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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Nov 4, 2023 7:08:26 GMT -5
So it turns out that this is... pretty good? Definitely made with a lot of care and reverence for the first movie.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Nov 4, 2023 9:19:15 GMT -5
How can they even do that with the LOTR IP firmly locked up by Warner Bros? Or is this a loophole where they say it's technically based on the books and not the movies?
It's the latter. Warner Bros. have the rights to make Middle-earth games derived from the films. The Tolkien Estate retain the rights to license out Middle-earth games not explicitly based on the movies on a game-by-game basis, with EA publishing a mobile game next month. That has to be the shittiest trailer I have seen. I watched it, and I am still none the wiser as to what sort of game this is. A tactical role-playing game, a League of Legends rip-foff, a shitty button-mashing "rpg", a collectible card game--f*** knows, your guess is as good as mine. It's EA and a mobile game, so it's guaranteed to be a microtransaction fest. |
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Nov 4, 2023 9:19:45 GMT -5
So it turns out that this is... pretty good? Definitely made with a lot of care and reverence for the first movie. Looks a decent game, and sounds quite fun too. It is one I may buy at some point. |
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Nov 4, 2023 9:42:24 GMT -5
That has to be the shittiest trailer I have seen. I watched it, and I am still none the wiser as to what sort of game this is. A tactical role-playing game, a League of Legends rip-foff, a shitty button-mashing "rpg", a collectible card game--f*** knows, your guess is as good as mine. It's EA and a mobile game, so it's guaranteed to be a microtransaction fest. Well, it's been out for a while now and appears to be a turn-based strategy game, and based on the reviews there's minimal strategy and collecting the characters is the most engaging part of the game. And yeah, microtransactions galore. |
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Nov 4, 2023 9:45:59 GMT -5
This game turning out to be good is a hell of a plot twist.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Nov 4, 2023 12:14:42 GMT -5
Is it being decent a surprise given the people making it did the well received budget Terminator game? It's about as shocking as Nightdive doing a good remaster.
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Post by ace on Nov 4, 2023 12:25:36 GMT -5
Is it being decent a surprise given the people making it did the well received budget Terminator game? It's about as shocking as Nightdive doing a good remaster. I brought this up at the beginning of the thread. This dev team makes fun games in universes they care about. They don’t have the budget to make world beating AAA level games…but they have the talent and passion to make fun games for people who care about the properties. It’s not shovelware…it’s a good old fashioned mid level game that you’ll enjoy like a more polished, bigger game if you love the property. You can walk around investigating crimes and blowing heads off while Peter Weller voices Robocop. I’ll take that over most of the bigger games I played this year. |
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Post by Cyno on Nov 4, 2023 13:16:45 GMT -5
IGN being IGN aside, Metacritic's consensus seems to be it's at least "decent." Which is probably better than a lot of people expected tbh.
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Post by Scoops on Nov 4, 2023 22:15:07 GMT -5
Is it being decent a surprise given the people making it did the well received budget Terminator game? It's about as shocking as Nightdive doing a good remaster. Yeah, this could have been bad but it was more likely to be a flawed gem more than anything. |
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Post by andrew8798 on Nov 4, 2023 22:28:43 GMT -5
Is it being decent a surprise given the people making it did the well received budget Terminator game? It's about as shocking as Nightdive doing a good remaster. Yeah, this could have been bad but it was more likely to be a flawed gem more than anything. Can’t wait to see Nightdive’s remaster of dark forces |
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Nov 4, 2023 23:06:22 GMT -5
now if we wanna talk about licensed shovel ware games... there was a king kong game that just came out recently.
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Post by GOTHIC CHARISMA 🧊 🥶❄️FURY on Nov 4, 2023 23:21:24 GMT -5
surprise to say a shitload of my friends have been saying this is actually really good. i might give it a shot after alan wake 2
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Nov 5, 2023 13:19:27 GMT -5
now if we wanna talk about licensed shovel ware games... there was a king kong game that just came out recently. By all accounts it might be one of the worst games made in a long time. Damn near unplayable. |
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Nov 6, 2023 2:28:56 GMT -5
When do we get a Ninjabread Man sequel?
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Post by GOTHIC CHARISMA 🧊 🥶❄️FURY on Dec 27, 2023 18:13:10 GMT -5
so i ended up giving this a shot and it is legit a really great game lmao
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Post by Gunhaver on Dec 27, 2023 18:19:59 GMT -5
When do we get a Ninjabread Man sequel? I recently learned that Ninjabread Man started as a Zool sequel and now everything is ruined forever. |
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 27, 2023 18:32:45 GMT -5
so i ended up giving this a shot and it is legit a really great game lmao I picked it up just before Christmas, and it's far better than it has any right to be. |
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Post by Cyno on Dec 27, 2023 18:36:07 GMT -5
James Stephanie Sterling had the Walking Dead: Destinies, Gollum, and Skull Island games on their worst of 2023 list lol.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 27, 2023 19:13:24 GMT -5
James Stephanie Sterling had the Walking Dead: Destinies, Gollum, and Skull Island games on their worst of 2023 list lol.  |
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