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Since movie based games have been such a huge success....
gargantroo
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Seriously! look at MXO and SWG! Look how popular and successful both titles are ! No wonder Turbine is using LOTR online 
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"First you wanna kill me, now you wanna kiss me...Blow."--Ash, "Army of Darkness"
Wtf? Uh, this game isn't based off a movie. I have no idea how the fuck you came to that conclusion, but its completely wrong.
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All in all, I'm trying to say you are a moron! <(^o^;)>
All in all, I'm trying to say you are a moron! <(^o^;)>
Umm...LotRO isn't related to the movies at all. Turbine has the rights to produce games based of the BOOKS.
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"First you wanna kill me, now you wanna kiss me...Blow."--Ash, "Army of Darkness"
Just reread the press release on the site they do have the rights to the hobbit not the sil.
BFME2 has the rights to the sil.
Yes, and that fact alone is going to guarantee a lot of people don't play it. People are stupid, yes, but that doesn't change the bottom line -- they want the eye-candy that was drawn for Jackson's movies.
It can be a good or bad thing, depending on how you look at it. On the one hand, the game -- once it has been running a few months -- won't have a bunch of fanbois running around trying to be Aragorn or Legolas....but on the other hand, there won't be as much of a community as there could have been.
I think it was a mistake not securing the rights to use Jackson's movie art, personally. Some ideas and motifs, visually speaking, were improved upon at least. The balrog in LOTRO looks absolutely pitiful in comparison to the movie version, for example.
It will not deter my final decision whether or not to play the game, but it will for many other people.
The amount of peoples who enjoy/dislike DDO will impact seriously on LotR.
Turbines as a company has a past. They made AC, which is a +. They made AC2 and close it, which IMO is a big disappointment from a sequel to working franchise of their own.
DDO is the reason I don't even bother to read about LotR myself. I don't care. I see what they did to DDO and they dare label it "Real D&D".
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PS: Peoples may disagree and say I should give the game more thoughs, it is extremely unlikely to happen but we never know...yet they willingly put the "Real D&D" on an action game...unacceptable marketing behaviors.
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Interesting.
Though this isn't the forum for it, I can't help but ask. Have you played the Pen and Paper D&D? I myself feel that Turbine actually captured the feel of table top RPing pretty well.
With that said (asked), I still find it incredibly stupid for people to base their opinion on LOTRO just because the same developement house made another game that they don't like. I've said it before, and I don't mind repeating myself this time: DDO and LOTRO are two VASTLY different types of games. Each was made in it's own mold, and will play considerably different from the other.
"First you wanna kill me, now you wanna kiss me...Blow."--Ash, "Army of Darkness"
why don't we all just look it up for ourselves so that we can stop argueing....
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Yeah. And I really wonder why. Is it because he feels his Dad's original vision is sacred and shouldn't be messed with? That doesn't fly for me right now considering the plethora of licenses being handed out in the last few years.
Is it because of the 'un-finished' nature of The Sil?
Interesting thing to think of.
"First you wanna kill me, now you wanna kiss me...Blow."--Ash, "Army of Darkness"
Yeah. And I really wonder why. Is it because he feels his Dad's original vision is sacred and shouldn't be messed with? That doesn't fly for me right now considering the plethora of licenses being handed out in the last few years.
Is it because of the 'un-finished' nature of The Sil?
Interesting thing to think of.
The numerous license's that have been handed out for the lotr and the hobbit were handed out by Tolkien enterprise. who bought the rights for these books from jrr tolkien cause tolkien had a money problem. Christopher tolkien has nothing to do with Tolkien enterprise and i have no idea's what his reasons are for not giving license for the silmarillion.
I'm glad that no one has the rights to the Silmarillion, because NO ONE could do it justice.