so before you croak from a bad case of being old.

>Star Citizen / Squadron 42
If either part is successfully finished, it will be an unparalleled triumph of one man's 40 year immersion autism quest to make the space game(s) that's been in his head. Even the alpha at its most broken is more enjoyable than many full priced AAA titles, so I wish Roberts the best.

>>712500856
They ran out of homework to copy and just did dude zombie bear lmao. Without the novels it showed them as the hacks they were. The second Stan Lee died Marvel's MCU started falling apart. George Lucas sells Disney to SW and we haven't gotten a movie from them since 2019 and the last some what decent one came out in 2016. There's a big lack of legitimate talent in Hollywood.

>>712501098
Personally I'm not sure where you're getting your idea from. Lee was the inspiration for Gandalf? He was 30 year old horror actor. They also didn't really KNOW each other, they just met in a pub once and Lee geeked out and came on the floor.

>>712499875
God. As a zoomer I really hope most of my gen dont believe this shit. But even if it is bait i know deep in my heart some fags unironically think like this about anything older than them.

>>712501306
>They ran out of homework to copy and just did dude zombie bear lmao
No, no, no, you don't understand.
Every technical aspect of the season is bad: the lightning, the photography, the color grading, the sets, the costumes, the writing, the pace, the CGI, the camera shots and even the focus on the cameras is off sometimes.
They had professionals to take care of all this. And not one of them could give one shit to do their job. I can tell you not one person felt pride in what they did.
And it happens again and again in nowadays film and television.

>>712501306
>George Lucas sells Disney to SW
lol

does anyone have any of the torrrents or downloads of the theatrical versions only in high quality and not the shitty extended editions?

>>712478002 (OP)
OoT + TF2

>>712478002 (OP)
Shadowbringers and Endwalker (not including the patch MSQ)

>>712478002 (OP)
Halo 1-3 or MGS 1-3

>>712478002 (OP)
Mass Effect
No scifi game has ever come close to it.

ratchet and clank

>>712478002 (OP)
Mount and Blade: Warband with the last ages mod

>>712478250
nigger

Morrowind

>>712501921
Leftist zoomers (ie the majority) believe it because Tolkien was an evil old white Christian man, and right wing zoomers believe it because Fuentes told them it's bad and GRRM is superior.

>>712502223
I have VHS casettes of the extended editions of all 3 movies. If memory serves they don't fuck with the color grading like the BluRay or DVD do.

>>712499538
EXTREME TRVKE

>>712498091
Yeah.
I think what shits me about LotR in general is it spends nearly all of its time on the side characters.
Once the Fellowship breaks it just turns into Elf/Dwarf adventures while occasionally checking in on watching the 2 hobbits argue.

I think 2 and 3 are the sort of peak. 2 a nostalgic trip but my first rts picked up week of release at CompUSA. RoC/TFT had a great campaign, huge mod support. I preferred it over SC1 for MP ladder and community. The hype going into WoW was like nothing I experienced before or after

>>712506616
Two Towers ends with them entering Shelobs lair too. By then they're pretty much at the endgame. Meanwhile Aragorn, Theoden, Gandalf, Gimli, Legolas have to rally all the free men of Middle-Earth to repel an assault by Sauron using just a fraction of his available forces. Then the rest of the world is doing the same. Mirkwood is under attack, Dain and Brand are both killed defending each other in a pyrrhic victory, Lothlorien was under attack, The Shire was being closed in by Saruman and his forces or even outside agents.

>>712478002 (OP)
Resident Evil 1-3 on PS1

>>712495523
Expedition 33 and BG3 were huge successes. Elden Ring being successful doesn't take away from that. Maybe work on your reading comprehension, retard.

>>712478250
I enjoy the themes and setting, and how its been a major iconic influence for all of fantasy as a concept. But by modern standards it is easy to poke fun of some of the dense walls of detail on plot elements that don't necessarily tie back into anything.

Cutting Tom Bombadil from the movies might be the easiest and best move a book to film adaption could have made.

>>712499358
lore goes crazy in Elden Ring, so much to do and explore. There are movies that take all movie to leave and impression and minor characters just do that. Nah, don't be so impressed with astrology omg same sign type lines and calling it passion that needs to be in games.

>>712478002 (OP)
WoW pre cataclysm

>>712508731
Man I like the original Elden Ring but comparing it to both the LOTR trilogy of books and the movie adaptations that came 50 years later is just wrong. ER was FOTM, thats now being tarnished (no pun intended) in real time by corporate greed to give people a crappy Fortnite clone, an actual movie and worse in the future. Hell you would have a point if you said Dark Souls but Elden Ring? God no. Nobody 20-50 years from now is going to be bringing up Elden Ring's influence or positive impact on the world like they did for The Hobbit, Fellowship, Two Towers, ROTK or the Silmarillion. For the love of your entire genealogy stop destroying what little dignity this fandom has left.

For me it's Kenshi, but I know most people think it looks like a bag of dicks.

>>712478250
I only got through the first book. Dropped the TT halfway through. It was really boring compared to the movie.

>>712510019
If it makes you feel any better, that is a common opinion.

>>712478480
>The Lord of the Rings are arguably the greatest movies ever made
Are you 12?

>>712498259
>constant
>gives two examples

>>712478002 (OP)
Spellforce

>>712478002 (OP)
orcs are orthogonally evil

>>712478002 (OP)
very obviously ( and unironically ) FF7. The soundtrack is legitimately one of the greatest works in media

>>712509787
>corporate greed
>durr fortnite clone
Insane parroting. Nightreign was made on a low budget by the B team while the money is being poured into other shit. What original designs Nightreign did produce are fantastic. Easily one of the best OSTs Fromsoft has put out in years.

>>712509787
Fromdrones legitimately seek out any mention of LOTR on /v/ to specifically bitch about how much they despise Tolkien and how superior Fromslop is. They honest to god despise Tolkien because he wrote about the good guys winning and was a Catholic man, but moreso because they have to defend GRRM and everything GRRM believes. GRRM lives in constant seethe of Tolkien so Fromshitters by nature must too. You can see proof of this phenomenon in the archive going back to as long ago as when GRRM was first announced as being involved. These are sick people.

>>712478585
This is literally impossible because Halo 2 was a fluke during development

>>712498832
Isn't that only in the demo?

>>712478002 (OP)
Ocarina of Time or Mario 64. Pokemon Gold/Silver.

>>712513051
didn't know there even was a demo. its like level 9 or something.

>>712478002 (OP)

Half Life 2

>>712478250
The Lord of the Rings book trilogy is literally a litmus test for whiteness.