What is with these rushed lotr games no one asked for and wasn’t advertised
this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2023
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This looks a bit underwhelming, and I'm not even meaning the visual style they leaned towards. I just think the combat looks a bit flat and the adventuring about the caves that I've seen in other gameplay has seemed rather stiff and lifeless (for lack of a more apt descriptor because I haven't played it)
Anyone else think this is missing some polish and spirit?
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter how much polish goes into it. A polished turd is still but a turd..
Yeah definitely didn't do a good job of really making me wanna play it, though it does look significantly better then gollum did, but that's not a very high bar to cross.
I'm having a ton of fun playing it with friends. One of the best games I've played this year. We had to drag ourselves off of it so we could go to sleep.
Yeah. That's bad. Whose the developer?
Free range games. Looks like they've only done oddworld:soulstorm and a mobile game before that
Deep Rock Galactic: Fantasy Edition is looking pretty meh, tbh.
It's a shame because if you describe it to me on paper, the concept of a co-op game where a group of dwarves build/rebuild Moria or at least a tiny portion of it sounds interesting. But among other things it'd need an art style. I mean it also needs a good one that is evocative of the world Tolkien created, but hey, first of all it needs an art style.
I can hear Gimli crying from here.
At the very least the trailer looks better than the gameplay they showed at Gamescom this year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=270uflOMbMk
Big oof, that looks terrible