Looks fantastic :( Weta, and Del Toro were involved, and it costed over a million dollars to make.
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Footage of Demo for cancelled modern AAA Lord of the Rings Action RPG based on the film resurfaces (Del Toro was involved)
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Consider the amount of games that follow the Tolkien school of fantasy.
Del Toro wasn't involved with Death Stranding as a creative, he's purely there as a 3D model. Deadman isn't voiced or mocapped by Del Toro.
Doesn't look that bad for a project pitch, wonder why nobody wanted it.
Did we ever get sales number for that? And he's just a NPC there.
I felt like the boom was in the GC/PS2/XBOX/gba era, then kinda faded.
For those who can't watch:
They pitched for a Hobbit tie-in to the movies but it almost materialized as a LOTR game. (4 playable maps and 5 tech demos)
Both PJ and Del Toro liked it.
Warner Bros didn't, they wanted a game that would be parallel to the main story rather than a retelling of the movies. (hence the Shadow of Mordor games)
They pitched for a Hobbit tie-in to the movies but it almost materialized as a LOTR game. (4 playable maps and 5 tech demos)
Both PJ and Del Toro liked it.
Warner Bros didn't, they wanted a game that would be parallel to the main story rather than a retelling of the movies. (hence the Shadow of Mordor games)
Well he wasn't really part of that project just IN the project. Atleast that's my understanding.
The graphics and cutscene -> gameplay transitions look INSANE but man does this feel like it suffers from the same problem a lot of 360/PS3 games suffered from: a massive overabundance of QTE's. Most of the footage looked like some form of QTE.
It looks pretty good visually for the 360 but that's it, nothing special enough for a viable pitch. Any developer with a budget could've done this if they thought a LotR game was viable at the time as the ideas in this are the definition of standard game design at the time.
This looks super impressive for being made as a demo / on a small budget / for the year it was made in.
Game development is ez!!
Game development is ez!!
Considering we never got his Hobbit or At the Mountains of Madness films, I think he's just plain cursed.
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An Oscar does so much when alot of your favorite projects fall through.
Looks really really impressive but looked more like trying to recreate movie scenes vs making a fun game to play tbh. There were some really well regarded games for the second and third movies so I can see why WB didnt necessarily want a game about those to tie in with the Hobbit releases.
I mean it definitely faded as a reaction to just how many games defaulted to that school of fantasy.
It really isn't, I'm not talking about the demo itself, but the ideas in it not being unique to make a publisher go with that instead of doing their own thing that would end up pretty similar to that or anything else that was in the market at the time.
Why do you think so many of these studios sell out to large publishers? Being acquired often eliminates so many headaches, and so much time, for indie developers.
Check out the NoClip on Arkane Studios if you haven't already, especially the pre-Bethesda segments. It's amazing they survived that era of pitching and losing projects.
So don't say 'Any developer with a budget could've done this' - this is Traveller's Tales.
I'm really curious how Amazon Studios LotR RPG turns out.
Its an MMORPG, right?
Im all in for LotR Open World games. Love to explore the sceneries/world. The Middle-Earth games didnt offer.much in that regard. Everything looked mosty the same and it was mostly mordor without many interessting locations from the books/movies.
Its an MMORPG, right?
Im all in for LotR Open World games. Love to explore the sceneries/world. The Middle-Earth games didnt offer.much in that regard. Everything looked mosty the same and it was mostly mordor without many interessting locations from the books/movies.
I watched the video earlier, Del Toro and Weta wasn't involved. He and Peter Jackson gave their blessing for Travelers Tales to make a game based on the then upcoming Hobbit movie.
The video is of footage that TT made for the pitch they showed to them. Which is impressive. I knew Lego games made a lot of bank, but I didn't realise they made so much that the team could afford to blow $1,000,000 on a pitch with assets that would never be used in the full game.
The video is of footage that TT made for the pitch they showed to them. Which is impressive. I knew Lego games made a lot of bank, but I didn't realise they made so much that the team could afford to blow $1,000,000 on a pitch with assets that would never be used in the full game.
Is this the Game Pitch that TT games did around the time of The Hobbit movies?
Impressed for the Lego Games team to try out!
Impressed for the Lego Games team to try out!
I thought meh looks poor imagining targeting PS4 then when found out it was xbox 360 - wow that was really impressive at that time
hopefully he posts more of complete playthroughs which he mentioned at the end of video (if enough interest so I liked and subscribed)
hopefully he posts more of complete playthroughs which he mentioned at the end of video (if enough interest so I liked and subscribed)