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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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That's my takeaway as well watching the footage. It's a very impressive recreation of the movie's visuals but there doesn't seem to be a lot of "game" there.
At this point I consider it a win if they remake Two Towers or Return of the King at some point.
His hair in particular stood out to me, the physics and modelling were just right, considering the limitations
i mean, its a demo for a pitch. It's not meant to have complex or even anywhere near finalized gameplay systems.
He wasn't involved in the creation of the gsme, just lent his mocap likeness to a character
I do not understand how could Del Toro be involved in Death Stranding. I would truly despise any video game related thing in his place. I would tell my agent to pick up the phone like "This is Del Toro's agent, if you want him to work on a video game, fuck off. How can I help you?" Poor guy is cursed.
Edit: He didn't work on DS. I wonder why.
Edit: He didn't work on DS. I wonder why.
Wow. That looks surprisingly good for X360. The likenesses in particular I feel like were way beyond anything else trying that at the time (in game at least). Something about the lighting and camera too feel really unique and natural.
Across multiple mediums. Would've liked to see Hellboy 3 and a Monster (Naoki Urasawa) HBO tv series.
Thank you for your service
Well we didnt get the game sadly but maybe this could get some use in its honor.
The tech looks super impressive. But as much as I love LOTR I'm not sure how another straight adaption would have been worth it, so soon after the others too. Also LEGO LoTR might have been in development when they showed this ? With today's tech, though, it might be worth it.
Not that Shadow Of Mordor is a worthy effort, though. Overall this franchise deserves so much better.
Not that Shadow Of Mordor is a worthy effort, though. Overall this franchise deserves so much better.
Without checking I'm going to bet this is Frodo "resisting putting the ring on".
It's gold.
But honestly it looks very very good for a 2009 demo and a lotr game like that would have sold like hot cakes back then.
It's baffling we never got proper games based on the trilogy.
O LORD! (of the rings)
Ok, so now I have a new most wanted game of all time.
Seriously can we make this now for PS5? Contact me, i'll jump on this hard.
Ok, so now I have a new most wanted game of all time.
Seriously can we make this now for PS5? Contact me, i'll jump on this hard.
Del Toro Hobbit movie is also my most wanted film... I feel like they could make it again right?!
Also it's a real stretch to say Jackson and Del Toro were "involved". They heard the pitch and said "Neat!", and maybe only Del Toro on that point.
Also the Hobbit game wasn't "canceled" either, it was never greenlit despite PJ and Del Toro's blessings. Honestly OP did you watch this thing haha
Also his Pet Sematary... god that could be awesome.
He wanted to make Monster???
I'm sad.
Not so much for us old farts. The Hobbit on the speccy seemed to be owned by everyone - for those of us used to text based adventures (go west) the slowly rendering graphics were cool though you'd laugh at it now. And it was a lot more tolerant of natural English iirc. There were follow ups through the 80s that I don't remember.
Then came the PC Lord of the ring RPG games, two volumes - I had the first. I remember them being a big improvement (seamless map?) on the other RPGs at the time. At least the Ultima games, which I was into. It was after this it went quiet for some reason.
I had two gba games.
I felt like back in the day there were many games but nowadays it is barely represented.
They made LEGO Lord of the Rings, which was fantastic and so I don't really miss this game not being picked up. As the dev himself said he wasn't particularly sad about it for reasons that made complete sense to me.
This looks quite damn good for the time, I love it.
I wonder if Monolith Productions is doing Middle Earth Shadow of Sequel.
I wonder if Monolith Productions is doing Middle Earth Shadow of Sequel.
This isn't just about Del Toro...this game looked absolutely brilliant! I mean, really, really good stuff.
The art direction is fantastic.
The art direction is fantastic.
Even the smallest gif can change the course of the future.
Well we didnt get the game sadly but maybe this could get some use in its honor.
Even the LEGO Hobbit game didn't end up getting DLC for the final movie, so we never got a game that took place during the whole Hobbit movie series. :(
Feel like everything involved with that series was doomed.
Feel like everything involved with that series was doomed.
I'd love remasters of the PS2 games!
An open world Lord of the Rings RPG would be unreal tho.
