Thread 723814397

new LOTR game details
>AAA
>third person action game
>funded by Abu Dhabi Investment Office, 100 millions, multiple studios
hopes and dreams? for me, something like the gameplay of Dragon's Dogma but in the LOTR setting would be like a dream come true

>>723814397 (OP)
>hopes
Not woke
>dreams
Sex with elves

>>723814508
could mean no niggers and no homosexuals
honestly if they make an awesome LOTR game I might just convert to islam

>>723814508
Inshallah

Inb4 dynasty warriors clone

>>723814397 (OP)
There's no game that anyone will make that will correctly feel like Lord of the Rings. At best it will feel like the fantasy action movies they made.

>>723815241
could be a nice power fantasy, but I hope it's something closer to an RPG
>>723815364
both books and movies are amazing, don't be a retard

>>723814397 (OP)
>funded by Abu Dhabi Investment Office,
sultan of the bling

>>723814397 (OP)
>hopes and dreams?
It wont be like Magic the Gathering

>>723815241
Honestly, Metal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fl9p2FsS1M

>>723814397 (OP)
It's shit until proven otherwise.

>>723814397 (OP)
>hopes
Its not a modern videogame and is based on the movies, lord knows that when they try to interprit the books now they have the worst interpritations of it so I hope its just working from the movies
>dreams
A large scale coop beat-em-up, kindof like that Battlefront clone but better realized. Make MnB's Full Invasion mod as an actual game basically.

>>723815842
well yeah, but that's true for all vidya

>>723815754
Im so happy to learn that this failed spectacularly.

>>723815754
Literally why is he black

>>723815458
the movies are great, on their own. compared to the books they're just alright.

>>723816469
To destroy everything good that we (humans) have.

>>723816469
Evil cant create it can only twist what exist etc etc.

>>723816469
you know exactly why

>>723814508
Mordor makes the Lotr games now

>>723816773
shut up nortubel dev

>>723815754
>>723816847
Tolkien was right: evil can't create. All it's able to do is corrupt

>>723816469
>Log in to Lotro after a decade
>The race/social tab of the deed log now features a nigger where the race of man used to be
lmao

>>723816847
Ive enjoyed this recent stint of "actually, X was black" in historical scenes because its just awoke people who didnt give a shit or notice the blackwashing of media, and has made a bunch of people actually wake up to their ethnic history lol.

>>723814397 (OP)
Fake. Why would sandniggers fund a game based on a Christian franchise?

>>723817073
These people apparently like LotR but they seem to keep wanting to make it something else huh.

>>723814397 (OP)
>100 millions
So not even AAA?

>>723814397 (OP)
>funded by Abu Dhabi

>>723814397 (OP)
it's made by Warhorse Studios

>>723817508
Because sandniggas invested a fuckton of money on Embracer Group who's the entity that has the rights to LOTR vidya games

>>723816469
Because Arwen is white

>>723817592
that's a good thing anon

>>723817650
>Embracer Group
The eternal Swede strikes again

>>723817906
For a huge franchise like lotr? Not at all.

>>723817073
If I saw this shit I would uninstall the game right then and there.

>>723818068
Thats the strange thing. The rest of the game is proper ethnostate. Its literally just the deed log diversity hire. It makes it funny.

>>723818254
Even still if you give an inch, people will take a mile. Now if they wanted to make a game set in Harad or Rhun and actually made the people look like the descriptions given by Tolkien, I wouldn’t care. But seeing Lamarr Fentanyl Williams from down the block tossed into a fantasy series is lowbrow.

>>723818254
This isnt true, go to Gondor. Every other NPC is black. There was a major update a few years back that changed all this.

>>723818725
Im still dicking around in Moria. Haven't seen a single black person so far. I don't know if what you said is actually true or not.

>>723818639
>Lamarr Fentanyl Williams
fucking lmao, this is my new nick in all online games from now on (i play none)

I'd sacrifice every single one of you in a heartbeat if that gave me a good LotR game. Please let it be good.

>>723819291
Griffith what the fuck is wrong with you

>>723818860
Its not every other character, thats hyperbole, but theres enough to notice. It was a major update when they added this stuff.

>AAA
>$100,000,000+ budget
>multiple studios involved

It's going to be abysmal dogshit and I'd be amazed if it made it's money back. Sure, Arab investors means the lack of SJW shit is probably guaranteed, but that alone doesn't make it good.

>disingenuous retards ITT defending niggers in fantasy once again

>>723820037
they fucked it up so, so much

>>723814397 (OP)
LORD OF THE ZUTT
MUHAMMED IS A FAGGOT EDITION

>>723819787
imagine getting rid of the orcs only to get colonized by blacks. Gondor sure can't catch a break

>>723815241
Lord of the Rings Musou would be fucking kino.

>>723820037
>lotr in bible times
Interesting take. Took bad its got niggers in it when it otherwise wouldn't have

lord of the bumps

>>723820037
is this real? Did they actually try to make it so the origin of Gandalf's name is "Grand-Elf"?

>>723824842
He just seems pretty Grand for an Elf

>>723824842
Yes.

>>723819475
Causality

>>723814397 (OP)
If it's like hogwarts legacy i'll play it.

>>723820037
There are black people in LotR you subliterate toad. Also Tolkien hated chuds.

>>723814397 (OP)
Its going to be sloppa

>>723814580

t. Zutted musloid
It means that the Haradrim are going to be depicted as the good guys

>>723825928
>There are black people in LotR you subliterate toad.
Yes, in the lands of evil/subhumans who would not fit into the civilized Gondor.
>Also Tolkien hated chuds.
If he saw the state of modern troon society he'd change his tune.

>>723825928
Arda is our earth in the mythological past and Far Harad is literally Africa.

>>723814580
t. Ahmed Smith from Al-London

>>723826137
>in the lands of evil/subhumans

>"It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men, and he did not like it much. He was glad that he could not see the dead face. He wondered what the man's name was and where he came from; and if he was really evil at heart, or what lies or threats had led him on the long march from his home; and if he would not really rather have stayed there in peace." ― The Two Towers, "Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit".

>>723814397 (OP)
>MMORPG
I sleep

>>723825928
By modern standards Tolkien would be a giga high priest of the international order of the chuds.

>>723826549
No he wouldn't have.

>"The treatment of colour nearly always horrifies anyone going out from Britain, & not only in South Africa. Unfort[unately], not many retain that generous sentiment for long." ― Letter 61 — Written to Christopher Tolkien who was stationed in South Africa during World War II

>"I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and Literature. I do not care which of them you think White." ― From a Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford in 1959

>"I must say that the enclosed letter from Rutten & Loening is a bit stiff. Do I suffer this impertinence because of the possession of a German name, or do their lunatic laws require a certificate of arisch origin from all persons of all countries? ... Personally I should be inclined to refuse to give any Bestätigung (although it happens that I can), and let a German translation go hang. In any case I should object strongly to any such declaration appearing in print. I do not regard the (probable) absence of all Jewish blood as necessarily honourable; and I have many Jewish friends, and should regret giving any colour to the notion that I subscribed to the wholly pernicious and unscientific race-doctrine." ― Letter 29 — in response to Tolkien's German publishers had asked whether he was of Aryan origin

>>723826629
>"Thank you for your letter. I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by arisch. I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-Iranian; as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects. But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people. My great-great-grandfather came to England in the eighteenth century from Germany: the main part of my descent is therefore purely English, and I am an English subject — which should be sufficient. I have been accustomed, nonetheless, to regard my German name with pride, and continued to do so throughout the period of the late regrettable war, in which I served in the English army. I cannot, however, forbear to comment that if impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride.
>Your enquiry is doubtless made in order to comply with the laws of your own country, but that this should be held to apply to the subjects of another state would be improper, even if it had (as it has not) any bearing whatsoever on the merits of my work or its sustainability for publication, of which you appear to have satisfied yourselves without reference to my Abstammung." ― Letter 30 — Written directly to Tolkien's German publishers

>>723825260
I'm so glad I haven't watched this

>>723814397 (OP)
>hopes and dreams
No niggers except for the Haradrim and orcs.

>>723826709
>I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people.
Very good goy. Fitting that the chosen people would defile his works 60 years later

>>723826709
>>723826629
Damn, how incredibly chudlike of him

>>723814508
If there is someone who respects European culture and history then its arabs and asians. A fact that seething indians about anglos would make less negrofied and trannyfied LOTR game if perfect showcase how western whites are self hating cuckolds nowadays.

>>723827708
>western whites are self hating cuckolds nowadays
how did it come to this? Modern media is so fucking shitty, feels like the LOTR movies were thunder in a bottle and something like that will never happen again

>>723817398
Same, as much as I hate to see it, I do like the benefit it is having. Most people just didnt really care, guess that wasn't good enough!

>>723827708
Dont say western whites when you mean americans

I want to play as Easterling.

>>723829632
I want to play as the eye of Sauron to be able to spy on the elf hotsprings

>>723829632
>Battlefront 2 but Lotr
>Playable Orcs, hero units like the Balrog or the Ents
Make another one. This game was great.

>>723829954
is this playable today even if solo? I never tried this game but it looks neat

>>723830248
Not available for purchase anywhere. Maybe you can pirate it

>>723830749
is it fun or should I just download Mount & Blade and slap some LOTR mod into it?

>>723831024
You will probably enjoy Mount & Blade more. Conquest has serious problems when you get past the movie game novelty.

doesn't a*azon own lotr or is it only for tv shows?

>>723831343
I think they are contractually obligated to produce 6 seasons of absolute dogshit, but that's all

the amazon garbage show is one of the most expensive things ever made and looks like complete garbage
you can't throw money at LOTR and just have it be automatically good

>>723831343
they do not own it they just paid for the rights to make the one show

>>723831545
I only watched some of the first season and the armors looked like absolute crap. Any shitty goblin in the movies had more effort put into it than fucking Galadriel's breastplate

>embracer group owns all of LOTR

i had no idea that had happened, the amazon trash makes sense now
I always assumed it was Christopher or Simon Tolkein's fault

>>723831545
Money can't buy talent. One billion US dollars per fucking season, CGI out the ass and it looks worse than movies made decades ago with none of the tech and a percentage of the budget.

>>723814580
>t. Didn't get the zutt update

>>723831696
i haven't watched it but the costumes look unbelievably cheap for something so allegedly expensive
looks worse than a lot of stuff in Game of Thrones which kind of intentionally cheaped out on that bc that wasn't why people were tuning in

>>723825928
the brownoids are all servants of sauron
also tolkien hated all americans

>>723832294
Practical effect Sovl can't be beat by CGI and green screens.

>>723827708
>western whites are self hating cuckolds nowadays.
Like you?

>>723831996
IIRC, Amazon bought the TV rights to LOTR a few years before MEE was sold to Embracer.

>>723832294
classic adventuran movies are the fucking best

>>723832294
>Money can't buy talent.
of course it can
but not when you refuse to hire white males and hire women and shitskins instead

>>723831024
It can be fun but it's also quite flawed.
I'd say its biggest problem is the knockdown. If you've ever played the classic Star Wars Battlefront games, you know how shitty it is when there's an explosion near you (or you get force pushed/pulled) and you go flying and lose all control of your character for 3 seconds? Imagine that exact same mechanic except multiply how often it happens by 5 times.

>>723832294
this looks like AI

>>723814397 (OP)
>abu dhabi
so no niggers and women?
that's pretty lore accurate.

>>723832294
>bottom center
>guy gets disarmed with one hand
>casually turns 360 and yeets himself down

??? and boomers praise this shit

>>723832294
I don't get how they filmed stuff like this without a billion stuntmen dying or being horribly injured, like look at the jousting scene, dude eats the full force of the hit and then slams into the ground.

>>723832473
This genuinely made me sad to watch. Talented and amazing old actor put into a green room because they were too lazy to use practical effects and camera tricks like in LOTR. And before even seeing that clip I thought the scene looked strange.

>>723832731
He has an arrow sticking out of his back retard

>>723832731
did you notice he had an arrow in his back
also stuntmen probably have to fall into water in such a way to not kill themselves

>>723817073
I've been playing echoes

the hell is the amazon show even about?
How do you make 6 seasons of tv about something the intro to Hackson's fellowship told you in like 5 minutes? There must be a shitton of filler

>>723832924
not as bad as getting your head cut off by a helicopter or getting shot by the producer

>>723827708
>If there is someone who respects European culture and history then its arabs and asians.
>asians
PFTAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You weebs are so fucking pathetic. They literally turned european culture into a shitty template for their garbage wish fulfillment genre.

>>723833050
It's a complete mishmash of various events that take place thousands of years apart in the canon so they all instead take place at the same time, with lots of memberberries callback bullshit to the Jackson movies to profit off of nostalgia, filtered through a ridiculous woke narrative filter with absolutely awful prop, costume and set design.

I don't have it but someone post the MAGA rally at Numenor, it's hilarious.

>>723827708
Anon. I love anime, but please.
Please just don't.
You don't know what you are talking about, and are using other people's media, culture, and art as a tool for your culturewar retardation.

>>723833050
>For legal reasons, it is not a direct continuation of Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies, but the production is intended to evoke the films with similar production design and younger versions of the same incarnations of characters who appear in them.
in other words its pointless

>>723833348
i assumed that was the case bc from the little I've seen i saw they show Galadriel going east which happens wayyyyyyy before any sauron stuff would be happening

sounds like a complete mess

>>723829632
Probably my second favourite troop design in the movies

>>723832386
>the brownoids are all servants of sauron

see >>723826305

>also tolkien hated all americans

And that's bad because?

good morning saar

>>723833702
Galadriel literally flirts with and almost kisses Sauron in the show. I'm not joking.

>>723833348
I don't have that but I have the epic titledrop scene

>>723833158
This is 1000000000 times better than western negro and tranny worship.

>>723834552
>Fat loser jap reincarnating as a whitechad
It's pathetic, much more pathetic than nigger and tranny worship.

>>723834725
Self hating cuckolds like you are mentally ill and lowest life forms in the universe. Go back kneeling to negroes.

>>723834725
>Jap loser reincarnates back into Japan
wow this is a great premise for a story. Very interesting. Im glad they didn't incarnate some place different/interesting.

>>723834832
So let me get this straight, I am a "self hating cuckold" because I don't like what is objectively a self hating genre? What kind of logic is this faggot?

>>723834550
Will they say it 3 times in the next season?

>Bore of the ring
>And not the superior series

>>723834953
>Acting as if japs don't have their own culture and mythology to base a fantasy world around
Yeah, you weebs are so fucking pathetic.

>>723834550
why do they both act like the phrase "Lord of the Rings" has some earth shattering implication to it? Celebrimbor looks like he just had some sort of insane revelation in his mind as the words leave his lips and Sauron seems absolutely terrified at hearing it. Obviously it's meant to be a LE EPIC scene for the viewer because it's the title of the work it's based on but in context it makes no sense for them to behave that way.

>>723835176
>Reading something written by a woman

>>723820037
It fucked up trying to make all races have super diverse population. I don't mind diverse casts in fantasy, but in Tolkiens work it feels bit strange. Not saying there should't be any non-white characters, humans have always traveled and done trade, but having some average American city level of diversity in every village and town would be strange.
I just hate you can't discuss this kind of stuff as grifters and anti-woke crowd has poisoned the topic by yelling "sjw", "woke", "the message", etc. any time there is any non-white main character. Sometimes even female mc is enough for that reaction. Hell, recently anime has been under fire for being "tranime" or whatever.

I personally hate megacorps and some rando shareholders who have no passion or interest for art gets to own and degrade art so "line goes up". They just made it have some cheapest current year subtext so culturewar handles advertising.
Sadly majority of the left hates the show anyway because it's absolute shit from writing, costumes, directing, action, and as bonus disrespects Tolkien's work. The directors are two random dudes who just want the bag.

I'll just watch LOTR Extended Trilogy on weekend and feel better. And maybe RFT's series on the Rings of Power.

>>723815754

American culture is centered around niggers. They have holidays for niggers. They killed hundreds of thousands of white men to free niggers. They listen to niggers' music. They elect a nigger as their president. They dress and act like niggers. They draw the entirety of their modern culture from niggers. They post sassy gifs about niggers. They watch sportsball in worship of niggers. Their biggest event of the year involves throwing parties in honor of niggers playing sports. They use nigger slang like "bruh" and "thot". When you say "Martin Luther" they're not thinking of the father of protestantism. They're thinking of the nigger. Their cities are completely overrun with niggers. They worship their ZOGbot police force disproportionately filled with niggers and their global police force of soldiers filled with niggers. Their men sit around watching nigger ball while their women sit around watching nigger talk shows and fantasizing about nigger dick. They worship niggers like Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan and Michael Jackson and the late Janet Jackson while attacking the whites who actually built their country before niggers took over. Their movies are filled with niggers and their music charts are topped by niggers. They send niggers to the Olympics and celebrate when the niggers win because those niggers are true red blooded american niggers. They watch nigger porn to a point where "BBC" does not make them think of an international media company but about nigger penises instead. They will tell you how much they hate niggers and how the mutt's law meme is a stale joke and they are just pretending to love niggers but the evidence speaks for itself in that America has always been and will be a nation of nigger loving niggers.

>>723835176
you posted this yesterday and you post it today
see you again tomorrow, sister

>>723835393
>>723835437
>no refutation
Based Rowling

>>723835417
Diverse in fantasy doesn't mean you have blatant tokenism in it. You and I both know why there are niggers and literal retards running around, and it's the same reason modern D&D has homosexuals in wheelchairs everywhere.

>>723834550
>you are their prisoner
...no he isn't, he's the only master of the Ring. Everyone else is it's slave.

>>723834550
lmao whoever wrote that probably patted themselves on the back
the absolute state of modern tv

>>723829954
This was unironic kino, same with the portable version. Definitely a bit sloppy gameplay wise, and not as good as Battlefront, but I think they did a good job at porting the movie designs into the game style and made melee combat half decent.

>>723817073
shieeeet

>>723835715
it doesn't matter, it sounds like heady dialogue to the 80IQ people who watch it

>>723834550
>everything in the third age happens because Sauron was friendzoned by Galadriel

>>723835417
>Not saying there should't be any non-white characters, humans have always traveled and done trade, but having some average American city level of diversity in every village and town would be strange.
Im right there with you. You see this shit on the screen and suddenly the magic is gone. The disbelief can't be suspended anymore. Middle Earth stops being a real place and becomes a hollywood set. Its sad.

>>723835784
We Wuz Kings of Arnor

>>723832731
This is probably the most zoomer post I've seen all year.
Some little shithead child acting superior over something despite being too stupid to recognize even the simplest of details because they've fried their brains on TikTok.

>>723814397 (OP)
> funded by Abu Dhabi
> FOR FRODO
> No Habibi, for ALLAH

>>723814508
Muslims like LOTR. I have no idea about the gays or whatever, although I do know that LOTR is essentially Christian fiction. Wake me up when they start butchering Discworld in theaters.

>>723817073
They did that after they added Umbar and other places in Harad. Tbh I wish they just stuck to the West but they have added most of that already which is impressive.

>>723836039
in zoomfag's defense, the angle of the shot makes it hard to see the arrow initially against his back until he spins and you can see it clearly against the blue sky

i would watch a show about the war of wrath or other stuff in the silmarillion, but it's probably for the best that the tolkien estate refuses to let anyone do that bc it would probably get picked up by some complete hack

some stuff I just don't know how you would translate it to tv/movie format i.e Fingolfin fighting Morgoth

>>723822152
>tutorial level is you playing Sauron at the Last Alliance, tossing monkeys and knife ears left and right

>>723836239
By the time the Silmarillion enters public domain AI will be so good if Hollywood made a shitty adaptation Anons could just make their own.

>>723835745
I like that it lets you play as Sauron, even if it is only for part of the last two evil campaign missions and one map in multiplayer.

>>723835417
>I just hate you can't discuss this kind of stuff as grifters and anti-woke crowd has poisoned the topic by yelling "sjw", "woke", "the message", etc. any time there is any non-white main character. Sometimes even female mc is enough for that reaction.

As far as you know, are there female MCs and non-white characters that the "grifters and anti-woke crowd" like? If so: why? What is the difference? Have they ever explained it?

>>723814580
they dont mind woke for kafirs they are only concerned about protecting "local", they do pervert shit behind doors anyway

>>723815754
>>723816469
POST THE BOOK ONE

>>723835615
Yeah, I meant tokenism stuff. Sometimes it feels like corpos using minorities as a shield. I don't mind gays in fantasy either but the DnD cartoon one I can remember was written in such shitty way that idgaf if it was a straight or lesbian pairing.
It was so fucking shit and forced ffs genuinely flipping to sexual harassment that I dunno how it went through. Rest of the cartoon was average.

Anyway.
My sis banned the vanilla wheelchairs from her campaigns and said she can help her players come up with something better, either balanced wheelchair or something else because she did one campaign with free rules as a "break this" and everyone was on fucking wheelchair monks. When she in her drunken rage told me about it I couldn't stop laughing. 5 monks in super wheelchairs ganging up on the big bad the moment they spotted him behind enemy lines. And he died.

>>723814397 (OP)
DD but LotR would be unparalleled kino, so we won't get that.

>>723825260
Is that Rory Kinnear? God I hate everything

>>723837002
>DD but LotR would be unparalleled kino
:D
>so we won't get that
D:

>>723827084
He embodies the innocent and naivete of the hobbits themselves

>>723832924
no safety really
like Scott got 30 extras for Waterloo meanwhile Ruski got 15 000 soviet soldiers

>>723834550
shitposting on /tv/ was only good part about it

What version of the movies should I watch?
I will give it another chance, I disliked this franchise.my entire life but always liked the games.

>>723837479
The extended cut. Each movie is 4 hours of unparalleled kino

>>723837756
Extended Cut, got it.
Jesus Christ, I don't watch many movies because they are 2 hour long...will give it a try though, thanks anon.

>>723825260
holy fuck this sucks

>>723837839
I just rewatched them during the weekend. Not a super LOTR fan nor anything but still had an amazing time and wouldn't mind just watching them again. Think of it as a videogame: at the start everything is comfy and everyone is level 1 so not a lot of cool stuff happens, but as the movies develop the stakes keep getting higher and higher and the kino starts dripping out of the screen. At least try and make it until the Moria part in the first movie: if that segment doesn't do it for you, nothing will

>>723837839
you dont have to watch them all in one sitting. the extended versions have really nice extra flavor scenes, watch them in one hour chunks or so.

>>723837756
most of the extended stuff in ROTK is pointless and garbage but it is the superior version for Fellowship and Two Towers for sure

>>723820037
>>723825260
this is especially egregious because Tolkien was so detailed with how names were structured and referenced from older works and languages

>Tolkien derived the name Gandalf from Gandálfr, a dwarf in the Völuspá's Dvergatal, a list of dwarf-names. In Old Norse, the name means staff-elf. This is reflected in his name Tharkûn, which is "said to mean 'Staff-man'" in Khuzdul, the language Tolkien invented for his Dwarves.

>Gandalf is given several names and epithets in Tolkien's writings. Faramir calls him the Grey Pilgrim, and reports Gandalf as saying, "Many are my names in many countries. Mithrandir[a] among the Elves, Tharkûn to the Dwarves, Olórin I was in my youth in the West that is forgotten, in the South Incánus, in the North Gandalf; to the East I go not." In an early draft of The Hobbit, he is called Bladorthin, while the dwarf who was later named Thorin Oakenshield is named Gandalf.

meanwhile in this show it's a bunch of retarded hobbits with more racial diversity than the Burger King Kid's Club playing the phone game and fucking up his name over the ages

>>723837839
The extended versions have a cut at roughly the halfway mark and the first two are at pretty decent spots to cut off if you would prefer to watch them in smaller chunks. The third cut is a bit in the middle of the action but there isn't really a better spot I could think of anyway

FotR is only good one also it was last one to be shot on analog film

>>723838298
Two Towers and RotK aren't on film?

>>723834990
South Asian p-zombie logic, don't bother they're just subversive animals

>>723838298
>FotR is only good one
if your penis diesn't tingle at the rohirrim charge at pelennor fields then my dude I think you might be dead

>>723838524
nta but return of the king is definitely the weakest one bc it was the beginning of Hackson overindulging in CGI

still has lots of enjoyable stuff tho

>>723838710
yeah but thankfully that CGI still holds up today

>>723814397 (OP)
>funded by Abu Dhab
Holy kino! We'll be playing as a Rhúnedain resisting the influence of Sauron in the east and aligning himself with the Blue Wizards!
We are so fucking back!

>>723838387
>>723838298
its not that
fotr wasnt digitally color graded.

>>723838905
most of it
except for fucking Legolas surfing an elephant trunk. Battle at the black gate also doesn't look great at parts but that's very minor

>>723838524
for me its osgiliath

>>723838998
Him killing the Oliphaunt doesn't get me, it's that bizarre shot in Two Towers where he mounts a horse in the most physics defying manner possible with one hand.

>>723836562
>What is the difference? Have they ever explained it?
Risk of them being popular with their audience. Remember how people screeched about Mario movie because Peach was "covered up"? Because they didn't know it was Mario Kart biker outfit. Same as people kneejerk reacting to Prey movie.
It's about money, they get more money by shitting on things and if someone calls them out for being wrong they can just say that "those people are leftists and lie" and their idpol-addicted audience don't want their parasocial relationship to break. Grifters don't get as much money by discussing good media.

>>723838710
In what aspect do you think he was too overindulgent with the CG compared to the previous movies?

I just want Shadow of 3
But the studio is kaput.

>>723838079
>most of the extended stuff in ROTK is pointless
maybe, but the army of death fucking up the pirates was cool and not seeing that leaves a hole in the plot

>>723839049
>that cloud of darkness looming over the gondor knights as they flee towards the last bastion of humanity
the absolute kino

>sheikh monies
It's in good hands.

>>723839187
>Because they didn't know it was Mario Kart biker outfit.
You are such a disingenuous piece of shit it's unreal.

>>723839276
I don't really feel like it was hard to understand what happened with the ships in the theatrical version. I disagree with >>723838079 for the most part but the one part I don't like in ROTK EE is all the added Paths of the Dead stuff.

>>723825260
>>723834550
really glad I never gave that show a chance now
woulda just made me angry

>>723839049
Osgiliath yes, but not your scene. Just how little scale Hackson knows and how dirty he did Gondor, the main human kingdom.

>>723839484
I thought it was nice, althought I could argue that seeing the charge against the pirates kinda makes the second charge at pelennor feel somewhat weaker

>>723814508
What's the problem, habibi? They hate jews and fags, and see niggers as dumb animals that should be slaves.

>>723825260
>Gandalf is visibly younger
>walks with a limp, because I'm an old man hurr durr
>even though Jackson movie Gandalf never limped at all

>>723839591
i remember seeing it in the theater with my dad and it was one of those cheer moments
extended scenes definitely deflate it a bit

>>723835432
>pierre mohammad enjoying the last days he can say this before government-issued digital ID's monitor him 24/7 for wrongthink

>>723839739
yeah indeed
also did the extended cut add the Faramir x Eowyn stuff? I've never read the books (will do soon) but that seemed so out of nowhere in the movies lol

>>723817073
>Asian hobbit

>>723839840
Them standing together at Aragorn's coronation is the only thing in the theatrical I believe. The other two scenes in the Houses of Healing are extended edition only.

>>723835784
You know, it would have been attributed least half-way justified if the black people were Men of Harad, but of course they're the Men of fucking Gondor.

>>723839840
those were extended scenes
it's been forever since I've read the books so I can't remember if that was something Jackson just invented or not

>>723814397 (OP)
>Hopes?
No browns.
>Expectations?
Browns.

>>723839794
>wrongthink
It's thoughtcrime, you illiterate retard.

>>723840158
They meet in the Houses of Healing and get together in the books as well.

>>723817398
Need the webm of that Dr. Who scene full of brown people in 1700s Englands saying "Actually history is a whitewash lol".

>>723814397 (OP)
>takes place during the war of wrath

Who am I kidding? We will never get adaptations of the best parts of LoTR because people can't read.

>>723840234
>how dare you use the wrong synonym for my Internet jargon, fucking retard

>>723839049
>all that cavalry
>sent to die for fucking nothing
what was Tolkien triying to tell us here? That even amidst all the courage of humanity there's going to be some retard fucking things up?

>>723841162
Denethor's mind was cabbage by that point and he demanded they retake Osgiliath

>>723841162
Corrupted minds was indeed a central theme in Middle Earth, yes.

>>723841253
Why didn't they tell him to go fuck himself?

OOOOOOGH

>>723840574
It's a 1984 reference, retard.

Games used to be made by people passionate about making them

>>723814397 (OP)
>Action game
Cringe

>>723841695
You can't just fuck up the chain of command, especially before a siege, you need morale and all that. The only one who could get away with it was Gandalf cause he's a mystic figure and has a ring.

>>723814508
Zutt zutt captain.

>>723842412
>how dare you not exclusively use my Big Brother references, fucking retard

>>723843242
>you need morale
>from the retard telling you to charge into traps and screaming at you to abandon your posts

>>723838079
The cut opening of Sauruman and Grima getting killed was probably the most necessary restoration in the whole trilogy, if anything. Even Lee himself was pretty pissed at Jackson for the longest time over removing it.

>>723841162
It's not in the book. Denethor was turned into a retarded asshole who only ever made terrible decisions in the movies.

In the book, Faramir is sent on a much more reasonable mission to try to halt and harrass enemies attempting to cross the river. It isn't a suicide mission and most of the company survives, but Faramir is hit by a poisoned orc arrow.

>>723842412
Xitter/Bluesky and Tumblr terms are more relevant to the woketard logic compliance being inferred here anyways, calm down you sperg.

Why has nothing managed to eclipse LOTR in its impact over fiction? I mean this is a franchise thats existed since the 1930s yet nothing has managed to surpass it. There is no 80s, 90s or 2000s and beyond equivalent almost all fantasy is just an extension or rehash of LOTR. Was Tolkien just that good?

Has anyone played Return to Moria? Any good?

>>723844039
No, in the books Denethor sends Faramir to almost certain death to defend the fortress (forgot its name), because he resents him.

>>723844107
LotR being the first to set such a precedent over a genre and influencing other large media (D&D, Warcraft, Dragon Quest, etc.) when the digital age was only starting to gain legs will give it the biggest influence possible over appeals and tropes once we reached the Internet age. Kinda like how Star Wars set one for films and special effects, the result is its influence over the genre and remaining one of the biggest names in media.

>>723817073
I'm still yet to see a single person actually playing a black character in LOTRO.

>>723815754
I've heard of black numenoreans, but this is ridiculous

>>723845024
osgiliath?

>>723847008
Yes, probably.

>>723814397 (OP)
It’s going to full of harad apologists

>>723846765
LotRO is all oldfags, like pre-Panderia WoW players who never moved on.

I will notice a black existing in the game and not buy it

Please no more blacks, gays, or women.

>>723847819
I can't imagine what it must be like to be a Vanilla player still playing retail slop, hoping that something nice might happen.

>>723825928
Tolkien was pro-British empire and the British Raj, which would make him a super neo-nazi in modern culture

Lotr is a boring slop setting, only way it can be good if you can play as the good guys(isengard).

>>723820037
>>723824842
>>723825021
>>723825260
>Hmm, "Grand-Elf"...
>I like that name.

Rules:
There can be browns, so long as it is established that they're Man of Harad.

There can be blacks, so long as it is established that they're a Man of Far Harad.

There can be Asians, so long as it is established that they're a Man of Rhun.

But if I see a brown, black or Asian elf, dwarf, Hobbit, or man of Gondor, Arnor, Rohan or Breeland, I am not buying.

>>723835417
The anti-woke crowd is an authentic reactionary movement of the populous and the grifters wouldn't exist if there wasn't this disaffected audience.
I really don't see the point of complaining about the grifters and anti-woke idealogues- even though they are retarded and self destructive - because they are a reaction to something that was in full force as long as nobody was autistically enraged enough to push back.
The real problem, the root illness and not the symptom, is that people are using fantasy stories and games as literal propaganda, to bald-faced trick people into thinking they don't have a right to vote on laws about immigration, or a right to their own ethnic identity. It's literally as simple as that.
It would be oppressive and met with angry resistance if corporations made propaganda to bully Palestinians or whoever into believing that their land was always owned by Israeli landlords, and it's oppressive when corporations make propaganda to force white people into believing they need to have an endemic population of brown people to clean their toilets and teach them about spices.

>>723814397 (OP)
>gameplay of Dragon's Dogma
good idea
>>723814543
>Not woke
good too

>>723814397 (OP)
>hopes and dreams?
That its not "modern" and "diverse"
Thats literally it, but I know this will not be the case. There has no been a single thing of quality in LotRs name since the death of Christopher Tolkien and the infiltration of the Tolkien Estate by subversive actors.
>>723816847
>>723815754
I will never not be angry over this.
I would have thrown fists fulls of cash at WotC for a faithful and honest attempt to represent LotR.
But it doesn't matter I guess because a bunch of low IQ retards did it anyway and made it a hit.

>>723850949
You know damn well they're gonna break them and call dissenters incels, which the lemmings will follow. It's pointless establishing boundaries anymore.

I feel like the culture books would make a great game

>>723814397 (OP)
>>723814580
>>723820037
to anons who actually unironically believe that those arabs who buy/invest in these kind of projects "care"..

you have no idea how bad things really are, they dont give a shit.
those people are more or less behave like headless chickens. if they got a call from a random libtard saying "make it woke so YOU can make more money, westerns love it that way" they will do it
however, whats more likely to happen is... nothing
it's up to whoever is working in said project, arab money? its for show

I still can't believe we live in a world where there is a tv show with a budget of a billion fucking dollars and it looks like complete shit, legitimately SciFi channel original movie tier quality. Where the fuck is all that money going?

>>723826173
hnnnng big ass afrika

>>723853995
Its a tax writeoff. Also money does not translate to quality in any form. King Kong 2005 still looks better than 99% of movies in the 2000s and its a remake of a movie from 1933. Actually movies with that kind of stop-motion look better period than movies now.

>put a random black among Gondor just because
>it is entirely pointless; he has no impact on the story and exists solely to chase after a teenage white girlboss
>the swarthy, slant-eyed easterners are whitewashed metaphorically and literally
I didn't understand what they were going for in SoW, but I got to ride drakes and kill orcs, so whatever.

>>723841850
This guy having the time of his life and the mumakil charge actually made me interested in what the hell was going on in Harad, which is a shame because Tolkien did not give a shit.

>>723853995
They did shit that doesn't even make sense.

In the books, Moria/Khazad-dum is portrayed as an impossibly long and labyrinthine series of halls and stared, occasionally broken up by large chambers and siderooms.

In the Rings of Power, they portray it as a large cavern with a city carved into it. It would have actually been cheaper and easier to just have a stone hallway and room and say it was Khazad-dum than to make all this inaccurate CG bullshit.

>>723854917
That's the very least of the game's lore rape faggot.

>>723854917
Isn't that the game where they made Shelob a girl?

>>723854917
Tolkien once dropped a line about their being Valar and life on other planets in the universe. Sometimes even the smallest lore bombs or nuggets of information are better and leave more to the imagination.

>>723855086
Yes, it's all very tragic, but still fun. I'll keep riding not-fell beasts and reading LotR every year for peak fantasy and kino poetry. The Song of Durin is my favorite.

>The world was young, the mountains green,
>No stain yet on the Moon was seen,
>No words were laid on stream or stone
>When Durin woke and walked alone.
>He named the nameless hills and dells;
>He drank from yet untasted wells;
>He stooped and looked in Mirrormere,
>And saw a crown of stars appear,
>As gems upon a silver thread,
>Above the shadow of his head.

>The world was fair, the mountains tall,
>In Elder Days before the fall
>Of mighty kings in Nargothrond
>And Gondolin, who now beyond
>The Western Seas have passed away:
>The world was fair in Durin's Day.

>A king he was on carven throne
>In many-pillared halls of stone
>With golden roof and silver floor,
>And runes of power upon the door.
>The light of sun and star and moon
>In shining lamps of crystal hewn
>Undimmed by cloud or shade of night
>There shone for ever fair and bright.

>There hammer on the anvil smote,
>There chisel clove, and graver wrote;
>There forged was blade, and bound was hilt;
>The delver mined, the mason built.
>There beryl, pearl, and opal pale,
>And metal wrought like fishes' mail,
>Buckler and corslet, axe and sword,
>And shining spears were laid in hoard.

>Unwearied then were Durin's folk;
>Beneath the mountains music woke:
>The harpers harped, the minstrels sang,
>And at the gates the trumpets rang.

>The world is grey, the mountains old,
>The forge's fire is ashen-cold;
>No harp is wrung, no hammer falls:
>The darkness dwells in Durin's halls;
>The shadow lies upon his tomb
>In Moria, in Khazad-dûm.
>But still the sunken stars appear
>In dark and windless Mirrormere;
>There lies his crown in water deep,
>Till Durin wakes again from sleep.

>>723855376
Source? He said there were Ainur who never left Eru's side but to my knowledge never said any went to dwell on worlds aside from Arda in Eä.

>>723855451
If you had any appreciation for Tolkien you wouldn't be playing much less enjoying Fuck Tolkien: The Game and its sequel.

>>723855213
I mean, her name is literally "Woman Spider" so they technically they didn't make her a girl, just a pornstar.

>>723855376
True enough, but we got plenty of information on elves from their awakening to rebellion to dominance to fall to decline and finally disappearance, but there was nothing wrong with that. I just wish there was a little more information on what went on south and east of Mordor, doesn't even need to be much.

>>723855620
I'm going to keep playing Fuck Tolkien: The Game, reading Tolkien, and there's nothing you can do to stop me. His original drafts for the Fall of Gondolin are probably my favorite non-LotR fiction he wrote, despite the fact his initial idea was to call the Noldor "gnomes." The description for the twelve houses of the Gondothlim are epic as hell; House of the Hammer of Wrath tops them all, Rog went out like a badass.

>>723853995
>garbage writers
>mostly literal who actors
>costume design that looks like B movies

i'm assuming it's just a massive tax writeoff or something
it doesn't serve any other purpose, it's not even canon. Tolkien estate told them to fuck off trying to use stuff from the Silmarillion which is why the story is like a fanfic

Thank FUCK I was and will never be a LOTR fan.

>>723817398
I've noticed all their stated efforts having the opposite effect for a very long time. They say that the purpose of any system is what it does. The left has successfully made sexism, racism, and homophobia mainstream again. What does that tell us about their real values.

>>723857239
you're a spiritually bereft goycattle instead

>>723857284
Reread my post. I said I WASN'T a LOTR fan.

>>723857338
You're also brown.

>>723857359
Nope, white.

>>723814397 (OP)
why not just do a quick remaster of picrel and print some ez profit?

>>723826629
>>723826709
>blah blah blah blah
You clearly do not comprehend how low the bar is for liberal excommunication nowadays. Could you say with confidence that Tolkien would be for men in dresses using women's bathrooms? If not, congrats, he's Prime Chudric of Chuddahar as far as anyone from 2025 is concerned.

>>723857739
Rights issue, I think. Which is a shame, because BFME 1 and 2 are hamstrung by their engine so the game chokes not matter the hardware.

>>723857240
wise words, leftists would choke on a redpill this big

>>723857820
What rights issues could there be? All that stuff is just under "Lord of the Rings" isn't it? Or is it with EA?

>>723814508
>No faggotry
>No forced diversity
>No girlboss
I shall buy your game

>>723827708
>If there is someone who respects European culture and history then its arabs
I'm convinced. Better import more subhu-, I mean based arabs into Europe!

>>723857820
Just buy the rights again, or wait 6 more years for LotR to go into public domain.

>>723844426
finished it recently, combat is a bit lacking. the final fight was boring. i spent most of the time stuck in a wall while friend killed it. probably should have increased the difficulty or number of orcs. felt like we finished it too fast. an expansion is coming soon for it don't know what it will add

>>723858489
>>723858721
So far as I know, the problem is there's a whole slew of different rights split between new line cinema (which was swallowed by warner bros.) the Tolkien estate, and some other stuff. So collecting all those rights just isn't worth the effort. Not to mention insanely expensive. Fucking Amazon got taken to the cleaners over a fucking paragraph in the appendices. A damn paragraph!

>>723859451
wut happen

>>723854917
at least they make baranor a dude from the south of gondor with haradrim parents. It shows at least some semblance of thought, unlike the other black characters thrown in willy nilly all over the place

>>723857739
There's a pretty good fanmod for this called Age of the Ring.

Its actually standalone now, so you don't even need to mod a copy of BFME

>>723858489
>>723859451
>>723859451
As far as I'm aware, in addition to the Lord of the Rings and the hobbit, Amazon only has the rights to the Akallabeth portion of the silmarillion, and another part of their deal stipulates that they can't write anything that contradicts tolkien's other writings
>>723858721
in the US the Lord of the Rings will enter public domain in 2050

>>723861145
It's fucking amazing, but it's held back by the engine designed for hardware setups of the early 2000s, much like Crysis 1, which throttles its performance.

>>723817508
>Christian franchise

>>723814397 (OP)
>development involves companies such as Embracer Group (which owns the LotR IP rights)
>hopes: not woke
LOL
reminder this is what happens when you sell your studio to Embracer
this game will have obese black hobbit female lecturing you on how to be a better man

>>723834159
>And that's bad because?
who said it's bad?

>>723857739
That wouldn't sell. LoTR is too old and irrelevant now, and they made the IP more unpopular since rings of power.

I wish they would remaster and rerelease War of the North.

>>723816003
It didn't.

>>723864189
>LoTR is too old and irrelevant now
Nah its still massively culturally relevant. I make a living off of people spending ridiculous amounts of money on LotR-related shit.
My local cinema did a complete trilogy extended edition screening every day for a week a few months ago and shit was sold out with scalpers reselling tickets marked-up on Facebook Marketplace.

>>723861145
Thank you anon. I have a week off coming up too, this is fucking perfect.

>>723861609
In a bunch of countries its 2034, so give it 8 years and we'll get shitloads of official LotR indie-slop.

>>723814397 (OP)
>no source

>>723840158
They get married and Eowyn joins him as Lady of Ithilien. I also seem to remember that Denethor's wife and mother of Faramir and Boromir was from Rohan as well.

>>723857239
Anyone who cares about fantasy should read LotR. There's a reason why it's as famous as it is, unlike say Game of Thrones.

>>723861145
With each version, AotR became less and less like LOTR, and now it resembles a separate fantasy, similar in places to BFME.
The mod simply lacks any kind of visionary. It's just some kind of fan-made hodgepodge with varying degrees of improvisation and fan service.

>>723814397 (OP)
bracing for 40% ai code and visuals

>>723869093
still better than jeet code